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Charleston report outlines dozens of ways to combat housing crisis BY SKYLER BALDWIN

Five years ago, the City of Charleston released a report that raised concern over the area’s housing crisis. This year, at the end of January, a second report detailed that crisis and outlined dozens of answers to the question of affordable housing the City can refer to when coming up with their solutions. “The earlier report helped to define the need more clearly,” says the City’s director of housing, Geona Shaw Johnson. “This report goes a little bit further in giving us both strategies and best practices to address the need … It’s a lot of work, but it’s exciting, because it gives you hands-on strategies that you can begin to employ to make a difference in your neighborhoods.” The Housing for a Fair Charleston report is a five-year plan for sustainable and inclusive growth in housing for the area. The first part of the report defines the housing crisis the city finds itself in, breaking it down and defining terms to make SHAW JOHNSON the information more digestible, and laying out the City’s guiding values moving forward. “It is critical that this report is founded on a shared value proposition and a belief that places are more thoughtfully designated when community values are put first,” reads the report. “Fairness, acceptance, mobility, and resilience. These four values make up the

backbone of this report and guide the recommendations made in future chapters.” Another principle that led the team through the creation of this report was a phrase repeated by Mayor John Tecklenburg, “increasing the tools in the toolbox.” Rather than attempting to find a single solution to such a complex problem, the City instead identified a number of smaller methods that, used together, can combat the crisis. “One of the things we found is that what we were already doing was good, but we wanted to do more,” Johnson says. “There are 37 tools that were identified, some of which we were actively engaged in already.” Broken into categories like zoning and policy, funding, education and empathy, and capacity building, the tools outlined cover an immense amount of ground. Many of the tools deal with incentives offered to community members to do their part for housing. “Naturally, local government plays a critical role in this,” Johnson says. “But, the work that we do, we cannot do alone. It takes a collaborative effort to make the work not only feasible, but tangible.” South Carolina’s Bailey Bill, for example, focuses on those who own dilapidated build-

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ings that can receive an incentive to have them renovated, offering a new opportunity for residents of Charleston to give back. Johnson says that one of the most important factors identified in Charleston deals with naturally occurring housing, something that Johnson sees as a challenge in the community. “That was another tool that was named in the report we prepared,” Johnson says. “That speaks clearly to one of the preeminent needs in our community, not only to create and preserve, but to sustain for the long haul.” Some properties that fall under naturally occurring housing would be affordable to the community for two consecutive 99-year periods, because a land trust holds them over time, keeping them affordable in near perpetuity. “We needed to find a way whereby we preserve this for the long term,” she says. “One way we’ve done that most recently is the Palmetto Community Land Trust, a program under the Charleston Redevelopment Corporation.” As with any solution, funding is a great concern for many members of the community. This report offers 10 tools specifically

for finding funding to complement other proposals. This was a key component of the report, Johnson says, because the City’s federal funding has been dwindling over time. “Being very strategic with how we facilitated those opportunities to either increase or enhance the funding that is available to us in turn helps us when acquiring property and preserving the housing that currently exists,” Johnson explains. This report was put together by a group of the City of Charleston’s departments and agencies, due to the challenges facing affordable housing having roots in so many other community issues, such as environmental impacts and transportation. “Working in concert with our planning team and several other departments in the City of Charleston, we have been working over the last year and a half,” Johnson says. “We are going to sit down internally and look at what is outlined and the logical next steps.” Johnson says the City is already actively working on implementing a number of the tools detailed in the report, and some others, which she calls low-hanging fruit, can be deployed relatively easily.

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“I don’t see a whole lot of 2016 in this election ... I see a whole lot of 1972.” —Congressman James Clyburn, who was leaning toward endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden as of Feb. 25, warns against party division similar to that which led to Richard Nixon’s reelection 48 years ago. Source: The Post and Courier

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AHEAD OF PRIMARY, MARTIN LUTHER KING III URGES VOTERS TO SPEAK OUT ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

A week before the state’s First-in-the-South Democratic primary, environmental and social justice leaders congregated at Charity Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston on Saturday to discuss the impacts of climate change on equal rights, urging attendees to make their voices heard at the ballot box. The event, organized by the Conservation Voters of South Carolina, National Wildlife Federation, National Action Network, International African American Museum, and South Carolina Wildlife Federation, brought Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King Jr., Aonie Gilcreast, chief adviser to former Flint, Mich. Mayor Karen Weaver, and local state Rep. JA Moore (D-Berkeley) to discuss their work on environmental justice. A panel discussion during the second half of the event examined the challenges of working among tight-knit communities with local organizers including KJ Kearney (Conservation Voters), Tamika Gadsden (Black Voters Matter), Rahim Karriem (Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities), and others. “Human rights also include economic, social, and cultural rights,” King said, “such as the right to housing, the right to health care, the right to education, the right to social security, the right to an adequate standard of living — which means poverty by definition is a violation of human rights — and the right to a safe environment.” While the conversation broadly encompassed civil rights and environmental justice, the event repeatedly returned to discussions of local waterways as concerns grow over increased flooding across the nation. “You in this area are consistently experiencing flooding,” King says. “Anybody who doesn’t question, ‘Is that normal —’ I’m not sure what planet you’re living on. “We are witnessing an increase in extreme weather conditions,

“We better care and raise our voices now. We can’t just say we’ll let another generation deal with it.” —Millicent Brown, a Charleston activist and historian, says that she is looking for a Democratic candidate with proposals to “help the planet survive.” Source: The Washington Post

which have resulted in serious humanitarian challenges,” King continues. “Everywhere, people are talking about floods, fires, tornados, hurricanes and strange and unfamiliar weather patterns.” Not only has flooding given rise to challenges regarding water to minority communities throughout the country, but access to clean drinking water is still a major concern for many. The water crisis in Flint, Mich., which began in 2014 after the city began to draw its drinking water from the Flint River, has still not seen a full resolution. As the mayor of Flint, Weaver was at the forefront of addressing a crisis that she was urged to sweep under the rug. “It was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster,” Gilcreast says. “So, the question came to her in a meeting, ‘Mayor, don’t say anything about what is taking place, because the government is going to get mad.’ And, she says, ‘Do you think the government would get madder than we are?’” Gilcreast says he couldn’t help but wonder whether lesswell-off communities in Charleston would receive the same treatment if a similar situation developed here. The idea of using one’s power through their vote echoed the words of King. “ … No one concerned about the environment and environmental sustainability, climate change, or environmental justice can be a person who just stands by in this electoral season,” he says. “We don’t need to stand by — we need to stand up.” King also closed his speech with a nod to his father. “We must stand together for freedom, justice, and equality for everyone, and be a part of a new global united front against racism and bigotry,” King proclaimed. “If we are able to come together to affirm our desire for a world for all, equal in dignity and rights, then we would be on our way to becoming the community my father envisioned and spoke about. We haven’t gotten there yet.” —Skyler Baldwin

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A person dies from gun wounds every 11 hours in South Carolina, but the state legislature is not any closer to seeing any new gun-related laws. A bevy of bills — from those seeking to curb gun purchases for some to others that want to expand gun access for all — are likely to meet a quiet demise in the second year of a two-year session that is laser-focused on education and Santee Cooper. “We’re at a standstill both with gun reform and gun expansion,” Charleston Democratic Sen. Marlon Kimpson said last week. “I don’t think you’ll see any of those bills come to the floor this year and, if they do, it will be purely for political posturing.” Senate Bill 139, which would allow anyone to carry a weapon without a permit, is on the Senate calendar for second reading, but falls further behind every day on the chamber’s contested slate. Carrying weapons without a permit is known by supporters as “constitutional carry.” But most gun proposals remain in committees without hearings. Kimpson is a sponsor of Senate Bill 731, which would “close the Charleston loophole” by expanding background checks. The bill has been pushed every year since a white supremacist slayed nine black church goers at Emanuel AME in 2015. It would extend the wait time for FBI background checks from three days to five days in South Carolina. It is stuck without a hearing in the Judiciary Committee. Charleston Democratic Rep. Wendell Gilliard is also a sponsor of pending gun-safety legislation. “There will be other tragedies until we either put up or shut up. That’s the bottom line,” he says. “When you look at South Carolina, as a whole, we need gun reform. Guns are any and everywhere and the statistics prove it.” Latest data results in an “F” for S.C. The Giffords Law Center, a gun safety group that h says stronger gun laws prevent gun violence, recently gave South Carolina an “F” for its “weak” gun laws. South Carolina has the 12th highest gun death rate in the nation, and the state is ranked seventh for exporting guns used in crimes elsewhere. The data show a person is killed by a gun in South Carolina every 11 hours. Here are some other statistics from the report card: Gun violence is the second leading cause of death for S.C. children under 17. More than 65 percent of South Carolina’s domestic violence homicides involve a gun and, from 2007 to 2016, 175 women were killed with a gun by their intimate partner in South Carolina. More than 64 percent of all suicide deaths in South Carolina involve firearms. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the state. While the center called the state’s gun laws “very weak,” it also highlighted that the state allows some mental health record reporting to federal background check databases and has a firearm prohibition for some domestic abusers. Statehouse Democrats seeking to curb gun access say they aren’t giving up even after decades of defeat. “In South Carolina, you have to be persistent,” Gilliard says. But Kimpson says South Carolina has had plenty of tragedies and yet still won’t enact gun legislation. The Emanuel AME Church massacre in 2015, the Townville Elementary School shooting in 2016, and the large numbers of domestic violence shootings and suicides haven’t caused any gun-safety bill to budge, he says. “Until we change the legislature, which by the way for almost two decades has been exclusively controlled by Republicans, it’s not likely we will have a gun reform law,” Kimpson says. —Lindsay Street

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The Blotter is taken from Charleston Police Department reports. We’ve added a cartoon and a little commentary. We’ve added a little humor, too. No one has been found guilty. This is not a court of law. A woman off Clements Ferry Road found her patio door ajar earlier this month. While nothing was missing from her apartment, she says her underwear drawer was rummaged through. The offender was probably just looking for money and didn’t realize how inappropriate this was until he stumbled upon her underwear. A cyclist downtown was arrested for disorderly conduct after refusing to cooperate with officers. He told police that he only had three beers. We’re not saying that’s untrue, but we also can’t say whether the offender knows how to handle his alcohol. A West Ashley woman’s vehicle was stolen from her driveway for the second time in the last year, she told police. The victim said that nothing of value was in her vehicle. But to be honest, her “I came to get down” bumper sticker has to be worth something.

At the intersection of two busy downtown streets, an officer spotted a man drinking in public. When confronted, the offender told the officer that he thought it was OK to drink beer. The report doesn’t confirm how many times he said, “It’s OK, it’s just beer,” but we bet it was at least five. While trying to diffuse a confrontation between several men outside of a downtown bar, the earliest motive officers could discern was someone cutting someone else in the bathroom line. Despite what you’re thinking, we assure you: Everyone was old enough to be in the bar. After noticing a boisterous commotion centered around a man lying in the middle of a downtown street, officers say the man admitted he “drank too much” because he was upset about a recent situation. We hope he’s doing better. A man’s vehicle was stolen from its downtown parking spot Tuesday. The victim described it as a lifted, gunmetal gray, black-rimmed EZ-GO golf cart with a duct-taped windshield. The rest of the description given makes it sound even more like a car out of Mad Max.

After leaving a West Ashley store, a man was unable to find his gray Nissan Murano. Thinking he had just forgotten where he had parked and embarrassed he had lost his car in the lot, he called his sister instead of the police. Turns out it was probably stolen. At least now he doesn’t have to be embarrassed. After being involved in a traffic accident in West Ashley, a man attempted to steal another’s car which was apparently in better condition. When he was unsuccessful, he then tried to steal the ambulance. Let’s just say, he’s on a losing streak.

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hen S.C. voters step into their polling places on Saturday, they’ll either cast a ballot for the candidate they think will make the best president or take a more strategic approach to vote for whomever they think can win in November. The truth is, any of the seven Democrats on the S.C. primary ballot would be a better president than Donald Trump. As we face down South Carolina’s primary Saturday and Super Tuesday next week, Democrats will find themselves choosing between a democratic socialist in his fifth year of running for president, New York City’s former Republican mayor, or another candidate who has been less capable of rallying support to defeat the incumbent president. You may have heard, but South Carolina is the first early primary state with a significant African-American population, making it more representative of the diverse Democratic electorate nationwide. Yet, as the party gets set to test its appeal to black voters amid worries over nominating a candidate who could appeal to Republicans’ 95-percent-white voting base, Democrats now have an allwhite slate of candidates. With two billionaires now dumping millions of dollars to pay for eyeballs and support in S.C., will our 2020 primary even be a fair contest? South Carolina remains an early state not just for its racial diversity, but its small size and lessexpensive media markets that make it cheaper to organize and advertise here. It’s so cheap, apparently, that billionaire businessman Tom Steyer, who has spent $14 million on TV and radio ads over the past seven months and $1.1 million

on targeted Facebook ads in South Carolina since December alone, is positioned to be a spoiler. Steyer sits in third place at 18 percent support in the Feb. 23 CBS/YouGov poll, just 5 percent behind U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. Should Steyer’s strategic spending and outreach within African-American communities prove effective, it will be to the detriment of former Vice President Joe Biden. On the issues, South Carolina workers have very little reason to look beyond Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Their policy proposals to muscle the American economy out of the hands of corporate interests could be a gamechanger for South Carolina, where handouts for big business are routine and 22 percent of the state’s rural residents sit in poverty. That said, looking past South Carolina, it is unclear that the current Democratic frontrunner Sanders could convene the same “multi-generational, multi-racial” coalition he has claimed so far in a general election. Despite the S.C. Republican Party’s stranglehold on state government, South Carolina remains only a marginally red state. In a 2018 Gallup poll, 47 percent said they identify or lean Republican, 37 percent for Democrats — a large-enough disparity to label S.C. as a “Strong Republican” state, but only by 1 percent. Turnout on Saturday will be key to assessing Democratic enthusiasm. In 2016, when both parties held primaries, Republicans nearly doubled up Democrats at the polls, drawing close to 800,000 voters. With so much uncertainty and doubt in the Democratic primary field, we urge South Carolinians to vote their conscience on Feb. 29.

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Primary Concerns Do 2020 Democrats share S.C. voters’ values on the environment? The worse our politics have become, the more time I’ve spent outside. The beaches, marshes, and rivers of the Lowcountry ground me. The coastal forest clears my mind. All of it centers me in a greater story and puts the politics in perspective. I know I’m not alone. My friends from every place along the political spectrum seem to find common ground in our love for, and appreciation of, our natural home. We see it every day in the runners on the bridge, fishers on the pier, and birders on the boardwalk. On my way to work, I pass paddleboarders on the creek and watch ospreys wheel overhead. I am still astonished by how beautiful it all is. It should come as no surprise, then, that as the South Carolina Democratic primary approaches, I am looking at all of the candidates’ environmental records. I would expect anyone coming to the Lowcountry to ask for our votes to feel the same sense of reverence that we feel for the flora and fauna of our home. Yet I was startled this week to read the Democratic candidates’ responses to the question of offshore oil drilling. Offshore drilling, you may remember, is opposed by a majority of South Carolinians, including Republican Gov. Henry McMaster and Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham, who was elected largely on his promise to protect our coast.

When the candidates for president were asked by the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce if they joined the chamber and the rest of us in opposition to drilling, only four of the active candidates replied that they did. The candidates who responded on the record in opposition to drilling as of Feb. 21 are Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. I am grateful to the chamber for asking the question so that those of us who love the Lowcountry’s natural beauty may cast our votes accordingly. And I am surprised that anyone would come to South Carolina seeking our support without understanding how strongly we relate to our waterways and how much of our lives, livelihoods, culture, and recreation are directly related to their health and well-being. In addition to candidates’ positions on offshore drilling, we might look closely at their plans for responding to the climate crisis. Several groups have published climate scorecards, including Greenpeace, 350.org, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sunrise Movement. You can look them up online and read the results yourself. I noticed that the candidates who did well on protecting our coast often scored highly with their climate responses. I’ll remember them when I go into the voting booth. I’ll also remember the articles I read every day

and the news that is greater than the reductive cycle of a single day or week. Just this morning, for instance, I read two stories that were causes for concern. One spoke of loggerhead turtles laying eggs far earlier than normal due to the disorientation of an unusually warm winter. The other told of a leaked report from JP Morgan, the world’s largest bankroller of fossil fuels, which has now assessed that climate change threatens the viability of human life on earth. The beach and the business pages agree that we have no more time to wait. It raises the question of what our primary concern should be. Beyond the partisan divides of the moment, we are asked to consider a longer timeline. Will we vote for a sustainable future? Will we vote to protect and preserve the Lowcountry as we have known it? Will we vote out of our love for this place and our sense of reverence before the beauty of it all? And will we invite our neighbors to join us in voting for these primary concerns? I don’t know about you, but when I go into the voting booth, both in the primary and the general election, I won’t be thinking of donkeys and elephants. I’ll be thinking of dolphins and turtles. Anyone asking for my vote should be thinking about the same things. Jeremy Rutledge is senior minister at Circular Church.

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he 2020 presidential election has triggered a wholesale freakout in Democratic circles. Just about every liberal and moderate philosophy was represented in debates and gatherings across the four early states, all with eyes on defeating President Donald Trump in November. Unlike in past years when minor differences hinged on leadership or foreign policy, there are basic, big-picture questions before Democratic voters in 2020. Call it an identity crisis or a hostile takeover akin to the tea party’s (ultimately successful) bid to upend the GOP in 2009, Democratic factions are in the midst of a war of ideas that likely won’t be settled until the summer when Democratic National Committee insiders huddle for the party convention in Milwaukee. That got us wondering. With South Carolina being the center of the political campaign universe until 7 p.m. Saturday, what would the perfect Democratic candidate look like for Palmetto State voters?

Why is South Carolina voting now? The South Carolina Democratic presidential primary has existed in its current form since 1992, but the party has only held down the spot as the “First in the South” contest since 2004. The party’s move away from caucuses corresponded with S.C. Democrats’ fading electoral support in state government and Congress in the 1980s. Seeing the rise of S.C. Republicans’ successful early primary beginning in 1980, Democrats set out to do the same a decade later. Today, the S.C. primaries are held up as an early test of candidates’ viability against a different standard than other early states like Iowa and New Hampshire. In their new book, First in the South, College of Charleston professors Gibbs Knotts and Jordan Ragusa say that S.C. Republican vot-

ers are more representative of the national party’s white, evangelical Christian base, making the state a GOP bellwether — S.C. Republicans have selected the eventual nominee four of the past six contests. Meanwhile, Knotts and Ragusa say, AfricanAmerican voters, who form the majority of the S.C. Democratic base, are virtually unpolled in Iowa and New Hampshire, making S.C. a valuable position as a counterweight to earlier white electorates. South Carolina Democrats, however, have a less-predictive track record of selecting the eventual nominee, partially because of native bias in contests involving candidates from close by: John Edwards in 2004 and Jesse Jackson in 1988. In trying to conceptualize the perfect candidate this year, it’s interesting to note the 2020 primary represents the first primary since 1992 with an all-white slate of candidates, none of whom hail from the Carolinas. (S.C. Democrats did not have a primary in 2000.)

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Of course, the unfortunate, foul-smelling elephant we have to acknowledge as we approach this exercise is Donald Trump. More so than in a normal year, no aspect of this primary sits unaffected by the incumbent president, who will stalk into town Friday for a rally to heckle Democrats and pump up Republicans. Conservative commentators have even wondered if Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the Democratic corollary to Trump: a polarizing ideologue with little previous mainstream political experience. Indeed, recent rebukes from establishment Democrats like Hillary Clinton and James Carville echo similar sentiments of mainline Republicans before Trump’s eventual nomination and general election victory in 2016. With that in mind, South Carolina’s hypothetical candidate is a hybrid who can’t be considered in a vacuum. As we’ve seen very clearly in recent weeks, the traditional path to the presidency is closed until further notice. Whoever the Democrats nominate in 2020 must be able to beat Donald Trump. So, what does the perfect 2020 candidate in S.C. look like?

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he diversity of recent presidential fields — not just 2020 Democrats — tells us more about the sexist and racist forces at work from town hall to Capitol Hill than it does about the true diversity of ideas and backgrounds that have created this nation. South Carolina is the first contest in a state with a racially diverse population, yet following a few candidate withdrawals, voters will choose from a slate of all white candidates, only three of whom are women.

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Foreign Policy and Institutional Experience The perfect Democratic candidate would have the experience, especially on foreign policy, of Joe Biden. With such a large Rolodex and a miles-long record from 40 years in the Senate, Biden says he even fielded requests from other world leaders to run for president. Mileposts in Biden’s foriegn policy experience range from voting as a newly elected senator to unwind American involvement in Vietnam in 1973 to being a key White House asset as vice president to Barack Obama’s attempted de-escalation in the Middle East. Of course, Biden has also taken a more interventionist stance at times, including voting to invade Iraq in 2002. However, the breadth of experience that advanced his rise to becoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be a stark change from what many consider the right-wing, conspiracy-fueled improvised foreign policy of the Trump administration. “At the moment that the world is looking to the United States to be the leader of the free continued on page 12

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The perfect Democratic candidate would have Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s experience harnessing government to do public good. A legal academic and public advocate for most of her career, Warren was asked by Barack Obama in 2009 to build the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in response to runaway deregulation of the big banks that eventually led to the financial crisis. Since being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2013, Warren has continued to use her platform to demand fairness. Asked by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell to draw a distinction between herself and Sanders on Thurs. Feb. 20, Warren said, “I get real stuff done.” Even as Trump has taken industry-friendly moves to defang the CFPB, Warren’s accomplishments as a creative public watchdog stand alone in the Democratic field. “I don’t want to be president just to yell at people, I want to be president to change things,” she said.

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The perfect Democratic candidate also would have the lifelong focus on equality of Bernie Sanders. Scoff at the senator’s democratic socialist label all you want, but a fundamental belief in universal, equal access to opportunity is at the root of Sanders’ tenure in public life, and that’s hardly worth discounting. Sanders has attracted legions of followers with his no-nonsense, anti-establishment style — “I’m not good at pleasantries,” he told the Times — but it’s his laser focus on issues of fairness that make him an attractive candidate. “Jobs, health care, criminal justice and education are linked, and progress will not be made unless we address the economic systems that oppress Americans at their root,” Sanders wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last year.

policy with an eye on righting wrongs of the past. No math whiz needed to know that universal basic income never would have gotten airtime without Andrew Yang. You probably didn’t hear much about him, but the race lost a quiet policy powerhouse when Michael Bennet bowed out. South Carolina voters could help propel one Democrat into Super Tuesday contests with the momentum needed to revive their campaign. Whoever the candidate is, they’ll need to sustain that energy and support if they want to also emerge victorious in November. ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES WILL FACE DONALD TRUMP IN NOVEMBER

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Sense of Duty Pete Buttigieg’s sense of duty frames another quality vital to the perfect Democratic presidential candidate. The former mayor and Navy officer’s intelligence, paired with his understanding of government administration and public service, sets him apart from his counterparts. Buttigieg, along with Warren and businessman Tom Steyer, have released ambitious plans to increase civic engagement with national service. “In the great unwinding of American civic society underway, and at a time when Americans are experiencing record-low trust in fellow citizens and American institutions, few — if any — single policy solutions carry the promise of democratic renewal more than national service,” Buttigieg’s plan reads. Lamenting the the decline of American social institutions is nothing new, but it’s rarely a topic that gets serious discussion, and it gets lost even more in today’s disorienting political landscape.

Plainspoken Pragmatism The perfect Democratic candidate would have the plainspoken pragmatism of Amy Klobuchar. As a senator from Minnesota, Klobuchar was often floated as having potential for the White House. Klobuchar lacks the rhetorical abilities of many, but discussion of real issues that landed somewhere between poll-tested platitudes and immature bluster would indeed be a change. Steyer and fellow billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg have also been able to focus their self-funded campaign machines to articulate the fight Democrats face against Trump in the coming months.

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A city steeped in culture and history, Charleston has experienced an explosion of new artists and galleries over the last decade, but the Gibbes Museum of Art has always led the way as a source of education and artistic endeavors. When the museum originally opened its doors in 1905 under the name the Gibbes Art Gallery, its purpose was to connect the world of art with our local and regional history, deepening Charlestonians’ connection to the city’s culture. Now, more than a century later, the Gibbes remains as a central part of the city’s art and cultural landscape, bringing traveling exhibits, visiting artists, and a concert series to the community. But, the museum relies heavily on the support of locals and affiliate groups — the Gibbes Women’s Council and Society 1858 provide the resources the museum needs to create a vibrant schedule of cultural events. As the first affiliate group for the museum, the Women’s Council is vital in creating a tight-knit group of art lovers that work to support the Gibbes’ efforts. “Everything that we do as a part of the council is to forward the mission and the vision of the Gibbes,” says Louise Allen, current president of the Women’s Council. “In the last few years, we have established a reputation for developing a really fun annual event that allows the community to learn and connect with other people.”

For the last 10 years, the annual Art of Paltrow and Emma Roberts. Design luncheon hosted by the Women’s “We pay a lot of attention to detail for this Council has been the group’s main funevent,” says Allen. “From the speaker to the draiser. Hosted each year in March, the food, we try to create a really fun, beautiful event invites guests to the Gibbes for the atmosphere for people to learn and conchance to learn from an established figure nect with each other.” The event has grown in the design community. In past years, dramatically since its debut, selling out in a speakers have included Hamish Bowles, matter of weeks. Vogue’s international editor-at-large, and While you may not be able to make it Eva Chen, an integral Instagram fashion to this year’s Art of Design if you haven’t influencer. The event almost always sells already purchased tickets, there are still out, this year included. ways to get involved with This year, the council “From the speaker to the the museum. Women welcomes Clea Shearer throughout the area can food, we try to create and Joanna Teplin, the join the Women’s Council a really fun, beautiful two women behind The to become active memHome Edit, a brand that atmosphere for people to bers and help foster the fuses the art of interior art and museum commulearn and connect with design with a specific nity in Charleston. “The method of organizawomen who are active in each other.” tion to keep your space the council and those who —Louise Allen looking stylish yet support our activities, functional. From its whether they’re members humble beginnings on Instagram, The Home or not, is what underscores all of our efforts,” Edit has evolved into a lifestyle brand with explains Allen. “We try to imbue a sense of spin-off ventures like a television home comradery, purpose, and fun in what we do, makeover show, Master the Mess, and a coand we want you to come and enjoy it, to authored book, The Home Edit: A Guide to come learn and think.” Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals. Shearer and Teplin have even grown their cli- Learn more about the Women’s Council entele list to include celebrities like Gwyneth at gibbesmuseum.org.

This week the Gibbes Museum of Art announced a new partnership with the Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) to offer free museum admission to local families. The Gibbes will provide 15 family-level memberships that can be “checked out” at all CCPL branch locations. The passes will allow up to two adults and all related children or grandchildren under the age of 18 to be admitted to the museum for free. Membership passes are available to be checked out for one week by library cardholders at their local branch. Passes may not be renewed and can only be checked out on an adult cardholder’s card with a limit of one pass checkout per card. Community engagement manager at CCPL, Devon Andrews says: “It’s crucial that all members of the community have the ability to experience this connection to culture and the arts, and by removing the barrier that may be caused by admission prices, we hope to empower more people to access this amazing resource.” Learn more about CCPL and the Gibbes online. —Priscilla Vanartsdalen

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A Different Class The Footlight Players take on class and cons with Six Degrees of Separation BY VINCENT HARRIS Six Degrees of Separation

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Most of us probably best remember Six Degrees of Separation as a film, one which featured accomplished actors like Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland but was most notable for one of Will Smith’s early, star-making performances. Smith played Paul, a skilled young con artist who builds an impressive false identity as a cultured, well-educated student in order to bilk the unsuspecting wealthy elites of New York City out of their money. That 1993 film was based on a 1990 play by John Guare, a play in which we see Paul largely through the eyes (and stories) of the people he deceived, and that perspective lends a sense of mystery and even a bit of sympathy to Paul’s character, even as he lies to a pair of well-off empty nesters in an attempt to swindle them. Six Degrees of Separation is a deft, subtle commentary on class, race, and identity that’s both more emotional and funnier than one might expect. And it’s always been a favorite of Kyle Barnette, a veteran Charleston actor and director who’s helming a production of the play for The Footlight Players at the Queen

Street Playhouse. “I’ve been a longtime fan of this script,” Barnette says. “It was one of the plays we studied in my Modern American Drama class in college at Ole Miss in the mid1990s. I also worked in a video store when the movie came out, and I played it over and over at the store, watching it while I worked. It has a very unique way of telling the story in the script, so to see it translated and told in a different medium was one of the first times I was inspired to want to direct. I love to see how a work of theater translates into film and how the story stays the same, even if it is told with a different approach.” There’s an interesting, although far less sinister, parallel between Six Degrees of Separation and the company of actors involved in this production. Much like Paul attempts to move from one social class to another, there’s a member of the cast who has moved from behind the scenes of The Footlight Players to the stage for the first time. “Chip Hester Jr. (who plays Geoffrey, a wealthy acquaintance of the Kittredges) and his wife have been patrons of Footlight and other theaters around town for a few years,” Barnette says. “He read great for the roles he was auditioning for, and after I cast him in the role of Geoffrey, he told me he really had no acting experience to speak of other continued on page 21

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Laughing Through the Pain Gary Gulman uses stand-up as a way to address depression BY MICHAEL PHAM Gary Gulman: Peace of Mind Sun. March 1 8 p.m. $24.50+ Charleston Music Hall 37 John St. Downtown charlestonmusichall.com

Prior to his career in comedy, Gary Gulman was a football player, an accountant, and a high school teacher. Now, he’s one of the most popular touring comics in the country, and one of a handful of comedians to perform on every late-night comedy program, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Late Night with Seth Meyers, to name a few. Gulman brings his Peace of Mind Tour to the Music Hall this Saturday. His first stand-up special, Gary Gulman: Boyish Man, aired in 2006 on Comedy Central, with a second special, In This Economy? on Comedy Central in 2012, followed by the Netflix special It’s About Time in 2016. In October of last year, Gulman made a big return after a brief hiatus from stand-up with his fourth comedy special on HBO. The Great Depresh is traditional stand-up special meets short documentary — and it isn’t just Gulman cracking jokes about the absurdity of ’70s and ’80s masculinity. It’s also him opening up about his depression, anxiety, hospitalization, and recovery for the first time. The stand-up in The Great Depresh hits a wide range of emotions. Gulman goes from talking about his depression to making love to a water fountain to discussing the femininity of Sprite. In between segments of standup are clips that dive into Gulman’s early life,

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de-stigmatize the negative views on mental health and getting help. “But then, by redeeming this catastrophe or setback in my life through comedy, that was very therapeutic. And then getting feedback at the end of shows when I did meet and greets, that was therapeutic, too. From people saying they felt better or thanking me or tell-

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featuring his childhood home in Peabody, Mass., his mom, his wife Sade (“not the Sade, but my Sade,” Gulman jokes in the special), and his psychiatrist. The Great Depresh was something Gulman had been wanting to do since his recovery. After his hospitalization and “coming out of the other side,” Gulman wrote a few jokes about being depressed that he worked on in the summer of 2017, and started doing stand-up again in fall of the same year. When his manager, Brian Stern, heard an audio version of one of these shows, he asked Gulman, “Have you thought about doing a special where you talk about your depression and recovery?” While Gulman liked the idea, he was still unsure, as his recovery was still in its early days. “I thought it sounded like a good idea, but at the same time, I was careful not to derail my recovery by putting too much pressure on myself to immediately create something really different from what I’ve been used to doing and to also put myself in a position where I could get rejected and maybe lose some of my momentum,” Gulman says about the initial pitch. “The good thing about just getting on stage at that time was that it was going well and I felt good about it and the stakes were very low. They were just the audiences from night to night.” Eventually, Gulman was ready to do the special. “The entire product was therapeutic,” he says about the special. “Even if I didn’t talk about depression, it would’ve been therapeutic just to get on stage and be around people and get laughs from them.” He wants others to know they’re not alone, and to help

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continued from page 18 than a couple of church plays as a kid. This will be his adult stage debut, at the age of 57, and we’re happy to have him.” Barnette says he enjoyed the play’s pokes at the supposedly intelligent wealthy elite, largely personified in the script by art dealer Flan Kittredge (played in this production by Paul O’Brien) and his wife Louisa (nicknamed “Ouisa” and played by Carolyn K. Graupner). “It was interesting to see a play that really takes a jab at the uber rich, white Upper East Side liberal set,” he says. “You have these well-meaning, art-collecting socialites who consider themselves so ‘woke,’ who just open their home and hearts to a total stranger simply because he claims to go to school with their kids and has a very famous

movie star father. All they see is a black guy who came in, acted white, made them feel safe and comfortable. They aren’t necessarily aware of anything outside of their little rich people bubble.” The success or failure of a production of Six Degrees of Separation depends almost entirely on who plays Paul, a character who must be cunning yet vulnerable, self-assured yet desperate, and above all else, convincing, both to the other characters and to the audience. And Barnette says that in Deshawn Mason, he found exactly the right person to play the role. “First and foremost, you need someone who is dynamic and really understands the art of illusion and how to influence and charm and command a room with just their style of talking,” Barnette says. “Deshawn was a perfect choice, because he’s also a stand-up comedian, and he has a real sense of how to get a room on his side and join

him on a journey. Paul is a con-artist, but at the heart of him is someone who really wants to be loved. So you need an actor who can show that vulnerability hidden under layers of artifice and showmanship.” In Barnette’s hands, the Footlight Players’ version of the play is minimally staged, putting the emphasis on Six Degrees of Separation’s dialogue and, perhaps more importantly, the way it’s spoken. “This is a fast-paced show,” he says. “It runs 1 hour, 25 minutes with no intermission, and the characters frequently jump between their dialogue to each other by interrupting with asides to the audience and then right back into the scene. They overlap and talk over each other often in rapid fire pace, and the story jumps between real life and flashback storytelling. In order to make all of that work, you need a cast who are all on the same wavelength and rhythm and cadence.”

Laughing continued from page 20 can practice alone.” And now that he’s in “remish,” as he calls it in the special, he continues to educate people through jokes, but also in a more practical way by tweeting daily advice to aspiring comedians. “I always have a desire in my act to address things from a different angle, perspective, or opinion than other comedians, so that when most comedians deal with certain issues, they come from the same angle with the same opinion with the same take, and with having an opinion that differs from most people,” says Gulman. “If my true opinion differs from the status quo, I see it as a great opportunity to stand out in comedy.”

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The U.S. wine community breathed a collective sigh of relief on Valentine’s Day when United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer announced that tariffs would remain at 25 percent instead of increasing to 100 percent as was initially proposed by the Trump administration. But to say we’re safe might be too ambitious. The status quo isn’t necessarily a win when any tariff on wine is fundamentally ineffective, even harmful, to those in the industry. There’s also the very real possibility that we could be facing the same threat again later this year. To recap the tariff turmoil: In October 2019, the Trump administration placed a 25percent tariff on a number of European prod-

ucts like cheese, olives, whiskey, and wine. By December, the administration threatened to ramp up the tariffs to 100 percent, sending a ripple of panic through all levels of the wine and spirits supply chain. Remember, this debacle is a result of the 15-year dispute between the European Union and the U.S. over their respective airplane manufacturers receiving unfair subsidies. European wines, and consequently those whose livelihood relies on them, are caught in the crossfire. The effects of a 25-percent tariff were enough to sound alarms for the U.S. wine community, but the potential for a spike led to outcry across the country. This January,

Falling on the first Saturday since 1992, this year’s Leap Day, Sat. Feb. 29, also marks the official launch of the Charleston Brewery District trolley. Every Sat. from 1-9 p.m., a free (not a dollar, not a dime) trolley will shuttle sud sippers from Tradesman to Munkle, stopping at seven other breweries on the way. Baker & Brewer co-owner and Brewery District member Abe Versprille says that in addition to the nine district breweries teaming up for quarterly beer releases, they’re also banding together to get beer lovers to and from their favorite spots via free, public transport. The breweries have enlisted Lowcountry Trolley to shuttle folks in style. “We’re looking at ways to really evolve the brewery district,” says Versprille. “A lot of beer towns have these beer-centric tours, and Charleston has them too, but this is completely sponsored by Charleston Brewery District and free to our customers.” As CP writer Jessie Hazard noted in her 2018 piece about the Brewery District, “Unlike the fierce competition that can be found among the restaurants or hotels that dot the peninsula, breweries enjoy a camaraderie uncommon in most lines of hospitality.” Beermakers help beermakers, and want to extend that invitation to beer drinkers, too. Starting Sat. Feb. 29 at 1 p.m., the free trolley will be parked at Tradesman at the top of the hour. The order of the loop is:

Charleston food and beverage professionals joined together to host “Wine Tariff Reckoning” specials to educate the community on how much their favorite pour could cost if the tariffs became a reality. They also gave discounts to those who commented in protest to the tariffs at regulations.gov. Meanwhile, Harry Root, founder of the aptly named Grassroots Wine, took what was essentially a leave of absence from his business for two months to fight in D.C. In the process, he (somewhat accidentally) founded a full-fledged organization by continued on page 25

Versprille says they’ve also worked out a deal with Lyft to get discounted rides for trolley travelers. Spend as much time as you like at each brewery, then catch a ride to the next when you’re ready. You can also walk or bike to the breweries in between trolley hops — they’re all within three miles of each other. —Mary Scott Hardaway

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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 six-acre farm located 30 minutes from Charlotte. —Mary Scott Hardaway (Dish, Summer 2019) Lunch, Dinner, & Sun. Brunch. Dinner. 32 N. Market St. Charleston. (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, NonSmoking, Burger Week. 131 Columbus St. Charleston. (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. Charleston. 843-225-7470 114 Holiday Drive. summerville 7800 Rivers Ave. North Charleston. 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. Mt. Pleasant. (843) 606-2590.

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. Mount Pleasant. (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. Charleston. (843) 766-0223.

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. Charleston. (843) 974-5483.

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. Charleston. (843) 405-5115.

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. Mt. Pleasant. (843) 388-3625.

Florie’s at Commonhouse Aleworks Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner. 4831 O’Hear Ave. North Charleston.

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. Mt. Pleasant. (843) 388-6968.

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. Charleston. (843) 805-5020 1175 Folly Road. Charleston. (843) 225-6996 349 W Coleman Blvd. Mt Pleasant. (843) 881-8734 800 N. Main St. Summerville. (843) 875-6998 1179 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. Charleston. (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.

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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. Summerville. (843) 873-0776.

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. Charleston. (843) 720-1440.

Hen and The Goat This fast/casual spot offers sandwiches, breakfast, and snacks in a family friendly atmosphere. Lunch (daily). Lunch. 869 Folly Rd. James Island.

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Krazy Owls Steampunk sports bar and restaurant. L, D, daily. 3157 Maybank Hwy. Charleston. (843) 640-3844.

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. Charleston. (843) 277-2353.

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. Charleston. (843) 793-4440.

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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. Charleston. (843) 534-0043 2026 Savannah Hwy. Charleston. (843) 556-0006 717 Old Trolley Rd. Unit 10. Summerville. 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. Charleston. (843)793-1837.

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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 breadand-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. Johns Island.

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Ma’am Saab + Mansueta’s Sat. Feb. 29 5-9 p.m. A la carte Second State Coffee 766 S Shelmore Blvd. Ste. 202 Mt. Pleasant

FOODIE EVENT Philippines meets Pakistan We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again — pop-up collabs make the world go round. This Leap Day, celebrate the delicious dishes of two local pop-ups at Second State Coffee: Ma’am Saab and Mansueta’s. Maryam Ghaznavi brings Pakistani dishes to the table like chicken biryani and kathi paratha, while Nikko Cagalanan brings his authentic Filipino eats like pork adobo and lumpia. Everything is served a la carte. —Mary Scott Hardaway SATURDAY

of Charleston winner, Parking. 1313 Shrimp Boat Lane. Mt Pleasant. (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. Charleston. (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, and a huge burger. Lunch, Dinner (Daily) & Sun. Brunch. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner. 79 Wentworth St. Charleston. (843) 518-5115.

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Slow Fish Pop-Up Fri. Feb. 28 5-10 p.m. A la carte Babas on Cannon 11 Cannon St. Downtown

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Celebrate sustainable seafood advocates Abundant Seafood at Babas on Cannon this Fri. Raise a glass to Mark and Kerry Marhefka as they prepare to travel to New Hampshire for Slow Food USA’s #SlowFish2020 conference. Babas will offer a special menu highlighting sustainable food and drink, and a portion of the evenings proceeds will benefit Slow Food’s Slow Fish efforts. No tickets required. —Mary Scott Hardaway FRIDAY

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Freehouse Brewery Tastings — Try three of the all-organic brews for $5. During the tasting hours, you can also fill growlers and grab some bottles to go. Food trucks will be on-site. Each Tues.Fri. 3-8 p.m. and Sat. 1-8 p.m. Freehouse Brewery, 2895 Pringle St, Ste B. freehousebeer.com Frothy Beard Tastings — Stop by for tastings and the occasional food truck. Each Sat. Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Wed.-Fri. 4-9 p.m. Frothy Beard Brewing, 1401 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. (843) 7932970. frothybeard.com Growler Hour — $1 off drafts. Visit website to view what will be on tap. Dinner menu available. Get a free growler bottle with a fill ($6 value). Mention the word of the day on Twitter and get a free appetizer. Each Wed. 5-9 p.m. Laura Alberts Tasteful Options, 891 Island Park Drive #B. (843) 881-4711. lauraalberts.com Westbrook Brewing Tasting Room and Tours — The local microbrewery offers an array of standard and seasonal ales in the tasting room. $4 for four 4-ounce samples. Served with samples of the Great Harvest/ Westbrook IPA Beer Bread. There is a four-sample limit. Cash only. Each Tues.-Fri. 4-7 p.m. and Sat.

12-6 p.m. Westbrook Brewing Co., 510 Ridge Road. (843) 6549114. westbrookbrewing.com Tastings at COAST — Pay $4 for four samples. Four sample limit. Cash only. Each Thurs. 4-7 p.m. and Sat. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. COAST Brewing Company, 1250 Second St. N. (843) 343-4727. coastbrewing.com 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. 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

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

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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. Charleston. (843) 556-7525. 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. Charleston. (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. Charleston. (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 Reservations, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, NonSmoking. 149 Wentworth St. Charleston. (843) 8537828. 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. Charleston. (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. Charleston. (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. Charleston. (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.

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. Charleston. (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. Charleston. (843) 388-9200. 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. Charleston. (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. Charleston. 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. Mt. Pleasant. (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. Charleston. (843) 7932964. 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. Charleston. (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. Charleston. (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. Charleston. (843) 577-0100.

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. Mt. Pleasant. (843) 606-2493 115 E 5th North St. Summerville.

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. Mt. Pleasant. (843) 352-9510.

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. Charleston. (843) 302-8825.

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

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shortcake roulade. Serving Dinner (Wed.-Sun.). 5-10 p.m. Online Reservations. 103 Spring St. Charleston. 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. Charleston. (843) 817-7900.

n FUSION + ECLECTIC Crave Kitchen & Cocktails Casual fine dining. “Crave combines both food and cocktails in its formula and reminds us that a good stiff martini has remarkable powers for stimulating the appetite.” —CP’s Robert Moss. Lunch, Dinner, & Weekend Brunch. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, 3, Dinner, Late Night. 1968 Riviera Drive. Charleston. (843) 884-1177.

Cru Cafe Dine inside or sit out on the porch at this little gourmet comfort food restaurant. Lunch & Dinner, (Tues.-Sat.). Outdoor Dining, Online Reservations, Lunch, Dinner. 18 Pinckney St. Charleston. (843) 534-2434. Jack of Cups Saloon Jack of Cups’s painstakingly crafted menu is made-from-scratch daily then prepared to order during service, and each entry is truly interesting, from the rustic root soup to this little gem of a pasta dish called the Green Curry Mac, featuring al dente pasta shells in a spicy green curry cheese sauce, topped with corn salsa and romano. —Jessie Hazard Lunch (Wed.-Sun) Dinner (daily). Lunch, Dinner. 34 Center St. Folly Beach. (843) 633-0042. The Mustard Seed Innovative, healthy cuisine. Seafood, pasta, chicken, and vegetarian specials. Voted Best

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on wine and similarly distributed products isn’t effective. “It goes against the tenants of continued from page 22 the USTR. We know that wine is a relatively ineffective product as a tariff because we’re virtue ofw a Facebook group called the U.S. replaceable as a trade partner,” says Root. “Even Wine Trade Alliance. now with 25-percent tariffs, China’s purchase The group, which now has nearly 6,000 of French wines is going up almost exactly members, helped rally others to take action. proportionately as our purchases go down.” “We had a good group of people that live in Not only can European producers shift D.C. that were working the Hill on a regular focus elsewhere, but the tariffs also disprobasis,” says Root. “We certainly had support portionately hurt more U.S. businesses than from all over the country with people helping European. All alcohol is, by law, distributed set up meetings with congressmen, helping to via a three-tier system in the U.S. consisting write letters to the USTR, and it really became of importers, distributors, and retailers. By a pretty efficient and effective organization.” this very definition, the tariffs hurt three Root personally met with dozens of lawAmerican businesses for every one European makers, lobbyists, political influencers, and business that feels the impact. decision makers to advocate for wine jobs. On a positive note, it’s worth noting that His bottom line is simple — these tariffs during such a politically divided time, rephurt American businesses worse than they resentatives from both sides of the aisle have hurt Europeans. shown up to voice support “One thing that I think for this grassroots cause. “Even now with is certainly not unique to Root says the united front 25-percent tariffs, South Carolina is that we they were able to present looked at this as a restaurant China’s purchase of was “really impactful and tax in a lot of ways, and that something that I didn’t French wines is going quite expect. We got help was a really effective argument that we made with all up almost exactly from Joe Cunningham and the congressional delegaTimmons, but also proportionately as our William tions and with the USTR,” Tim Scott’s and Lindsey purchases go down.” Graham’s office were both says Root. Though the tariffs could vital to getting our mes—Harry Root have applied to the entire sage to the USTR and the EU, they now remain in administration that these place at 25 percent for only the four countries tariffs hurt American business worse than directly accused of providing questionable they hurt Europeans.” subsidies to Airbus: France, Germany, Spain, “Tourism and the hospitality industry are and the U.K. Yes, vino Italiano and other Old vital economic drivers in the Lowcountry and World offerings are in the clear. throughout our state,” said Cunningham in “Good enough” may not be good a statement to the City Paper. “I am incredenough, however, when we could be facing ibly relieved that Lowcountry restaurants, the same tariff battle in 180 days ... or as importers, and other small business owners soon as tomorrow. have been spared the 100-percent tariff on It’s called “carousel” retaliation meanEU wines and spirits. While tariffs can someing that the administration can regularly times be useful towards leveling the playing revisit the list of tariffed goods and make field for American businesses competing revisions in order to cause the greatest abroad, we must ensure they do not come at impact and uncertainty for the targeted the cost of American jobs here at home.” group. “They absolutely will revisit this in Next steps for Root and his fellow 180 days. That’s part of the mechanisms advocates? Keep growing their foundation, of this kind of trade dispute, so they have to start. Root says they’ll be working on to,” says Root. “But they also reworded this formalizing the U.S. Wine Trade Alliance decision so that they could change this at and getting ready for the next 180 days. any time if the EU imposes any retaliatory Through increased awareness of the ineffectariffs on the United States.” tive and harmful impact of the tariffs, Root Taking a hard look at the practicality of the hopes wine can be removed from the tariff plan, it’s easy to discern that slapping tariffs package altogether.

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For the People, By the People Lowcountry Street Grocery is the place where community and food coexist I’ve always had an affinity for local markets. There’s something so special about farmers markets, urban bodegas, country farm stands, tiendas, and the ubiquitous independent markets that used to dot the U.S. They ooze hope, community, and authenticity: handwritten signs, snoozing store cats, heavily trodden linoleum floors. At local markets, the seasonal produce is restocked multiple times a day; eggs aren’t packaged in dyed styrofoam; and you won’t be deceived by corporate terms like “cage-free,” “farm-fresh,” “free range,” “naturally smoked,” “vegetarian-fed,” “naturally sweetened,” and dare I say, “organic.” All of these terms are weaponized to make you feel that you’re choosing happy and healthy. Remember when plastic margarine was better than butter? Whoops. Organic? Yeah. Be careful with that one too. Here’s a simple rule of thumb. Local first. Certification second. Let’s take Lowcountry Street Grocery (LSG) for example. In a few words, LSG is a sliding-scale mobile farmers market hellbent on improving our local food system and actively focusing on food equity and nutrition education. Happy and healthy starts within the community. Supporting your local food economy first and foremost reduces your family’s exposure to harmful chemicals, dependence on natural resources, and shifts money directly to your neighbors rather than a few billionaires 900 miles away. Why is local produce better for you than the “organic” stuff from south of the border? It’s all about food miles and nutrient-density. As a country, we import more than half of our fresh fruit and one third of our fresh vegetables, and with that increase in availability, folks now eat far less of what is available in season in our own backyard. Produce grown in the southern hemisphere shipped here to satisfy our year-round demand spends up to sev-

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James Island and Best Restaurant for Vegetarians by CP readers. Lunch & Dinner. Lunch, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, Non-Smoking. 1036 Chuck Dawley Blvd. Mt. Pleasant. (843) 849-0050.

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eral weeks in transit, up to five days on store shelves, and because they’re assumed. Instead, we point out then sits in consumers’ fridges for up to a week before commodity/conventional items. We sell mulberries, consumption. That means that those mid-winter berries loquats, and citrus foraged by neighborhood kids and from Honduras have most likely lost at least 50 percent pay them cash in return. We answer daily texts about of their vitamin C by the time they’re eaten. storing honey, refrigerating beets, cooking chard and Think about this: 70 percent of your money spent turnip greens, and what the H is a sunchoke? at a local business stays within the community while We barter with local businesses and offer up 60 percent of your money spent at non-local busidiscounted “ugly” produce and compost to chefs, nesses heads out. True cost accounting proves that kitchens, and friends. We carry groceries across busy there is no such thing as free or “cheap” food. Unlike intersections and into the homes and kitchens of food sourced directly from local farmers and producelders. How do we do that? Simple. We’re a nimble, ers, the true cost of cheap food is hidden. It’s not disindependent market for the people, by the people. played at the register or on your receipt. You’ll likely Rather than prioritizing marketing analyses, overly pay for it later on in life while low-wage workers and ambitious top-down bylaws, or corporate projections Mama Earth pay for it now. we prioritize our community Along with Freeman Farms, Think about this: 70 percent first. That’s “how things used LSG is the only regional to be” and we’re hopeful to of your money spent at a local organization that goes beyond make it that way again. Except business stays within the accepting SNAP/EBT purthis time, for everyone. chases by incentivizing them I love Charleston. But I community while 60 percent of through a program called think it’s high time we lay your money spent at non-local Healthy Bucks. In order to the accolades to rest for a businesses heads out. grow and expand our modes bit and focus inward on our of delivery we’ve diversified community. Ugh, that term, and started a local delivery service called Community community. Unfortunately, it’s become an insubstanSupported Grocery. We’ve also created a free fruit tial buzzword but what is it, truly? To us, it means, and vegetable prescription program called GroceryRx we have your back and you have ours. Community that partners with community centers and physicians and food don’t intersect as much as they run parallel, at local clinics to proactively address diet-related illcoexisting with one another. We don’t live or eat in a ness via nutrition education and onsite markets. vacuum. We eat with friends and family, we eat with In the almost three years we’ve been in business, strangers, we eat with our emotions, and we eat with we’ve helped 25 local farmers and producers start our pride. We spend days and nights cooking one meal, wholesale accounts. We’ve helped launch 12 first-time we frame recipes that our ancestors made, we comfort business accounts. We’ve sold over $200,000 of fruits those we love with food. It’s heritage, it’s culture, it’s and vegetables in USDA-defined “food deserts” withexpression of adoration. It’s everything. out assistance from grants, donations, or fundraisers. We work from the ground up and most importantly Lindsey Barrow is the founder and director of we listen. We don’t advertise “local” and/or “organic” Lowcountry Street Grocery.

Hawaiian/Southern plates inspired menu by chef Jason DuPree. Lunch, dinner (daily) 11 a.m.-until. Sat. & Sun. Brunch 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Outdoor Dining, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, 3, Dinner. 106 E Ashley Ave. Charleston.

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), Weekend Brunch. Sunday Brunch, 3, Dinner. 320 Wingo Way. Mt. Pleasant. (843) 698-4748. Tomato Shed Cafe Classic country cooking inside a the Ambrose family’s Stono Market. Meat, sides, and sweet tea. Try the tomato pie. Lunch (Mon.-Sat.). Lunch. 842 Main Road. Charleston. (843) 559-9999.

(daily). Dinner, Non-Smoking. 12 Anson St. Charleston. (843) 577-0551. The Glass Onion Midscale Southern comfort food prepared with local ingredients. On the regularly changing menu, you’ll find favorites like deviled eggs, fried chicken, and gumbo. Lunch, Dinner (Mon.-Sat.), &. Sat. Brunch. Closed Sun. Lunch, 3, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, Top 50. 1219 Savannah Hwy. Charleston. (843) 225-1717. High Cotton This Hall Group restaurant offers a delicious sampling of steaks and seafood with a variety of perfect accompaniments and sauces like bearnaise, cabernet, and more. A la carte menu. Dinner (Daily), Weekend Brunch. Online Reservations, Sunday Brunch, 3, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner. 199 East Bay St. Charleston. (843) 724-3815.

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Husk Executive Chef Travis Grimes puts the focus on the artisans and ingredients of the modern south. Menu changes daily with a commitment to procuring only from within the south. Lunch (Mon.-Sat.), Dinner, & Sun. Brunch. Online Reservations, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Best of Charleston winner, Top 50. 76 Queen St. Charleston. (843) 577-2500.

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Lunch (Mon.-Sat.), Dinner (daily), & Sun. Brunch. Online Reservations, Sunday Brunch, Lunch, Dinner. 185 East Bay St. Charleston. (843) 577-7771. Middleton Place Restaurant Seasonal and local fare in a historical plantation setting. Find classic dishes like okra soup, shrimp and grits, and Huguenot torte. Lunch & Dinner. Lunch, Dinner. 4300 Ashley River Road. Charleston. (843) 556-6020. Parcel 32 Set in a renovated 19th century home, Parcel 32 serves wood-fired cuisine inspired by Lowcountry land and sea. They have happy hour Mon.-Fri. from 5 to 7 p.m., daily specials, and Sun. brunch. Head there every Wed. for Bubbles + Pearls starting at 5 p.m. featuring $1.50 oysters shucked to order, and half-price select bottles of bubbly. Dinner (Tues.-Sun.) & Sun. Brunch. 442 King St. Charleston. (843) 722-3474.

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Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper, PLAINTIFF, VS. Gwendolyn Wilcher a/k/a Sakinah “Gwen” Abdul-Azim, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Bernice P. Wilcher a/k/a Bernice Pompey Wilcher, Deceased; Cynthia M. Wilcher a/k/a Cynthia Maria Wilcher, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Bernice P. Wilcher a/k/a Bernice Pompey Wilcher, Deceased; Deveatrice R. Abrilz a/k/a DeVeatrice Wilcher-Abrilz, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Bernice P. Wilcher a/k/a Bernice Pompey Wilcher, Deceased; and Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Bernice P. Wilcher a/k/a Bernice Pompey Wilcher, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Jane Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Rachel Roe; Gwendolyn Wilcher a/k/a Sakinah “Gwen” Abdul-Azim, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Arthur L. Wilcher a/k/a Arthur Lee Wilcher, Deceased; Cynthia M. Wilcher a/k/a Cynthia Maria Wilcher, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Arthur L. Wilcher a/k/a Arthur Lee Wilcher, Deceased; Deveatrice R. Abrilz a/k/a DeVeatrice WilcherAbrilz, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Arthur L. Wilcher a/k/a Arthur Lee Wilcher, Deceased; and Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Arthur L. Wilcher a/k/a Arthur Lee Wilcher, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Patricia Daniels Fields, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, Deceased; Tracy Boyd, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, Deceased; Stacey Rivers a/k/a Stacey Caldwell Jackson a/k/a Stacey Caldwell Brown, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, Deceased; Davonn Fields, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, Deceased; Lakisha Fields Shipman, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, Deceased; Shekima Fields, individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, Deceased; and Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Jimmy Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class

designated as Ronnie Roe, DEFENDANT(S). SUMMONS AND NOTICES (191070.00349) TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, Post Office Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-2065, within thirty (30) days after the 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. 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 Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 (e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedures, specifically provide that the said Master-In-Equity or Special Master is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED 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, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Anne Bell Fant, made absolute. NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on August 28, 2019. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the order appointing Anne Bell Fant, whose address is PO Box 796, Simpsonville, SC 29681, as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Rachel Roe; Richard Roe; and Ronnie Roe, defendants herein whose names and addresses are unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, incapacitated, or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina; for all named Defendants, addresses unknown, who may be infants, incapacitated, or under a legal disability; for any unknown heirs-at-law of Bernice P. Wilcher a/k/a Bernice Pompey Wilcher; Arthur L. Wilcher a/k/a Arthur Lee Wilcher; and Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields, including their heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; and for all other unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in and to the real estate that is the subject of this foreclosure action, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 17th day of September, 2019. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said Defendants, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30)

days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian Ad Litem to represent them or any of them for the purposes of this action, the Plaintiff will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian Ad Litem Nisi absolute. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendant(s) above named for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by Arthur L. Wilcher and Bernice P. Wilcher to HomeStar Lending, dated December 13, 2001, recorded December 17, 2001, in the office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County, in Book E391 at Page 657; thereafter, said Mortgage was assigned to Ohio Savings Bank by assignment instrument dated December 18, 2001 and recorded December 17, 2001 in Book E391 at Page 672; thereafter, assigned to CitiMortgage, Inc. by assignment instrument dated June 3, 2003 and recorded July 14, 2003 in Book O457 at Page 134; thereafter, assigned to Nationstar Mortgage LLC by assignment instrument dated August 9, 2016 and recorded August 15, 2016 in Book 575 at Page 765. The description of the premises is as follows: All that certain piece, parcel, lot or tract of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being known and designated as Lot 19, Block I, Section 2, Wando Gardens, as shown on a plat by W.L. Gaillard, dated September 20, 1965, duly recorded in the Charleston County RMC Office in Plat Book U at Page 44. Said parcel having such size, shape, metes, bounds, location and dimensions as shown on the aforesaid plat to which reference is made. Subject to any and all restrictions, covenants, and easements of record. This being the same property conveyed to Arthur L. Wilcher and Bernice P. Wilcher by Deed of Mitchell G. Boylan dated January 5, 1994 and recorded January 12, 1994 in Book N237 at Page 551 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County. Thereafter, Bernice P. Wilcher a/k/a Bernice Pompey Wilcher died on June 12, 2009 leaving her interest in the subject property to her heirs, namely Arthur L. Wilcher, Gwendolyn Wilcher a/k/a Sakinah “Gwen” Abdul-Azim, Cynthia M. Wilcher, and DeVeatrice Wilcher-Abrilz a/k/a Deveatrice R. Abrilz. Subsequently, Arthur L. Wilcher a/k/a Arthur Lee Wilcher died on or about March 5, 2014, leaving the subject property to his heirs, namely Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields a/k/a Jerry K. Fields, Gwendolyn Wilcher a/k/a Sakinah “Gwen” Abdul-Azim, Cynthia M. Wilcher, and Deveatrice R. Abrilz a/k/a DeVeatrice Wilcher-Abrilz. Thereafter, Jerry K. Fields a/k/a Kenneth Jerry Fields a/k/a Jerry Kenneth Fields died on August 8, 2018 leaving his interest in the subject property to his heirs, namely Patricia Daniels Fields, Tracy Boyd, Stacey Rivers, Davonn Fields, Lakisha Fields Shipman and Shekima Fields. TMS No. 410-10-00-053 Property address: 4001 Karen Drive North Charleston, SC 29405 SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A. By: Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996 Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar

#69453 Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334 Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530 Matthew E. Rupert (matthewr@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #100740 Louise M. Johnson (ceasiej@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #16586 Tasha B. Thompson (tashat@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #76415 H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@ scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134 Craig T. Smith (craigs@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #102831 ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340 NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2019-CP-10-4857 By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Pointe James Property Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, against Robert Santos, Jr. and Robert Santos, Sr., Defendants; I, the undersigned Master-inEquity for Charleston County, will sell on March 3, 2020 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL that Unit known and designated as Unit lA in Pointe James Horizontal Property Regime located at 1402 Camp Road in the City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, as is more fully described in the Master Deed for Pointe James Horizontal Property Regime dated August 24, 2005, and recorded August 24, 2005, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book P550 at Page 261; together with the undivided interest in the common elements declared by said Master Deed to be an appurtenance to the said Unit. BEING a portion of the property conveyed to Robert Santos, Jr. and Robert Santos, Sr. by deed of Pointe James Lodgings, LLC, dated September 21, 2005, and recorded in Book A555, Page 661, in the RMC Office for Charleston County. TMS #: 425-00-00-100 Property Address: 1402 Camp Road, Unit l-A, Charleston, SC 29412 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum]. The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. has or may have an interest in the Property as the holder of the mortgage, note and/or loan modification thereof in the original amount of $100,000.00, dated September 21, 2005, and recorded September 22, 2005, in Book B555 at Page 779 in the Charleston County Register

of Deeds Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser. All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title. See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008) Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of the sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412 NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2019-CP-10-4409 By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of St. Johns Crossing Homeowners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, against Richard S. Colton, Jr., Defendant; I, the undersigned Master-inEquity for Charleston County, will sell on March 3, 2020 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate lying and being in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 34, St. Johns Crossing Subdivision as shown on a plat entitled, “FINAL PLAT SHOWING THE SUBDIVISION OF TMS NO. 312-00-00-079 (3.881 AC.) INTO ST. JOHN’S CROSSING PHASE IV CONTAINING LOTS 3446 & 71-76 (1.754 AC.), RIGHT OF WAYS (1.044 AC), AND H.O.A. AREAS (1.083 AC.)”, Property of Baycorp Inc., Located in the City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina,” dated June 16, 2012, prepared by HLA, INC. and recorded August 23, 2012 in Plat Book L12 page 0240. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings, and boundaries as will by reference to said plat more fully appear. SUBJECT to all restrictions, easements and rights-of-way of record. BEING the same property conveyed to Richard S. Colton, Jr. by deed of St. Johns Capital, LLC, dated June 14, 2013 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County June 21, 2013 in Book 0340, Page 117. TMS No: 312-00-00-721 Property Address: 1743 Bee Balm Road Johns Island, SC 29455 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent

to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum]. The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc., solely as nominee for W.R. Starkey Mortgage, LLP, in the original amount of $178,159.00, dated June 14, 2013, and recorded June 21, 2013, in Book 0340 at Page 120 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds; and that certain mortgage lien held by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the original amount of $45,660.60, dated April 25, 2018, and recorded June 25, 2018, in Book 0728 at Page 472 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds. Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of the sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412 NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2019-CP-10-2799 By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of The Lakes Master Association, Inc., Plaintiff v. Andre R. Pryor, Defendant. I, the undersigned Master-inEquity for Charleston County, will sell on March 3, 2020 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Summerville, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as LOT 566, PHASE 3C-II, LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, as shown on that certain plat of Seamon Whiteside & Associates Surveying, LLC entitled, “A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF LOTS 552 THRU 571, A 0.140 ACREA H.O.A. COMMON AREA, A 0.173 ACREA H.O.A. AREA 1 AND A 4.309 ACRE RESIDUAL TRACT, PHASE 3C-II, LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, BEING A PORTION OF TMS #388-00-00-048, OWNED BY CHEROKEE VALLEY HOMES, LLC AND LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, LLC, LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF SUMMERVILLE, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” dated July 23, 2014 and recorded September 17, 2014 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book L-14 at Page 0375. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear. SUBJECT to any and all applicable easements, restrictions, conditions, right-of-ways and setbacks of record and as may be shown on the above-referenced plat. BEING the same property conveyed to Andre R. Pryor by deed of LOS Homes, LLC dated June 4, 2015, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0482, at Page 453 on June 11, 2015. SUBJECT, to any and all applicable easements, restrictions and reservations of record as set forth in Exhibit A of said deed recorded

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on June 11, 2015 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0482, at Page 453. TMS No.: 388-13-00-968 Property Address: 275 Coosawatchie Street Summerville, SC 29485 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of five (5%) per cent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (3) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum]. The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by Citibank, N.A., in the original amount of $168,730.00, dated June 8, 2015, and recorded June 11, 2015, in Book 0482 at Page 454; that mortgage lien held by Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America in the original amount of $________, dated June 8, 2015, and recorded June 11, 2015, in Book 0482 at Page 456; and that tax lien held by South Carolina Department of Revenue in its favor and against “Andre Pryor”, bearing Tax Lien Number 3-51962399-9, in the original amount of $2,773.63, and filed August 1, 2017, with the Charleston County Register of Deeds with the Charleston County Register of Deeds. Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed. Any sale pursuant to this order, is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor the Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser. All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title. See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008) No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of the sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412

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NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2019-CP-10-1110

By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Ashley Park Homeowners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Diane M. Domis, Defendant. I, the undersigned Master-inEquity for Charleston County, will sell on March 3, 2020 at 11:00 o=clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, being shown and

designated as Lot 331 on that certain plat entitled “A PROPERTY LINE ADJUSTMENT PLAT OF LOTS 329 THRU 333 PERRINE STREET, ASHLEY PARK, PHASE 2 OWNED BY ASHLEY PARK DEVELOPMENT, LLC LOCATED IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” dated November 23, 2006 by Southeastern Surveying of Charleston, Inc. recorded in Plat Book DF at page 338. Said lot having such size, dimensions and butting and bounding as reference to said plat will show. SUBJECT to all covenants, restrictions, easements and conditions of record. BEING the same property conveyed to Diane M. Domis by deed of Hilton C. Smith, Jr., Inc. of South Carolina, a South Carolina corporation, dated November 9, 2015 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County on November 25, 2015 in Book 0519 at Page 725. TMS No.: 306-00-00-847 Property Address: 4166 Perrine Street, Charleston, SC 29414 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of five (5%) per cent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (3) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum]. The sale shall be subject to that certain senior mortgage lien held by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for South State Bank, has or may have an interest in the Property as the holder of the mortgage, note and/or modification agreement in the original amount of $161,910.00, dated November 23, 2015, and recorded November 25, 2015, in Book 0519 at Page 726 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds. Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser. All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title. See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008) Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of the sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412 NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2019-CP-10-4102 By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Oak Bluff Homeowners Association, Inc, Plaintiff, against

Barbara K. Joyner, Defendant; I, the undersigned Master-inEquity for Charleston County, will sell on March 3, 2020 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of North Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 801, Block 800, Oak Bluff Subdivision, as shown on that certain plat prepared by Frank D. Baker, PLS, of General Engineering Laboratories, Inc., entitled “FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF OAK BLUFF, BLOCKS 800 AND 1000, 7955 CROSSROADS DRIVE, OWNED BY PORTRAIT HOMES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, LLC LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” which plat is dated May 5, 2003 and recorded in Plat Book EG, Pages 390-392, in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. Said lot is conveyed subject to Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Oak Bluff recorded in Book L-399, at Page 285 and rerecorded in Book K-403, at Page 426 in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Being the same property conveyed to Barbara K. Joyner by deed of Portrait Homes-Myrtle Beach, LLC n/k/a Portrait HomesSouth Carolina, LLC dated March 16, 2004 and recorded March 19, 2004 in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book T487, at Page 875. TMS No.: 484-00-00-285 Property Address: 8128 Shadow Oak Drive North Charleston, SC 29406 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. The sale shall be subject to taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum]. The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in the original amount of $124,494.00, dated January 26, 2010 and recorded with the Charleston County Register of Deeds February 10, 2010, in Book 0106 at Page 484. Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of the sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2019-CP-10-06258

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2019-CP-10-03397

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2007-OPT1, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-OPT1, Plaintiff, v. Santel Powell; Deborah Y. PowellAnderson; Maurice G. Powell, as Personal Representative of the Estate of George E. Powell; South Carolina Department Defendant(s).

LNV Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Clyde F. Murray; Antenette R. Murray a/k/a Antoinette Murray f/k/a Antoinette Alston; The United States of America by and through its agency The Department of Justice; The Park Recreational Development, Inc. a/k/a or d/b/a Park Recreational Development, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury)

BRITTANY JESSICA JOHNSON Known Claimant.

FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

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TO THE DEFENDANT(S) 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 offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the 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) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED 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 Attorney for Plaintiff. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto. NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 2, 2019. Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone 844-856-6646 Fax 803-454-3451 Attorneys for Plaintiff

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) 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 offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the 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) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED 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 Attorney for Plaintiff. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto. NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on June 25, 2019. A Notice of Foreclosure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office. Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone 844-856-6646 Fax 803454-3451 Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2019-CP-08-02937 SCARLETT A. WILSON, SOLICITOR, NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (BERKELEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE) Plaintiff, vs. 2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE VIN: 1J8GS48K68C246656 (OCA: 201807054139) Defendant,

TO: BRITTANY JESSICA JOHNSON, PERSON(S) KNOWN TO PLAINTIFF TO HAVE INTERESTS IN THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT PROPERTY, AND ANY UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS SHOULD THEY BECOME KNOWN You are hereby summoned and notified that an action has been filed in the Court as indicated above. If you are a claimant of the above-named Defendant property, you are required to make a written Answer to the Complaint For Forfeiture attached hereto, and to serve a copy of your written Answer upon Plaintiff’s Attorney at the address shown below no later than thirty (30) days from the day you receive this Summons, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to take such action within the time aforesaid, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief requested in the Complaint For Forfeiture. s/ Valerie R. Lowndes Valerie R. Lowndes Lowndes Law Firm, LLC 400 Altman Street, Suite F-2 Moncks Corner, SC 29461 Tel: (843) 619-7444 Fax:(843) 647-6669 ValerieLowndes@gmail.com ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF November 20, 2019 Moncks Corner, South Carolina STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICAL CIRCUIT C.A. No. 2019-CP-10-05149 Jennifer Jernigan, and Jennifer Jernigan Revocable Trust, Plaintiffs, v. Jay Morris Specter d/b/a Coastal Consulting Group, and Elite Air Conditioning Services LLC, Defendants. Summons by Publication To: Jay Morris Specter d/b/a Coastal Consulting Group You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, which was filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, SC at 100 Broad St. in Charleston, SC on October 7, 2019, notice of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer thereto upon the undersigned at his office, 321 East Bay St., Charleston, SC 29401, within thirty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to appear and defend the action as required by law, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. s/ Charles W. Thomson Capell Thomson, LLC 321 East Bay St. Charleston, SC 29401 Attorney for Plaintiffs

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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: ILENE A. DOWNEY 2019-ES-10-2038 DOD: 11/14/19 Pers. Rep: JOHN R. DOWNEY 135 RAW HIDE CT. W. COLUMBIA, SC 29172 *********************** Estate of: GLENN ANTHONY STIEGMAN, JR. 2020-ES-10-0005 DOD: 10/08/19 Pers. Rep: GLENDA ANN HARRISON STIEGMAN 51 GRAND PAVILION DR. ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451 *********************** 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: ALFRED EUGENE SMITH 2020-ES-10-0130 DOD: 11/17/19 Pers. Rep: KATHERINE J. GRAHAM 4701 APPLE ST., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 Atty: GORDON H. GARRETT, ESQ. 1075 E. MONTAGUE AVE. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FILE NO: 2019-DR-08-1793 South Carolina Department of Social Services, Plaintiff, vs. Jordan Robinson, Sr. Laura Nelson Cynthia Ancrum Perry Middleton Defendants. In the Interest of: Minor Born In 2009 Minor Born In 2010 Minor Born In 2012 Minor Born In 2015 Minors Under the Age of 18 Years. TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby Summoned and required to answer the Summons and Complaint for abuse and/or neglect filed September 24, 2019. Upon proof of interest copy of the Summons and Complaints will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Berkeley and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Attorney of the Legal Department of Berkeley County Department of Social Service at 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of the publication. If you fail to answer within the time set for the above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the court.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2020-DR-10-0068 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Aubrey Austin and Jason Rohrssen NOTICE TO AUBREY AUSTIN: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 9, 2020. 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, Regina Parvin, at 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. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-4150 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Dwanisha Robinson, et al. 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 December 10, 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. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2020-DR-10-0434 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Holley Grove and Richard Spencer, et al. 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 February 7, 2020. 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.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FILE NO: 2019-DR-08-1529 South Carolina Department of Social Services, Plaintiff, vs. Ashley Scott Michael DeLong Frankie Caddell Laura Caddell Mariah Chaplin Defendants. In the Interest of: Minor Born In 2018 Minor Under the Age of 18 Years.

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby Summoned and required to answer the Summons and Complaint for abuse and/or neglect filed September 17, 2019. Upon proof of interest copy of the Summons and Complaints will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Berkeley and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Attorney of the Legal Department of Berkeley County Department of Social Service at 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of the publication. If you fail to answer within the time set for the above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the court.

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: You are hereby Summoned and required to answer the Summons and Complaint for abuse and/or neglect filed August 12, 2019. Upon proof of interest copy of the Summons and Complaints will be delivered to you upon request from the Clerk of Court in Berkeley and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Attorney of the Legal Department of Berkeley County Department of Social Service at 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of the publication. If you fail to answer within the time set for the above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the court.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-4331

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2019-DR-10-3299

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Dana Brown, et al. NOTICE

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Montrell Warthen, Sr. and Olivia Nelson

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 27, 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.

NOTICE TO Olivia Nelson: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 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, Regina Parvin, at 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.

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There was a time when country radio was about as likely to play anything by Old Crow Medicine Show as they were to play a cut from the new Slayer album. No mainstream country station that was interested in staying on the air would have thrown this old-time Americana string band onto their airwaves between Kenny Chesney and Blake Shelton. And truth be told, even though they’ve moved from their native Virginia to Nashville, Old Crow Medicine Show still isn’t at the top of any commercial country radio playlists. The band, led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Ketch Secor, is far too ragged and rustic for that, as they have been for their 20-year career. In a sense, they still play the same hybrid of folk, bluegrass, and old-time music that they did as buskers on a street corner, which is what they were doing when they were discovered by the legendary Doc Watson in North Carolina back in 2000. But whether you know it or not, you’ve heard a song by Old Crow Medicine Show on country radio a million times. Sure, it was probably Darius Rucker singing it, but “Wagon Wheel,” the most inescapable coun-

try song on Earth for years before “Old Town Road” came along, was co-written by Secor, inspired by an unreleased Bob Dylan bootleg from the 1970s. The roots of the song actually date back much further; when Dylan sang, “Rock me mama like a wagon wheel,” on the bootleg (Secor built the rest of the song around that brief snippet), he was reaching back to mid-20th century performers like Big Bill Broonzy, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, and Curtis Jones. But 80 years or so down the line, Old Crow and Rucker’s versions went platinum in 2013 and 2014, respectively, and suddenly an old-timey string band was in vogue in Music City, becoming Grammy-Awardwinning members of the Grand Ole Opry, playing multiple shows at the famed Ryman Auditorium — sacred ground for country music. “Now thanks to Darius, mainstream radio had this surprise thrown on them,” Secor says, “and country music had to deal with us. It had to deal with this song that took a century to go number one.” As Old Crow Medicine Show has gone from street-corner busking to selling out theaters, Secor says the band’s role in the bigger music industry picture has changed as well. “I feel like we’re a governing agent in country music that is present to remind everybody about what this music started out being,” he says. “The fact is that we were

never supposed to be a mainstream country band, but we found this bizarre mainstream success with a song that’s essentially the new ‘Wabash Cannonball’ or ‘Rocky Top.’ The best part of that for me is that country radio had to contend with real, genuine country music. There’s nothing like that on the radio today. With our fiddles and banjos, it reminds country music makers that this is how it started.” That statement might sound grandiose, simply because pure-country, acoustic-based songs still aren’t the norm on mainstream country radio. But in terms of career momentum, it’s difficult to deny that Old Crow Medicine Show has essentially been moving upward since 2013 or so. Their most recent studio album, 2018’s Volunteer, crashed the top 15 on Billboard’s Country Album charts at around the same time it hit No. 1 on the Bluegrass charts, and they’ve been able to pack the Ryman Auditorium (along with other theaters around the country) for the last seven years or so. Last year, the band compiled highlights from those Ryman shows into an explosive in-concert album called Live at the Ryman. The album is a blast of a fun-loving, visceral collective energy from the performers and the crowds. “It’s one of these venues that has a lot of ghosts,” Secor says. “It’s haunted in all of the continued on page 35

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Singer-songwriter Julie Slonecki (also of electro-funk group Sexbruise?) addresses how humans are the cause of climate change and environmental damage in her latest EP Consequence of Convenience, released Feb. 18. Feeling compelled to positively impact the movement toward progressive climate action, Slonecki will donate 75 percent of all sales and streaming revenue to the Environmental Defense Fund. She plans to post updates on the amount of money raised after the release of the project. Consequence of Convenience is short, sweet, and powerful. Slonecki masterfully crafts an electronic and synth-filled sound, coupled with her airy vocals and environmentally conscious lyrics. The first two tracks on the EP, “On Fire” and “Consequence of Convenience,” address the part that humans have played in environmental destruction, and our complacency with the results. It’s a stark jab at those who turn a blind eye and a strong reminder for those trying to change their behavior. —Eliana Katz If you or your band is about to enter the studio, hit the road, or has a special gig coming up, contact Heath Ellison at heath@charlestoncitypaper.com.

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The Charleston Music Hall announced earlier this month that long-time partners Frank Productions and Nashville-based National Shows 2 (NS2) will be the new operators of the popular downtown music venue. Charles Carmody, the Music Hall’s executive director who will remain at the venue, said in a press release that his team is “thrilled” to work closely with NS2 and Frank Productions. “The Hall is still dedicated to producing high quality local and regional content, and we are excited about the opportunities this joint venture will create to bring new and exciting national tours to Charleston,” he added. NS2 has exclusively booked artists at the Charleston Music Hall for the last six years. Under the new agreement, NS2 and Frank Productions will attempt to diversify the types of shows by altering the current seating configuration. The sections on the ground closest to the stage will be given removable seating, allowing for an openfloor during general admission shows, and assigned seating at other times. Standing seats were first approved by Charleston zoning officials back in 2018 with hopes that they would be installed by the following fall, which would have been about six months ago. —Heath Ellison

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JAY BLAKESBERG REMEMBERS PHOTOGRAPHING GRATEFUL DEAD SHOWS BEFORE EVERYONE HAD PHONES

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Although he has created imaginative images of many era-defining musical acts over the years, including megastars like U2 and Madonna, rock photographer Jay Blakesberg has become somewhat synonymous with the jam band scene, perhaps best known for his distinctive work with the Grateful Dead. It is his long, strange history with the Dead, in fact, that brings Blakesberg to the Pour House this week for a dynamic slideshow and storytelling event in celebration of his new book, Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams. In preparation for that presentation, we recently caught up with the artist by phone for a quick Q&A.

City Paper: How did you fall into what would become your life’s work? Jay Blakesberg: I went to my very first Dead show in 1977 in Englishtown, New Jersey and by the next year when they played at the Meadowlands, over Labor Day weekend, I had my camera with me. I was still a teenager then, but eventually, as I became an adult and had to get a job and pay rent and put gas in my car, I found that I was able to make use of my camera to bring more money in. So, I just kept

pursuing that kind of work over and over again until I arrived at this point where I’ve been contributing to Rolling Stone as a freelancer now for over 30 years and I’ve been published thousands of times in various magazines and books and documentary films, and I’ve shot over 250 CD packages. I have always felt like what I do constitutes a sort of visual anthropology because I am studying a segment of humankind through my lens. And this rock ‘n’ roll world that I inhabit contains a unique and special tribe of people, that’s for sure. CP: From your vantage point, how has the concert experience changed over these last five decades? JB: People who love live music understand that these experiences continue to sooth our soul and make us who we are, but back in the early days of my journey it was a pure, organic experience that, sadly, will never happen again. When you look at my older photographs of Deadheads dancing, for example, there are no cell phones, and no one has any technology whatsoever. So, you know, while people are still having extraordinary moments with bands and connecting with like-minded people at shows, the difference is that now, everyone is halfway expecting that someone is going to post a clip of them on social media the next day. CP: Would you say that your equipment and techniques have also evolved over time? JB: Yeah, I mean, when we shot film we continued on page 35

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continued from page 33 right ways, and that haunting is sort of the fifth Beatle on this album. You can feel the room and hear the shape of it. It moves; it reverberates, the audience has a hum to it. It feels like a secret weapon to be able to make an album at the Ryman.” Speaking of secret weapons, even after the glow of “Wagon Wheel” has faded away, Old Crow Medicine Show can still fall back on their feverish, intense live shows. They make a hell of a noise for an all-acoustic band, and Secor says that that no-holds-barred style has been in place since their street-corner days. “Our time on the curb was foundational for us as a band as we figured out what our sound was,” he says. “The adventure of being in this band, particularly about 15-20 years ago, was a wild vibe. We walked into places, set our cases up, and we were either showered with coins or asked to leave or taken to holding cells. It could’ve gone any which way. We were kings and paupers and anything in between.”

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CP: Can you tell us about your upcoming presentation at the Pour House? JB: Well, I guess I’m the opening act. Ahead of [local Grateful Dead tribute band] Reckoning’s first set of the evening, I’m going to be doing 70 minutes of storytelling with a slideshow that is primarily about the ways in which I’ve been working with the Grateful Dead and the jam band scene since 1978. It will be a fast-moving and engaging presentation, and besides my talk there will be a small exhibit featuring some of my framed pieces, and I’ll also be signing books and hanging out for the duration of the night.

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CP: What was the impetus behind your latest book, Secret Space of Dreams? JB: I put this book together because I wanted to celebrate Jerry [Garcia] in a meaningful way. The idea came to me around what would have been his 75th birthday, which was a few years back, but I wanted there to be some real thought and depth to it, so I took my time assembling the photographs. Then I asked John Mayer to write the foreword, which could be considered a controversial move in certain circles, but I did so because I happen to think that what John is currently doing with what is left of the band is a wonderful extension of the original spirit of the Grateful Dead.

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could use all sorts of different flavors of film, and you had many different lenses to choose from, and you could process it different ways for different effects. Technology has been the great disruptor of that art. So, I’ve had to learn new ways of reinventing myself in the digital age. I will say that I’ve continuously been a Nikon user throughout all the changes that have come along.

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Charleston indie rock project Beach Tiger has referred to this as a “homecoming” show, after frontman Taylor McCleskey spent two months away from Charleston. The evening at the Royal American will be the first live peek at what McCleskey has been cooking up in his new broad, expansive plan to endlessly produce new music. Beach Tiger will be joined by alternative rock band MYFEVER, who originally hail from Florida, but are now based out of Atlanta. Believe it or not, despite the geographic separation, this will be the second show that MYFEVER and Beach Tiger have played together at the Royal American, having shared a bill at the venue just last summer. New music and continuous touring, at least on MYFEVER’s end, will provide both acts with the right amount of growth to promise something different from last year. Touring with MYFEVER through Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina is Nashville indie rock duo Mountains Like Wax. They recently stopped in the Charleston area with a set at Awendaw Green on Feb. 19, and are back to give fans a look at one of their full-volume club sets. —Alex Peeples FRIDAY

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