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ason Baxley came to me two weeks ago and casually mentioned that he had some art he wanted me to see. The second I saw them, I was blown away. I think you will be, too. With warm weather (finally) here, I felt like it was a fantastic way of honoring the sunshine. And look at Charleston a little differently. This is the type of issue I’ve always wanted to do: fullcolor photo spreads of amazing art. With Preview, I was limited by the black-and-white pages and never really could go as far artistically as I wanted. Charleston Scene allows me to do that. Also, take a look at the Charleston International Film Festival stories. CIFF is a huge event for the Lowcountry. It’s time to have some fun.
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8 P.M. // APRIL 14 // 685 KING STREET // FREE Seems like only yesterday that The Recovery Room opened up on Upper King. The bar quickly became a favorite for people in the Peninsula. Celebrate its two-year anniversary Wednesday with drink specials, prizes and live music.
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3 P.M.-DARK // APRIL 13 // FARMERS MARKET PAVILION ON COLEMAN BLVD. The Charleston Farmers Market started last weekend. Next up is Mount Pleasant. The Mount Pleasant Farmers Market is the perfect place to buy fresh, locally grown produce while enjoying the afternoon with your loved ones. This family-friendly event has become a gathering place for locals. It happens every Tuesday and runs until Oct. 19.
7:05 P.M. // TODAY // RIVERDOGS STADIUM // 360 FISHBURNE ST. // $7-$16 The RiverDogs have 70 home games during the 2010 season, which begins April 8 when the Lexington Legends come to Riley Park for a 7:05 p.m. first pitch. For more ticket information, contact the RiverDogs ticket office at 577-DOGS (3647) or purchase tickets online at www.riverdogs.com.
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Charleston International Film Festival is opening night! For more info, see Page 28.
Sunday: oyster roast at Bowen’s Island
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See Jazz at the Charleston Center for Photography, 654-D King St. The event is a benefit for the Jazz Artists of Charleston and will run from 8-11 p.m.
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AFFA (The Alliance For Full Acceptance) is hosting an oyster roast 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Bowen’s Island. Tickets are available for $20 at www.affa-sc.org/affa/oysterroast.htm, or $25 at the door. Tickets get you oysters; beer, soda & water; non-oyster fare, including award-winning chili (meat and veggie avail-
Festival of Houses and Gardens at 2 p.m. Set amid the historic ambience of Charleston’s Old & Historic District, this series of able) and more. All donations are tax-deduct- award-winning heritage tours showcases the ible. To purchase, visit www.affa-sc.org/affa/ city’s distinctive architecture, history, gardens and culture. 40 East Bay Street. oysterroast.htm.
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Youth Taekwon-Do class 6-7 p.m. at Art for Fitness, 3545 Mary Ader Ave., downtown. Call 556-4391.
JOB: Testing software designed for non-profit arts & cultural organizations at Blackbaud. I’m a very curious person who loves asking questions and making suggestions and this job allows me to do that without any apologies. SONG THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOU: “So Much to Say” by DMB ON A SATURDAY NIGHT, YOU ARE USUALLY: I’m usually out with my friends having a few drinks, eating out at new places or dancing the night away. FAVORITE EVENT IN CHARLESTON AND WHY: Spoleto is my favorite event here in Charleston. I am a huge fan of the performing arts and I love the characters I meet at the event every year. I’m all about meeting and being around diverse and lively people.
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Re: Nude art show for Planned Parenthood. For more info, see Page 48.
TALENTS/HOBBIES: I’ve found myself turning into a foodie these days, which is easy to do when you live in a place like Charleston. I’ve been learning a lot about wines through reading and of course tasting. CD IN YOUR CD PLAYER RIGHT NOW: “Soldier of Love” by Sade BEST THING ABOUT CHARLESTON: Is feeling like you’re on vacation for most of the year. I love the beaches, the history and all of the interesting places to visit right at home. WORST THING ABOUT CHARLESTON: Potholes! FAVORITE BOOK: It seems to always change”, but I’ve read “Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden four times and its never gotten old to me.
IN LOVE?: I’ve been in love, but I’m excited to explore the world and myself on my own for awhile. IF YOUR FRIENDS DESCRIBED YOU IN ONE WORD, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: Positive HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF, IN ONE WORD: Independent THINGS YOU DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME: I’m usually hanging out with friends & family or at the dog park with my dog pal Zoe. My guilty pleasure on lazy Saturdays is catching up on 90210 reruns and “How I Met Your Mother” episodes I’ve DVR’ed. BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: I’m still working on that, but the biggest one of the weekend was witnessing a friend’s first visit to the beach and loving it!
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Game Night at Here Be Books. On the first Saturday of every month, Here Be Books & Games hosts Game Night, which brings people together to “laugh and have fun playing board games and card games, making new friends and socializing,” according to the store. Games start at 6 p.m. Suitable for ages 15 and up. Here Be Books is at 4650 Ladson Rd. Suite I in Summerville. 695-1498
Head on over to Redux Contemporary Art Center and visit its We Pictured You Reading This exhibit. It’s an exhibition organized by the Brooklyn-based contemporary art journal Paper Monument. The show will run through May 1. Redux is at 136 St. Philip St. downtown. Call 722-0697
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f you listen closely, you can hear it. It’s the collective swearing of America as it remembers it completely forgot about doing its taxes until right this very moment. That’s right, with April 15 looming right around the corner it’s our favorite time of year. The time when we get to sort through stacks of old receipts, W-2s and arrest warrants before totally freaking out; but then we remember the sage advice our parents always told us: “Take a few deep breaths, collect your thoughts, and then file for an extension.” Of course, I am only joking. These days, doing your own taxes is a piece of cake. What with all the great software out there, it’s as simple as spending a few minutes on the computer and — BAM! — you owe the federal government $17,000 and a kidney. So calmly take an hour to recheck your numbers and realize what a goof you are, you forgot to claim your child as a dependent, so you just fix that on line 24-14c and — VOILA! — now you owe them the other kidney as well. But don’t despair. Things don’t have to be this way if you follow my simple five-step program toward achieving a stress-free taxfiling experience. Which
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like a no-brainer, but owning your own house means getting a tax break on all the interest you’re paying on the loan. (BONUS TIP: Pay twice what the seller is asking because the more expensive the house, the bigger the deduction.) Also, having kids is a quick and easy way to increase your number of dependents, thus INSTEAD OF USE earning you a bigger refund. Our house cat Dependent Plus, you’re going to need all the money you can get your Mr. Bumpers No. 2 hands on what with that mortgage you can’t afford Under the Charitable table contribution and another mouth to feed.
STEP 3: Brush up on your synonyms. Now that you’ve mastered the terminology, it’s important to know which terms to avoid. The following is a glossary of some of the more helpful synonyms you should know when filling out your return: naturally begins with ... STEP 1: Wait until the last minute. I know this sounds counterintuitive, but trust me when I tell you there’s nothing more depressing than spending 17 hours completing your 1040 Not-So-EZ (*rimshot*) form only to discover you owe the government a bunch of money. By waiting until April 14 to get started, you won’t be saddled with that depressing news a single day longer than necessary.
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So there you go. Five easy steps to ... wait. That’s just four. What am I forgetting? Hmmm. Oh! Right ... STEP 5: Rinse and repeat. OK, so there you go. In conclusion, by following these five easy steps you’ll find that doing your taxes doesn’t have to be a miserable experience. Not to mention you’ll have somebody to blame when you sit down with the IRS agent assigned to your audit. Bryce Donovan doesn’t understand why he can’t claim his pony’s air travel on his taxes. Reach him at 9375938 or bdonovan@postandcourier.com. For more, check out his blog at www. brycedonovan.com.
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and everyone else in a diner. On first viewing, I wasn’t sure what the point was, outside of proving Gaga is not a man. Lady Gaga told a radio station that the video is a “pop art venture.” It definitely illustrates the most creative use of cigarettes, soda cans and police tape I can think of. a banner promoting some It helps that the song is new music video, whether catchy, but after a few more it be for Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s “Telephone,” Jus- viewings, it’s easy to see how many pop art-esque eletin Bieber’s “Never Let You Go” or Ludacris’s “My Chick ments are laced throughout the video. Bad.” Then on March 27, Erykah Two controversial music Badu released a video for videos released in the past “Window Seat,” which I month have been in the could listen to on repeat for news: “Telephone” by Lady Gaga and “Window Seat” by a couple of days straight. In the video, which is no longer Erykah Badu. available on YouTube but In the nine-and-a-halfstill on Badu’s Web site, Baminute long “Telephone” du strips as she walks down video, which requires age the same street in Dallas identification on YouTube, Lady Gaga gets naked, danc- where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. es around a prison in her At the end, she acts out beunderwear, and cooks up a little something so Beyonce ing shot, naked. Last week, she was charged can poison her boyfriend
with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500, according to an Associated Press report. “The song ‘Window Seat’ is about liberating yourself from layers and layers of skin or demons that are a hindrance to your growth or freedom, or evolution,” Badu told the Dallas Morning News. “I tied it in a way that compared the assassination to the character assassination one would go through after showing his or herself completely.” Many argue Badu pushed the envelope too far by using the JFK spot and stripping nude. But if the videos for “Telephone” or “Window Seat” were evaluated as art, would they still stir the same controversy? Gaga and Badu both seem to have approached their videos as artistic expression. I’m glad to see artists still care about their music videos.
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spent three days at the Savannah Music Festival last week and had the time of my life. I have rich, rewarding music experiences all the time, but this one ranks up there with the best of them. I rolled down Highway 17 with Quentin Baxter on Wednesday last week to the jewel of Georgia, anticipating the good time I was going to have. The Charleston drummer had a rehearsal for a festival gig the next day. All the omens were good. The weather was gorgeous and there was no sign it would change while I was there. My sumptuous digs at the Bay Street Bohemian Hotel had me close to the heart of SMF events, maximizing the potential number of events I could see. It was so intense, I was checking out my feelings when I was reminded of a rhetorical question I grew up hearing: “Are you work-
ing hard or hardly working?” My mother would ask me that when she saw me standing idle when I should have been doing something productive. Oftentimes, I couldn’t figure it out this time around in Savannah.
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I dove right in. That evening I unleashed what ended up being a torrent of music-listening and note-taking that lasted through late Friday night/ early Saturday morning. The first act I caught was traditional pianist Dick Hy-
man tickling the ivories like he’s been doing for decades now. He played everything from Jelly Roll Morton to chestnuts from the American Songbook. The versatile virtuoso, who turned 83 on March 8, is still stylish in his approach. He was joined by guitarist Howard Alden and clarinet giant Ken Peplowski. On the same bill was a trio led by piano phenom Gerald Clayton. In stark contrast to Dick’s trio, Gerald, bassist Harish Raghavan and drummer Justin Brown offered up more modern fare while exploring the form of their music through their individual and group improvisations. The two bands were polar opposites. This kind of programming is typical of executive and artistic director Rob Gibson, and it’s a feature that distinguishes the festival from many others. SMF entertains and it
challenges, all at the same time. You’re nudged toward checking out something you might not otherwise have done. I started Thursday on River Street listening to the 12 high school bands at SMF for its Swing Central program, an effort to teach students over the course of the year with SMF clinicians, then showcase them at the festival. That night, I went to see the new band led by rock ’n’ roll guitarists Derek Trucks and his wife, Susan Tedeschi. It was amazing. After the first set, I made it across town to hear eclectic guitarist Bill Frisell. The next day, I really turned into marathon man. With breaks for dining and short walks for physical relief, I immersed myself in jazz music for about 15 hours. Please see JAZZ, Page 20F
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Last year’s Style Swap Charleston took place at Eye Level Art. This year’s event will be 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at McCrady’s, 2 Unity Alley. Tickets are $15 online at www.styleswap.net. The first 50 women to purchase tickets online receive VIP Swapping Status. Tickets are $20 at the door.
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s there anyone out there who isn’t completely relieved that the economic meltdown of the last couple years seems to be finally turning itself around? I don’t know many people who weren’t affected by the financial crisis in one way or another, and it seems like we all had to learn to live without for a while. For me personally, learning to live without meant making a few sacrifices and realizing there was a big difference between “want” and “need.” Like wanting to get a mani-pedi but needing to buy flea medication for my cat instead. That kind of thing. So for the first time in my life I clipped coupons, sold some of my things on eBay, including my beloved Balenciaga Le Dix motorcycle bag that, six months later, still brings a tear to my eye,
switched to drugstore moisturizer, starting washing items that said “Dry Clean Only,” canceled magazine subscriptions and skipped eyebrow appointments. When I realized with some shock just how much money I was spending on having my hair colored every month, I stretched out the time between going to the salon for as long as I possibly could and made an ill-advised foray into home-coloring that, back in January, resulted in the biggest hair disaster of my life. But where I saw deprivation, others saw opportunity.
One such visionary is Jess James of Wilmington, N.C., who’s bringing another of her wildly successful Style Swaps to Charleston on Tuesday. After working in New York as a director of fashion and beauty for a marketing agency, James moved to Wilmington and has created a mini style empire. She’s part of James + Dunne Styling, which, among other things, does personal shopping and consultations, maintains the “Fashion Fix” blog, writes a “Style Girl” newspaper column for the Wilmington Star-News and is the fashion editor of the magazine Focus on the Coast. She even came down for Charleston Fashion Week to write about the shows. And somehow, with all that on her plate, James has put together the brilliant Style Swap parties that allow us to have “Fashionista Style
in Recessionista Times.” This upcoming Style Swap is a not-to-be-missed event. Here are the details: It’s taking place 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at McCrady’s, 2 Unity Alley. Ayoka Lewis, Charleston Magazine’s style editor, will emcee the event. Everyone attending is asked to bring one gently worn fashionable or vintage item (on hanger) and one accessory. Tickets are $15 online (www.styleswap.net), $20 at the door. Cupcake and others will be providing food and beverages while a DJ will be supplying the tunes. Guests will be able to have mini-makeovers and shop a “Couture Corner” for highend designer swapping, take home gift bags and be eligible for prizes. Because while the economy might’ve taken a nosedive, thanks to people like Jess James, our style doesn’t have to.
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With warm weather comes the sun, the beach and ... pollen
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If only we could love pollen the way that bees do. BY JACK HUNTER Special to The Post and Courier
Thumbs up Though you won’t catch me saying the same thing during the hot, sticky often unbearable humidity of July, there’s nothing quite like the transition from winter to spring in Charleston. The summer-like breeze in the daytime combined with the sometimes cool, but comfortable evenings are one of the primary reasons to live in the Lowcountry. This weather has always tended to drive me a bit girl-crazy, something I’ve noticed from my earli-
est grade-school days and even today. And I’ve not been surprised to learn that many folks consider spring the most romantic of seasons. Regardless, it’s certainly enough to make one fall in love with the Lowcountry.
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ing my house one morning last week, my face felt the warmth of the sun, my nostrils took in the fresh, spring air and my car was covered with a substantial layer of sticky yellow mess. You can wipe or wash it off, but the pollen seems to come back almost immediately and with a vengeance. It’s been said one must take the bad with the good, and I suppose we must pay some sort of price for the pleasure of enjoying such spectacular weather. Dealing with yucky pollen is indeed a small price to pay, even if I still wish we didn’t have to keep paying it, every time we turned around.
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The Lights, Fluorescent Saturday at the Tin Roof
It’s a sort of possessed clamoring of mangled harmonies, dissonant chord and note progressions, and chaotic percussions that, ironically, makes Charlotte-based quintet The Lights, Fluorescent so good. After releasing its debut, “Neoteny,” in 2008, The Lights, Fluorescent set off a rippling of interest within the indie music scene and began drawing comparisons to bands such as Cursive and Desaparecidos. Led by the impassioned and novel vocals of singer/songwriter Erika Blatnik, The Lights, Fluorescent is as much of a throwback to mid-’90s indie/punk as it is a reminder that indie music can still surprise you. The Lights, Fluorescent will perform Saturday at the Tin Roof, 1777 Magnolia Road with local band Sleepy Eye Giant. Visit myspace.com/westashleytinroof or call 5710775 for more information about the show. Visit www.myspace.com/thelightsfluorescent for more information on The Lights, Fluorescent.
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Saturday at The Pour House
Eric Lindell’s road to blues notoriety is a long one with plenty of turns along the way. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, Lindell spent most of his youth riding a skateboard and listening to punk bands such as Black Flag and Fishbone while also playing music at night. When he reached his late-20s, Lindell moved to New York City for a short time and then to New Orleans to pursue music. It was there, on the streets and in the clubs of New
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n Saturday, DJ Adonis and MJ12 are spinning at Shine on Line Street, and rest assured, they will be kicking it old school. DJ Adonis’ grand return to Charleston should be epic, considering he has been performing sets in the Holy City since 1993. His contributions to the Charleston DJ scene go back that far as well since he used to run a club at Rutledge Avenue and Spring Street from 1993-96 called Grassroots Records, which was a great underground venue that gave local DJs the opportunity to spin nightly. They also broadcast a weekly radio show from this venue to promote hip-hop and acid jazz into the DJ scene, which was dominated by techno and trance at the time. DJ Adonis moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco in 1996, where he released his first album, “Custard,” under the alias “Soulforce.” After spinning for 20 years, the seasoned DJ Adonis puts on a sleek live show, specializing in neo-soul, house, soul house and broken beat. Impressively enough, his first live set was in Stockton, Calif., where he opened for Tupac Shakur and Digital underground. This will be DJ Adonis’s first set in Charleston in five years. Back in 2005, he played a big Christmas party at the Toucan Reef called Jingle. MJ12, known to the layman as Mark Johnson, will be opening the show Saturday. Johnson is a local DJ who specializes in funk/lounge, hip-hop and acid jazz. MJ12 has been spinning for
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WHAT: DJ Adonis w/ MJ12 WHERE: Shine, 58 Line St. WHEN: 10 p.m. Saturday PHONE: 724-6789 WEB SITE: www. shinecharleston.com COST: Free
three years in the downtown area, but has been an avid DJ enthusiast for more than 20 years. Johnson has known DJ Adonis since his days at Grassroots Records and is the man responsible for setting up the show at Shine. Here’s what to expect out of the show: a very experienced DJ set, polished on the corners and bright around the edges. DJ Adonis’ history in the scene alone is enough to entice any B-Boy or DJ fan to come to the show. MJ12’s live set is a continuous blend of songs that encompasses a greater feeling through those collaborations. Johnson says he sees his sets as a form of meditation, and uses his songs and transitions to allow listeners to lose their rational fears in the music and get to a deeper knowledge of oneself. The show will be a departure from the dub-step and glitch DJ tactics that have been increasingly apparent in Charleston. The night will be filled with a seamless collection of music that builds up and breaks down, not to mention a lot of dancing. Local VJ Gamma will be there, providing concert-goers with some visual stimuli to accompany the music.
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Catch U.K. band Biffy Clyro when it opens for Manchester Orchestra at the Music Farm tonight. The band’s latest album, “Only Revolutions” is available on iTunes. Call 577-6989.
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Biffy Clyro
Big in the U.K. and getting bigger in the U.S.
“Puzzle.” The album was certified gold after being launched to the No. 2 slot on the U.K. Album Chart within its first week of release, t’s hard to believe the lengthy past of WHO: Manchester Orchestra, The Features, Biffy Clyro and O’Brother, presented by thanks in large part to the success of its two a band that you have just discovered The Bridge at 105.5 and 98X . lead singles, “Saturday Superhouse” and for the first time. Especially when that WHEN: 7:30 p.m. tonight. “Machines.” past is as illustrious as the Scotland WHERE: The Music Farm, 32 Ann St., downtown. The album’s success gave way to Eurotrio Biffy Clyro’s. COST: $14 in advance at www.etix.com, all Cat’s Music and Monster Music locations. pean touring slots with Linkin Park, Muse, While relatively unknown in the States, $17 the day of the show. Bon Jovi and Queens of the Stone Age. Biffy Clyro has become wildly popular in HEAR THE MUSIC: www.themanchesterorchestra.com Following the success of “Puzzle,” the the U.K. and Europe over the years. INFO: 577-6989, www.musicfarm.com band released its first Top 5 U.K. single, With five studio albums, including two WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Go to www.charlestonscene.com, and add your “Mountains,” in 2008 and headlined the certified gold in the U.K., Biffy Clyro has opinion about the concert. 10,000 seat Scottish Exhibition and Confernot only built a name for itself in the studio, ence Centre in Glasgow later that year. but also as a live favorite having performed The band then traveled to Los Angeles to at such festivals as Glastonbury, Reading dominoes, one thing seemed to lead to anAt only 20 years old, Neil and the Johnand Leeds Festivals and T in the Park. other as the band’s popularity began to rise. ston twins were still discovering their mu- again work with Richardson on its latest album, “Only Revolutions” (2009). The band Biffy Clyro also has shared the stage as an The trio began expanding its sound to sical identities and were somewhat hamopening act for The Who, Rolling Stones, incorporate a more punk influenced brand mered by various critics for following their enlisted composer and arranger David Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bon Jovi and even of grunge-rock as well as playing shows influences too closely. While critics seemed Campbell, who has worked on more than became the first band to ever play in the around town to build on an already growto agree that the trio sounded very similar 450 gold and platinum albums during his 40 year career, including ones for RadioHouses of Parliament. Not bad for a trio of ing fan base. Soon, local radio DJs and crit- to such bands as Nirvana, Foo Fighters head, Metallica, KISS and Beck, his son. childhood friends. ics began to take an interest in the group. and Incubus, they also agrees that it took “Only Revolutions” peaked at No. 8 on It all began in 1995 after 15-year-old gui- They changed the band name to Biffy a talented group of young musicians to acthe U.K. Album Chart and gave Biffy Clyro tarist/vocalist Simon Neil met twin broth- Clyro following the release of its debut EP complish such similarities. its second gold record. ers Ben and James Johnston. and began receiving local radio play. After three albums with Beggar’s BanThe album’s slightly softer, more ethereal Together they formed Screwfish, a cover The heightened local attention led to a slot quet, Biffy Clyro signed with the Warner sound left critics raving over the band’s band playing grunge covers mainly for on the Unsigned Bands stage at the T in the Brother’s affiliate 14th Floor Records in their friends. Two years later, Neil and the Park festival in 2000, which in turn led to a 2006 and, under the guidance of producer transformation from teenage garage punks to sophisticated musicians as well as estabJohnston brothers moved to Glasgow for record contract with the independent label Garth Richardson (Rage Against the Malished a stronger identity for the band. college. It was in Glasgow that, like a row of Beggar’s Banquet. chine, Red Hot Chili Peppers), released BY MATTHEW GODBEY
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Uncle Kracker wants to be the good guy
Uncle Kracker’s latest album, “Happy Hour,” was produced by multiple Grammy Award winner Rob Cavallo.
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hen Matt Shafer, better known as Uncle Kracker, sat down to write a follow-up album to the commercially successful 2004 release, “Seventy Two & Sunny,” he just wasn’t feeling it. Though he came away with 12 songs, he realized he could not go any further with the new music. “I wasn’t having fun doing it,” Shafer says. So he scrapped it and told the record company he was going to start over. “I was the only one that thought that was a good idea, the only one. But it was an easy thing to do when you are not happy with what you are doing. It wasn’t the right record for me to put out,” he says. Concern was understandable. Commercial success is often fleeting, especially when there are years between albums, and then
there was the fact that he had been more in the news for his life outside the studio. In late 2007 he pled guilty for misdemeanor assault on a female in connection with an incident at a Raleigh nightclub. So in January 2008, when he began writing again, he was looking to focus on the positive. Shafer decided that “at the end of the day, people want to have fun more than they want to cry,” so he consciously created an upbeat album full of happier material, aptly named “Happy Hour.” Produced by multiple Grammy Award winner Rob Cavallo, “Happy Hour” is a blend of country-flavored pop and rock ’n’ roll that gives him a chance to show off his songwriting. “I had the objective to make a fun record and have fun doing it,” Shafer says. And he has another radio hit to show for it. “Smile,” the first single, has spent 26
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WHO: Uncle Kracker “Happy Hour Tour” weeks on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart and is now No. 9. In addition, it’s now featuring Rehab and Sunny Ledfurd. climbing Billboard’s Country chart and is WHEN: 8 p.m. April 12 one of the top 20 ringtones in the country. WHERE: The Music Farm, 32 Ann St., “That (the ringtone) is weird in itself. Ten downtown years ago when I signed, there was never a COST: $17 in advance at www.etix.com, ringtone department at a record company, all Cat’s Music and Monster Music Locaand now it’s big business,” he says. “I’ve tions. $20 the day of the show. heard my song when I was put on hold or as HEAR THE MUSIC: www.unclekracker. a ringback waiting for someone to answer.” com And when he visits Charleston on April WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Go 12, most likely he will hear it sung back to to charlestonscene.com, and him in concert, where he likes a lot of interadd your opinion about the action with the crowd. concert. “With our concerts, there’s a lot of crowd participation, and we want to make sure everyone’s having fun,” he says. He’s set to join his friend, Kid Rock, on Then it’s back to the studio for another Rock’s inaugural “Chillin’ the Most Cruise” album. April 29-May 3. The cruise will travel to “I’m not rushing things, but you’ll probGrand Cayman on board the Carnival Inably seeing something new from me sooner spiration. (rather) than later.”
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Travis Holland wants you to go back to the future ... baby Live painting will also take place by Brandon Hudson. Artists exhibited will be Carl Flowers, Egroe, Hudson, GOYO, Ishmael, Joanna ou know you love the Jackson, Meta, Proton, John ’80s. Travis Holland Pundt, Phillip Hyman, Came does, too. The self-described promot- 1, BARS, ENO and SPESH. “It’s about not just going to er/event organizer/creative a party, but being a part of an director of Night Vizzion experience,” said Holland. is taking over Music Farm Saturday night for “Return of He says the idea came from the first “Flip the 08 back to the ’80s … Baby!” the ’80s” party. The event This dance party and art exhibit is the graffiti edition was voted as one of Charleswith the theme, “Remember ton’s Best Dressed Events for when we used to battle with- April 2008. “It was such a big hit and out guns?” It’s the first in the everyone came out retro’d series of four ’80s parties. and had a great time. People Fifteen graffiti and visual artists are featured on 24x36 like to get dressed up in Charleston and some already canvases. They are set in live the retro’d style/life,” front of a brick wall backdrop by TRVS 80. Each piece Holland said. “We decided to do a series of ’80s parties will be up for grabs during entitled ‘Return of the ’80s the Buck art raffle.
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Lindell will perform Saturday at The Pour House, 1977 Orleans, that Lindell finally Maybank Hwy. Doors open found his niche. He began at 10 p.m. playing with well-respected Tickets are $10 at the door locals, including Ivan Nevor www.etix.com. Call 571ille, Harold Brown and Stan- 4343 or visit www.charleston Moore of Galactic, build- tonpourhouse.com for more ing a name for himself as a information on the show. guitarist and songwriter. Visit www.ericlindell.com His debut album, “Change for more information. in the Weather,” was released in 2006 and Lindell found himself at the forefront of critical and public praise. With the release of his latest Monday at the Music effort, “Gulf Coast Highway,” Farm Formed in 1995 by Danny Lindell hopes to carry on his Alexander and Brooks Busuccess.
Rehab
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... Baby: Remember when we used to battle without guns?’ “The graffiti edition came about from just realizing that there was a time when the energy was focused on battling with art, not guns,” Holland continued. “I want to show that there is a lot of creative people here and coming to Charleston who have a lot to bring to the growth of the creative movement.” Keeping this weekend’s party going will be DJ And What and DJ Rdot “The Col-
lege Kid.” A projector will play memorable scenes from the ’80s. On stage barbers from Lucianno’s will provide ’80s haircuts on the spot. “If they remembered or heard about the last time, they should expect an experience,” Holland said. “People should expect to be surprised by the ’80s retro giveaways.” “The music, people, the art,” Holland continued on what will make Saturday night the place to be. “It’s going to be a good energy.”
ford, Rehab took everyone by surprise with its Dirty South style of rap-a-billy. The concept almost seemed too perfect to be real. A couple of country guys from Georgia emerging through a cloud of red dirt and beer cans with some of the most original, catchy, hilarious, heartbreaking music to be recorded in years. The group re-released its 2005 album “Graffiti the World” in 2008 on Universal Republic. The group’s broad spectrum of musical diversity was built with injections of
metal and pop-rock on the record while the time off only seemed to add more fuel for Alexander’s fiery rasp of a voice. Rehab will perform Monday at the Music Farm, 32 Ann St., with Uncle Kracker and Sunny Ledfurd. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 the day of the show and are available at www.etix.com or at the door. Visit www.musicfarm.com for more information on the show. Visit www.rehabmusic. com for more information on Rehab.
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RAW POWER: LEGACY EDITION (Columbia/Legacy)
Prior to Iggy & The Stooges releasing the landmark album “Raw Power” in 1973, the band had already broken up once. Front man Iggy Pop was determined to reunite the band though, especially after David Bowie offered to help out on the Stooges’ next album. “Raw Power” hit the listener hard from the beginning with a wall of sound, a wailing guitar riff and Pop singing, “I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm!” Mixed by Bowie, the album was a thenshocking dose of hardcore music, the sound that would become known as punk rock. The new Legacy Edition features the original album, along with a bonus CD featuring a recording of a 1973 Stooges show. Hearing Pop baiting the audience between songs while the band members play their hearts out is worth the price of this package alone. The set also features a booklet with essays by U.S. and U.K. music journalists. For the hardcore Iggy fan, there is also a deluxe edition, available only at www.iggy andthestoogesmusic.com, which features an additional CD of rarities and outtakes, a documentary about the making of the album and a 45rpm single reproduction. With Iggy & The Stooges inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently, this release drives home why the band is a vital part of rock history. KEY TRACKS: “Search and Destroy,” “Raw Power,” and the entire live CD.
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The Julien Kasper Band TRANCE GROOVE (Toulcat) One of the great things about jazz music is that the genre doesn’t have parameters as strict as those of rock or country. That means that musicians who play jazz are much freer to explore what their instruments can do, which at times can either be a very good thing or a very bad thing. Julien Kasper is an example of what happens when the experimentation goes in the right direction. On “Trance Groove,” the latest release by The Julien Kasper Band, the music goes from jazz-funk to psychedelic to blues. Guitarist Kasper, bassist Jesse Williams and drummer Zac Casher meld their sounds together on tunes such as “Chupacabra,” “Trash Day” and “Milk Truck.” Keyboardist T Lavitz, who has played with the likes of Widespread Panic and The Dixie Dregs, also sits in on a couple of tunes. Kasper, who is also a professor at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, definitely knows his way around his guitar, and listening to him shred on this album gives the listener the impression that “Trance Groove” must have been a blast to record. For those into a more contemporary jazz sound, “Trance Groove” is definitely worth checking out, especially if guitar jazz is up your alley. KEY TRACKS: “Chupacabra,” “Trash Day” and “Abyssinia.”
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Shakura S’Aida BROWN SUGAR (Ruf) You can tell when someone is simply going through the motions during a blues performance. While other musical styles can be faked well enough, to be a real blues singer, you have to feel whatever song you are singing deep down in the pit of your soul. Shakura S’Aida sure as heck isn’t faking anything. Born in Brooklyn, raised in Switzerland, and now calling Canada home, S’Aida definitely sings from her heart. Backed by a band that includes guitarist Donna Grantis, who co-wrote all but one of the songs on “Brown Sugar” with S’Aida, this is the sort of music you would expect to hear while sitting in a smoky blues bar with exposed brick walls and a two-drink minimum. While some of S’Aida’s songs tend to blur the line that separates blues from R&B, “Brown Sugar” is still a fairly strong release from a blues chanteuse who enjoys a fan base on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. When she’s good, she’s great. (B-) KEY TRACKS: “Mr. Right,” “Chasing the Sun” and “This is Not a Love Song.”
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Brian McGee & The Hollow Speed BRIAN MCGEE & THE HOLLOW SPEED (Independent) Ever wonder what it might sound like if a former punk rock singer decided to try his hand at the Americana sound? If so, look no further than Brian McGee, who once fronted the band Plow United. After living in Western North Carolina for a number of years and soaking up its culture, McGee has developed an obvious love for Americana music. McGee’s eponymous album finds him; along with his band The Hollow Speed, rising to the challenge of sounding real, especially after migrating from a different music genre. There are still hints of McGee’s punk rock past in various songs on the new album, which will undoubtedly draw comparisons between McGee and acts such as Jason and The Scorchers and Steve Earle. Not every tune on this CD stands up to repeated listening, but after hearing a few of the more decent ones, such as “That’s When the Night Comes On” and “Hell is Open All Night,” one gets the sense that McGee is well on his way to a successful Americana career. (C+) KEY TRACKS: “Clouded Glass,” “That’s When the Night Comes On” and “Hell is Open All Night.”
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ALLUETTE’S JAZZ CAFE: 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. Sat: Cherry Bomb; Sun: Everett Bigbee. Mon: Open Mic w/Everett Bigbee; Tue: The Bill Show; Wed: Fowler’s Mustache. 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. BOWEN’S ISLAND RESTAURANT: 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: Ronnie Johnson and Chris Clifton, 8-11 p.m.; Fri: Ronnie Johnson, Chris Clifton and Bob Tobin, 9 p.m.-midnight; Sat: Ronnie Johnson 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: Karaoke; 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 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
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Tonight: Manchester Orchestra w/The Features, Biffy Clyro and O’Brother, $14-$17, 7:30 p.m.; Fri: Keller Williams, $17-$20, 8 p.m.; Sat: 80’s Party w/ DJ Rdot and DJ Natty Heavy, $10, 9 p.m.; Sun: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony w/Righchus, 8 p.m., $20-$23; Mon: “Happy Hour Tour” w/Uncle Kracker, Rehab and Sunny Ledfurd, $17-$20, 8 p.m.; Wed: We The Kings and The Maine w/Cartel, Artist vs Poet and Stereo Skyline, $17.50-$20, 6 p.m. OASIS BAR AND GRILL: 778 Folly Road., James Island. Mon: Karaoke; Tue: Cornhole Wed: Beer Pong. PROVIDED O’MALLEY’S: 549 King St, CharlesCatch Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Righchus at 8 p.m. Sunday at The Music Farm, 32 Ann St. Tickets ton. 805-5000. Tue: Trivia, 7 p.m. are $20 in advance and $23 at the door. Call 577-6989 for more info. OSCAR’S RESTAURANT: 207 W. 5th North St., Summerville. 871-3800. sings Opera and Italian songs, 7-9 p.m. 760-9875. 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Tonight: THE POUR HOUSE: 1977 Maybank 1585 Central Ave., Summerville. 873Brown, 8 p.m.; Tue: Carroll Brown w/ Highway. 571-4343. Tonight: Satori SoTrivia and Karaoke, 8 p.m.; Fri: The 9988. Sat: Swamp Fox Karaoke, 8 p.m. Bob Sachs and the Maniax, 7:30 p.m. cial; Fri: Plainfield Project w/Long Miles; Shane Clark Experience; Wed: InternaLOCO JOE’S FOOD & SPIRITS: 1115 EAST BAY MEETING HOUSE: 159 Sat: Eric Lindell; Sun: Homeboy Distional Dance Party w/DJ Cilo. Miles Road, Summerville. 821-2946. East Bay St. 723-3446. Mon: Monday count Band Reunion Show w/Flatt City, THE HARBOR GRILLE: 360 ConTue, Wed: Karaoke w/ Robby G., 8 p.m. Night Poetry and Open Mic w/ Jim $5, 8 p.m.; Tue: Shpongle w/Pericles; cord St. 853-5752. Tonight: Paper Cut MANNY’S NEIGHBORHOOD Lundy, 8 p.m. Massacre w/ Enter the Era, Sugar Red GRILLE: 1608 Old Towne Rd. 763-3908. Wed: “Disco Biscuits Afterparty” w/ Dr. EVO PIZZERIA: 1075 E. 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Tonight: Heywood, 6-10 p.m.; Fri-Sat: John Slate Caldwell w/ Jazz Trio, 6-10 p.m.; Sat: Robert Lewis, Gerald Gregory, and Nick Two Three Ways; Mon: Dave Landeo; 10:30 p.m.; Wed: Wednesday Nite Ram- and Bill Aycock, 6-10 p.m.; Mon-Tue: Jenkins, 6-10 p.m.; Mon: Leah Suarez ble w/ Gary and Sandy, 10:30 p.m. Tue: Hank and Greg. Margaret Coleman and Wayne Davis, FIERY RON’S WEST ASHLEY: 1205 RITA’S: 2 Center St., Folly Beach. 6-10 p.m.; Wed: James Slater and David Trio; Tue: Jazz Trio, 6-10 p.m.; Wed: Kris Woodrum and Jesse Prichart, 6-10 p.m. 633-5330. Fri: TrickKnee; Sat: David Ashley River Road. 225-2278. Tonight: Heywood, 6-10 p.m. THE MILL: 1025 E. Montague, North Bluestone Ramblers, free, 9:30 p.m.; Fri: Dunning. J.PAUL’Z: 1739 Maybank Hwy, Braden Land w/Davis Coen, $5, 10:30 THE ROCK LOUNGE: 1662 Savannah Charleston. 442-4480. Tonight: Sinatra Charleston, 225-2650. Fri: Chris “Marty” Martin, 9 p.m., Jordan Igoe, 11 p.m.; p.m.; Sat: Backyard Tire Fire, 10 p.m.; Hwy. 225-2200. Tonight: Rawberry Jam; and Sushi w/ Joe Clarke Quartet, 7-10 Sat: The Generations w/Cami Kind, 10 Mon: Open mic, 8 p.m.; Tue: BBQ Bros, Fri: Torture Town; Sat: Tidal Jive. p.m. p.m.; Mon: Open mic w/Matt Vogt, 9 9:30 p.m.; Wed: Madison Ruckel and SAND DOLLAR: 7 Center St., Folly KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 337 King St. 805p.m.; Tue: Wii Night, 7 p.m., Shrimp City Beach. 588-9498. Fri-Sat: Krushtones. Friends, 10 p.m. 5020. Wed: Trivia Night, 10 p.m. Slim, 9 p.m. FISH RESTAURANT: 442 King St. 722SEEL’S OFF THE HOOK: 2213 Middle KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1175 Folly Road, MISTRAL: 99 South Market St. 3474. Tonight: Jazz w/Elise Testone, St., Sullivan’s Island, 883-5030: Tonight: James Island. 225-6996. Wed: Trivia 722-5708. Fri: New South Jazz Band; 7-10 p.m.; Fri: DJ Jaz, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat: Night, 9 p.m. The Bushels, 9 p.m.; Fri and Sat: DJ Sat: The Mike Wolk Jazz Group; Mon: DJ Todd Cadley, 10 p.m. C.Nile, 10 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1119 Johnnie Mirage; Tues: French Jazz Band; Wed: GENNARO’S RESTAURANTE: 8500 Dodds Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 881Please see NIGHT LIFE, Page 20F French Connection. Dorchester Road, North Charleston. 8734. Fri: Big Suade; Wed: Trivia Night,
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SOCIAL WINE BAR: 188 East Bay St. 577-5665. Tonight: DJ Danny Seltzer; Fri: DJ Belk; Sat: DJ Kurfu. SPANKY BOTTOMS: 570 College Park Road. 553-0834. Fri-Sat and Wed: Karaoke w/Debbie Prine, 8 p.m. SUNFIRE GRILL & BISTRO: 1090 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. 766-0223. Tonight: Calvin Taylor, 6 p.m.; Fri: Chris Tidestrom, 6-9 p.m.; Sat: Karl Ehrens , 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.; MonWed: Live piano, 5-11 p.m. THE TIN ROOF: 1117 Magnolia Road. 282-8988. Tonight: Guilt-Ridden Troubadour w/The BBQ Brothers, 9 p.m.; Fri: Ghost Town Jenny, 9 p.m.; Sat: Sleepy Eye Giant, The Lights Flourescent and Allison Weiss, 9 p.m.; Mon: Live Mystery Science Theatre, 8 p.m.; Tue: Danielle Howle w/Rachel Sage; Wed: 1st Deck Show w/ w/Sadler Vaden, 7 p.m. TOAST: 155 Meeting St. 534-0043. Sat: Pianist Annie Boxell, 6-9 p.m.
JAZZ From Page 10F
The Swing Central competition took place at the beautiful Lucas Theater. All the bands performed the same three songs to determine a winner. I can now hum chorus after chorus of “Moten’s Swing,” “Stolen Moments” and “Black Bottom Stomp.” That night, also at the Lucas, I joyously endured five hours of the All Star Swing Summit.
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Working the festival was a grind, but it was so good, I’d do it again and again. While in the beverage line at the Johnny Mercer Theater for the Trucks-Tedeschi show, I bumped, literally, into Charlestonians Teresa Whims and Gary Hutchison. We shared a beer before start time. Teresa, one of Charleston’s finest mixologists, takes care of me at the Charleston Grill. After the Bill Frisell show later that night, I bumped into Teresa and Gary again,
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; Mon: Open Mic Night; Tue: Karaoke. TRIANGLE CHAR AND BAR: 828 Savannah Highway. 377-1300. Sat: Acoustic Muffin. VILLAGE TAVERN: 1055 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard. 884-6311. Sat: Chris Trapper, 9 p.m. WET WILLIE’S: 209 East Bay St. 853-5650. Fri: Numb909; Sat: Swyrl; Mon: Metal Mondays. WILD WING DOWNTOWN: 6 N. Market St. 7229464. Tonight: The Diesel Brothers; Fri: Stoneking; Sat: DJ DDL; Sun: Plane Jane; 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: Soulfish; Sat: The Lee Boys; Tues: Trivia Night w/ DJ SLK T. WILD WING NORTH CHARLESTON: 7618 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. 818-9464. Tonight: Ed Miller’s Karaoke Mayhem; Sat: Mr. Fernando; Sun: R&R Late Night w/ Matt and Fred; Mon: Trivia w/ DJ SLK T; Tue: The Diesel Brothers; Wed: Morgan and Rotie. THE WINDJAMMER: 1008 Ocean Blvd., Isle of Palms. 886-8596. Tonight: Dan Wright and The New Beat w/A Fragile Tomorrow and Firework Show, $10, 8 p.m.; Fri: Possum Jenkins, $5, 9p.m.; Sat: Playlist, $6, 9 p.m.; WOLFTRACK BAR AND GRILL: 1807 Parsonage Road. 763-0853. Fri: Moon Light Ale; Sat: Kevin Church.
this time at the rooftop bar at the Bohemian. We had a nightcap in the gorgeous bar, talking music, Charleston, Savannah, all manner of things with regard to food, beverage and entertainment. The next day I had an excellent dinner of ginger carrot tilapia at Ruan, a Thai restaurant they had recommended. By dinnertime that day, I was buoyed by what I saw and heard at Swing Central. What SMF is doing with jazz education is unbelievable. Space doesn’t allow a full treatment here, but I’m going to write about it later. I was looking at the future of jazz on that stage. And the future is now. It was indeed a pleasure to listen and to talk with the kids and their bandleaders and the clinicians. For instance, it was great to kick it there with the highly regarded trumpeter Marcus Printup, who, it turns out, is friendly with Charleston trumpeter Charlton Single-
ton. I swelled with pride last Thursday night at the 80th birthday party for Savannah native and bassist Ben Tucker, one of the most heartwarming SMF shows. Quentin was the drummer and he represented South Carolina spectacularly among the Georgians in the band: trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus and pianist Kevin Bales. All in all, it was a whirlwind for me. I worked my tail off but I had a great time. Savannah is a hip town. The cabbies, bartenders, servers and other service people are cool. SMF is one of the best music festivals in the country. It’s original, well designed and executed, and it goes a very long way toward keeping the world safe for good, live music. Jack McCray, author of “Charleston Jazz,” can be reached at jackjmccray@aol. com.
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JASON BAXLEY
what do you think? take a look at his work on pages 22-28, then go to facebook.com/chasscene and vote for your favorite!
WHAT IS YOUR INSPIRATION: I would have to say the other artists around me; Charleston’s art and music scene is full of some very talented people. Every time i see someone perform or display their creativity, it just makes me want to challenge myself and create as well. Whether it’s a guitarist, soap maker, designer, poet, breakdancer, or fellow photographer I am inspired by the time invested in their craft and their willingness to share it with everyone. HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN CHARLESTON?: All my life. I grew up in North Charleston in the Park Circle area and have lived in downtown Charleston for about 8 years now. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ARTWORK?: Since I was a little kid. I remember getting
one of those step by step “how to draw” books one year for Christmas and being amazed how all these simple little shapes put together made something recognizable. WHERE CAN WE SEE YOUR ARTWORK?: At the Farmers Market in Marion Square on Saturdays from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. FAMILY: My parents are Mike and Lois, and two sisters Jennifer and Mindy. All still live here. BOOK YOU ARE READING NOW: “The Girl Who Played With Fire” by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. Great series so far. PRICE RANGE FOR YOUR ARTWORK: $12-$200. Custom work is also available. EXTRA INFO ABOUT POLAR PANORAMICS: I wanted to try something new for this season at
the Farmers Market and while researching different photography techniques I came across Polar Panoramics. When you walk around Charleston you become immersed in these beautiful old buildings and narrow, cobblestone alley ways. The color schemes and street layouts just kinda swallow you up. Trying to capture that feeling in a single photograph can be quite challenging. By taking these different perspective views and merging them into a photograph that you can see all at once, I feel that you get a small taste of what it’s like to really be there. The photograph itself is actually made up of 14-20 shots stitched together to make a 360 degree panoramic, and then stretched into an image in Photoshop.
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“Folly Beach Planet” by Jason Baxley
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“Waterfront Gallery Planet” by Jason Baxley
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“Colonial Lake Planet” by Jason Baxley
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“Battery Planet” by Jason Baxley
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“Ravenel Bridge Planet” by Jason Baxley
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“Waterfront Sun” by Jason Baxley
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Charleston International Film Festival stays focused in its third year BY BILL THOMPSON The Post and Courier
film festival info
The Charleston International Film Festival starts today and runs through Sunday. The full schedule - with film details, pictures and trailers, as well as screenplay finalists - are all online at www.CharlestonIFF.com. The American Theater, 446 King St., will host all screenings. Tickets are available online at www.CharlestonIFF. com or by contacting the CIFF office at 817-1617. Price per screening block is $8 in advance or $9 at the door. Festival passes are available that give access to all screenings, panels and parties (excluding the awards dinner) for $99.
“American Theater” by Jason Baxley
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Passion is the one indispensable ingredient in great filmmaking. All the money in the world can’t make up for its absence. Neither can a battery of whiz-bang technology. If independent filmmakers have a corner on this quality, it’s because they have to, as the rewards for their work are few and far between. Thank heaven for film festivals, whose own commitment to storytelling and the cinematic arts gives many a filmmaker their one moment to bask in the glow. Entering its third year, the annual Charleston International Film Festival may be shifting its venue but not its focus: movies by people who are serious about their craft. Running April 8-11 at the American Theatre downtown, the brainchild of co-founders Summer Spooner and Brian Peacher this year showcases more than 50 features, shorts, documentaries and animation from six countries, including the work of 14 filmmakers from the Southeast and the Lowcountry. Opening night unspools with the short film “True Beauty This Night” from Peter Besson, followed by the world premiere of the feature “The 5th Quarter,” by Rick Bieber, whose “Crazy” captured the festival’s Jury Award for best feature in 2008. Andie MacDowell, a Gaffney native, stars with Aidan Quinn. The second block slated for opening night includes local filmmaker Kevin Harrison’s documentary short “Haunted Charleston,” accompanied by an array of other shorts, each suitably dark. In fact, film shorts, Justin (“Binyah”) Nathanson’s “Death and Life” is a prime example, are as much or more an emphasis of CIFF 2010 as features. “I really think our shorts programs are a highlight,” says Peacher. “They give the public a taste of four or five short films in a single block, with four or five different stories wrapped into the same amount of time as a feature, or less. I think people enjoy seeing these varied elements and differing ways filmmakers construct their movies.” “Most of the blocks contain a local film as well,” adds Summer. “But we have short films from all over the
“Insignificant Others” is one of the many films on tap for the festival. Visit insignificantothersthemovie.com.
Get on the Block highlights of CIFF films BY KEVIN YOUNG
Special to The Post and Courier
Tonight is the beginning of the third annual Charleston International Film Festival, which runs through Sunday. Charleston Scene was given a few short film screeners for this year’s festival. We picked out some of the titles that stood out from the rest. These short films, among many more, will be showing in groups called Blocks. A ticket gives the holder admission for the Block and all films in that Block. All screenings are being held at the American Theater. For more info, visit www.charlestoniff.com.
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“Dust” was createad locally and stars local talent. place. Shorts touch on all the emotions.” Some shorts in the festival are destined for expansion to feature length, as is the case with “Butterscotch,” which will star Jason Priestly. Fest organizers also are high on an experimental short with T.J. Thyne (of TV’s “Bones”), who is scheduled to be in attendance. Like “Haunted Charleston,” some documentaries are nonpolitical, like the surfing docu “Union Express,” while others such as “Tapped” address pressing social issues like the privatization of water and water rights. Most of the movies on tap are premieres or sneak previews and will be screened in blocks consisting of two or more pictures. In addition to CIFF’s film and
“HOLD YOUR FIRE” GENRE: Horror DIRECTOR: Wes Benscoter INFO: A ghostly soldier wandering through a fog-covered battlefield targets a Japanese girl, who proves to be more dangerous than originally anticipated. Years later in a tomb-like foreign hospital he comes face to face with his war-torn existence in this life… and the beyond.
screenplay competitions, three panels and seminars will be offered free of charge: Film Distribution (April 10) with Michael Katchman, a veteran of Orion Pictures, MGM, Lions Gate and First Look Studios; The State of Film in South Carolina (April 10), a seminar presented by the S.C. Film Commission; and a Final Cut Pro Editing workshop (April 9) sponsored by the Center for the Documentary at the College of Charleston. Workshop attendees are encouraged to ask questions, interact and be involved in these sessions. One of the most popular aspects of the first two CIFFs are the nightly after-parties — Chai’s, Shine and the Club Pantheon are the hosts this
“RATIONS” GENRE: Horror DIRECTOR: Craig Ouellette INFO: A couple is lost in the desert with only one bottle of water, and a long way to go. Do you Ration?
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“BRIDGE” GENRE: Drama / Mystery DIRECTORS: Chase Pletts and Nick Garrison INFO: On a surprise visit to her mother’s home, Val finds a ‘for-sale’ sign on the lawn -- and her mother missing. Searching for clues, Val discovers that her mother is drowning in debt. This disquieting revelations lead to another – one immeasurably more devastating.
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up, but a copper-colored banner identifies the space, and with our recent 70-degree days, the patio he “craic” (Gaelic for has sprouted lime-green umbrellas fun) hardly got started and pots of bright pink roses. when McCaffrey’s Irish The labyrinth of nooks and Pub closed its doors crannies that were the “snugs” at on Daniel Island. The McCaffrey’s are gone. The space beautiful Guinness “pub in kit” has been streamlined from front on Daniel Island in 2007 pulled to rear, opening up the tavern, its last pint in 2008. literally and figuratively. In December 2009, a triumviThe bar area sports a half-dozen rate of friends and family — Cro- high-top tables and a coveted nin, Quinonez and Pashke — re- community table. Two Rivers opened 245 Seven Farms Drive Tavern welcomes Fat Tires ($4.50), as Two Rivers Tavern. This pub Dog Fish Heads ($5.50) and even a joined Vespa Pizzeria and Wasabi Rogue Dead Guy ($5.50). Japanese Restaurant in the growThanks to the job done at Laura ing number of restaurants that Alberts Tasteful Options on Dannow call Daniel Island home. iel Island and her growler station The signage for Two Rivers in not and beer dinners, beer’s star is as-
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Two Rivers Tavern
The tide rises for eateries on Daniel Island
cending. An educated hops, malt and barley crowd seeks liquid assets at Two Rivers. Two Rivers Tavern is family-friendly with a kids menu of grilled cheese, pasta, sliders and chicken tenders ($4-$7.50). And the welcome “bowl” is out for you and your animal on the outdoor breezeway. Brunch is offered Sunday and lunch is served Thursday-Saturday. Do check the hours as the tavern has made market adjustments as it grows. The menu taps into our appetites for international fare, from Italian pasta carbonara ($12) to hummus and pita points ($5); seared Please see TAVERN, Page 31F
restaurant review CUISINE: American Eclectic CATEGORY: Neighborhood Favorite PHONE: 216-3903 LOCATION: 245 Seven Farms Drive, Daniel Island FOOD: ★★ ATMOSPHERE: ★★½ SERVICE: ★★½ PRICE: $-$$ COSTS: Appetizers and sides $3$12, sandwiches $5-$9.50, soups and salads $5.25-$12, entrees $16-$24, kids menu $4-$7.50, brunch menu $6-$12, brunch sides $1-$3 VEGETARIAN OPTIONS: Limited BAR: Full service bar, expansive
menu of bottled beers both craft and imported, 12 beers on draft. HOURS: Changing. Sunday brunch served 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Lunch served Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-3 p.m., dinner daily from 5 p.m. DECIBEL LEVEL: Varies PARKING: Rear lot and street parking WHEELCHAIR ACCESS: Yes OTHER: Happy hour 4-7 p.m. Outdoor patio that is “animal friendly,” kids menu, daily specials. WEB SITE: twitter.com/tworivers tavern
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tuna with Thai chile vinaigrette served with a wasabi mousse; to nachos ($10) topped with crab and shrimp. As our sophisticated palates crave more than pickled eggs, boiled peanuts, burgers and fries as pub grub, Two Rivers Tavern attempts to deliver with grilled salmon ($16) topped with bearnaise sauce and couscous with currants; filet mignon ($24) with goat cheese smashed potatoes, and pork chops ($17) with bacon gastrique. But is that why we go to a neighborhood pub? Not that we want the banal with our Breckenridge IPA ($5.50) but rather we want our local watering holes to play the cards of comfort and convenience. We want engaged and informed bartenders. We want servers who are invested in the satisfaction of our meal. And as much as we may enjoy gnocchi with pesto cream sauce, citrus vinaigrette with
bird chiles and shallot relish, we don’t always need a side of “multi-culti” cooking when the conviviality of our neighbors is all the condiment we need. And that was the conundrum of our dining experiences at Two Rivers Tavern. Grilled chicken wings ($8) were hot, plump and tender served with a cold soy dipping sauce. Calamari ($7) were toothsome, but the marinara dipping sauce was overseasoned with rosemary and the chunky bits of tomatoes needed chopping to cling to the rings and tendrils of the squid. Mac and cheese ($4) was just that: pasta shells topped with cheese. No sauce, no crust, no liquid elixir that makes this dish ubiquitous. Go with a burger ($9) and you will not be disappointed. Try steak frites ($20) and the tendons will give your mouth a workout. Not to mention an off-flavor to the truffle oil on the “frites”. The mahi-mahi sandwich
($9) is well-executed but the bun is too big for the portion of the fish. The hand-cut fries served with the sandwiches are crisp and wellseasoned. But why a $3 up-charge to substitute coleslaw or mac and cheese with your sandwich? But do try that blue cheese slaw; it is one of the better around town. Blue cheese is the operative word and you actually taste it. And the cheese plate ($12) will be a welcome companion to the wines on Two Rivers list. Oddly, it’s a list that provides no benefit if you order wine by the bottle rather than the glass. The owners of Two Rivers have managed to excise the clutter that made McCaffrey’s cumbersome. If they apply that same precision to their menu, then they may well be on their way to pouring a pint of pleasure and a liter of laughs for the folks who call the area bounded by the two rivers of the Cooper and Wando home.
Congratulations to the Winner of the Absolut Berri Acai Mixology Challenge! CLUB HABANA’S MELISSA CALABRO! Here’s her winning recipe: ABSOLUT BERRI WHITE
1 1/4 oz Dried Sweetened Cranberries 1/2 Fresh Lime Quartered 1 1/4 oz Simple Syrup 2 oz Absolut Berri Acai 1/4 oz Montbisou Framboises 1/2 tsp Agave Nectar Muddle the cranberries, limes and simple syrup. Add Absolut Berri Acai, Montbisou Framboises and the agave nectar. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lime wheel and blueberries around the rim.
2nd place Matt Corbin at The Rooftop at Vendue Inn 3rd place Evan Powell at Fish Thank you to all the participating bartenders! Please stop by and try one of their delicious cocktails featuring Absolut Berri Acai at these great locations: Club Habana, The Rooftop at Vendue Inn, Fish, BLU, Triangle Char and Bar, Carolina’s and The Mill R50-284858 R34-280947
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Get ready to try Sweet Tea Bourbon Liquid marriage
East Bay St. is expanding this month to a new location at the Isle of Palms Marina, Ted’s Dockside. Ted’s will be taking over the Marina deli, offering breakfast and lunch to go. A catering menu, with casual fare and provisioning services for boaters, also will be offered. Ted’s Dockside is in the Marina Market at the Isle of Palms Marina, 50 41st Ave. Hours are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. Other happenings at Ted’s East Bay location: ◗ Test your food knowledge High fives in a game of trivia at Ted’s Honor your administraButcherblock on April 14. tive professional April 21 at The winner takes home the High Cotton and 100 percent bacon, literally. A 1-pound of the proceeds will support package of artisanal bacon Communities In Schools. lards the winner’s pockets. This drop-out prevention No cost to attend this event agency connects community that begins at 7:30 p.m. resources to school needs. ◗ Ted’s April Craft Beer DinHigh Cotton’s chef de cuiner will honor Earth Day by sine Ramon Taimanglo has featuring all organic beers. crafted a three-course menu Full menu details will be for $25. Reserve from 11 a.m. posted on its Web site, www. to 2 p.m. by calling 724-3815. tedsbutcherblock.com. The Communities In Schools dinner is 7:30 p.m. April 29 serves about 3,500 students for $38 plus tax and gratuity. and their families in 19 pub- Reservations required; call lic schools in Charleston and 577-0094. Berkeley counties. High Cotton is at 199 East Smoke at Fat Hen Bay St. For more, visit www. Chef-owner Fred Neuville high-cotton.net or www. of the Fat Hen is lighting mavericksouthernkitchens. fires of the culinary kind. A com. smokehouse is a recent addition to the Fat Hen property where smoked meats, seaTed’s expands food, fruits and nuts will be Ted’s Butcherblock at 334 Firefly Distillery has unveiled the first Sweet Tea Bourbon, combining two Southern favorites. Made with handcrafted straight bourbon whiskey from Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Ky., Firefly Sweet Tea Bourbon is infused with authentic South Carolina tea and Louisiana sugarcane. Firefly Sweet Tea Bourbon is the sixth spirit from Firefly Distillery. For recipes and more, click www.fireflyvodka.com.
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cured for Fat Hen diners. Local mason Jesse White created the 36-square-foot “house of smoke.” Local pecan, cherry and hickory woods will be used. Try the smoked grape Mojito. Fat Hen is at 3140 Maybank Highway, 559-9090.
Not too taxing
The best kind of 1099 is a McCrady’s custom cocktail and a snack from Chef Sean Brock’s new bar menu. The Bamboo Cocktail and your choice of a bar snack goes for $10.99, beginning 510:30 p.m. Monday through April 18. McCrady’s is at 2 Unity Alley.
Wine dinner
Fish Restaurant will host an EOS Estate Winery dinner with winemaker Nathan Carlson at 6:30 p.m. April 15. Chef Nico Romo will introduce the four-course menu and Carlson will discuss the wine pairings for EOS, located in Paso Robles, Calif. Dinner is limited to 40 guests and tickets are $55. Reserve at 722-3474. Fish is at 442 King St.
Boathouse lunch
Get some food and brew with a view as the Boathouse launches a new menu for lunch. The Boathouse at Breach Inlet is at 101 Palm Blvd., Isle of Palms and will be serving lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
Kudos to cocktail
Patrick Emerson, wine and beverage director for Maverick Southern Kitchens, has received mention in the April issue of Southern Living magazine for his “Charleston Cocktail.” This sip of the Lowcountry combines Firefly Vodka, iced tea and Madeira. Sample it for yourself at High Cotton Charleston or Greenville. High Cotton Charleston is at 199 East Bay St., 724-3815.
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Live tropical music by Makeño Son this Saturday, April 10th at 8pm. Try our new Brazilian drinks!
LASTWEEK’S PUZZLEANSWERS 851.2885 114 Holiday Drive Summerville, SC Turn at Econo Lodge, I-26 exit 199A
Farm-to-table
A first for the Woodlands Inn, a farm-to-table menu, will be served outdoors under the tent on the grounds of the Summerville restaurant and inn April 14. The cost is $55 for a threecourse menu held in conjunction with Keegan-Filion Farm of Walterboro. Local and regional wines will be paired with each course. After dessert, live music will continue for dancing. Reservations required. Calling 308-2115.
Pho bac is back
Sushi Haru has closed and Pho Bac returns again to the Fairmont Shopping Center in Mount Pleasant. Pho Bac occupied the space
that has been the recent home to Sushi Haru. The Vietnamese restaurant is at 1035 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., 884-4227.
Outdoor bar
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Chef Fred Neuville opened Fat Hen and Wild Olive on James Island. He recently decided to focus solely on Fat Hen and try his hand at a catering company, as well. Q: You have a very strong commitment to Darkness to Light. Would you mind talking a bit about your connection to this charity? A: I began working with Darkness to Light since it’s inception and am now the chef chair for the gala that is held every year the Thursday before Thanksgiving. The reason why I am so involved is because my wife, Joan, and I have been foster parents for many years and have dealt with issues concerning what Darkness to Light is trying to address child sexual abuse. Q: What changes have you made to the restaurant in the last year and what do you foresee in the next year? A: Well, we made quite a few in the last year, opening a catering company, building a smoke house and starting up Fat Hen chicken farm, enlarged our parking lot to handle the volume that we do and purchased the building and land (2 acres) that Fat Hen sits on. Added another air conditioning unit to the kitchen so it was not so hot. We are not going to make any major changes this year, we are going to get settled into what we are doing now and plan for growth the following year.
WHAT: Fat Hen WHERE: 3140 Maybank Highway, Johns Island PHONE: 559-9090 WEB SITE: www.thefathen.com
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Q: What’s your favorite item on your menu right now? A: Right now, I would have to say the barbecue quail filled with our duck and apple sausage over roasted tomato, corn and goat cheese grits. Q: Do you change the menu items for each season? A: We change in the spring and fall. Our menu’s revolve around what we are supplied by The Makin’ Butterflies at Johns Island Montessori School (organic vegetables), Legare Farms (eggs, beef, vegetables), Ambrose Farms, Black Bird farms, Cherry Point Seafood, Crosby’s Seafood just to name a few. We are as local as you can possibly be, and we thank everyone for all their hard work. Q: You pulled away from Wild Olive this year. Can you explain what brought you to that decision? A: We wanted to concentrate on Fat Hen, Fat Hen catering and Fat Hen chicken farm along with getting five teenagers through high school. Also, we and our partner in Wild Olive had different ideas on how to run a business.
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James Island’s Savory Sushi on a roll
cheese, or a Firebreather roll, a package of spicy tuna and cucumber wrapped with eel Special to The Post and Courier and avocado. icture this: Let’s say you’ve got It’s like the ultimate bistro, thanks to two grandmothers, one from dreadlocked chef Rhett Thomas, his wife, Tokyo, the other from James Hailey, and partner Steven Stackley. Island. And, whaddya know? Thomas spent 3½ years rolling sushi at They want to open a restauThe Boathouse restaurant downtown, a rant together. pretty compelling body of prerequisite Except, and get this, they both want to work. serve a cuisine native to their upbringing. Savory previously just served tapas and No compromises, no bartering. sushi on its evening menu. But after repeatNever happen, right? Hardly. ed requests from patrons, the restaurant Savory Sushi, though not the heavenly opened up its nights to include traditional dream of two grandmothers, still combines lunchtime fare: burgers, wraps, salads. the East and the South, granting diners Now that’s Southern hospitality: Giving the with their choice of, say, a cheeseburger people what they wish. decked out with collards and pimiento Savory Sushi makes a dynamite meatloaf
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sandwich ($10), crusted and moist, and set with collards and pimiento cheese on a spinach wrap. What might be better? The tomato pie ($6) on flaky, delicate puff pastry, joined by fresh basil and mozzarella. Though it might to be odd to think (but hey, we’ve tried and it works), the ceviche ($7) and Tijuana roll ($11), which is spiked with spicy crab, cilantro, avocado, mango and tempura flakes, team with the meat loaf and tomato pie for a might strong medley. Besides the sushi and Southern favorites, Savory Sushi also provides catering, takehome casseroles and dinners. Like the dining room, they’re supplying something to appease most palates.
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WHAT: Savory Sushi WHERE: 1956-B Maybank Hwy. PHONE: 762-3338 WEB SITE: www.savorysushiandcatering.com HOURS: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Tue.-Thu.; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Fri.-Sat.
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Amanda Vanarsdale used to bartend at Rita’s before moving to Med Bistro. BY DENISE K. JAMES
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s a resident of James Island, I’ve visited Med Bistro plenty of times. The food is good and the bar is always welcoming. Bartender Amanda Vanarsdale, a transplant to the Lowcountry from Boston, can tell you which wines go best with Med’s menu choices. She also has had plenty of experience concocting the very recipe that your palate craves: try the vodka cocktail with raspberry and pomegranate. Q: How long have you worked at Med Bistro? A: I have been here for about six months. Q: What’s your background as a bartender? A: I was a bartender on Folly at the Porch restaurant before it closed, and also at Rita’s. Q: What do you like about working at Med? A: I love the people that I work with. Getting in with the other girls here has been great. They’ve welcomed me with open arms. Q: What’s a wine that you recommend?
if you go WHAT: Med Bistro WHERE: 90 Folly Road Blvd. PHONE: 766-0323 WEB SITE: themedbistro.com
A: Well, it depends on whatever you’re having to eat, but my favorites are the Layer Cake, and the Charles Krug. Q: And your favorite seasonal item on the menu? A: I always get the poached pear salad with blackened shrimp. It’s light, but very flavorful. Q: What cocktail are you known for mixing? A: I make a mean Cadillac margarita, and I also like coming up with whatever people tell me they’re craving. I’ve been known to mix Vodka, raspberry schnapps, sour mix, pomegranate and cranberry juice plus soda. Q: What drink do you hate making? A: Let’s see. In the summertime, I hate making rum runners. It’s really annoying. Q: What celebrity would you love to serve? A: I’m going to have to go with Channing Tatum! Q: Where in Charleston do you like having a drink? A: I usually go over to Upper King. I like Chai’s a lot. And if I’m going out to Folly, then I like Surf Bar. Q: Have you ever had to cut someone off? A: Back in the Folly Days, yes! Many bachelor parties last summer! Q: And what’s your hangover tip? A: You’re going to laugh, but it’s a BLT with a fried egg and cheddar, plus one cocktail. Something you did NOT drink the night before!
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James Island carries on King Street Grille tradition BY JACK HUNTER
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Vegan pancakes made with soy milk with strawberries on top.
Charleston Veggies and Vegans group stresses education, fun, community
tonians are really lucky to have grocery store choices for organic foods.” Search for Charleston Veggies and Vegans on “The ultimate goal for f you’re not vegetarthe group is to grow,” says facebook to join the discussion and find out more ian, don’t stop reading Swingle. “We’d like to have information. here. I admit, that after enough members so that we speaking with Sarah can raise better awareness Swingle of the Charleston Swingle. have been in Marion Square about vegetarian lifestyles Veggie and Vegans Group, “We wanted a way to iden- and at Folly Beach. They’re in Charleston and the surI actually considered elimi- tify ourselves as vegetarians really fun because we can rounding area. We feel that nating meat from my diet, in Charleston,” she says. trade recipes and find out if more people were eduand not just to join their “Jenny Welch, the founder, what other group members cated about their food, then community, either. let the group evolve into like to eat. We can also share they would think differently “I’m vegan and it’s a very more of a club. Sometimes what we’ve learned. Food is about what they eat!” healthy lifestyle,” says Swing- being a vegetarian can be so enjoyable and fun, and it’s To join the group, find le, an involved member since quite isolating. It’s been great to have a group where them on Facebook under the 2009. “You have to be open great to get together with food is the focal point!” name Charleston Veggies and different to lots of ethnic like-minded people and One of the group’s main and Vegans. cuisines and new things. Be- share ideas.” goals is to start a communi“We don’t do a lot of PR, ing vegan has really expandThe group strives to have ty garden in the near future. but people tend to find us ed my palate, not limited it.” events on a regular basis, “We would like to have a mostly by word of mouth,” The Charleston Veggie and and one of its mainstays is a place where people can grow says Swingle. “Even meatVegan group actually began potluck picnic. organic and ethical food,” eaters are totally welcome as nothing more elaborate “We try to do a picnic says Swingle. “The location to join! We urge people just than a Facebook page, then about once a month,” she hasn’t been figured out yet. to check out what we’re all it quickly flourished, says says. “The main potlucks In the meantime, Charlesabout.”
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Approaching its one-year anniversary, King Street Grille on James Island has quickly become a premier spot for sports fans, but with a more upscale vibe than most establishments of that type. This has always been true of the King Street Grille locations downtown, Mount Pleasant and Kiawah Island locations. The James Island franchise is no exception. With multiple big-screen TV’s throughout, including four 104-inch projection screens, the King Street Grille on Folly Road is a fan’s dream, where football, basketball, baseball and every athletic competition imaginable can be enjoyed in a spacious environment with plenty of seating and quality food to boot. On the night of my visit, the Final Four was being cheered or booed accordingly. It should be noted that the outdoor patio, also fit with TV’s, is ideal and perfect for the imminent spring season. On weekends, King Street Grille James Island has live music indoors in the evening and outdoor tunes on
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the patio during happy hour, Sunday brunch and live team trivia every Thursday. Located in the same Folly Road shopping center as Gold’s Gym, there’s always plenty of parking. Like local franchises the Kicken’ Chicken and Andolini’s Pizza, the King Street Grille has successfully expanded the homegrown food and beverage brand throughout the Lowcountry. The folks at the grill have unquestionably developed a solid recipe for success, of which their James Island location is another fine example.
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Prepare for ‘Date Night’ by reliving these bad dates
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ovies and dates are like flowers and candy. Or flowers and napalm. Or a tuxedo with the zipper down. Or a French poodle with rabies. Many couples who decide to go on a date decide to go to the movies; it can work out well, especially if one uses some discretion in choosing the film: 10-hour Holocaust movies and Takeshi Miike’s “Audition” — in which a woman goes out with men and then chops them up — probably should be avoided. At the same time, “Audition” makes a useful point: Many people in the movies go on dates, and the success rate is abysmal. That’s because dates are fraught with peril. So much can go wrong
Tina Fey (from left), Steve Carell and Mark Wahlberg are shown in a scene from “Date Night.” AP
in so many deliciously awkward ways. Whether this will work out to our comedy advantage with “Date Night,” the Tina Fey-Steve Carell feature that opens Friday, remains to be seen. Fey and Carell play a married couple, so they sort of have to go home together at the end of the movie; both stars are reactive comedians, so the humor might well achieve inertia. The basic concept of “Date Night,” the idea of a couple’s having to schedule an evening to keep the romance alive, would seem a bit foreign to the usual target audience for mainstream romantic comedies, which skews younger and responsibility-free. But not much about this comedy, directed by Shawn Levy (both “Night at the Museum” movies), seems calculated to woo teenagers: Tina Fey is 39, Steve Carell is 47,
both star in modestly rated network series — although Fey’s “30 Rock” has been a consistent Emmy winner, and Carell’s “The Office” has been honored with multiple awards since premiering in 2005 (“30 Rock” came on the next year). Both stars made their name in television — Carell on “The Daily Show” and Fey on “Saturday Night Live,” a program whose relationship to the big screen has been a bit like that of mad cow disease to the meat industry. It’s also hard to imagine that whatever goes wrong will be worse than some of the hope-filled romantic collisions cited (in no particular order) below. They may not be the worst dates in movie history, but they’re pretty gruesome. (Note: “Knocked Up” doesn’t count, only because bar pickups don’t qualify as dates.)
‘After Hours’ (1985)
You can kind of tell a date isn’t going well when one of the participants commits suicide. And that’s just one of the many, many bits of insanity that the beleaguered Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) survives in this very black comedy by Martin Scorsese.
‘Spider-Man 2’ (2004)
When the star-crossed Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) meet in a coffee shop to resolve their romantic impasse, Doctor Octopus shows up and throws a car at them. Not exactly the way they describe it on eHarmony.
‘The Invention of Lying’ (2009)
Before their first date is even over, Ricky Gervais gets to listen
to Jennifer Garner tell her mother everything that’s wrong with him in this comedy set in a parallel universe where everyone tells the truth. All the time. Which is certainly not the route to romance.
‘The Awful Truth’ (1937)
A shiny old chestnut, this rather daring (for its time) tale of adultery stars Cary Grant, Irene Dunne and Ralph Bellamy, who plays a big hick from Oklahoma smitten by the sophisticated Dunne.
‘American Pie’ (1999)
When Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) has a study date with Czech exchange student Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth), their entire, shall we say, interaction gets broadcast to the entire high school via webcam. A cautionary tale, to be sure.
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year — culminating April 11 with the awards gala in the Gold Ballroom at the Francis Marion Hotel. Spooner and Peacher are enthused about the festival being transplanted downtown. “We like the idea of having the one big screen at the American,” Spooner says. “Also, people often come in from out of town without cars, and having it all downtown makes it easier for them to get around to the screenings, panels and parties.” “We have more filmmakers attending than any other year,” adds Peacher, “so the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and get into the minds of filmmakers to see how it’s done. We’re excited about who’s coming.” Tickets are available online at www.charlestoniff.com or by contacting the CIFF office at 817-1617. The price per screening block is $8 in advance or $9 at the door. Festival passes are available that give access to all screenings, panels and parties (excluding the awards dinner) for $99. For the full schedule, complete with film synopses, images and trailers, go online www.charlestoniff.com.
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Estimates as of April 5.
1. “Clash of the Titans”............... $61.4 million 2. “Why Did I Get Married Too?”$30.2 million 3. “How to Train Your Dragon”.. $29.2 million 4. “The Last Song” ...................... $16.2 million 5. “Alice in Wonderland” ............. $8.3 million 6. “Hot Tub Time Machine” .............$8 million 7. “The Bounty Hunter” ............... $6.2 million 8. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” ............ $5.5 million 9. “She’s Out of My League” ........ $1.5 million 10. “Shutter Island”...................... $1.5 million – www.hollywood.com/boxoffice
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Janet Jackson talks about emotional roller coaster of film differently.’ And that’s exactly what it was. They thought it was important they didn’t bring up what had happened, and that was fine with me.” When Janet Jackson signed on to be a That silence was uncomfortable for part of “Why Did I Get Married Too?” some of the cast in the film, which reshe knew she’d have to ready herself for unites eight college friends in the Bahaan emotional journey. mas for their yearly one-week reunion In the sequel to Tyler Perry’s 2007 where they discuss love and relationfilm, Jackson’s character, the alwaysships. composed psychologist Patricia, slowly begins to unravel as her loveless marriage Despite the tough emotional work at hand, Jackson said there were lighter modissolves. The role required her to cry, ments on the island set. scream and fight, challenge enough for “There were these huge giant moths any actress, and then her brother, Mithat looked like big black butterflies, and chael, died just three days into filming. I think they freaked Tyler out,” she said, Production halted as Jackson flew to L.A. to be with her family. Director Perry laughing gently. “They’d land on your head or on your shoulder and he said followed. “Tyler was so there for me. He was con- they were hairy, but I thought they were gorgeous.” stantly calling me to see how I was doIt was with the focus of the actors she ing,” recalled Jackson via telephone from admired that Jackson approached her New York recently, where she had just completed a day of interviews for the new latest endeavor, though she noted that experiencing such heightened emotions film, opening Friday. was often exhausting. “He had asked me, ‘How do you want “You can’t always let go of it; it has to let to be treated on set?’ And I said, ‘The way they treated me on the first film, no go of you,” she explained.
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Tyler Perry’s ‘Married’ feels amateurish BY RAFER GUZMAN
Newsday
Tyler Perry fans may wonder how his hugely popular movies manage to consistently dominate the box office yet fail to impress one significant audience: critics. Perry doesn’t really need them, as his receipts prove. He is the rare black auteur who writes, directs, produces and acts, and his movies seem tailored to black audiences. In broad comedies (the drag-based “Madea” franchise) and noisy melodramas (“The Family That Preys”), he offers valuable messages of self-esteem and upward mobility. For all that, his movies feel more like marketing coups than personal statements. They stick to topics such as infidelity, money woes and substance abuse. As in the first “Married,” four couples go on vacation, this time to the Bahamas, to reassess their relationships. Each pair represents a problem: There are Neglect (Perry and Sharon Leal), Job-
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DIRECTOR: Tyler Perry STARRING: Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, Jill Scott, Michael Jai White RATED: PG-13 for language, adult themes RUN TIME: two hours WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www. charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
lessness (Jill Scott and Lamman Rucker), Adultery (Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White, entertaining) and a Dead Child (Janet Jackson and Malik Yoba, unconvincing). In short, it’s another production from a filmmaker who’d rather expand his empire than hone his craft.
Janet Jackson arrives for the special screening of Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married Too?” last month in New York. AP
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‘North Face’: A tale as taut as a climber’s rope
rich and Simon Schwarz), wealthy gawkers fill a hotel to watch through sightseeing telescopes and binocuAP lars, in between sips from cocktails and nibbles carved out of an Eiger-shaped cake. oddled urban moviegoers who trudge Among the gawkers are aspiring photojournalist Luaround in North Face jackets — but who ise (Johanna Wokalek) and her editor, Henry (Ulrich have never scaled anything more dauntTukur). They both hope the German climbers will ing than the snowdrifts along K Street in Washington — may want to hide their ex- succeed, but for different reasons. Luise, who happensive logos in shame after seeing the movie “North pens to be an old flame of Toni’s and wants to see him do well, also hopes to make her name with exclusive Face.” pictures of the climb. Her editor mainly wants a good Shot on location on the north face of the Eiger, the story. peak in the Swiss Alps that’s one of mountain climbWhat makes a good story? In Henry’s nationalistic ing’s deadliest challenges, the fictionalized account of view, a German first at the summit would be great. a 1936 attempt to scale what’s known in German as But a dead body or two also would sell papers; as a the “murder wall” is so filled with windswept, frostmeasure of the danger involved, Toni and Andi come bitten drama that it makes the recent “Snowpocaacross the frozen remains of an earlier climber. They lypse” look like a day at the beach. help themselves to his equipment and roll the body The word “gripping” doesn’t do it justice. down the mountain. Centering on two Bavarian climbing friends, Toni Anything in between triumph and tragedy — meanKurz (Benno Frmann) and Andi Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas), the movie takes the audience where most ing if Toni and Andi have to give up and come crawlof us would never dream of going: to that private club ing back home, safe but unsuccessful — is a journalisthat exists between the base camp and, if all goes well, tic washout as far as Henry is concerned. At one point, it looks like that’s exactly what’s going a climber’s victorious return to terra firma. It puts us, to happen. Rock slides, bad weather and an avalanche in other words, right there on the mountainside. — not to mention the Austrians, one of whom has It’s not an enviable place to be. It was, however, something of a tourist attraction, at been gravely injured — slow down our heroes, who decide to come off the mountain. least in 1936, when the north face had yet to be sucIt’s there that the movie really begins. From that cessfully climbed. moment forward, the suspense is relentless, the exciteAs Toni and Andi begin their treacherous ascent, joined halfway up by a pair of Austrians (Georg Fried- ment almost unbearable at times. BY MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN
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Benjamin Furmann (from left), Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek and Ulrich Tukur star in “North Face,” based on a true story about a handful of men who took on one of Europe’s tallest mountains in 1936.
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★★★★½ (of 5) DIRECTOR: Philipp Stoelzl. STARRING: Johanna Wokalek, Benjamin Furmann, Florian Lukas, Simon Schwarz, Georg Friedrich. RATED: Not Rated RUN TIME: 2 hours 1 minute. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
Set against the backdrop of Hitler’s rise to power, it’s hard not to read allegorical elements into the story. Is Henry a monster or a pragmatist for not caring whether Toni and Andi live or die? What responsibility do Toni and Andi have to their rivals, the Austrians? And what of the tourists, for whom the climbers’ fate is reduced to a bloody spectator sport? These issues flesh out but never bloat this lean tale. Though almost every scene is haunted by the specter of death, the taut “North Face” is a movie about life — fragile and thrilling and worth fighting for.
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‘Runaways’ look at the ’70s spot-on BY MICK LASALLE
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he strength and beauty of “The Runaways” are that it tells the truth. It doesn’t always tell the literal truth about the pioneering all-girl rock band, the Runaways, though it gets the basic facts and most of the details right. More crucially, it conveys precisely what it was like to be young in the mid-1970s, a peculiar juncture in American social history. Back then, there was an almost post-apocalyptic feeling in the air, that all norms had been tossed aside, that nothing mattered, that the whole country and the world had spun out of control. Other films have attempted to convey this. Ang Lee’s “The Ice Storm” got a piece of this feeling, but it couldn’t get all of it. Its failure was
Kristen Stewart (right) and Dakota Fanning (left) star in “The Runaways,” about Joan Jett and her band in the 1970s. AP
that it was, in a sense, too good a movie, too artful. “The Runaways,” by contrast, is precisely the kind of gritty, seamy and occasionally awkward picture that the ’70s deserve. And in getting that one thing right, in capturing that strange combination of despair and frustrated energy, it gets everything right. It explains why kids needed rock ’n’ roll, and why the Runaways still mean so much to those who remember them. Based on “Neon Angel,” the memoir of lead singer Cherie Currie, “The Runaways” tells the story of the creation of the band, focusing mainly on Joan Jett, who became the group’s rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter, and Currie, who was discovered by Jett and producer Kim Fowley at Los Angeles nightclub when she was 15. They liked her look (“a little Bowie, a little
Bardot”) and had no idea whether she could sing. She could. To be a teenager can feel like being stuck in mud. The world is alive with promise and excitement, but you can’t get to it. You have no power. But music gives the feeling of power, the illusion of it, and sometimes that’s enough to keep you sane. Currie (Dakota Fanning) and Jett (Kristen Stewart) start off as rock-obsessed high school misfits, Currie with a falling-apart family and an obsession with David Bowie, and Jett with her leather gear and a dream of becoming a female rocker, of a variety that did not yet exist. “The Runaways” shows how rock ’n’ roll can save your life and almost wreck it.
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Runaways (such as Suzi Quatro), original Runaways recordings and live re-creations of Runaways songs, with Fanning singing lead vocals. It all sounds terrific, though it must be said that Fanning isn’t half the singer Currie was. Where Fanning excels is in suggesting the misery and confusion under the assumed air of teenage cool, and the gradual loss of herself to all the pressures and the drugs. She becomes the prime whipping girl for Fowley, ably played by Michael Shannon as an almost demonic presence, part sadistic idiot, part rock ’n’ roll seer. Stewart, known mainly for mumbling and stumbling through the “Twilight” movies, is the revelation here. She has made a meticulous study of Jett: of her posture, her manner, her expressions, even in the way
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DIRECTOR: Floria Sigismondi STARRING: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Riley Keough. RATED: R for language, drug use and sexual content RUN TIME: 1 hr. 45 min. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
thoughts cross her eyes. And she has Jett’s stage manner down, the way this seemingly shy person assumes total authority when she gets up to play. The visuals help; the costuming and art direction are spot-on.
one girl who just didn’t want success bad enough, and another who recognized her chance and clung to it like a lifeline. Some will complain, understandably, that “The Runaways” ultimately tells a downbeat story that drifts Unlikely pair and fades into a diminuAt the heart of “The Run- endo. aways” is Fanning and StewIt feels ungainly, as though art and their portrait of an something else, something unlikely friendship between big, should be happening. two very different teenage But no, the filmmaker knew girls, a friendship that, for exactly what she was doing: a time, becomes very close It just wouldn’t be the ’70s if indeed. it didn’t leave audiences with It’s also a showbiz story, of a cocaine hangover.
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“STUCK” GENRE: Experimental Short DIRECTOR: Theatre Junkies INFO: Two men...Stuck. In life. In their jobs. In their day. Even in the space they share. A few moments in time betray every nuance of their very existence in this brief, realistic portrait of the unsung working-class hero. “BUTTERSCOTCH” GENRE: Dark Comedy DIRECTOR: Jon Keeyes INFO: Having met in a suicide therapist’s waiting room, three people decide to go on a trip of a lifetime to plan their perfect funerals.
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Andie MacDowell and Aidan Quinn star in director Rick Bieber’s “The 5th Quarter,” playing at the Charleston International Film Festival.
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fold. Unfortunately, these also happen to be the elements of many a hackneyed sports udiences crave movie. authenticity, a reBieber’s latest falls someflection of the real, where in between: not bad, especially when it comes to but one expects better. independent films. Yet just Particularly from a man because a movie is based on of his talents. But Bieber, a true story doesn’t mean whose “Crazy” was one of it translates well to the big the most accomplished films screen. of 2006, appears hamstrung At first blush, writer-diby a skimpy budget. rector Rick Bieber’s “The He also is undercut by un5th Quarter” would seem even acting (too many in the to have all the elements of cast are amateurs), syrupy an inspiring sports movie: the tragic accident, a coura- music that wells up at the geous family trying to cope slightest provocation and a story arc that harbors no and the closing ranks of a surprises. It does not help regional football team (in this case, Wake Forest Uni- that Bieber’s own dialogue versity) determined to wrest tends toward the mechanimeaning from a death in the cal, a startling dip from the BY BILL THOMPSON
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movie review ★★ (of 5)
“SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO” GENRE: Animation DIRECTOR: Joaquin Baldwin INFO: A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
DIRECTOR: Rick Bieber. STARRING: Ryan Merriman, Aidan Quinn, Andie MacDowell. RATED: Unrated. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
sharp, largely cliche-free writing of “Crazy.” Not to say the film does not have its strong points. Chief among them is the performance of Aidan Quinn as the father of a boy killed in a traffic accident, the linchpin of the story. Deeply felt and well-modulated, his is the one utterly convincing turn in the picture. As for his leading lady, Andie MacDowell, there are flashes of good acting here and there, but too much flatness to sustain interest in her character. You never forget she is, well, Andie MacDowell. Fans of the Demon Deacons certainly will appreciate this recap of their historic 2006 season, whereon
“GOLEM SONG” GENRE: Animated Music Video DIRECTOR: Joy and Noelle Vaccese INFO: Golem’s Asylum is where dreams of musical success are distorted into pre-packaged fodder for zombified fans. The Maladies, a band of 4, dream false a Wake Foest team picked to visions that deliver them to a finish last in its division of moment of clarity
the Atlantic Coast Conference instead won the title with a stellar 11-2 record. And Bieber should be commended for trying to tell a simple story without frills. But even the game sequences lack real drama. Save for Quinn, and an uncommonly moving passage near the close, “The 5th Quarter” plays out like a run-of-the-mill telefilm. Those expecting another “Brian’s Song,” the greatest of all sports-themed TV movies, will be disappointed. Reach Bill Thompson at bthompson@postandcourier.com or 937-5707
Saturday, Block 1
“THE DEADBEAT” GENRE: Dark Comedy DIRECTOR: Levi Kaminkowitz INFO: A dark, bizzare, original comedic short set in a mortuary. Morgan, a socially inept mortician, is continually late to work due to traffic and is subject to his deranged boss, the mortuary owner.
Block 3
“MAUVAISSE ERREUR / A BAD MISTAKE” GENRE: Thriller Belgium DIRECTOR: Xavier Hibon INFO: Every Friday, Sophie and her friends organize
what they call “Scary Fridays” watching horror movies on DVD. Sophie is not scared anymore by horror movies, but tonight she’s going to have the most frightening night of her life.
Block 4 “POCKET FULL OF GOLD” GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Jeff Prugh INFO: Ollie and Abby have a beautiful marriage, but within every couples’ happiness lies a sleeping demon and Ollie is wavering on the edge: 5 years of marriage, 1 weekend apart. What could possibly go wrong? At 11:34pm, Abby will find out. The following morning, so will Ollie. “THE FAMILIAR” GENRE: Horror / Comedy DIRECTOR: Kody Zimmermann INFO: For anyone who has pursued a dream only to watch it slowly twist into a nightmare. Be careful what you wish for…it may come back to bite you in the end! “SHE’S A FOX” GENRE: Comedy DIRECTOR: Cameron Sawyer INFO: Infatuated with the hottest girl in school, sixthgrader Cameron puts everything on the line – including his mullet – to win the girl of his dreams.
Sunday, Block 3
“STONES” GENRE: Legend DIRECTOR: Ty Sanga INFO: Adapted from a Native Hawaiian legend and shot in the Hawaiian language, Stones is a love story about the last native couple on the island and their struggle to accept newcomers to the island.
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DISNEY
Helena Bonham Carter is shown in a scene from the film, “Alice in Wonderland.”
SUZANNE TENNER/20TH CENTURY FOX
Steve Carell (left) and J.B. Smooye are shown in a scene from “Date Night.”
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
★★★
PG
*DATE NIGHT N/A PG-13
WARNER BROS.
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.
Jason Flemyng (left) stars as Calibos and Ralph Fiennes as Hades in “Clash of the Titans.”
CLASH OF THE TITANS
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:20, 1:10, 3:55, 7, 9:35 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:10, 3:55, 7, 9:35 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:25, 7, 9:35
★★½
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3-D
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:15, 10:55, 1, 1:55, 4, 4:45, 7:05, 7:35, 9:45, 10:35 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1, 1:55, 4, 4:45, 7:05, 7:35, 9:45, 10:35 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:40 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 5:25, 8, 10:40 Citadel 16: Today-Thurs, April 15: 1, 3:10, 5:20, 8 Hippodrome: Today, Mon-Thurs, April 15: 7:15, 9:35 Fri: 7:15, 9:45 SatSun: 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 James Island 8: Fri-Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 7, 9:30 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:15, 7, 9:30
★★★
PG
Citadel 16 3-D: Today-Thurs, April 15: 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 7:10
THE BOUNTY HUNTER
★½
PG-13
Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston star in this romantic comedy about a bounty hunter in search of his ex-wife.
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 11, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:40, 2, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 James Island 8: Fri-Sun: 1:30, 4:05, 7, 9:40 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:05, 7, 9:40
This comedy stars Steve Carrell and Tina Fey as a bored married couple who find adventure during a night out in New York City.
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:35, 1:15, 4:05, 7:25, 9:40 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:15, 4:05, 7:25, 9:40 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: 11:10, 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 MonThurs, April 15: 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Citadel: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:50, 12:50, 1:50, 2:50, 3:50, 4:50, 5:50, 6:50, 7:50, 9, 9:50 James Island 8: Fri-Sun: 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 5:20, 7:30, 9:45
PG-13
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
★★½
PG
Greg Heffley is a witty middle school student just trying to get through the days without looking like an idiot.
CLASH OF THE TITANS 3-D
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:45, 1:45, 4:15, 6:55, 10:10 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:45, 4:15, 6:55, 10:10 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 7:20, 9:25
★★½ PG-13
Citadel 16 3-D: Today-Thurs, April 15: 11:45, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 James Island 8: Fri: 1, 3:30, 6:10, 8:40, 11:45 Sat-Sun: 1, 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 3:30, 6:10, 8:40
THE GHOST WRITER
★★★
CRAZY HEART
PG-13
★★★★★ R
CHLOE
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R
A woman puts her family in danger when she hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she believes is cheating.
A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
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.
Terrace: Fri-Sat: 2, 7:05, 9:35 Sun-Thurs, April 15: 2, 7:05
Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:55, 2:10, 4:30, 7
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DAVID MOIR/APPARITION FILMS
Dakota Fanning (left) and Kristen Stewart in “The Runaways.”
WILSON WEBB/FOCUS FEATURES
THE RUNAWAYS R
Ben Stiller stars in “Greenberg.”
GREENBERG
Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker.”
★★★
R
SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this Joan Jett biopic.
Terrace: Fri-Sat: 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 9:30 Sun-Thurs, April 15: 2:30, 5:05, 7:30
THE HURT LOCKER
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. Terrace: Today: 1:40, 3:50, 6:50
SHUTTER ISLAND
R
★★★★
This Oscar award-winner follows a group of soldiers fighting in Iraq who are assigned to a bomb squad unit.
R
Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. marshal working on a case surrounding a mysterious disappearance from a mental institution.
Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 9:20
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
★★½
★★★
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: noon, 3:30, 7:15, 10:30 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 3:30, 7:15, 10:30 Citadel 16: Fri -Thurs, April 15: 11:45, 2:45, 6:55, 9:35
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.
★★★★
THE LAST SONG
R
Four men on vacation travel back to the ’80s via a hot tub.
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:20, 1:30, 4:10, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:30, 4:10, 7:40, 10:15 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:45, 2, 4:10, 7:30, 9:45 James Island 8: Fri-Sun: 2:40, 5, 7:30, 10 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 5, 7:30, 10
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
★★½ PG-13
A young Viking becomes the owner of a dragon and changes his mind about wanting to become a dragon hunter.
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:40, 1:35, 4:35, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:35, 4:35, 7:45, 10:20 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: noon, 2:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 12:30, 3, 5:20, 8
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3-D
PG
THE WHITE RIBBON
R
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:30, 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: 11:20, 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:35, 1:50, 4, 7:20, 9:40 James Island 8: Fri-Sun: 1:40, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:15, 7:05, 9:40
Residents of a fictional German town are ruled over by three rigid men when mysterious deaths begin to occur.
Terrace: Today: 1:50, 4:30, 7:20 Fri-Thurs, April 15: 4:30
WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO?
★½
*LETTERS TO GOD PG
PG-13 Four couples reunite for their annual vacation. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
A young boy with cancer inspires people around him by writing letters to God.
Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:50, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Palmetto Grande: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:15, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10
Cinebarre: Fri-Sun: 10:25, 1:25, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 1:25, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Cinemark Movies 8: Fri-Sun: 11:05, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Citadel 16: Today-Thurs, April 15: 11:55, 1, 2:25, 3:30, 4:55, 5:55, 7:25, 8:10, 9:50 James Island 8: Fri-Sun: 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:25, 7:15, 10
NORTH FACE (NORDWAND) NR
★★½ PG-13
Citadel 16 IMAX 3-D: Fri-Thurs, April 15: 11:45, 2, 4:20, 7, 9:25 James Island 8: Fri-Sun: 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Thurs, April 15: 4:50, 7:15, 9:40
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Climbers compete to climb a dangerous rock face in the Alps.
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onight, Ann Long Fine Art will present “Woman,” a group show of enigmatic female portraiture painted in the classical tradition. The exhibition features work by Daniela Astone, Kamille Corry, Louise Fenne, Daniel Graves, Jill Hooper, Ben Long, Paula Rubino, and Charles Weed. “The image of the female has permeated visual media since humans etched their first mark on a cave wall and has continued to be a fascination of painters throughout the ages. ‘Woman’ offers a contemporary look at this fascination,” says gallery owner Ann Long. There will be a reception for “Woman” at 6-8 p.m. today at Ann Long Fine Art, 54 Broad Street. Call 577-0447 or visit www.annlongfineart.com.
and dramatic views of the salt marsh, creeks, ocean, and woodlands have been selected to allow touring guests a myriad of visual experiences, says Marla Loftus, director of communications at the Gibbes. This year, Gibbes, etc. is debuting a silent art auction featuring the works of Charleston artists Jill Hooper and Mary Whyte, both represented in the Christo at Gibbes Gibbes permanent collection. For more than 40 years, Christo “Still Life with Bread,” an oil paintand his late wife and artistic partner, ing by Hooper, has a retail value of Jeanne-Claude, have created fabric $4,000, and “Lower Church Street, installations of the grandest magniMorning Light,” a watercolor painttude and elegance throughout the ing by Whyte, has a retail value of world. $4,500. They created “The Gates” in New The winning bid of each painting York’s Central Park, which shrouded will be recognized at the conclusion the city with bright orange “gates.” of the tour Friday. They wrapped an entire section of Tickets are $55 and include the tour, the coast of Sydney, Australia. They light refreshments throughout the “curtained” an entire valley in Colo- afternoon at the Cassique clubhouse, rado to look like a dam. and an admission pass to the Gibbes Christo and Jeanne-Claude valid through the end of the year. wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin and All ticket proceeds fund special exthe Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris, the hibitions and art education programs 24½ -mile-long Running Fence in at the museum. Sonoma and Marin counties in CaliTickets may be purchased at the fornia. Gibbes Museum Store, online at And the list goes on. www.gibbesmuseum.org/events, at Two mixed-media works by Christo Kiawah Island Real Estate located at will be part of the upcoming Gibbes the Kiawah Main Gate or Freshfields exhibition “Modern Masters from Village, or by calling 722-2706, ext. the Ferguson Collection” running 21. April 30-May 22. Gibbes prize On Tuesday, Christo will discuss past and future temporary works of The Gibbes recently announced art in a slide presentation and diathe short list of finalists for the third logue at 5:30 p.m. at the Memminger annual Factor Prize, which awards Auditorium, 56 Beaufain Street. $10,000 annually to an artist whose Christo will share images and stories work demonstrates the highest level of famed art projects and will welof artistic achievement in any media come questions from the audience. while contributing to a new underA book signing will follow. This standing of art in the South. event is sold out. For more info, call The six finalists are Aldwyth, Radthe Gibbes at 722-2706, ext. 22. cliffe Bailey, Willie Birch, William Christenberry, Sally Mann and Joyce Kiawah tour Scott. The 10th annual Kiawah Island Art The winner of the 2010 Factor Prize and House Tour, sponsored by the will be announced on May 3 at the volunteer group, Gibbes, etc., will be Gibbes. 2-6 p.m. Friday. Nominations for the 2011 award This year, stunning Kiawah Island can be made beginning June 1 on the homes that showcase art collections Web site, factorprize.org.
‘Woman’:
The everlasting enigma “Sphinx” by Charles Weed will be on display at the Ann Long Fine Art gallery. The painting was recently sold.
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Jonathan Miller
JONATHAN MILLER
Images from Jonathan Miller’s two books: “The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund: Sammy’s Last Week in Charleston” and “Sammy on Safari.”
Author/artist loves the learning experience, challenge of doing children’s books By that December, he had written and illustrated his first children’s book, “The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund: Sammy’s If you look closely at the pages of Jonathan Miller’s children’s books, Last Week in Charleston.” In January of this year, Miller reyou’ll see that the leaves of the trees leased his second book in the series: are hundreds of pieces of green construction paper and card stock, “Sammy on Safari.” He now spends his time traveling the Southeast meticulously cut out and glued down, proving that art is about be- presenting at library conferences, ing creative and not about the ma- working on his third book, speaking to business students at colleges terials that you use. Miller’s technique involves creat- and reading his books to elemening a blueprint, drawing the shapes tary school children. Miller said that most teachers on the correct color paper, cutting it out, gluing it down, layering and were concerned about the cost of a reading, but Miller does all of his then taking away. readings to children in schools for He then goes on to add details and create outlines. The entire pro- free. To him, it’s worth it to make the connection with the teacher, cess takes 30 to 40 hours for each the community and with the childrawing. dren. That’s a lot of hours, considering About his artwork, Miller said, “I that Miller has already written two like looking at an object and knowchildren’s books. He takes photoing that no one else is seeing it the graphs of the extremely detailed exact same way. The style of art I do large-scale creations he makes for is a constant learning experience the pages of his books and then and challenge for me. I do art now sells the original as fine art. Miller co-started a local publishing as means to the illustrations in my company called Underdog Endeavor books and also for pleasure.” To meet the artist, view his artProductions in August 2008.
BY VIKKI MATSIS
Special to The Post and Courier
work and hear him read his book, go to Marion Square at 10 a.m. April 17 where Miller will be apart of the “Charleston Believes” event, hosted by the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center.
WEB SITE: www.sammydogbooks. com CONTACT INFO: jonmiller33@ gmail.com BIRTH DATE AND PLACE: April 4, Clover RESIDENCE: Downtown, 12 years FAMILY: Mother, Mary; father, Tom. EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science in business administration at the College of Charleston. CAREER: Owner of publishing company, writer and illustrator/artist. GOALS: Sell another 7,500 books by the end of 2010. BOOK YOU ARE READING NOW: “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand INFLUENCES: My elementary school art teacher. PRICE RANGE: Books, $15-$20; art, $15-$1,500 ARTWORK FEATURED: Blue Bicycle Books and Barnes & Noble bookstores.
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Moxie Re-Nude: R80-287958
Courage. Vigor. Determination. Verve. Skill. Pep. Know-how.
Celebrate the Body
Fridays in PC-290422
ANGELA CHVARAK
Work from local artist Angela Chvarak will be on display at the Re-Nude art show.
April 15 art show benefits Planned Parenthood ledge Avenue in October 2008, was interested in the idea as long as the art was not exploitative. WHAT: Re-Nude: Cel“We thank the more than Leila Davenport Ross does ebrate the Body Art 50 artists whose talents and not deny that there is a lot Show/Sale. support have made this going on when it comes to WHEN: 6:30-10:30 p.m. event possible,” says Sloane Re-Nude, the upcoming art April 15. Whelan, Field Coordinashow she spearheaded. WHERE: 501 King St. tor for South Carolina for First, it’s a benefit for downtown. Planned Parenthood Health Planned Parenthood. SecCOST: $20 at the door, Systems. “It’s great to see the ond, it is a sale where artists $15 advance tickets by community come together will reach new audiences calling Sarah at in support of the mission of and make a little money, 628-4380, ext. 6442. Planned Parenthood.” too. Third, it’s about renewal As for the night itself, it and the celebration of the for them, as well as their human body. And fourth, it supporters, fans, friends — a will be all about the art. A variety of mediums will be sounds like a good party. nice marriage, if you will.” presented, and there will be Ross, a Sullivan’s Island So when the question of various interpretations of resident who is on the ada theme for the event came visory board of the Halsey up, Ross thought that a cel- the theme, many straying Institute of Contemporary ebration of the human body far away from the traditional idea of the nude in repose. Art, is fine with all this would be natural. Almost Re-Nude: Celebrate the complication. In fact, to her all artists have figurative Body will take place April 15 it is simple. studies, she reasoned, and “I felt the creative commu- besides that, “nude art sells, at 501 King St. (the former home of English Rose Annity (artists, musicians, etc.) and the goal is to make tiques), and the evening will is most often the most unmoney,” she says. Since the include beer and wine as well derinsured, if insured at all, proceeds of the sale will be as entertainment by The Gadue to the outrageous costs a 50-50 split between the of health care and basic artist and the organization, rage Cuban Band. The Rehealth insurance coverage,” Re-Nude has the possibility Nude show is a play on words — renewed/re-nude. Some of she says. “Oftentimes, artto be worthwhile for both, Charleston’s best-known artists cannot afford it and that and not just in terms of exists are participating, includis why exposing them to this posure. ing Tim Hussey, Karen Ann local resource (the Planned The Planned ParentMyers, David Boatwright, Parenthood Health Center) hood Health Center, which and Jill Hooper. would be a beneficial thing opened its doors on Rut-
BY STEPHANIE BURT
Special to The Post and Courier
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Welch revisits role of late singer in
‘Always ... Patsy Cline’
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Always Patsy Cline” is a popular show and a crowd-pleaser. Here are excerpts from previous stories about the show over the years.
Piccolo Spoleto’s perennial favorite, “Always Patsy Cline” written by Ted Swindley is in the middle of a successful run at the Footlight Players Theatre. With wigs, and costumes ranging from simple frocks to an elaborate red cowboy outfit replete with white squaw boots, Lindsay Welch looks exactly like the country music legend, thanks to Artistic Producer and Director Sheri Grace Wenger. But best of all, she sings like Cline. From the early applause, it was obvious that at least half the audience knew all the songs by heart, and from the loud applause overall, it was evident the audience loved Welch’s interpretations of the ballads, both for their dramatic authenticity and vocal beauty. – By Jeff Johnson, Piccolo Spoleto Review 2008
From 2008 local theatre season: Reprising her role as Cline, having sung the role at the 2004 and 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Festivals, Lindsay Luden Welch not only strongly resembles the singer’s portrait used as a backdrop but also captures her intonation and timbre in the 21 songs, especially in Willie Nelson’s classic “Crazy.” The script, based on a true story involving friendship between Cline, killed in a plane crash in 1963 at age 30, and her biggest fan Louise Seger, was written by Columbia native Ted Swindley, now of New York. Swindley also was the founding artistic director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston. In 1998, the musical was one of the top 10 shows produced across the nation. – By Dottie Ashley, The Post and Courier
Local actress/singer Lindsay Welch stars in the reprise of “Always ... Patsy Cline.” SHERI GRACE WENGER
From 2000 local theatre scene: “It’s an instant friendship, or maybe sistership, and includes Louise taking Patsy home with her for bacon-and-eggs and all-night soul-baring... “The play is not maudlin, and it ends on an upbeat note with another song or two from Patsy, apparently somewhere in the Hereafter.” – By Robert T. Jones, Post and Courier Overview Critic
if you go Performances are slated for 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and April 15-17 and 3 p.m. April 18. Tickets are $29.50 for adults, $27.40 for seniors and students. Call 1-800-514-3849 or go online at www.midtownproductions.org or www.etix.com.
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‘Cabaret’
‘An Ideal Husband’ Oscar Wilde’s high society comedy/farce “An Ideal Husband,” centers upon Sir Robert Chiltern, undersecretary for British Foreign Affairs. Chiltern is threatened with blackmail for an act committed when he was a young man of 22. The play opens Friday at the Village Playhouse, starring veteran actor Josh Wilhoit as Sir Chiltern and his real-life wife Emily Wilhoit, playing Lady Chiltern. “This play has the intrigue of modern politics, but with laughs,” director Keely Enright. Ryan Ahlert plays Lord Goring, with Rebecca Anderson portraying Mrs. Cheveley in the large cast. “An Ideal Husband” will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, continuing
four weekends through May 1 at the Village Playhouse, 730 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. Tickets are $20-
$25, with student rush tickets $12 at the door. To purchase, call 856-1579 or visit www. villageplayhouse.com.
Brian J. Porter as Emcee (from left), Sarah Claire Smith as Sally Bowles, Nicholas Piccola as Fritz, and Sarah Brown as Texas.
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harleston Stage, which closes its season with a performance at the College of Charleston’s Sottile Theatre. “In that same theater tradition of reimagining a work for each production, we’re approaching Charleston Stage’s staging of ‘Cabaret’ with a new eye,” says Marybeth Clark, associate artistic director of Charleston Stage and director of the production. “I think that most people don’t realize that ‘Cabaret’ is based on a real story. There was a real Sally Bowles (real name, Jean Ross) and other characters and scenes were based on real events as well,” she says.
if you go WHEN: 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and April 15-17; and 3 p.m. April 11 and 18. WHERE: College of Charleston’s Sottile Theatre, 44 George St. COST: $15-$35 for adults, $15-$33 for seniors and $15 for students. Wednesday is pay-what-you-will night. Call 577-7183 or order online at www.charlestonstage.com.
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What does Lewis Black think of Sarah Palin?
Lewis Black is bringing his brand of comedy to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center on Saturday.
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What do you ask Lewis Black when you are given a chance to interview him? You don’t want to ask the same questions that he inevitably gets from every other interviewer. With all the attempts of reviewing his live CDs, his “Daily Show” appearances, his show “Root of all Evil” and trying to find questions that revolved around comedy and not pop culture and politics, it all proved null and void with a presence like Black, who will be here Saturday at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. The interview questions on paper went out the window as soon as the 30-minute phone interview began. Here are a few highlights: Q: Have you ever been to South Carolina? A: Yeah, I did shows at a club in Myrtle Beach. Q: Did you have a large time out there? A: Yeah, and I’m getting larger every day. Q: This is a pretty standard question, but I was wondering who your influences were? A: George Carlin, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor, and modeled what they did. Q: What was it about them that you liked? A: Well, for example, Pryor was able to tell a story. He would just say “this is what happened to me” or “I woke up this morning and saw this in the paper.” Q: When did you start do-
if you go WHO: Lewis Black. WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday. WHERE: North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 5001 Coliseum Drive, North Charleston. HOW MUCH: $35, $45. WHERE TO GET TICKETS: www.coliseumpac.com, the coliseum ticket office, Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. MORE INFO: www.lewisblack.com.
ing comedy? A: I started out in Chapel Hill (N.C.) but I didn’t start doing it full time until the late ’80s. Q: Do you remember your first gig? A: Yeah, it was at Catch A Rising Star in Boston. Q: What was it like? A: I was nervous, but not in a scared sense. I remember the audience was more scared. I kept rolling through for about eight minutes, and I figured that was how to work the audience. Q: How do you react to hecklers? A: At a recent show, I was referring to tea partiers as tea baggers, and this guy yelled to correct me for not saying tea partiers instead and I just stomped on him. Q: What did you say to him? A: I just asked him how ... did you end up in this audience? You had to know what you were in for before you came here. Q: Speaking of tea partiers what’s your take on Sarah Palin? A: I don’t think she deserves the attention she gets as a politician. She’s more
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about celebrity than politics. She’s as close to satire as you can get. It borders on lunacy. It’s like watching Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” except Mr. Smith would be better and he’s not only fictional, he’s dead. Q: What do you think about the news about Ricky Martin? A: I haven’t heard anything. What happened to him? Q: He came out of the closet. A: I’m just glad to know he was even in the closet. I mean, that had to be a pretty invisible closet he was in. ... It’s like when they nailed John Edwards (affair). The only appropriate response could be “Yeah, and?”
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The producing team of the Broadway smash hit “The Color Purple, The Musical about Love,” will bring the production to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. April 27-29. Tickets are on sale at the Coliseum, Ticketmaster outlets, 800-745-3000 or at ticketmaster.com. Prices are $30, $50 & $60 (plus applicable fees). Visit www.colorpurple.com or www. cmajormarketing.com.
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FAMILY CIRCLE CUP: Saturday-April 18. Family Circle Tennis Center, 161 Seven Farms Dr., Daniel Island. In addition to watching some great matches, spectators will enjoy a Citizens of the World event, a Girls’Night Out, a Family Night, the Match Point Market, a McEnroe Look-a-Like contest and much more. www.familycirclecup.com. PET FEST: Noon-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Palmetto Islands County Park, 444 Needlerush Pkwy., Mount Pleasant. $5. This year’s fest will feature a bevy of events, various pet contests, Dolittle’s Interactive Tent, a microchipping clinic and much more. 795-4FUN or www.ccprc.com/petfest. CHARLESTON HARBOR AIRSHOW: 2-3 p.m. April 17-18. Enjoy performances by the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels. The show is part of Charleston Navy Week celebrations. www.townofmountpleasant.com, www.charlestoncity.info or www.navyweek.org/charleston2010.
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CHARLESTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Today-Sunday. American Theatre, 446 King St. $8-$9 per block. After-parties will follow each day’s films, and a couple of workshops and a seminar will be offered. www.charlestoniff.com. 817-1617. CHARLESTON FARMERS MARKET: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays. Marion Square. Local vendors offer produce, plants, baked goods and more. 724-7309. MOUNT PLEASANT FARMERS MARKET: 3 p.m.dusk. Tuesdays, through Oct. 19. Moultrie Middle School, 645 Coleman Blvd. Check out the renovated farmers market, which will feature local produce, flowers, baked goods, live music and more. 8848517 or www.townofmountpleasant.com. MARKET AT ROSEBANK FARMS: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. Rosebank Farms, 4455 Betsy Kerrison Pkwy., Johns Island. The farm 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. C of C Hollings Science Center, Room 112, 58 Coming St. Free. Network at Mellow Mushroom after. 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. www.charlestonwalks.com or 729-3420. “ART IN THE EVENING”: 7:30 p.m. Fridays. Charleston City Market, Market Street. Enjoy an art show and sale accompanied by live music. 937-0920. BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: 7-8 p.m. Thursdays. Ballroom Dance Club of Charleston, 1632 Ashley Hall Road. $30 per month. Taught by instructor Steven Duane. 557-7690. BALLROOM DANCE PARTIES: Every weekend (except holidays). Creative Spark Center for the Arts,
757 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant. $10 (may increase for theme or dinner parties.) Adult ballroom dance party with group lessons before. 881-3780. BEGINNER SHAG LESSONS: 8:15 p.m. Mondays. Arthur Murray Dance Studio, 1706 Old Towne Road. $10 per class. 571-2183 or www.arthurmurraychs. com. BRIDGE LESSONS: 3-5 p.m. Mondays. Bridge Center, 1740 Ashley River Road. $130 for 11 beginner sessions. 556-4145. BOOK LOVERS GROUP: 7-9 p.m. third Friday of every month. Dreamalot Books, 123-B S. Goose Creek Blvd. Show up with a book and bring a snack. 572-4188. “CAROLINA GOLD”EXHIBIT: Through Aug. 30. Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Road. The plantation presents“Carolina Gold: From Rags to Riches,” an exhibit highlighting the work of various goldsmiths and miniaturists. 556-6020 or www. middletonplace.org. CAROLINA SHAG WORKSHOPS: Saturdays. Trudy’s School of Dance, 830 Folly Road, James Island. $25 for two-hour lessons. For students at any level. Registration required. 795-8250. CELTIC FIDDLE CLASSES: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Na Fidleiri and the Taylor Music Group will conduct preparatory classes for students not ready to join more advanced classes. 819-6961. CHARLESTON CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE: 7 p.m. Second Tuesday of each month. Ryan’s Room at Ryan’s restaurant, 829 St. Andrews Blvd. jeannescla@ aol.com. CHARLESTON MUSIC CLUB: The club offers free music programs through May. 795-7842 or www. charlestonmusicclub.org. CHOPSTICKS: 3-5 p.m. Fridays. Charleston County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St. All ages. Light classical music and favorite children’s songs while kids color with friends. 805-6930. CHORUS REHEARSALS: 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesdays. Franke at Seaside, 1885 Rifle Range Road, Mount Pleasant. The Franke 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. “COMMON GROUND-SOLID GROUND”: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays. Marion Square Farmers Market. Join the Grassroots Call to Action Group each week for nonpartisan open discussion. 8100088 or www.grassrootschange.ning.com. CYPRESS SWAMP TOURS: 1-4 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Middleton Place Outdoor Center, 4300 Ashley River Road. $55-$65. 266-7492 or www.middletonplace.org. DANGEROUS BOOK CLUB: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Charleston County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St. Explore something new every week from“The Dangerous Book for Boys.” 805-6930. DANGEROUS BOYS CLUB: 7:30 p.m. first Friday of each month. Barnes & Noble, 1716 Towne Centre Way, Mount Pleasant. Community leaders will host meetings based on activities from“The Dangerous Book for Boys.” 216-9756. EARLY MORNING BIRD WALKS: 8:30 a.m.-noon. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Caw Caw Interpretive Center, 5200 Savannah Highway, Ravenel. $5, Gold
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Pass members free. Preregistration encouraged, but walk-ins welcome. 7954386 or www.ccprc.com. EAST COOPER COFFEE CLUB: 10 a.m. Fourth Wednesday of each month. Franke at Seaside, 1885 Rifle Range Road, Mount Pleasant. Bring a mug and enjoy presentations by different speakers. Refreshments will be provided. 856-2166. FESTIVAL OF HOUSES AND GARDENS: Through April 17. $45. The Historic Charleston Foundation offers tours of some of downtown Charleston’s finest homes and gardens. www.historiccharleston.org. FOLLY BEACH BLUEGRASS SOCIETY: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. The Kitchen, 11 Center St. Bring an instrument and participate in an open jam. 345-1678. FREE FRIDAY WINE TASTINGS: 3-6 p.m. Fridays. Lowcountry Wine and Spirits, 3642 Savannah Highway, Suite 140, Johns Island. 769-2722. FREE SHAG LESSONS: 7:30 p.m. Mondays. Mojo’s, 975 Bacons Bridge Road, Summerville. No partner needed. 214-0242. THE GATHERING BOOK GROUP: 7 p.m. Last Thursday of each month. Barnes & Noble, 1716 Towne Centre Way, Mount Pleasant. 216-9756. GRASSROOTS CALL TO ACTION: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays. Fort Johnson Cafe and Coffee, 1014 Fort Johnson Road, James Island. 810-0088 or grassrootscalltoaction@gmail.com. “LET’S DISCUSS IT”BOOK GROUP: 10 a.m. Third Friday of each month. Mount Pleasant Regional Library, 1133 Mathis Ferry Road. New members welcome. shgalos@juno.com. LOWCOUNTRY BACKPACKERS CLUB: 7-8:30 p.m. second Thursday of each month. Collins Park Clubhouse, 4115 Fellowship Road, North Charleston. “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. 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. The Meeting Place, 1077 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. Free. Each class will be 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. SALSA DANCE LESSONS: 6:45 and 7:30 p.m. Mondays. Arthur Murray Dance Studio, 1706 Old Towne Road. $10 per class. Beginner and advanced lessons. 571-2183 or www.arthurmurraychs.com. SALSA NIGHT AT SOUTHEND BREWERY: 10 p.m. Thursdays at Southend Brewery, 161 East Bay St. $4 cover. DJ Luigi mixes live. 853-4677. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE LESSONS: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Felix C. Davis Community Center, 4800 Park Circle, North Charleston. Free. No partner needed. 810-7797. SEA TURTLE HOSPITAL TOURS: 1 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. S.C. Aquarium, 100 Aquarium Wharf. $8 ages 2-11, $16 adults, $14 ages 62 and older. Reservations recommended. 577-3474. SQUARE DANCE CLASS: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Felix C. Davis Community Center, 4800 Park Circle, North Charleston. 552-3630. SUMMERVILLE WRITERS GUILD: 6:30 p.m. Last Monday of each month. Perkins Restaurant, 1700 Old Trolley Road, Summerville. 871-7824. “THE LYRIC SHOW”: April 16-midMay. 16 Penny Gallery at 52.5 Records, 561 King St. An opening reception will be held April 16, 6-8 p.m. 722-3525. “WE PICTURED YOU READING THIS”: Through May 1. Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St. Philip St. Redux presents an exhibit by the Brooklynbased art journal Paper Monument. 7220697 or www.reduxstudios.org. WEST ASHLEY DEMOCRATS’MEETINGS: 6:30-8 p.m. second Monday of each month, Bluerose Cafe, 652 St. Andrews Blvd.; 8-9:30 a.m. third Saturday of each month, Ryan’s restaurant, 829 St. Andrews Blvd. 576-4543. “WHIMSICAL CHARLESTON”: Through April 30. Saul Alexander Gallery. Charleston County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St. The gallery will host an exhibit by Cinc Hayes that focuses on everyday Charleston life. 805-6930 or www.ccpl. org. WHIZ KIDS: 3:30 p.m. Thursdays. Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, 25 Ann St. $5 per child/$25 per month. The museum is offering an after-school
science program taught by Laura Buschman. 853-8962, ext. 221. “WRITING YOUR MEMOIRS”: 1011:30 a.m. Wednesdays beginning April 14. Mount Pleasant Regional Library, 1133 Mathis Ferry Road. Tonya McGue will lead the eight-week class. Call 8496161 to register by Friday. ZEN MEDITATION: 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays. Cheri Huber will lead the class, which will focus on meditation and discussion. Call 224-2468.
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MEN’S BREAKFAST CLUB: 8:30-9:30 a.m. Lowcountry Senior Center, 865 Riverland Drive. Free to members, $7 nonmembers. Enjoy a lecture by John Girault, the executive director of the Mount Pleasant Land Conservancy. 762-9555. SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 4 p.m. Old Courtroom, 23 Chalmers St. Free. The Confederate Home and College will host a lecture by Dr. Jack Simmons on the home’s founder, M. Amarinthia Snowden. 722-4622.
friday
BOOK SIGNING: 2-4 p.m. The Preservation Society of Charleston, 147 King St. Holly Herrick will be available to sign copies of her newest book“The Charleston Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Heart of the Old South.” 722-4630 or www.preservationsociety.org. KIAWAH ART AND HOUSE TOUR: 2-6 p.m. Various locations on Kiawah Island. $55. Guests will enjoy tours of six Kiawah Island homes, along with light refreshments, a silent auction and an admission pass to the Gibbes Museum of Art. 7222706 or www.gibbesmuseum.org/events for more information. SPRING CONCERT SERIES: 6-9 p.m. Freshfields Village at the crossroads of Kiawah, Seabrook and Johns islands. Enjoy blues by Shrimp City Slim. www. freshfieldsvillage.com. POETRY SOCIETY MEETING: 7 p.m. The Charleston Library Society, 164 King St. The Poetry Society of South Carolina invites the public to its monthly meeting, featuring a reading by poet Dennis Ward Stiles. www.poetrysocietysc.org. “SEE JAZZ”: 8-11 p.m. Charleston Center for Photography, $20. Support the Jazz Artists of Charleston and enjoy an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction and art exhibit inspired by jazz. 641-0011 or www.jazzartistsofcharleston.org.
saturday
FAMILY FUN EVENT: 10 a.m.-noon. The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting St. Free with admission. Families are invited to enjoy a special program that will include presentations by The Center for Birds of Prey and The Turtle and Tortoise Society. 722-2996 or www.charlestonmuseum.org.
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT LECTURE: 11 a.m. Sewee Visitor and Environmental Education Center, 5821 Hwy. 17 N., Awendaw. Free. The speaker is Dr. Denis Sanger, the assistant director for research and planning with the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium. 928-3368. BRIDAL SHOW: Noon-5 p.m. The Holiday Inn Express of Summerville, 120 Holiday Drive. $5. The inaugural Spring Bridal Show will include vendors, door prizes and more. 771-1797. OPERA AT THE LIBRARY: 1:30 p.m. Charleston County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St. Free. Enjoy the Metropolitan Opera’s production of“Hamlet.” 805-6930. BOOK SIGNING: 2-4 p.m. The Preservation Society of Charleston, 147 King St. Carl Naylor will sign copies of“The Day the Johnboat Went Up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology.” 7224630 or www.preservationsociety.org.
sunday
CONCERT SERIES FINALE: 3 p.m. City Gallery at Waterfront Park, 34 Prioleau St. $25. Chamber Music Charleston will present the finale concert of the Gallery Concert Series. 763-4941 or www.chambermusiccharleston.org. CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: 4 p.m. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 16 Thomas St. In honor of their 145th anniversary, the church will host the Edmund Thornton Jenkins Chamber Society. A reception will follow. 722-0267. DANCE PARTY: 5-10 p.m. Summerville Country Club, 400 Country Club Blvd. The Summerville Shag Club will host a party. 214-0242.
monday
FRENCH RESISTANCE LECTURE: 5:15 p.m. Randolph Alumni Hall, 66 George St. Free. Dr. Monique Saigal will lead a lecture on her interviews about women of the French Resistance as well as her experience as a Jewish“Hidden Child”in World War II. 805-1111 or 556-8458.
tuesday
CREATIVE RETIREMENT LECTURES: 1 and 2:30 p.m. St. Joseph’s Family Center, 1695 Raoul Wallenberg Blvd. The Center for Creative Retirement presents two lectures. The first will be given by Dr. Paul Nolan, from The Charleston Museum, who will talk about“American Revolution in the S.C. Backcountry.” The second will be given by David and Sharyn Clark, who will discuss Silver City, Idaho. 953-5488. ART PRESENTATION AND DIALOGUE: 5:30 p.m. Memminger Auditorium, 56 Beaufain St. $25 Gibbes members, $35 nonmembers. Artist Christo will take part in a presentation and dialogue about large-scale words of art by him and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude. 722-270.
april 15 BOOK RELEASE PARTY: 4-7 p.m. Caroline’s Marketing and Catering, 55 Windermere Blvd. Mary Middleton will celebrate the release of her new book“Go Local Charleston”and will be available to sign copies. www.golocalcharleston.com. “RE-NUDE”: 6:30-10:30 p.m. 501 King St. $15 in advance, $20 at door. To raise money for the local Planned Parenthood Health Center, local artists will put on an art show/sale. Half the proceeds from all sales will benefit the center. For tickets, call 628-4380, ext. 6442. SEA ISLAND LECTURES: 7 p.m. Fort Johnson Auditorium, 217 Fort Johnson Road, James Island. Free. Authors Richard D. Porcher and Eugene Frazier will discuss different takes on the Sea Island cotton culture. A reception will follow. 795-7519 or www.friendsofmcleod.org.
april 16
ART HISTORY LECTURE: 5 p.m. Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Phillip St. Free. Patrick Hunt will discuss“Tracking Hannibal in the Alps.” 953-3888. MOONLIGHT MIXER: 7-11 p.m. Folly Beach Fishing Pier, 101 E. Arctic Ave. $8 Charleston County residents, $10 nonresidents. Dance the night away to oldies and beach music by local DJ Jim Bowers. 795-4386.
april 17
SEA AND SAND FESTIVAL : 5K run begins at 8 a.m.; festival begins at 10 a.m. Center Street, Folly Beach. Party in the street during the 20th annual Sea and Sand Fair. The day’s events will include a 5k run/walk/skate, street vendors selling arts, crafts, food, children’s activities and more. 607-2785 or www.follybeachseaandsand.com. ART STUDIO TOURS: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Summerville. $15 in advance, $20 at door. See where art is created during a special tour of six artists’studios, as well as a tour of Art Central Gallery. Proceeds will benefit Meals on Wheels of Summerville. 871-0297 or www.artcgalleryltd.com. RECORD STORE DAY: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. 52.5 Records, 561 King St. In honor of Record Store Day, 52.5 will offer special discounts, free items, an art show, ticket giveaways and a 4 p.m. in-store performance by Company. 722-3525 or www. corporaterocksucks.com. “JUMP IN THE PARK”: Noon-4 p.m. Wannamaker County Park, 8888 University Blvd., North Charleston. $5 for children 12 and under. 795-4FUN or www. ccprc.com. GAGE HALL CONCERT: 7:30 p.m. Gage Hall Coffeehouse, 4 Archdale St. $10. Enjoy traditional Irish music by Cornerhouse. Proceeds will benefit local
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april 18
HOME, GARDEN AND ART TOUR: 1-5 p.m. Old Village of Mount Pleasant. $45. Tickets may be purchased at Abide-A-While Garden Center, Scratch Pad, Edward Dare Gallery or Morton James or at www.mycommunitytickets.com. GENEALOGY SOCIETY MEETING: 2:30 p.m. Masonic Center, 1285 Orange Grove Road. The S.C. Genealogical Society will host writer Wevonneda Minis, who will present“A Genealogist’s Home Bookshelf.” 767-2133 or 577-2639.
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“CABARET”: 7:30 p.m. through Saturday and April 15-17; 3 p.m. Sunday and April 18. Sottile Theatre, 44 George St. $15-$35. Charleston Stage presents its interpretation of the classic Broadway musical. 5777183 or www.charlestonstage.com. “EAT THE RUNT”: 9 p.m. today-Saturday and April 15-17. Footlight Players Theatre, 20 Queen St. $10-$15. The Footlight Players present an“identity comedy”in which the roles are genderless and the audience decides what roles the actors play. 7224487 or www.etix.com. “ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE”: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and April 15-17; 3 p.m. April 18. Black Box
Theatre, 477 King St. $27.40-$29.50. Midtown/Sheri Grace Productions presents the musical that tells the story of country star Patsy Cline’s friendship with a Texas homemaker. 800-514-ETIX or www.midtownproductions.org. “AN IDEAL HUSBAND”: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 15-17 and 23-24 and April 30-May 1; 5 p.m. April 18 and 25. The Village Playhouse, 730 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. $20-$25. 856-1579 or www. villageplayhouse.com. PILOBOLUS: 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Gaillard Auditorium, 77 Calhoun St. $12.50-$49.50. Nationally known dance company Pilobolus will brings a special style of dance. 727-1216 or www.ticketmaster.com. “GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL”: 8 p.m. April 15-17 and 19-20; 3 p.m. April 18. Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip St. $10 C of C students and faculty, $15 adults. Presented by the college’s Department of Theatre. 953-5604. “ROMANCING THE HUNLEY”: 3:30 p.m. Sundays through June 13. The Powder Magazine, 79 Cumberland St. $15. www.romancingthehunleyplay. blogspot.com.
call for entries
SPOLETO ART EXHIBITION: Entries are being accepted for the 2010 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition. Entry forms available at www.piccolospoleto. com or the Charleston Artist Guild Gallery, 160 East Bay St. Deadline is April 17.
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Hope you guys like sports trivia. After last week’s March Madness trivia, we’re continuing the sports theme with trivia about the Masters, which starts today week in Augusta. The question is, will anyone even be paying attention to the game when everybody’s eyes will be on Tiger Woods? Last week’s winner, Ethan Phipps, is being challenged by substitute teacher Sasha Franklin.
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1. Who founded the Masters tournament? 2. The Masters is one of four majors in golf. What are the other three? 3. Who is this year’s defending champion? 4. What state has produced the most Masters’ champions? 5. Who had the most Top 10s at the Masters in the past decade? 6. Name the only player to lose the Masters twice in a playoff. 7. How many times has Jack Nicklaus won the Masters? 8. Who holds the record for most consecutive rounds under par? 9. What was the last year Tiger Woods won the Masters? 10. What color is the jacket that the winner is given at the end of the tournament?
CONCLUSION It’s kind of obvious that neither of our contestants this week is big on golf. With a lucky guess, Sasha Franklin surprises last week’s winner and, we have to admit, the Powers That Be at Head2Head by becoming the new champion. But it’s not how many correct answers you get right that matters, it’s getting more right ones than the other person.
CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Bobby Jones 2. British Open, U.S. Open, PGA Champion-
ETHAN’S ANSWERS SASHA’S ANSWERS 1. Arnold Palmer. 2. U.S. and British Opens and Ryder Cup. 3. Tiger Woods. 4. Virginia. 5. Jack Nicklaus. 6. Ernie Els. 7. Seven. 8. Jack Nicklaus. 9. 2009. 10. Green.
ship 3. Angel Cabrera 4. Texas
5. Phil Mickelson 6. Ben Hogan 7. Six
1. The mayor of Augusta. 2. U.S., British, Australia Opens. Or is that tennis? 3. If it’s not Tiger Woods, I’m afraid I don’t know. 4. Florida. 5. I’m obviously guessing but Jack Nicklaus? 6. Is Arnold Palmer one of the answers? 7. Six. Is it more? 8. Mickelson. I don’t remember his first name. 9. Last year. 10. I’m pretty sure green.
8. Tiger Woods 9. 2005 10. Green
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