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Contemporary Charleston 2010: Influence THROUGH JULY 3 // THE CITY GALLERY, 34 PRIOLEAU ST. // FREE
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am witness to the power of the press every single day of my life. In fact, we all are, especially when you throw Twitter and Facebook into the mix. Take last week. My editor’s note about equality and fear struck a chord with many different people. I received so many positive responses. It was overwhelming, in the most beautiful way. On the day that last week’s Charleston Scene hit the newsstands, a local man sent the editor’s note around to friends and members of his congregation. And last weekend, a College of Charleston student I’ve never met told me that my editor’s note put her in a good mood in the middle of a bad day. It makes me smile to realize you all are reading. Thank you. On another note, this is a crazy, busy time for our city. I hope Charleston Scene can help you sort through all of the events that are about to happen. I personally would like to invite you to the Piccolo Spoleto show “Contemporary Charleston 2010: Influence.” My work is included. Let’s have some fun!
We’ve all heard the term “a picture is worth a thousand words.” But the opposite of that is true as well, and Erin Glaze and Max Miller have put together an exhibit to prove it. This year’s “Contemporary Charleston 2010: Influence” is all about being inspired by words. Curators Glaze and Miller put 10 visual artists and 10 poets together in a room. Each poet’s name was placed in a hat and each artist drew a name at random. The artists then met the poets (many for the first time), and were asked to learn about them and their literary works. Drawing inspiration from a poem, an idea, a word or the poet’s general tone, the artists were then asked to create a visual work of art that was inspired from MAX MILLER their interpretation of their poet’s writings. The public is invited to the opening reception 6-8 p.m. today. Call 958-6484 or visit www.charlestonarts.sc.
Charleston Community Band 3 P.M. // MAY 31 // MARION SQUARE, DOWNTOWN // FREE In honor of veterans, the Community Bands of Charleston and Columbia will perform their annual Memorial Day concerts at Marion Square at 3 p.m. May 31. Patriotic music will be performed. Visit www. charlestoncommunityband. com.
Village Street Sale 8 A.M.-NOON // SATURDAY // EAST MONTAGUE AVENUE // FREE The 2nd Annual Olde North Charleston Village Street Sale will take place 8 a.m.-noon Saturday on East Montague Avenue in the Olde Village of North Charleston near Park Circle. East Montague Avenue will be closed between Jenkins Avenue and O’Hear Avenue for the event. The event will feature families and residents selling furniture, kitchen items, housewares, CDs, books, clothing, baby items, toys and much more. Montague Avenue restaurants will be selling an assortment of food and beverages. Admission and parking are free. Visit www.villagestreetsale.com.
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Saturday: Jazz Orchestra
The show, “Conductor’s Choice,” is the latest in the jazz orchestra’s season. For ticket prices and info, call 641-0011 or visit www. jazzartistsofcharleston.org/about-cjo.
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Head to a CD release party 4:30-6:30 p.m. at James Island County Park, 861 Riverland Drive. Free with park admission. Hazel Ketchum’s new CD, “Say Darlin’ Say,” will be available, and there will be a free concert by The Hungry Monks, The Cooper School Choir and Ketchum. Call 795-4FUN or visit www.thecooperschool.com.
MONDAY, May 24
The Charleston County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St., will host a book signing and talk. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ian Johnson will speak about his new book, “A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West.” The author also will be available to sign copies of the book. Call 805-6930.
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5/27: ”Call and Response” at The Halsey Institute
The Business Alliance of Local Living Economies is the parent organization of Lowcountry Local First, and they are hosting a conference in town through Sunday. In celebration of local living economies, Green Drinks Charleston is supporting LLF’s efforts & kicking off the BALLE conference with a happy hour 4:30-6 p.m. at EVO Pizza in North Charleston.
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Join Eric Lavender for the Charleston Pirate Tours. Lavender, in authentic period costume, and Captain Bob, the blue and gold macaw, will take a historic stroll through what was once the walled city of Charles Towne. The tour begins at 10 a.m. at the Powder Magazine, 79 Cumberland St.. Call 722-9350.
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Ann Caldwell, Tommy Gill, Oscar Rivers and Robbi Kenney will perform with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra at 7 p.m. May 22 at the Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.
TUESDAY, May 25
See Michael Franti & Spearhead at the Music Farm. For more information, see Page 14.
WEDNESDAY, May 26
Muralist Cory Obendorfer’s new exhibit, “Novelty,” will open as part of Piccolo Spoleto, and the opening reception will begin with a skating parade by the Lowcountry Highrollers. See it at Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St. Philip St. Admission is free. Visit www.reduxstudios.org or www.lowcountryhighrollers.com. See Page 42
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Two stars of television’s hottest shows Michael Emerson, Emmy Award-winning star of ABC’s “Lost” and his wife Carrie Preston, Charleston Stage alum and star of HBO’s “True Blood,” will headline Charleston Stage’s Sizzling Summer Soiree. Featuring a staged reading of A.R. Gurney’s Preston “Love Letters,” a special pre-season fundraiser for Charleston Stage, the Sizzling Summer Soiree will inaugurate Charleston Stage’s 33rd season and return to the newly renovated Historic Dock Street Theatre. The Soiree will begin at 6:30 July 31. Those who purchase premium tickets will enjoy a post show private champagne reception with Preston and Emerson. Call 577-5967. Tickets are now on sale at www.charlestonstage.com.
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The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston School of the Arts presents: “Call and Response: Africa to America / The Art of Nick Cave and Phyllis Galembo.” The exhibition, offered in partnership with Spoleto Festival USA, will open with a reception on Thursday, May 27 from 5 – 7 p.m. and run through Saturday, June 26. Curator Mark Sloan will lead artist talks with Phyllis Galembo and Nick Cave, on Saturday, May 29. The Halsey is at 161 Calhoun St.
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o the other day I got the brilliant idea to get in better shape. Now I’m not talking about the creepy 55-yearold-guy-who-you-can-tellby-looking-at-his-face-he’s55-but-he’s-so-ripped-thathe-actually-has-some-sortof-freakish-back-abs kind of shape; I’m talking about the more realistic I-don’t-wantto-be-the-skinny-whiteguy-who-is-thin-all-overbut-somehow-against-alllogic-has-a-hairy-gut kind of shape. My reasoning: I just turned 36, I’ve got a son on the way, and how am I supposed to pick up chicks at the beach if I’m fat? Wait. That came out completely wrong. I’m 35. All kidding aside, exhumed corpses look healthier than I do with my shirt off. So when I mentioned this newfound drive to get in shape to my buddy, Tucker, he said I should try this new workout routine he’s being doing and loves called P90X. Chances are, if you own a TV you know what I’m talking about. On the other hand, if you don’t, well then, “Hi, Dad.” Anyway, according to the company that makes P90X: “Trust us, follow our program and we’ll have you looking creepy in no time. And if you go the extra step and shave your upper body, get a spray on tan and oil yourself up once you’ve completed the 90-day program, people will probably call the cops if they see you around kids.” Or maybe that’s just what my wife said. Either way, the minute I got the DVDs from Tucker, I fired them up, got out my weights and pull-up bar,
Thanks to P90X, the difference between Bryce’s Day 1 body and his much healthier and in-no-waydrawn-on physique on Day 8 is amazing.
took several deep breaths and then made a sandwich. About a half-hour later (look, I didn’t want to get cramps), I finally did the workout, and the results were immediate: I couldn’t use my arms for the next three days. But as of this column, I’m on Day 11 and feel great, by which I mean I can now scratch most parts of my body below the armpit (but not for longer than two seconds). Now for those of you interested in doing P90X, let me tell you: It’s more than just weight lifting. In addition to workouts for your chest, back, arms and legs, you’ve got stuff like:
DVD yet, but if it’s anything like the others, it will involve lots of annoyingly in-shape people doing insanely hard exercises but somehow being relaxed enough to laugh, smoke cigars and play gin rummy.
Plyometrics: This is when you jump all over your living room until you finally break a sweat. And the coffee table. Yoga: The P90X yoga program prides itself on being the only yoga program that isn’t yoga. It’s more like, “Hey, let’s twist your body into positions it wasn’t meant to twist into.” Kenpo: I’m pretty sure they just made this one up, but it’s part kicking, part screaming. It’s also a sure-fire way to have your neighbors call the cops because they think you’re having a domestic dispute. Core synergistics: I’ll admit I haven’t watched this
Also, at the beginning of each video, trainer Tony Horton (who I’m guessing probably has back abs) tells you how simple P90X is if you just “bring it.” I assume he means a stunt double to do the actual workout, because under no circumstances have I ever felt like it was simple. There’s also a list of what you’ll need for each workout. For instance, each DVD will tell you something like: “You will need: a mat, a pull-up bar, a towel, the number for your local hospital, a priest and some water.” But the question most of you probably want to know is, “Are you usually drunk
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when you write your column?” Wait, no! It’s: “Will this program work for me?” I’m going to say probably not. After all, if you’re anything like me, you’re out of shape, inherently lazy, and constantly reminded by your wife that you should put a shirt on because your making the neighbors uncomfortable. But I can tell you this: P90X is the ultimate workout routine for helping you bring it. By which I mean the beer to the couch after you quit in Week 3 because let’s face it, who wants back abs? In retrospect, Bryce Donovan thinks P20X might have been a more reasonable goal. Reach him at 937-5938 or bdonovan@postandcourier.com. For more, check out his blog “The Bryce is Write” or follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/brycedonovan.
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The end of an era
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ost” is finally coming to an end this Sunday. But don’t spoil it for anyone. The show is probably every adjective in the book. Addicting, mysterious, tricky, intriguing, entertaining and more. The show is full of questions, and the finale darn well better answer every one of them or else the show’s cult following will be seriously disappointed. I swore off “Lost” for the longest time, but finally started the series in the past month. I wanted desperately to hate it, mostly because as a whole the series lasts around 90 hours. NINETY HOURS. And the worst/best thing about the show is how addicting it is. No, seriously, I watched 20 episodes in a period of 26 hours last weekend. I don’t know if I should be ashamed or proud of that. But I’m not alone. I was
recruited by some of my die-hard “Lost” friends, who I think represent well the fan fever for the show. One of my friends watched something like three seasons in two weeks. And, yes, he did have better things to do. The show follows a group of 40-plus plane crash survivors. They end up on this seemingly beautiful island that oozes with mystery once you get into the show an episode or two. The huge cast of characters is from all over the world and on the plane from Australia bound for Los Angeles for varying
reasons. Some, such as Hurley and Sun, I couldn’t help but get attached to, and others, such as like Shannon and Michael, I could do without. And then there’s John Locke, who I don’t think can ever look anything BUT ominous. Going into the show, I knew that it was supposed to have all sorts of mysteries and twists. That’s just the beginning. The show is like a giant puzzle where you’re thrown all sorts of pieces, but you have to wait until the end to put them together. To make it more difficult, sometimes I feel like the pieces are in a different language. Everything is or feels like it could be a clue in this giant mystery that is “Lost.” And I think most fans have at least one theory for what really is going on. The series finale is a huge deal, and hopefully it will be overwhelmingly re-
warding for every fan who has put in so much time either over the past six years or the past couple of weeks. I’m halfway through Season Three as I write this. But let’s be honest, I’ll probably have finished Season Four or Five by the time this runs. And like my other “Lost” fan friends, I’m busy dodging spoilers. Whether a “Lost” fan is reading gossip on the cast or still playing catch-up on past episodes, spoilers are not welcome. On Facebook the past month, I’ve seen everyone from an 11-year-old girl to her father using their statuses to discuss the show and complain about spoilers in the media. As sad as I’m sure it will be for some to see the end of “Lost,” there is a positive: “Lost” cannot be blamed for mysterious chunks of time missing from social lives around the world anymore.
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JAC spring series headed to McCrady’s A jazz event that’s emerging as a rite of spring around here has a new venue. McCrady’s Restaurant, a big supporter of the arts, will host this year’s Jazz Artists of Charleston series, an official event of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. In its third year, the series is very popular. The idea is to bring together local and regional acts in a
setting designed for close listening. There’s something for everyone, but this is especially planned for the serious fan. And it’s always a lot of fun. The first two years of the run took place at Mistral on Market Street, a longtime restaurant-with-jazz venue now closed. JAC would take
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George Kenny returns to the JAC series, this time with guitarist David Archer’s Cobblestone Quartet on June 10. As shown here, Kenny played with the Charleston All-Stars at Mistral in 2008. PHOTO BY BEN WILLIAMS
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JAZZ From Page 10F
lesser known lights such as Ron. over the upstairs, set up for 50 or Ron, who now lives and 60 people, and just have at it. Esworks in Virginia, is still sentially, a nightclub was created playing strong and is with the atmosphere and ambieager to come home and ence built around an opportunity perform with old friends. to savor fine jazz in all its forms, a The band will start at real boon since we find ourselves 8 p.m.. Then, Dan Parwithout a jazz club in the area tridge, who worked on these days. the audio for the project, With the move to McCrady’s, will talk a little about the 2 Unity Alley, JAC is able to just research team’s efforts. A about double the series’ capacity jam session around Ron and maintain the intimacy and will end the evening. This access afforded guests in the resshow fills the series’ regutaurant’s upstairs spaces, the Gallar slot, Charleston Alllery Room and the Long Room. Stars. Tickets are $40. Probably the most interesting Another highlight of the event in the series is its last, the series is JAC’s signature REESE MOORE event, Holy City HomecoRon Free Trio with pianist Tommy Gill and bassist Kevin Hamil- Bassist Kevin Hamilton is a member of min’, this year featuring the Ron Free Trio, performing June 11. ton on June 11. the Mark Sterbank Jazz Ron, a Charleston master Group performing Hymns It quickly became a gathering drummer, emerged this year as & Spirituals, sacred songs explace for jazz musicians to jam. a centerpiece of the story told in pressed in jazz idioms, on June 1. One of its tenants, W. Eugene the highly acclaimed book, “The Mark is feverishly working on Jazz Loft Project,” written by Sam Smith, was a photographer who a CD of the six-year-old band’s took thousands of pictures and Stephenson, a researcher at the music. I’ve heard some of the Duke University Center for Docu- recorded thousands of hours of mixes and it’s great stuff. If it gets music, documenting a rich period mentary Studies. The book is an done in time, it’ll be available at account of the goings-on in jazz at in the development of jazz among McCrady’s. Tickets for that one are a dilapidated loft in New York City celebrities such as Dizzy Gillespie $30. There are two shows, 7 and and Thelonious Monk as well as between 1957 and 1965. 10 p.m.
Shows on the other 11 nights also are 7 and 10 p.m. They cost $20 in advance, $25 the day of. Call 6410011 or visit thejac.org. Mark, an assistant professor of jazz studies at Charleston Southern University, will partner with fellow saxophonist Robert Lewis, College of Charleston jazz studies chief, in a reprise of last year’s Tenor Madness on June 9. The blazing performance sold out two shows last year even though it was up against the wildly popular Rene Marie show at the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium for Spoleto Festival USA. Festivalgoers can sample authentic Brazilian music with jazz influences during the series on June 8 when singer/songwriter Duda Lucena holds court. Duda’s sound brings a world music feel to the table, which illustrates the diversity of music in the Charleston area and the reach of the series. He was a smash hit at the Charleston Jazz Orchestra’s Latin Night concert in September. His offerings likely will be among the most nuanced repertoires on the bill. There’s something for you in the series if you favor more progressive music. On June 3, Morimo-
to+1 — guitarist David Linaburg, drummer Nick Jenkins, pianist Gerald Gregory and bassist Ben Wells — will take the stage with a mixed bag. Here’s what the band posted on Facebook about its show: “Morimoto returns to the stage for the first time in 2010 with special guest Ben Wells joining on bass. Taking advantage of the ‘jazz series’ mentality and having a real piano for Dr. Gerald von Gregory to perform on, the group will revisit its roots in playing standards while fluidly mixing in original music and whatever other sounds might find their way to the stage.” These guys love to experiment. And they do it well because they’re grounded in the basics of jazz. There’s a ton of jazz planned over the next month so stay tuned. Next week, I’ll talk about the spectacular Charleston Jazz Initiative Legends Festival in early June. Look for me on The Post and Courier’s upcoming Spoleto pages for the 411 on the festival’s Wachovia Jazz Series. Jack McCray, author of “Charleston Jazz,” can be reached at jackjmccray@aol.com.
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t seems like I’ve coveted the perfect pair of jeans my entire life. In 6th grade, I was in absolute ecstasy over Jordache jeans, which everyone had except me, so I begged my mother for a pair. One day, she said she’d bought me some Jordache and then handed me socks with that iconic horse profile stitched into the thick cotton. I remember thinking it had to be a joke and actually searching around for a shopping bag with the jeans inside. Tragically, it was just the socks, which, as a form of protest, I never ever wore. In high school, it was all about Guess jeans. Somehow I thought if I could actually score a pair, I’d be transformed into Claudia Schiffer in a lacy, white bustier looking coyly into
roll up the pant leg to the ankle. We’d wear them low on the hips with a studded leather belt and pair them with scuffed Bass bucs. I finally snagged my own that August when a summer boyfriend gave me an old pair of his 501s. To this day, I don’t think there’s anything more comfortable than some worn men’s the camera or Anna Nicole Levi’s. Smith channeling Marilyn For a couple of years, I Monroe with her platinum hoarded a collection of blond hair and voluptuous petite jeans from Banana curves. I actually got the jeans for Republic mostly, I think, because I was in a total state of Christmas one year, and I loved them. Until an unfor- shock that petite jeans even tunate bleach accident that I existed. And then one day I saw still can’t talk about. When I went off to college, a picture of some celebrity one of my roommates was a like Cameron Diaz in US girl named Terri, who had a Weekly wearing the coolest pair of jeans I’d ever seen, closet full of men’s vintage Levi’s. She showed me how to and I had to have them. So I take the extra material at the went to Neiman Marcus and bottom and fold it over, then tried on several pairs of Citi-
zens of Humanity, eventually buying the Kelly Stretch 001, even though it seemed like there was enough extra material at the bottom to stitch into a second pair of jeans. For me, the final frontier for jeans was the introduction of petite designer denim like the Provocateur range by Joe’s Jeans, which has a shorter inseam and a higher knee break. When I finally caved in and bought some skinny jeans a few years ago, it was a pair of petite Paige Premium. Supposedly the average woman has eight pairs of jeans in her closet, but I don’t think we ever stop searching for the perfect pair. My latest obsession? Some white jeans for summer. And I won’t be satisfied until I find the exact right pair.
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Below are photos from the First Flush Festival in Wadmalaw. They were taken by Devin Grant. See more photos on www.charlestonscene.com and our facebook page. You can upload your own, as well.
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Michael Furlinger says his 426-seat Hippodrome movie theater could close unless more people come in to the downtown theater.
If you like movies, make a visit to the Hippodrome
giant 74-foot screen at the theater next to the Charleston Aquarium makes the movie even better. But it’s been reported that Thumbs Up unless local patrons start showing the Hippodrome “Iron Man 2” had a lot to some more love, it might live up to after the success of have to close its doors by the first movie and it delivfall. ers. Owner Mike Furlinger, Robert Downey Jr. steals who did wonders with the the show as the egotistical, stellar. The movie begins Terrace Theater on James Isgazillionaire defense conand ends with AC/DC. I land until selling it recently, tractor-turned-superhero has given Charlestonians philanthropist, Tony Stark. mean, really, what more could you ask for? another special movie expeThe balance of action, rience in the Hippodrome, comedy and story, combined and I will certainly be sad with great performances by Thumbs Down When “Iron Man 2” came to see it go if that comes to co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, pass. out, I knew two things. Scarlett Johansson, Don Personally, I plan on seeOne, that I wanted to see it Cheadle, Gary Shandling, ing “Iron Man 2” at least one on opening night, and two, Jon Favreau and Samuel that I wanted to see it at The more time there and highly Jackson, make for what is recommend everyone else turning out to be one of the Hippodrome in downtown do the same, not only beCharleston. best superhero movie franOne of only two supersize cause it’s a good movie but chises ever. to support one of the best big screens in town (The Mickey Rourke plays the villain with ruthless perfec- Hippodrome being the only places in the Lowcountry to tion and the soundtrack is one that’s locally owned), the see them.
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Civil Twilight
Friday at the Music Farm
South African-bred trio Civil Twilight may not bring anything new to the table but it does serve up some delicious leftovers for fans hungry for more good alt/rock tunes in the mix. Like such notable influences as Muse and Keane, the band’s sound far exceeds its three-man appearance. Like all good trio’s, it’s a feat that demands more than just the basics from its players. For Civil Twilight, that hurdle is cleared by an astute pounding of piano keys, tireless drumming, intelligent guitar work and vocals that drip with torrid urgency and sway from note to quiver to cry to scream and back again. The band’s self-titled debut was independently released in 2008 but re-released in 2009 after the band was picked up by Wind-up Records that same year. The band’s most popular single, “Letters From The Sky,” made its way onto several television and movie soundtracks including “One Tree Hill,” “Harper’s Island” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Civil Twilight will perform at the Music Farm, 32 Ann St., Friday with Switchfoot. Tickets are $20 in advance, $23 the day of the show and are available at the door or online at www.etix.com Doors open at 8 p.m.; those under 21 are subject to a $3 charge. Visit www.musicfarm.com or www.civiltwilightband. com for more information.
Norma Jean
Monday at the Music Farm
For the last 13 years, Christian metalcore band Norma Jean has roared through the stereotypes that has long divided secular hardcore and Christian hardcore. With a swirling storm of dissonance, fury, disjointed time signatures and merciless vocals, Norma Jean’s music has exceeded all expectations
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The Lowcountry’s own Band of Horses is currently on tour with Pearl Jam. The band’s new album, “Infinite Arms,” was released this week. Read a review of it on Page 17.
Bridwell maintains ‘air of mystery’ with Band of Horses’ new album on the road and fine-tune the songs in front of a live audience. The result is a pleasant and diast week, Charleston-based verse compilation of songs that shine with influences of Ameriquintet Band of Horses cana and folk music as well as released its third full-length studio album, “Infinite Arms.” ’90s rock ’n’ roll. “On My Way Back Home” is a Singer Ben Bridwell feels the album holds a lot of promise for traveling song that has a definitive country twang to it that utithe future of the group. lizes the drums to build to an “I’m definitely proud of it,” exciting and cathartic climax at Bridwell said. “We ended up producing it ourselves, which is the end. “Compliments” is a rock ’n’ a first for me. It’s more collabroll track that still has a distinorative. It’s a new step for us.” guishable singer-songwriter The band took the brunt of production responsibilities into element to it. The album as a whole has a its own hands after having a wonderful cohesiveness to it. scheduling conflict with producer Phil Ek, who worked with The vast landscapes of America provided inspiration for this the band on previous albums. record. As for the meanings of Bridwell decided to back the the songs, Bridwell sticks to his album financially, a decision that allowed him and the band guns on keeping the ultimate truth of his lyrics to himself. to create its sound unadulter“With me, I tend to stay beated, and to create its own limhind the curtain,” Bridwell its musically. quips. “I like the air of mystery, The album wasn’t recorded where you don’t really know without its hang-ups, though. As funding for the record start- what the songs mean. You can ed to dwindle, the Horses went choose your own adventure.” “Infinite Arms” was released back on tour to make enough on Brown Records in conjucincome to finish. This hiatus tion with both Fat Possum Refrom recording allowed the cords and Columbia Records. band to test out new material BY PAUL PAVLICH
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Brown Records was a label that Bridwell started up years ago to release his friends’ records in Seattle with tips from his old food-and-bev job. Now, as an established musician, he decided to resurrect the label for the third Band of Horses record. The quintet has a full tour schedule through the winter, with dates across North America as well as Japan and Australia. “We spent so much time making this record so we want to work hard for it,” Bridwell said. “I think it’s going well.” Right now, the Horses are on the road with rock ’n’ roll mainstay Pearl Jam. “It’s really inspiring. They’re incredible to watch play every night. To see that kind of entertainment and the longevity of their songs is inspiring.” Bridwell is joined on the road by Creighton Barrett, drums, Tyler Ramsey, guitar, Bill Renolds, bass, and Ryan Monroe, keyboards. This is the same line-up as the studio sessions for “Infinite Arms,” on which all five of the members have writing credits for the album.
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Franti, Spearhead capture the sound of ‘Sunshine’ BY JENNIFER CHEROCK AND JESSICA MUNDAY Special to The Post and Courier
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aving earned and maintained a reputation as one of the best live acts in the business, Michael Franti & Spearhead will not only provide incredible musical vibes but inspire everyone in the crowd. Franti, a self-professed troubadour, has spent his career connecting his views on life and the world with creating soul-infused music. With the upcoming album “The Sound of Sunshine,” set for release this summer, Franti and his crew plan to show WHAT: Michael Franti Charleston music fans that the & Spearhead, preglass is half-full and that you sented by The Bridge can capture the warmth of a 105.5 FM sunny day in musical notes WHEN: May 25. and lyrics. WHERE: The Music Last summer, Franti exFarm, 32 Ann St., perienced a life-threatening downtown. ruptured appendix. He was COST: $20 in advance rushed to the hospital and was at www.etix.com, all informed that an operation Cat’s Music and Monwas necessary. Although fully ster Music locations. alive in his spirit and mind, $25 the day of the Franti’s physical condition was show. in jeopardy, and it caused him MORE INFO: www. to reflect on his life and every michaelfranti.com. waking moment lying ahead of him. “After my surgery, each morning I would wake up, open the curtain and hope to see the sun. When I saw it, I knew it was going to be a promising day. If I didn’t see it, then I had this urge to create it. It was those emotions that planted the seed for what you hear on our new album.” With a new, enhanced outlook on life (if that’s even possible for this already harmonious musician), Franti took to the studio with his band and began the task of recording music that sounded like the sun — music that was fun, inspiring and made you want to dance. Franti is calling “The Sound of Sunshine” his favorite album yet. “Our new album is a body of songs written to inspire,” explains Franti. “When I wake up and see the sun shining, I feel good. Even watching it go down at the end of the day feels good. There’s something to be said for that, and that’s what we tried to capture on this album.”
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Michael Franti’s new album, “The Sound of Sunshine,” is set for release this summer.
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Truth and Salvage Co. are beating the odds Truth and Salvage Co. will perform at The Pour House on May 26.
to listen. Special to The Post and Theirs is the story of singer/songwriters, other bands Courier and relocation as a comhere is nothing mitment to “do this music quite like being at thing,” all the while knowthe beginning of ing that the odds were that something. Just ask they would spend their lives the Americana rock-’n’-roll on the edges of the success. band Truth and Salvage Co., For now, Truth & Salvage which is just beginning a na- Co. seems to have beaten tional tour to support its de- those odds. but CD that drops May 25. Prior to the conception of But this is not a band new the band, the members had to the scene. The six musibeen involved in their own cians of Truth & Salvage Co. side projects such as Scrappy have spent years knocking Hamilton and Old Pike, a around the music world successful regional band. from Ohio to Asheville, The members also had perN.C. and Los Angeles. formed and collaborated Then one fateful night, with many other acts such they were invited to play as The Moldy Peaches, Ben and Chris Robinson of The Folds Five, Jack Johnson and Black Crowes was invited The Squirrel Nut Zippers, BY STEPHANIE BURT
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as well as members of My Morning Jacket and Rogue Wave. In 2005, they all met in L.A. at the Hotel Cafe, where Jones served as the venue’s talent booker. They realized, despite having four singer-songwriters on stage together, the chemistry was undeniable, even during casual late-night jam sessions. “Originally what attracted me (to the band) was that I like playing and collaborating with other people. And now, when we play, I love not being the front man, but getting excited about the next song we’re going to sing,” Jones explains. “People still don’t know us yet, but the people that are there
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table. WHAT: The Truth & Salvage Co. with The Bushels, pre“We have cohesiveness as a band, and Chris (Robinsented by The Bridge 105.5 FM son) said, ‘You must really WHEN: 9 p.m. Wednesday like each other,’ ” Jones says. WHERE: The Pourhouse, 1977 Maybank Hwy., James “We do.” Island The music shows that COST: $10 through etix.com as well, full of different MORE INFO: www.charlestonpourhouse.com songwriters and four-part harmonies, but still firmly this band,” Robinson said in planted in the experiences (at our shows) are singa press release. ing along with the words. I of each of its members. It is He decided to put his think that’s great.” a quintessentially American money where his mouth was sound, a touch of country, Seems like a lot of other and has produced the band’s a little rock ’n’ roll, firmly people are getting excited about that next song as well. first CD. But that is not planted in the places they When Robinson first heard the only connection to the have been and where they band. Truth & Salvage Co. the Truth & Salvage Co., want to go. spent a few months touring he knew he wanted to hear “Our music is hope and as an opener for The Black more. dreams and aspiration. It is “The sincerity of their song Crowes, traveling all day in dreaming of something beta white van, only to get out writing and their passionter and expanding that famat the end of the day to eat ate performance were the ily/community connection,” dinner together at the same says Jones. things that attracted me to
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The Hold Steady HEAVEN IS WHENEVER (Vagrant) Since finally hitting the mainstream ears with 2008’s breakthrough album, “Stay Positive,” the Brooklyn band The Hold Steady has remained largely the same, save for the departure of keyboardist Franz Nicolay. Nicolay’s piano playing was part of what made “Stay Positive” such a charming record, with a sound similar to what might happen if Bruce Springsteen fronted a punk band. While Nicolay will be missed, the remaining members of The Hold Steady are by no means wasting time mourning his departure. As a matter of fact, lead singer Craig Finn is doing something a bit different this time out; actually singing. Finn has always been a masterful storyteller, but his delivery on past albums has always sounded more like spoken word poetry than singing. On tracks such as the bluesy “Sweet Part of the City,” and more rocking tracks such as “Soft in the Center” and “The Smidge,” Finn is positively melodic, something he only hinted at on “Stay Positive.” While not every song on “Heaven is Whenever” hits the mark, there is still enough decent material here to warrant buying the CD, especially if you enjoyed its predecessor. KEY TRACKS: “Sweet Part of the City,” “Soft in the Center,” “Hurricane J”
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Various Artists SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY (New Haven) Country music has always had its spiritual side. For every song about whiskey drinking and hell-raising it seems there are just as many tunes about prayer and faith. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has collected a dozen good examples of the more spiritual side of some of today’s biggest country artists. The artists will likely be instantly recognizable to any country music enthusiast. Keith Urban performs “But For the Grace of God,” Tim McGraw offers “Drugs of Jesus,” and George Strait sings about how “I Found Jesus on the Jailhouse Floor.” Other artists on this compilation include Trace Adkins, Vince Gill, Martina McBride, Lee Ann Womack and Alabama. If you enjoy your country music with a healthy dose of spirituality, then this CD is definitely worth a listen. KEY TRACKS: “Long Black Train,” “Muddy Water,” “I Found Jesus on the Jailhouse Floor”
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Band of Horses INFINITE ARMS (Brown/Fat Possum/Columbia) Every so often there comes a band that has an element that makes even the most cynical music fan pause and take notice. One of the latest acts to achieve this feat lives right here in our backyard. Band of Horses was formed by Lowcountry native Ben Bridwell in Seattle, but after the band released its first album, “Everything All the Time,” Bridwell decided to move operations back to Charleston. 2007 saw the release of the band’s sophomore effort, the enchanting “Cease to Begin,” which, like the debut CD, benefitted from a combination of beautifully orchestrated songs coupled with Bridwell’s gorgeous vocals. On the latest album from Band of Horses, “Infinite Arms,” it seems that the band is now three for three, and the new set of songs actually raises the bar rather than simply regurgitating the same sounds as those previous albums. Bridwell’s voice is as sublime as ever, but there is a distinct maturity to the songs here. That is no mean feat, considering the fact that Band of Horses has already released two albums of music that are the musical equivalent of an art house film. Picture Neil Young at his acoustic best crossed with My Morning Jacket, and you’ll begin to get an idea of what awaits you on what is one of the best albums I have heard so far this year, and I’m not just saying that because these guys are locals. KEY TRACKS: “Factory,” “Compliments,” “Dilly”
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Court Yard Hounds COURT YARD HOUNDS (Columbia) Emily Robison and Martie Maguire are already well known to country and pop music fans as two-thirds of The Dixie Chicks. When the remaining member, Natalie Maines, indicated last year that she wasn’t currently interested in recording or touring, Robison and Maguire, who are sisters, decided to strike out on their own as a duo. The resulting group was dubbed Court Yard Hounds, and the self-titled debut definitely owes more to root rock than to the usual pop-country sound for which the Chicks are known. “The Coast” refers to the Texas Gulf Coast, and is reminiscent of Sheryl Crow, while “Skyline” is more in the style of Shawn Colvin. While no particular song really jumps out to take its place as the dominant track on this album, the quality of the music is pretty even keel throughout. Apparently, the Chicks are still together despite this side project, as the trio will be touring with the Eagles this summer. Here’s hoping though that the Court Yard Hounds are not a one-off project. Robison and Maguire create some interesting and catchy music together, and it would be a shame not to further explore what they have started. KEY TRACKS: “Skyline,” “The Coast,” “Ain’t No Son”
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Band members taking their House to the studio bat house MEMBERS: Josh Jeffords, keys/vocals/ drums; Rowland V.W. Rice, guitar/bass/vocals; and Beckett Hills, Drums. ORIGINALLY FROM: Charleston. INFO: http://adventurehippies.blogspot. com. SEE THEM NEXT: May 29 at Kudu Coffee House.
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Whether it is one of their down-tempo songs or an upbeat anthem of chaos, rest assured, it osh Jeffords, Beckett Hills will be ear-piercing. The comand Rowland V.W. Rice position of the songs is heavily are no strangers to the influenced by movie scores of DIY house show scene in John Carpenter, Ennio MarriCharleston. cone, Goblin, Dario Argento and The three have been in a hand- David Lynch. ful of Charleston-based noise Rice and Jeffords originally and trash bands. Colostrodamus, started Bat House a couple of Small Pox and Timeblazers, to years ago as a two-piece band but name a few. completed the line-up earlier this Out of the ashes of these bands, year when long-time friend and their new trio, Bat House, has drummer Hills returned to the emerged. Lowcountry. Bat House is a loud experience. Since then, they’ve been creThe songs are driven by heavy ating some buzz in the undersynthesizer licks and dueling vo- ground Charleston music scene. cals from Rice and Jeffords. Hills They’ve been playing house brings rhythm to the mix with shows and gigs at the Outer a massive drum set that booms Space for almost six months and with the ferocity of thunder. plan to record their first release
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with engineer “Dank” Hank Thomas at The Jam Room in Columbia during July. The guys from Bat House recently talked about their musical endeavors. Q: How would you describe Bat House to a first-time listener? Hills: We’re definitely heavy. It’s noisy. It’s very synth-driven. The keyboard is definitely the predominant sound. It’s a strange mix of industrial and stoner-rock riffs. We have a gothic tone, but we’re not a goth band by any means. Rice: I’d say it’s a meld of taking the darker aspects of pop music and exploiting them to their fullest extent. I always like to have that dark side of pop to our music so it’s accessible and meaning-
ful at the same time. Q: What have you learned from your previous bands that you are bringing to Bat House? Hills: The three of us have been playing music for years and years in bands that have almost gone somewhere and never have. With every band that you start like that, it gets more frustrating every time. With every new band you start, you also learn from the previous mistakes of the last ones and you become more successful every time. Rice: You’ve got to be able to make time and practice as much as possible. And also, we learned to have the absolute greatest time ever. Don’t take it too seriously. Jeffords: We’ve learned that taking things less seriously is actually more professional. When
you hype up your band as really epic, your nerves get fried before your shows. If you say, “Come see my band. We sound like trash!” then there’s no stress, and people will be stoked to find out that you can really cook a mean ... brew. Q: Tell me about the songs you’re planning to record at the Jam Room in July. Hills: We’ve taken a lot of songs that (Rice and Jeffords) wrote in the past and have rewritten them. The stuff from before was very ambient, shoe-gaze type stuff. Now, there’s a lot more structure to the music. We’re doing a good job at writing a mixture of heavier and softer songs. Ideally, we’d like to create some sort of album that will take people on a spiritual journey.
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ALLUETTE’S JAZZ CAFE: 137 Calhoun St. 737-0090. Tonight: Calvin Taylor, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; Tonight-Sat: Oscar River Trio, 9:30 p.m.; Sun: Abe White, 4-8 p.m . AROMAS: 50 N. Market St. 7239588. Thus: David Higgins Band, free, 8 p.m. Fri-Sat: Cotton Blue, 7 p.m. ART’S BAR AND GRILL: 413 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 849-3040. Tonight: Jeff Batman and Friends; Fri: Baby Fat; Sat: Cherry Bomb; Sun: Everett Bigbee; Mon: Open Mic w/Everett Bigbee; Tues: Danielle Howle; Wed: Wade and Rusty. ATLANTICVILLE RESTAURANT AND WINES: 2063 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island. 883-9452. Tue: Thai Tuesdays w/Annie Boxell. AWENDAW GREEN: 4879 Hwy. 17 N, Awendaw. Wed: Lime and the Coconuts w/ Minimum Wage, 7-10 p.m. BAMBU: 604 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 284-8229. Tonight: Doug Walters, 8 p.m.; Fri: Ben and Brandon of Two 3 Ways, 9 p.m.; Sat: Tim Hodson; Thurs: Henri Gates, 8 p.m. BANANA CABANA: 1130 Ocean Blvd., Isle of Palms. 886-4360. Tonight: Hunter Hill, 6 p.m.; Fri: Mark Shuler, 7 p.m.; Sat: Pete Ledbetter, noon, Lowcountry Jukebox 7 p.m.; Sun: Jeff Houts, noon, Jude Michaels, 6 p.m.; Mon: Mark Shuler, 6 p.m.; Tues: Hunter Hill, 6 p.m.; Wed: Hugh Price, 6 p.m.; Thurs: Skip Sullivans, 6 p.m. BLIND TIGER PUB: 38 Broad St. 577-0088. Tonight: Porkchop, 9 p.m.; Fri: Hugh Price, 7:30 p.m.; Sat: Eric Pernod, 7:30 p.m.; Tues: Velvet Jones Duo, 9 p.m.; Wed: Graham Whorley, 9 p.m. Thurs: Porkchop, 9 p.m. BLU RESTAURANT & BAR: 1 Center St., Folly Beach. 588-6658. Tonight: Jeff Caldwell, 7-10 p.m.; Fri: Matt Jordan Duo, 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Sat: Henri Gates, 2-5 p.m., Calvin Taylor, 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Sun: Mitch Wetherington, 2-5 p.m. 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-Sat: Ronnie Johnson and Chris Clifton, 9 p.m.; Wed: Jacob and Jason of Category 6 Band, 9 p.m.; Tues: Ronnie Johnson Open
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The Swell Season, featuring Academy Award Winners Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (of the soundtrack and film “Once”), will grace us with their presence on Saturday at The North Charleston Performing Arts Center. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $31.00 plus applicable fees. Call 529-5050 or visit www. coliseumpac.com. For more info on the band, visit www.theswellseason.com. Mic, 8 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.; MonWed: 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 RD.: 216 Meyers Rd., Summerville. 875-4215. Tonight-Fri: Karaoke, 8 p.m. Sat: DJ and Karaoke, 8 p.m.midnight. CLUB H2O: 8484 Dorchester Rd., North Charleston. 767-1426. Tonight: Country Dance Party w/Rowdy Nites, 9 p.m.; Fri-Sat: DJ Mike Mendoza, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; Thurs: Country Dance Party w/ Rowdy Nites, 9 p.m . THE CRESCENT CONNECTION: 1910 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. 528-0777. Fri-Sat: Abe White, 6-9 p.m.; Sun: Sunday Jazz Brunch, noon-3 p.m. CUOCO PAZZO: 1035 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. 971-9034. Wed, Fri-Sat: Riccardo sings Opera and Italian songs, 7-9 p.m. DORCHESTER LANES: 10015 Dorchester Rd., Summerville. 3762200. Fri:-Sat: Numb 909; Sun: Trivia w/ Bad Joke Tom; Mon and Wed: Karaoke w/ Rocky; Tues: Acoustics w/ Never Than Less DUNLEAVY’S PUB: 2213 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island. 883-9646.
Sun: Carroll Brown, 8 p.m.; Tue: Carroll Brown w/Bob Sachs and the Maniax, 7:30 p.m. EAST BAY MEETING HOUSE: 159 East Bay St. 723-3446. Mon: Monday Night Poetry and open mic w/Jim Lundy, 8-10 p.m. EVO PIZZERIA: 1075 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. 225-1796. Tonight: The Pulse Trio, 6:30-9:30 p.m. FIERY RON’S SULLIVAN’S ISLAND: 2209 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island. 883-3131. Tonight: Wicked Felinas, $5, 10 p.m.; Fri: Willie Heath Neal, $5, 10:30 p.m.; Sat: Corduroy Road, $5, 10:30 p.m.; Wed: Nite Ramble w/ Sandy and Gary, 8:30 p.m.; Thurs: The Cliff, $3, 10 p.m. FIERY RON’S WEST ASHLEY: 1205 Ashley River Rd. 225-2278. Tonight: Bluestone Ramblers, 9:30 p.m.; Fri: The Corduroy Road, 10 p.m.; Sat: Willie Heath Neal, $5, 10:30 p.m.; Mon: Open Mic, 8 p.m.; Tues: Jennie Arnau, 9:30 p.m.; Wed: Lowcountry Blues Club, 7 p.m. FISH RESTAURANT: 442 King St. 722-3474. Tonight: Jazz w/Elise Testone, 7-10 p.m.; Fri: DJ Jaz, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat: DJ Todd Cadley, 10 p.m. GENNARO’S RESTAURANTE: 8500 Dorchester Rd., North Charleston. 760-9875. Tonight: Gennaro’s Jazz Ensemble, 8:30 p.m. GILLIGAN’S: 1475 Long Grove Dr., Mount Pleasant. 849-2244. Fri: March Schuler, 6-9 p.m.; Sat: Dan-
iel Dean, 6-9 p.m. HALLS CHOPHOUSE: 434 King St. 797-0090. Fri-Sat: Anthony Owens, 7-10 p.m.; Sun-Wed: Anthony Owens, 6:30-9:30 p.m. HALLIGAN’S RESTAURANT AND BAR: 3025 Ashley Towne Center, Suite 201, Charleston. 2254347. Tonight: Trivia and Karaoke, 8 p.m.; Fri: Red Hot Rebelettes w/ Overdrive and The 33’s; Sat: STARR 99.7 & Geno Jones Birthday Bash. THE HARBOR GRILLE: 360 Concord St. 853-5752. Tonight: Paper Cut Massacre w/Enter the Era, Sugar Red Drive and Facedown; Sat: Overdrive w/Drownout and Tattermask; Tue: Big Hit and the Baby Kit; Wed: Ladies Night w/DJ Argento. HIGH COTTON: 199 E. Bay St. 724-3815. Nightly 6-10 p.m. Tonight: James Slater and David Heywood; Fri-Sun: John Slate and Bill Aycock; Mon: Margaret Coleman and John Slate; Tues: Margaret Coleman and Wayne Davis; Wed: James Slater and David Heywood. JIMMY’S: 431 St. James Ave., Goose Creek. 553-8766. Fri: The Cool; Sat: Bopnefish, Free, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. J.PAUL’Z: 1739 Maybank Hwy., Charleston. 442-4480. Tonight: Sinatra and Sushi w/Joe Clarke Quartet, 7-10 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 337 King St. 805-5020. Wed: Trivia, 10 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1175 Folly Rd., James Island. 225-6996. Fri: The Diesel Brothers; Sat: Big Suade w/ Brain and Jason of Uncle Mingo. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1119 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 881-8734. Tonight: Jamisun Group; Fri: Woodrum & Worley; Thurs: Hank Futch Duo. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 800 N. Main St., Summerville. 875-6998. Wed: Trivia, 9 p.m. KICKIN’ CHICKEN: 1179 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., West Ashley 7665292. Fri: E2 w/ The Fell, 9:30 p.m.; Wed: Trivia, 9 p.m. LALO’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT: 1585 Central Ave., Summerville. 873-9988. Sat: Swamp Fox Karaoke, 8 p.m. LIBERTY TAP ROOM: 1028 Johnnie Dobbs Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 971-7777. Tonight: Henri Gates, 6-9 p.m. LOCO JOE’S FOOD & SPIRITS: 1115 Miles Rd., Summerville. 821-
2946. Tue-Wed: Karaoke w/Robby G., 8 p.m. MANNY’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILLE: 1608 Old Towne Rd. 7633908. Wed. Ted Mckee, 6-9 p.m. MED BISTRO: 90 Folly Rd. Blvd. 766-0323. Fri: Mark Schuler; Sat: Joe Clark. MERCATO RESTAURANT: 102 N. Market St. 722-6393. TonightFri: Ann Caldwell w/Jazz Trio, 6-10 p.m.; Sat: Robert Lewis, Gerald Gregory and Nick Jenkins, 6-10 p.m.; Mon: Leah Suarez Trio; Tue: Jazz Trio, 6-10 p.m.; Wed: Kris Woodrum and Jesse Prichart, 6-10 p.m. MOJO’S CLUB AND CIGAR BAR: 945 Bacons Bridge Rd. 8755099. Mon: Free Shag lessons. MORGAN CREEK GRILL: 80 41st Ave. Isle of Palms. 886-8980. Fri: Bil Krauss, 6-10:30 p.m.; Sat: Jef Wilson, 6-10:30 p.m.; Sun: Sweetgrass, 4-8 p.m.; Tues: Rene Russell on Palmetto Breeze Cruise, 6-8 p.m. MUSIC FARM: 32 Ann St. 5776989. Tonight: Mayday Parade w/ Rocket to the Moon, Sing It Loud and Sparks the Rescue, $13-16, 7 p.m.; Fri: Switchfoot w/ Civil Twilight, $20-23, 8 p.m.; Sat: Sequoyah, $10-12, 8 p.m.; Mon: Every Time I Die w/ Norman Jean and Cancer Bats, $15-18, 7 p.m.; Tues: Michael Franti and Spearhead w/ One Eskimo, $15, 8 p.m. OASIS BAR AND GRILL: 778 Folly Rd., James Island. Tonight: Jam Nite w/ Chantilly Lace, 7 p.m.; Fri: Gil Yslas and Rick May, Free, 5 p.m., Thomas Sparks and His Friends, $3, 9 p.m.; Wed: Final Approach “Boomer Music,” Free, 5:30 p.m.; Thurs: Jam Nite w/ Chantilly Lace, 7 p.m. O’MALLEY’S: 549 King St, Charleston. 805-5000. Tue: Trivia, 7 p.m. OSCAR’S RESTAURANT: 207 W. 5th North St., Summerville. 8713800. Tonight: Trivia, 7-9 p.m. PATRICK’S PUB: 1377 Ashley River Rd. 571-3435. Tonight: Karaoke, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Sat: Drag Show. PENACHIOS FINE DINING & LOUNGE: 2447 Ashley River Rd. 402-9640. Thurs: Debbie Prine, 9 p.m. POE’S TAVERN: 2210 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island. 883-0083. Sun: Calvin Taylor, 6-9 p.m. THE POUR HOUSE: 1977 Maybank Highway. 571-4343. Tonight:
Alex B. w/ Pericles and Nostalgia, 9 p.m.; Fri: The Itals featuring Jah Creation w/ The Gullah Roots, $13, 9 p.m.; Sat: Col Bruce Hampton and The Quark Alliance w/ DJ Logic, $13, 10 p.m.; Sun: Christable and The Jons, Free, 8 p.m.; Tues: Ryan Bingham w/ Dead Horse, $13-15, 8 p.m.; Wed: Truth and Salvage Co. w/ The Bushels, $10, 9 p.m.; Thurs: Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, $10, 9 p.m. RED DRUM GASTROPUB: 803 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 849-0313. Wed: Triple Lindy, 9 p.m. RED’S ICE HOUSE: 98 Church St., Mount Pleasant, 388-0003. Tonight: Two Three Ways; Mon: Dave Landeo; Tue: Hank and Greg. RITA’S: 2 Center St., Folly Beach. 633-5330. Fri: Sara Smile; Sat: Woodrum & Worley. SAND DOLLAR: 7 Center St., Folly Beach. 588-9498. Fri-Sat: All Purpose Remedy. SEEL’S OFF THE HOOK: 2213 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island, 8835030: Tonight: The Bushels, 9 p.m.; Fri and Sat: DJ C.Nile, 10 p.m. SEE WEE: 4808 Hwy. 17 N, Awendaw. 928-3609. Sat: Kathy Livingston, 6-9 p.m. SPANKY BOTTOMS: 570 College Park Rd. 553-0834. Fri-Sat and Wed: Karaoke w/Debbie Prine, 8 p.m. SUNFIRE GRILL & BISTRO: 1090 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. 7660223. Tonight: Calvin Taylor, 6 p.m.; Fri: Chris Tidestrom, 6 p.m.; Sat: Rosewood Accoustic Jam Duo, 6:30 p.m.; Sun: Trivia, 8-10 p.m.; Mon: Singer and Songwriter Night, 8 p.m.; Thurs: Calvin Taylor, 6 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 Rd., 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.; Tues: Shane Clark or Mike Pifer. THROUGHBRED CLUB AT CHARLESTON PLACE: 224 King St. 722-4900. Today-Sat: Live piano, 1-11 p.m. Sun: Live piano, 5-10 p.m.; Mon-Wed: Live piano, 5-11 p.m. THE TIN ROOF: 1117 Magnolia Rd. 282-8988. Tonight: Efren, 9 p.m.
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of hardcore cynics and left the Douglasville, Ga., quintet with one of the most varied fan bases in the hardcore scene. Three of the band’s four studio albums have cracked Billboard’s Top 100 list as well as reaching either the No. 1 or 2 spots for Top Christian Albums. Norma Jean will perform Monday at the Music Farm, 32 Ann St., with Every Time I Die and Cancer Bats. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 the day of the show and are available at the door or online at www.etix.com Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m.; under 21 are subject to a $3 charge. Visit www.musicfarm.com or www.normajeannoise.com.
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Amy Hudock to beginning writers:
‘Don’t wait to be discovered’
BY KATRINA ROBINSON Special to The Post and Courier
A
my Hudock wears many hats. She’s a mother, a writer, an editor, and a teacher at Trident Technical College. She sat down with Charleston Scene and discussed how she juggles these roles. Q: How does teaching affect your writing? A: Some writers say teaching something as pedestrian as freshman composition hurts their writing. I don’t say that because I don’t distinguish between writing courses. I teach freshman composition and technical writing like my creative writing course. All writing is, I believe, creative. Q: Tell me about “Literary Mama.” Where did the idea for the magazine come from? A: Now, I can’t go anywhere without bumping into mother writing. Not so back then. Literary Mama grew out of my loneliness and my need to connect with other mothers, and in particular, other mother writers. I started a face-to-face playgroup/writing group
New York-based indie/pop quintet Matt Pond PA has had a jangly type of refinement reverberating through all eight of its albums since forming in 1998. Principal songwriter, vocalist and only original member, Matt Pond echoes an early Evan Dando with a low-pitched mutter that still manages to sound optimistic. Of course, tambourines, cello plucks and merry string arrangements always help to disguise any sense of melancholy as well. Matt Pond PA began as a quintet in Pennsylvania until Pond left for New York in 2003 where he recruited a new lineup but stuck with the old sound. The result was a familiar yet fresh musical rebirth for Pond and fans alike. Matt Pond PA will perform Friday at The Village Tavern, 1055 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., with Bobby Long and Holopaw. Visit www.myspace.com/villagetavern or www.mattpondpa.com.
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for mothers and their young children. We wrote and discussed our writing while the children played with a caregiver. Eventually, we went online, and others heard of us. We grew, published our website, then started attracting national and international attention. I love Literary Mama because it proves that having children and being a writer can go together. Q: You are an editor as well as a writer. How do you prepare to edit versus how you prepare to write? A: Writing is all about play and experiments, and is a bit wild and untamed. Editing is all about shaping and organizing the play, making the “child” fit for polite society. Writing is the child in me, and editing is the mother.
Q: What are you working on now? A: I continue to write the short memoir pieces that fit so nicely into a busy schedule. But I am also writing a historic novel based on the life of Emma Southworth, one of the most popular American writers of the 19th century (and a mother). I have published scholarly essays and written a dissertation on her. Now I want to go beyond that. She has a great story, and I think people will love reading it. I’ve also been playing around with the idea for an online literary magazine for Lowcountry emerging writers so that people who haven’t yet been published (like my students) can start building a readership. Also, my students could get real
; Fri: Dante’s Camaro, 8 p.m.; Sat: Giant Radio w. Deepwater Soul Society and Oh Dorian, 9 p.m.; Thurs: The Sideshow Tragedy, 9 p.m. TOAST: 155 Meeting St. 534PROVIDED 0043. Sat: Pianist Annie Boxell, 6-9 p.m. world editorial experience TOMMY CONDON’S: 160 by working with it. Church St. 577-3818. Tonight-Sat: Q: How do you fit time Steve Carroll and the Bograts; into your busy schedule to Wed, Sun: Fried Rainbow Trout. write? TRAYCE’S TOO NEIGHBORA: It’s not easy. I try to HOOD GRILLE & PUB: 2578 Ashwrite something every day, ley River Rd. 556-2378. Tonight: even if it is small. Allowing Trivia; Mon: Open mic night; Tue: myself to write small has Karaoke. helped me write. If I waited VILLAGE TAVERN: 1055 Johnuntil I had big blocks of nie Dodds Boulevard. 884-6311. time to write, I would never Fri: Matt Pond PA w/ Bobby Long write. So, I do little bits here, and Holopaw, 9 p.m.; Sat: No little bits there. Star, 9 p.m.; Thurs: Tyler Bonne Q: What advice would you w/ The Private Life of David and give to local writers? Jerry Jacobs, 9 p.m. A: Find a niche for yourWET WILLIE’S: 209 East Bay St. self, and then create the 853-5650. Mon: Metal Mondays. market for your work. Don’t WILD WING DOWNTOWN: 6 wait to be discovered. BeN. Market St. 722-9464. Tonight: come a salesperson of your DJ Party; Fri: Mr. Fernando; Fri: work. Build networks. Get Make It Go; Sat: DJ Dance Party; in a writing group where Sun: Plane Jane; Mon: Rotie you feel challenged and sup- Acoustic; Tues: Trivia; Wed: Dieported. Create a blog/websel Brothers; Thurs: DJ Dance site. Write, write, write. Party.
WILD WING MOUNT PLEASANT: 664 Coleman Blvd., Mount Pleasant. 971-9464. Tonight: Plane Jane; Fri: Tokyo Joe; Sat: Leghorn; Sun: Party on the Patio w/ David Dunning; Tues: Trivia; Thurs: Plan Jane. WILD WING NORTH CHARLESTON: 7618 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. 818-9464. Tonight: Ed Miller Karaoke; Fri: Plane Jane; Sat: Hot Sauce; Sun: Matt Jordan w/ Fred of Trickknee; Mon: Trivia; Tue: The Diesel Brothers; Wed: Rotie and Morgan of Soulfish; Thurs: Ed Miller Karaoke. THE WINDJAMMER: 1008 Ocean Blvd., Isle of Palms. 8868596. Tonight: Civil Twilight, $5, 9 p.m.; Fri: Tonic w/ Lisa Bouchelle, $20-25, 8:30 p.m.; Sat: Seven Mary Three w/ Shawn Fisher, $15, 9 p.m.; Wed: Carbon Leaf w/ Matt Mackelcan, $12-14; Thurs: Ten Toes Up w/ Deleveled, $5, 9 p.m. WOLFTRACK BAR AND GRILL: 1807 Parsonage Rd. 7630853. Fri: Head Rush; Sat: Bone Fish. THE ROCK LOUNGE: 1662 Savannah Hwy. 225-2200. Fri: Dante’s Camaro, 8 p.m.; Sat: The Defilers, 8 p.m. ; Sun: “New Album Preview” w/ Souls Harbor.
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Jones prepares food at Alluette’s Cafe, on Reid Street.
lady soul Alluette Jones Smalls’ jazz, food cafes carve niche in Charleston Story by Jack McCray l Photos by Reese Moore
T
he “little princess” born and raised in the Old Village of Mount Pleasant is now a true Geechee girl, living her life by carrying out the lessons taught to her by Miss Lottie, her queen mother. She’s now a proud businesswoman who tries to conduct herself according to the principles of self-worth and selfreliance that she learned from a warm, nurturing family while growing up in the segregated South. Alluette Jones-Smalls and husband Cliff Smalls own and run Alluette’s Cafe and Alluette’s Jazz Cafe on Reid and Calhoun streets, respectively. She’s made quite a mark in the two and a half years she’s been making and selling food, with the display and performance of the arts thrown in for good measure, with a twist that’s catching on in the Lowcountry. Her approach to cooking, which she learned from her grandmother, Lottie Singleton, is a natural one. She calls it holistic soul food. If you listen to her for more than 30
seconds, you’ll learn that her use of local organic produce, seafood, meats and fowl is rooted in how she grew up, not a pop culture, politically correct fad. “Food was in abundance. Oh my God, the seafood. It was just unbelievable! Everybody knew everybody and showed love and concern for everybody. Anyone that was in need got help from the community,” she said of her neighborhood 50 years ago. As she is quick to point out, her grandmother’s era was one where things were done slowly, with purpose and with love. That’s how Jones-Smalls cooks. It’s how she represents herself and her businesses. All that to create the open and diverse environment she wants to see in Charleston. Go into one of her cafes and you will likely converse with her, look at some art, browse a book and hear some music.
Origins
Bank Street to William Henry Jones, a sheet-rock contractor and gospel singer, and Elfreda Singleton Jones. She has two brothers, William Jr. and Illya Jones. The statuesque, brown-skinned African-American with close cropped, saltand-pepper hair is very serious about her mission. She said her uncle, Fred Singleton, a jazz piano player, who worked the Pirate’s House in Savannah back in the day, named her. “It’s French for lark, a bird that sings,” she whimsically said one day in the Reid Street cafe between lunch and dinner. “And I can’t carry a tune.” She was lunching on her favorite meal of lima beans, collards, sauteed peppers and brown rice. Jones-Smalls went to Laing Elementary School and the private Immaculate Conception School, both all black. When racial integration came to Charleston County public schools
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in her junior year in high school, she transferred to Moultrie High School. “I didn’t have a worry in the world,” she said, almost reverentially, about life in the Old Village. “It was instilled in us to take care of ourselves and value God’s gift, which is time. My grandmother used to say that time is the best gift that God can give us. “That’s why I’m a workaholic. I make the best of my time.” Jones-Smalls, her parents, her siblings and her mother’s parents lived in the Bank Street house that sat on a third of an acre. Miss Lottie grew pears, juju berries, figs, plums and pecans that she cooked with and sold to others. She took great care of her trees.
what: Holistic Soul Food where: 80A Reid St. phone: 577-6926 web site: www.alluettes.com
Alluette’s Jazz Cafe
what: music and drinks in a relaxed atmosphere where: 137 Calhoun St., downtown phone: 737-0090
Going forward
Coming of age
“As a teenager, I was real conscious of my appearance,” she said, the gleam in her eye seeming to take her back to that time. After a stint in the rough-and-tumble world of kid street games, Jones-Smalls went back to being a princess. “I was a tomboy for a while. I played touch football with the guys. They always picked me. I was good. Then one day, I was playing in the street and took my shirt off and my little bulges showed. So, my mom put me in Luanne’s Charm School on Savannah Highway.” She was good at that, too. At 16, she did local TV commercials for places such as Edwards five-anddime store and Belk’s. She proudly recalled that everyone in the neighborhood was talking about her being on TV. “That started my career,” she said smiling. “I thought I wanted to be a model, but my mom didn’t think that was a good idea. She was a nurse and her siblings were teachers, so why would I want to be a model?” From 1970 to 1974, Jones-Smalls attended Savannah State College where she earned a degree in history.
God bless the child …
Organic food is the name of the game at Alluette’s Cafe (top). Her Jazz Cafe (bottom) hosts music and art events, and is growing into its own on a busy section of downtown.
While she works closely with her husband and networks with any like-minded person who looks to her to be a candidate for such, she’s a one-woman dynamo. She’s enthusiastic about her efforts, leading the way in everything from marketing her places to cleaning up after a day’s work. Her innate work ethic grew as she ventured out to new horizons. After Savannah State, she went to a modeling college called Chappa Chell in Washington, D.C., where she completed the course in two years. “It was great living in D.C.” she said. “I was around people who knew who they were and knew what they were doing, people who went after what they wanted, worked with other people to get it and not stopping until they got it.” After a marriage and work for five years, she returned to Charleston in 1980. “I had a yearning to come home, but I didn’t know why,” she said. A month after her March return, her grandmother died. Looking for work, she wore down a reluctant general manager at a car dealership until he relented to
her repeated visits and requests for employment.
… who has her own
Jones-Smalls and her husband went into business for themselves in 1995. Her dad loaned them $35,000, she said, to open Line Street Grocery and Grill. Then, they took over in 1997 the Patio Famous Tea Room on Bogard and Ashe streets, a longtime downtown Charleston neighborhood place. It featured some of the Lowcountry dishes she grew up on. Always looking to improve and grow, Jones-Smalls and her husband moved down the Gullah coast to St. Helena Island in June 1999 where she sold sandwiches out of their home on the Beaufort River. “The first day, I gave away 100 sandwiches in places like government buildings, places with more than 50 people working in them. Then, the business just rolled in,” she said. In September, she bought the island’s old Post Office building and turned it into a restaurant called the Sandwich Shop. As it turns out, the St. Helena experience was the root of the present Charleston businesses. “By June of 2000, we were selling art and we had
The Smallses, who married in 1992, have a daughter, Elfreda, named after her grandmother. “She works in the restaurants,” Jones-Smalls said. “She cooks better than I do. She’s taken the food to the next level. She’s more experimental than I am. We brought her into the kitchen at 2. She would take the money from customers and Cliff would show her how to put it into the register.” In 2005, the family moved from Beaufort back to Charleston. PHOTOGRAPHS BY REESE MOORE She said, “I wanted to open a restaurant in Charleston. I felt Charleston needed an upscale, soul food restaurant.” live music,” said Jones-Smalls, whose favorite musiWell, she did just that and her shop, recipes and cians are Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis. “... I was style have caught the attention of media outlets evon the arts council in Beaufort County. I chaired a erywhere. Harlem Renaissance-theme dance that had BeauIn fact, Jones-Smalls said she’s about to be writfort’s Mary Louise as Sarah Vaughan.” ten up in Oprah Winfrey’s O Other characters were played by performers from Charles“It was instilled in us to take magazine. She said the writer, Celia Barbour, told her the ton she hired: the late singer care of ourselves and value magazine’s staff did a nationMildred Brevard, saxophonist God’s gift, which is time. My wide search for outlets marketLonnie Hamilton and pianist grandmother used to say ing healthy soul food and kept Oscar Rivers. coming across her name. She Mary Louise and Rivers per- that time is the best gift that and others are slated to be in form at the Jazz Cafe on CalGod can give us. That’s why the July issue. houn Street these days. I’m a workaholic. I make the Nevertheless, Jones-Smalls Overcoming isn’t satisfied with her business’ best of my time.” penetration of the local market Jones-Smalls was diagnosed so far. with breast cancer in 1997. She Alluette Jones-Smalls While a lot of people seem to beat it in a year, but it wasn’t know about them, she said she easy. doesn’t see the number of seats being filled like they “I didn’t take a lot of medicine, they just made should be. me sicker,” she said. She fired the first doctor who She said with sadness of all hospitality businesses treated her so she could take over the management of in the Lowcountry, “They should be completely diher own health. verse. They should welcome all cultures. I wanted to “I felt she wasn’t concerned enough with dealing make a difference, put something together where all with cancer patients. That made me realize I had to ethnicities can have a wonderful time. take control of my own life,” she said. “There’s a lot of room for growth. I wish the busi“I survived because I was prayerful. I was conscious of my diet even more. Food wasn’t the reason, ness community would be more welcoming of African-American businesses, too.” though. It was stress. Being black in America is She sees fault on both sides of the racial divide that stressful.” Growing up the way she did, Jones-Smalls she believes still exists locally. has always been Afrocentric. It does not make her “I guess some black people still believe clean is anti-white, she said, but she’s fully aware of who she cleaner, crisp is crisper and green is greener in white is and where she and her home group stand in the establishments. Some whites don’t seem to want to hierarchy of American history and culture. That’s why she seeks diversity: among races, classes give a local black business a chance, either.” She’s not giving up, though. She said she’s deterand all the other things that divide people and premined to see her mission through. She keeps the vent them from coming together. faith that her dreams of success and social harmony Jones-Smalls believes food and music are the best will be realized. vehicles for her to participate in carrying out the Miss Lottie would have been proud. American experience.
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Zen Asian Fusion Restaurant earns a culinary black belt
with stalks of bamboo acting as room dividers and creating two seating areas. Such detail adds to the sophistication of the restaurant. hen a restaurant’s menu is longer The sushi bar is staffed by three chefs: all than your arm, has multiple pages friendly, out-going and engaged in their craft. and offers the cuisines of China, The hoshizaki (refrigerated case) displays the Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thaidaily catch. The chefs work in a mindful way; land and sushi, you would question the ability intent not only on the formation of the sushi of the kitchen to create such diverse options. but with incredible artistry as the sculptural Add to that the “fusion” moniker in which white plates act as the canvas for them to ingredients of one country are combined in paint the palette of sushi and sashimi. recipes from another and you can easily be on This is not your ordinary Asian restaurant. your way to palate meltdown. The extensive menu also has a daily special Yet, Sean Lin and his staff at Zen Asian sheet. Sushi purists will find fresh bluefin Fusion, an “Asian kitchen, lounge and sushi toro ($6, $10), baby yellowtail from the Pacific bar,” manage to make it work. Ocean ($3, $5) and a changing roster of fresh Zen Asian Fusion takes the typical Asian catch. restaurant design to new heights. An attracAn order of sanchi ($7.95, white albacore tive lounge sports an illuminated bar surface tuna) was positioned against a nest of daikon with traditional niches filled with icons of “noodles” and served with a wild ginger sauce Buddha and the perfect spot to recess a flatwith hints of toasted sesame. It demonstrated screen television. Please see REVIEW, Page 28F The dining room is framed with booths
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restaurant review CUISINE: Pan-Asian; sushi bar CATEGORY: Neighborhood Favorite; Night Out PHONE: 766-6335; 766-6331 LOCATION: 2037 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., West Ashley FOOD: ★★★ ½ ATMOSPHERE: ★★★★ SERVICE: ★★★ PRICE: $-$$$ COSTS: Soups and salads $1.95-$7.95, appetizers $2.95-$7.95, sushi bar appetizers $7.65-$11.95, sushi and sashimi $1-$8, sushi entrees $9.95-$46.95, PanAsian entrees $6.95-$23.95, sushi rolls and hand rolls $3.95-$13.50, lunch specials $7.65, Sunday brunch $9.95, $14.95 with an appetizer. Desserts $3.25-$5.25. Chef’s specials $14.50-$26.50.
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VEGETARIAN OPTIONS: Yes BAR: Full service bar, sake menu, specialty cocktails. Sunday brunch: Bottomless Mimosas $9.95, Bloody Marys $3. HOURS: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m11 p.m., Friday-Saturday 11 a.m.-12 midnight; Sunday 12:30 p.m.-11 p.m.brunch served from 12:30-3:30 p.m. only; 3:30-11 p.m. dinner only served. DECIBEL LEVEL: Moderate. See “other.” PARKING: Lot on premises OTHER: Daily sushi and sashimi specials MP along with Chef’s Signature Rolls MP; Live music on Tuesdays; open mick night Sundays 6-9 p.m., ladies nightMondays; sushi night Thursdays. Private dining room. Take-out available. ONLINE: www.zenasianrestaurant.com, Facebook.
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Like a lacquered bento box, the menu is compartmentalthe umami feature of the ized into sushi and sashimi, fifth taste and felt meaty tempura, teriyaki, Southeast and substantive in your Asian items, noodles, fried mouth despite its pale color rice, sushi entrees and chef’s and thinness. On a lark, we specials ($14.50-$26.50.) ordered the peanut avocado We ordered from the latroll ($3.50) and discovered ter. Mandarin duck ($21.95) the sushi equivalent of pea- featured a breast of duck on nut butter and jelly: sweet, a banana leaf anchor topped salty, nutty and soft. Perfect with a raft of haricots verts for those new to sushi. and tender snow peas. The Spicy, crunchy, salmon roll leaf was supported by broc($5.25) earned high marks coli florets and the dish for living up to its name. It was painted with mounds was served with a cone of of tofu aioli with bulls-eyes wasabi, pickled gari (ginger) of sriracha chili sauce. The and a small plate for shoyu duck was tender, lush, and (soy sauce). fragrant with star anise. The Presentation is taken to an- vegetables, crisp. The sauce other level by Zen’s kitchen. was the best use of tofu I Rice paper sails tower over have tasted all year. the center of a plate of su“Spicy taste” ($18.95) was a shi and sashimi ($24.95 for large bowl filled with a stirtwo). Radishes are carved fry of shrimp, fresh bamboo into floral ornaments of shoots, shitake mushroom red and white. Ginger is caps, asparagus tips, snow pleated as if it is a dumpling peas, red peppers, hot dried and wraps around raw tuna peppers and garlic chips ($7.65). Shiso leaves act as along with a side of white place mats for sashimi and rice. ribbons of daikon grace Both of these entrees were plates of sushi. more than enough for one
person and as part of an Asian meal could easily feed three each. Fusion, which can lead to Below is a photo from the Greek festival in downtown Charleston by Norma Farrell. See menu mistrust, appears to more photos on www.charlestonscene.com and our facebook page. You can upload your work here. With gaufrettes garnishing the duck, balown, as well. samic drizzling a fajita, and tuna pizza in a sushi place, Lin and company have their cooking act together. Servers are attentive and there is much “management by walking around.” Our server was not as informed on ingredients and preparations, but should any pauses occur at your table, you can expect Mr. Lin to the rescue. Desserts ($3.25-$5.25) are: cheesecake, Bundt cake, tiramisu and fried ice cream. Closer to the culinary vest are mochi and “banana party.” With tasteful decor and fresh sushi du jour, the forced cleverness and spelling mistakes are erased in a Zen-like state of mindful satisfaction of plates welldone, right down to the oshibori (traditional towel for wiping hands) served with the sushi.
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High Cotton celebrates Spoleto with new menu items
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As the talented performers take their curtain calls, High Cotton is gearing up to offer its bar menu 4-11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays during Spoleto. They also plan to accommodate “show time” with dinner service beginning at 5 p.m. High Cotton is at 199 East Bay St., 724-3815, www. mavericksouthernkitchens. com.
Spot On
The Taco Spot has new Saturday hours. They are now open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. with a late breakfast being served 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Taco Spot is at 1301-B Ashley River Road, 225-7426, www. thetacospot.com.
Brunch bagged, for now
Blu Restaurant and Bar sent its brunch packing — until Aug. 15. Brunch ends for most of the summer at Blu, Folly Beach. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks are still on the menu at 1 Center St., 588-6658, www. blufollybeach.com
seven days, lunch six days and Sunday brunch. They also plan a bar, a must when your namesake restaurant is called Sazerac! The name Sazerac comes from a cocktail invented in New Orleans. Brock will lead the culinary team at Sazerac and will remain at McCrady’s.
Where’s the beef?
Ruth’s Chris Steak House plans to open in Charleston. Sean Brock, Best Chef Location sites are being Southeast (James Beard investigated. This popuFoundation) and the Neigh- lar steak house chain was borhood Dining Group plan started in New Orleans and to open Sazerac at 76 Queen is home to the butter-topped St. in November. On the steak cooked at 1,800 demenu: the ultimate of the grees. Nancy and Mark indigenous South. FarmOswald hold the local franfresh ingredients, classic chisee rights. Location and cocktails and Southern opening date have not been hospitality will combine at established. The Oswalds the Neighborhood Dining own Ruth’s Chris Steak Group’s newest restaurant, Houses in Columbia and which will serve dinner Greenville.
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Bella Napoli has opened at 7671 Northwoods Blvd, North Charleston. Owner Kathryn Shokes had owned La Fontana and Bella Napoli on Dorchester Road. Both of those locations have closed. Bella Napoli is open seven days serving lunch and dinner. 863-8552
Going to the Dogs Lowcountry beer and baseball fans will have the opportunity to taste some of the finest craft beers at America’s Favorite CraftTime; a craft beer tasting that is presented by Henry J. Lee Distributors. The event takes place on Saturdayat Riley Park from 3-6 p.m. to conclude American Craft Please see CHEW, Page 30F
We will have only memories left because we are booked in May and can offer only a few week days in June. Please call now! We can take your name for our waiting list for any evening until June 12th. Many thanks to my guests for their overwhelming response. Best Wishes, Robert (843) 577-7565 • www.robertsofcharleston.com 182 East Bay Street Charleston parking at rear of restaurant R29-314049
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Beer Week. CraftTime is a 21-and-over event. Tickets are $25 and include entry to the tasting, sampling tickets and a seat for the 7:05 p.m. RiverDogs game against the Savannah Sand Gnats. Tickets can be purchased at the Riley Park Box Office or at www.riverdogs.com. 577-DOGS (3647)
Mount Pleasant Harvest The Great Harvest Bread Co. has opened at Belle Hall Shopping Center, 644 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant. Along with breads, Great Harvest serves sandwiches 11 a.m.-2 p.m. They are open 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday; Saturday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Sunday. 881-7310, www.lowcountrybread.com.
Bay Street. With two locations in Danbury, Conn., and North Myrtle Beach, this casual eatery will occupy the former Meritage space at 235 East Bay St.
Market-to-table menu The Francis Marion Hotel takes local to a whole new level. Chef Ryan Kacenjar returns to creating a marketto-table menu on Saturdays only from 5-8:30 p.m. The cost is $29 for four courses. Reservations are requested. The Swamp Fox Restaurant is at 387 King St. 724-8888, www.francismarionhotel. com/dining.htm.
Party like it’s 1995
The Wine Shop and owner Debbie Marlowe are celebrating 15 years in the FILE/STAFF wine and spirit business and keeping Charleston Ted’s Butcherblock is hosting Friday Wine Tastings in May. Call 577-0094. “in the spirits.” Celebrate Taste of Brooklyn at Party on the Porch on brew Park Drive, Daniel Island, Brooklyn craft brews. The Friday Wine Tastings, where an entree, sides and dessert May 29 from noon-6 p.m. also continues. To reserve evening starts with a 7 p.m. 881.4711. On the menu: savory treats guests are invited to taste Laura Albert’s Tasteful reception featuring bottomfour featured wines and en- call 577-0094 or click www. and special discounts. Live Options will host a Brookless Summer Ale and 7:30 lyn Brewery beer dinner Wind down with joy gourmet hors d’oeuvres tedsbutcherblock.com. Ted’s music will be provided by is at 334 East Bay St. p.m. dinner. The cost is $45 wine Lime and the Coconuts. The for $5. Proceeds benefit with brewery co-founder per person plus tax and graWine Shop is at 3 Lockwood Ted’s charity partner this Steve Hindy today. A fourtuity, Reservations are recourse dinner will be preEvery Friday from 5-7 p.m. quarter, Charleston CarNew East Bay pub Drive, 577-3881. rotmob. Ted’s popular $12 pared by executive chef Matt quired. Call 881-4711. Laura throughout this month, Molly Darcy, an Irish pub Albert’s is at 891 Island Dinner on Fridays, featuring and bar, is coming to East Brigham and paired with Ted’s Butcherblock hosts
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if you go WHAT: Smokey’s Place WHERE: 1213 Remount Road, North Charleston PHONE: 566-1191 HOURS: noon-2 a.m. Sun., 11 a.m.2 a.m. Mon.-Sat.
Smokey’s Place serves simple, delicious meals enclave off Remount Road. It’s a good haunt to watch a game or two, or to catch acts like Shane Clarke, Down South or ’70s retro ow, Smokey’s band Starling. Place isn’t the sort of joint you’d And if you wanna mix in a Polish sausage sandwich take a first date, with grilled onions ($4.50), not with the open spacall the better. This little ing and stage area. Cozy, beauty comes chopped and it ain’t. But it is the sort of place you could take a few of messy on a sesame bun, your boys, maybe get rowdy rather than being served whole on a hot dog roll. It’s (within reason) and enjoy some wings, a Moon Burger tender and tasty, and it’ll dang near fall apart beor just a straight-up ham fore you can lift it to your and cheese sandwich. mouth. Which is a definite Run by Smokey Blase, plus in this here book. the bar and grill makes its As for the hot wings home near the Food Lion ($4.95), they’ve served up and Dollar Tree shopping center in sort of a dusty, old wet without succumbing to
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sogginess. It’s a fine, zesty sauce. Overall, nice work, Smokey. The Moon Burger ($4.50) is a plump, half-pound offering with melted Swiss cheese and mushrooms, and accompanied by either regular or seasoned fries. Also available: a barbecue sandwich ($4.50), chicken finger club ($4.50) and bar staples like mozzarella sticks and onion rings. In another week or so, Smokey’s plans on expanding its menu to include salads, soups and wraps. But you might want to stick with that Polish sausage sandwich. You’ve gotta go with what got you there.
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Brett McKee
one of the busiest chefs in Charleston’s culinary scene out new menu items. I cooked on the line for 34 years and now, as my career evolves, I have trained people to be able to do what I want them to do. People exnative of New York, chef Brett pect to see me when they come into Oak, McKee has been a fixture in so I can’t be on the line and not speak to Charleston’s culinary commuthe customers. nity since he arrived here in 1989. Q: Because you are traveling so much In 2005, he opened Oak Steakhouse on Broad Street. Since then, he has part- and working on so many different projnered with Steve Palmer and formed The ects, it seems that hiring the right peoIndigo Road, which has gone on to open ple is imperative. How do you choose members of your staff? both 17 North and O-Ku restaurants. A: Who you surround yourself with Q: The company has been through a is so important. My hiring style has lot of changes and growth in the last year, opening 17 North and then O-Ku. nothing to do with a resume or where someone has been, I just have a converHow are you managing to keep up? A: I’m smart enough to have improved sation with them, decide if I like them, myself as a person. I don’t get as excited and then give them a chance. If they pass that, I’ll see what they can do in the anymore. Also, I have people like Mikitchen. With “front of house,” it is just a chael Beford at Oak and my partner in feeling that I get. I’m looking for a hospiThe Indigo Road, Steve Palmer, who tality personality. take my anxieties away. Q: How much of your food is local? I think personally I’m able to manage A: As much as possible. I constantly everything that I’m doing through yoga, take conceptual ideas and change them Pilates and acupuncture. I also need to to fit our local product. We have gardens always remind myself that family is my at O-Ku and 17 North, so if I can grow No. 1 priority. Q: What is next for The Indigo Road? it, I do. Q: What do you think of the changes A: We are opening up our location in in the culinary community in CharlesShelter Island, N.Y., on Memorial Day ton over the last 20 years? and we are very close to signing a deal A: When I first came to Charleston, in Atlanta. Charlotte is already signed; a high-end restaurant had fried and we’re trying to open there on 15 North. broiled seafood platters. There were a These places will follow our roadside kitchen concept, but the demographic of couple of good places, but nothing like what we have not. The culinary diversity the city will dictate the menu. in this city is one of the most amazing in Q: With all of the projects that you the country. juggle, do you ever spend time in the Q: Where do you go for “guilty pleakitchen anymore? A: I spend the most time in the kitchen sure” food? A: JB’s Smokehouse is great. I also like when we are opening and creating respizza and Carvel Ice Cream. taurants. I get in and do demos and try BY ANGEL POWELL
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if you go
◗ Oak Steakhouse, 17 Broad St.,
downtown. 722-4220.
◗ 17 North, 3563 Highway 17,
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◗ O-Ku, 463 King St., downtown. PROVIDED
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Market Street Saloon expands to North Charleston if you go WHAT: Market Street Saloon WHERE: 7690 Northwoods Blvd., North Charleston PHONE: 576-4116 WEBSITE: www.marketstreetsaloon.com
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Market Street Saloon bartender Jasmine Scheffel. BY DENISE K. JAMES
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I have to admit, country music and saloons aren’t my thing. But every now and then, a savvy woman needs to open her mind and venture into new places.
the atmosphere cranked up. Q: How long has this location been open? A: Since Halloween weekend. Q: What’s a perk of working here? A: Dancing on the bar, of course! We have a bar and cock-
“We have a bar and cocktail staff of all women, and we all dance. But you don’t have to work here to dance. Any woman can do it.” The Market Street Saloon’s location in North Chuck was better than I anticipated, with tasty food on its menu and a friendly bartender from Maryland named Jasmine Scheffel. She proved to me that a saloon can be fun, and she isn’t afraid to get
tail staff of all women, and we all dance. But you don’t have to work here to dance. Any woman can do it. Q: What’s your bar background? A: This is my first bartending job ever! I just switched over
from active-duty Air Force to the reserves. Q: Is it always country music playing? A: We play country during the day mostly, and then at night we start switching it up — you’ll hear rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop, even metal! Q: Do you get any female customers? Is this bar woman friendly? A: Definitely. We want the women to have fun and to come back! We’ve had the Charleston Southern women’s basketball team in here before, and that’s fun. Q: What’s the best item on your menu? A: I go through phases. Right now, I love our wings. They’re really good! Q: What shot do you love serving? A: The Saloon Kiss. It’s raspberry vodka, peach schnapps
and a splash each of sour mix and cranberry. Q: What beers do you serve a lot of? A: I’d say Guinness and Dogfish Ale and Fat Tire are popular beers. We also serve $1 Michelob Ultra, which people like. Q: What other specials do you offer? A: We have military Monday, where it’s half off for military people to eat. We have lunch specials for $7.95 during the week. We do happy hour every day, even weekends. Q: Have you ever had to deny someone a dance on the bar? A: Oh, yes. People fall off sometimes. Q: What’s the grossest drink you’ve served? A: Tequila and olive juice. Completely disgusting! Q: What celebrity would you like to serve? A: Elisha Cuthbert. She’s hot.
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Ahoy, matey! Get your rum at The Buccaneer BY JACK HUNTER
restaurant but also includes
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or as long as I can remember, 5 Faber St. downtown has been a bar of some sort. In the ’80s and ’90s, it was Myskyn’s Tavern, one of the premier live music venues in the Lowcountry. Later, it became ACME and was successful in that incarnation for some time. Then came City Bar, with the spot becoming more of a dance club, packing in crowds for a number of years. If you travel down that cobblestone road today, you’ll find The Buccaneer, a different kind of venue from the ghosts of Faber Street’s past, but a fun and promising venture just the same. Billing itself as “a restaurant dedicated to the authentic history of piracy along the Carolina coast,” The Buccaneer is primarily a
Faber St. On the night of my visit, the food and service were quality, and cocktails were enjoyed with creative names such as “Fall off the Boat Iced Tea” (vodka, rum, gin, tequila and a splash of cola) and “Dark & Stormy” (Goslings black seal Bermuda rum, ginger beer, fresh lime). In chronicling Carolina pirate history, The Buccaneer is also a museum that features a number of artifacts and interesting displays from what they call the “golden age of piracy, which apparently was at its swashbuckling best 1690-1730. Locally owned and operated, I found The Buccaneer to be a little less touristy than one might expect and the restaurant and bar service exceptionally good, giving 5 Faber St. yet another quality occupant.
if you go WHAT: The Buccaneer WHERE: 5 Faber St. PHONE: 805-5065 HOURS: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. HAPPY HOUR: 4-7 p.m. weekdays. WEBSITE: www.thebuccaneerrestaurant.com. JACK HUNTER
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Well-acted film about a fabricated hate crime takes time to build momentum BY BILL THOMPSON The Post and Courier
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ooking back at his long career as critic, screenwriter and director, Andre Techine assayed his first films at the helm as “too theoretical, too inspired by cinema,” rather than by real life. Perhaps his latest, “The Girl on the Train,” might have benefited from more cinematic inspiration, for as well-acted and stylistically fluid as it is, the picture is so low-key and wan in tone that what drama it manages to muster feels muted and matter-of-fact, almost mechanical in its realism. Based on the play “RER” by Jean-Marie Besset, who co-wrote the screenplay with Techine, “The Girl on the Train” was inspired by the media feeding frenzy that attended one of the more divisive events in recent French history, when a troubled young woman claimed to be the victim of an anti-Semitic attack on a suburban train in Paris. Occurring at a time when anti-Semitism was on the rise in France, the news exerted enormous impact. But the whole story was a fabrication. Emilie Dequenne stars as Jeanne, a twenty-something waif searching for a
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Emilie Dequenne and Catherine Deneuve in “The Girl on the Train.”
Franck lashes out at Jeanne, cruelly (and absurdly) berating her as the cause of his troubles. Within days, Jeanne concocts a lie about being assaulted on a train by youths with knives. The news spreads like wildfire, reaching a crescendo with an expression of outrage by the French president. The trouble is, no one witnessed the act, no railway personattorney and committed job and some semblance of nel knew of anything out of Jewish activist, not only identity. Jeanne lives with the ordinary, and nothing her widowed mother, Louise finds himself drawn to Lou- has shown up on security (Catherine Deneuve), a part- ise all over again but is asked cameras. time a baby-sitter who con- to defend Jeanne’s new Jeanne and Louise retreat nects with an old paramour, boyfriend, Franck (Nicolas to Bleistein’s country estate, Duvauchelle), an aspiring Samuel Bleistein, in hopes where the latter’s grandson’s wrestler who is headed for of securing her daughter a sees through her story imprison after a drug deal gone mediately. Soon, everyone position with his firm. wrong. Matters grow compliin the inner circle knows it’s cated when Bleistein (Michel Recovering from a knife all a lie. But why did she do wound in the hospital, Blanc), now a well-known it? Because her aimlessness ★★★ (of 5) DIRECTOR: Andre Techine STARRING: Emilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Mathieu Demy, Ronit Elkabetz RATED: Not rated RUN TIME: 1 hr. 45 min. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
and Franck’s venomous rant made her feel worthless? Anger turned inward? We never really know. And that’s the thing about this interesting but inconclusive tease of a film. “The Girl on the Train” seems like the work of a much younger director than the 66-yearold veteran, an advantage in that he can get into his lead character’s mindset, but also a disadvantage in the film’s tendency to meander. Though the motion of trains are a motif of the movie long before Jeanne actually boards one, “Girl” takes its time building momentum, which has its virtues. The film marks Deneuve’s fourth outing with Techine, the first director to usher her into the kind of unglam-
orous, matronly role she navigates here. And Techine again indulges his penchant for encouraging actors to improvise, with mixed results. Despite limiting herself to a single facial expression, Dequenne effectively limns her character with telling details. But the supporting players are at least as effective as the leads, and perhaps more so, especially Blanc and Mathieu Demy as father and disgruntled adult son. The technical credits are polished, especially the photography of Julien Hirsch. One only wishes it was all a bit meatier. Reach Bill Thompson at bthompson@postandcourier.com or 937-5707
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The outer-borough oddities of `City Island’ hard to resist BY JAKE COYLE
The Associated Press
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et in the Bronx during an eventful spring break and populated by sexual, dark-haired people, “City Island” could, on the surface, be confused for a “Jersey Shore” sequel. But the Bronx of “City Island” is a world apart. The film’s namesake is the tiny fishing village on the outskirts of the New York borough. Inhabitants are either new islanders or longtime natives, a distinction that Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) proudly announces in the movie’s opening narration. It may be a very specific locale, but “City Island” is a broad comedy. It’s a domestic farce where everyone in the Rizzo household harbors secrets, hiding their smoking, and many other habits, from each other. Vince is a prison security guard (a “correctional facilities officer,” he insists), married to a secretary, Joyce (Julianna Margulies). Both are showing some wear from 20 years of marriage and creeping middle-age regrets. Their daughter, Vivian (Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Garcia’s real-life daughter, too), is home from college on spring break, but has, unbeknown to her parents, lost her scholarship and taken up stripping to make money. Their son Vinnie Jr. (Ezra Miller) is a high school teenager in the midst of discovering his sexuality. He’s drawn to larger women and has a fetish for feeding them. Vince has two dark secrets. One, he fathered a child before he was married that he
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Queen Latifah and Common in “Just Wright.”
Queen Latifah’s new movie is just wrong BY COLIN COVERT
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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like Queen Latifah. I like her smile, her charm, her big singing voice, her life force, the survivor instinct that has kept her a viable star while Whitney Houston and Halle Berry have flamed Raymond De Felitta (“Two out. I do not like her taste in Family House,” “The Thing movie roles. About My Folks”) has made She hasn’t starred in a ★★★ (of 5) the messy, comic interiors good movie since “Set It DIRECTOR: Raymond De Felitta of family life a continual Off” in 1996. The hard-luck STARRING: Andy Garcia, Paul Diomede, Julianna theme. In “City Island,” he streak extends through Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Alan Arkin succeeds most in gathering a her latest, the generic “Just RATED: PG-13 for sexual content, smoking and lanvery entertaining ensemble Wright.” Even the title anguage and eliciting funny melonounces, “We’re not really RUN TIME: 1 hour and 40 minutes drama, in particularly from making an effort here.” WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at Garcia (who also produced) She plays a good-natured www.charlestonscene.com and offer your and Margulies. New Jersey girl, physical opinion of the film. Garcia, who long ago therapist by day and avid emerged as another charac- fan of the Nets by night. never helped raise. Making asks his students for “a mor- ter named Vincent in “The Fate and feeble screenwritGodfather, Part III,” shows his rounds at the prison, he atorium on pauses”). ing place her in a romantic an almost Alec Baldwin-like triangle with the basketball spots his son, Tony (Steven Emily Mortimer is his Strait), who has grown into more learned acting partner ability to use his dramatic team’s star player (hip-hop panache for comic effect. a felon and a hunk, and pa- (she calls him “Vincent,” star Common) and her own roles him to his home. quotes Ogden Nash and tells Vince is charmingly cluepretty, blithely materialistic less, particularly in his quix- cousin (Paula Patton). Vince’s more shameful Vince to call her, but “only otic audition for a bit part secret is that lowliest sin of on a whim”). The relationship between in a Martin Scorsese film. all: He wants to be an acThe many closeted skelethe singers is, sad to say, tor. He discreetly soaks in tons all eventually come out Margulies’ seething wife is seriously off-key. Latifah Stanislavski’s “An Actor in an operatic rush. The fall- equally fine. coaches Common through Prepares” and sneaks out for out is nearly disastrous (“Oh The set up all begs a a career-threatening knee acting classes while telling dear, Greek in scope,” mur- little too obviously for ininjury, but his real problem his wife he’s going to play murs Mortimer’s character), die quirk. It even has the is lack of spine, or perhaps poker. which is enough to make the reliably superior Arkin in a misplaced crown jewels. He supporting role as if proof Alan Arkin plays his exas- movie’s tidy ending almost shuttles between the cousof “Little Miss Sunshine” perated drama teacher (tired sarcastic. ins, as passive as a badminambitions. of Brando impressions, he New York writer-director ton birdie.
movie review
‘Just Wright’
★ (of 5) DIRECTOR: Sanaa Hamri. STARRING: Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton. RATED: PG for some suggestive material and brief language. RUN TIME: 1 hr. 51 min. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www. charlestonscene. com and offer your opinion of the film
He is given to declaring his love on bended knee amid large crowds. He also wears several tears painted onto his cheeks by the makeup department. This, I submit, is hooey. One does not make it big in the NBA by being a softhearted mooncalf. For a brief moment (“Chicago,” 2002) it seemed that Latifah might be getting her movie career on track. Then came the numbskull Steve Martin comedy “Bringing Down the House,” “Scary Movie 3,” “Mad Money” and now this. Forget twisted knees. Choices like those are career-threatening injuries.
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‘Robin Hood’ visually rich but too serious Alan Doyle (from left), Kevin Durand, Russell Crowe and Scott Grimes are shown in a scene from “Robin Hood.”
Max von Sydow.) This Robin Hood is not a AP Movie Critic man in tights. He’s not even robbing from the rich and arth Vader. Batman. Capt. James giving to the poor just yet, T. Kirk. Now an- but rather an expert archer in the crusading army of other legendary King Richard the Lionheart figure gets the origin-story (Danny Huston) at the turn treatment in Ridley Scott’s of the 13th century. Work“Robin Hood.” The world probably didn’t ing with “Gladiator” direcneed another version of this tor Scott for the fifth time, Crowe is hulking and overly famous tale, even though serious, and the same can it arrives with outstanding be said of “Robin Hood” production values and an itself. With its sweeping impeccable pedigree. Besides Scott, the script comes scope and tangible grittiness, it does look great: an from Oscar-winning “L.A. old-fashioned epic jazzed up Confidential” writer Brian with new technology. SevHelgeland, and the heavyeral moments stand out for weight cast is anchored by their imagery, including vast Russell Crowe as the title character and Cate Blanch- aerial shots and the sight of hundreds of arrows zipping ett as Marian. (Solid supthrough the air and landing porting work comes from Mark Strong, William Hurt, in a thunderous shower. But then the brawny battle Eileen Atkins, Matthew Macfadyen and the excellent scenes, which set this in-
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carnation apart from its lilting and swashbuckling predecessors, are shot so and edited in such a chaotic, choppy way, it’s nearly impossible to tell what’s happening. They’re all frenzied, kinetic energy. And the climactic showdown is chock-full of cliches, including Robin yelling “Noooo!” in slow motion; meanwhile, other members of his posse magically hit their targets at just the right opportune moment. Long before that — and we do mean long before that — the convoluted plot finds Crowe’s Robin Longstride serving in the king’s army against the French. Once the king dies, Robin returns to England and assumes the identity of one his noblemen (also dead) in order to bring back the crown, which then goes to his cocky, tax-happy
brother, John (Oscar Isaac). The new king’s right-hand man, Godfrey (Strong, always a convincing villain), encourages him but is also in cahoots with the French. “Robin Hood” is not a documentary. But Robin also visits the dead man’s home in Nottingham to return his sword to his blind and aging father, Sir Walter Loxley, played by von Sydow with exquisite humor and dignity. There he meets Lady Marian, who was married to Loxley’s son for all of a cup of coffee before he went off to battle. This is no delicate damsel but rather a thick-skinned pragmatist who knows her way around a sword; to borrow Tyra Banks’ favorite word, Blanchett is fierce. Robin also assumes the identity of Marian’s husband to keep up appearances and
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DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott. STARRING: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong. RATED: PG-13 for violence including intense sequences of warfare, and some sexual content. RUN TIME: 2 hours, 21 minutes. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
allow the family to retain its 5,000 acres, and so it’s no surprise when they end up falling for each other for real. Crowe and Blanchett’s scenes are compelling primarily because they allow us to watch two bona fide movies stars — ones who can really act — sharing the screen as well as some snappy banter. But when the movie feels the need to spell out their emotional connec-
tion, it turns mundane. Eventually, Robin assembles a band of men, some of whom are kind of merry, to take on the French invasion Godfrey has helped orchestrate. As they storm the beaches of England, it’s all very “Saving Private Ryan.” But bringing to mind the superior epics “Robin Hood” resembles doesn’t exactly help its cause.
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‘Forever After’ goes down like warmed-over porridge BY ROGER MOORE The Orlando Sentinel
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reamworks seems bored with the ogre who laid the golden egg. “Shrek Forever After,” the fourth film in the lucrative franchise, barely tampers with the Shrek formula (one-liners, flatulence jokes, pop tunes) and not enough to breathe life into the exhausted series. Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is feeling buried under the celebrity, the diapers and the playdates with Donkey’s dragon-donkey toddlers. “I used to be an ogre. Now I’m a jolly green joke,” he complains to Fiona (Cameron Diaz). The fellow who can fix C. To become BY LAURA SAMUEL that is Ruma man instead of MEYN pelstiltskin, a an ogre. McClatchy Newspapers lawyerly wizard D. To get paid a reward. tempt to explain that there creating a healthy marriage. with a contract and a longe belches, he yells held grudge against the B. To receive her parents’ are more layers to ogres and, according to his ogre. He trades Shrek the blessing on their marriage. than people think? 2. Which two beverfriends, he smells, chance to live one day, “like C. To compete in “The A. An onion. but Shrek is still one lovable ages does Shrek consume it used to be,” in exchange Amazing Race.” B. A croissant. ogre, overcoming countless onscreen in the original D. To help protect Far Far for one day earlier in his C. A notebook. obstacles to get the girl and, “Shrek” movie? Away from Lord Farquaad. life. Rumpelstiltskin (Walt D. A filing cabinet. with trademark grumpiness, A. A martini and a beer. Dohrn) makes sure that B. Kool-Aid and Sprite. staying true to himself and earlier day was the date of 9. What faux pas does 6. What happens to PrinC. Hot chocolate and a his eccentric friends. Shrek make at dinner with Shrek’s birth. cess Fiona after the sun In anticipation of Friday’s juice box. Even though he was never the king and queen? goes down? D. Green tea and water. release of “Shrek Forever born, Shrek is still around A. He mistakes the finger A. She falls asleep. After,” the tale’s fourth and for his “one day”: feared, bowl for soup. B. She turns into an ogre. 3. What does Donkey sugfinal installment, now’s the B. He eats escargots whole no longer a celebrity, no C. She goes on Facebook. time to brush up on the sto- gest for freshening Shrek’s longer friends with Donkey — shell and all. D. She calls her old boyry line. Test your knowledge breath? C. He swallows his spoon. (Eddie Murphy) or Puss in friends. A. Peppermint leaves. from “Shrek” (2001), “Shrek Boots (Antonio Banderas), D. All of the above. B. Tic Tacs. 2” (2004) and “Shrek the and no longer married to 7. What is the only thing Third” (2007) to see if you’re C. Dog biscuits. 10. Princess Fiona’s Fairy Fiona, who grew up to be that can break the spell cast D. Mouthwash. primed to get all the runGodmother leaves her with the angry leader of the ogre on Princess Fiona? ning jokes and follow the underground resistance to A. A prince who likes ogre a business card that says: 4. How is the Gingerbread countless characters when A. It’s not easy being green. Rumpelstiltskin’s rule. ladies. the fourth movie hits the big Man tortured? B. Fairies have more fun. Witches ravage the land of B. Self-actualization. A. He’s dunked in milk. screen on Friday. C. Happiness is just a tear- Far Far Away and terrorize C. True love’s first kiss. B. His legs are broken off. Quiz drop away. even the ogres. Shrek has D. Acupuncture. C. He’s threatened with D. Call for wand, relation- to somehow get that “True 1. In the first movie, why the removal of his gumdrop ship or ball-gown repair. Love’s Kiss” from Fiona 8. In “Shrek 2,” why are buttons. does Shrek agree to rescue again, and quickly, to set Shrek and Princess Fiona D. All of the above. Princess Fiona from her Answers this world right. summoned to Far Far dragon-guarded tower? The animation has imAway? 1.b; 2.a; 3.b; 4.d; 5.a; 6. b; 5. To what does Shrek A. To marry her. proved from film to film, A. To give a seminar on 7.c; 8.b; 9.d; 10.c B. To get his swamp back. compare himself in an at-
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‘Shrek’
movie review ★★ (of 5)
DIRECTOR: Mike Mitchell CAST: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Walt Dohrn. RATED: PG for mild action, some rude humor and brief language. RUN TIME: 1 hr., 31 min. WHAT DID YOU THINK?: Find this review at www.charlestonscene.com and offer your opinion of the film.
and “Forever After” has textures and depth of field (thanks to the 3-D) that make the original “Shrek” seem primitive. They play around with the 3-D a bit: a little dragon flying, a few characters hurled at the camera. Lots of characters sing in this one. Banderas (the funniest thing about the movie) does a little Bob Marley, Murphy’s Donkey covers Madonna. Rumpelstiltskin hires a certain flute-playing hit man from Hamelin to pipe the ogres to their doom. But Dreamworks let artist, screenwriter and sometime director Walt Dohrn do the generic Rumpelstiltskin voice, handing over the third most-important character in a billion dollar franchise to a voice with no menace or personality. The laughs are few and far between. Puss has lost his boots, but gained a LOT of weight, and witches in a fairy tale trailer park launch into “Dueling Banjos.” The “It’s a Wonderful Life” plot gives the whole arc of the Shrek-Fiona story a heartfelt twist. But you don’t have to be Goldilocks to think that this time they’ve cooked their Golden Goose.
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BABIES
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
★★★
★★½
PG
R
This visually stunning film follows four babies around the worldfrom their first breaths to their first steps.
Four men on vacation travel back to the ’80s via a hot tub.
Cinebarre: Today: 10:10, 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:20 Town’s Square: Today: 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:25
Terrace: Today: 1:35, 4:05, 7, 9:05 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 2:45
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
THE BACK-UP PLAN
★★
★★½
After years of dating, Jennifer Lopez’s Zoe decides she’s sick of waiting for Mr. Right and decides to become a single mother. But the same day of Zoe’s appointment, faith steps in and she meet Stan, the man she’s been looking for all along\
A young Viking becomes the owner of a dragon.
PG-13
PG-13
Cinebarre: Today: 11, 1:50, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 11, 1:50, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Citadel 16: Today: 12:10, 4:35, 7, 9:20 Fri-Thurs. May 27: 12:10, 4:35, 7, 9:20 Palmetto Grande: Today: 2:05, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:55, 7:35, 10:05 Town’s Square: Today: 1:50, 2:20, 4:50, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 10 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:50, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30
CLASH OF THE TITANS
Town’s Square: Today: 3:05, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3-D
★★½ PG-13
Citadel 16 IMAX 3-D: Today: 11:45, 2, 4:20, 7, 9:25 James Island 8: Tonight: 7:15 Palmetto Grande: Today: 11:15, 1:40 Town’s Square: Today: 2:35, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05
DEATH AT A FUNERAL
★★ R
IRON MAN 2
★★★★
Family secrets are exposed during a funeral in this comedy.
★★½
PG-13
Perseus, mortal son of Zeus, sets out to defeat the underworld.
Town’s Square: Today: 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:40, 7:25, 10:10
CLASH OF THE TITANS 3-D
★★½
Cinebarre: Today: 10:20, 1:10, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 Fri-Thurs. May, 27; 10:25, 1:10, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 Citadel 16: Today: 12:20, 2:20, 4:20, 7:30, 9:40 James Island 8: Tonight: 9:35 Palmetto Grande: Today: 12:10, 2:25, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 2:25, 5:20, 7:55 Town’s Square: Today: 2:45, 4:15, 5:05, 6:35, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:15, 5:05, 6:35, 7:30, 9:50
PG-13
After confessing his identity, Tony Stark’s Iron Man comes under fire as the government demands that he hand over the Iron Man suit. Cinebarre: Today: 10:25, 1:25, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 12, 3:05, 6:30, 9:30 Citadel 16: Today: 11:30, 12:10, 1:30, 2:05, 2:40, 4, 4:35, 5:15, 7, 7:25, 8, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Thurs, May 27: 1:30, 12:10, 1:30, 2:05, 2:40, 4, 4:35, 5:15, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:15 Highway 21: Today; 8:30, Fri-Wed. May 26: 10:15 Hippodrome: Today: 7:10, 9:45, Fri: 7:15, 9:45, Sat-Sun: 2, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45, Mon-Thurs, May 27: 7:30 Palmetto Grande: Today: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Town’s Square: Today: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:30, 7:30, 10:30
FURRY VENGEANCE
PG-13
★★
Citadel 16 3-D: Today: 11:45, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 James Island 8: Today: 4:20, 9:35 Palmetto Grande: Today-: 4:15, 7:20, 9:50
PG
In the Oregon wilderness, a real estate developer’s (Brendan Fraser) new housing subdivision faces protest from local woodland creatures who don’t want their homes disturbed.
DATE NIGHT
★★
PG-13
A bored married couple find adventure during a night out.
Cinebarre: Today: 10:30, 1:40, 4:20, 7:45, 10 Fri.-Thurs. May, 27: 10:30, 1:40, 4:20, 7:45, 9:55 James Island 8: Today: 4:10, 7:20, 9:30 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 1:55, 4:10, 7:20, 9:30 Citadel 16: Today: 1:50, 3:50, 9:35 Palmetto Grande: Today: 11:05, 1:25, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:05, 7:10, 9:35 Town’s Square: Today: 2:05, 4:30, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:30, 6:45, 9:25
Cinebarre: Today: 10:40, 1:35, 4, 6:55, 9:35 Citadel 16: Today: 12:20, 2:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9 James Island 8: Today: 4:15, 7:15 Palmetto Grande: Today: 1:20, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45 Town’s Square: Today: 1:40, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35
IRON MAN 2 THE IMAX EXPERIENCE
★★★★ PG-13
Citadel 16 IMAX 3-D: Today: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Palmetto Grande: Today: 2, 2:30, 3:30, 4, 5, 5:30, 6:30, 7, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10, 11
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
★★★★½
PG-13
THE JONESES
An adaptation of the book, this Swedish thriller focuses on a journalist and a young hacker.
★★ R
Terrace: Today: 2, 5, 7:45 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 5, 7:45
A picture-perfect family moves into an upscale community, integrating themselves into every aspect of the community. Town’s Square: Today: 4:20, 7:20, 9:45
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JUST WRIGHT
THE RUNAWAYS
PG
R
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★★½
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this Joan Jett biopic.
A physical therapist, played by Queen Latifah, falls for the basketball player (Common) she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.
Citadel 16: Today: 12, 2:15, 4:35, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed. May, 26: 7:30, 9:50
*SEX AND THE CITY 2 N/A R
Citadel 16: Today: 11:55, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 11:55, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:45
KICK-A**
★★★
R
A high school student decides to become a real-life superhero.
Cinebarre: Today: 10:55, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 10:55, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Palmetto Grande: Today: 2:20, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 Town’s Square: Today0: 2:15, 5:10, 8:05, 10:40
*KITES N/A NR
*MACGRUBER N/A R
Hippodrome: Wed: 12:01 “Cosmo Party” Thurs, May 27: 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45
Based on the SNL sketch, ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth.
SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE
Cinebarre: Today: 12 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 10:10, 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:20 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs. May 27: 12:05, 2:05, 4:05, 6:05, 8:05, 10:05
★★
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
An average-looking Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and his friends’ influence begin to pick away at the relationship.
R
★★
In this Bollywood film, a wounded man survives the Mexican desert in hopes he will find the love of his life.
Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs, May 27: 12:30, 3:15, 6:45, 9:50
THE LAST SONG
★★★
PG
A rebellious girl finds love after she is sent to live with her father.
Citadel 16: Today: 11:35, 7:10
LETTERS TO JULIET
R
Highway 21: Today: 10:40
In this remake of Wes Craven’s 1984 slasher film, Jackie Earle Haley plays iconic monster Freddy Krueger.
*SHREK FOREVER AFTER
Cinebarre: Today: 10:15, 1, 4, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 10:15, 1, 4, 6:50, 9:40 Citadel 16: Today: 11:40, 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:40 Fri-Thurs. May 27: 11:40, 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:40 Palmetto Grande: Today: 2:15, 4:40, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:40, 7:45, 10:40 Town’s Square: Today: 2, 2:20, 4:25, 5, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Thurs. May, 27: 4:25, 5, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45
★★ PG
In the final installment of the Shrek film series, Shrek signs a pact with the smooth-talking, Rumpelstiltskin to enjoy one day as a real ogre again, but instead Shrek finds himself in an alternate version of Far Far Away, where Rumpelstiltskin is now king.
Cinebarre: Thurs: 12 Fri-Thurs. May 27: 11, 1:50, 4:55, 7:30, 10:15 Citadel 16: Fri-Thurs. May 27:12:30, 2:35, 4:50, 8:30 Citadel 16 IMAX 3-D: Fri-Thurs, May 27:11:30, 12, 1:35, 2:05, 3:40, 4:10, 5:45, 6:45, 8, 9, 10:05 Highway 21: Fri-Wed. May 26: 8:40
REPO MEN
★★
★½
PG
A long-lost letter to Juliet of of “Romeo and Juliet” is uncovered by an American woman (Amanda Seyfried) who answers it, setting off a romantic search through Italy for a missing lover.
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*SHREK FOREVER AFTER REAL 3-D PG
In this 1984 remake, Jude Law repossess artificial organs from customers who can’t keep up with payments on replacement organs. Highway 21: Today: 11, Fri-Thurs. May 27: 11:10
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ROBIN HOOD
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WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO?
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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.
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Based on the Robin Hood legend, this version tells of the archer who battles Norman invaders to become the legendary hero.
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Pierce Brosnan narrates this Disney documentary.
Citadel 16: Today: 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Fri-Thurs. May 27: 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30
THEATERS
The women of HBO’s Sex and the City replish their roles for the sequel. Look for the famous guest stars, including singing legends Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler.
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Famed D.C. contemporary artist finds beauty in the Lowcountry
ELIZABETH BOWERS
“I like painting murals. They’re cool because people will walk by every day to see the progress. They feel like a part of it,” says Cory Oberndorfer, whose work decorates Redux in downtown Charleston.
Roll with the Highrollers
If you want to feel like a derby girl for a day, here’s your chance! The public is encouraged to lace up and join girls while they skate up King Street and back around to St. Philip. Choose a name. Sorry, but Miss Carriage, one of Cory Oberndorfer’s favorites, is already taken.
“Bubblegum Burst & Mint Creme”
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ory Oberndorfer knows he should learn how to roller skate. “I own a pair of skates. I actually brought them with me to Charleston with the intention of learning while I’m here. I’ve tried them on once, so I know they fit!” Oberndorfer is the artist-in-residence at Redux, and when his installation is unveiled May 26, the importance of roller skates will be clear: There will be images of roller-derby girls in a mural outside and inside, hanging and drawn on the walls. And the Lowcountry Highrollers will be skating around the Redux block before the show’s opening reception. A popular contemporary artist out of D.C., Oberndorfer uses derby girls as his subject matter. “Before I went to grad school, all I painted was portraiture, but I wanted to do something new. I went to a derby bout with a friend, saw a girl get slammed into a wall and knocked down. I thought she was dead, but she started laughing. I was impressed and knew I had to do something with it.” Oberndorfer started painting the girls with tough reputations. With the short, sparkly skirts and mouth-guards. With a little candy on the side. He loves candy. Skittles and Gobstoppers. “I still didn’t know what I was doing and was looking at all my work one day when it clicked. The three aspects together: derby girls, candy and advertisement. They just worked. “The point of my art is that
it’s really accessible. Both the art snob and the person that just likes pretty things will appreciate my work. I deal with formal color and gender issues. Contemporary feminism. But it’s also just fun too.” Oberndorfer is excited to be working with the Lowcountry Highrollers. “I’ve never actually been hands-on with a team. I usually just go to a bout and photograph them. I get the best pictures from tournaments. There’s such a wide range of girls. I’m excited to get to know them.” He’s found a routine in Charleston. He walks to the Artist & Craftsman Supply on Calhoun for spray paint, swings by Kudu for an iced mocha, then heads back to the Redux and finds a derby girl (Back Stabbath) wanting to volunteer. He’s also a huge fan of Sugar bakeshop. “Their iced coffee has iced coffee ice cubes. Why doesn’t everyone do that?” To show his appreciation for the iced coffee ice cubes (and derby girls), Oberndorfer set up a photo shoot with Sugar and the Lowcountry Highrollers. “Another point of my work is to bring people together. This is the first time I’ve come to a city not just wanting to put my work in a strange town, but really get to know and help it. When else would a bakery and roller-derby girls team up?” Oberdorfer now has less than a week to learn to skate for the parade. Six days. He says, “I’m not even worried about falling. Just scared I’ll be winded after one lap. That’d be embarrassing.”
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Special to The Post and Courier
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Melissa Gravano
Teacher’s powerful portrait on display for Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition BY VIKKI MATSIS
Special to The Post and Courier
The graphite portraits that Melissa Gravano creates take months to complete as she works from photographs and live sittings. An afterschool art teacher at Colleton Middle School, Gravano says the children she interacts with on a daily basis have become her inspiration. “Through my interactions with these young people, I am intrigued by facets of their personalities as they struggle to find themselves with all of the energy, anger, uncertainty, sensitivity and hope that is a part of youth,” she says. “I also want others and the students themselves to see their beauty and their strength.” Gravano’s graphite portrait “Ashila” will be in this year’s Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition at the Charleston Visitor Center. Ashila is one of her students at Colleton Middle. The day that Gravano took her photograph, she says, “I saw joy on her face and I saw beauty. I don’t imagine that she sees her own beauty. I wanted to capture her radiance in that moment and bring it to the surface for Ashila and others to see.”
MELISSA GRAVANO
Melissa Gravano’s portrait of “Ashila” was selected for the 2010 Piccolo Spoleto Festival Juried Art Exhibition.
NEXT EVENTS: Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston Visitor Center, 375 Meeting St., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. May 28-June 11. Free. Roper Hospital admitting hallway, 316 Calhoun St., August-October. WEBSITE: www.melissagravno.com CONTACT INFO: melissa.gravano@comcast. net. 908-1677. BIRTH DATE AND PLACE: March 1961, Long Island, N.Y. RESIDENCE: Colleton County, 17 years FAMILY: Son, Justin; mother, Jane; father, Ben; brother, Tom; sisters, Sonia and Monika. EDUCATION: Studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in NYC & Southampton College at Long Island University. CAREER: Portrait artist and part-time art teacher. GOALS: I would like my work to hang in a gallery or museum in Charleston. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?: “Woman To Woman” by Christina Lessa. INFLUENCES: My family of artists, and Andrew Wyeth.
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upcoming
MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT SERIES: 6-9 p.m. May 28-30. Freshfields Village at the crossroads of Kiawah and Johns islands. Free. Celebrate Memorial Day with a performance by Men of Distinction on Friday, a concert by The Great Society Band on Saturday and Congdon and Company on Sunday. www.freshfieldsvillages.com. SPOLETO USA AND PICCOLO SPOLETO: May 28-June 13. Locations and prices vary. For 17 days and nights, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston’s theaters, churches and outdoor spaces with more than 100 performances by renowned artists and emerging performers in opera, theater, music theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music as well as the visual arts. For a complete schedule of Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto events, visit www.SpoletoToday.com.
ongoing CHARLESTON FARMERS MARKET: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays. Marion Square. Local vendors offer produce, plants, baked goods and more. 724-7309. DANIEL ISLAND FARMERS MARKET: 3-7 p.m. Thursdays through Sept. 30. Family Circle Tennis Center, 161 Seven Farms Drive. Shop for local produce, herbs, flowers and crafts while enjoying live music and food. www.danielislandfarmersmarket. com. MARKET AT ROSEBANK FARMS: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. Rosebank Farms, 4455 Betsy Kerrison Parkway, Johns Island. The farm will offer local produce, seafood, baked goods, flowers and more. 768-0508 or www.rosebankfarms.com. MOUNT PLEASANT FARMERS MARKET: 3:30 p.m.-dusk. Tuesdays through Oct. 19. Moultrie Middle School, 645 Coleman Blvd. Features local produce, flowers, baked goods, live music and more. 884-8517 or www.townofmountpleasant. com. NORTH CHARLESTON FARMERS MARKET: Noon-7 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 28. Felix C. Davis Community Center, 4800 Park Place East, North Charleston. Live music, local produce, arts and crafts, food and more. 740-5854 or www. northcharleston.org.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The deadline for Charleston Scene’s calendar items is noon Friday the week before the event takes place. Items submitted after the deadline will not be printed. E-mail calendar@postandcourier.com. Expanded listings online: We are committed to running your events and have expanded our calendar listings online. Go to postandcourier.com/events to see volunteer listings, recreation events and museum information.
SUMMERVILLE FARMERS MARKET: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays through Nov. 20. 218 S. Main St. Purchase fresh produce, organic meat, baked goods and more. 871-6000. 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 afterward. 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 Market, Market Street. An art show and sale accompanied by live music. 937-0920. ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOWS: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. First Saturday of each month through October. Tea Farm Cottage, 808 N. Cedar St., Summerville. Free. Enjoy monthly shows that feature merchandise from 30-50 vendors, as well as food and music. 871-1113. BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: 7-8 p.m. Thursdays. Ballroom Dance Club of Charleston, 1632 Ashley Hall Road. $30 per month. Taught by 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. Come with a book and a snack. 5724188. “CAROLINA GOLD” EXHIBIT: Through Aug. 30. Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Road. The plantation presents “Carolina Gold: From Rice 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. 819-6961. “CHARLESTON 1865”: Through May 31. Rick Rhodes Photography, 1842 Belgrade Ave. The gallery will host an exhibit featuring photographs taken in Charleston in 1865. 766-7425 or www. charleston1865.com. CHARLESTON CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE: 7 p.m. Second Tuesday of each month. Ryan’s restaurant, 829 St. Andrews Blvd. jeannescla@aol. com. CHARLESTON MUSIC CLUB: Free music programs through May. 795-7842 or www.charlestonmusicclub.org. CHARLESTON POETRY SERIES: 7 p.m. Fourth
Tuesday of each month. Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting St. 577-6400. 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 for nonpartisan open discussion. 810-0088 or www.grassrootschange.ning.com. “CONTEMPORARY CHARLESTON 2010”: Through July 3. City Gallery at Waterfront Park, 34 Prioleau St. Visual artists and poets will team up to create inspired works of art. The exhibit is part of Piccolo Spoleto. An opening reception will be held 6-8 p.m. today, and artist lectures will occur throughout the summer. 958-6484. CRAFT SHOWS: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. First Saturday of each month. Tea Farm Cottage, 808 N. Cedar St., Summerville. Artists and crafters will display items each month. The shows also will feature music and food. 871-1113. 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. “DARWIN ON EVOLUTION”: Through August. Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 68 Spring St. The museum will host a collection of documents written by Charles Darwin, including original manuscript pages from “On the Origin of Species.” 853-4651. EARLY MORNING BIRD WALKS: 8:30 a.m.noon. Wednesdays and Saturdays. Caw Caw Interpretive Center, 5200 Savannah Highway, Ravenel. $5, Gold Pass members free. Preregistration encouraged, but walk-ins welcome. 795-4386 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. FOLLY BEACH BLUEGRASS SOCIETY: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. The Kitchen, 11 Center St. Bring an instrument and participate in an open jam. 3451678. FREE FRIDAY WINE TASTINGS: 3-6 p.m. Fridays. Lowcountry Wine and Spirits, 3642 Savannah Highway, Suite 140, Johns Island. 769-2722.
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FREE SHAG LESSONS: 7:30 p.m. Mondays. Mojo’s, 975 Bacons Bridge Road, Summerville. 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 grassroots calltoaction@gmail.com. “JAPANESE BATH” EXHIBIT: Charleston Center for Photography, 654 King St. The center will host “The Way of the Japanese Bath,” a collection by travel photographer Mark Edward Harris. 7203105 or www.ccforp.org. “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. “MODERN MASTERS”: Through Aug. 22. Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting St. The museum will host “Modern Masters From the Ferguson Collection,” which will include work by Picasso, Christo, Willem de Kooning and others. 722-2706 or www.gibbesmuseum.org. MUSEUM, MUSIC AND MORE!: Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, 25 Ann St. Ages 5-12. $8 members, $10 nonmembers. Get children involved in performing arts through interactive experiences. 853-8962 or www. explorecml.org. “NECTAR OF LIFE”: Through May. Martin Gallery, 18 Broad St. The gallery will host an exhibit by Wanda Steppe, whose work explores the fragility of the physical world. 723-7378 or www.martingallerycharleston.com. “NOTHING AT THE MOMENT”: Through May. Outer Space, 623-A Meeting St. The gallery will host an exhibit featuring works by Tony Csavas and Karen Ann Myers. outerspace. charleston@gmail.com. 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. PRESERVATION TECH TOURS: 8:30-10:30 a.m. First Saturday of each month. Drayton Hall, 3380 Ashley River Road. $20 members, $25 nonmembers. Tours will showcase the technical aspects of the plantation’s preservation efforts, design, architecture and more. 769-2638 or www.draytonhall.org. 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 inspired by Harriet Powers. 869-1954 or www.edisto museum.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.
52.5 Records, 561 King St. The gallery will host a photography exhibit featuring work by BadJon, Chuck Keppler, Hashenda Baxter and others. An opening reception will be held 6-8 p.m. May 28. 722-3525. “THINGS GROW HERE”: Through June 1. SCOOP Studios, 57½ Broad St. The studios will host an exhibit by Lisa Shimko that explores the relationships between humans, animals and nature. A closing reception will be held 5-8 p.m. June 1. 577-3292 or www.scoopcontemporary.com. 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. WHIZ KIDS: 3:30 p.m. Thursdays. Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, 25 Ann St. $5 per child/$25 per month. An after-school science program taught by Laura Buschman. 853-8962, ext. 221. YO ART PROJECT: Through June 16. Charleston County Main Library, 68 Calhoun St. Free. The Palmetto Project presents an exhibition of photos and posters by artists ages 6-15 from Title I schools, Meeting Street Manor and Bridgeview Public Housing Residence. 805-6930. ZEN MEDITATION: 7-8 p.m. Wednes-
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Piccolo Spoleto is just around the corner. The festival starts May 28 and ends June 13. For tickets and a complete schedule, visit www.piccolospoleto.com. 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. SUMMER WINE STROLLS: 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesdays. Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Road. $10. Enjoy wine in the plantation’s gardens. 266-7477 or www.middletonplace.org. “THE LYRIC SHOW”: Through midMay. 16 Penny Gallery at 52.5 Records, 561 King St. Artists will display works inspired by their favorite songs. 722-3525. “THE PHOTO SHOW”: May 28 through mid-June. 16 Penny Gallery at
days. Cheri Huber will lead the class, which will focus on meditation and discussion. Call 224-2468.
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BEER TASTING: 5:30 p.m. Wine Awhile, Suite 200, 1039 Hwy. 41, Mount Pleasant. $5. Enjoy a beer tasting that will showcase some “wilder” beers, such as saisons and lambics. 881-3155 or www.wineawhile.com.
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BENEFIT LUNCHEON: Noon. Halls Chophouse, 434 King St. $18. May enjoy lunch, a goody bag and raffle ticket, and support Charleston Volunteers for Literacy. 303-1113. BOOK RELEASE PARTY: 5-7 p.m. Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King St. Local author Katie Crouch will celebrate the release of her new book “Men and Dogs.” 722-2666. FREE FRIDAY FAMILY FEST: 5-8 p.m. Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry,
25 Ann St. Families may enjoy free admission, along with live music, games, arts and crafts, food, a clown and more. 853-8962 or www.explorecml.org.
Spark Studios, 757 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant. $20 in advance, $25 at door. The studio will host its first“ARTrageous”fundraising event, which will feature live music, hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine, silent and live auctions and more. KAYAKING CLASS: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Meets 881-3780. at Sea Kayak Carolina, 1731 Signal Point “SHAGGIN’ON THE COOPER”: 8 p.m. Road, James Island. $45 includes equipMount Pleasant Waterfront Memorial ment. Participants will learn the basics of Park, 99 Hallman Blvd. $8 Charleston kayaking and will take a paddling trip on County residents, $10 nonresidents and the Folly River. 225-7969 or www.seakay- at the gate. Dance the night away to muakcarolina.com. sic by Palmetto Soul and enjoy food and JOB SEARCH WORKSHOP: 9:30 beverages. 795-4FUN or www.ccprc.com. a.m.-12:30 p.m. Center for Women, 129 Cannon St. $20. Learn about developing “FROM LAND TO SEA”: 4 p.m. Cathea job-hunting strategy, putting together dral of St. Luke and St. Paul, 126 Coming a great resume, preparing for interviews St. Free. The Southcoast Symphony will and more during this workshop led by present its summer concert, which will Jane Perdue, CEO of The Braithewaite include compositions by Mozart, Elgar Group. 763-7333 or www.c4women.org. and Smetana and a performance by vo“BARK HEARD‘ROUND THE calist Sarah Williams. www.southcoastWORLD”: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Planet Bark, symphony.com. 1058 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Mount PleasCD RELEASE PARTY: 4:30-6:30 p.m. ant. Daisy’s Place Retriever Rescue and James Island County Park, 861 RiverLowcountry Golden Retriever Rescue land Drive. Free with park admission. will host an event designed to raise Celebrate the release of Hazel Ketawareness of puppy mills and rescue chum’s new CD, “Say Darlin’ Say,” with organizations. The program will feature health and emergency demonstrations, a a free concert by The Hungry Monks, cookout, dog massages, vaccinations and The Cooper School Choir and Hazel Ketchum. 795-4FUN or www.thecoomicrochipping and more. 884-1225 or perschool.com. www.daisysplace.org. PET HELPERS BENEFIT: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. O’Brion’s Irish Pub and Grille, 520 Folly BOOK SIGNING AND AUTHOR Road, James Island. Enjoy live music and TALK: 6 p.m. Charleston County Main drink specials and meet adoptable dogs Library, 68 Calhoun St. Pulitzer Prizeduring Pet Helpers’all-day benefit. 302winning author Ian Johnson will speak 0556 or www.pethelpers.org. about his new book, “A Mosque in “JUMP IN THE PARK”: Noon-4 p.m. Munich: Nazis, the CIA and the Rise of James Island County Park, 861 Riverland the Muslim Brotherhood in the West.” Drive. $5. Children 12 and under may The author also will be available to sign enjoy jump castles and other inflatable copies of the book. 805-6930. equipment. 795-4FUN or www.ccprc. com. BOOK SIGNING: 2-4 p.m. Barnes & ALLERGY TREATMENT WORKSHOP: Noble, 1716 Towne Centre Way, Mount 6:30 p.m. Earth Fare, 74 Folly Road, Pleasant. Author Katie Crouch will sign copies of her new book,“Men and Dogs.” James Island. Free. Learn how to treat allergies through neurologic stress re216-9765. duction therapy. 769-4800. FORT MOULTRIE LECTURE: 2 p.m. Fort Moultrie Visitor Center, 1214 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island. Learn about the “NOVELTY”: 6-10 p.m. Redux Conconstruction of Fort Sumter during a presentation by Russell Horres titled“If These temporary Art Center, 136 St. Philip St. Free. Muralist Cory Obendorfer’s new Walls Could Talk: The Building of Fort exhibit, “Novelty,” will open as part of Sumter.”The presentation is part of the Piccolo Spoleto, and the opening recepmonthly“Impending War”lecture series. tion will begin with a skating parade by 883-3123 or www.nps.gov/fosu. The Lowcountry Highrollers roller derby CRAFT BEER TASTING: 3-6 p.m. team. www.reduxstudios.org or www. Riley Park, 360 Fishburne St. $25. The lowcountryhighrollers.com. RiverDogs present“America’s Favorite CraftTime,” a craft beer tasting that will feature beer by Sweetwater, R.J. Rocker’s, GARDENING BOOK SIGNINGS: Lagunitas and other craft brewers, as well 5-7 p.m. The Preservation Society of as food, a souvenir sampling glass and a ticket to the RiverDogs game at 7:05 p.m. Charleston, 147 King St. Free. The society has teamed up with the Charleston No one under 21 will be admitted. 5773647 or www.riverdogs.com. “ARTRAGEOUS”: 6:30-11 p.m. Creative Please see CALENDAR, Page 46F
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CALENDAR From Page 45F Horticultural Society to present a collection of gardening books, tools and accessories and will host a debut event that will feature book signings and floral demonstrations. 722-4630 or www. preservationsociety.org.
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“SHARE OUR SUZY”: 5:30 p.m. Lookout Pavilion at the Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina, 20 Patriots Point Road, Mount Pleasant. $35 in advance, $50 at door. The 6th Annual Suzy McGrane Memorial will include performances by the Archetypes, Blue Dogs and Gaslight Street and will feature beer, food and a cash bar. www.shareoursuzy.org or www.etix.com. BURLESQUE FEST: 8 p.m.-midnight. South of Broadway Theatre, 1080 E. Montague Ave., North Charleston. $10 in advance, $12 at door. Bizzaro Burlesque presents the Charleston Burlesque Fest. The event will include performances by more than 20 burlesque dancers, music by Megan Jean and The KFB, pin-up photo shoots, a cash bar, art and an after-party at The Mill. 745-0317 or charlestonburlesquefest.weebly.com. NMC ANNIVERSARY: 8 p.m. Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St. Philip St. $10, $5 students, free to ages 17 and under. The New Music Col-
lective will celebrate its fifth year with a concert performed by various members of the NMC. Beer and wine will be available for purchase. 722-0697 or www.newmusiccollective.org.
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“HURRICANE HOUSE”: 8 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Sterrett Hall Auditorium, 1530 7th St. and North Hobson Ave., North Charleston. $15. Breaking the Wall Productions presents a drama about a family coping with tragedy. 853-8969 or www. breakingthewallproductions.com. “THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES”: 7 p.m. May 28; 2 p.m. May 29; 3 p.m. May 30. Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St. $17.50-$32.50. Celebrate Memorial Day during this re-creation of Bob Hope’s old USO shows. The production will feature impersonations of Marilyn Monroe, The Andrews Sisters, Grouch Marx and others. 800-514-3849 or www.etix.com. “ROMANCING THE HUNLEY”: 3:30 p.m. Sundays through June 13. The Powder Magazine, 79 Cumberland St. $15. www.romancingthehunleyplay.blogspot.com.
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GRASSROOTS CALL TO ACTION: Volunteers needed to work with the Organic Sustainable Community Children’s Garden. 810-0088.
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Spoleto’s just around the corner, which makes now a pretty good time to brush up on art history since the entire city will be transformed into an arts festival in two weeks. Last week’s dominant winner, Caleb Logan, is being challenged by Najee Wilson, who is one of the creative forces behind a new publication, VENT Magazine.
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QUESTIONS
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1. Where is the Prado located? 2. Name the artist who’s known for draping huge monuments, buildings, etc. ... in cloth. 3. What 19th-century artist did a provocative painting of a woman in a black dress and called it “Madame X?” 4. Name the Japanese artist who collaborated with Louis Vuitton on a line of handbags that had colorful anime-like images on them. 5. Where is the Musee d’Orsay located? 6. Name the French artist who is most associated with Pointillism. 7. The movie “Girl with a Pearl Earring” featured this artist as a major character. 8. Name the artist who painted the antiwar piece “Guernica.” 9. What New York artist’s subjects included the Campbell’s soup can and Marilyn Monroe? 10. “The Birth of Venus” was painted by what Italian artist?
CONCLUSION Logan was so strong last week, Head2Head really thought he might go the distance. Wilson, however, snatched the trivia title away. We’ll see him next week.
CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Madrid 2. Christo 3. John Singer Sargent 4. Takashi Murakami
CALEB’S ANSWERS 1. Sounds Spanish. Barcelona. 2. That guy, Christo. He’s a one-name person like Madonna. 3. I’m guessing, but Manet? 4. My sister would know this. 5. Paris. 6. I probably learned this in art class, but that was a while ago. 7. Vermeer, right? 8. It’d help if I could see a picture of it. 9. Warhol. 10. Botticelli.
5. Paris 6. Georges Seurat 7. Vermeer 8. Picasso
NAJEE’S ANSWERS
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1. I’ve never even heard of it. 2. Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 3. I know the story of it, but I can’t think of the artist’s name. 4. Takashi Murakami. 5. Is it in Paris? 6. (Blank) 7. I haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve seen the painting in real life. It’s Vermeer. 8. Pablo Picasso. 9. Andy Warhol. 10. Bernini? Bertoli? As soon as I hear the name, I’ll know it.
9. Andy Warhol 10. Botticelli
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