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Search never considered for $290,000 airport job that went to county council chairman BY SAM SPENCE

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 02.05.2020

Seven years after Charleston County Aviation Authority handpicked one politician to run Charleston International Airport, it has picked another. The board voted Jan. 27 to hire Elliott Summey, the chairman of Charleston County Council.

Former board members, a government watchdog, and elected officials have raised questions about the sudden hire without a professional search. This includes local mayors, none of whom voted in favor of hiring Summey. Two objected to the process and the other abstained because he is Elliott’s father. One member of the Authority even resigned, hoping that lawmakers would “start changing things in the right direction.” In 2013, the Charleston International Airport needed a new leader and quickly. Sue Stevens, the airport’s director — a 25-year veteran of CHS’ senior management team — handed in her resignation as the airport was in the middle of massive con- ELLIOTT SUMMEY struction updates. Along with conflicts between leaders and a board of political appointees, its chairman saw Stevens’ departure as a potentially destabilizing event that could jeopardize the airport’s bond rating. The Aviation Authority hired state Sen. Paul Campbell (R-Berkeley), a retired energy company executive with experience managing commercial operations. “There was never the intent to hire someone that was a full-time politician,” says Andy Savage, who was chairman of the Aviation Authority at the time. “The intent was: Get us through this crisis.” “The next time around, we would do a nationwide search,” says Savage, calling the appointment a “stopgap” measure. By all accounts, Savage says, Campbell has been a good airport executive.

Charleston International has boasted record passenger traffic each of the past five years, up 13 percent year-over-year in December 2019 alone. In 2016, the 70-year-old airport CEO told board leaders he wanted to step away. Authority minutes indicate a committee met in October 2016 to begin searching for Campbell’s successor, but there’s no mention of its work in minutes over the subsequent months.

Unsuccessful earlier search Helen Hill, CEO of the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau who was appointed to the Aviation Authority in 2014, was on the Director’s Selection Committee and says the 2016 search did not yield any viable candidates. “We were very disappointed,” Hill says, saying that it may have been because the Charleston airport director’s salary was less than comparable airports. Campbell’s $250,000 compensation was lower than similar airports near Reno, Nev. and Providence, R.I., according to a 2019 survey for the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District provided by Hill. After a raise last summer, Campbell now makes $300,000. Financial constraints “could have been addressed based on the qualifications of the person coming in,” says Savage. “But to say that there wasn’t anybody qualified is just hard to swallow,” says Savage, who left the airport board in September 2015. In a three-year contract starting July 1, Summey will be paid a salary of $290,000 with an $18,000 car allowance per year, according to documents provided by airport

spokesman Spencer Pryor. Summey, who works in real estate, says the airport position will be his full-time job.

No search this time A search was never considered to find a new CEO this time around, Hill says. “There’s a lot of talent out there,” says Stevens, who has worked for an aviation executive search firm for the past five years. “An airport executive director gets involved in everything from airport operations to air service development to building new facilities, financing, it’s just a very complex organization and it takes a certain set of skills,” she says. “Not to say that Charleston doesn’t have a lot of talent.” Before she was hired as the result of a search for a new executive director in 2006, Stevens served as the Charleston airport’s deputy director and director of finance. Stevens declined to comment on the latest leadership change.

Process questioned Local elected officials who serve on the Aviation Authority have also called into question the decision to hire someone without a search. Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg and Mt. Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie cast the two “no” votes on the question of extending an offer to Summey. A proxy for North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey abstained, a city spokesman says. “The mayor has all respect for Chairman Summey. He just favored an open selection process for this position,” says Tecklenburg spokesman Jack O’Toole. “The hiring process must be right and look right,” Haynie wrote on Facebook on Jan. 27. “There should be a formal, fair and rigorous selection process.” State Sen. Marlon Kimpson (D-Chs.) says he encouraged board members to push for a

more-open selection, adding that he believes Summey is a “fine person.” “He may be the best person for the job,” Kimpson says. “But I think what has happened is, even if he was, a cloud of impropriety has been cast and I think that’s unfortunate.” With approval from the governor, the Charleston County legislative delegation is charged with appointing some members of the airport board, a process that Kimpson laments has resulted in a slate of political appointees with little experience in aviation.

A resignation That lack of expertise, along with Summey’s hurried hiring, is what drove Aviation Authority Member Henry Fishburne, a former member of Charleston City Council, to resign before the vote on Jan. 27. Having voiced his concerns when members were briefed on the plan days earlier, Fishburne says he wanted to open his position so that legislators could focus on “populating the board with people that are knowledgeable and experienced in aviation.” “I think we need to up our standards,” Fishburne says. “This emphasis on politics rather than qualifications is a disease that has afflicted South Carolina for 350 years,” says John Crangle, a longtime state government watchdog who formerly led S.C. Common Cause. “Politics in South Carolina is highly incestuous and this looks like some more evidence of that proposition,” Crangle says. “Yes, it is political, but the work we do is not politics,” Hill says. “My name doesn’t have any influence in places like Virginia or Tennessee or Oklahoma,” Summey says, responding to critics who say he’s riding his father’s coattails. “I think I’ve cut my teeth in business. Certainly I’m grateful for some of the doors he’s opened, just through life. That’s what families do.” continued on page 6

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N “Before he even came up to the Statehouse, we had some of the nastiest of politics come out in the form of old, old racism.” —S.C. Sen. Margie Bright Matthews (D-Colleton) said that white senators were sent letters objecting to the state approving the appointment of North Charleston Police Chief Reggie Burgess to become the state’s second African-American director of the Department of Public Safety. Burgess withdrew his nomination last week after facing questions over unpaid taxes and will return to North Charleston with the support of Mayor Keith Summey. Source: The Post and Courier

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BERKELEY REP’S BILL WOULD REQUIRE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS EDUCATION IN S.C. SCHOOLS

South Carolina schools are one step closer to required education on mental health thanks to new legislation passed in the state House of Representatives last week. The bill (H.3257) creates an amendment to the Health Education Act obligating the State Board of Education to develop age-appropriate standards for students that address mental, social, and emotional health. The board will also provide instructional material to school districts, which will adopt or develop curriculum locally. These requirements would go into effect in the 2020-2021 school year if the legislation is passed. The bill’s author, S.C. Rep. JA Moore (D-Berkeley), says that mental health advocates were involved in its creation. “It was a collaborative effort with students and teachers and mental health professionals and the Department of Education and the MOORE Department of Mental Health,” he says. Statistics and reports from the last decade have shown mental health and access to mental health care to be problems for citizens of S.C. A 2019 study from non-profit Mental Health America ranked the Palmetto State 44th in the nation for mental health concerns and lack of proper care, dropping 11 rankings in five years. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found in a 2019 study that S.C. was near or slightly under the national average for most mental health indicators, including rates of youths and adults who have experienced suicidal thoughts or serious mental illness. In a sweeping show of support, no state reps voted against the measure when it successfully went through the House. The bill was sent to the state Senate for its first reading on Jan. 23, where it was referred to the Committee on Education. “This piece of legislation is the first step to change a culture here in South Carolina, how we talk about, how we address, how we relate to mental health wellness and awareness in our community,” says Moore. “It passed the House, but it still has to go through the Senate and then the Governor still has to sign it. We still have a long way to go.” —Heath Ellison

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ALL S.C. COUNTIES NOW DROUGHT-FREE AFTER “DISASTER” CONDITIONS IN OCTOBER

South Carolina Drought Response Committee announced on Thurs. Jan. 30 that all counties in the state are drought-free. Since May 2019, parts of S.C. have been in a drought, bringing low stream flows and increased wildfires, according to the state's climatologist Hope Mizzell. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources reports that conditions had improved in the fall and heavy rain in December brought relief to the 27 counties experiencing drought conditions in the state. In October, six counties were considered in "extreme drought" by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Several weeks later, on Oct. 31, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue declared the drought a natural disaster in parts of South Carolina. Eva Moore, communications director for the S.C. Dept. of Agriculture, says the department received reports from farmers of dry pastures and plant stress during the drought. In September 2019, the Southeast experienced a flash drought, thanks to record-breaking high temperatures and a lack of precipitation. The flash drought produced "significant" agricultural impacts, according to a quarterly report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Declining pasture conditions and reduction in water supplies led to a concern over limited resources from many livestock farmers. —Heath Ellison

5 percent The margin in S.C. held by former Vice President Joe Biden in a poll published Sun. Feb. 2, less than a month before the Feb. 29 state Democratic primary. On Biden's heels are U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is seeing a surge in other early states, and billionaire businessman Tom Steyer, who has spent heavily in South Carolina. Biden's lead was once over 30 percent. Source: Change Research/The Post and Courier

MOVE TO PULL TEACHER BILL OF RIGHTS FROM ED BILL CALLED A ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’

The S.C. Senate is expected to continue a debate on an omnibus education package this week, entering into floor challenges on school starting time and private school vouchers. Hours after teachers convened at the Statehouse on Wed. Jan. 29, senators said no to an amendment that would have established a Teacher Bill of Rights that offered legal action for violations after days of debating the proposal. The final version of the Teacher Bill of Rights in the Senate’s education bill, S. 419, looks similar to the House’s original version in its education package. It creates a list of rights that school districts should aim for, but offers no legal recourse for teachers. Senate Education Chair Greg Hembree (R-North Myrtle Beach) and Isle of Palms Republican Sen. Chip Campsen were among the majority opposing making it legally actionable. “I agree with all those statements (to be aspirational) but as far as having a cause of action flow from those principles that could be problematic,” Hembree told Statehouse Report, Charleston City Paper's sister publication. Hembree said it will keep “dollars in the classroom instead of the courtroom.” Former teacher and Great Falls Democratic Sen. Mike Fanning said the Senate “slapped teachers in the face and flipped them off” when it came to the bill of rights. “The Senate does not want teachers to have these rights,” he said. S.C. Education Association President Sherry East said making the rights actionable is “the whole point” of protecting teachers and giving them autonomy over their classrooms. Another amendment last week expanded scholarships to education majors in an effort to increase teacher recruitment. Another big issue this week could be school choice, Hembree said. Beaufort Republican Sen. Tom Davis told The State last month he would push for an amendment that would offer public assistance to low-income students for attending private schools, much like the state’s current voucher program for students with disabilities. East told Statehouse Report that should private school vouchers become a part of the big bill, the organization will join grassroots SCforEd in its calls for killing the bill. The S.C. House of Representatives is set to pass a standalone bill seeking to establish a Teacher Bill of Rights. The bill has similar aspirational language that does not include legal action steps like the Senate’s amendment. —Lindsay Street

Cloudy continued from page 4 After sitting in as Elliott Summey’s proxy at the meeting and making the motion to hire the man he was there to represent, Charleston County Councilman Vic Rawl voted in favor of hiring his colleague. Later, he defended the optics of the situation. “As far as a nepotism thing, nepotism is a great term to use,” Rawl says. “Except for one small problem: It’s not selected by his father, so it’s not nepotistic.” Merriam-Webster defines nepotism simply: “Favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship.” “People see what they want to see,” says Hill. “We chose the absolute best person for the job.” “If you deal with nepotism as an issue, the question, of course, is whether you’re dealing with someone who has connections that is in fact capable and competent versus an idiot,” Rawl told the City Paper. “I don’t think anybody will suggest to you or anybody that Mr. Summey is an idiot.” Summey will not seek reelection this year as part of his agreement, a stipulation Hill says was included to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

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Bernie Sanders Until the S.C. Democratic Party primary on Sat. Feb. 29, we will publish candidate responses to three questions on issues facing local voters along with a brief analysis of each from two CofC professors. For more, visit charlestoncitypaper.com/threequestions 1. What would you do now and in the future to address climate change’s impact, particularly for poor and rural residents of coastal communities? Bernie’s Green New Deal will invest $16.3 trillion over 10 years to meet the targets the scientists tell us are necessary to avert climate disaster. He’ll ensure justice for frontline communities — especially under-resourced rural and coastal communities, communities of color, Native Americans, people with disabilities, children, and seniors — to recover from and prepare for climate impacts, including creating a $40 billion Climate Justice Resiliency Fund. We’ll provide targeted regional economic development to communities especially in need of assistance during our transition to a clean energy economy, including $130 billion for counties disproportionately impacted by climate change. 2. How would you deal with enduring, stark racial inequalities in places like South Carolina? Bernie believes it is long past time we treat structural racism with the urgency it deserves. In order to transform this country into a nation that affirms the value of its people of color, we must address the five central types of violence waged against black, brown, and indigenous Americans: physical, political, legal, economic, and environmental. Whether it is a broken criminal justice system, or massive disparities in the availability of financial services, or health disparities, or environmental disparities, or educational disparities, we must create a nation in which all people are treated equally. 3. Why should South Carolina voters support you Feb. 29? Bernie’s campaign is not just to win the Democratic primary, and not just to defeat Donald Trump; although we must, and we will. It is to bring fundamental political change to America. A Bernie Sanders presidency will be based on economic, social, racial, and environmental justice. Together, we stand up to the powerful special interests, corporation and the billionaire class who control our economic and political life. At the end of the day, the one percent may have enormous wealth and power, but they are just the one percent. When the 99 percent stand together, we can transform society.

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According to the experts …

Hillary Clinton routed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 South Carolina Democratic primary. Clinton’s path to victory included securing the bulk of statewide endorsements, dominating pre-election media coverage, and winning the support of the state’s African-American voters. Will Sanders experience the same fate in 2020? As in 2016, Sanders had a strong showing in Iowa and appears poised to do well in the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 11. However, as we argue in our newly published book on the “First in the South” primary, South Carolina has a very different Democratic electorate than these two early states. South Carolina’s Democratic primary voters are more racially diverse, more conservative, and less likely to have a college degree. Sanders’ supporters tend to be more educated, liberal, and white according to most polling. An additional hurdle is that Sanders’ main challenger in the state — former Vice President Joe Biden — leads in the endorsement race, critical to success in the S.C. primary. In addition to awarding 63 delegates, South Carolina is important because it is a barometer for other Southern states that hold contests in quick succession. On March 3, just three days after the S.C. primary, elections will be held in six Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. A candidate who does well in South Carolina can quickly amass a sizable delegate advantage given the front-loaded nature of contests in the region. In 2016, Hillary Clinton followed her South Carolina victory by winning all six of the Southern states listed above. Sanders does have a path to victory, however. Recent polling shows Sanders improving his standing, and a strong performance here could aid him in subsequent states and keep him viable. It is also important to keep in mind that a key difference between 2016 and 2020 is the size of the Democratic field. Clinton and Sanders were the only two viable candidates in 2016, but there is a much more crowded field in 2020. The larger field is an advantage for Sanders, a candidate with a loyal following and solid base of support. We will know in a few weeks if 2020 resembles 2016. Whatever the outcome, South Carolina will continue to play a critical role in the race for the White House. Jordan Ragusa and Gibbs Knotts are political science professors at the CofC. They recently published First in the South: Why South Carolina’s Presidential Primary Matters.

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At a downtown clothing store, a woman was found with a bag of marijuana in her purse after knocking a display of dresses onto the ground. She was acting erratic, according to the report, telling officers that she was “looking for a wedding dress.” We’re not advocating for drug use, but if she’s that stressed over wedding shopping …

Officers escorted a woman back to her residence after she had claimed her car was stolen. Though she was intoxicated and couldn’t pinpoint the exact location of where she had left her car, which she said was still running, police patrolled the area, and found no sign of it. A good Samaritan found a wallet on the sidewalk in front of a downtown hotel and promptly checked with hotel staff to see if the wallet belonged to a guest. There’s no joke or crime here, just a good person doing a good thing. Officers responded to a report that a man’s CPDissued unmarked vehicle was broken into, and his firearm, gas mask, CDU helmet, black duffel bag, and $2.50 in spare change were stolen. See, guys? Even cop cars are left unlocked sometimes. In addition to the officer’s, two firearms were stolen from motor vehicles parked outside their owners’ homes.

Police arrived at a downtown residence in response to a possible burglary in progress. The suspect, who had since fled the scene, was described by the homeowner as a white male in a white jumpsuit. Police noted that the suspect was more than likely a drunk and lost college student. Cigarettes, Mountain Dew, and Advil were shoplifted from a West Ashley gas station last week. The offender will be tough to catch: Mountain Dew provides endless energy, nicotine will give him the ability to focus on eluding capture, and the Advil will make him immune to all pain. After responding to a call to an apartment about possible trespassing and a short foot pursuit which ended in the suspect slipping and falling, it was discovered that the suspect had been banned from all city housing since 2010. What exactly do you have to do to get banned from all city housing? Officers observed a man standing close to a downtown theater with his hands at his waist. On closer inspection, the officer noted “several streams of liquid surrounding the offender’s person.” In his defense, he later told the officers about his “urgent need” to urinate.

An officer responded to a park after receiving complaints from nearby residents that people had their dogs off-leash before the permitted time. Upon arrival, the officer began writing one man a citation while all other dog owners promptly leashed their dogs and left. Bad, dawg. After an older member of a local church discovered that a young couple in the congregation were dating, he announced it to a group at an after-hours church meeting. After the meeting, the man who made the announcement reportedly assaulted the younger man when questioned about the public statement. This is probably just another standard, everyday case of demon possession. Several members of the Ansonborough neighborhood took “great exception” to the way trees were being pruned on East Bay Street. According to police, the tree service was occupying one lane and forcing vehicles into another at a blind intersection. The kicker: The mayor and the director of the city parks division were dispatched to the scene and given a full briefing.

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‘Monumentally Stupid’ Nepotism, conflict, leadership questions mark Summey’s new job

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 02.05.2020

ot only is it a bad idea. It’s a monumentally stupid idea for the Charleston County Aviation Authority to hire the chairman of County Council, Elliott Summey, as the agency’s next executive director. At a salary of $290,000. For a job for which he has zero experience. By comparison, the general manager of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, known as the busiest airport in the world with more than 100 million passengers, took over in 2018 for $280,000 annually. He is an industry professional, having helped to manage a major New York airport before heading to Atlanta. Charleston International Airport is less than 5 percent of the size of Atlanta’s airport. Summey, a dyspeptic braggart who pushes around his weight and ego to get his way, has zero airport management experience. Taxpayers and airport patrons are rightly outraged to the hilt. Rather than getting a professional who knows how to grow and run an airport, they’re going to get a stuffed-shirt politician with a temper. Anyone with a lick of common sense should be questioning the process of naming Summey, a member of the Aviation Authority by virtue of his position on County Council, as the next director. Perhaps more appropriate would be for another branch of government, the state grand jury, to open an investigation into the whole, smarmy mess of conflict piled upon conflict. Summey is the son of North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey. His colleague on County Council is Teddie Pryor,

who works for the mayor and whose brother Spencer started work as as spokesman at the agency after retiring from the police department in North Charleston. For anyone to claim Elliott Summey didn’t get the job because of his last name, good-old-boyism, political insiders, and nepotism is smoking something illegal in the state of South Carolina. And if the cronyism isn’t bad enough, just look at Summey’s lackluster leadership record. Unlike his father, who has steered North Charleston into becoming a business engine of the Lowcountry, the son oversaw the county’s costly rescue of the Naval Hospital by paying $33 million to acquire it after North Charleston originally bought it for $2 million and sold it to developers for $5 million. Net loss: $28 million. Since then, more developers have become involved and purchased the building for something like $10 million (yes, the deal on a public building was done by Council in secret), but that’s still operating at a whopping loss. As councilman, Summey has supported extending Interstate 526 for years. It’s still on the drawing board. He’s been involved with a delayed recycling center moved to, yes, North Charleston. And he has pushed using half-cent sales tax revenue for purposes for which it wasn’t intended. Bottom line: If you think Elliott Summey’s Grade-C level of leadership is what the airport needs to move forward, we’ve got some swampland in Florida to sell you. Dump him and get a real airport exec. At a minimum, he needs to resign from County Council today.

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Little Promises Over that New Year’s resolution yet? After packing, moving and unpacking for nearly a week over the holidays, I just wanted to get a pizza and some drinks. But a few New Year’s resolutions had different ideas. And no, not my resolutions. It was lunchtime on the Friday after New Year’s and I texted a friend saying I’m craving Toni’s Detroit Style pizza. His response was, “I’m the heaviest I’ve been, so my resolution is to get leaner.” Obviously I want what’s best for my friend, so I ask him what he’s been doing to get there. He joined a gym and obviously wasn’t eating pizza. I laughed and said, “Alright, give me a call next week when you want to go.” I hate eating alone, but the craving drove my car over there and I got my favorite pie. On the drive there, I called another friend and asked if he wanted to grab a drink. He said, man I’m doing Dry January. You should do it too, it’s easy. My response was that there’s way too much football left and I know I’ll grab a beer. (I was waiting until after the Super Bowl.) Then I called another friend and asked if she wanted to grab a bite at happy hour. I mean, it is Friday after all. She combined three resolutions! No drinking, eating healthier, and saving money! Three strikes ended my efforts. It was looking like

I either need to come up with my own resolution, or enjoy a party of one! Right then and there, one of my favorite Dierks Bentley songs blared from the radio … “Am I the only one who wants to have fun tonight? Is there anybody out there who wants to have a cold beer? Kick it to the morning light. If I have to raise hell all by myself, I will, but y’all, that ain’t right.” A party of one it was then! A YouGov poll suggests roughly 40 percent of Americans make a New Year’s resolution. Of them, about 6 percent keep them. Eating better, saving money, and working out are the most popular. For me, apparently either the majority of my friends decided 2020 is their year for some kind of transformation, or they just don’t want to hang out with me. (If it’s the latter, give me a call, I may need new friends.) In all seriousness though, I made a few resolutions — or goals, as I like to call them. It gives me a sense of purpose in the morning, instead of waking up and doing the same routine over and over. I set my goals

from short to long-term. For example, my goal for the decade is to save up as much money as possible to fulfill another goal. That doesn’t mean drastically altering my life, but by making small moves here and there. For example, moving to a smaller apartment, or adding on some side gigs. Aside from clearly needing to find new friends, another question presented itself: Why do people wait to make these transformations for a new year? If the goal is so important to you, why not start sooner? Clearly, that goal is something you’ve been wanting to do for a while, is it not? Not all of us love our jobs, but obviously we have to do it. Maybe you have a passion that you can incorporate into your routine to start that transformation. There’s a great quote from the former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden who said, “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” Instead of making drastic changes that overwhelm you and make your goals harder to achieve, take small steps. At least that way you won’t find yourself trying to relate to a Dierks Bentley song. Rouzy Vafaie is a former Charleston County Republican Party leader.

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Black History Soul Meet & Eat Enjoy an afternoon of Lowcountry food tastings, networking, expressive art forms, vendors, black history trivia, and prizes. Featured artists and organizations include: Alex Dixon aka “Mr. Smilez,” the Speak Freely Foundation, Theresa Hilliard of Mama Doonk’s Gullah, and Adande African drum and dance. A portion of the proceeds benefit the non-profit organization, Public Arts for Health and Stability. Sat. Feb. 8, 12-4 p.m. $15/door, $10/adv., $5/kids under 10. Midland Park Community Center, 2427 Midland Park Road. North Charleston

From The Stooges to The Smiths, pop into the Holy City Vintage Market for sounds and fashion from the past. This month’s market is a big, loud, and rock ‘n’ roll edition. The DUMB Doctors will even be playing a set of vintage rock covers. Sun. Feb. 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free to attend. The Royal American, 970 Morrison Drive. Downtown. facebook.com/holycityvintagemarket

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Ax Throwing (and more) Opening Charleston Fun Park is adding even more fun to the mix. Celebrate the grand opening of their ax-throwing range this Friday, where guests are encouraged to dress like a lumberjack (or jill). Complimentary food and drinks are provided throughout the event. Fri. Feb. 7, 5-9 p.m. Free to attend. Charleston Fun Park, 3255 Hwy. 17 N Mt Pleasant. charlestonfunpark.com

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Cupid’s Chase Calling all walkers, runners, or rollers. Community Options Inc. will host a 5K to help make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities. However you chase, you make the world a better place. Sat. Feb. 8, 8-11 a.m. $30. 208 West Doty Ave. Summerville. cupidschase.org

Come shuck away at the Sullivan’s Island Fire and Rescue oyster roast. For just $45 (or $40 in advance) you and your friends can enjoy AYCE oysters, live music, hot dogs, fish stew, and a bouncy castle for the kids. And for those shucking, make sure to bring your own knife. Sat. Feb. 8, 5-8 p.m. $45/day of, $40/ adv. Sullivan’s Island Fire and Rescue Department, 2050 Middle St. Sullivan’s Island

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Stingrays vs. Jacksonville Icemen The Stingrays take on the Jacksonville Icemen this Sunday. In addition to the excitement of the game, the day has been deemed “kids takeover day,” where the first 1,000 kids 14-and-under will receive a Stingrays puzzle. Sun. Feb. 9 at 3:05 p.m. $17+. North Charleston Coliseum, 5001 Coliseum Drive. North Charleston. stingrayshockey.com

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Oysters on the Point Enjoy buckets of steamed oysters and blue crabs at Oysters on the Point this Saturday. Listen to live music from Holy City Steel Collective and peruse goods from local art vendors. Pair those bivalves with beer or a drink from the bloody mary bar. This event is hosted once a month through March. Sat. Feb. 8, 2 p.m. $7. Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina, 20 Patriots Point Blvd. Mt. Pleasant. facebook.com/oystersonthepoint

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Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus ! See the classic children’s book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! hit the big stage for one day only. Bring out the kiddos to see the Mo Willems’ book come to life. Sun. Feb. 9, 2 p.m. $15-$35. Charleston Gaillard Center, 95 Calhoun St. Downtown. gaillardcenter.org

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Ms. Rose’s Comedy Hour returns, featuring performances from Hilliary Begley and Bridgette Martin, hosted by Drew Howard. You may know Begley from her role in the Netflix movie, Dumplin’, where she played Lucy. She and Martin are bringing more laughs than you can handle, so buckle up. These shows fill up fast so be sure to make reservations ahead of time. Sat. Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. $12. Ms. Rose’s Fine Food & Cocktails, 1090 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. West Ashley

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Ment Nelson on being an artist in the internet age BY CHASE QUINN

“… I just started selling my work online probably back in 2015. That was when I first started seeing if I could make a reality out of this.”

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Nelson’s work often reflects his childhood experiences growing up in rural Varnville

grade. Regularly entering art competitions at the behest of his mother and his teachers, Nelson won a contest for his illustration of a local hospital. One of the elements that caught the eye of the judges, and set him above the competition, was his rendering of the grass: “I learned from a painting tutorial on television how to paint grass and that you don’t just paint it green, but you mix green and yellow.” Despite being lauded by teachers and classmates for his artistic creativity, Nelson did not think of art as a viable career path until, struggling with his grades as a first-generation college student at Francis Marion University, he made the decision to leave school. “I ended up leaving because I was on academic probation. It wasn’t working out, so I just started selling my work online probably back in 2015,” he says. “That was when I first started seeing if I could make a reality out of this.” Then it was just simple ink drawings, but with his knowledge of the internet and comfort with social media, his following steadily grew. Leveraging connec continued on page 16

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rtist Clementia Nelson, 31, is a child of the internet. “Ment,” as he’s known, was identified as gifted in third grade. One of the perks he remembers is having early access to the world wide web. “This was when the internet was first coming out, so it wasn’t something we were learning in our regular classes. But in our gifted and talented classes, once a week, we would learn how to build websites and how to navigate and search the internet.” Those skills have served him well. Currently, he has over 16,000 followers on Instagram and over 19,000 on Twitter, allowing him to promote the sale of his work to an ever-growing audience. Nelson is perhaps best known for his viral watercolor of Donald Trump and Kanye West, in which Trump bears lipstick marks and Kanye wears a scarlet grin. You may also know him as the artist who priced that watercolor at $1 million. Regardless of how you know him, in a sea of aspiring young artists, more and more people know of Ment Nelson. Christened Clementia after Clementa C. Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and senior pastor of Mother Emanuel AME Church, one of the nine gunned down by Dylann Roof in 2015, Nelson says he has always felt there was a purpose to his life. “I feel a certain responsibility and an opportunity to live up to his legacy,” he says. “Not directly; we aren’t the same person, but I just feel like there’s a calling over my life.” Raised in rural Varnville, S.C., where he moved with his mother, father, and his younger brother from Ridgeland at 4 years old, his talents were recognized and supported early. Now, he says, he understands that being labeled gifted is no different than being identified as having any other special need: “Some people’s minds are just created different.” One of his first tastes of artistic achievement came in the fourth

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competition, which was in its inaugural year. The competition included submissions continued from page 15 from over 100,000 artists and creators from around the globe. tions made online with other creatives, one of “If you entered you could win a $25,000 his first shows was in 2018 at the Museum of prize and your design could become a shoe. Modern Art PS1’s Artbook shop in New York. So, I entered and the very first day I was In collaboration with June Canedo, Justin in the top three highest voted designs.” French, and Tess Herbert, he showed a series From there, he started getting support on of portraits of South Carolinians. That same Twitter from the likes of CNN pundit and year his ink-to-digital work “Old Sheldon” former S.C. Rep. Bakari Sellers, as well as began traveling with the Smithsonian exhibiCharleston’s own Coburg Cow. “Yeah, they tion, Crossroads: Change in Rural America. have a Twitter account for some reason, and Nelson acknowledges that his path has been they were tweeting about it and made some somewhat unorthodox. Most young artists, cow pun,” says Nelson, deadpan. of course, do not have their first show in New Despite the overwhelming support, Nelson York City, much less at MoMA PS1. “The did not win the competition. Instead, in whole gallery route is, ironically, the route I’m another twist, he found himself embroiled least familiar with. Like, having art shows and in a controversy over the integrity of Vans’ things like that, it’s kind of new to me. I’m Dalmatian shoe design, which online supportfinding out my talent precedes me because I ers were alleging the shoe company had stolen have been creating all this stuff and I got all of from Nelson. It is indeed a bizarre saga, comthis notoriety [online] while I was just living plete with corporate intrigue and tweeting with my parents in a double-wide trailer.” cows, that could only unfold on the internet. And it is easy to understand why that Nelson brushes off the incident with might be disorienting. With an art show, the characteristic humor. “We work goes up, and the didn’t end up winning, but work comes down. On that showed me how much the internet content is support I had ... and that created, repurposed, all of this is just uncharted and lives forever, copied, territory; the fact that pasted, liked, and memethere’s even a competition ified for all eternity. “I like that! It’s just fun times, always tell people: You to me. I don’t know if can’t compare anything everybody else sees it that happening now to anyway.” But while he is able thing before the internet to wield the internet with and social media.” a light hand — “I don’t let He points, for example, the positive comments to another viral moment build me up and I don’t in his rise to visibility that let the negative ones occurred in 2019. Nelson break me down” — he says he’d bought a fresh has also used it to start pair of white lace-up Vans. some very timely and “When I got them, I said, serious conversations ‘They are just too clean about how we value art for me. Too new and too and artists. white.’ ” Using a cow in a When Nelson priced “Kissing Nelson has gained neighboring pasture as his study, Up,” his ode to Trump and a large following the artist took a sharpie and patKanye, it wasn’t simply a on his social media publicity stunt, although it did terned the white Vans with big platforms like black, dairy cow spots. About a indeed stir up a lot of buzz. He Instagram and year later he entered the design was interrogating an art market Twitter into the Vans’ Custom Culture where a contemporary artist like

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“Why can’t I see my work as being worth that much? Is it because I live in a double-wide trailer on a dirt road in a town with 1,200 people?” Robert Rauschenberg, for example, could sell a painting for $900 and the proprietor could then sell the same piece at auction for $85,000 with no additional compensation for the artist or the artist’s estate. “Knowing so many artists whose work is selling for millions but they aren’t getting that money, and having the ability with all of this new technology ... why wouldn’t I price it that way? Why can’t I go ahead and price it that amount instead of waiting for an auction to do it? Why can’t I see my work as being worth that much? Is it because I live in a double-wide trailer on a dirt road in a town with 1,200 people? I just wanted to challenge people to see the significance of this era of time, but also to inspire other people who came from where I am from to see themselves different. I’m in the same neighborhood and from the same town.” In addition to reflecting back the tenor of current political affairs, and the absurdity of internet culture, another ever-present theme in his work is a love of home, and specifically Lowcountry culture. “I think about 100 years from now ... for example, the Gullah Geechee culture, and crabbing, and respecting your elders. All that could easily die out right now,” Nelson says. “I feel like with my influence, I can make a conscious effort, even though I am a young guy, to preserve those things in my artwork, things fundamental to creating my character.” You can see this reverence in paintings like “Backwoods Baptism.” Rendered in watercolor, it depicts murky figures dressed in soft pastels, standing at a riverbank. Their silhouettes are timeless so that the scene feels like it could be from 100 years ago, when in

These scenes are moments in time, meant to be preserved

fact it’s from Nelson’s childhood. “My little brother got baptized ... We didn’t have a church pool, so we used to go down to the woods to the creek bed.” This piece and a handful of other works, a mixture of watercolor and ink, will be on view as a part of a small show opening this Friday at Meyer Vogl Gallery. Recently relocated to his own place in Traveler’s Rest, Nelson is excited to see what he is capable of with more space and without the distractions of his parents. “While my art is good, it still is not to its highest potential yet. I haven’t had the opportunity to create to my highest potential. Like I said, I was living with my parents and you can imagine how that affects your ability to focus,” he laughs. “Now that I’m out on my own, I’m locked in.” Ment Nelson: New Works opens on Fri. Feb. 7, 5-8 p.m. at Meyer Vogl Gallery at 122 Meeting St. Learn more at meyervogl.com.

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Our Changing Worlds Louisiana-based artist collective Luminous Lookout sets up at Redux BY MELISSA HAYES Spectral Marauding

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Opens Fri. Feb. 7, 5-8 p.m. Through March 21 Free to attend Redux Contemporary Art Center 1056 King St. Downtown reduxstudios.org

Southern Louisiana’s salt marsh veined landscape, complex history, and distinctive culture is familiar to the Lowcountry. You’ll recognize these influences, along with broader social narratives, in the works of Luminous Lookout, a Southern Louisiana-based artist collective who will be exhibiting at Redux through March 21. The collective is comprised of Dawn Black, Kathryn Hunter, Kelli Scott Kelley, and Jonathan Mayers, and together, they aim to inspire conversation about the ever-changing world we live in and the consequences of these changes. Each of the Luminous Lookout artists works with representational imagery that functions symbolically or metaphorically within a larger narrative. Their work contemplates power structures and struggles, whether within the natural world we live in, between humans, or within the psyche. This is where the exhibition’s title — Spectral Marauding — comes in. The selected works for this show consider opposing forces — seen and unseen — that can generate change, “robbing” something of its former state. Though their individual works differ, all members of Luminous Lookout hope that their work provokes a dialogue by which we can better understand ourselves and our place in an ever-shifting world. As a collective, they’re still young. Spectral Marauding will be only their second exhibition together. “With this show, we wanted to play around more with the design of the show together. In terms of what we do as a group, it’s still evolving,” explains Kelley. Kelley paints metaphorical images on antique linens. Working with repurposed materials allows her to be environmentally responsible, and the linens also provide a connection to the feminine. “These linens were part of the domestic world. They’ve been used, so they have this embedded history. And many of them were hand-stitched by women, so it’s also been a way for me to connect with women’s work,” she explains. Her surreal images juxtapose odd yet meaningful elements. They almost always depict the human form, often interacting with animals and sometimes even hybridized with them. “I’m aware of considering humans in the natural world and everything from thinking of ourselves as animals and creatures in our animal nature as well as how humans

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WORKS IN THIS SHOW CONSIDER OPPOSING FORCES THAT CAN GENERATE CHANGE

affect the natural environment,” she says. Similarly, Mayers explores environmental destruction through fantastical landscapes infused with mythological beasts and creatures. The creatures are metaphors for destructive human interactions with the natural world, historical events, natural disasters, or invasive species. One piece that will be shown at Redux, “La Louve blanche protégeant Rayne” (The White Wolf Protecting Rayne), depicts a spectral white wolf sprouting tentacled pincers preparing to defend the coastal landscape from an inky, serpentine monster. The wolf was inspired by an indigenous woman of the Houma tribe who sought to protect the landscape from the construction of an oil pipeline. The piece sits within a purple frame caked with actual marsh mud from the area and crawfish claws. “A lot of inspiration comes from people and personalities that I’ve met, but it also comes largely from hearing stories,” says Mayers. “I’m a Louisiana Creole, and we have a lot of folk tales down here like the rougarou — a werewolf beast that lurks in the swamp. They address all sorts of destructive things that humans do. It’s essentially why these stories were made.” “I feel like that term marauding, that idea of plundering fits with all of our work — that idea of taking something either from the earth or from people and cultures,” says Black. Her work shifts away from the natural world and focuses on “pop culture, sociology,

and social life; how that creates a hierarchy of power and control; how that extends into our consciousness and unconsciousness; and how that manifests in our behavior.” Her work is meant to pose a question rather than make a statement and invites the viewer to consider the unseen forces that shape our identities. Hunter’s work also deals with social power structures and human interactions, and, like some of her partners within the collective, she uses animals as characters to explore these concepts. “Animals are a symbolic way of talking about the human condition in a way that we’ve done for centuries,” she says. “It’s a way to convey a message that isn’t as direct as a photograph.” She explores violence and pacification, especially in terms of gun violence and racism. “I’m trying to understand how people treat each other and how we’re treated by institutions,” she says. The materials she chooses elevate these concepts. Working with prints, textiles, and laser-cut steel and paper silhouettes, she juxtaposes elements of varying weights. “Paper cutting, especially if it’s not framed, can be seen as so fragile, but the cut metal is something stronger in idea and material,” she says. Spectral Marauding — as Redux’s annual artist collective exhibition — is intended to give the public a chance to engage with a group of artists who share similar themes and intentions. Though each member’s work is powerful on its own, their collective heft grants greater depth and dimension to each.

LOCAL LIBRARY TRENDS MATCH NATIONWIDE RISE IN LIBRARY ATTENDANCE

The Hill recently published an article, “More Americans visited libraries than movie theaters in 2019,” outlining a trend in the rise of library attendance across the nation. According to Gallup data, the average American adult visited the library 10.5 times throughout 2019. Charleston County Public Library’s communications manager, Doug Reynolds, says that local libraries are seeing that same trend. “We do see that people are rediscovering their local libraries and learning that they offer so much more than books now,” he says. Last year Charleston residents visited area libraries 1,491,407 times. There were over 242,000 attendees at 6,428 programs (including lectures, activities, performances). And, as always, it cost each resident zero dollars to visit their local library branch. As cited in The Hill, public libraries are one of the few free activities available to the average American: “The library, which is free and offers a variety of services including WiFi, is visited most by adults in low-income households and least by adults in high-income households.” Learn more about CCPL online at ccpl.org. —Connelly Hardaway

MARTIN GALLERY CLOSES ITS DOORS

Last week Martin Gallery, located at 18 Broad St., announced that after 20 years they are closing their doors on Mon. Feb. 17. The reasons for closing are personal, not financial, and the gallery will continue to represent its artists’ work online. Located on the ground floor of the People’s Building which owners restored shortly after initially opening on Queen Street in 1999, the gallery space is prime downtown real estate. An online listing of the unit lists the space at nearly $2 million. Until the doors close, the gallery will be offering special pricing on nearly all artwork in the gallery, selling pieces for 20-30 percent off. Martin Gallery will participate in the quarterly art walk, held on Fri. Feb. 7, 5-8 p.m. The gallery’s current exhibition, Bold & Blue, features works from Sara Conca, who creates contemporary, abstract work. Located in a former bank building, Martin Gallery is one of the more striking art venues in downtown Charleston — Fodor’s Travel calls the “light-filled, grand space” the city’s “most impressive gallery.” —CH For daily updates from Charleston’s art world, check out the Arts+Movies section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Enjoy a night of conversation about art with the Mt. Pleasant Community Arts Center and the Charleston Area Performing Artists. Panelists Jean-Marie Mauclet, Gwylene Gallimard, and Guang Ming Whitley will be discussing what public art is and how we create art for public spaces. • Wed. Feb. 5, 6-7 p.m. Free to attend. Wando Mt. Pleasant Library, 1400 Carolina Park Blvd. Mt. Pleasant. ccpl.org/branches GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART Amy P. Coy Forum Thurs. Watch 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art winner Donte K. Hayes receive his $10,000 award and learn from a panel of artists and experts about the impact of Southern artists on the global art scene at the Amy P. Coy Forum. • Thurs. Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. $46. Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting St. Downtown. gibbesmuseum.org

• Fri. Feb. 7, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free to attend. Neema Fire Art Gallery, 3 Broad St. Suite 100. Downtown. neemagallery.com RUTLEDGE CAB CO. Cultivate SciArt Tues. Sip, chew, and learn at Cultivate’s SciArt happy hour. Here, you’ll hear a brief science presentation, create art, and join in inspiring community conversations. This week’s themes are signals from songbirds and abstract landscapes. You even get the chance to take home original art that you make. • Tues. Feb. 11, 6-8 p.m. $15/general, $10/students. Rutledge Cab Co., 1300 Rutledge Ave. Downtown. cultivatesciart.org/2020-events

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NEEMA FINE ART GALLERY Growing Up Gullah Fri. This Friday, Neema Fine Art Gallery presents Part I of Growing Up Gullah: The Artistry of Dana Coleman. A Mt. Pleasant native, Coleman’s images depict moments in ordinary life — the kinds of moments that make Charleston what it is. You’ll see images of Coleman’s grandmother feeding chickens, his uncle shucking oysters, and his aunt sewing sweetgrass baskets.

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Tear-Soaked Tale Classic, tragic Love Story lands at The Terrace 50 years after its premiere

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The year was 1970. Many of us weren’t even zygotes yet. The Stooges released their second album, Fun House, while The Jackson 5 were singing about the ABCs and The Beatles were, unknowingly, releasing their final album, Let It Be. On the big screen, Airport was busy making audiences fear planes while M.A.S.H. and Patton were offering very different takes on the subject of war. And one film, Love Story, focused on that most universal of subjects: love. Accompanying the mournful piano-laced theme at the intro of the film we see a young man sitting on a curb in the middle of winter while the narrator asks, “What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach? The Beatles? And me?” From there the scene dissolves to a young man and woman having an agitated conversation about a book. The man, hockey player Oliver Barrett (Ryan O’Neal), is attending Harvard while the woman, Jenny Cavalleri (Ali McGraw), is studying classical music. A passionate hockey player and a classical pianist? Can they get along, much less fall in love? The answer may not surprise you at all, but the trip getting there is worth

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about four tear-soaked hankies. Recently, while watching the film, I had a few observations:

I know that song from somewhere

One of the best/worst things about hip-hop is sam-

pling. Some folks loathe it because they feel it is ripping off the hard work of another artist while others view it as a gateway to music history. Where would late ’80s rap be without James Brown’s “Funky Drummer?” The aforementioned piano-laced

Love montages existed in 1970

When I first saw Love Story in the late ’90s, I was instantly struck by two things. The first was the use of montages used to communicate the passage of time in a young couple’s love affair. I’d always assumed montages were more of an ’80s thing meant for films like Footloose and Revenge of the Nerds. You learn something new every day. The second thing: Time can be cruel to classic films. Arthur Hiller’s tragic romance is a great example.

Thank god for Roger Ebert’s wit As a burgeoning movie dork, I bought, and still buy, books by movie critics. One critic, the late Roger Ebert, once devoted a section of his Movie Home Companions to a glossary of movie terms he had coined to describe stereotypes and cliches commonly found in films. One of the terms, “Ali MacGraw’s Disease” stood out for me. Described as a “movie illness in which the only symptom

is that the sufferer grows more beautiful as death approaches,” the term on its face was a pretty humorous takedown of a cliche that blossomed in the wake of Hiller’s film. From my 17-year-old mindset, it was a gleeful middle finger to such things as romance and melodrama, with little clue as to the context of the term’s invention. Thankfully a bored young man once watched Love Story assuming he’d find some good snarky riffs to justify Ebert’s tongue-incheek “disease” definition. One full hundred minutes and two misty eyes later, I realized why the film’s quote, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” was so popular.

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Life Aquatic 167 Raw makes moves from tiny East Bay spot to luxe lower King digs

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BY MARY SCOTT HARDAWAY

Surrounded by high-end boutiques, swanky inns, antique stores, and art galleries, 193 King Street sits along a quiet stretch of storefronts. The old Il Cortile Del Re space was purchased by 167 Raw owner Jesse Sandole in early 2018 after the building sat empty for three years. The new 167 finally opened to the restaurant’s loyal following at the close of January. And yes, there are more than seven seats. 167 is still open for lunch and dinner Mon.Sat., boasting the same lineup of New England bivalves and lobstah rolls that were muchlauded at their teeny East Bay Street home. That location will continue to be part of the family, re-opening as a new concept TBA says co-owner Darren Harrison-Panus. “It will be like walking into Momofuku,” he says. “You know it’s a David Chang restaurant, but each one feels just a little bit different.” With their expansive new lower King digs, their OG Nantucket fish market and food truck, and that East Bay slice, 167 is well on their way to building their very own seafood tower ... err, empire. As downtown arteries (we’re looking at you, Spring) and off-peninsula neighborhoods (Park Circle, Johns Island) become increasingly attractive, we wondered why the Raw crew wanted to move their hip, industrial concept into arguably one of the sleepier areas of town. “Sense of place,” says Harrison-Panus. The first floor of the everso-charming 19th century building is long and narrow, with original brick walls and a new walnut bar. Neighboring buildings are equally old and flush with character, adorned

with clean sidewalks, well-trimmed palms, and street lamps. No honking horns or latenight stumblers on this side of town. But seek out the golden diver helmet jutting out of the wall — 193 King is a buzzing. On a recent lunch visit we caught bar vet Teddy Nixon shaking up the good stuff while Sandole and Harrison-Panus, donning matching aqua hues, greeted regulars at the door. There were Chicago business types and couples toting toddlers. By 12:05 p.m., a little over an hour after lunch service started, there was a wait. With four tops, banquettes, a full bar, community table, chef’s table, raw bar seating, and an expansive patio, there’s room for regulars to sit, and even more for them

to wait. Waiting is part of the fun, right? At least, that’s what Sandole hopes his patrons will come to believe. We check out the back patio, where a string-lit bar and tall, round marble tables create an attractive outdoor waiting room. The idea is that guests are invited to grab a drink (and eventually, small bites) and linger as their table is turned. Heat lamps help, but there’s still a nip in the January air. But, turns out, 167 fanatics all have a little New England blood in their veins — we catch a handful of guests slurping Duxburys by the dozen out back. Fifty degrees and sunny, with a long lunch on the horizon.

It’s only a 12 minute drive from the peninsula, but Hanahan has a small-town feel all its own. The downtown is getting a facelift, and Mayor Christie Rainwater says she loves that Hanahan has that “American feel everyone longs for.” “What we don’t have, is what I affectionately refer to as ‘quality of life businesses,’” says Rainwater. “We have less than a dozen restaurants — there is a desperate need for food options.” Enter: Yeamans Hall Canteen, the area’s newest food truck park featuring ample seating, requisite bistro lights strung amidst fresh planters, and a revamped old barn boasting a new chandelier. The park is located right across from City Hall at 1240 Yeamans Hall Road on land where small homes used to sit. Rainwater says they weren’t sure what to do with the vacant lot after the cottages were razed, but figured in the interim they could introduce some much-needed culinary diversity to the town. Yeamans Hall Canteen will host a grand opening celebration on Sat. Feb. 29, and the schedule is lined up for all of March with April already filling up. The park will be open Mon.-Thurs. with a breakfast session from 6-9:30 a.m. and lunch and dinner from 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays there will be lunch and dinner only from 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Three to four trucks will be onsite at any given time, and trucks will park on the same days every week: so, for instance, you’ll be able to find your favorite fried chicken every Monday in March, lobster rolls every Tuesday in March, etc. Interested food trucks must have an updated DHEC inspection, Hanahan business license, and certificate of insurance. Trucks will pay a $25 daily fee to park on Yeamans Hall Road — those interested in participating can fill out a form online. “For a lot of cities to put up a food truck park, it’s a fun, cute thing,” says Rainwater. “For us, it was a need ... once the [interested] trucks understood that, they were more on board.” The mayor hopes, of course, that both food truck owners and patrons will be charmed by the small town. “Another purpose is not just for the sake of the food truck park,” says Rainwater, noting that the nearest restaurant competition to the park is the Checkers down the street. “I want to show the need, for those interested, that ‘Hey, we have a blank canvas here, we’re looking for restaurants.’ If your food truck is succeeding maybe you would consider opening a brick and mortar.” —Mary Scott Hardaway Be the first to know. Read the Food+Drink section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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n AMERICAN 5Church The sister restaurant to 5Church Charlotte, 5Church Charleston is run by exec chef Adam Hodgson and Bravo Top Chef alum Jamie Lynch. While the menu veers pretty standard high-end, approachable, “modern American” fare — think salmon, raw bar items, flatbread — the Market Street spot has made a point to go the extra mile by sourcing ingredients from Lynch’s new sixacre farm located 30 minutes from Charlotte. —Mary Scott Hardaway (Dish, Summer 2019) Lunch, Dinner, & Sun. Brunch. Dinner. 32 N. Market St. (843) 937-8666. The Alley Fun bowling alley with games, lanes, great drinks, and good food. Lunch (Thurs.-Sun.), Dinner, Late Night (daily). Lunch, Dinner, Late Night, Live Music, Non-Smoking, Burger Week. 131 Columbus St. (843) 818-4080. Boxcar Betty’s Somewhat hidden away on Savannah Highway is Boxcar Betty’s, a simple enough place that means to take a stand on the lack of good fried chicken sandwiches. Because owners Ian MacBryde and Roth Scott, formerly of Magnolias, staked their claim as a niche kind of joint, the menu confidently boasts only a few items. Boxcar Betty’s now has four area locations. Lunch, Dinner (daily). Lunch, Dinner. 1922 Savannah Hwy. 843-225-7470 114 Holiday Drive. 7800 Rivers Ave. Burtons Grill Classic New England fare, from clam chowder to shrimp scampi with big entrees like barbecue ribs and rib-eyes, plus a local catch. Lunch & Dinner. Lunch, Dinner. 1875 Hwy. 17 N. (843) 606-2590. Early Bird Diner Biscuits and eggs for breakfast. Patty melts and open faced sandwiches for lunch. Blue plate specials for dinner featuring meat and sides of your choice. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner (Mon.-Sat.),. Late Night (Fri. & Sat.), & Sun. Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Late Night, Parking, Non-Smoking. 1644 Savannah Hwy. (843) 277-2353. Eli’s Table Benedicts for breakfast, soup and sandwiches for lunch, and crowd-pleasing entrees for dinner like pork chops, lemon chicken, and seafood fra diavolo. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, & Weekend Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner, Breakfast. 129 Meeting St. (843) 405-5115. Florie’s at Commonhouse Aleworks Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner. 4831 O’Hear Ave. Harold’s Cabin This Bill Murray-owned restaurant serves fresh eats and coffees from its two-story location in the Westside neighborhood. Mon.-Fri. 4-10 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 9 a.m.-10p.m. Brunch & dinner. Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast. 247 Congress St. (843) 793-4440. Hen and The Goat This fast/casual spot offers sandwiches, breakfast, and snacks in a family friendly atmosphere. Lunch (daily). Lunch. 869 Folly Rd. Jack’s Cafe A greasy spoon that’s operated on the edge of the college campus forever, serving up burgers, breakfast, and more. Breakfast & Lunch, weekdays. Lunch, Breakfast, Non-Smoking, Wifi. 41 George St. (843) 723-5237. Kickin’ Chicken 27 varieties of wings, plus great sandwiches, huge salads, and burgers too. Lunch, Dinner, Late Night (Daily). Lunch, Dinner, Late Night, Delivery, Best of Charleston winner. 337 King St. (843) 805-5020 1175 Folly Road. (843) 225-6996 349 W Coleman Blvd. (843) 881-8734 800 N. Main St. (843) 875-6998 1179 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. (843) 766-5292. KinFolk A stone’s throw from Kiawah, KinFolk occupies the tiny space once inhabited by Crave Smokehouse. With snug seating for two dozen, it’s something of a shack in its own right. There’s a welcoming “door’s always open” vibe that permeates everything from the decor to the food. The menu changes often, seemingly most influenced by the whims of nature and her bounty, and on my visit, the heirloom tomato salad beckoned. Simple and straightforward, it does exactly what one would hope — elevate the pure pleasure of a perfectly ripe, late-summer tomato. When approaching the Nashville-style hot chicken, I started in the shallow end with the quarter bird prepared mild — much like Indian or Thai cuisine, note that even the ‘mild’ has a small touch of heat. Served on a slice of white sandwich bread and accompanied by three lightly brined bread-

Krazy Owls Steampunk sports bar and restaurant. L, D, daily. 3157 Maybank Hwy. (843) 640-3844. Mainland Container Co. Kitchen & Bar Mainland Container Co. is comprised of a rustic, beachy restaurant, a ground-level bar set in a shipping container, and ample umbrella-covered seating. Bar food offerings range from wings; hushpuppies that are basically savory donuts drizzled with honey, and served with hot pepper jelly and pimento cheese; and a beer cheese-covered tater tot extravaganza called The Full Container. Dinner (Mon-Sat.), Weekend Brunch. Sunday Brunch, 3, Dinner. 1528 Ben Sawyer Blvd. (843) 284-8174. Ms. Rose’s Modern American diner food with classics like meatloaf and fried chicken and newer favorites like kale, polenta, and brussels sprouts. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner (daily), Weekend Brunch. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner, Parking. 1090 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. (843) 766-0223. Philly’s Cheesesteaks They say don’t be fooled by imitators. We say this is definitely the real deal when it comes to cheesesteaks, whether you take ‘em ‘wi’d or ‘widout.’ Lunch & Dinner, Closed Sun. Lunch, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner. 4650 Ladson Road. (843) 873-0776.

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The Rarebit A 50s-style cocktail bar with a full menu of diner favorites like chicken noodle soup, patty melts, and triple stack burgers. Breakfast is served all day, every day. Lunch, Dinner, & Late Night. (Tues.-Sun.) Kitchen open until 1 a.m. Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner, Breakfast, Late Night, Wifi, Burger Week. 474 King St. (843) 974-5483. Rutledge Cab Co. An all-day menu of burgers, salads, sandwiches and finer fare. Lunch & Dinner. Outdoor Dining, Lunch, Dinner, Parking, Burger Week. 1300 Rutledge Ave. (843) 720-1440. A Salt N Battered Lunch & Dinner. Lunch, Dinner, Parking. 1303 Ashley River Road. The Shelter Kitchen + Bar Burgers, brunch fare, beer, and a sprawling bar and patio make for a comfortable place to hang and enjoy yourself. Lunch, Dinner, (Daily) & Weekend Brunch. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner, Late Night, Burger Week. 202 Coleman Blvd. (843) 388-3625. Stack’s Coastal Kitchen A small menu focuses on fresh seafood with duck, steak, and pork entree options too. Lunch & Dinner. Lunch, Dinner. 1440 Ben Sawyer Blvd. (843) 388-6968. Toast of Charleston Housemade soups, sandwiches, and desserts “to die for,” according to USA Today. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, & Sun. Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Delivery, Live Music. 155 Meeting St. (843) 534-0043 2026 Savannah Hwy. (843) 556-0006 717 Old Trolley Rd. Unit 10. Uptown Social There are adult slushies with names like High Noon grapefruit frose and Day Rager, plus signature cocktails like the Grape-full Dead and Burning Sensation. The bar food fares well. The sloppy joe sliders are billed as “cafeteria style, but better.” Although not a very high bar, they’ve succeeded. The Armitage pizza makes a case for what Uptown Social does best — bake fresh dough. Lunch, Dinner (Daily). Weekend Brunch. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner. 587 King St. (843)793-1837. Vickery’s Bar and Grill Great setting for creative American food with Cuban flair and some of the best bloodys in town. Voted Best Outdoor Patio and Best Happy Hour by CP readers. Lunch, Dinner, (Daily) & Sun. Brunch. Outdoor Dining, Lunch, Dinner, Waterfront, Best of Charleston winner, Parking. 1313 Shrimp Boat Lane. (843) 884-4440. Warehouse As of early 2019 Warehouse is now serving “noodle bowls for the soul,” offering a ramen-focused menu, small plates, and their neighborhood favorite Sunday brunch. Lunch (Fri.), Dinner (Daily), & Sun. Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner, Late Night, Wifi. 45 1/2 Spring St. (843) 202-0712. The Watch Rooftop Kitchen & Bar The only thing prettier than the views are what’s on the plate at this rooftop restaurant. Think hamachi crudo, lobster rolls,

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and-butter pickles, the chicken itself is at once crisp and juicy. Arguably, it’s at the hot level that the dish achieves true Nashville distinction. The melange of black pepper, smoked paprika, and sweet sugar hit first, followed by a slow burn at the back of the throat. The chicken’s inherent blandness helps to temper any real intensity, and the heat lingers for just a few seconds. In other words, order it this way if you can. Lunch, Dinner. 4430 Betsy Kerrison Pkwy.

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FOODIE EVENT | The best kinda Tuesday Glazed Gourmet Doughnuts founder Allison Smith and her team are the brains behind Sambar, a modern Indian pop up serving dishes like crisp dosas, mouth watering mango lassis, and succulent lamb meatballs. After a stint in exploratory food court Workshop, Sambar has popped up around town and is taking over Dashi Tues. Feb. 11 starting at 5 p.m. Pair your dosa with a Dashi cocktail like the seasonal gin and tonic or 5 spice mule. —Mary Scott Hardaway TUESDAY

cuisine calendar n BEER Thankful Thursdays — One dollar from every pint sold on Thankful Thursdays is donated to a local charity. While sales throughout the day count, the official happy hour is from 5-8 p.m., when the charity will be in the brewery to discuss the good work they do. Learn more on Tradesman’s Facebook page. Each Thurs. 5-8 p.m. Free to attend. Tradesman Brewing Co., 1647 King St. Ext. 843 410-1315. facebook.com/ Tradesmanbrew/ Weekly Beer and Wine Tastings at Edmund’s Oast Exchange — Edmund’s Oast Exchange offers weekly wine tastings on Thursdays entitled Sarah’s Selections from 5:30-7:30 p.m. For $5, enjoy a special beer tasting selected by Certified Sommelier Sarah O’Kelley. All proceeds benefit a selected charity each quarter. Each Thurs. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5. Edmund’s Oast Exchange, 1081 Morrison Dr. 843-990-9449. edmundsoast.com/exchange Open Mic — acoustic Each Sat. 4-7 p.m. Freehouse Brewery, 2895 Pringle St, Ste B. freehousebeer.com/ Suds and Savasana — Start your Saturday right with Suds and Savasana, a weekly all-levels yoga class held in Low Tide

Brewing. After the yoga class, led by Darcy Mahan, enjoy a craft beer. Each Sat. 11 a.m. $15/ yoga and beer, $10/yoga. Low Tide Brewing, 2863 Maybank Hwy. (843) 501-7570. lowtidebrewing.com/ Bendy Brewski Sunday Brunch — 45 minutes of all levels yoga followed by a mimosa or beer. Each Sun. 10:15 a.m. $7. Holy City Brewing, 1021 Aragon Ave. (843) 437-0846. holycitybrewing.com Bendy Brewski Yoga Frothy Beard — Enjoy all-levels yoga and craft beer along with Zombie Bobs Pizza every Monday inside the brewery. Mats are available to borrow. Each Mon. 6-7 p.m. $15. Frothy Beard Brewing, 1401 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. (843) 4370846. bendybrewskiyoga.com $12 Burger + Beer Night at Félix — Join us every Tuesday at Félix for our Raclette Burger, Frites and a Beer for $12! Tues. $12. Félix Cocktails et Cuisine, 550 King St. (843) 203-6297. felixchs.com

n HOLIDAYS Valentine’s Wine and Chocolate Walk — Magnolia Plantation and Gardens hosts a wine and chocolate walk through the country’s oldest romantic-style garden, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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and a huge burger. Lunch, Dinner (Daily) & Sun. Brunch. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner. 79 Wentworth St. (843) 518-5115.

n MODERN AMERICAN Angel Oak Restaurant Serving lunch, Sun. brunch, and “supper,” this Johns Island gem uses local ingredients and modern preparations. Lunch features fresh, quick, made from scratch fare that is at once rustic and delicious. Dinner takes a more innovative approach to southern American cuisine. Beer and wine only. Lunch (Tues-Fri.), Dinner (Tues.-Sat.), & Sun. Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner. 3669 Savannah Hwy. (843) 556-7525.

The fun starts in the conservatory, where you’ll pick up your passport, souvenir wine glass, and first wine sample. Continue the good times from there. Feb. 8-9, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Included with admission, $6/wine or beer tasting. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, 3550 Ashley River Road. (843) 571-1266. magnoliaplantation.com

n FOODIE EVENTS Charleston Place Launches World-Class Champagne Tastings — Sip and savor a variety of legendary Champagnes from top Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) brands including Veuve Clicquot, Krug, and Ruinart. Charleston Grill’s advanced sommelier and wine director Rick Rubel has cultivated two different Champagne flights, served daily at the Thoroughbred Club and Charleston Grill. Ongoing, 11 a.m. $49-$75. Charleston Place, 130 Market St. (843) 722-4900. Common Hour — Every Wed. and Thurs. evening at Wild Common enjoy Common Hour with $8 white, red, and rosé wines and $5 Chef’s Selection of ‘bites’ from 5-6:30 p.m. Each Wed. Thurs. 5 p.m. A la carte. Wild Common, 103 Spring St.

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Burwell’s Stone Fire Grill This “modern steakhouse” features a menu of diverse, yet refined, steak dishes and locally sourced plates highlighting purveyors like Tarvin Seafood and Carolina Gold Rice. Dinner (daily). Happy hour (daily) 4-7 p.m. bar only. Outdoor Dining, Dinner, Late Night, Valet, Catering. 14 N Market St. (843) 737-8700. Charleston Grill Exec. chef Michelle Weaver takes the helm in the kitchen of this world-class dining room. The innovative menu is broken into four types of dishes: pure focuses on fresh ingredients in simple preparations, lush delivers lavish French fare, cosmopolitan explores exotic and imaginative cuisine, and Southern is the Grill’s take on local favorites. Live jazz nightly. Dinner. Online Reservations, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, Top 50, Valet, Non-Smoking. 224 King St. (843) 577-4522. Circa 1886 Intriguing cuisine at the Wentworth Mansion. Menu changes regularly based on the seasons and ingredient availability. But the antelope loin is a perennial favorite. Dinner (Mon.-Sat.). Online

The Daily This great all-day cafe and to go market has everything from avocado toast to wines, pastries to copies of Garden & Gun. Breakfast, Lunch (Daily). Lunch, Breakfast. 652-B King St. (843) 619-0151. Edmund’s Oast A brewpub from the guys at the Edmund’s Oast Exchange with a fresh, seasonal menu and 48 taps of awesome. Food options and drinks specials for $4 each and only available at the bar from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Serving Dinner (Mon.-Sat.), Sun. Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Dinner, Top 50. 1081 Morrison Dr. (843) 727-1145. FIG James Beard Award-winning chef Mike Lata helms this acclaimed neighborhood bistro, crafting a daily menu that is based on fresh, local food. Dinner, Closed Sun. Online Reservations, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, Top 50. 232 Meeting St. (843) 805-5900. Gabrielle Gabrielle Charleston is the signature restaurant at luxurious Hotel Bennett, which opened in January 2019. With French-influenced, New Orleans-honed sensibilities and locally sourced ingredients, Gabrielle’s elegant, polished cuisine will likely place her firmly in the “It Girl” running. 6:30 a.m.- 10 p.m. daily. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Valet. Graze Creative casual cuisine that encompasses the farm-to-table ethos. Lunch, Dinner, & Sun. Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, Parking. 863 Houston Northcutt Blvd. (843) 6062493 115 E 5th North St. The Grocery A changing, seasonal menu with Mediterranean and Southern influences. Craft beer on tap, housemade charcuterie, a wood-burning oven, and a familial atmosphere. Dinner (Tues-Sat.) & Weekend Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Dinner, Top 50. 4 Cannon St. (843) 302-8825. Herd Provisions A straightforward celebration of quality ingredients prepared with care, Herd Provisions puts the farm in farm-to-table. The meat served by the restaurant has been raised on the owner’s Virginia farm, Leaping Waters. Meanwhile, just about everything else — from fruits and veggies to the beans, breads, and desserts — are locally sourced. Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.- 3p.m. (lunch). Tues.-Sat. 5-10 p.m. (dinner). Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner. 106 Grove St. (843) 637-4145. Langdon’s Restaurant & Wine Bar The fine dining menu blends Lowcountry cuisine with a range of international influences, resulting in elegant entrées prepared by Chef/owner Patrick Owens. Lunch (Mon.-Fri.) & Dinner (Mon.-Sat.). Online Reservations, Lunch, Dinner, Parking, Non-Smoking. 778 South Shelmore Blvd. (843) 3889200. The Macintosh Modern fare that varies seasonally but explores local ingredients with skill and creativity. Dinner & Sun. Brunch. Sunday Brunch, Dinner, Top 50. 479 King St. (843) 789-4299. McCrady’s Restaurant Settle in for an evening of that ingredient driven cuisine — choose from one of six nightly seatings and receive in return a highlychoreographed 15-course meal with impeccable wine pairings. The plates are both artful and playful, balancing rich, intense flavors with delicate nuances — a slab of 65-day aged ribeye dusted with black truffle, a single lightly-poached shrimp served atop an orb of “Charleston ice cream” (Carolina Gold rice), a tender sea scallop nestled between an earthy swirl of brown butter and ethereal, sea-like foam. The setting and service strike an equally delicate balance between high-end luxury and relaxing informality — an impressive step forward for a long-time Charleston dining institution. —Robert Moss Lunch, Dinner (Daily), Weekend Brunch. Online Reservations, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, Top 50, Non-Smoking. 2 Unity Alley. Opal Chef Patrick Owens’ menu features housemade charcuterie and pasta with seasonal entrée selections. Bar opens at 4 p.m for craft beer and charcuterie. Dinner daily. Dinner. 1960 Riviera Dr. (843) 654-9070. Prohibition Greg Garrison’s menu satisfies with duck hash, smoky shrimp and grits, lamb ribs, and oyster sliders. Dinner, Late Night, & Weekend Brunch. Sunday Brunch, 3, Dinner. 547 King St. (843) 793-2964. Revival Revival is an upscale Lowcountry eatery, located on East Bay Street in the historic French Quarter, turning out Southern classics that are “modern, yet approachable.” Complimentary valet parking. Dinner (daily). Online Reservations, Dinner, Valet. 162 East Bay St. (843) 414-2335. Sorghum & Salt Situated in the space that once held the beloved Two Boroughs Larder, Chef Tres Jackson’s

Sorghum & Salt has more than enough chops to fill those shoes. Tenaciously fresh and unapologetically creative, Jackson’s cuisine offers a mix of familiar and foreign in ways that are fresh and unexpected. The menu is as continually in flux as the ever-shifting Lowcountry weather, but don’t miss a chance to try the superlative salt-roasted beets or sweet, yet savory Ambrose Farms radishes. The desserts are equally flamboyant, yet delicate, with the notable standout of an airy beet cremeux. A group effort and an obvious labor of love, anticipate thoughtful, provocative food prepared and served by people who are clearly proud of it. —Vanessa Wolf Dinner (Tues.-Sun.). Dinner, Top 50. 186 Coming St. (843) 872-6393. Stars Restaurant Rooftop and Grill Room The big menu features unique culinary techniques using a custom designed live fire grill and rotisserie, hearth oven and rolled steel plancha. Half price brunch on Saturdays for industry folks. Dinner & Weekend Brunch. Sunday Brunch, 3, Dinner. 495 King St. (843) 577-0100. Tavern & Table From soy caramel-glazed short ribs with house-made ramen noodle gnocchi beneath handcrafted chandeliers inside, or biting into luscious shrimp beignets on the outdoor patio while watching pelicans skim the water, Chef Ray England rocks the house. Lunch & Dinner (Daily). Lunch, Dinner, Waterfront, Burger Week. 100 Church St. (843) 352-9510. Wild Common Executive chef Orlando Pagan crafts an inventive tasting menu in this beautiful Spring St. space. Menu highlights include fresh bites like Spade & Clover roasted carrots, Diver scallop crudo, and seared cobia; and rich indulgences like foie gras “pastrami cappaelletti, dry aged ribeye grilled over charcoal, and strawberry shortcake roulade. Serving Dinner (Wed.-Sun.). 5-10 p.m. Online Reservations. 103 Spring St. Zero Restaurant + Bar Chef Vinson Petrillo delivers big time fine dining in this tiny space. Try his three-course tasting menu for $55 or the full meal deal five-course menu for $115. Dinner (Tues.-Sat.). Dinner, Top 50. 0 George St. (843) 817-7900.

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hours on Friday nights to offer a late-night menu provided by SapLai Charleston. From 10 p.m. to 12 a.m., customers will have access to a full menu of south-east asian eats sure to curb all of the nighttime cravings. The late-night menu will feature Dumplings, Pad Thai, Pad Woonsen, Khao Soi, Hot Pot, and Drunken Noodles with Pho, Ramen, and Soup Dumplings rotating in during the fall. Each Fri. 10 p.m. A la carte. Container Bar, 2130 Mt. Pleasant St. containerbarchs.com A Date with History — Your date begins at The Powder Magazine museum (79 Cumberland Street) where those in attendance will become familiar with a few charming artifacts. The arsenal will also have wine and a few savory samples before sparks flare and you are led to The Fireproof Building (100 Meeting Street) where more eligible artifacts await your company. There will also be more libations with a sampling of something sweet to finish the affair. Fri. Feb. 7, 6-8 p.m. $35. Fireproof Building, 100 Meeting. (843) 723-3225 ext.111. schistory.org/event/adate-with-history/ Friday Night Dinner & Wine Tasting — Each Fri., Ted’s offers a special restaurant-quality dinner menu for a set price of $25, available from 5-8 p.m. First Fri. of every month, 5 p.m. $25. Ted’s Butcherblock, 334 East Bay St. (843) 577-0094. tedsbutcherblock.com Charleston Coffee Fest — Many are now discovering that Charleston is home to an emerg-

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n SOUTHERN Grace & Grit The menu at stylish, contemporary Mt. Pleasant venue highlights Lowcountry staples. Expect traditional brunch and dinner dishes like fried green tomatoes, she-crab soup and shrimp and grits, plus locally sourced fish and seafood selections prepared six different ways. The restaurant’s name refers in part to its Baskin Robbins-esque approach to grits, with 15 sweet and savory varieties available. Dinner (daily),

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You now have the power to make connections that have not previously been possible. You can tap into an enhanced capacity to forge new alliances and strengthen your support system. I urge you to be on the lookout for a dynamic group effort you could join or a higher purpose you might align yourself with. If you’re sufficiently alert, you may even find an opportunity to weave your fortunes together with a dynamic group effort that’s in service to a higher purpose. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it,” wrote the poet Marianne Moore. In other words, you must track down each victory you’re interested in. You must study its unique nature. And then you must adjust yourself to its specifications. You can’t remain just the way you are, but must transform yourself so as to be in alignment with the responsibilities it demands of you. Can you pass these tests, Taurus? I believe you can. It’s time to prove it. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While at the peak of his powers as an author, Gemini-born Nobel Prize-winner Jean Paul Sartre consumed an array of mood-shifters every day. He quaffed at least a quart of alcohol, smoked two packs of cigarettes, and drank copious amounts of coffee and tea. His intake of pills included 200 milligrams of amphetamines, 15 grams of aspirin, and a handful of barbiturates. I propose that we make Sartre your anti-role model during the next four weeks, dear Gemini. According to my analysis of your astrological indicators, your ability to discover, attract, and benefit from wonders and marvels will thrive to the degree that you forswear drugs and alcohol and artificial enhancements. And I’m pleased to inform you that there could be a flood of wonders and marvels. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I don’t think I’m boring. How could I be? I have an abundant curiosity and I love to learn new things. I’ve worked at many different jobs, have read widely, and enjoy interacting with a broad range of humans. Yet now and then I’ve had temporary relationships with people who regarded me as uninteresting. They didn’t see much of value in me. I tend to believe it was mostly their fault — they couldn’t see me for who I really am — but it may have also been the case that I lived down to their expectations. Their inclination to see me as unimportant influenced me to be dull. I bring this up, my fellow Cancerian, because now is an excellent time to remove yourself from situations where you have trouble being and feeling your true self. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Soprano Helen Traubel and tenor Lauritz Melchior performed together in many productions of Wagnerian operas, often at the Metropolitan in New York City. Friends and colleagues but not lovers, they had a playful relationship with each other. A favorite pastime was figuring out tricks they could try that would cause the other to break into inappropriate laughter while performing. According to my quirky reading of the astrological omens, Leo, the coming weeks will be a propitious time for you to engage in similar hijinx with your allies. You have a poetic license and a spiritual mandate to enjoy amusing collaborative experiments, playful intimate escapades, and adventures in buoyant togetherness. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Eighteenth-century author Samuel Johnson singlehandedly compiled the influential A Dictionary of the English Language, which remained the definitive British dictionary for 170 years. We shouldn’t be surprised that it was a Virgo who accomplished such an intricate and exhaustive feat. As a high-minded Virgo, Johnson also had a talent for exposing hypocrisy. In commenting on the Americans’ War of Independence against his country, he noted that some of the “loudest yelps for liberty” came from slave-owners. I propose that we make him one of your role models in 2020. May he inspire you to produce rigorous work that’s useful to many. May he also empower you to be a candid purveyor of freedom. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there a project or situation you’d love to create but have lacked the confidence to try? Now is a time when you can finally summon the necessary courage. Is there a

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long-running dilemma that has always seemed too confusing and overwhelming to even understand, let alone solve? Now is a favorable time to ask your higher self for the clear vision that will instigate an unforeseen healing. Is there a labor of love that seems to have stalled or a dream that got sidetracked? Now is a time when you could revive its luminosity and get it back in a sweet groove. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Was there a more influential 20th-century artist than Scorpio-born Pablo Picasso? He was a revolutionary innovator who got rich from his creations. Once, while visiting a gallery showing of art made by children, he said, “When I was their age I could draw like Raphael [the great Renaissance artist]. But it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like they do.” In accordance with your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you seek inspiration from Picasso’s aspiration. Set an intention to develop expertise in seeing your world and your work through a child’s eyes. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I know a Sagittarius man who has seen the film Avengers: Endgame 17 times. Another Sagittarian acquaintance estimates she has listened all the way through to Billie Eilish’s album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 135 times. And then there’s my scholarly Sagittarian friend who has read the ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad 37 times. I have no problem with this behavior. I admire your tribe’s ability to keep finding new inspiration in sources you already know well. But in my astrological opinion, you shouldn’t do much of this kind of thing in the coming weeks. It’s high time for you to experiment with experiences you know little about. Be fresh, innocent, and curious. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Athens was one of the great cities of the ancient world. Its vigorous art, theater, philosophy, architecture, and experiments in democracy are today regarded as foundational to Western culture. And yet at its height, Athens’ population was a mere 275,000 — equal to modern Fort Wayne, Indiana or Windsor, Ontario. How could such a relatively small source breed such intensity and potency? That’s a long story. In any case, I foresee you having the potential to be like Athens yourself in the coming weeks and months, Capricorn: a highly concentrated fount of value. For best results, focus on doing what you do best. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis, the year 2020 will be a time when you can have dramatic success as you re-evaluate and re-vision and revamp your understandings of your life purpose. Why were you born? What’s the nature of your unique genius? What are the best gifts you have to offer the world? Of the many wonderful feats you could accomplish, which are the most important? The next few weeks will be a potent time to get this fun and energizing investigation fully underway. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Physicist Niels Bohr won a Nobel Prize for his insights about quantum mechanics. But he was humble about the complexity of the subject. “If you think you understand it, that only shows you don’t know the first thing about it,” he mused. I’m tempted to make a similar statement about the mysteries and riddles that are making your life so interesting. If you think you understand those mysteries and riddles, you probably don’t. But if you’re willing to acknowledge how perplexing they are, and you can accept the fact that your comprehension of them is partial and fuzzy, then you might enjoy a glimmer of the truth that’s worth building on. Homework: You can fling imaginary lightning bolts from your fingers any time you want. Prove it! FreeWillAstrology.com

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L. E. Kornahrens, Jr., Plaintiff, vs. The Estate of Avis L. Powell, deceased, her Heirs at Law, or Distributees, Personal Representatives, Successors, Assigns, or Spouses, if any, Rashard Powell, Mary Powell, Ashley Powell, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them and all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real property subject to this action, those who are adults being as a class designated as John Doe and any unknown infants or Persons under any disability or person in the military service of the United States of America being as a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants. LIS PENDENS Notice is hereby given that Plaintiff will, within twenty (20) days from the date hereof, commence foreclosure proceedings against the above named Defendants for the foreclosure of the below described mortgage: Mortgagee: L.E. Kornahrens, Jr. Mortgagor: Avis L. Powell Date Signed: October 1, 2013 Book and Page: Book 365 Page 190 Date Recorded: October 3, 2013 The premises covered by said Mortgage are fully described as follows: All of that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City o North Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina and being shown and designated as Lot 80 Nafair Subdivision on a plat entitled “PLAT OF NAFAIR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, prepared by H.R. O’Neal, Registered Surveyor, dated February 11, 1939, and recorded in Book E at Page 101 in the RMC Office for Charleston County. SAID lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and bounding as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear. TMS No.: 469-06-00-030 Property address: 3529 Admiral Drive North Charleston, SC 29405 SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their office, 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2, North Charleston, South Carolina 29406, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) SRESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUM-

MONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Plaintiff. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity or Special Referee for the aforesaid County, which order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case. NOTICE OF FILING YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons and Complaint, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on July 19, 2019. ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM UPON READING AND FILING the Petition of the Plaintiff for the appointment of Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, as Guardian ad Litem for any unknown defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability or incompetent, including those persons who might be in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a Class designated as “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” and it appearing that the names and addresses of such persons, if any, whether residents or non-residents of the State of South Carolina, are unknown to Plaintiff and cannot, with reasonable diligence be ascertained, and that the said Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, whose office is located at 6296 Rivers Avenue, Suite 102, North Charleston, South Carolina, is a suitable and competent person to understand and protect the rights and interests of said Defendants and has no interest therein adverse to the interest of said Defendants, if any, and is not connected in business with the Plaintiff, in this action or with its counsel. IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that said Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, be and he is hereby designated and appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for said unknown Defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability of incompetent, including those persons who might be in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a class designated as “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” and he is hereby authorized to appear and defend the said action on behalf of said Defendants, unless Defendants, if any, or any of them shall within thirty (30) days after the service of a copy of this Order upon them, exclusive of the day of service, as herein provided, procure to be appointed, procure to be appointed a Guardian ad Litem for said Defendants, if any, for the purposes of this action. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order shall be served upon said unknown Defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability or incompetent, including those persons who might be in the Military Service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a Class designated

“John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” by publication of a notice of this Order as required by law in a newspaper published in Berkeley County, South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks. S/R R. David Chard S.C. Bar No.: 1190 Attorney for the Plaintiff 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2 N. Charleston, SC 29406 (843) 554-6984 ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of: NORMAN CALHOUN ANDERSON, SR. 2019-ES-10-1293 DOD: 05/30/19 Pers. Rep: NORMAN C. ANDERSON, JR. 21 COVENTRY CLOSE SAVANNAH, GA 31411 Atty: EVAN A. SMITH, ESQ. PO BOX 976 CHARLESTON, SC 29402 ************ Estate of: DAVID WALTER ALSBROOKS 2020-ES-10-0019 DOD: 12/01/19 Pers. Rep: DAVID STEPHEN ALSBROOKS 4618 WILSON RD. BIG STONE GAP, VA 24219 ************ Estate of: PERRY A. GARVIN 2020-ES-10-0035 DOD: 11/01/19 Pers. Rep: CAROLYN A. BERRY 335 TUCKER DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414 ************ Estate of: JOSEPH JAMES CORRADINO 2020-ES-10-0037 DOD: 11/27/19 Pers. Rep: JOSEPH CORRADINO 1238 VALLEY FORGE DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ************ Estate of: HENRY H. FREUDENBERG 2020-ES-10-0039 DOD: 12/30/19 Pers. Rep: LARRY W. FREUDENBERG 2228 WEEPOOLOW TRAIL CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ************ Estate of: JAMES THEODORE FRALIX, JR. 2020-ES-10-0053 DOD: 01/02/20 Pers. Rep: JAMES T. FRALIX 2193 WAPPOO HALL RD. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ************ Estate of: PATRICIA ELLISON PHILLIPS 2020-ES-10-0074 DOD: 07/11/19 Pers. Rep: SUE PHILLIPS YOUNG 110 N. GATESHEAD CROSSING GOOSE CREEK, SC 29445 Atty: LAURA W. MOORE, ESQ. 23 BROAD ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ Estate of: RUTH DEETTE MIMS RODGERS 2020-ES-10-0079 DOD: 11/20/19 Pers. Rep: ALISSA R. DICKERSON 779 CONDON DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: LARRY G. REDDECK, ESQ. PO BOX 699 LAKE CITY, SC 29560 ************ Estate of: SUSAN DENMAN GLADDEN 2020-ES-10-0094 DOD: 06/12/19 Pers. Rep:

DANIEL GLADDEN PO BOX 898 ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451 Atty: ANNE KELLEY RUSSELL, ESQ. PO BOX 22828 CHARLESTON, SC 29413 ************ Estate of: WALTER SCHROEDER 2020-ES-10-0095 DOD: 11/21/19 Pers. Rep: EMILY S. SCHROEDER 806 DUCK HAWK RETREAT CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: GORDON H. GARRETT, ESQ. 1075 A MONTAGUE AVE., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 ************ Estate of: GEORGE LABRASCA, III 2020-ES-10-0109 DOD: 11/18/19 Pers. Rep: RAMONA E. LABRASCA 1807 WALSINGHAM WAY CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: W. BARNWELL VAUGHAN, ESQ. 102 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #2 CHARLESTON, SC 29412 NOTICE OF ASSUMED NAME Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the assumed name of JAMES BENJAMIN DEWITT III, holds both Equitable Title and Legal Title to the Assumed Name in a UBOT in a competent jurisdiction of equity. Details regarding this notice are as follows: ASSUMED NAME: JAMES BENJAMIN DEWITT III; PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS: c/o 809 82nd Parkway Myrtle Beach, South Carolina [29572], (u)nited (s)tates of America; NAMEHOLDER(S): Name: DeWitt, James Benjamin III; Address: c/o 1227 16th Avenue #221 Conway, South Carolina [29526], (u)nited (s) tates of America, Republic. All Rights Reserved. NOTICE I, James-Benjamin III: DeWitt in the name of the Almighty Creator, By my Declaration of Independence solemnly Publish and Declare my Right to expatriate absolute, my res in trust to the foreign jurisdiction known as the municipal corporation of the District of Columbia, a democracy, and return to the Republic. Any and all past and present political ties implied by operation of law or otherwise in trust with the democracy is hereby dissolved. I, James-Benjamin III: DeWitt have full power to contract, establish commerce as found being guaranteed by the Bill of Rights being the full first 10 Amendments to the Constitution of the (u) nited (s)tates of America, a Republic. So Done this 8th day of August, 2019.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE MAGISTRATE COURT FOR THE CITY OF CHARLESTON Case No.: 2019CV1010601311

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-3066

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-2392

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-3193

DOUGLAS A. CHURDAR, Plaintiff, vs. JOSEPH TERRY RATLEY Defendant(s). SUMMONS

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Chelsea Albanese

Jacquinn Arline

Ryan Walker

NOTICE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint in this action filed on August 22, 2019 at 3:43 pm, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint on the subscriber at 304 Pettigru Street, Greenville, SC 29601, within thirty (30) days from the date of service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service. If you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 9, 2019. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Charleston, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County Department of Social Services, at the office of their Attorney, The Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave., N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714, within thirty days of this publication. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on July 9, 2019. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Charleston, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County Department of Social Services, at the office of their Attorney, The Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave., N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714, within thirty days of this publication. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Attorney of Record: Kyra McMillan, SCDSS 3366 Rivers Avenue North Charleston, SC 29405 Telephone: 843-953-9286

Attorney of Record: Kyra McMillan, SCDSS, 3366 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405, Telephone: 843953-9286

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-1658

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-2219

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

Abraham Johnson

Shekia Butler

Carlos Jenkins, et al. NOTICE

NOTICE

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on May 13, 2019. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Charleston, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County Department of Social Services, at the office of their Attorney, The Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave., N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714, within thirty days of this publication. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on June 26, 2019. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Charleston, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County Department of Social Services, at the office of their Attorney, The Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave., N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714, within thirty days of this publication. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Attorney of Record: Kyra McMillan, SCDSS 3366 Rivers Avenue North Charleston, SC 29405 Telephone: 843-953-9286

Attorney of Record: Kyra McMillan, SCDSS, 3366 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405, Telephone: 843953-9286

Attorney Douglas A. Churdar 304 Pettigru Street Greenville, SC 29601 phone: (864) 233-0203.

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TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 12, 2019. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Charleston, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County Department of Social Services, at the office of their Attorney, The Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave., N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714, within thirty days of this publication. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 18, 2019. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Charleston, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County Department of Social Services, at the office of their Attorney, The Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave., N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714, within thirty days of this publication. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Attorney of Record: Kyra McMillan, SCDSS 3366 Rivers Avenue North Charleston, SC 29405 Telephone: 843-953-9286 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2018-DR-10-3317 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

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Matt Megrue has been making music for years, whether it was with the Atlanta punkpop band the Unusual Suspects, the altcountry group Counting on Strangers, or his more recent hardcore punk project, Cashout, which also included Sean and Brendan Kelly of A Fragile Tomorrow. In most of these bands, Megrue was the main songwriter. But he’d never released a full-length album under his own name until this year, making his debut with a collection of songs called The Mourner’s Manual. There were a couple of reasons for Megrue’s reluctance to officially become a solo artist. “I think as I’ve done my own sort of armchair psychology into what took me so long to actually do it, I realized I’ve always wanted it to be more of a ‘band’ kind of mentality when it came to songwriting,” he says. “But I just don’t think it ever shook out that way. Plus, I think with a band name, you can quote- unquote ‘fail’ and hide under that name versus putting it under your name. It took a lot of reshaping what I wanted to get out of what I was doing. I was chasing the rock ‘n’ roll dream of touring, getting signed, making a

record, and staying young forever, and that’s changed a little bit, which I think helped me to make that transition a little bit easier.” And, he adds only half-jokingly, “I finally got tired of changing band names every time the lineup changed, and I decided to start putting everything out under my name.” Luckily, Megrue had some friends on hand to help him make that transition, and perhaps more importantly, those friends had a studio he could use. Sean and Brendan Kelly helped engineer and produce The Mourner’s Manual at their studio, Low Watt Recording, in Savannah. The only problem was that Megrue was in the throes of severe writer’s block when it came time to make the album. “I was really blocked before we started recording this,” he says, “and I remember meeting with Sean and Brendan a couple weeks before we were set to start recording and telling them, ‘Look, I’ve got nothing; I don’t have any songs completed.’ And I’d never gone into a studio without having any songs, nor would I recommend anyone going into a studio without having any songs.” But when your collaborators own the studio, there’s a little more flexibility, so Megrue headed into Low Watt and wrote and recorded the music for The Mourner’s Manual on the spot, playing rhythm guitar while Sean handled bass and Brendan handled drums and lead guitar. “They kind of talked me down from that freak out and told me, ‘Just come down and bring all the little pieces and sketches that you have, and we’ll work through it,’ ” he recalls.

And so, in three days, the trio wrote and recorded the album, trading off instruments, creating arrangements on the fly, and coming up with the foundation for The Mourner’s Manual. And that music is proof, perhaps, that inspiration can come directly from desperation. The sound on the album is big, loud, melodic, and anthemic rock, designed to have maximum impact. There’s a sense of grandeur and expansiveness to the songs, combining the otherworldly, ethereal glow of bands like My Morning Jacket with the ringing, resonating chords of arena-fillers like U2 or Coldplay. The songs are so layered and massive that one can sometimes forget that there are only three guys playing on The Mourner’s Manual. The lyrics are refreshingly direct, as well. On “We,” the album’s lead single, Megrue pays emotional tribute to the victims of the Emanuel AME Church shooting, singing “There’s sorrow in the streets/ There’s panic in the air/ Now our steepled skyline’s weeping/ Tears of discord and despair.” Elsewhere, on the elegiac, acoustic guitarpowered, Dylanesque ballad “Here’s to the World,” Megrue laments our country’s us-versus-them mentality, singing, “Fake news and fake friends/ Is this how it ends/ Oh, humanity/ When the gospel according to government/ Has only let you down/ Give me truth, give me truth/ Give me some truth.” It certainly sounds like Megrue had a unified lyrical vision for the album, but in truth, he was only following the music where it led continued on page 35

DR. MAMBO ENTERS CORRIDORS AND CELEBRATES WU -TANG WITH ABSTRACT

Instrumental trip-hop quartet Dr. Mambo’s new LP Corridors dropped on Friday, giving the impression that the masked band of musicians has only grown since 2019’s Dubious Food. “It’s a blend of eerie soundtrack-style music,” says drummer/co-producer Stephen Massar. “Inspirations come from our favorite soundtrack composers and hiphop producers.” The band’s latest features more worldmusic influences, plus a ghostlier aesthetic than the previous release. Some tracks, like “Free-for-All” and “Scratching in the Dirt,” keep things sparse with the occasional vocal sample that would fit on an indie hip-hop release like MF Doom’s MM.. Food. Abstract that Rapper came through with an assist on Corridors’ release date with a vocal version of “Terraformation” called “Wu Would Never Die” and an accompanying music video. In typical fashion, Abstract brings nothing but his best rhymes to the song, changing his flow effortlessly, and keeping things as unique as he can. It’s a great tease to what he’s got in store for everyone on his upcoming EP Mosaic. —Heath Ellison

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Charleston’s own Katie Rose performed at Paste Magazine’s downtown Atlanta studio in a video release Wed. Jan. 22. Rose serenades the masses with a 20-minute performance featuring three original songs. Rose and her keyboard fill the frame, occasionally conversing with an emcee off screen. Her crystal-clear voice seamlessly switches between big vocals and mellow melodies throughout the verses and chorus of “I Know” as she belts about seeing through the facade of the aloof heartbreaker we know so well. Rose, who started her career at 13-yearsold, told Paste that she wants to express that she’s “not the young kid everyone knows her as” on the new EP, joking that she’s “graduated from Kids Bop.” Aptly following this conversation on maturity, she slows it down with her recent single “New Year’s Eve,” a melancholy holiday song about missing that certain someone. Rose closes her studio performance with “Did it For Me,” a previously unreleased track that will be her next single. It’s a candid and relatable take on the misconception that women dress/act/live/breathe for men and other people rather than for themselves. Rose mentions that this song is deeply personal for her as a woman and as a female in the music industry, and wanted the song to be a “polite and quirky way of saying ‘please shut the fuck up.’” —Eliana Katz

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Talking to God Keith Fleming goes for the knockout on debut LP God BY ALEX PEEPLES Keith Fleming has been watching the Charleston arts scene unfold for almost his entire life. Now at the start of a new decade, he feels that he has everything he needs to get off the bench and become an all-star. He’s the rare newcomer who plays things like a veteran and carries his experience like a badge. After releasing three singles in 2019, his debut LP, titled God, will drop on Feb. 1. “Life just takes its course; I’ve been holding onto this energy until now and I feel that now everything is ready to release itself,” he says. “Times have changed, Charleston has changed, now feels right.” Fleming operates as a rapper under the name God KOz — and yes, that is pronounced K-O-Z. “Every time I got on the mic and got on the end of the track I knew I was going to kill it, I was going to knock it out. That was what ended up sticking. People knew if I got on it I was going to kill it.” Anytime he says “knock out” or “kill it” he lightly smacks his fist into his opposite hand. If anyone knows that God KOz is legitimate, it’s the man himself. Musically, the songs that have been released by God KOz are very well unified by dark, mechanized, futuristic beats, and Fleming’s expressive, ever-changing flow. On “Astral God” he goes from a slouched whisper to spewing high energy to rolling down into a deep, warped register. “Musically and sonically, just crafting a sound, I go back to people like Charlie Wilson, the Gap Band, Barry White. EDM too. Like if you’ve been to an EDM show, you know the kind of

energy that’s in there. I want that. Rappers made me want to rap but I want to create things that appeal to everyone,” he says. Apart from a brief move to Atlanta, Fleming’s always lived in South Carolina. From a young age, creating and entertaining has been a focal point for him. “I was ambidextrous at one point so I would draw and write at the same time. I got more into the drawing and put the storytelling aside, but as I got older I was more interested in things that did a little bit of both.” He got his feet wet in hip-hop when he was taking part in dance and rap battles during his time in Orangeburg. “Around that time I was fascinated with universes, cinematic universes like what Marvel has been doing.” Like Marvel, there are two things that really drive Fleming’s art; commercialism and the concept of “the universal.” The word “commercialism” often takes on a negative connotation but Fleming sees it as something with great potential, as well as what ultimately shaped his musical sensibilities. “After getting off the bus from school I would go and sing other people’s songs, the big commercial songs. That was what drew me in were commercial sounds, particularly Lil Wayne. He was the pinnacle of who I saw myself being. When I heard Wayne, DMX, Method Man, just hearing different rappers was what made me interested in finding myself and my own identity. But I’ve always continued on page 35

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him; the lyrics were written months after the music was completed. “I just rode around with the songs for a few months listening to them,” Megrue says, “and I was able to take my time and write lyrics and match what I was thinking with the music. It was kind of a cool experience to have all of the tracks done and then filling in the blanks around the song structures. I just really wanted to not force anything and try to let it come to me as far as the lyrics and how they matched or in some cases purposely didn’t necessarily match the mood of the music.” As organic as that sounds, Megrue was still plagued by doubts, having just emerged from a period of writer’s block. “I was worried the lyrics weren’t going to come,” he says. “Actually, I was worried that I wasn’t even going to be able to write again at all. But I think once I got through those three days of recording and saw how things kind of came together, I was able to take my hands off the wheel and let it just happen.” In fact, by the time The Mourner’s Manual was done, Megrue’s fear had been replaced by a bittersweet regret it was finished. “By the end,” he says, “I wished it wasn’t over. I wished we could have kept that momentum going and just kept recording.”

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John Clark, who is the benefactor of this week’s show at Jackson Street Cottages, is a two-time cancer survivor, who happens to also be related to a Real Good News band member. However, that is not what prompted the jam in question. Apparently, Clark had recently been back to living a normal life post-cancer, and had just returned to the workforce, when he was hit head-on by a drunk driver. Clark was left to deal with his devastating injuries and expenses alone, without being able to continue working or receiving any type of settlement for damages. As such, party band the Real Good News is doing a really great thing by organizing and performing at this special fundraising concert, allowing folks to come together for a fun time that will ultimately provide some much needed relief for a friend of theirs and a member of our community currently in need. There is no charge for entry, although donations are highly encouraged, and, as always, you can expect a soulful, funky night of music from this eclectic Lowcountry ensemble. —Kevin Wilson WEDNESDAY

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SOUTHERN ROCK | Daryl Hance Powermuse A long time ago, Jacksonville-based blues guitarist and singer Daryl Hance was known as the right hand man in the soul rock outfit JJ Grey & Mofro. Since his departure from the band in 2010, Hance has established himself as a reliable blues rock showman in the American southeast. The Powermuse project is fresh off of a live album that was released in November of 2019 titled Live at Rob’s Place. The album was recorded in a friend’s living room over the course of three hours that previous summer. As the LP shows, Hance and Powermuse make a powerful combination. Complete with plenty of solid jams, traditional blues swing, and hard rock riffs, the group is in fine form. Despite the circumstances, the album has surprisingly good sound quality for what it is. The extra layer of grime that comes with the basement setting just aids the gritty blues singer and backing band in creating a ramshackle aesthetic, playing perfectly off the band’s heavy soul songwriting. —Alex Peeples and Heath Ellison FRIDAY

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R&B crooner Durand Jones and blue-souled backing band the Indications put their reality at the forefront. Mixing occasional social commentary, traditional themes of heartbreak, one charismatic voice, and rhythmically sharp musicianship, the band recalls that wonderful era of late ’60s/early ’70s Motown and Atlantic Records. Think albums like What’s Going On? or Winter in America, when soul music showed it had just as many brains as, well, soul. “The jails of Maricopa/ say a man is but his wrong/ it’s morning in America/ but I can’t see the dawn,” Jones sings on “Morning in America” from their 2019 album American Love Call. Some psychedelic influences and strings lay in wait later on the album, as the band smartly plays with the rhythmic textures on “Circles” and “Don’t You Know.” On “Sea Gets Hotter,” Durand Jones and the Indications put together a soft rock jam that would feel at home in a Trans Am radio on a California road. It’s easylistening at its most listenable — plus it’ll make you think every now and again. —Heath Ellison SUNDAY

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THE DEWBERRY Joe Clarke Trio, jazz,

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n SATURDAY, 8 CHARLESTON GRILL Asa Holgate Quartet, jazz, 7:30 p.m. CHARLESTON MUSIC HALL The Fab Four, Beatles covers, 8 p.m. CHUCKTOWN BAR AND GRILL Back in the Day Saturday, hits from the ’80s,

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CLASSIC POP | Tony Bennett We all like to make jokes about how Keith Richards is going to outlive us all, but it feels like it’s time to put Tony Bennett into that esteemed “immortal” category. Bennett, who Frank Sinatra once called “the best goddamn pop singer I ever heard,” might have aged, but he refuses to decline, still touring at age 93 (!!!) and still using that impossibly light, joyful voice to sing all manner of pop and jazz standards onstage and on album. Sure, the touchstone of his career is the hit “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” but Bennett has released 70 or so albums, including one in 2018 with Diana Krall, and an astute listener can find all manner of gems spread throughout his career. Bennett’s secret is that he applies the flexibility of a jazz singer with the instincts of a pop vocalist, improvising around the melody when it suits him and digging into the song’s emotional core when it doesn’t. He is both a masterful technician and a relentless showman, one of those performers who one imagines will pass away onstage with a mic in his hand, if that day ever comes. Bennett has a trophy room with 20 Grammy awards, two Emmys, a wall full of honorary doctorates from places like Julliard, and an NEA Jazz Masters Award, so no one would blame him if he decided to kick back and relax. But that’s not Tony’s style, and this time around he’s steppin’ out with his daughter, Antonia, to sing alongside him. —Vincent Harris TUESDAY

FORTE JAZZ LOUNGE Greg Abate, jazz,

7 and 9 p.m.

GAILLARD CENTER Conrad Tao Plays Brahms, classical HIGH COTTON Frank Duvall Trio, piano

jazz, 7 p.m.

LOCAL 616 DJ D-EZ, old and new-school

tunes, 10 p.m. NV DJ Y-Not, dance and party music

PALMETTO BREWING CO. Chris Boone,

Americana, folk, 2 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Layton Meacham, jams, 6 p.m. Rock and Roll Playhouse, family fun, Phish covers, 1:30 p.m. Runaway Gin, Phish covers, 9:30 p.m. PROHIBITION New South Jazzmen,

jazz, 7 p.m.

THE ROYAL AMERICAN Matt Megrue,

rock, singer-songwriter, 9 p.m.

THE RUSTY RUDDER Louie D Project,

funk, 7 p.m.

SAND DOLLAR Metro Tools, rock, cov-

ers, 10 p.m.

THE SHELTER KITCHEN + BAR Return of the Mac, party band, 12 p.m. SMOKE ‘N’ BREW John Moore Trio,

jams, 7 p.m.

SURF BAR Hans Wenzel & The EightySixers, Americana, 10 p.m. SUSHI BLUE Salsa Night , DJ Luigi, salsa THE TIN ROOF Mega Colossus w/ Guardian’s Warlock, Mortal Man, Children of the Reptile, metal, rock,

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9:30 p.m.

WINDJAMMER DJ Machine, dance,

jams, 8 p.m.

KARAOKE

LOGGERHEAD’S Karaoke, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. R PUB Karaoke with Aaron SMOKEY’S PLACE Karaoke with Jason,

karaoke, 9 p.m.

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FREEHOUSE Freehouse Acoustic Open Mic, local acoustic

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Indications, soul, R&B, 9 p.m. On the Deck: Kanika Moore and the Motown Throwdown, gospel, soul, funk, 1 p.m. THE ROYAL AMERICAN Holy City Vintage Market w/ DUMB Doctors, jams, 11 a.m. SALTWATER COWBOYS Louie D Solo Sax Experience, funk, 12 p.m. THE SHELTER KITCHEN + BAR Hans Wenzel, jams, 12 p.m. SMOKE ‘N’ BREW Bender Funk, soul,

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CHARLESTON GRILL Bob Williams Duo,

ST JAMES GATE Ed “Porkchop” Meyer,

jazz/classical (guitar and violin), 7 p.m.

singer-songwriter, 12 p.m.

CIRCULAR CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Shrimp City Slim, piano blues, 6 p.m. COAST Graham Whorley, acoustic duo:

SURF BAR Funk You Folly, Americana,

rock, jam, 10 p.m.

THE COMMODORE Honky Tonk Sunday,

THE WASHOUT Donnie Polk, acoustic,

TOMMY CONDON’S Kevin Church, singer-

rock, jazz, and grooves, 7-10 p.m.

songwriter, 7 p.m.

jams, 9 p.m.

4 p.m.

THE DINGHY TAPROOM AND KITCHEN Josh Hughett, singer/songwriter, 7 p.m. FORTE JAZZ LOUNGE Porto Seguro w/ Alva Anderson, jazz, bossa nova, 7 p.m. GATHERING CAFÉ Jazz Brunch, jazz HALLS The Plantation Singers, gospel,

12:30-3:30 p.m.

HIGH COTTON The Bluestone Ramblers,

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Americana, 1 p.m.

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6 p.m.

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THE PUB ON 61 The Associates, jams RITA’S SEASIDE GRILLE Bender Funk,

HALLS Larry Ford, Abe White, and Chris Williams, jams, 6 p.m. HIGH COTTON Frank Duvall Trio, piano

covers, 6:30 p.m.

rock, Americana, 6 p.m.

SEANACHAI Monthly Celtic Jam, Irish,

7:30 p.m.

acoustic, 8:30 p.m.

JUANITA GREENBERG’S—MP Graham Whorley, acoustic soul/rock and jams,

THE WASHOUT Brady & Dale, bluegrass,

6:30 p.m.

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at 8 p.m.

PLANET FOLLYWOOD Karaoke w/ DJ Richburg, 9:30 p.m. THE PUB ON 61 Karaoke, 8 p.m. THE REFUGE Todd Beals Trio, jazz,

SMOKEY’S PLACE Karaoke with Jason,

karaoke, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIC

ART’S Singer-Songwriter Night, rotating ELLIOTBOROUGH MINI BAR Open Mic,

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gae/rock, 10:30 p.m.

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BIG GUN BURGER SHOP Karaoke, open

mic, 9:30 p.m.

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oke during Margarita Mondays

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TOMMY CONDON’S Open Mic: Songwriter Night, open mic, 7 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Fusion Jonez, progressive funk, fusion, 6 p.m. Treehouse! & Audic Empire, funk, psychedelic, 9:30 p.m. PROHIBITION Salsa Night w/ Gino Castillo Cuban Jazz Quartet, Cuban,

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FILL RESTAURANT AND PIANO BAR Jazz Night with Heather Rice, jazz, 6:30 p.m. HIGH COTTON James Slater Trio, sax

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THE WASHOUT The Ol’ 55s, bluegrass,

CHARLESTON GRILL Kevin Hamilton and Friends, jazz, 6:30 p.m. THE DINGHY TAPROOM AND KITCHEN Jeff Bateman and Josh Hughett, covers,

jams, 7 p.m.

HOME TEAM BBQ Holy City Confessional, singer-songwriter show-

case, 7 p.m. HUNLEY’S TAVERN Ted McKee, acoustic

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TOMMY CONDON’S Kevin Church, acous-

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OPEN MIC

BURNS ALLEY Molly Durnin, open mic,

9 p.m.

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K.C. MULLIGAN’S DJ Random, DJ, jams,

LOCAL 616 Sessions at 616, open mic,

10 p.m.

9 p.m.

ART’S Saluda Shoals, country, rock,

OCEAN COWBOYS Poppa DuPree and JoJo, jams

MYNT Locals Open Mic Night, 10 p.m. THE PUB ON 61 Open Mic, open mic

Americana, 9 p.m.

Pile, 8 p.m.

jams, 10 p.m. LOCAL 616 DJs: The Selectas, party

singer-songwriters

TOMMY CONDON’S Open Mic Night,

K.C. MULLIGAN’S Token Mary, pop,

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Walter PH

jazz, 6 p.m.

TOMMY CONDON’S Carroll Brown,

jams, 7 p.m.

GEORGE CLINTON & P-FUNK – Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., 1996 BEASTIE BOYS – 9:30 Club, Washington D.C., 2004 BRAVE BABY W/ HEYROCCO – The Royal American, Charleston, S.C., 2013 SOCIAL DISTORTION – The Black Cat, Washington, D.C., 1995. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY – Walter Kerr Theater, New York, N.Y., 2018

acoustic rock and jamgrass, 10:30 p.m. ELI’S TABLE Gino Castillo, jazz, 7 p.m.

tunes

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roots, 9 p.m. SOUTHERN ROOTS SMOKEHOUSE Open Mic Night, 6:30 p.m. Sound Check: Musical Bingo, bingo, but with songs

instead of numbers, 7-9 p.m. TASTY FUSION Ben Somewhere, singer-

grass, 7:30 p.m.

songwriter

THE COMMODORE Lady & The Brass,

BARSA TAPAS LOUNGE & BAR Steve Simon and the Kings of Jazz, jazz,

THE WASHOUT Gracious Day, acoustic,

HOME TEAM BBQ Thomas Champagne,

CHARLESTON GRILL Richard White Trio,

KARAOKE

HOOKED SEAFOOD Chris Boone,

COASTAL COFFEE ROASTERS Acoustic Night, open jam THE COMMODORE The Majestics, funk,

jazz, 6:30 p.m.

funk, soul, 9:30 p.m.

7 p.m.

beach funk, 7 p.m.

jazz, 6:30 p.m.

Americana, folk, 5 p.m.

JOHNKING GRILL + BAR Graham Whorley & Friends, blues, roots, rock,

7 p.m.

LOGGERHEAD’S Eric Penrod, jams, 6 p.m.

R&B, 9:30 p.m.

THE DINGHY TAPROOM AND KITCHEN Donnie Polk, jams, 7 p.m.

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