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harleston Fashion Week was a beast this year. Kudos to all the people who worked hard to put that together. I had a great time covering it, and really got into it more than I thought I would. It was also a great test for Charleston Scene. I’d like this publication to be on top of things for big events like that. Scene writer Elizabeth Bowers did daily updates on our Web site, and I shot video along with Scene videographer Imee Cuison. All that content can be found on www. charlestonscene.com. Though we still have a way to go in our live event coverage online, I felt like CFW was a good test of what we can do at this time. On another note, I’m SO HAPPY to report that our free boxes are out on the streets! You can find us free in the city in more locations (as well as in The Post and Courier on Thursdays, of course).
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6-9 P.M. // FRIDAY // ALCHEMY COFFEE // FREE Go to Alchemy Coffee to see new paintings and drawings by Tina Christophillis and Mclean Sheperd. The show, titled “The Phoenix,” will be 6-9 p.m. Friday at the coffee shop, 11 Magnolia Road, Avondale Point in West Ashley. There will be light refreshments and live music. Call 637-3555.
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2 P.M. // SATURDAY AND SUNDAY // CHARLES PINCKNEY NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE // FREE The National Park Service invites the public to the finale weekend of the Gullah Heritage Series at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Ann Caldwell and the Magnolia Singers will perform a spirituals concert while William Rouse exhibits his sweetgrass baskets. At 2 p.m. Sunday, two short films will be shown in the visitor center: “The Jenkins Orphanage Band” and “Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket.” Basketmaker Jeanette Lee will exhibit and demonstrate sweetgrass basketmaking. The Pinckney site is at 1254 Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant, across from Boone Hall. For more details, call the park at 881-5516.
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Lowcountry Local First is having its March happy hour 5-8 p.m. at Midtown Bar & Grill, 559 King St. Come mingle with the locals and learn more about doing business locally. Lowcountry Local First will be giving out information about its Sustainable Agriculture Initiative: Farm Fresh Food, which focuses on strengthening local farms and producers by creating partnerships with local restaurants, institutions and the community.
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The 33rd annual Cooper River Bridge Run and Walk starts at 8 a.m. Check out postandcourier.com for live streaming video and, by midafternoon, coverage of the race, including stories, photos and videos.
The Summerville Flowertown Festival is South Carolina’s largest arts & crafts festival and has been named one of the Top 20 Events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society. This family-oriented threeday event features more than 200 craft You read all about the Lowcountry High artisans and vendors, food vendors, live entertainment and more. Best of all? It’s free. Rollers in last week’s Charleston Scene. Now, No pets or alcohol. For more information, call get a chance to meet the girls at the Lowcountry High Rollers’ Elvis Bingo. Just 871-9622.
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getting started with their second season, the Lowcountry High Rollers plan to send some of their girls to Las Vegas this summer for a roller derby conference guaranteed to make them the Southeast’s best blockers and jammers. Come meet the team at The Mill, 1026 E. Montague Avenue, North Charleston. For $10, you get seven games of bingo.
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Aerial Yoga Class Series at Prime Time Fitness in Sullivan’s Island. Aerial Yoga uses a soft fabric “hammock” suspended at waistheight to elevate and invert traditional yoga postures. No experience needed to take class. 4:30-5:30 p.m. To register, visit www. aerialfit.com.
a major force on the musical scene of the Lowcountry since 1973. Admission is $5. Call 842-8620.
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Visit the Charleston Artist Guild Gallery to view works by featured artist of the month, Pam Avery Miller. You may view her artwork during gallery business hours, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday throughout the month of March. The Charleston Artist Guild Gallery is at 160 East Bay St. Call 722-2425
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Lady Gaga and Beyonce will be perfoming at the North Charleston Coliseum. They will be perfoming hits from their solo caTake a trip to Hilton Head Island to catch reers, as well as performing a few songs on the spirit of New Orleans. Hot Jazz With Bob stage together. Tickets can be purchased Masteller’s JC Quintet will begin at 8 p.m. by calling (843) .... Ah, who are we kidding. Happy April Fool’s Day. at the Jazz Corner. Bob Masteller has been
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good food in Charleston to enjoy! FAVORITE EVENT IN CHARLESTON AND WHY: Pecha Kucha Night Charleston: It serves as an exciting and inspiring moment in time that unites people in the creative JOB: Change agent for New Carolina: S.C.’s economy to share their ideas, works and Council on Competitiveness. I work with thoughts, and at the same time, it celthe leaders of companies in various clusters ebrates that the creative industries are an to help them be more innovative, entrepre- important economic development driver neurial and collaborative. Lately, my focus and job creator for our region. is on Charleston’s Creative Parliament, ASTALENTS/HOBBIES: On-again off-again TRA, S.C. BIO and the Distressed Areas Task martial artist, chef wanna-be (I enjoy trying Force. new recipes out on family and friends), fishSONG THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOU: ing and relaxing by the water. “Shout Out Loud,” Amos Lee CD IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW: AliON A SATURDAY NIGHT, YOU ARE USUcia Keys, “Songs in A Minor.” ALLY: Eating and being merry with my hus- BEST THING ABOUT CHARLESTON: band, Rob, and friends — there is so much Charleston is a small town with a metro-
politan attitude. I love the variety: wine and food festivals, sporting events and culture. One weekend you can be attending Charleston Fashion Week and the next touring some of the most beautiful gardens Charleston has to offer. WORST THING ABOUT CHARLESTON: Sand gnats! It’s almost time for those little suckers to rear their ugly heads again! FAVORITE BOOK: “American Shaolin” by Matthew Polly. IN LOVE?: My beloved and my friend, Rob Meredith. IF YOUR FRIENDS DESCRIBED YOU IN ONE WORD, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: Effervescent. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF, IN ONE WORD: Outgoing.
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through, I realize my chicken sandwich has mayonnaise on it even though I specifically requested no mayonnaise. I hate mayonnaise. 1:52 p.m. A concerned citizen has called in about an intruder lurking in her backyard. Police on the scene report the trespasser in question is yard debris. 2 p.m. Direct quote: “Tell Stephanie the golf cart is downstairs.” I can only assume this is some sort of euphemism the kids are using these days. 2:17 p.m. There is a report of a random buoy in the ocean. “Maybe it’s marking something,” one voice says. The other voice agrees. 3:04 p.m. FINALLY! WE’VE GOT SOME ACTION! Grand theft auto, Upper Eastside. Whoops. False alarm. It’s just a commercial for “Law and Order” on the TV in the background. Which reminds me, thanks for ruining my bracket, Kansas. 3:07 p.m. Somebody is running low on garbage bags. 3:08 p.m. Nope. They found them in the snack bar. Around 5 p.m. I finally concede that there aren’t going to be any high-speed pursuits or hot leads for me and my imaginary partner to track down, so I head home. Where I pray there isn’t a mo-ped parked in my driveway. Bryce Donovan is still waiting to get his detective badge from the makers of Captain Crunch (he sent in the 16 UPC symbols for it about six weeks ago). Reach him at 937-5938 or bdonovan@postandcourier.com. For more, check out his blog, “The Bryce is Write,” or follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bryce donovan.
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ith all due respect to Crockett and Tubbs, being a detective is easy. Sure you have to deal with some unsavory types like mass murderers and people who don’t match their pastel colored socks with their pastel colored T-shirts, but for the most part, it’s Easy Street. Basically, you just sit around all day listening to the police scanner while trying not to laugh so hard that coffee comes out your nose. At least that’s how things went for me during my weekend stint as detective (or what my editors continue to call “cops reporter”), as evidenced by this timeline of events/ things I heard on the scanner, which I promise I am not making up: 9:15 a.m. Eat a doughnut. (Hey, I gotta get into character.) 9:32 a.m. Pull into parking lot at work to find lone spot reserved for “cop reporter on duty” occupied by a mo-ped. 9:57 a.m. Make phone calls to the county coroners. This typically goes something like this: ME: “Hi there. My name’s Bryce and I’m ...” CORONER: (Interrupting) “Nobody’s dead.” (*click*) 11:29 a.m. I get my first action on the scanner as somebody is looking for sunscreen in the snack bar. Apparently anybody can use these frequencies. 11:31 a.m. Man looking for sunscreen is told to try checking under the towels. 11:32 a.m. Yep. It was under the towels. 12:56 p.m. Code Roberto Alomar: A woman at a local bookstore has spit on another woman. I can only assume this type of behavior has to do with them fighting over the last copy of “Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame.” 1:28 p.m. As I pull away from the Wendy’s drive-
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The dance sequence is hilarious, endearing and definitely lifts Gordon-Levitt to crush-worthy status. The pairing of that catchy song with a silly, entertaining dance sequence was genius. Everything about that scene is likable. Eight months after I first saw the movie, I still find myself watching the twominute clip at least a few der in yet another decade. After Day 34 of Tom (Gor- times a day. I’m an ’80s baby, and while don-Levitt) and Summer I made it in time to have a (Deschanel), Tom is shown on his way to work with a big baby video of me dancing to cheesy grin on his face from “Ice Ice Baby,” I always feel deprived of some of the betthat whole “being in love” ter one-hit wonders and pop thing. And then, he breaks into a choreographed dance bands the 1980s had to offer. My Hall & Oates education to Hall & Oates’s 1980 song began about a decade ago “You Make My Dreams.” when I stole my sisThe pairing of that catchy song with a silly, ter’s copy of “Essential ’80s” and I became a proud singer-alonger entertaining dance sequence was genius. to “Kiss on My List.” Thanks to Tom’s Everything about that scene is likable. dance, Hall & Oates has a happy home on my seen. Even better: It’s with a It’s a beautiful thing. I Hall & Oates song. don’t think I’ve ever laughed iPod along with the other few That’s right, Hall & Oates that hard in the middle of a dozen great songs that “(500) Days” introduced to me. just became pop culture fod- movie theatre. andom dance sequences in movies just sound like a bad idea, but a recent one is unforgettable. “(500) Days of Summer” is one of my three favorite movies of 2009. The movie, a nonchronological and nonstandard romantic comedy, came out last summer and stars Joseph GordonLevitt (the kid from “3rd Rock from the Sun”) and Zooey Deschanel, who I basically idolize. “(500) Days” has a stellar soundtrack. It’s safe to say I’ve downloaded every song associated with the movie, but it also has the most memorable and entertaining dance sequence I’ve ever
“You Make My Dreams” is permanently associated with the dance in my mind now. Lately, I listen to it on repeat when I am walking around running errands. And yes, I get a little skip in my step. And it’s cool. I’ve shown the clip to several friends, and they all agree: It’s pretty hard to watch without smiling or laughing. I’m thrilled to know I’m not the only lover of this scene. On one of my more recent YouTube searches of the clip, I found an imitator. Some guy in Texas learned Tom’s choreography and re-enacted the scene in a mall before proposing to his then-girlfriend. And, of course, he taped the moment, and he posted it on YouTube. (And she said yes ... at least on camera.) Watching Tom dance to such a cheesy pop song is a guaranteed pick-me-up for me, and I highly recommend checking out the movie, or at least the YouTube clip.
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he boundaries of jazz are virtually unlimited. This great American music has no limits, really. That’s one of its most intriguing and satisfying features. Improvisation — composing in real time — is a fundamental feature of jazz, and it makes all sorts of things possible artistically. I don’t mean just free jazz, either, which lives outside the basic guidelines of general music principles. Most forms of jazz are structured, but they are elastic enough to make room for on-the-spot creativity. Local guitarist Tyler Ross has a couple of upcoming, shows and one of them is particularly designed to be just such an experiment. Tyler, who teaches guitar at the College of Charleston, has partnered with other local players for these concerts. On Friday, he will pair with another local guitarist, Duda Lucena, to play at 8 p.m. at the College of Charleston’s brand, spanking-new Cato Center for the Arts, Room 254, at Calhoun and St. Philip streets. Admission is $5 with students free. Both these cats are terrific, nuanced players, and their offerings will be sublime, I’m sure. Really fascinating to think about, though, is today’s show for which Tyler has put together what he calls the Tyler Ross Double Trio. At 8 p.m. at Eye Level Art, 103 Spring St., Tyler will be joined by Kevin Hamilton on bass, Gerald Gregory on keyboards and two drum kit players, Ron Wiltrout and Nick Jenkins. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. Call 278-2374 or visit www. eyelevelart.com. As Tyler explains it, the band will be interpreting trumpeter Miles Davis’ 1959 classic studio record,
“Kind of Blue,” according to many the most popular jazz record ever made. In 2008, it was cited to be a quadruple-platinum selling disc by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as No. 12 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, which shows its reach since Rolling Stone is not a jazz publication. Just about everybody, not just jazz listeners, has heard the centerpiece of the album “All Blues,” one of the most played and heard melodies in jazz. The famous sextet included Miles, Cannonball Adderly on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. on bass, Jimmy Cobb on drums, and Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly manning the piano chair. “Kind of Blue” introduced to many people what has come to be known as modal jazz. In contrast to the hard bop style popular at the time, modal jazz is based more on playing around scales rather than chords. Mood — hence modal — is an important feature as well. It has been reported that Miles did little or no rehearsal for the date and only provided the players with sets of scales around which to improvise the melodies. Tyler has set out to take full advantage of this style for the Eye Level show. He chose the players that he did because of their abili-
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He not only plays well, he can conceive and implement musical ideas. For instance, his arrangement of “When I Fall in Love” for the Charleston Jazz Orchestra’s Swing Swing Swing show in January was off the chart. Also, hats off to Eye Level Art and proprietor Mike Elder. The space is cool, and jazz, which they have been presenting more of, works really well there. Artistic freedom reigns there. So Tyler’s show should be a smash. It’s an example, too, of the rising level of creativity and inspiration that live music is showing in the Lowcountry these days. And jazz is right in the middle of it. Jack McCray, author of “Charleston Jazz,” can be reached at jackjmccray@aol. com.
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t’s officially spring, and I have never been more thrilled to push my coats to the back of the closet after the unusually cold winter we’ve just had. Same goes for the heavy wool sweaters, the Kangol hat and the black fleece gloves that, tragically, were part of my everyday outfit for about two and a half months. I look forward to the azaleas and the warm, sunny days this season brings as well as the annual spring issue in fashion magazines. Second in size only to the September issues, which
and gives us ideas that are both wearable and ideally suited to the warm weather months in Charleston. Take the utility jacket, for example. It’s huge for spring into summer and quite possibly the most practical trend this season. In neutral
which is big this season. For those a little more daring, the tribal look is hot for spring as illustrated in the March issue of Vogue magazine. To make this trend a little more wearable, I’d maybe stick to accessories such as an African print scarf, wood bangles or a zebrastriped bag. These kinds of accessories can have a big impact all their own, especially when paired with basics. Straw, also, is everywhere this spring, and, luckily, this is a trend that’s easy to pull off. Last year’s fedora
The utility jacket is huge for spring into summer and quite possibly the most practical trend this season. This jacket could quickly become a wardrobe staple, segueing easily from work to weekend.
announce designers’ fall collections, the spring issue is like a breath of fresh air. This issue ushers in the trends that most of us will be buying this summer
colors such as sand or khaki, this jacket could quickly become a wardrobe staple, segueing easily from work to weekend. The jacket also plays into the military trend,
looks fresh in straw as does a tote bag, a belt or even a necklace. Just not all at once, please. In the current issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, I
found my spring uniform in their “Marrakech Moment” photo spread. From a basic color palette of white, khaki and blue, the clothes are comfortable and lightweight. Best of all, they’re also almost entirely made up of pieces I already have in my closet, which is kind of genius. The foundation of this look consists of a white button-down shirt made of lightweight cotton or linen, ikat prints, jeans rolled up above the ankle and a slouchy-fit jacket in white or khaki. But it’s the accessories that really pull this outfit together. Tribal-print scarves are wrapped snugly around the neck. Polished wood bangles are stacked on the wrist. The bag is a roomy straw tote that’s perfect for both the farmer’s market and the beach. Flat leather sandals or neutral wedges complete the look. The best part? All of these elements can be found on King Street, making shopping for spring a cinch.
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What you missed at Fashion Week
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Charleston Fashion Week started with collections affectionately dubbed a “superhero’s take on pop art”, “bohemian glam”, and “mixing and matching.” Uriel Zamora, Anna Lassiter, and Chelsie Ravenell, respectively, were just three of the eight designers partaking in the southeast’s Emerging Designer Competition. Marion Square’s white tent pulsated with techno tracks, flashing lights, and Charleston’s heeled and coiffed, most fashionable ladies. Obviously gaining major support in its fourth year, the second half of the show left standingroom only for its spectators.
Day 2 (March 17)
According to CFW’s Wednesday night featured designer Mychael Knight, “Fashion will always be a necessity, always have a place.” And, if Charlestonians came out in droves in 40 degree weather, that must be the case. Knight’s recent collection debuted last night, after local shops like Monkee’s of Daniel Island, Thera M, and House showed their lines. Sucker Jeans — a boutique on St. Philip responsible for designing the first and only seersucker jeans — emerged as a crowd favorite.
Day 3 (March 18)
The biggest to-do of CFW night number three was the first annual Rock the Runway Competition. Of the over 600 model applicants, 10 women and 10 men were chosen to compete. The audience sat patiently — OK, we got antsy — through two halves of runway shows to hear the results: the top male and female model of Charleston Fashion Week. The third night, like the
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Designer Mychael Knight inside the press tent during Fashion Week. second, started with collections of local boutiques. Notables included Seeking Indigo, every Bohemian girl’s dream runway show, and Hampden Clothing, whose choice to style its models in peacock blue eyeshadow was a bold but appealing one.
of Charleston Weddings magazine, started Saturday’s bridal couture show off by saying, “Romance rocks!” For a couple of hours at the show, it totally did. Typical Charleston weather finally returned, champagne
glasses were bottomless and adorned with orchids, hors d’oeuvres were strawberries tuxedoed in chocolate, and, most importantly, this one glorious day before Easter — gasp! — we got to wear white.
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CFW’s Friday night was an evening of organization and emerging trends. On the fourth night of runway shows the kinks had been worked through. No lags or awkward silences filled the space between the last retail showings. The night started with a delicate take on the biggest trend of the week: socks with heels. Teal, a Mt. Pleasant boutique, cut the ruffles off of white socks — you know, the ones we all wore as little girls with Easter dresses? — and placed the lace around its models ankles. The childhood touch offset the four-inch heels of womanhood nicely. Other notable shows of the evening included LaRoque Studio Boutique of Columbia and Gwynn’s of Mt. Pleasant. All stores and designers of the evening were on point with organization. The order of their looks were perfect and seemed to have taken tedious thought, like arranging poems in an anthology.
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American Aquarium may have that Southern kind of swagger down pretty well in its lyrics, but the Raleigh septet explores the lessons of life a bit further, too. Of course, there’s talk of booze, women and the invincibility of youth, it is Americana music, after all, but there’s also mention of the hangovers, the heartbreaks and the vulnerable mortality that adulthood eventually smacks us all in the face with. The music and the message goes from rowdy to revealing and from feisty to fragile as American Aquarium bridges the gap between the teenager and the adult in all of us. And the best part is that it often staggers between humorous and heart-wrenching in a way that’s as natural and evolving as puberty itself. American Aquarium will perform Monday at the Tin
t first glance, there’s not a whole lot of contrast between them. They’re both indie/pop singers who write songs based on common life experiences. Both have had enormous commercial success in the face of many poor reviews from critics. And, of course, there’s also the sensitive, introverted quality surrounding them that draws so many assumptions from skeptics deeming their music too cheesy or boring. But when you look past that first impression, there’s a far wider separation between current tourmates Mat Kearney and Ingrid Michaelson. A separation that not only spans the entire nation but religion, culture, upbringing and points of view. For Kearney and Michaelson, music has proven to offer a universal perspective no matter which way you face. Growing up in a strict Christian household in Eugene, Ore., Kearney lived a relatively normal childhood. One that consisted of church, soccer practices and family dinners. Michaelson grew up on Staten Island, N.Y., where her composer father and sculptor mother introduced her to music as soon as she was born. By the age of 4, Michaelson was playing the piano
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if you go WHO: Ingrid Michaelson and Mat Kearney with Cara Salimando., Presented by The Bridge at 105.5 FM WHEN: 8 p.m. Monday. WHERE: Music Farm, 32 Ann St. COST: $20 in advance, $23 the day of the show and are available at the door or online at www.etix.com. HEAR THE BAND’S MUSIC: www.ingridmichaelson.com and www.matkearney.com. INFO: 577-6989, www.musicfarm.com.
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Memphis-born Pnuma Trio build a wall of sound that is so encompassing and captivating that listeners are reduced to open-mouthed drones for dozens of minutes at a time. The music is merciless and flows with a ferocity that seems as lovingly endless as a summer vacation fantasy. There is never a redundancy or stutter or bore in the band’s mix of jazz, jam, funk and electronic music, only a whirlwind of exact beats, rhythms and orchestration. Since forming in 2004, Pnuma Trio has performed with some the best in and around its genre, including Disco Biscuits, Michael Franti and String Cheese Incident, as well as at some of the country’s top festivals, all without an actual album. The band recently announced plans to release its debut album this year. Pnuma Trio will perform Friday at The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway, with Break Science featuring Adam Deitch. Tickets are $15 at the door or online at etix.com. Doors open at 9 p.m. Visit charlestonpourhouse.com or call 571-4343 for more information about the show. Visit pnumatrio.com.
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Lubriphonic brings its ‘funk and soul’ to the Lowcountry PROVIDED
Lubriphonic has opened for acts as diverse as George Clinton, Derek Trucks, Jon Popper Project, Karl Denson, Panjea w/ Michael Kang, The Greyboy Allstars, Poi Dog Pondering, Freddy Jones Band and Buckwheat Zydeco. The group’s latest release is “Soul Solution.” Corey isn’t quick to pigeonhole Lubriphonic as a blues band. “We have blues roots, but we’re really not WHO: Lubriphonic and Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band a blues band,” he said. Beremember when I was WHEN: April 2, 10 p.m. cause the seven members a kid, I’d go see B.B. WHERE: The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway. come from backgrounds in King and I’d come COST: $10 at www.etix.com, all Cat’s Music and Monsoul, funk and blues, Lubrihome and be like levitatster Music locations. phonic is sort of a “mix of ing, vibrating because I just HEAR THE MUSIC: www.lubriphonic.com. funk and soul and gospel felt better about the world,” INFO: 571-4343 or www.charlestonpourhouse.com. grooves,” Corey said Giles Corey, vocalist WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Go to said. Lubriphonic members and founding member of www.charlestoscene.com and add your have performed with a Lubriphonic. “It’s a temopinion about the concert. range of artists, including porary feeling, but it’s real Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, nonetheless. I think that’s what a good live performusic, a lot of positive mu- done, everyone’s kind of put Otis Clay, Kenny Rogers, Chaka Khan and Lenny mance of any kind should sic and soulful music.” their own stamp on it.” be.” Corey and drummer They played around Chi- Kravitz. Lubriphonic’s name And that experience is Rick King formed the band cago for a few years, but it doesn’t stand for anywhat Lubriphonic strives around 2004. The seven wasn’t until the release of for. The Chicago-based current members — Corey, their album “Soul Solution” thing, by the way. Corey described the process of septet is a live band, after King, Ron Haynes, Pennal in 2008 that they really naming a band as frusall, and besides continuJohnson, Norman Palm, started trying to get attentrating and when a friend ing to play in Chicago, the Garrick Patten and Andrew tion. They started touring suggested Lubriphonic, band will be playing tour Toombs — were all playing the Midwest and West, they went with it and never dates around the U.S. fairly in various bands around instead of focusing their consistently for the rest of Chicago and came together efforts just on the Chicago looked back. Lubriphonic has two stuthe year. looking for another creative scene. They were nomi“It’s a dance party,” Corey outlet. Through Lubrinated for a couple of awards dio albums, “Soul Solution” said of Lubriphonic’s shows. phonic, the seven guys are at the 2009 Chicago Music and “Super Mancho,” as “We’re part rock and roll all able to write and create Awards and will be playing well as several live albums. riot, part fan’s party, kind original music. “We put to- in the Chicago Blues Festi- They are currently working on their third album, “The of like James Brown meets gether songs and everyone val in June. Gig is On,” slated for release Led Zeppelin. There’s going put their own feel on it,” But despite inclusion in to be a lot of high-energy Corey said. “By the time it’s the Chicago Blues Festival, in the fall.
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Roof, 1117 Magnolia Road, with Guilt Ridden Troubadour. Visit myspace.com/ westashleytinroof for more information on the show and myspace.com/americanaquarium for more on the band.
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“With musical theater you have to go on all these auditions where somebody else is and by the time she was 7, trying to figure out if you’re she training classically at right for this part or not, and Manhattan’s Third Street you’re always being someone Music School. else,” Michaelson says of her Kearney got a later start having not even picked up a decision to pursue a career guitar until he was a sopho- as a songwriter. “But with music, even if you’re only more in college. He went to playing for three people in California State University, a bar, you’re still creating in Chico, Calif., where he studied literature and was a something and so things standout on the school’s soc- are sort of more on my own terms.” cer team. For Kearney the decision Michaelson went to Bingwasn’t quite as thought out. hamton University in New “It wasn’t like this thing York where she received a where I was like, ‘I’m gonna degree in theater. go for it!’ All I wanted to do Kearney moved to Nashwas write songs. And when ville on a whim to try his you love something, you just hand at music while Mistart doing things that allow chaelson got a job teaching children and directing musi- you to be around it. For me, Nashville was the place to do cal theater. that. So, I wasn’t looking at it And wile their paths were like it was my career or like, very different, they both ‘I want to do this for the rest were discovered for a talent that now brings them to the of my life’. I was just like, ‘I same destination night after need to do this now.’ ” There’s also a difference in night.
the way the two interact with someone they’ve never met. Kearney is noticeably more talkative in conversation or as he says, “I’m definitely an open book. If you meet me, I’m the kind of person that will tell you that I have a weird rash on my foot.” Michaelson, however, seems a bit more discreet, even a little guarded. Perhaps a characteristic that the solitary star has developed as a result of her widespread popularity. What does become clear is that the circus surrounding Ingrid Michaelson, the “Indie Superstar,” hasn’t changed Ingrid Michaelson, the “children’s theater teacher from New York.” “When I’m on the road, I’m doing so many radio visits and interviews, then the show and then meet and greets that to just stay home and have the big thing of the day be to walk down to the deli, that’s nice.”
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Shannon Whitworth introduced the world to her tough, musical sweetness in 2004 as a founding member of the folk/bluegrass group The Biscuit Burners. For the next two years, she played a major role as a songwriter, vocalist and musician on The Biscuit Burners’ first three albums until setting out to pursue a solo career in 2006. As a solo artist, Whitworth eased her way into the praise and admiration of Americana audiences with the release of 2007’s “No Expectations.” Her pretty face releases a weathered and painfully piercing voice that so effortlessly mesmerizes minds and melts hearts. Whitworth’s genuine contrast of charm and chapped clings to you like a saving hand when you have stumbled into a briar patch. Her voice is mature, modest and calm as it lulls listeners into a trance from start to finish. Whitworth will perform Saturday at The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway with The Pisgah Pickers featuring members of the Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Sipe. Tickets are $13 at the door or at etix.com.
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Elvis Presley ON STAGE: LEGACY EDITION (Legacy/RCA) In 1969, after eight years of basically doing nothing but making movies, Elvis Presley returned to the concert stage with a series of shows at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. Over the course of four weeks in July and August of 1969, and then another four weeks in January and February of 1970, Presley re-established his title as the King of Rock ’n’ Roll. A selection of songs from those shows was released as two separate albums, “Elvis in Person at the International Hotel” (which is better known as disc one of the double album “From Memphis to Vegas — From Vegas to Memphis”) and “On Stage.” Now, 40 years later, those two landmark live albums are being re-released as a single package. In addition to original live tracks such as “See See Rider,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” and “Hound Dog,” “On Stage: Legacy Edition” features a treasure trove of bonus live tracks, including “Long Tall Sally,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” and “Reconsider Baby.” There is also a great essay by Ken Sharp about Presley’s return to the stage, as well as plenty of photos from the era. As Presley’s estate continues to observe a yearlong celebration of what would have been The King’s 75th birthday, it is the fans who end up getting the gifts. KEY TRACKS:”Proud Mary,” “Hound Dog,” “All Shook Up”
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A Fragile Tomorrow TRIPPING OVER NOTHING (Piewillie) While the band A Fragile Tomorrow now calls Charleston home, the band already has racked up some pretty impressive feats in its seven years of existence. Originally from Montgomery, N.Y., the band has put out a pair of well-received CDs, “Wishful Thinking” and “Beautiful Noise,” and has performed with acts that include Blues Traveler, The Indigo Girls and Continental Drifters. The new CD by A Fragile Tomorrow, “Tripping Over Nothing,” features strong musical and vocal performances, as well as more confident songwriting by the band. Featuring a sound that calls to mind great ’90s bands such as Toad the Wet Sprocket and Gin Blossoms, the music on “Tripping Over Nothing ranges from all-out rockers such as “Man With a Bottle” and “Dear Abbey White” to more tranquil but no less powerful selections such as “Tupelo Song” and “World Revisited.” Two tunes that particularly stand out are the bouncy “I Just Never Said Enough” and the jangly “Peaceful Days,” which finds singer Sean Kelly channeling a bit of The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn. Danielle Howle produced the new CD, which also features guest appearances by Indigo Girl Amy Ray, Peter Holsapple, and Susan and Miranda Cowsill. KEY TRACKS: “I Just Never Said Enough,” “Peaceful Days,” “Tupelo Song”
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The Band of Heathens Motion City Soundtrack ONE FOOT IN THE ETHER (BOH) Anyone can play Americana music, as seen by the current glut of artists associated with that roots rock genre. Any true Americana fan, though, will tell you that the bands that really matter are the ones that truly feel the music, that connect with each note in a way that can only be described as organic. The Band of Heathens is a perfect example of a band that is cosmically connected with the music it makes. On the impressive CD “One Foot in the Ether” this Austin, Texas, band proves it is the real thing with songs that call to mind great Americana forefathers such as Gram Parsons (“L.A. County Blues”), Little Feat (“Shine a Light”), and Bob Dylan (“Let Your Heart Not Be Troubled”). Just about every song on the CD is worth of radio airplay, to the point that the albums sounds like a greatest hits package. All the songs are originals, save for a single cover of the Gillian Welch/David Rawlings song “Look at Miss Ohio.” “One Foot in the Ether” is one of those great surprises that stays in your CD player indefinitely and sounds better with each listen. Catch this great band live April 7 as they perform at the Pour House with Yarn. KEY TRACKS: “L.A. County Blues,” “What’s This World,” “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
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MY DINOSAUR LIFE (Columbia) “I’ve been a good little worker bee/I deserve a gold star.” So go the opening lines of “Worker Bee,” the kickoff tune from Motion City Soundtrack’s (MCS) new CD, “My Dinosaur Life.” MCS always has had an ear for a great pop hook, but on this new CD, the band’s first for Columbia Records, the band kicks down the door from track one and spends the rest of the CD playing as if the fate of the world depends on the band’s enthusiasm. Songs such as “A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help),” “Disappear,” and “History Lesson” demonstrate the band’s ability to marry melodic lyrics with crunching guitar riffs. One of the CD’s best tracks, “Stand Too Close,” is also one its more mellow tunes, although even that song cranks it up for a few moments toward the end. The tongue-in-cheek “@!#?@!” features some of the most harmonic potty-mouthed singing you’ll ever hear, while “Hysteria” features a superbly simple guitar riff that will stick in your head for days. Produced by Blink-182 member Mark Hoppus, this is not a perfect album, but it definitely cements MCS as relevant. KEY TRACKS: “A Lifeless Ordinary (Need a Little Help),” “Disappear,” “Hysteria”
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Music community comes together for three-day Clover Fest benefit BY DEVIN GRANT
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if you go WHAT: Clover Fest benefit for a 3-year-old girl who lost her father, local musician Ryan Cargile. DAY 1 LINEUP: Quench, Capone, Double 0, Near Fatal Fall, In Reverie — Friday, 7 p.m. at The Music Farm, 32 Ann St.. DAY 2 LINEUP: Unjust, Alswel, Bleed As One, Handgun Sonata, Etcetera, The Channels, Skwirlgrinda, The 33’s — Saturday at The Oasis, 778 Folly Road. DAY 3 LINEUP: Fair to Midland, Karnivool — Sunday at The Oasis. COST: $15 Friday, $12 Saturday, $12 Sunday. INFO: www.myspace.com/cloverfest, 225-2522 (Oasis), 577-6989 (Music Farm). WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Go to charlestonscene. com and add your opinion about the concert.
where we were just trying to get a few bands to reunite. My brother was in Capone, and they agreed to play, and the guys from Quench are great friends of ours, and they also agreed to do a reunion show,” he said. “We ended up getting about six reunion bands, some current local acts, and even a few major label acts. A lot of the bands just fell in our laps.” A complete list of acts performing Friday at the Music Farm, and Saturday and Sunday at Oasis, can be found on both MySpace (myspace.com/cloverfest) and Facebook (search for “Clover Fest”). A sampling includes local bands Capone, Quench and Children’s Choir, as well as national acts Fair to Midland, Karnivool and Something to Burn. Cargile says the venues were chosen for their local popularity, as well as their willingness to help the cause. “The Music Farm had the
capacity we were looking for to stage a Capone and Quench reunion,” said Cargile, “while Oasis is where a lot of the local bands that are participating play regularly, and the venue very generously let us use the facility for free. We will get the door while they take what they make at the bar.” Tickets are $15 Friday, which gets you into all three days, or $12 a night Saturday and Sunday. Admission also gets you a copy of the 18track Clover Fest CD, which features songs from Clover Fest participants. Plans for future editions could include more nationally known bands, a golf tournament and other ideas Cargile has brewing. While Brad Cargile and many in the local music community still mourn the loss of Ryan Cargile, it is inspiring to see so many folks coming together to make sure Clover Cargile’s future education is secure.
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how me a musician, and I’ll show you an artist with at least one cause they are passionate about. It’s no secret that most musicians will jump right in to help a friend or fan in need, or to support a cause in which they believe. Local musicians are no different. And when they perform for a cause, it usually means playing free on a night they probably could have been making some cash at a local bar or club. Despite this though, most local band members are all too happy to lend a hand when asked. This weekend, an impressive list of both local and national acts come together for three nights of music with a common cause in mind. Local businessman Brad Cargile is organizing the first Clover Fest. Cargile’s brother, Ryan, was a well-known musician who played in a number of local bands, most notably Capone. When Ryan passed away in June, he left behind a daughter, Clover. Speaking last week by phone Brad explained what inspired Clover Fest. “Clover is 3 now, and I wanted to create a festival that would serve two purposes,” said Cargile. “First, we wanted to create a foundation that would provide for Clover to go to college. We have a secure trust set up, and all proceeds that we generate from Clover Fest will go into that trust every year annually for the next 15 years. “Second, we just wanted to memorialize the great musician my brother was.” Brad began planning Clover Fest in September, and, by his own admission, the event has blossomed into something far larger and more positive than he could have hoped for. “It started off as a project
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the people who come to the party. Q: What individual roles do you play in Electric Friends? ick DeNitto met Jeff Turner and Bowers: We’ve been putting a lot of work Matthew Bowers at Charleston’s in on the back-end. Getting a logo, getting Blume Art and Music Festival in T-shirts, doing a lot of the branding side of the latter half of 2009. The three it. We want to have something that people DJs didn’t know it then, but over the next can associate with. We’ve all got a different six months, they would combine their pow- role. We’ve all been working really hard. ers in a true Captain Planet-like fashion to DeNitto: Matthew has the design vision. become the DJ supergroup known as the He’s an artist. It’s been so important to Electric Friends. what we’re doing. Our main goal is to have It all started when Bowers asked DeNitto the expectations there. When people know if he’d spin with him when he opened for what to expect, when we have an identity, King Britt at the new local hotspot Shine. it’s so helpful. We don’t have to compromise Jeff Turner ended up joining the bill with at all. What Jeff brings to the table is this the other two, and they’ve been performing crazy ... sound. He’s constantly DJ-ing. He’s together ever since. The Electric Friends like the lead guitarist. pride themselves in their many diverse muQ: The Charleston DJ scene is ever-growsical influences and their distinguishable ing. How do you feel about the competihigh-energy brand of party tunes. Their tion? next show is Friday at Torch, and will feaBowers: There are DJs that we really like ture a full-length video mash-up accompa- that we like work with. We help them get niment provided by producer Benny C. shows and they help us get shows. Then I met up with these mash-up masters to there’s some people who kind of comprotalk about the secrets behind their craft. mise. They’re bad and they just don’t care. Q: There are many facets to the DJ craft. They do it as a job. There’s always kids who What would you say is your specialty? are going to do it as a job and kids who are Turner: All of it. We do remixes. We do going to do it because of the art. edits. We scratch. Turner: We have our DJs that are our DeNitto: We do a lot of live mixing. It’s friends. It goes beyond what they play. We’re our big thing. We each bring our unique homies with the Bubble Guts Brothers. styles. Just looking at us, you can kind of tell We’re homies with Rocky Horror. If you’re we’ve all got different tastes. We like to do doing it for the right reasons, we’re down, mixes that have never been done before. We we’re gonna big-up you, and we’ll probably like to surprise each other and to surprise hype your shows.
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Three DJs have ‘Blumed’ into ‘Electric Friends’
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A DOUGH RE MI: 1220 Ben Sawyer Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 881-6989. Fri-Sat: March Madness Battle of the Bands 2010, $5, 9 p.m. ALLUETTE’S JAZZ CAFÉ: 137 Calhoun St. 737-0090. Tonight: MKM Band; Fri-Sat: The Oscar Rivers Trio; Sun: “Sinatra Sundays” w/Joe Clarke Quartet; Mon: Cecil and Company; Tue: Hill Robinson and Friends; Wed. “Mr. Blues” Ermit Williams. AROMAS: 50 N. Market St. 723-9588. Fri-Sat: Cotton Blue, 7 p.m. ART’S BAR AND GRILL: 413 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 849-3040. Tonight: Jeff Bateman and Friends; Fri: Baby Fat; Sat: The Fire Apes; Sun: Everett Bigbee. Mon: Open Mic w/Everett Bigbee; Tue: Mike Thompson; Wed: Ward and Joel. ATLANTICVILLE RESTAURANT AND WINES: 2063 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island. 883-9452. Tue: Thai Tuesdays w/ Annie Boxell; Fri: Peter Coish and Robert Rodriguez; Sat: John Durham Trio. BLIND TIGER PUB: 38 Broad St. 5770088. Tonight: Ed “Porkchop” Meyer, 9 p.m.-12 a.m. BOWEN’S ISLAND RESTARAUNT: 1870 Bowen Islands Rd. Folly Island. 795-2757. Fri: Steve Padgett and Smoky Weiner jam, 6-9 p.m BUDDY ROES SHRIMP SHACK: 1528 Ben Sawyer Blvd. 388-5270. Tonight: The Homewreckers, 8-11 p.m.; Fri: Ronnie, Chris and Bob, 9 p.m.-midnight; Sat: Ronnie and Chris Clifton, 9 p.m.midnight; Tue: Open Mic Songwriter’s night, 8-11 p.m.; Wed: Shrimp City Slim, 8-11 p.m. CHARLESTON GRILL: Charleston Place, 224 King St. 577-4522. Tonight: Quentin Baxter Ensemble, 7-11 p.m.; Fri-Sat: Quentin Baxter Ensemble, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sun: Bob Williams Duo, 7-10 p.m.; Mon-Wed: Quentin Baxter Ensemble, 7-11 p.m. CITY LIGHTS COFFEE SHOP: 141 Market St. 853-7067. Wed: The Amazing Mittens, 6:30-8 p.m. THE CLUB AT MEYERS ROAD: 216 Meyers Road, Summerville. 875-4215. Tonight: Karaoke, 8 p.m.-midnight; Fri: Bert Floyd and the Carolina Band, 8 p.m.; Sat: Straight Shooter, 9 p.m.; Wed: Front Lounge Karaoke, 8 p.m.midnight. CLUB H2O: 8484 Dorchester Road, North Charleston. 767-1426. Tonight: Country Dance Party w/ Rowdy Nites; Fri: Anniversary party w/DJ Mike Mendoza, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat: DJ Mike Mendoza, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. THE CRAB SHACK ON FOLLY BEACH: 26 Center St. Folly Beach. 5883080 or 588-2877. Every Thursday: The
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You’ve never seen a band like Iron Cherry before. See the evidence at 9 p.m. Saturday at Jimbo’s Rock Lounge, 1662 Savannah Hwy. Admission is $5. Folly Beach Bluegrass Society Open Jam, 7:30 p.m. THE CRESCENT CONNECTION: 1910 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. 528-0777. Fri-Sat: Abe White, 6-9 p.m.; Sun: “Sunday Jazz Brunch,” noon-3 p.m. CUOCO PAZZO: 1035 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. 971-9034. Wed, Fri-Sat: Riccardo sings Opera and Italian songs, 7-9 p.m.. DORCHESTER LANES: 10015 Dorchester Road, Summerville. 3762200. Fri: Virgil Kain; Sat: 26 East; Sun: Team trivia w/ Bad Joke Tom; Mon and Wed: Karaoke w/Rocky; Tue: Never Tha Less. DUNLEAVY’S PUB: 2213 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island. 883-9646. Sun: Carroll Brown, 8 p.m.; Tue: Carroll Brown w/ Bob Sachs and the Maniax, 7:30 p.m. EAST BAY MEETING HOUSE: 159 East Bay St. 723-3446. Mon: Monday Night Poetry and Open Mic w/ Jim Lundy, 8 p.m. EVO PIZZERIA: 1075 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. 225-1796. Tonight: The Pulse Trio, 6:30-9:30 p.m. FIERY RON’S SULLIVAN’S ISLAND: 2209 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island.8833131. Tonight: Sons of Sanchez, $3, 10 p.m.; Fri: Hired Guns, $5, 10:30 p.m.; Sat:
Under the Porch, $5, 10:30 p.m.; Wed: Wednesday Nite Ramble w/ Gary and Sandy. FIERY RON’S WEST ASHLEY: 1205 Ashley River Road. 225-2278. Tonight: “Free Bluegrass Thursdays” w/ SC Broadcasters, 9:30 p.m.; Fri: Sons of Sanchez, $5, 10 p.m.; Sun: Fanfarlo w/Robert Francis, free, 8 p.m.; Tue: Smokey Weiner Trio, 8:30 p.m.; Wed: Madison Ruckel and Friends, 10 p.m.. FISH RESTAURANT: 442 King St. 7223474. Tonight: Jazz w/Elise Testone, 7-10 p.m.; Fri: DJ Jaz, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat: DJ Todd Cadley, 10 p.m. GENNARO’S RESTAURANTE: 8500 Dorchester Road, North Charleston. 760-9875. Tonight: Gennaro’s Jazz Ensemble, 8:30 p.m. HALL’S CHOPHOUSE: 434 King St. 797-0090. Fri-Sat: Anthony Owens, 7-10 p.m.; Sun-Wed: Anthony Owens, 6:309:30 p.m. HALLIGAN’S RESTAURANT AND BAR: 3025 Ashley Towne Center, Suite 201, Charleston. 225-4347. Fri: “Parental Advisory Tour” w/Nashville Pussy, Green Jelly and Psychostick. THE HARBOR GRILLE: 360 Concord St. 853-5752. Tonight: Paper Cut
Massacre w/ Enter the Era, Sugar Red Drive and Facedown; Sat: Overdrive w/ Drownout and Tattermask; Tue: Big Hit and the Baby Kit; Wed: Ladies Night w/ DJ Argento. HIGH COTTON: 199 E. Bay St. 7243815. Tonight: James Slater and David Heywood, 6-10 p.m.; Fri-Sat: John Slate and Bill Aycock, 6-10 p.m.; Mon-Tue: Margaret Coleman and Wayne Davis, 6-10 p.m.; Wed: James Slater and David Heywood, 6-10 p.m. J.PAUL’Z: 1739 Maybank Hwy, Charleston. 442-4480. Tonight: Sinatra and Sushi w/ Joe Clarke Quartet, 7-10 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 337 King St. 8055020. Wed: Trivia Night, 10 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1175 Folly Road, James Island. 225-6996. Fri: Soul Captive; Wed: Trivia Night, 9 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1119 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 881-8734. Wed: Trivia Night, 9 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 800 N. Main St., Summerville. 875-6998. Fri: Shane Clark; Wed: Trivia Night, 9 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1179 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. 766-5292. Wed: Trivia Night, 9 p.m.
LALO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT: 1585 Central Ave., Summerville. 8739988. Sat: Swamp Fox Karaoke, 8 p.m. LOCO JOE’S FOOD & SPIRITS: 1115 Miles Road, Summerville. 821-2946. Tue, Wed: Karaoke w/ Robby G., 8 p.m. MANNY’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILLE: 1608 Old Towne Rd. 763-3908. Wed. Ted Mckee, 6-9 p.m. MED BISTRO: 90 Folly Road Blvd. 766-0323. Fri: Sam Favata; Sat: Joe Clarke. MERCATO RESTAURANT: 102 N. Market St. 722-6393. Tonight-Fri: Ann Caldwell w/ Jazz Trio, 6-10 p.m.; Sat: Robert Lewis, Gerald Gregory, and Nick Jenkins, 6-10 p.m.; Mon: Leah Suarez Trio; Tue: Jazz Trio, 6-10 p.m.; Wed: Kris Woodrum and Jesse Prichart playing Gypsy Swing Jazz, 6-10 p.m. THE MILL: 1025 E. Montague, North Charleston, 225-2650. Tue: Shrimp City Slim, 9 p.m. MISTRAL: 99 South Market St. 7225708. Fri: New South Jazz Band; Sat: The Mike Wolk Jazz Group; Mon: Mirage; Tues: French Jazz Band; Wed: French Connection. MOJO’S CLUB AND CIGAR BAR: 945 Bacons Bridge Road. 875-5099. Mon: Free shag lessons, 7 p.m. MORGAN CREEK GRILL: 80 41st Ave. Isle of Palms. 886-8980. Fri: Rene Russell, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sat: Rene Russell and Gary Hewitt, 6:30-10:30 p.m. MUSIC FARM: 32 Ann St. 577-6989. Tonight: The Movement w/The Soul Mites, $12, 8 p.m.; Fri: Cloverfest Benefit Show w/Quench, Kapone, Double 0, Near Fatal Fall and Unjust, $15, 7 p.m.; Mon: Ingrid Michaelson and Mat Kearney w/Cara Salimando, $20-$23, 8 p.m. OASIS BAR AND GRILL: 778 Folly Road., James Island. Sun: Fair to Midland w/Something to Burn; Mon: Karaoke; Tue: Cornhole Wed: Beer Pong. O’MALLEY’S: 549 King St, Charleston. 805-5000. Tue: Trivia, 7 p.m. OSCAR’S RESTAURANT: 207 W. 5th North St., Summerville. 871-3800. Tonight: Trivia, 7-9 p.m. Wed: Carol Brown, 6-9 p.m. PATRICK’S PUB: 1377 Ashley River Road. 571-3435. Tonight: Karaoke, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Sat: Drag Show. PINACHIOS FINE DINING & LOUNGE: 2447 Ashley River Road. 4029640. Wed-Thurs: Debbie Prine, 9 p.m. THE POUR HOUSE: 1977 Maybank Highway. 571-4343. Tonight: The Hungry Monks, free, 5-9 p.m., Hit or Miss and Friends, free, 10:30 p.m.; Fri: Trivia, 7-9 p.m., Pnuma Trio w/Break Science and Adam Deitch; Sat: Butterbeans,
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NIGHT LIFE From Page 22F 5-9 p.m., Shannon Whitworth Band w/Jeff Sipe and Pisgah Pickers, 9 p.m.; Sun: The Hawkes, free, 5-9 p.m., Rebirth Brass Band, 9:30 p.m.; Mon: Shovels and Rope w/Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, free, 5-9 p.m.; Tue: Hit or Miss, free, 5-9 p.m., The Hawkes, free, 10 p.m.; Wed: Soulgrass Rebellion, free, 10 p.m. RED DRUM GASTROPUB: 803 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 849-0313. Wed: Triple Lindy, 9 p.m. RED’S ICE HOUSE: 98 Church St., Mount Pleasant, 388-0003. Mon: Dave Landeo, 6- 9 p.m. THE ROCK LOUNGE: 1662 Savannah Hwy. 225-2200. Tonight: Rawberry Jam, free; Fri: Dance party with DJ Tim Gee, Jake B, Insomnia, Cam and Smartz; Sat: Iron Cherry; Sun: Lounge Night. SAND DOLLAR: 7 Center St., Folly Beach. 588-9498. Fri-Sat: Hed Shop Boys. SEEL’S OFF THE HOOK: 2213 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island, 883-5030: Tonight: The Bushels, 9 p.m.; Fri and Sat: DJ C.Nile, 10 p.m. SOCIAL WINE BAR: 188 East Bay St. 577-5665. Tonight: DJ Danny Seltzer; Fri: DJ Belk; Sat: DJ Kurfu. SODAWATER GRILL: 1960 Riviera Dr., Mount Pleasant. 3880309. Sat: “Karaoke for a Cause,” 8 p.m.-midnight. SUNFIRE GRILL & BISTRO: 1090 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. 7660223. Tonight: Calvin Taylor, 6 p.m.; Friday: Chris Tidestrom, 6 p.m.; Sat: Gentry Dodd, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Sun: Trivia, 8-10 p.m.; Mon: Singer and Songwriter Night, 8 p.m. THE SWAMP FOX AT THE FRANCIS MARION HOTEL: 387 King St. 724-8888. Fri-Sat: Pianist Bill Howland 6-9 p.m. THIRSTY TURTLE II: 1158 College Park Road, Summerville. 851-9828. Sun: Randy Pender or Mike Pifer, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat: Karaoke, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Tue: Shane Clark or Mike Pifer . THROUGHBRED CLUB AT CHARLESTON PLACE: 224 King St. 722-4900. Today-Sat: Live piano, 1-11 p.m. Sun: Live piano, 5-10 p.m.; Mon-Wed: Live piano, 5-11 p.m. THE TIN ROOF: 1117 Magnolia Road. 282-8988. Fri: Firework Show w/The He’s and Rayland
Baxter, 9 p.m.; Sat: Megan Jean and The KFB w/The Royal Tinfoil and members of Pariah Beat, 9 p.m.; Mon: American Aquarium w/Guilt-Ridden Troubadour, 9 p.m.; Tue: Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dollz w/Rev. Deadeye, 9 p.m. TOAST: 155 Meeting St. 5340043. Every Sat: Pianist Annie Boxell, 6-9 p.m. TOMMY CONDON’S: 160 Church St. 577-3818. Tonight-Sun: Steve Carroll and the Bograts; Wed: Fried Rainbow Trout. TRAYCE’S TOO NEIGHBORHOOD GRILLE & PUB: 2578 Ashley River Road. 556-2378. Tonight: Team trivia; Fri: Stoneking, 9:30 p.m.; Sat: Numb 909, 9:30 p.m. TRIANGLE CHAR AND BAR: 828 Savannah Highway. 3771300. Fri: Matt MacKelcan; Sat: The Green Levels. VILLAGE TAVERN: 1055 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard. 884-6311. Tonight: The Makeshift w/Steven Fiore and Sadler Vaden, 9 p.m.; Fri: Fish Out of Water w/Mud Prophet w/Slanguage and The Makeshift, 9 p.m.; Sat: Matt Woods w/Chris Porter, 9 p.m.; Mon: ODIST, 9 p.m. WET WILLIE’S: 209 East Bay St. 853-5650. Mon: Metal Mondays. WILD WING DOWNTOWN: 6 N. Market St. 722-9464. Tonight: The Diesel Brothers; Fri: Mad Margritt; Sat: Hot Sauce; Mon: Rotie Acoustic, 9 p.m.; Tues: Trivia Night; Wed: DJ Party. WILD WING MOUNT PLEASANT: 664 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 971-9464. Tonight: Plane Jane; Fri: Mighty McFly Sat: Radio Cult; Tues: Trivia Night w/ DJ SLK T; Wed: F and B Night. WILD WING NORTH CHARLESTON: 7618 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. 818-9464. Tonight: Ed Miller’s Karaoke Mayhem; Fri: Plane Jane; Sat: The Jamisun Group; Sun: R&R Late Night w/ Matt and Fred; Mon: Trivia w/ DJ SLK T; Tue: The Diesel Brothers; Wed: Live acoustic w/ Morgan and Rotie. THE WINDJAMMER: 1008 Ocean Blvd., Isle of Palms. 8868596. Tonight: Jesse and The Trippers, $3, 9 p.m.; Fri: Sam Thacker, $5, 9 p.m.; Sat: The Piedmont Boys, $5, 9 p.m. WOLFTRACK BAR AND GRILL: 1807 Parsonage Road. 763-0853. Fri: Fat Alice; Sat: Johnny Mac and The Booty Ranch; Wed: Open mic with Frank.
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Charleston Waterkeeper’s Water Ball is a celebration and an education about the city’s biggest asset BY DENISE K. JAMES
Special to The Post and Courier
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he Charleston Waterkeeper Group will host its first Water Ball at the S.C. Aquarium from 7-11 p.m. tonight. Charleston Waterkeeper, begun in fall 2008 by Executive Director Cyrus Buffum, is part of an international program called The Waterkeeper Alliance. The Alliance began in the early 1980s and is dedicated to helping communities protect their water supply. And since the Lowcountry is surrounded by water, Charleston Waterkeeper has continued to grow steadily since 2008. “It’s been very well-received because everyone in Charleston is always out on the water, in the water or watching the water,” says Natalie Taylor, a Waterkeeper volunteer. “It’s relevant to everyone. I’ve been passionate about this organization since I first started working with them about a year and a half ago.” “At the Charleston branch,
we’re still young and learning,” says Buffum. “I moved from Cape Cod in 2002 because I was drawn here by the water, and the same thing has kept me here postgraduation. Anyone who has spent enough time in the Lowcountry’s environment really comes to appreciate the environment and its delicacies. We all have to invest ourselves in protecting our water. It benefits the whole community.” The Water Ball, while aiming to be a fun time, is also a time to learn more about the Waterkeeper program. “One of our event goals is to display the role that technology can play in helping prevent water contamination,” says Buffum. For example, we’ll be displaying an iPhone application that will allow people who are out on the water to see the pollution and to report it right then. We want to use the power of technology to encourage our community to protect the waterways.” The educational aspects of the evening also include keynote speakers and a variety of other displays.
if you go WHAT: Charleston Waterkeeper’s Water Ball. WHEN: 7-11 p.m. today. WHERE: South Carolina Aquarium. HOW MUCH: $50 at the door or through thewaterball.org. MORE INFO: thewaterball.org.
“The goal is raising funds and raising awareness,” says Taylor. “We want supporters to be inspired and invigorated to take action, and to protect the water as much as we all enjoy it.” Tickets to the ball are available tonight at the door and at www.thewaterball. org. The event is formal, but it’s not black tie, and creative dress is encouraged. A $50 ticket includes food, plus cocktails from local suppli-
ers such as Coast Brewing, New Belgian Brewing and Firefly Distillery. All food vendors are local, and the silent auction will consist of items from local artists. The music will be an eclectic mix, with a DJ spinning everything from techno to funk. “We strive to support the local economy, since it relies on clean water sources,” says Taylor. “We all have to work together for the greater good.”
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“We’re just a liaison, a portal to other groups and we try to unite all the different groups as much as we can and network.”
Becca Epstein, Gay-Straight alliance.
Charleston Gay-Straight Alliance aims to work for everyone’s benefit
Special to The Post and Courier
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f you’re young, professional and gay, there’s a group that has you covered. Even if you’re not young, professional or gay, you’re still invited. “The Young Professional Gay-Straight Alliance of Charleston is a loosely organized group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning and progressively minded heterosexual individuals,” said Becca Epstein, the main organizer of the alliance. “We aim to bring the Charleston community together through informal, social gatherings. Among other things, we host happy hours at rotating, gayfriendly establishments around Charleston twice a month. Everyone, regardless of age or sexual preference, is invited to join and attend events.” Loosely formed about a year ago, Epstein says she has seen significant growth
in the group. It started with just her and a friend and now has anywhere from 15 to 80 people at any given event. This comes from a pool of 200 participants overall so far. “I just try to be a liaison for people to meet,” said Epstein. “I go out there and introduce myself and put my face out there. ... I really just want to be the portal, to say ‘hey, did you know this was out there, here you go.’ ” She said she works with
about four others to coordinate and maintain the alliance. Their aim is to be a hub to help promote others in the community. “We just want to continue and see more and more different people come out every time,” Epstein said. The group wants to be able to channel people into different opportunities to gather. She said she knows of a gay book club as well as people who are available to talk if someone is just com-
ing out and has questions. “We’re just a liaison, a portal to other groups and we try to unite all the different groups as much as we can and network.” The program of events for the alliance will always be evolving, she said. Locations rotate for the twice monthly happy hours and the group is open to new members. Happenings also depend on what other events are going on in the Charleston community.
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Story by Elizabeth Bowers Photos by Priscilla Thomas Once upon a time, music lovers had to send a self-addressed stamped envelope to record companies to get a music catalog, choose the music they wanted and practice even more patience until a vinyl recording finally came in the mail. Times have changed with CDs, MP3s and iTunes. This accessibility translates to finding local music as well. Independent record labels, which eliminate the middle man, are starting to emerge in small to mid-size markets throughout the United States. Sean McMillan of Rah Rah Records
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Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent are two of the essential players of Shrimp Records.
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Owen Beverly decided to get organized. The six had already toured, collaborated and essentially had their hands in each other’s music for years, so the next step was bandShrimp Records, a local label, hopes to put ing together. out its first vinyl release soon. The name Shrimp came from Trent, who Michael Trent, one of its six founding was locked in a hotel room and bored. He members, would like for his next release to read the definition of the diminutive word be pressed. and creature. “If you love it enough, you want the jacket “We decided we didn’t care how small we artwork, the vinyl,” he said. were. We’re OK with it,” he said. So far, Shrimp Records has put out Bill To the members of Shrimp, a recording Carson’s “The Great Whale: Or Say it Don’t company was about making a home for Spray it” and “Shrimp Records Compilation their music. Vol. 1” at the first Shrimp Records Show“Our own personal ventures, collective case. family band records, spin-off projects, The founders of Shrimp Records said they Christmas albums, whatever. We just wantwere given the run-around by major labels. ed somewhere to put everything that we “We were chewed up, spit out and ended do and promote it together. Family style,” up wasting a lot of time,” says Trent. Trent said. In October, Trent, Cary Ann Hearst, Joel Please see LABELS, Page 28F Hamilton, Bill Carson, Sadler Vaden and
Shrimp Records
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Some of the albums released by Tick Tock Records include works from Genrevolta and Motormouth Mabel.
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Shrimp Records’ support of all local artists grew from Charleston’s music community. “Bands really support each other here,” he said. “Everywhere else I’ve ever lived has felt more competitive.” Shrimp Records was started because of pride in Charleston’s music scene.
Tick Tock Records
“I’ve always been obsessed with records, but never had enough money to put one out. So I bought a cutter and put out a few myself.” - Sean McMillan of Rah Rah Records
PRSICILLA THOMAS
A front-runner in Charleston is Tick Tock Records. Created by Tobias Denney and Troy Thames, Tick Tock started from the duo wanting to connect with and promote true artists. “Like Lookout! Records in Berkeley (Calif.) and K Records in Olympia (Wash.), we wanted to help solidify the music scene in Charleston,” Denney says. On the label are Charlie McAlister, Sweet Tooth Nelson, Motormouth Mabel and Thank God, among others. Denney is a fan of records because of their staying power. “If a flood happened, a computer is ruined. With records, you might lose all the jackets, but vinyls will survive,” he said. He also has ventured into making mix tapes,
more info
TICK TOCK: ticktockrecords.com, fan page on facebook SHRIMP: fan page on facebook and myspace. com/shrimprecords RAH RAH: myspace.com/rahrahrecords CORD AND PEDAL: cordandpedal.com and fan page on facebook
which, like vinyls, he insists, are “coming back.” Tick Tock Mixtape #1 is available online, and includes locals such as Chris Thomas and Small Pox. While you are looking for a tape player, Mixtape #1 and all Tick Tock purchases are available in MP3 downloads. Some of Tick Tock’s records have been cut by local Sean McMillan.
Rah Rah Records
Part of the emerging label scene as well, Rah Rah Records was started by McMillan. “I’ve always been obsessed with records,” he says, “but never had enough money to put one out. So I bought a cutter and put out a few myself.”
McMillan has taken the most hands-on approach to starting a label in Charleston. Rah Rah Records has been compared to Peter King Record Manufacturing in New Zealand. King has been cutting records since 1989 for bands both unknown and international stars. “It’s easy to get burned out on the process,” McMillan says, “It’s a lot of listening to the same thing, like a record player in reverse. You send the music through an amp to the cutting head and cut the groove out on the vinyl.”
Cord and Pedal
Cord and Pedal, founded by Kevin Hanley, has had its hand in Charleston’s recording scene for 10 years. The label puts out compilations and hosts a Christmas showcase annually. A section of music during the late ’70s and early ’80s is referred to as “Killed by Death.” The typically punk scene started with a compilation CD and has since become known as a blanket term for obscure punk rock that was released by obscure record labels. Denney of Tick Tock is a fan of perusing music blogs, and is in awe of the people who have taken the time to document “Killed by Death” records. “They know the record label, artist, city, everything. It’s impressive.”
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Recession-friendly prices make Quyen a good destination BY DEIDRE SCHIPANI
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uyen, which means “bird” in Vietnamese, possesses the incongruity of a Las Vegas experience along with a Disneylike fascination for youngsters. This “bird” flies on the wings of a decent dose of authentic Vietnamese foods along with arcade games and a carnival of activities for kids. Recently remodeled, you now enter through a stand of bamboo. A dedicated space for the seafood and sushi buffet is balanced by a series of tables positioned against a long wall that is the yellow brick road to the Party Kingdom. Enlarged portraits of happy children decorate the wall. Their expressions are priceless, a testament to the fun had in the land of disco, dress-up, dinosaurs and demolition derbies. Please see QUYEN, Page 31F
restaurant review CUISINE: Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Amer-Asian CATEGORY: Neighborhood Favorite and Night Out PHONE: 573-7204 LOCATION: 1739 Maybank Highway, James Island Shopping Center FOOD: ★★★½ ATMOSPHERE: ★★½ SERVICE: ★★½ PRICE: $-$$ COSTS: Appetizers $4-$8, soups and salads $4-$18, noodle soups $8.50-$11, noodle dishes $9-$13,
rice platters $8.50-$13, specialty entrees $9-MP, lunch specials $7.50-$9, lunch entrees $7.50-$12, sushi-sashimi $3.50-$80, specialty rolls $4.50-$18, Japanese-inspired appetizers, soups, salads $5-$9. Desserts $2-$6. Asian seafood and sushi buffet at select times $12 weekdays, $14 weekends. VEGETARIAN OPTIONS: Yes BAR: Yes HOURS: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. SundayWednesday; 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Seafood and sushi
buffet: 5:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. DECIBEL LEVEL: Moderate to excited PARKING: Shopping center lot. WHEELCHAIR ACCESS: Yes OTHER: Located inside the Party Kingdom, which provides an indoor event and arcade center for children. WEB SITE: Quyen shares the Party Kingdom Web site. Visit www.partykingdomsc.com for Quyen dining specials.
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QUYEN From Page 30F
For both parents and children, Quyen spells “redemption.” Adults can take their taste buds on a culinary journey while their offspring can roam into the adventure zone of smack-n-bash, skee ball extreme, basket champ and slam dunk. Get your “com on” and enjoy a cuisine whose distinctive and bold character is a welcome refreshment from the heavier Chinese and spicier Thai. Not to mention the French culinary influences of baguettes, pates, farci and crepes. The menu is both expansive and ambitious when one considers the sushi offerings, the children’s menus, the buffet and the dinner and lunch items. For purposes of this review, we ordered from
the dinner menu. I highly recommend you try the buffet in order to best explore more Southeast Asian dishes. This is the place to have pho ($8.50-$11), which is pronounced as “fuh.” A beef-based broth is flavored with star anise, cinnamon and cloves. In fact, the aroma of the spices greets you as you open the door to Quyen. The well-seasoned broth is then poured over a mound of rice noodles that are draped with paper-thin slices of beef. It contains supple rounds of gio lua, a cross between sausage and meatball, mung bean sprouts and a platter of condiments that allows you to make this dish your own. Add some fresh mint, holy basil, a squeeze of lime, the earthy-lushness of
hoisin sauce and fiery chile puree. Use both your chopsticks and spoon to marry the solids and seasoned liquids to your mouth. Hope your child is having as much fun while Spongebob Bowling! Although this filling and value-priced dish can be ordered on its own ($8.50$9.50), you must try the Quyen Trio ($10). Crunch down on a crispy-fried egg roll filled with slippery rice vermicelli, sweet carrot strings, shrimp and faux crab. Douse it with the sweet chile sauce and spoon in some pho. You choose a smaller but generous portion of either chicken or beef pho. Then refresh your palate with a bite of the spring roll: A rice paper wrapper layered with shredded lettuce, cucumbers, carrot, pale pink shrimp, mint
and tangled mung bean noodles. Follow up with some pho and you have a complete meal. Hot, cold, crunchy, cool, sweet, heat and then repeat. All for $10. But we would not want you to miss the Vietnamese half-moon crepe ($9). A thin batter is flavored with coconut milk and cooked until its edges are crisp and brown. The belly of the crepe is filled with chicken, shrimp and bean sprouts with a little turmeric to turn the whole mass Midas. Turned onto a large platter, it is served with lettuce leaves, cilantro stems, carrot strings, cucumber slices and seasoned nuoc mam. Cradle the lettuce in your hand, add some crepe, garnish and season to taste, fold the leafy green to contain your handiwork and enjoy your “hand roll.”
Finish your meal with lobster (market price). It was $25 at the time of our visit. As part of a meal, it easily feeds three. A whole lobster (cracked to make it easy for you to extract the meat) is served with your choice among three sauces and jasmine rice. Ginger and scallion felt right to us. Be prepared to eat with your fingers pulling the tender lobster meat from the shell, enjoying the fiery ginger and mild scallion strings with bits of the floral rice. It was the icing on the cake or the adult equivalent of 400 tokens from the Party Kingdom. Quyen also has an extensive buffet that allows you to sample bits and pieces of the whole menu along with sushi. Start there and begin your Southeast Asian culinary education.
Come back for the menu of beef salad ($7.50), vermicelli noodle salad bowl ($9), rice noodle pancit ($8) and crispy whole flounder ($16). If fried rice is your usual default order at a Chinese restaurant, try Quyen’s pineapple fried rice ($13). It is served in a fresh pineapple half filled with a stirfry of your meat choice, raisins, cashews, pineapple and coconut milk. It will be a Bali Hai moment for your taste buds. And when you get your check, do not forget those children of yours scaling a mountain of bears, dressing up as queens and dueling with dinosaurs. All the while getting their own redemption as they feed the token machine for treats. It is like Vegas. Incongruity rules the house. Fun and pho under the same roof.
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A big honor for Craig Deihl Top toque
Chef Craig Deihl of Cypress has been named Chef of the Year by the Greater Charleston American Culinary Federation Chapter. This prestigious honor is bestowed upon one outstanding executive chef in the Charleston area that has demonstrated the highest standard of culinary skills, advanced the cuisine of America, and has consistently given back to the profession. Each of the 55 area members of the ACF, which includes students, chefs, culinary instructors, vendors and other hospitality members, voted.
Eat and run
Fish Restaurant at 422 King St. wants to give runners the fuel they need to maintain their energy and cross the Ravenel Bridge on Saturday for the annual Bridge Run. On Friday, Fish will host its first prerace dinner. For $14, get a stir-fry, chopped salad or soup. Fish will open at 10 a.m. Saturday for post-race celebrations and Bloody Marys, Mimosas, and a $10 lunch for re-charging those spent fuel cells. For more details call 722-3474.
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New York Magazine (Best of New York, March 2010) selected arroz de pato one of the “best dishes” of the year. You, dear reader, can now eat this dish at FIG when chef Mike Lata hosts friend and fellow chef George Mendes of Aldea in New York City. Lata will prepare hors d’oeuvres for the cocktail hour at 6:30 p.m., followed by a four-course prix- fixe dinner with arroz de pato and wine pairings at 7:30 p.m. This dinner takes place Sunday. The cost is $85 plus tax and gratuity. FIG is at 232 Meeting St. To reserve, call 805-5900 or visit www. eatatfig.com. For more in-
are Monday-Thursday 5 p.m. until midnight, Friday and Saturday until 2 a.m. O-Ku is at 463 King St. Call 7370112. Complimentary valet parking. East Bay Meeting House at 160 East Bay St. is now open. It serves pastries at 7 a.m., lunch 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and happy hour 4-7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Check out the chocolate martini. 7233446.
Market menu
Fresh on the menu now can be found at McCrady’s on Fridays and Saturdays from 5-6:30 p.m. only. The $35 three-course menu offers seasonal ingredients with simple preparations. Eat early and then enjoy the new cocktail menu at the bar featuring some of Prohibition’s finest spirits.
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Woodlands Resort and Inn has hired Casey Lavin as general manager. He is former vice president of food and beverage at The Green-
brier in West Virginia, and a former food and beverage director at The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort. Lavin replaces Bob Seidler, who has left to join Seidler and Associates in sales and marketing. On the drawing board is a new menu, new prices, new focus on the community by promoting casual dining, quick lunches and family picnics.
Popping out
Cork Neighborhood Bistro adds Friday and Saturday dinner service. Find Cork at 1067 East Montague Ave., North Charleston. Visit www.corkbistro.com or call 225-2675.
Wine, sweets
Bocci’s Italian Restaurant is now serving 16 wines by the glass along with the addition of a coffee and dessert bar. Service is 4:30-11 p.m. New lunch hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. The restaurant is at 158 Church St., www.boccis.com or 720-2121.
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with the seasons. Call first on weekends at 242-8121. Foster’s Pub serves up the grub and craft suds in Mount Pleasant. Pulling from 16 craft beers on tap and a list of 56 other beers, Foster’s serves lunch and dinner daily, opening at 11 a.m. Located at 545 Belle Station Blvd. off Long Point Road. Call 3885711. Tattooed Moose inks the former Miss Kitty’s space with a streamlined menu of sandwiches, beers and build your taste sensations between the bread. Back on the menu, the popular duck club FILE/STAFF that fans of the now-closed Cypress Chef Craig Deihl was named Chef of the Marie Laveau’s will rememYear by the Greater Charleston American Culinary ber. The restaurant is open Federation Chapter. daily from 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. On the menu: lunch, dinner, its regular menu along with formation about ALDEA, Sunday brunch and happy visit http://aldearestaurant. a tasting menu in the dining hour from 4-7 p.m. with speroom from 5-9 p.m. Reserva- cial prices on domestic and com/. tions can be made at www. imported beers. mccradysrestaurant.com or Join the Clubb O-Ku, an Indigo Road opcall 577-0025. McCrady’s is Marty Clubb, owner and eration of chef Brett McKee at 2 Unity Alley. winemaker at Ecole No. 41, and partner Steve Palmer, Carolina’s Southern Bistro opened last Thursday under will be at High Cotton for a dishes up more than shrimp the sushi and sashimi miniwinemaker’s dinner at 6:30 and grits come Easter Sunp.m. Tuesday. The evening malist chef Sean Park. Hours features a four-course dinner day and all Sundays as they with wines and tasting notes launch brunch with complimentary valet parking. provided by Clubb. The Find chef Jeremiah Bacon at complete menu is posted at High Cotton’s Web site www. 10 Exchange St. Brunch is mavericksouthernkitchens. served 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. To reserve, call 724-3800. com. Dinner is $75 plus tax The Dining Room at and gratuity. Reserve at 724Woodlands Inn is open 3815. High Cotton is at 199 Easter Sunday with the first East Bay St. seating beginning at 11:30 a.m. for brunch. The cost is Easter brunches $49 per adult plus tax and Celebrate Easter Sunday gratuity. To reserve, call 308with brunch at any of the 2115 or e-mail diningroom@ Maverick Southern Kitchwoodlandsinn.com. Woodens locations. SNOB, High lands is at 125 Parsons Road Cotton, The Old Village Post House and High Ham- in Summerville. mock (Pawleys Island) all will feature holiday menus. New to town Visit www.mavericksouthThe former Barefoot Bisernkitchens.com for comtro is now home to Luke plete menus and reservation ’n Ollie’s Pizzeria. On the information. menu, New York-style pizza McCrady’s also is open on along with a gut-busting Easter Sunday. Enjoy your bomb of a sandwich that eggs with side of gospel sing- merges a Philly cheesesteak ing. Author Holly Herrick with sausage and peppers, a also will be on hand to fill meatball sub and a mound your Easter basket with a of “mutz.” Eat the whole copy of her newest book, thing and have your photo “The Charleston Chef’s Taposted on the wall of big ble.” The brunch is $35 and eats. The restaurant is at is served 11 a.m-2 p.m. If you 1101C Ocean Blvd., Isle of prefer dinner over brunch, Palms. Now open 11 a.m.-9 McCrady’s will be serving p.m., but hours will change
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Charleston market and its readiness for this type of Japanese cuisine? A: I’m really surprised and overWHAT: O-Ku whelmed at the knowledge of Japanese hef Sean Park of O-Ku WHERE: 463 King St. cuisine and culinary experience of brings an established tenPHONE: 737-0112. Charleston’s residents. I might have ure of consulting and menu been a little worried in the beginning design to Charleston. Prior about going too far with some of my to joining The Indigo Road in South menu items, but now I’m more confiCarolina, the partnership that manQ: Tell us about your “Sushi dent than ever that I can go even furages Oak, 17 North, and now O-Ku, Institute.” ther and be more aggressive and wild chef Park was a vital component of the A: For three years I taught the art of Giorgios Hospitality Group. making sushi to private classes with no with my menu. Q: There are a few items on your With Giorgios, he assisted in menu more than five people. I taught everymenu that seem to be influenced by concept, design and restaurant openone from housewives to professional ings with the family of restaurants chefs, … anyone who was a sushi fan. I Nobu Matsuhisa’s cuisine. Are you a fan? in the Raleigh-Durham area such as love teaching the art of sushi. A: I’m a big fan of Nobu and I respect George’s Garage in Durham and Spice Q: What is it about Japanese cuisine him very much. I’m lucky to have that Street in Chapel Hill, N.C. As sushi that excites you? kind of master to look towards. He is director at Spice Street, Park began A: Japanese cuisine is really quite a legend in American Sushi history, running a private sushi institute and simple, but beautiful. It’s all about so to be compared to him is a complicontinued consulting for additional maximizing the natural flavor of the ment for me. restaurants. Park joins The Indigo fish that you are working with. We Q: What is your favorite item on the Road group with both extensive train- do lots of seasoning with ingredients ing experience and a deep appreciation such as ponzu and wasabi, but it’s only menu right now? A: Probably the Yellowtail Carpaccio, for Asian cuisine. to accentuate the natural taste, never but I also love the Kobe Beef Tataki Q: Was it difficult for The Indigo to be stronger or more powerful than with balsamic ponzu. Road group to draw you to Charlesthe beautiful flavors of the fish itself. Q: If you weren’t a chef, what would ton? I think Charleston customers deserve you be doing? A: Not really. Charleston is such a this and I am ready to sell these highA: I would probably be a calligraphy beautiful city with so much history end delicacies to this market. It’s wonartist. I have studied calligraphy for 12 and a culinary elegance that is perfect derful that people who love fine Japafor me. The people are also so nice nese cuisine no longer have to travel to years and I’ll be doing that here at the restaurant for small, private parties. I here and, of course, to be near the New York to have it. love writing. ocean is wonderful. Q: How do you feel about the
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he Griffon is known as one of Charleston’s authentic English pubs, and it has everything you’d expect from a good pub — an awesome beer selection and the best fish ’n’ chips for your buck. Bartender George Rainey shares his guesstimate for how much money is taped to the ceiling and what to order from the Griffon’s sturdy menu. Stop inside on your way to the Waterfront Park. Q: How long have you worked here? A: It will be about two years this April. Q: What do you love about working next to the water? A: The constant flow of people. They are always walking by. Q: How many dollar bills are lining this building? A: $3,287. I make up a new number every time someone wants to know. I get asked a lot!
Q: What is your favorite item on the Griffon’s menu? A: The fish ’n chips, by far. It’s the best in Charleston! Q: What liquor drink do all your customers tend to order? A: It’s a toss-up between a Red Bull with vodka or a bourbon with ginger, depending on the evening. Charleston is a bourbon-loving city — even for the ladies. Q: What is a popular beer choice? A: The Shock Top. It’s $2.50 all the time. We also serve a lot of PBR. And our craft beer selection is one of the best around overall. We offer
plenty of different beers from all over the place, and it’s a lot for the size of this pub. Q: What shot do you take pride in inventing? A: I did not invent this, but it’s one of my signature drinks. The ladies in particular love it. It’s Grand Marnier, peach schnapps and cranberry. To find out the name of it, come and order it from me; it’s not suitable to print. Q: What’s your favorite place to go in Charleston? A: I would say it’s a tie between McCrady’s and Slightly North of Broad. But honestly, I also love THIS bar. I came here a lot before I started working here, and I still love to have a drink here. Q: Have you ever fallen in love while bartending? A: Nightly. Q: What’s your hangover tip for us? A: Lots of water and some greasy food. Although, the greasy food can backfire ... so let’s go with greasy food in moderation.
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Hip, casual Tattooed Moose opens across from Santi’s
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hen I heard that the folks who run Voodoo Lounge in West Ashley were starting a new venture downtown, my curiosity was piqued. When visiting, it became obvious that the new establishment had the ingredients to become one of the coolest new hot spots in Charleston. The Tattooed Moose is a deli by day and late into the night (the kitchen stays open ’til 1 a.m.) but is also a welcome addition to the bar scene. Located on Morrison Drive in the old “Miss Kitty’s” location and across from the popular Mexican restaurant Santi’s, customers are greeted upon enter-
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ing by a giant moose head (strangely enough, I didn’t see any tattoos). On the night of my visit, I recognized bartenders from both Voodoo and A.C.’s Bar & Grill and customers I’d known from those bars and others, such as The Mill in North Charleston and the Tin Roof in West Ashley. It seemed everyone was coming to check out the new place. No one ap-
peared disappointed. Neither was I. The Tattooed Moose is hip, yet casual — cool, yet unpretentious. Bellying up to the bar with a friend, the vibe had just the right balance of being laid back while still festive, and I instantly knew I would be making repeat visits (and already have). It’s also in a part of town that is still downtown without the heavy traffic or late-night congestion, which will be a plus for many. The Tattooed Moose does brunch, bands and “craft” brews and, from what I hear, makes a mean deli sandwich. I plan on enjoying each, and the folks at Tattooed Moose are to be congratulated for opening one of the more promising new ventures in town.
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ne of the most anticipated events of spring is the Lowcountry Cajun Festival, celebrating its 19th year this weekend. The Cajun Fest takes place in James Island County Park, from noon-6 p.m. Sunday. It’s a time to enjoy foods reminiscent of Louisiana, music, and the most infamous part of the day — the crawfish-eating contest. “We’re hoping to make next year, our 20th anniversary, a big deal,” says Sarah Reynolds, event coordinator for Charleston County Parks. “We have this event to celebrate Cajun culture and to allow people to experience their food and lifestyle here in the Lowcountry. It’s a fun festival and it kicks off the spring.” Food is one of the main attractions of the festival. Of course, the highlights are Cajun specialties such as crawfish (both in the contest and for the meeker types who just want to try the etouffee), jambalaya, gumbo, fried alligator, and red beans with rice. If you aren’t into the Cajun fare, or if you just love
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traditional carnival foods, plenty of those are available as well. Vendors will have hot dogs, hamburgers, fried dough and other goodies. A few new vendors are planning to attend the festival this year, such as Zeus Grille and Seafood of Mount Pleasant. As far as beverages, there will be a variety of beers, including Abita, a classic beer of New Orleans. Non-alcoholic choices like sodas, fresh lemonade and bottled water will be there, too. The most enticing part of the festival, the crawfish-eating contest, takes place at 2:30 pm. Guests may enter the contest for free, but they must register at the crawfish tent. “People enter the crawfish-eating contest for various reasons,” laughs Reynolds. “Some people do it just to eat free crawfish, but a lot of people are really into it. They’re into showing their skills and they consider themselves to be connois-
seurs of eating crawfish!” Nonstop music and dancing is another festival attraction, and the band lineup for Sunday includes authentic Louisiana zydeco music. The two bands, Nathan Williams and the Zydeco Cha Chas, plus Leroy Thomas and the Zydeco Roadrunners, are new performers to the festival and promise to be a great time. While adults listen to music and eat authentic foods, kids can enjoy their own brand of fun. Children 12 and under get into the festival free. Kiddie rides and attractions like jump-castles, slides, a climbing wall, swings and other games will ensure that the under-12 set has a great time. There also will be a craft market with local items to peruse. “We also encourage people to carpool as much as they can,” says Reynolds. The event is large, and it really helps with parking. Plus, it’s better for the environment!
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umerous advantages attend cinema owners who also happen to be filmmakers. They are “in the current” in terms of knowledge of film production. They know what is in the pipeline and how likely it is to pour into theaters. They are savvy about what does and doesn’t work. And they have industry connections that extend well beyond distribution networks, exhibitor associations and marketing gurus. Paul Brown and Barbara Tranter grasp the baton as owners of the Terrace Theatre from Mike Furlinger on April 2, and as new residents of the city, they are prepared to hit the ground running. Doubtless gratifying to Terrace loyalists is the news that the Canadian transplants envision no dramatic changes from the art house format. If anything, the ethic will be reinforced. “Our goal is simply to play the best movies,” says Brown, producer of such independent features as “Breakfast With Scot” and “The Assistant.” “Barbara and I have dedicated ourselves and our careers to making films in the independent world, and now, with the support of the Charleston community, we hope to extend the best movies to what we think is the best audience. We have also dedicated our careers to films that stimulate thought and reflection, which is what we want to show at the Terrace.” Brown and Tranter, who also own the Aurora The-
New owners Paul Brown and Barbara Tranter prepare to take over the Terrace Theatre on April 2. ater in East Aurora, N.Y., explored several areas in the U.S. before deciding on settling here. “What attracted us to Charleston and to the Terrace was a wonderful sense of community with a grounding in an art film world, which is very attractive to us. We think this niche, with this audience,
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he Vikings on the island of Berk have this pest problem: dragons. They’re dogged by dragons of every shape, size and description: the Thunder Drum variety and the “Scaldrons,” who won’t burn you with fire, but with scalding hot water. Whispering Death is a particular nuisance. Worst of all is the Night Fury. You can’t even see that dragon when it plunges out of the darkness to snatch people and livestock, burn barns and homes, and generally lower property values. But the burly Vikings of Berk fight fire with fire, and dragons with burrs — Scottish burrs. They all sound like Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson, you see. Or the adult ones do. Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) is a scrawny kid who longs to do his part because “killing a dragon is everything
around here.” But he’ll have to do it with inventions. He’s plainly not tough enough to handle a broadsword or battle axe to the satisfaction of his dad, the stoic chieftain Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler). Hiccup’s lack of a killer instinct and inability to impress his dad come to a head when he captures a Night Fury. Because once he sees how gentle dragons can be (he can ride them, just like in “Avatar”), Dad will no longer be upset that Hiccup can’t kill them. Hiccup learns “How to Train Your Dragon.” Won’t the Vikings be pleased? Or at least shocked? Dreamworks hired the directors of “Lilo & Stitch” to turn Cressida Cowell’s romp of a novel into an animated film and can’t be too surprised that they made, in essence, “Hiccup and Stitch.” It’s a cuddly cartoon character comedy that emphasizes heart over one-liners, message over laughs. Casting funny folks like Jonah Hill and Kristin Wiig in sup-
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porting roles to little effect, they emphasize the ★★ ½ (of 5) father-son, boy-comDIRECTORS: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois. munity dynamic, with Hiccup as a reluctant STARRING: The voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Amerdragon slayer among ica Ferrera, Craig Ferguson. manly hack-first, askRATED: PG for sequences of intense action and some scary questions-later Vikings. images, and brief mild language. “It’s only fun if you get RUN TIME: 1 hour, 38 minutes. pain out of it!” WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www. But as sweet as it is, postandcourier.com/preview and offer your opinthere’s not enough heart ion of the film. or farcical action (dragon slaying training) to this will be the wimpiest Viking movie make up for the lack of ready laughs. ever, which may be the point. This harks No matter how adorably Stitch-like the back to that 1980s movie and TV series, Night Fury is (rolling on his back like “The Reluctant Dragon.” a dog, making those big Disney eyes), I It’s more coming-of-age dramedy or “evwanted more Viking jokes, more bluster from Butler, more zingers from Ferguson erything about your world view is wrong” message movie than it is a comedy. And (the late-night host voices a peg-legged blacksmith). “Oh, Thor almighty” doesn’t that seems like a waste of a funny book, some very funny actors and some darned cut it. Casting Baruchel as the lead ensures that witty animation.
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box office top 10 Estimates as of March 22.
1. “Alice in Wonderland”............ $34.5 million 2. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” .......... $21.8 million 3. “The Bounty Hunter” .................$21 million 4. “Repo Men” ............................... $6.2 million 5. “She’s Out of My League” ............$6 million 6. “Green Zone” ................................$6 million 7. “Shutter Island” ........................ $4.8 million 8. “Avatar” .........................................$4 million 9. “Our Family Wedding”............. $3.8 million 10. “Remember Me” ..................... $3.3 million – www.hollywood.com/boxoffice AP/DISNEY
Aniston leaves her A-game at home in silly ‘Bounty Hunter’ AP
BY ROGER MOORE The Orlando Sentinel
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hree films into his romantic comedy career, Gerard Butler has finally reached “watchable.” With “The Bounty Hunter,” the bemused Scots leading man comes closer to setting off sparks with his newest leading lady, Jennifer Aniston. The comedy isn’t much better than Butler’s earlier outings. (“The Ugly Truth” was a critically reviled box-office hit.) But at least Aniston, when she has to, can faintly recall the timing and energy it takes to fake the comic charm she had on TV’s “Friends.” Butler plays an ex-cop named Milo Boyd with a gambling problem and an ongoing grudge against his ex-wife, a career-minded reporter. Nowadays, Boyd is a bounty hunter, tracking down crooks who skip out on bail, handcuffing them even if he has to chase them, on stilts, through the middle of a July 4th parade. When his ex-wife, Nicole (Aniston) misses a court date and her bail bondsman
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DIRECTOR: Andy Tennant STARRING: Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Jeff Garlin, Carol Kane, Cathy Moriarty RATED: PG-13 for sexual content including suggestive comments, language and some violence RUN TIME: 1 hour, 50 minutes WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
(Jeff Garlin) is out $50,000, Milo takes the gig. But a reporter on a big story involving murder and corruption won’t be easy to track. Unless, of course, you used to be married to her. When Milo finds her, he’s a good sport. “Tell you what. You want to make a break for it, I’ll give you a 10-second head start, for old time’s sake!” Thus begins a cross-state odyssey in which a killer, the cops, a smitten fellow reporter (Jason Sudeikis, kind of funny) and enforcers for a bookie (Cathy Moriarty) chase our never-compatible couple, two people whose “trust issues” aren’t resolved by Milo’s handcuffs. Aniston doesn’t bring her
game to this. But at least she’s not quiet and reserved and no-energy, her approach to too many roles of late. Butler makes the most of his Neanderthal rut: too many roles that rely on the twinkle in his eye, his manly voice and manly stubble. Of the many recognizable supporting players, only the formidable Christine Baranski (“Mamma Mia!”) scores. Director Andy “Fool’s Gold” Tennant makes sure the whole shooting match devolves into a shooting match, which only makes one appreciate Butler’s romantic comedy efforts more. If he’s co-starring with Jen, at least he’s not making another “Gamer.” Or “Law Abiding Citizen.”
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Familiar laughs await in the ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ R35-249655
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John Cusack and Clark Duke in Hot Tub Time Machine.
BY ROGER MOORE The Orlando Sentinel
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ot Tub Time Machine’s” title may say it all. But just in case it doesn’t, here’s an alternative: “Back to the Hangover.” A sloppy, raucous, time travel farce in the grown-men-gone-wild “Hangover” style, it’s a surprisingly satisfying, if not exactly a laugh riot. Nick (Craig Robinson) works at a dog grooming parlor, “ ’Sup Dawg.’ ” But back in the day, he had a band. Adam (John Cusack) just got dumped. Again. He’s a lonely insurance agent, but once upon a time, he had friends. And Lou (Rob Corddry) has become a “raging alcoholic,” a guy whose life is so trapped in the past that he’s hospitalized after jamming out to hair metal in his vintage Trans Am in his garage — nearly asphyxiating himself. He used to be the life of the party, “Lou-cipher, aka Violator.” Lou’s carbon monoxide moment forces all of them to ask, “What happened to us?” “We were young,” Adam whines. “We had momentum. We were
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★★½ (of 5) DIRECTOR: Steve Pink. STARRING: John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, Lizzy Kaplan, Crispin Glover. RATED: R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language. RUN TIME: 1 hour, 30 minutes. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
winning.” They resolve to recapture past glory by making a road trip to the ski lodge of their youth, reviving Lou with a little snow and hedonism. Kodiak Valley is now a dump, the bellhop (Crispin Glover, a hoot) now an embittered, one-armed jerk. But a short circuit in a hot tub changes everything — the hair, the clothes, the “Alf” playing on the TV in the background. The male-bonders have landed back in their alleged heyday, the ’80s. Adam’s nerdy nephew (Clark Duke of “Sex Drive”) is the one to figure it out because, “I write ‘Stargate’ FAN fiction!” What follows is a hit-or-miss riff on a decade that has never provoked the sort of fond nostalgia that the ’50s,
’60s or ’70s did. As Cusack’s Adam mutters, “Reagan. And AIDS. I HATE this decade!” But as they struggle to take what they know of time travel from bad movies (“The Butterfly Effect” is a point of reference), they discover where they went wrong, the details their memories got wrong, how they let each other down, how their “momentum” changed. There are some big laughs (Robinson lands most of them), a few great running gags (how Glover’s character lost his arm) and the “Back to the Future” sweet moments of reflection mostly work. It’s not “The Hangover,” but at least this “Hot Tub” won’t have you hating yourself in the morning.
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Amanda Seyfried as Chloe. SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
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in this she is very articulate. It’s deceptively nuanced work by an emerging young actress, far more demanding than the conventionalities of “Dear John.” But Moore, in full edgy mode, matches her scene for scene, embodying the anxieties (and irrationalities) of a middle-age woman who feels shut out by her husband and son. It’s a performance of unsettling potency. Neeson, though the linchpin of the story in some respects, simply hasn’t all that much to do, while Max Thieriot is solid as the Stewarts’ vaguely troubled (we never learn why) son, who is detached from and repelled by his parents. Both the photography (polished) by Paul Sarossy and the script (taut) by Erin Cressida Wilson have an unmistakable whiff of exploitation, but Egoyan knows how to skirt the precipice and keep the movie from tumbling off the deep end. Not for every taste, to be sure, but “Chloe” is not a film that is easily dismissed.
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firm (or disprove) her suspicions by hiring Chloe to flirt with Da★★★ (of 5) vid to see how he reacts. ysteries within myster- DIRECTOR: Atom Egoyan. Chloe reports back with details ies. Nothing is quite that are increasingly disturbing STARRING: Julianne Moore, what it seems. to Catherine, yet increasingly Liam Neeson, Amanda SeyCanadian director Atom erotic. Before she knows what fried, Max Thieriot. Egoyan can be counted on for hit her, Catherine loses what RATED: R for strong sexual any number of arresting effects: little control she had over the content including graphic dia palpably melancholy tone, a alogue, nudity and language. situation and gets snared in a sense of inevitability, a highly web of her own design. RUN TIME: 1 hour 36 minutes. charged sexual undercurrent, Or is it? WHAT DID YOU characters perplexed by the Egoyan, whose high-water THINK?: Find this nature of their own motivations mark remains “The Sweet Herereview at www. and, above all, misdirection. after” (1997), has a spellbinding charlestonscene.com and He also has a way of renderstyle that sometimes obscures offer your opinion of the film. ing a story that is at once intia paucity of content. For much emotionally remote family and of its length, “Chloe” is rife with mate yet oddly dispassionate. unnerves the audience as much sexual tension, not to mention In “Chloe,” he has produced a as the people she manipulates. steamy sojourn into sexual obexplicit sex. But one begins to Julianne Moore and Liam session that is a meld of “Fatal wonder: In aid of what? Other Neeson have top billing as Cath- than simple titillation, what Attraction” and his own “Exotica” (1995), but for a few minor erine and David Stewart, but it is does the film examine? What the wife whose insecurities drive does it reveal? Patience, for he flaws, better than either. events. The Stewarts have been The “it” girl of the moment, does have something in mind. growing apart for years, and “Dear John” star Amanda SeySeyfried lends Chloe a meaCatherine, though still beautifried, owns the title role, and sure of vulnerability and confuful, feels old and invisible. She we do mean owns. Seductively sion as well as an almost clinical also thinks her husband may be certainty in the power of her wide-eyed, coyly provocative, she stars as a call girl who enters having an affair with one of his sexual allure. Her sole form of students. So she sets out to con- “communication” is sex, and the lives of a prosperous but
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44F.Thursday, March 25, 2010___________________________________________ CHARLESTONSCENE.COM __________________________________________________ The Post and Courier * Movies opening this week SCORE: Out of 5 stars G: General Audiences PG: Parental Guidance PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned, some content unsuitable for children under 13 NR: Not Rated R: Restricted
THE BLIND SIDE
★★★★ PG-13
Based on a true story, the film follows high school football player Michael Oher from rags to riches with the help of family. Citadel 16: Fri-Tue: 12:30, 4
SAEED ADYANI/OVERTURE FILMS/AP
THE BOUNTY HUNTER
Radha Mitchell is shown in a scene from, “The Crazies.”
★1/2
PG-13
DISNEY/AP
Helena Bonham Carter appears in a scene from the film, “Alice in Wonderland.”
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
★★★
PG
Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston star in this romantic comedy about a bounty hunter in search of his ex-wife.
Cinebarre: Today: 11, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun: 11, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Thurs, April 1: 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 1: 11:40, 2, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 James Island 8: Fri, Mon-Thurs, April 1: 4:05, 7, 9:40 Sat-Sun: 1:30, 4:05, 7, 9:40
Bad Blake, a down on his luck country music singer who has led a seasoned life of boozing and womanizing meets a reporter and reflects on his choices.
SONY PICTURES CLASSICS/AP
Citadel 16: Today: 12:45, 3:05, 5:20, 8:10 IMAX: Today: 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 7, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 7:10, 9:30 Thurs, April 1: 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 7:10 Regal 18: Thurs, Mar. 11: 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05
AVATAR
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CRAZY LIKE A FOX N/A
CHLOE
PG-13
★★★
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A woman puts her family in danger when she hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she believes is cheating. Terrace: Fri: 4, 7, 9:20 Sat: 2, 4, 7, 9:20 Sun-Thurs, April 1: 2, 4, 7
★★★
Cinebarre: Today: 10:45, 1:45, 4:15, 7:25, 10:10
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Amanda Seyfried (left) and Liam Neeson are shown in a scene from “Chloe.”
PG
In a small Iowa town, residents are losing their minds after drinking from the contaminated water supply.
★★★★★
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★★★
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CRAZY HEART
Alice returns to Wonderland at the age of 19 and visits some of her old friends while hashing out her true calling: to destroy the Red Queen. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3D
THE CRAZIES
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CREATION N/A
PG-13
PG-13
*CLASH OF THE TITANS
Jake Sully is a disabled Marine enlisted to fight in a war on another planet with the hopes of regaining the use of his limbs through the Avatar program where hybrid beings are mentally controlled by their human counterparts. The planet Pandora is inhabited by tall, blue creatures named Na’vi, and are anything but excited about the encroachment of the outsiders. Directed by James Cameron.
N/A
Charles Darwin copes with his theory and how it affects the beliefs of his pious wife.
Sam Worthington stars as Perseus, mortal son of Zeus, who sets out on a journey to defeat the evil inhabitants of the underworld.
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
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COP OUT
Greg Heffley is a witty middle school student just trying to get through the days without looking like an idiot.
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A New York city cop is robbed of the only thing that can pay for his daughter’s wedding, a rare collectible baseball card.
PG-13
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AVATAR 3D
THEATERS
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THE GHOST WRITER
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF
THE HURT LOCKER
★★★
★★★★★
A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
This Oscar award-winner follows a group of soldiers fighting in Iraq who are assigned to a bomb squad unit.
GREENBERG
THE LAST SONG
PG-13
★★★
R
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★★★
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REMEMBER ME
PG
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother’s assistant. Stars Ben Stiller.
Percy Jackson just might be the descendant of Zeus, but that doesn’t give him the right to steal his ancestor’s thunder. Based on the popular young adult novels.
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Miley Cyrus stars as a rebellious girl who finds love after she is sent to a beach town to live with her father for the summer. Citadel 16: Wed-Thurs, April 1: 11:35, 1:50, 4, 7:20, 9:40
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★
PG-13 The story of love brought about after unusual circumstances in New York City.
GREEN ZONE
Cinebarre: Today-Sun: 10:30, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Thurs, April 1: 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Citadel 16: Fri-Tue: 7:10, 9:40 James Island 8: Fri-Thurs, April 1: 4, 9:50
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REPO MEN
★★½
★½
Matt Damon goes rogue in familiar territory as an Army officer in search of weapons of mass destruction.
R
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Instead of the repo man taking back your car when the payment’s late, in the future, he takes back your artificial heart.
Cinebarre: Today-Sun: 10:55, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35 Mon-Thurs, April 1: 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 1: noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:40 James Island 8: Fri, Mon-Thurs, April 1: 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun: 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50
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*HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
★★½
STEPHAN RABOLD/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS/AP
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Four men on vacation travel back to the ‘80s via a hot tub.
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:20, 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Thurs, April 1: 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:15 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 1: 11:45, 2, 4:10, 7:30, 9:45 James Island 8: Fri, Mon-Thurs, April 1: 5, 7:30, 10 Sat-Sun: noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10
★★½ PG-13
THE LAST STATION
When an average Joe meets the girl of his dreams, the only thing stopping them is each other.
★★★★
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A young Viking becomes the owner of a dragon and changes his mind about wanting to become a dragon hunter.
THEATERS
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Leo Tolstoy’s story of wealth and fortune amidst the turmoil of 19th Century Russia. Starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren and Paul Giamatti.
*HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE
Helen Mirren (from left), Anne-Marie Duff, foreground, and Paul Giamatti shown in a scene from, “The Last Station.”
OUR FAMILY WEDDING
SHUTTER ISLAND
★★★★ R
Leonardo DiCaprio plays U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels working on a case surrounding a mysterious disappearance from a mental institution. Directed by Martin Scorsese.
★★★★ PG-13
Two feuding fathers learn the hard way of letting bygones be bygones when their offspring are engaged to be married. Starring Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia. Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 1: noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35
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S.C. Arts Commission’s call to action and Beaufort’s art walk
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lanning for healthier economic times, the S.C. Arts Commission invites the public to share their priorities for the arts at any of several forums that have been taking place over the past few weeks. The meetings are part of the 2010 Canvas of the People, a statewide planning process that will inform the 2011-20 LongRange Plan for the Arts in South Carolina. “We want to hear what people value about the arts and how they think the arts can support the economic, educational and creative well-being of their communities,” said Ken May, acting executive director. “We will use that input to help develop the next long-range plan for the arts, which the statewide arts community can use as a road map for the future.” The forums are free and open to everyone. Each runs 6:45-8 p.m. There is one this evening in Aiken at the Aiken Center for the Arts, and another Monday at North Charleston City Hall. Registration is not required. Come and speak your mind! Visit www.SouthCarolinaArts.com/canvas2010 or contact Milly Hough at (803) 734-8698 or by e-mail at
mhough@arts.sc.gov.
Guild of Beaufort Galleries
Chosen as one of the 100 Best Art Towns in America, Beaufort stays true to its title this weekend. Eager to celebrate the warmth and beauty of spring, 11 galleries closely nestled in the downtown area will host the Guild of Beaufort Galleries’ annual Spring Art Walk 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday. Attendees are invited to begin at the Four Winds Gallery at 709 Bay St., where the work of abstract expressionist Casa Bacot will be featured. Her vibrant watercolors are reminiscent of Matisse in composition and color creations. Next door, the I. Pinckney Simons Gallery is presenting a collection of original handmade Gullah dolls by artist Barbara Geesey. Bay Street Gallery will be introducing the Lowcountry inspired work of Ashley Hefner and mosaic sculptures by Nancy Pollock. Across the street, The Gallery will be showing Savannah-based painter David Ryden’s first solo exhibit of his animal paintings from around the world. On the same side of Bay Street is The Craftseller, known as a contemporary gallery of American crafts, overflowing with color and creativity. Indigo Gallery’s featured artist, Sandra Baggette, says, “When a friend presented me with so many flowers, I could not wait to start a large painting to include them all.” Rhett Gallery exhibits the work of four generations
of family artists: James, Nancy, William Jr. and William Rhett III. Featured this month is the wildlife art of Bill Rhett. Local artist Mary Jane Martin is the featured painter at Art & Soul with her new series called “Return to the Scene of the Crime — Revisiting Pattern, Color and Texture.” Just across the street is the Beaufort Art Association Gallery, housed in the historic Elliott House. The gallery represents more than 75 member artists, offering a wide selection of original works of art in ceramics, jewelry, photography, woodwork, prints and paintings. Ly Bensons Gallery & Studio will feature Shona Verdite sculptures by various artists from Zimbabwe, Africa, and original photographs by Gullah photographer and gallery owner the Rev. Kennneth F. Hodges. Verdite, also known as “Africa’s Green Gold,” is a semiprecious stone over 3.5 million years old found only in Southern Africa. Further down the block, at the Charles Street Gallery, the architectural watercolors of Robert Steinmetz and the photographs of Paul Keyserling will be shown. “After a leisurely stroll through these delightful galleries, all within a few blocks of each other, you’ll know just why Beaufort with its myriad forms of art, is so intriguing and captivating. Truly, one of the best Art Towns in America …,” says Nancy Rhett of the Guild of Beaufort Galleries. For more info, call 5211234.
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WEB SITE: www.fredpaintings.com CONTACT INFO: fredjamar@bellsouth.net; 7625770. BIRTH DATE: August 1940. RESIDENCE: Downtown, 10 years. Currently on James Island, three years. FAMILY: Son, Christophe; Daughters, Marie, Emmanuelle and Stephanie; grandsons, Nicholas, Victor and Dakota; granddaughters, Brielle, Zoe, Danielle, Theresa, Isabelle and Valerie. EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science in nautical science, Maritime College, Antwerp, Belgium (1964); Bachelor of Art, business administration, (1970) and master’s degree in finance, University of Louvain, Belgium (1972). CAREER: Merchant Marine officer, Compagnie Maritime Belge (1961-66); vice president, credit risk management, J.P. Morgan & Cie (1967-97); artist painter (since 1997). GOALS: Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy! WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?: “Survivre les Crises” By Jacques Attali. PRICE RANGE: $300 to $8,000. WHERE IS YOUR ARTWORK FEATURED LOCALLY?: Robert Lange Studio at 2 Queen St., Photographics Michael Cyra at Freshfields in Kiawah; Horizon Gallery in Savannah.
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Fred Jamar: Belgium-born artist offers a ‘Private View’
elgium born and raised, Fred Jamar is inspired by the Charleston landscape, creating oil paintings that are motivated by photographs of narrow cobblestone streets and hidden alleyways. Currently on exhibit at Robert Lange Studios until April 1 is Jamar’s collection of new oil paintings titled “Private View.” His work is rich with color and fantasy; the expressionistic bubble trees and looming sky create intensity and whimsy. At his house one Sunday afternoon, Jamar told me about his life: how he worked for J.P. Morgan in finance and how art was not a path he felt encouraged to follow by his family. Upon taking early retirement from finance, Jamar now paints every day, following his compulsion to express himself through art and motivated by novelist George Eliot’s quote, “It is never too late to become what you might have been.” Jamar easily could teach art, show at more exhibits or focus on selling paintings, but he doesn’t. All he’s ever wanted to do is paint, and now every morning, he gets to live the life he’s always imagined. Jamar spends his time on commission pieces, preparing for the Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition, reading, enjoying life and spending time with family and friends. About painting, Jamar said, “I love it. It makes me dream. It keeps me young.”
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‘Short Attn. Span Thtr’ offers fresh, fast-paced production PROVIDED BY THOMAS MICHAL
if you go WHAT: Midtown/Sheri Grace Productions’ “Short Attn. Span Thtr.” WHERE: Charleston Acting Studio, 915 Folly Road. WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday. TICKETS: $8 general; $5 actor’s rush. MORE INFORMATION: www.midtownproductions.org.
f you have ADD, you’re in luck. You also may be in luck if you have any interest in lawn fungus, attempted suicide, disgruntled donut shop employees, alcohol-induced blackouts, the letter “W” or the number “7.” This weekend, Midtown/Sheri Grace Productions debuts Vol. 1 of its monthly assortment of live theater, sketch comedy and short films in its Charleston Acting Studio on James Island. “Short Attn. Span Thtr” is three nights only and just an hour long. It is for older teens, students and young adults. Seven original sketches will be accompanied by commercials and fake movie trailers. Shows will vary every month with new material. “We have a projector screen and it can turn into a movie theater at the drop of a hat,” said Ryan Ahlert, co-producer of Midtown/Sheri Grace Productions and coordinator of the Charleston Acting Studio. “So we go from live stage things to stuff on film and then back to the stage. The transition process is very short. There’s never a slow moment. There is always something going on. We’re still trying to make you laugh, even in the transitions.” He says it’s a chance for the community to see fresh theater and fresh talent. Eventually, he plans on evolving the sketch comedy and short film groups into a separate, late-night production. They would present after the monthly Short Attn. Span Thtr. “Theater doesn’t always have to be two hours of some boring old playwright’s material that you’ve seen over and over and over again. Going to Shakespeare can be so tedious,” Ahlert said. “But this is a fresh form of theater and I want to open people’s eyes up and give, mainly James Island, a place that they can come and see something a little bit different, and see something affordable and entertaining in their neighborhood.” In the future, Ahlert hopes to make some pieces more audience participatory. In the intimate theater house, that won’t be a problem. It seats 40 comfortably, 50 with standing room. Upcoming renovations this summer will expand it to about 80 seats.
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LAST WEEK’S PUZZLEANSWERS
Sheridan Hough on poetry and the difficulties of being a woman in the field of philosophy
the discussions that follow become terrific material for everything. But I also get ideas for my novel characheridan Hough is a ters, for short stories and for philosophy teacher, poems while I’m engaged wife, published poet with my students. And I and magazine editor. She must tell you that the silence wears many hats, and they all seem to fit. She sat down during an exam is the most rapt, velvety-breath-held with Charleston Scene and quiet there is; I love to comdished on two of her loves: pose poems while I’m giving writing and philosophy. finals. Hough’s books can be Q: You were the first womfound at Blue Bicycle Books on King Street as well as on- an to reach the rank of full line booksellers such as Am- professor in C of C’s department of philosophy. Why do azon. On May 6, the poet will be doing a reading with you think that this field is typically a man’s game? the Litchfield Tea & Poetry A: That’s a tricky question. Series 3-4 p.m. at the WacThe discipline of philosophy camaw Higher Education is still a fiercely defended Center on Pawleys Island. male enclave. The situation Q: You teach philosophy continues to improve, but at the College of Charleston. How does teaching af- we do have a long way to go. When I entered the philosofect your writing? phy graduate program at the A: All of my writing projects get fed in the classroom. University of California, Berkeley, I was joining the My lectures are one form most diverse group ever adof composition, and then BY KATRINA ROBINSON
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mitted to the program (four men, four women; one African-American, one Hispanic, one from Iceland and me, from suburban Texas). Three of us made it to graduation, and I was the lone female. As for the larger picture, about 17 percent to 30 percent of all working philosophers are women. I hasten to add that my colleagues here at the college have always been wonderfully supportive of me and my work. I now have two other terrific female colleagues, Deborah Boyle and Jennifer Baker. Q: Tell me about your recently published collection of poems, “The Hide.” A: “The Hide” is in two parts: “Skins” and “Sanctuaries”; the “Skins” are poems about the kind of personae we adopt as we make our way in the world, and the “Sanctuaries” are poems that survey the places where we feel safe, and what indeed consti-
tutes this sense of safety. This collection had a funny start in life: I was invited to read two of these poems at a gathering in 2005, and I got lots of praise and encouragement — and this after I was caught hiding my poems under the couch, hoping that I wouldn’t have to read them! Q: You’re the editor of Cheek. Tell me about this publication. A: Cheek the magazine is the latest incarnation of a newsletter that I started for (what was then) Women’s Studies in 1997. Over the years, everyone in the program decided that we needed to have something a bit glossier and more formal. The newsletter The Forum always ran terrific articles, but the format had its limitations; the new magazine style can showcase these pieces with great artwork and graphics. The next issue will be out in the fall of 2010.
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monday night blues PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM LUNDY
East Bay Meeting House’s new location, 160 East Bay Street, still holds a healthy amount of people. It is across the street from its old location. Above, poet Lydia Cortes shares her work last week.
New location proves to be a cozy environment for performers
Without Monday Night Blues, it was just another day.” The owner of East Bay long-running Meeting House, Robine Katliterary event in tas, decided to find a new Charleston, Mon- location for his coffee bar afday Night Blues, ter the lease expired. He was has called the East Bay lucky enough to get a new Meeting House its home for place right across the street, a while. But just recently, and still on East Bay. “Of all the East Bay Meeting House things, they are putting a moved into a different wedding chapel into the old building across the street location!” laughs Lundy. from its old spot. The first The new environment is Monday Night Blues in the decidedly more intimate, new building took place ear- which can mean good ly this month, after a long things for folks looking for break since December. a real listening experience. Jim Lundy, the event’s “The interior is perhaps half emcee, expressed joy that the size of our old home,” the series has resumed. “I says Lundy. “After holding am definitely excited about the event in the new locaeveryone being back,” he tion, I think it’s actually says. “Monday is normally better. Everybody feels conmy favorite day of the week. nected to what is going on
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at the microphone. You’re in the midst of it all, no matter where you’re sitting.” The lineup usually begins with an hourlong feature, followed by open mike. The show welcomes both writers and musicians, and typically features a healthy dose of each. “The first evening was a success by any standards,” says Lundy. “The show’s format is unchanged. We had a strong turnout of our core regulars, plus firsttimers for the open mike. Our featured musician that night was Aaron Levy of White Rhino. The open mic list that followed was heavy on talent. Whenever a new person performs, they get an extra round of applause since it’s a special occasion.” No doubt the new location of the EBMH will be
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WHAT: Monday Night Blues open mic poetry and music WHEN: Every Monday, from 8-11 p.m. WHERE: East Bay Meeting House, 160 East Bay Street HOW MUCH: free INFO: Search for “Monday Night Blues” on Facebook or call 7233446.
just as popular, and Monday Night Blues will continue to thrive. Become a Facebook Fan of Monday Night Blues for the best updates and information about feature performers. “My association with Monday Night Blues has been the impetus of my growth as a poet and songwriter,” says Lundy. “The shows constantly change, due to new people drifting in all the time. It is never the same show twice.”
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the TV and feature film production company Miracle Pictures Inc. in 1990. His first feature, “I Love a Man in Uniform,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and captured Genie Awards (the Canadian answer to Oscar) for best actor and best supporting actor. Not long thereafter, he opened the International Critic’s Week Program at Cannes with his second feature, “Soul Survivor,” and in 1996 produced “The Assistant,” directed by Daniel Petrie and based on the novel by Bernard Malamud. Mixing features with telefilms, Brown brought “Breakfast With Scot” to the screen in 2007. Following a screening of the picture at the recent Charleston Film Festival, the Terrace will reprise the film in April. Starring Golden Globe nominees Tom Cavanagh (“Ed”) and Ben Shenkman (“Angels in America”), “Breakfast” is an adaptation of the novel by Michael Downing and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. “What I think is so notable about the film — using humor, drama and ice hockey to tell the tale — is that it is so specific in its characters:
two very straight-seeming gay men raising a gay-er child,” Brown says. “The messages, themes, ideas and emotions are incredibly universal. I was not sure how people would react to the characters, but the emotions have touched people deeply.” In the works are a telefilm based on Booker Prize-winning author Peter Carey’s children’s novel, “The Big Bazoohley,” the feature “The Prisoner off Tehran,” and the low-budget teen romp, “Truck Stop.” Tranter is equally enthused over the prospects. “It’s exciting to think of working in a place where people appreciate good film work,” says Brown’s partner in business and in life. Tranter, who broke into the business as an art director, has produced such films as “Babyface,” “When Night Is Falling” and “White Room.” As to the division of labor, the owners describe themselves as “idea people” although he’s more detail oriented and her forte is the broad stroke. Meanwhile, the balancing act of running two theaters and making films may find Brown more often in the less hands-on role of executive producer. Neither is averse to wellmade hybrid movies —
those combining elements of indie and mainstream pictures — and they plan to maintain a brisk pace when it comes to turnover. “If you can find films that are a combination of an artfully made movie that appeals to all audiences, features such as “Juno” or “Billy Elliot,” they certainly will be considered,” says Brown, who says he intends to continue the newly introduced Charleston Film Festival. “We’re going to try to get as many films through here each year as possible. As a theater showcasing independent fare, we will try not to hold on to a given movie for more than two weeks.” The new owners also plan to introduce Charlestonarea audiences to Canadian films that often find it difficult to secure distribution in the States. “That is another of our goals since that’s where our associations and allegiances lie. But the idea is to bring a variety of pictures to the theater, like Mike did so well, in addition to bringing in people directly involved in the making of these films for lecture series.” Brown says no significant alterations to the physical plant are anticipated in the near future.
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In honor of Women’s History Month ... BY REBEKAH BRADFORD
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arch is Women’s History Month, and this week’s Head2Head Trivia highlights individual women and their contributions to art, literature, government, science, etc. Two-time champ, Kara Isaacs, is being challenged by Maureen Sutter, who’s selfemployed.
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Susan B. Anthony
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/MCT
Zora Neale Hurston wrote “Their Eyes were Watching God” while in Haiti in 1937.
QUESTIONS
1. Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court? 2. What famous women’s rights pioneer had a dollar coin named after her, making her the first woman depicted on U.S. currency? 3. Name the U.S. Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote for women. 4. Who was the Native American woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition? 5. What American painter exhibited in France with the Impressionists and is known for her portraits of women and their children? 6. Who was the first American woman in space? 7. Who wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”? 8. Who was the first notable American poet and the first woman to be published in Colonial America? 9. Name the director of “The Hurt Locker” who just won an Oscar for Best Director, the first ever for a woman? 10. What early blues singer was known as the “Empress of the Blues?”
CONCLUSION
This week, Head2Head has a new champion. Sutter knocks off Isaacs to become trivia champ, at least for the week. Stay tuned to see if she can hang on to her title.
CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Sandra Day O’Connor 2. Susan B. Anthony
KARA’S ANSWERS
1. I’m pretty sure it’s Sandra Day O’Connor. 2. Susan B. Anthony. 3. 21st? 4. Sacagawea. The reason I remember this is because of that Ben Stiller movie, “Night at the Museum.” 5. Oh, I can’t remember her name. 6. I don’t know. 7. Zora Neale Hurston. 8. Emily Barrett Browning. 9. That was so awesome. Kathryn Bigelow. 10. Dinah Washington?
3. 19th 4. Sacagawea 5. Mary Cassatt
MAUREEN’S ANSWERS 1. Ginsberg? 2. Susan B. Anthony. 3. It was the 19th Amendment. 4. Sacagawea. Is that spelled right? 5. Mary Cassatt. 6. I think it might be Sally Ride. 7. Zora Neale Hurston. 8. Anne Bradstreet. She’s the only one I know of. 9. I haven’t seen that movie. 10. Mahalia Jackson.
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FLOWERTOWN FESTIVAL: 9 a.m.5 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Azalea Park, Main Street, Summerville. Celebrate spring at the 38th annual Flowertown Festival, which will feature more than 200 vendors, crafters and artisans, a Taste of Summerville, Children’s Jubilee and more. Proceeds will benefit the Summerville YMCA. www.summervilleymca.org/flowertown. GULLAH HERITAGE SERIES: 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, 1254 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant. Free. The final weekend of the series will feature a performance by Ann Caldwell and the Magnolia Singers on Saturday and two short films on Sunday. Sweetgrass basketmaker Jeannette Lee will give basketweaving demonstrations. 881-5516.
ONGOING
CHARLESTON FARMERS MARKET: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays beginning April 3. Marion Square. Local vendors offer fresh produce, plants, baked goods, arts and crafts and more. 724-7309. MARKET AT ROSEBANK FARMS: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. Rosebank Farms, 4455 Betsy Kerrison Pkwy., Johns Island. The farm will be open to the public and will offer local produce, seafood, baked goods, flowers and more. 768-0508 or www.rosebankfarms.com. ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FORUM: 7-8 p.m. third Wednesday of each month. College of Charleston Hollings Science Center, Room 112, 58 Coming St. Free. Networking at Mellow Mushroom afterward. www.alternativeenergy.meetup. com/147 or www.gogreencharleston.org. ART DISCOVERY WALKING TOURS: 10:30 a.m. Saturdays. Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting St. $20. 90-minute tour highlights historic sites that have inspired artists for centuries. View artistic treasures at the Gibbes, then walk in the footsteps of the artists who created them. www.charlestonwalks.com or
Chorus invites men and women to join. 654-5973, 881-1158 or 881-9691. CHRISTOPHER’S READING ROOM: 4-4:30 p.m. Thursdays. Johns Island Library, 3531 Maybank Highway. Grades 6-12. Earn one Johns Island Library dollar for each session. 559-1945. CYPRESS SWAMP TOURS: 1-4 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Middleton Place Outdoor Center, 4300 Ashley River Road. $55-$65. Kayak through a cypress swamp while learning about the plants and animals that thrive there. 2667492 or www.middletonplace.org. DANGEROUS BOOK CLUB: 3:304:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Charleston County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St. Explore something new every week from “The Dangerous Book for Boys.” 805-6930. TIM SHOWERS DANGEROUS BOYS CLUB: 7:30 p.m. Check out “The Suitcase Show” 6-11 p.m. Saturday at The North First Friday of each month. Barnes & Charleston Meeting Place, 1077 Montague Ave. The show, Noble, 1716 Towne Centre Way, Mount being put on by Charleston artist Phillip Hyman and friends, Pleasant. Community leaders will host features Subterranean Bleu Mind(s) and Wawona. Artists will meetings based on activities from “The be painting live. Call 345-3670. Above is Tim Showers’ suitcase. Dangerous Book for Boys.” 216-9756. EARLY MORNING BIRD WALKS: 729-3420. ty of Middleton Place’s 3,500+ camellias 8:30 a.m.-noon. Wednesdays and Sat“ART IN THE EVENING”: 7:30 p.m. during these guided walks. Reservations urdays. Caw Caw Interpretive Center, Fridays beginning March 26. Charleston required. 556-6020 or www.middleton5200 Savannah Highway, Ravenel. $5, City Market, Market Street. Every Friday, place.org. Gold Pass members free. Walk through enjoy an art show and sale accompanied “CAROLINA GOLD” EXHIBIT: habitats viewing birds, butterflies and by live music. 937-0920. Through Aug. 30. Middleton Place, other organisms. Preregistration encourART SHOW: Through mid-April. 4300 Ashley River Road. The plantation aged, but walk-ins welcome. 795-4386 or 16 Penny Gallery at 52.5 Records, 561 presents “Carolina Gold: From Rags to www.ccprc.com. King St. The gallery will host an exhibit Riches,” an exhibit highlighting the work EAST COOPER COFFEE CLUB: 10 a.m. by The Half and Half, a design studio of various goldsmiths and miniaturists Fourth Wednesday of each month. based in Columbia. 722-3525. who were patronized by the Middleton Franke at Seaside, 1885 Rifle Range Road, BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: family. 556-6020 or www.middletonMount Pleasant. Bring a mug and enjoy 7-8 p.m. Thursdays. Ballroom Dance Club place.org. presentations by different speakers. Reof Charleston, 1632 Ashley Hall Road. CAROLINA SHAG WORKSHOPS: freshments will be provided. 856-2166. $30 per month. Each month, instructor Saturdays. Trudy’s School of Dance, 830 FOLLY BEACH BLUEGRASS SOCIETY: Steven Duane will focus on a different Folly Road, James Island. $25 for two7:30 p.m. Thursdays. The Kitchen, 11 ballroom dance. 557-7690. hour lessons. For students at any level. Center St. Bring an instrument and parBALLROOM DANCE PARTIES: Every Registration required. 795-8250. ticipate in an open jam. 345-1678. weekend (except holidays). Creative CELTIC FIDDLE CLASSES: 5:30FREE FRIDAY WINE TASTINGS: Spark Center for the Arts, 757 Long Point 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Na Fidleiri and the 3-6 p.m. Fridays. Lowcountry Wine and Road, Mount Pleasant. $10. (Cost may Taylor Music Group will conduct prepara- Spirits, 3642 Savannah Highway, Suite increase for theme or dinner parties.) An tory classes for students not ready to join 140, Johns Island. 769-2722. adult ballroom dance party with group more advanced classes. 819-6961. FREE SHAG LESSONS: 7:30 p.m. lessons before. 881-3780. CHARLESTON CIVIL WAR ROUND Mondays. Mojo’s, 975 Bacons Bridge BEGINNER SHAG LESSONS: 8:15 p.m. TABLE: 7 p.m. Second Tuesday of each Road, Summerville. No partner needed. Mondays. Arthur Murray Dance Studio, month. Ryan’s Room at Ryan’s restau214-0242. 1706 Old Towne Road. $10 per class. The rant, 829 St. Andrews Blvd. E-mail THE GATHERING BOOK GROUP: studio offers introductory shag lessons. jeannescla@aol.com. 7 p.m. Last Thursday of each month. 571-2183 or www.arthurmurraychs.com. CHARLESTON MUSIC CLUB: The club Barnes & Noble, 1716 Towne Centre Way, BRIDGE LESSONS: 3-5 p.m. Mondays. offers free music programs through May. Mount Pleasant. Call 216-9756 to find out Bridge Center, 1740 Ashley River Road. 795-7842 or www.charlestonmusicclub. this month’s title. $130 for 11 beginner sessions. 556-4145. org. GRASS-ROOTS CALL TO ACTION: BOOK LOVERS GROUP: 7-9 p.m. third CHOPSTICKS: 3-5 p.m. Fridays. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays. Fort Johnson Friday of each month. Dreamalot Books, Charleston County Main Library, 68 CalCafe and Coffee, 1014 Fort Johnson Road, 123-B S. Goose Creek Blvd. Show up with houn St. All ages. Light classical music James Island. Each Saturday, the group any book and bring a snack. 572-4188. and favorite children’s songs while kids will present a speaker who will discuss a CAMELLIA WALKS: 11 a.m. Tuesdays, color with friends. 805-6930. conversation-provoking topic. 810-0088 Thursdays and Saturdays through March CHORUS REHEARSALS: 3:30-5 p.m. or grassrootscalltoaction@gmail.com. 27. Regular admission. Middleton Place, Tuesdays. Franke at Seaside, 1885 Rifle “LET’S DISCUSS IT” BOOK GROUP: 4300 Ashley River Road. Enjoy the beau- Range Road, Mount Pleasant. The Franke 10 a.m. Third Friday of each month.
Mount Pleasant Regional Library, 1133 Mathis Ferry Road. New members welcome. shgalos@juno.com. LOOK! DRAW! PAINT!: 3:30 p.m. Thursdays. Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, 25 Ann St. $5. Margaret Crane will teach children art history, drawing, composition and painting. Registration required. 853-8962, ext. 221. LOWCOUNTRY BACKPACKERS CLUB: 7-8:30 p.m. second Thursday of each month. Collins Park Clubhouse, 4115 Fellowship Road, North Charleston. The group meets to discuss past and upcoming trips, trail safety, lowimpact and lightweight backpacking, photography and more. “MILESTONES IN MODERN MEDICINE”: Through April 30. Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 68 Spring St. The museum presents an exhibit made up of about two dozen documents involving Louis Pasteur, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, William Mayo and other historic medical luminaries. 853-4651. MODEL SHIP BUILDING: 10 a.m.1 p.m. or 1-5 p.m. Saturdays. Folly Beach Baptist Church, 77 Center St. Learn the ins and outs of model shipbuilding from William Thomas-Moore. 762-6280 or www.shipshapesgallery.blogspot.com. MUSEUM, MUSIC AND MORE!: Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, 25 Ann St. $8 members, $10 nonmembers. Ages 5-12. Get children involved in performing arts through interactive experiences. 853-8962 or www.explorecml.org. OPEN STUDIO: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Last Tuesday of each month at The Meeting Place, 1077 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. Free. Each class will feature a different project taught by professional artists. 745-1087. PARENT/CHILD BALLROOM CLASSES: 6:30-7 p.m. Thursdays. G.M. Darby Building, 302 Pitt St., Mount Pleasant. $30 residents, $37 nonresidents. Parents and youths ages 5-9 will learn basic ballroom dance steps. 849-2061 or www.townofmountpleasant.com. POSTPARTUM SUPPORT GROUP: 6:30-8 p.m. First and third Thursdays of each month. Church of the Holy Cross, 299 Seven Farms Drive, Daniel Island. Psychologist Risa Mason-Cohen leads a support group. 769-0444. QUILT EXHIBIT: Through June 1. Edisto Island Museum, 8123 Chisolm Plantation Road. The museum will host “From Quilts in the Attics to Quilts on the Wall: Exploring Textile Art by African Americans,” featuring quilts made by Harriet Powers. 869-1954 or www.edistomuseum.org.
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town Charleston. Following the run, a festival will be held in Marion Square and will feature entertainment, food, soudays. Cheri Huber will lead the class, venirs and more. For a schedule of race CALENDAR From Page 53F which will focus on meditation and disevents, visit www.bridgerun.com. cussion. Call 224-2468. LIVING HISTORY EVENT: 10 a.m. SALSA DANCE LESSONS: 6:45 and Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Road. 7:30 p.m. Mondays. Arthur Murray Dance $25 adults, $5 children 7-15. The plantaStudio, 1706 Old Towne Road. $10 per tion will hold a living history day that BOOK SIGNING: 1-3 p.m. The Preserclass. The studio will offer beginner and vation Society of Charleston, 147 King St. will teach participants about the Battle advanced lessons. 571-2183 or www. of Rantowles Bridge and the important Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman will arthurmurraychs.com. roles mounted soldiers played during SALSA NIGHT AT SOUTHEND BREW- be available to sign copies of “Hidden the Revolutionary War. 556-6020 or History of Old Charleston,” written with ERY: 10 p.m. Thursdays at Southend www.middletonplace.org. Edward FitzSimons Good. 722-4630 or Brewery, 161 East Bay St. $4 cover. DJ “DAY OF PEACE”: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. www.preservationsociety.org. Luigi mixes live. 853-4677. Montessori Day School, 2535 Leeds Ave., ANNUAL IRISH LECTURE: 7 p.m. KarSCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE LESSONS: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Felix C. Davis peles Manuscript Museum, 68 Spring St. North Charleston. Free. The school will Stephen J. White will present the annual host a day of yoga, storytelling, a silent Community Center, 4800 Park Circle, auction, music, food and more. 566-9700. St. Patrick’s Day lecture. White will disNorth Charleston. Free. No partner BOOK SIGNING: 1-3 p.m. Preservacuss “Charleston and Its Irish.” 723-3398. needed. 810-7797. tion Society of Charleston, 147 King St. KAYAKING WORKSHOP: 7 p.m. Sea SEA TURTLE HOSPITAL TOURS: Robert J. Kapsch will be available to sign Kayak Carolina, 1731 Signal Point Road, 1 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. S.C. Aquarium, 100 Aquarium Wharf. $8 ages James Island. An interactive presentation copies of his book, “Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina.” 722-4630 on spring paddling. 225-7969 or www. 2-11, $16 adults, $14 ages 62 and older. or www.preservationsociety.org. seakayakcarolina.com. Behind-the-scenes tours offer visitors a EDGEWATER BRIDGE RUN: 3 p.m. WATER BALL: 7-11 p.m. S. C. Aquarium, look at the efforts of the staff as it cares Famous Joe’s, 1662 Savannah Hwy. $15 100 Aquarium Wharf. $50. Charleston for sick and injured turtles. Reservations in advance, $20 at door. This alternative Waterkeeper’s inaugural Water Ball, recommended. 577-3474. to the Cooper River Bridge Run is less which will include food and cocktails, SQUARE DANCE CLASS: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Felix C. Davis Community strenuous and will feature music, food, a silent auction, various interactive disCenter, 4800 Park Circle, North Charlesbeer and more. Dogs are welcome. Proplays, live DJ and the unveiling of a new ton. 552-3630. Charleston Waterkeeper iPhone applica- ceeds will benefit Pet Helpers. 795-1110 STORY TIME AT VILLAGE LIBRARY: tion. 608-9287 or www.thewaterball.org. or www.pethelpers.org. 10 a.m. every Monday in March. Village BRIDGE RUN CONCERT: 3:30-6:30 Branch Library, 430 Whilden St., Mount p.m. Westlake Amphitheater, I’On, 252 “THE PHOENIX”: 6-9 p.m. Alchemy Pleasant. Free. The library will host story Ponsbury Road, Mount Pleasant. Free. Coffee, 11 Magnolia Road. The coffee time for children ages 2-6. 884-9741. After the Bridge Run, enjoy a concert by SUMMERVILLE WRITERS GUILD: 6:30 shop will host “The Phoenix,” an art Super Deluxe, as well as food and beverp.m. Last Monday of each month. Perkins show by Tina Christophillis and Mclean ages from various vendors. 881-7541 or Sheperd. Guests also may enjoy refresh- www.iontrust.org. Restaurant, 1700 Old Trolley Road, Summents and live music. 637-3555. merville. Call Barbara Hill at 871-7824. “THE SUITCASE SHOW”: 6-10 p.m. “CONVERSATION ON CONSCIOUS“WE PICTURED YOU READING THIS”: The Meeting Place, 1077 E. Montague Through May 1. Redux Contemporary NESS”: 6:30 p.m. St. Stephen’s Church, 67 Ave., North Charleston. Enjoy an art show Art Center, 136 St. Philip St. Redux presAnson St. The Sophia Institute presents inspired by suitcases and featuring the ents an exhibit by the Brooklyn-based Robert Thurman, a Buddhist scholar, work of Phillip Hyman, Christina Rodino, art journal Paper Monument, which who will give a lecture titled “ConversaTim Showers, Justin Kamer and META. includes artists who contribute to Paper tion on Consciousness: Obama, the Dalai Live music by Subterranean, Bleu and Monument and projects the publication Lama, and the Inner Revolution.” 720WAWONA. has featured. 722-0697 or www.redux8528 or www.thesophiainstitute.org. GPC FILM SOCIETY: 7 p.m. Old North studios.org. BENFIT CONCERT: 7 p.m. Unitarian Charleston Picture House, 1080 E. MonWEST ASHLEY DEMOCRATS’ MEETChurch, 4 Archdale St. $11. The Charleston tague Ave. $2 members, $5 nonmemINGS: 6:30-8 p.m. second Monday of Chamber Players will perform a concert bers. The Greater Park Circle Film Society each month, Bluerose Cafe, 652 St. Anthat will feature compositions by Handel, will show the classic thriller “Rebecca.” drews Blvd.; 8-9:30 a.m. third Saturday Haydn Telemann and others. An art show 628-5534 or www.parkcirclefilms.org. of each month, Ryan’s restaurant, 829 St. and refreshments will follow. Proceeds “SINGIN’ ON BASIE”: 7 p.m. CharlesAndrews Blvd. 576-4543. will benefit My Sister’s House. 853-0870. ton Music Hall, 37 John St. $25-$40. The “WHIMSICAL CHARLESTON”: April 1COMEDY SHOW: 8 p.m. Physicians Au- Charleston Jazz Orchestra will present a 31. Saul Alexander Gallery at the Charles- ditorium, 72 George St. $10 general adtribute to The Count Basie Orchestra with ton County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St. mission, free to students. The College of a performance of hits made popular by The gallery will host an exhibit by Cinc Charleston will host a show by comedian the orchestra. The concert will feature voHayes that focuses on everyday Charles- J.B. Smoove, who has written for “Satcalists Leah Suarez, Tony Burke and Charlton life. 805-6930 or www.ccpl.org. urday Night Live” and currently stars on ton Singleton. 641-0011, www.jazzartistWHIZ KIDS: 3:30 p.m. Thursdays. HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” 953-5330. sofcharleston.org or www.etix.com. Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, SPRING FLING: 7 p.m.-midnight. VFW 25 Ann St. $5 per child/$25 per month. 10154, Bellwright Road, Ladson. $7 nonCOOPER RIVER BRIDGE RUN: 8 a.m. The museum is offering an after-school members, $5 members. The SummerThe Bridge Run is a 10K race that begins science program taught by Laura Busville Shag Club will hold its “Shagging in across from Wachovia, 507 Coleman chman. 853-8962, ext. 221. the Spring” dance, which will include live Blvd., Mount Pleasant, and ends in down- music, door prizes and a cash bar. 214ZEN MEDITATION: 7-8 p.m. Wednes-
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0242 or www.summervilleshaggers.com. “KARAOKE FOR A CAUSE”: 8 p.m.midnight. Soda Water Grill, 1960 Riviera Dr., Mount Pleasant. The Zeta Tau Alpha Charleston Area Alumnae will host the evnt, which will feature karaoke, a silent auction, raffles and food and drink specials. Proceeds will benefit breast cancer awareness and research. 388-0309.
SUNDAY
LOWCOUNTRY CAJUN FEST: Noon-6 p.m. James Island County Park, 861 Riverland Dr. $10 adults, free to children 12 and under. The 19th annual Lowcountry Cajun Festival will feature a day of authentic Cajun and Creole food, zydeco music, children’s activities and more. 795-4FUN or www.ccprc.com/cajun. OYSTER ROAST: 1-4 p.m. Magnolia Plantation, 3550 Ashley River Road. $25. Enjoy oysters, chili, a silent auction, live music and more during this fundraiser for Keeper of the Wild Wildlife Rescue. 636-1659 or 696-4488. PALM SUNDAY CONCERT: 5 p.m. Citadel Square Baptist Church, 328 Meeting St. $10. Enjoy “Sacred Music and Liturgical Dance: A Palm Sunday Celebration,” presented by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s Gospel Choir. 723-7528 or www.csogospel.com.
MONDAY
“DOUBLE VISION” LECTURE: 6 p.m. Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St. Philip St. Free. The lecture series pairs a talk on an art-related issue with one on a different subject that may seem unrelated. This month’s meeting features painter Robert Lange, who will present “Abandon Formula and Paint Different,” and Dr. Patrick Lovegrove, who will present “Slow Your Aging Process.” 722-0697 or www.reduxstudios.org.
TUESDAY
ST. LUKE’S RECITAL SERIES: 12:15 p.m. March 16. MUSC’s St. Luke’s Chapel, 181 Ashley Ave. Free. The public may enjoy a performance by Alessander Romo, a classical guitarist. 792-6775.
WEDNESDAY
SPRING WINEFEST: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Road. $20 in advance, $25 at door. Sample various wines and enjoy the plantation’s scenery. 556-6020 or www.middletonplace.org.
APRIL 2
DRAYTON HALL OYSTER ROAST: 4:30-7 p.m. Drayton Hall, 3380 Ashley River Road. $45 adults, $20 children 6-18. In addition to oysters, guests may enjoy a Lowcountry buffet, beer, wine and soft drinks and a tour of the main house. 7223405 or www.historiccharleston.org.
APRIL 3
HAT LADIES EASTER PROMENADE: 11 a.m. Begins at Broad and Meeting streets, ends at South Battery. The Hat Ladies will take part in their ninth annual Easter Promenade, which honors hatwearing traditions and supports cancer research. 762-6679 or www.hatladies.org.
THEATER/DANCE
“LOWCOUNTRY BOIL”: 7:30 p.m. through Saturday. $15-$30. Pure Theatre, 150 Meeting St. Written and directed by R.W. Smith. 723-4444 or www.puretheatre.org. “5 WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS”: 8 p.m. through Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Footlight Players Theatre, 20 Queen St. $15-$25. The Footlight Players present a comedy set during a lavish wedding reception and involving five very different bridesmaids clad in the same dress. 722-4487, www.etix.com or www.footlightplayers.net. “SHORT ATTN SPAN THTR”: 8 p.m. today-Saturday. $8, $5 students. Charleston Acting Studio Blackbox Theatre, 915 Folly Road, James Island. The Charleston Acting Studio presents an evening of short plays, films, scenes and skits. 795-2223 or www.midtownproductions.org. “THE LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS”: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. South of Broadway Theatre Company, 1080 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. $15 adults, $5 students. Neil Simon’s classic comedy about a man trying to have an affair. 814-4451 or www.southofbroadway.com. “A SEASON TO CELEBRATE”: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. The Robert Ivey Ballet will end its season with “A Season to Celebrate.” 556-1343 or www. robertiveyballet.com. “GIANNI SCHICCHI”: 8 p.m. FridaySaturday and Monday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip St. $15 adults, $5 students. The College of Charleston Opera presents Puccini’s comedic opera “Gianni Schicchi.” 953-4311. “ODE TO HUMPTEE”: 8 p.m. FridaySaturday; 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Trident Technical College, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. $15. The college presents an original play by Sharon Willis that combines characters from various nursery rhymes to create the story. Proceeds from the play will benefit Trident’s Clemente Course, a free humanities class offered to disadvantaged locals. 5746605 or www.tridenttech.edu. “ROMANCING THE HUNLEY”: 3:30 p.m. Sundays through June 13. The Powder Magazine, 79 Cumberland St. $15. “Romancing the Hunley: Circa 1864” is a one-act play that tells the story of the ill-fated Confederate submarine. www.romancingthehunleyplay. blogspot.com.
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