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Number one, for real.

There are some creative claims out there for the “number one” status in Greenville real estate. But there’s only one stat that matters: $28 million.

That’s the amount that Joan has sold so far in 2013* – by herself. That’s what makes her Number One. No other Realtor is in the same neighborhood.

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Contents

15 THE LIST

See, hear, read, react.

The month’s must-dos.

21 ON THE TOWN

Pics of the litter: Upcountry fêtes & festivities.

37 TOWNBUZZ

Fine art jewelry designer Kate Furman takes to the woods, Sandra Hubbard donates American Girl dolls for charity, muralist Kay Larch livens things up with color, and more.

48 COOL HOOD

Spartanburg’s Grain District capitalizes on its mill history and newfound creative energy.

55 STYLE CENTRAL

Curated urban chic and pop-up plans

by We Took to the Woods and leather goods suited for autumn journeys.

62 MAN ABOUT TOWN

The Man About TOWN hasn’t outgrown the spirit of childhood trick-or-treating.

67 SIDEWAYS

Birds of any and all feathers can find a place to roost in Asheville.

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EAT & DRINK

Take a dive into The Admiral, downtown Greenville gets spiced up, and find the best pumpkin brews.

DINING GUIDE TOWNSCENE

Got plans? You do now.

SECOND GLANCE

Close encounters with artists await at Greenville Open Studios.

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DREAM SEQUENCE

Luxe, layered, lavish. From leather to lace, more is more this season.

// styled by Spencer Zettler // photography by Patrick Cavan Brown

MODERN SPIN

Hotel Domestique transports guests to a boutique hotel à la Europe, yet 20 minutes from Greenville.

// by Constance E. Richards // photography by TJ Getz

COVER: Alex wears a vintage Diane von Furstenburg dress; from stylist’s collection. Shoes are the stylist’s own.

THIS PAGE: Fur coat, $425, by Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent; lace blouse, $178, by BCBG, both from Augusta Twenty; skirt, $325, by Chanel; from Labels Designer Consignments; wolf-head clutch, $50; from Monkee’s of the West End. Boots are the stylist’s own.

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EDITOR’S

Letter Mark B. Johnston PUBLISHER mark@towncarolina.com Blair Knobel EDITOR-IN-CHIEF blair@towncarolina.com Paul Mehaffey ART DIRECTOR SENIOR EDITOR Jac Chebatoris

Art of Design

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here is much to be said for the creative process. For one, it isn’t easy. Not only does it require some measure of talent, it also demands a sizeable amount of sweat, tears, and sleepless nights.

In other words—work.

The October issue pays homage to high style and design. But more than the output itself, we hope to highlight the process— the creator as much as the product. We aim to expose the edge of design to suggest that there is more to it than function, more than just whimsy—it is a reflection of tedium and talent.

In a rather intuitive way, a cohesive theme has emerged. Meeting the eye in this issue is a tension, or juxtaposition, of raw and refined, organic and stylized. Witness the balance in the jewelry design of local artist Kate Furman (“Natural Refinement,” page 38). Additionally, the Stone Avenue boutique We Took to the Woods embraces the schema, both in merchandise and presentation (“Woodsmithing,” page 56).

Our fall fashion feature walks the line of punk and pomp, delicate and edgy, feminine and masculine. It takes its cue from current trends, where layering is key: textures, patterns, blocks of color. We present the ideal, in many ways the idea, while offering suggestions on how to achieve the look locally (see “Dream Sequence,” page 74).

A luxury hotel has opened just outside of Greenville, at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Travelers Rest. The Hincapie brothers—Rich and George—purchased the property that was La Bastide, hiring international designer Eric Brown, of Eric Brown Design in Greenville, to transform it into Hotel Domestique. Here, we present its revamped look, with insight into Brown’s process (see “Modern Spin,” 84).

While we typically are not privy to designers’ countless hours of work, we are witness to the results. Ultimately, when we surround ourselves with elegance, style, and great design, we are likewise inspired—though, thankfully, without breaking a sweat.

ASSISTANT EDITOR Andrew Huang CONTRIBUTING EDITORS M. Linda Lee Steven Tingle CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ruta Fox Constance E. Richards Spencer Zettler CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Chelsey Ashford Patrick Cavan Brown TJ Getz Gabrielle Grace Smith Eli Warren EDITORIAL INTERN Mary Cathryn Armstrong GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERN Kate Guptill Holly Hardin PRODUCTION MANAGER GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Kristy Adair Michael Allen Whitney Fincannon MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES Lori Burney Kristi Jennings Donna Johnston Annie Langston Pam Putman Kate Banner COMMUNIT Y SPONSORSHIPS & EVENTS MANAGER kate@towncarolina.com

Blair Knobel Editor-in-Chief

Ryan Johnston MARKETING MANAGER Sue Priester PHIL ANTHROPIC ADVISOR

Follow us on Facebook & Twitter Be in-the-know online! Find the best of TOWN Magazine— events, stories, dining, & more!

WE AIM TO EXPOSE THE EDGE OF DESIGN TO SUGGEST THAT THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN FUNCTION, MORE THAN JUST WHIMSY—IT IS A REFLECTION OF TEDIUM AND TALENT.

TOWN Magazine (Vol. 3, No. 10) is published monthly (12 times per year) by TOWN Greenville, LLC, 148 River Street, Suite 120, Greenville, SC 29601, (864) 679-1200. TOWN Magazine is a free publication. However, if you would like to have TOWN delivered to you each month, you may purchase an annual subscription (12 issues) for $65. For subscription information or where to find, please visit www.towncarolina.com.

Postmaster: Send address changes to TOWN, 148 River Street, Suite 120, Greenville, SC 29601. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA.

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OCTOBER 19 & 20 Shop the wares of 26 dealers from across the country, exhibiting the best antiques, fine art, and design in the Southeast. n General admission, $5 for both days On Saturday, October 19, don’t miss hearing top designer Thomas Jayne talk about his work and his aesthetic, Decoration: Ancient and Modern. n Advance ticket only Presented by For more information

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Hollingsworth Park is quickly becoming a community filled with an impressive display of close-knit custom

homes and a surprising number of close-knit friends.

- Find out more about this 300-acre community within the City of Greenville at verdae.com

Hollingsworth Park offers a diversity of housing options priced from the $200s. The residential mix includes custom and estate homes to more modest single-family dwellings, townhomes and luxury apartments. Residents enjoy a 20-acre central park, pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, a neighborhood business district and being close to everything.

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“I cannot think of a better place than Hollingsworth Park to suit my lifestyle. Besides living so close to shopping, downtown and the interstate, living here provides many opportunities for being involved with my neighbors. We enjoy summer movie nights, walking groups in the park, ladies luncheons, and occasional gatherings in one anothers’ homes. It’s amazing how quickly so many of us have become friends.” - Marsha Doll, resident

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WAR HORSE

There’s a powerful relationship between a boy and his pet, especially when that pet is a fearless warrior horse fighting the Germans in World War I. In this award-winning play, young Albert befriends a foal named Joey, and as the pair grows, they become lifetime companions. But when war and tragedy tear them apart, it will take all the courage in the world to bring man and beast back together.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Oct 17–20.

Thurs, 7:30pm; Fri–Sat, 2pm & 8pm; Sun, 1pm & 6:30pm.

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While nothing screams fun, fun, fun like dragging a five-year-old Spiderman around the neighborhood for hours praying that no one dares give him a box of raisins, it’s much better to have all that excitement in one place. This annual event has become an Upstate staple, as the zoo is transformed into a one-stop-shop of Halloween games, costumed characters, and, of course, candy. Get the best of the holiday while still being safe—and maintaining your sanity.

The Greenville Zoo, 150 Cleveland Park Dr, Greenville.

Oct 18–27. Fri, 5:30–8pm; Sat–Sun, 4–8pm. Adults, $4; children, $6. (864) 467-4300, greenvillezoo.com

Robert Earl Keen is a sellout—just not in the way that you might think. Tickets seem to fly out the door for his intimate-yet-rabble-rousing performances at the Handlebar, with the Texas-bred gent transforming foes to friends in one fell swoop. Each song is crafted with gentle care to include equal parts singalong lyricism and gritty melody ripe for the Carolina picking. Keen will be joined by acoustic songbird Andrea Davidson, so shine up those shoes and get your beard combed for an evening of fullfledged rock, Southern-style.

The Handlebar, 304 E Stone Ave, Greenville. Thurs, Oct 17.

8:30pm. $31. (864) 233-6173, handlebar-online.com

At one point or another, we’ve all compared someone to an animal: boys are rats, your best friend a snake . . . But what if one day that all came true? Peek inside the mind of one student as he falls asleep in the American Museum of Natural History. A perfect balance of comedic narration and impressive acrobatics, this ballet is one daydream you won’t want to wake up from.

David Reid Theater, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E St John St, Spartanburg. Oct 18–19, Fri, 4pm; Sat, 11am & 2pm. $15. (864) 542-2787, chapmanculturalcenter.org

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ROBERT EARL KEEN

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BALLOONS OVER ANDERSON

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Greenville County Museum of Art, 420 College St, Greenville. Oct 19–20; Sat, 9:30am–6pm; Sun, 11am–5pm.

Free admission. (864) 271-7570, gcma.org

High fashion and haute design collide with savory dishes at the exclusive roll-out party for this year’s Fashion on the TOWN shopping crawl. Sink your teeth into couture samplings of oyster po’ boys and chocolate-dipped orange peels in the tranquil-meets-trendy atmosphere of Hotel Domestique. The following Thursday, sharpen your shopping claws in the Upstate as a number of area businesses from Macy’s to Muse Shoe Studio open their doors for a twoday retail extravaganza.

Hotel Domestique, 10 Road of Vines, Travelers Rest.

Wed, Oct 9, 6–9pm. $75. FOTTVIP2013.eventbrite.com

Photograph courtesy of Balloons Over Anderson

It’s hard to hate a balloon: it floats, it’s colorful, and you can twist it into the shape of your favorite animal. Join the celebration of all-things-helium for a family-friendly weekend of balloon rides, live music, and onsite vendors to cater to your every whim. This year’s lineup includes a kickoff set by Outshyne and the Piedmont Boys, as well as performances by Southern Expressions and Mile Marker 0. There will also be plenty of activities for the kiddies (Thomas the Train!) and a balloon glow run.

Anderson Civic Center, 3027 MLK Jr Blvd, Anderson. Oct 11–13; Fri, 3–9pm; Sat, 7am–7:30pm; Sun, 7am–7pm. Free. balloonsoveranderson.org

Join dealers and designers from across America for a classy weekend as you pick your way through art and Old World goods, and swap a few home-beautification tips with the pros. Rub elbows with other art connoisseurs at Friday’s preview gala; then on Saturday, join renowned designer Thomas Jayne as he discusses contemporary design over a delightful spread of coffee and pastries. Wine and boxed lunches will also be provided. Need we say more?

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The 35th annual event opens doors to homes in the Collins Creek and recently developed Hollingsworth Park communities, touring visitors through stately abodes and lush parks to showcase the latest in residential style. Light lunches, fashion shows, and, of course, shopping will be available for patrons. Proceeds will benefit the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.

Collins Creek and Hollingsworth Park neighborhoods, Greenville. Fri–Sat, Oct 4–6. 10am–4pm; Sun, 1–4pm. $20$25. (864) 370-0965, guildGSO.org

WOOFSTOCK

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zWhat’s better than spending a day taste-testing some of the area’s finest craft beers and delicious delicacies? Doing it all with your furry best friend at your side. Sponsored by the Greenville Humane Society, Woofstock brings together Upstate dogs and their owners for one full day of brews, bands, and barks. Jam out with Buckwheat Zydeco as you tap into ales from RJ Rockers, Highland, and Quest.

Then, you (and possibly your pet) can dig into eats from Mac’s Speed Shop, Asada Food Truck, and Earthfare. This festival is for the dogs, and for once, that’s okay.

Watson Field, 65 Watson Aviation Rd, Greenville. Sat, Oct 5, Noon–6pm. $25-$50. (864) 242-3636, ghswoofstock.com

FALL FOR GREENVILLE zYou aren’t a true Greenvillian until you’ve attended this annual autumn festival. Top local dining spots are out to dazzle crowds, and the spirit of competition is alive with contests for crowd favorite, tastiest fall cocktail, and a server obstacle course. Bands like Futurebirds and Chocolate Thunder are slated to take the stages. In between eating and listening, make sure you check out the festival’s cooking classes and a garden filled with the best kind of flower: the kind that comes in a frosted glass.

Downtown Greenville. Oct 11–13; Fri, 5–11pm; Sat, 11am–9pm; Sun, Noon–7pm. Free. (864) 467-2728, fallforgreenville.net

EURO AUTO FESTIVAL zEach year, this gearhead meetup attracts thousands of entries and spectators from around the world to honor the best in European machinery.

The 2013 centerpiece will be (drumroll please) the Ferrari, but other elegantly engineered vehicles from BMW, Porsche, and Aston Martin will also be on display for your drooling pleasure.

BMW Zentrum, 1400 Hwy 101 S, Greer. Oct 18–19; Fri, 9am–11pm; Sat, 8am–11pm. $30-$45. euroautofestival.com

Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller, & Kevin Nealon Well, isn’t that special? The comedy trio credited with resuscitating a flailing mid-’80s Saturday Night Live reunites for a rare stage performance sure to provide laughs bigger than Hans and Franz’s muscles. It’s hard to find a perfect mix of iconic and hilarious, but these former men of latenight rowdiness will be busting your gut all night with spot-on impressions, sketches, and, if we’re lucky, a Weekend Update with Mr. Subliminal.

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SHE Indulges Opening Night Party August 23, 2013 A concert. Cocktails. Shopping. A fashion show.

The ultimate girls’ weekend certainly started off on the right note with an evening jam-packed with lifestyle experiences. American Idol contestant Elise Testone performed, while guests nibbled on tuna wonton appetizers from City Range. The evening also featured lip-print reading by certified lipsologist Ariana Lightningstorm.

Photography by Chelsey Ashford

Lisa Yost & Sandra Johnston

Michelle Nicholson, Jen Dawson & Miley White

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Indie Craft Parade VIP Gala September 6, 2013 Greenville locals skipped the long weekend lines for a sneak peek at Indie Craft Parade’s 2013 lineup. The evening featured more than 70 regional artisans in the Certus Loft, as well as beer from Westbrook and Quest breweries and artisan coffee brewed in-house by the Vagabond Barista.

Join Belk of Haywood Mall and support your favorite charity for

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A Red Carpet Private Shopping Event Sunday, November 17 • 6 - 9 pm

Photography by Chelsey Ashford

Bill Mitchell & Palmer Dill (Billiam Jeans)

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Perception Wines at SIP Tasting Room & Rooftop Lounge August 25, 2013 The High Street Hospitality Group welcomed about 30 VIP guests for a private tasting of Perception Wines’ offerings. Guests sampled the winery’s 2010 Russian River pinot noir and several 2009 single-vineyard selections.

Winemaker Mark Ray and co-owner Dean Felber, of Hootie and the Blowfish, were also present. A portion of the proceeds from this tasting was donated to the Governor’s School for the Arts Foundation.

Photography by Chelsey Ashford

Benita & Barry Davis

Jack Bacot, Mark Ray & Dean Felber

Renata Parker with Jason & Heather Meadors

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Book Launch at 90 Degrees Yoga August 9, 2013 More than 150 yoga enthusiasts joined author Allison Lindquist at her studio 90 Degrees Yoga for the release of her new book Hot Yatra Yoga: The Journey. The evening featured a reading and book signing, as well as refreshments provided by the studio’s own Sun Belly CafÊ. Lindquist will be kicking off a Southeast book tour at the beginning of November.

Photography by Chelsey Ashford

Lynn & Katie Carter

Allison Lindquist

Heather Allen & Cathy McIntosh

Bobbi Andrews, Jill Bay & Tina Harris

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Dining for Women Reception September 5, 2013 The Women of the Peace Center welcomed Dining for Women founder Marsha Wallace and 65 guests for a brief presentation on Wallace’s charitable organization. Members of the Greenville-based organization meet for potluck dinners once a month and utilize the money saved from not eating out to help empower women and girls in extreme poverty.

Photography by Gabrielle Grace Smith

Lil Glenn & Betsy McMillan

Julie Cothran & Debbie Hartness

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September 5, 2013 The Rose Ball, Greenville’s longestrunning charitable event, hosted a special exhibition in advance of its charity ball. The exhibition featured rose-themed artwork from 27 local artists. The work, specially created for this event, pays homage to the tradition of using roses from local gardens at the Rose Ball. Funds raised from the sale of artwork will benefit Bon Secours St. Francis and 13 other local charities.

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Young Philanthropists Summer Celebration August 24, 2013 United Way of Greenville County Young Philanthropists welcomed about 300 members and friends to NOMA Square for their annual Summer Celebration.

Spartanburg-based jazz group Gypsy Souls provided live entertainment. The Young Philanthropists are young professionals under the age of 40 who donate their time, expertise, and money to United Way, especially in the area of school readiness.

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Keri Rogers & Tanner Marino July 13, 2013 Keri and Tanner had been dating for more than a year when Tanner arranged for them to go hiking near Brevard. If the trail to Bridal Veil Falls wasn’t a clear enough sign, then the ring Tanner pulled out certainly did the trick.

Tanner and Keri, who met at a mutual friend’s dinner party (there was matchmaking involved), were married at Larkin’s Sawmill. Keri’s parents brought plants and greenery to create a lush, garden oasis, while Tanner’s parents built an archway from their land’s wood. Wedding favors included dishes prepared by Tanner—a perk of being married to a chef. The bride owns and operates BAYA Wellness, and the groom is an executive sous chef at the Hyatt Regency.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEITH CARSON & CRYSTAL HEART // RED APPLE TREE PHOTOGRAPHY

Kathryn White & Jivan Davé April 27, 2013

Lisa Slagh & Mike Reinke July 6, 2013 There is a certain logic to Easter eggs: the bigger the egg, the better the prize inside. When Mike presented Lisa with a large Easter egg underneath the St. Simons Island lighthouse, he certainly didn’t disappoint. The couple, which began dating their junior year at Riverside High School, was at St. Simons for an Easter weekend getaway. When Lisa opened the egg, she found an engagement ring and a proposal from Mike. The couple’s ceremony was held at Covenant United Methodist Church in Greer, followed by a reception at the Cannon Centre. The couple now lives in Orlando, Florida, where Lisa is an industrial engineer at Walt Disney World and Mike is a construction engineer with Prince Contracting, LLC. PHOTOGRAPHY BY LINDSEY & CRAIG MAHAFFEY // SPOSA BELLA PHOTOGRAPHY

Inclement wedding day weather is usually cause for distress, but a surprise rain shower played right into Kathryn and Jivan’s hands. The creative couple (both work at Ferebee Lane, he as a graphic designer, she as a copywriter) wanted an intimate dinner-party atmosphere, which is exactly what they got when guests packed into the Marshall Orr House in Anderson to get out of the rain. DIY flower arrangements, hand-calligraphed invitations, and pie instead of wedding cake added personal touches. Though they both grew up in Sumter and graduated Anderson University, they didn’t become friends until Kathryn moved in with one of Jivan’s best friends. The couple lives in Greenville.

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Cameron Poole & John King June 29, 2013 Planning a party to someone else’s liking is a terribly challenging task, especially when it’s a surprise to that someone, and the celebration is for something as momentous as a proposal.

So John took some risk out of the equation and conspired with Cameron’s boss and staff to have her plan her own party at Zen. Of course, the true purpose was still a surprise—she thought she was planning a party for a good friend until John appeared. The pair of Clemson alums was married at Westminster Presbyterian Church and featured a special appearance by the Clemson Tiger. Cameron, the marketing manager at Zen, and John, a CPA with Pope, Smith, Brown & King, PA, live in Greenville.

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ewelry can be much more than precious metals and exotic stones. That much is evident with just a glance at designer Kate Furman’s collections. Scraps collected from hiking trails, riverbanks, and other jaunts into the outdoors—“detritus from the forest floor,” as she says—form the bulk of her pieces.

Blending the rawness of nature into the polished medium of jewelry was an inevitable juncture of Furman’s interests. The Fine Arts Center, Greenville’s high school with a fine arts focus, first introduced Furman to metalworking and fine art jewelry design.

“I liked the portability of jewelry and how it is intimate to the person wearing the piece of jewelry,” she says, explaining her choice of art form. Her interest led her to study jewelry and metalworking at the University of Georgia, followed by obtaining a master of fine arts degree in jewelry from the Rhode Island School of Design. “We were taught to think beyond the diamond ring and redefine what is precious,” she says. “Just by picking something up, you can make it precious.”

With that mindset, Furman finds plenty that is precious in nature’s clutter and refuse. For Furman, a Greenville native who spent her childhood kayaking the Upstate’s rivers and exploring its woods, nature imprints its vitality and vastness upon the scraps she collects. The lines, scars, and whorls formed by natural processes tell of growth, decay, droughts, floods, storms, and fires.

This appreciation for nature forms the basis of Furman’s work, but scraps in their original form do not make compelling jewelry.

They require a paradoxical transformation. “I destroy what I find beautiful,” Furman says. Worm-lined sticks, sun-bleached driftwood, and sheets of bark—striking in their own right—are cut and hammered apart. Furman then makes the resultant pieces into

new wholes, rejoining and realigning them via intricate webs of steel chains, brass beads, sheet metal plates, and pins.

It is a utilitarian act: “I want to create movement in the piece and a desire to put it on,” she says. But it is also an artistic act.

Furman collects scraps intuitively, but to distill and refine the essence of beauty, she constantly experiments and reconfigures her work. “I am always responding to the pieces and asking why I like certain things. I keep developing until I understand what I’m getting at.”

The give-and-take dialogue of Furman’s artistic process transfers once the piece is worn. The intimate experience of jewelry— wearing it, feeling its weight as it dangles and drapes over one’s body—links the wearer to nature. What’s beautiful in the woods can also be beautiful on the body, and it is this translation that Furman hopes can fuel an expanded appreciation for what is precious: “Mostly, I want people to look closer.”

Personal Effects: Find Kate Furman’s work at katefurman.com, and at kharrisjewelry.com. It is available locally at lynn strong fine art jewelry, 119 N Main St, Greenville.

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ometimes an angel changes your life. Sandra Hubbard’s angel took the form of an eight-year-old foster child whom she encountered three summers ago, when she began volunteering at the American Girl Club at the Easley Public Library. The club teaches history to young girls through the series of American Girl dolls.

It was at the first meeting she led in August 2010 that she met the sad-eyed little girl who came to the club without a doll.

Hubbard later discovered that the melancholy cherub had come to the library with her foster mother.

Fast-forward to March 2011, when Hubbard heard on the news that this girl had been killed in an automobile accident.

Touched by the tragedy, she and her husband went to the funeral. “We wanted to do something in her memory,” says Hubbard, “so we decided to donate one American Girl doll a year to Miracle Hill Ministries.”

As word of her plan circulated, more and more people expressed a desire to help. The Hubbards’ simple gesture blossomed into Butterfly Ministries for Girls, the 501c3 organization they operate today. The ministry takes its name from the bright-winged insect so loved by the child whose memory the charity honors.

For the past two years, Butterfly Ministries has partnered with 17 group homes in 7 area counties. The organization gives American Girl dolls to girls, age 6 to 12, who come into one of these shelters—a total of 150 dolls to date. New and used, the dolls come from donors all over the United States.

This year, Hubbard received permission from American Girl to premiere an American Girl Fashion Show in Greenville.

Attendees will be treated to a sit-down meal and a runway parade of young girls modeling costumes that match those worn by the dolls. Online donations will allow the foster girls and their chaperones to attend the show.

Not only will the older girls receive a doll, but they’ll also get one of the American Girl books starring their doll, an outfit and handmade quilt for it, and a Bible, all tucked into a canvas tote bag. Younger girls get cloth Butterflies dolls from Cracker Barrel, along with a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Mother Hubbard, as she is known to the foster girls, sees the dolls as giving a sense of renewed security to girls who have been removed from their homes by the Division of Social Services—often with just the clothes on their backs. “Just knowing I can bring one moment of joy to a child is worth every minute of the work we do.”

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t reads like a script for a mafia film, but it’s all true. It’s the 1970s, and a middle-aged, mustachioed man is tightly packing $250,000 cash into a briefcase. There had been a deal made in Italy but the deal had gone sour. The mustachioed man and the contents of the case, which had come from of a local business,

were needed to set things right. The case is never out of the man’s sight as he makes the long journey from Greenville, South Carolina, to Genoa, Italy, to meet his connection, a man named Cesare who can help navigate certain local complexities. With case in hand, the two men set off through the crooked streets of Genoa toward their final destination, a magnificent 70-year-old villa located high in the hills overlooking the clear, blue Mediterranean.

As nefarious as this story may seem, it is actually quite genteel. The mustachioed man clinging tightly to his briefcase was not a mafia bagman but rather Dr. Harlan E. McClure, founder and dean of Clemson University’s College of Architecture from 1955–1984.

McClure’s “connection” was not a grifter who could grease the palms of local officials but an architect named Dr. Cesare Fera, a dear friend of McClure who lived in Genoa and was familiar with the city’s customs. And the cash was not a bribe or a payoff, just honest money needed to secure the purchase of a building that would become an extension of Clemson University’s School of Architecture and the first component of the School’s “Fluid Campus.”

“Harlan McClure was obviously a wise man,” says Kate Schwennsen, professor and chair of Clemson’s School of Architecture. “He decided there were some experiences that were important to architecture students but not available in Clemson.” This included a true urban experience, which in the early ’70s was best found overseas as U.S. cities were suffering through an economic downturn. “Dean McClure’s purpose in founding this program in Genoa wasn’t so much that it was European but that it was an urban location,” says Schwennsen. “A port city and off the beaten path in terms of a tourist destination.”

To purchase the building, a mortgage had been secured, co-signed by ten South Carolina architects.

But the issuing bank developed cold feet and pulled the mortgage, leaving McClure with few options.

McClure turned to Buck Mickel who was then head of Daniel Construction Company (now Fluor Daniel) and Club Med: A 70-year-old seaside villa (above right) in Genoa, Italy, became the Clemson University School of Architecture’s first satellite campus 40 years ago.

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presented his case on the importance of acquiring the property.

Mickel agreed, and through a generous gift from Homezel M. Daniel, wife of Daniel Construction Company founder Charles E. Daniel, the Clemson Architectural Foundation was able to secure ownership of the building.

The first students arrived in the fall of 1973, and since that time the Genovese building, which in university vernacular is officially known as the CAF Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies, but is unofficially and affectionately referred to as the “Villa,” has housed more than 1,400 students whose education has been significantly enriched by its purpose.

The number of students varies from 12 to 20, ranging from undergraduate juniors and seniors to graduate students, each there for one semester. “The kids live upstairs and work downstairs,” says Bill Pelham, a Greenville architect and current president of the Clemson Architectural Foundation, which not only owns but also operates the Villa. “We have three part-time Italian professors and an American Clemson professor in residence every semester.”

A typical day consists of morning classes followed by studio time in the afternoon. Students spend about one-third of the semester traveling through Italy and are also encouraged to travel during their free time. “When I was there, you were limited by the train,” says Pelham, a Clemson alumnus who studied at the Villa as a graduate student in 1978. “Now there are all of these cheap airlines, so these students are going to Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia. One kid visited 25 countries while he was there.”

Celebrating the 40th anniversary this year, the Villa serves as one part of the School of Architecture’s “Fluid Campus,” which now includes other “satellite centers” in Barcelona, Spain, and Charleston, South Carolina. “One of our goals is to educate good global citizens who understand the power of individual place,” says Schwennsen. “And one of the best ways to understand the power of place is to experience different places.” All of the School

of Architecture’s undergraduate students are required to spend at least one semester in one of the three Fluid Campus locations. And although not required, most graduate students choose to do so. “It’s funny,” says Schwennsen, “football season seems to have an effect on which semester students choose to attend.”

As the popularity of the program continues to grow, the School of Architecture is on the lookout for new Fluid Campus locations. “The world is growing and developing in different regions,” says Schwennsen. “The global South for instance, or Asia. So we’re talking about how we make those opportunities available to our students.” Pelham agrees that the hardest part is deciding where to go next, be it Rio, Hong Kong, or his personal choice, Cuba. Wherever it is, it’s doubtful a bag full of cash will be needed to secure the school’s next location.

“Carrying all that cash in a briefcase,” says Pelham, “McClure must have been as nervous as a cat.”

Exchange Rate: Dr. Harlan McClure chose Genoa, Italy, as a location for the School of Architecture’s Fluid Campus to give students an urban, international experience.

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ou’re so creative” people always told Kay Larch, the former owner of the Polliwog Pond Day Care Center in Southern California who painted the walls and created an environment for children. Now, in a stunning second-act turnaround, she’s one of Greenville’s most distinctive visual artists.

When Larch and her husband sold the business after a 15-year run, this empty-nester, with the business and the kids gone, needed something to do. After moving to Greenville, a few years went by, and then she picked up some brushes, opened a few paint cans, and attacked a canvas.

What happened? Her first painting sold as soon as it was dry. Then, a funky portrait she did of Albert Einstein was purchased by the owner of sushi spot Red Fin on Main and was actually stolen right off the restaurant’s wall. It’s a mystery as to who did it and where it hangs.

Larch was born in Huntington Beach, California, and grew up there in the ’60s. “I’ve been influenced by the Southern California hippie, surf-inspired lifestyle where we lived and the widely visible Mexican folk art that permeated the neighborhood,” she says.

Jacob Billingsley, who also coincidently once lived in Huntington Beach, related to her style and tapped Kay to do a mural inside his kitschy, downtown Greenville Mexican restaurant Gringos. Her signature Day of the Dead painting technique is a vibrant explosion of color detailing whimsical characters and fanciful icons. (The Day of the Dead is an ancient and sacred Mexican celebration of loved ones, which is commemorated on November 1 and 2 as a joyous way to honor those who’ve passed on.)

Head Honcho: Gringos Mexican restaurant in downtown Greenville offers a vibrant display of Kay Larch’s work; or visit her studio at The WARD Artist Studios, 110 Wardlaw St, Greenville.

The centerpiece at Gringos is a mural with a gorgeous portrait of Frida Kahlo, the celebrated Mexican painter and former wife of world-famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Frida is brandishing a Don Julio tequila bottle with a sly smile on her face. Look for Kay’s mysterious 17 items hidden in the mural—the brightlycolored brushstrokes feature flowers, suns, moons, skulls, sacred hearts, and animals in a delightfully intricate dance on the wall.

And don’t miss a look at the ceiling for a view of her charmingly painted chandeliers.

Her work is shown around town as well as in galleries in California, Arizona, and Ohio, and she was a winner in Greenville’s Flat Out Under Pressure art contest, which allowed her the honor of having her art on a Main Street recycling bin.

“People seem to enjoy my work. I think it’s very different for the Upstate area—my ‘Mexican with a twist’ style seems to be unique here,” says Larch.

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here is a saying: “If you build it, they will come.” It is a sentiment full of vision, optimism, and faith. But it only tells part of the story, only asks some of the questions. What if they do come? What then?

Will they stay? For Spartanburg, building “it” or making sure “they” come were never longterm concerns. The city is ripe with potential.

Space isn’t an issue. Brick storefronts line Main Street and side alleys, while vacant mills adorn the outskirts of downtown; neither is creative energy: seven institutions of higher learning call the area home. Putting these pieces together—making it cool and desirable for creative forces to stay in Spartanburg and put these spaces to use—that’s the trick.

Enter HUB-BUB. The Spartanburg-based nonprofit knows a thing or two about cool.

Their offices at the HUB-BUB Showroom are proof enough: low-slung, minimalist couches, communal workbenches, vintage signage, and repurposed knickknacks inject modern DIY earnestness into the old Nash Rambler car dealership’s expansive brick and hardwood interior. But before these offices even existed, HUB-BUB was central to Spartanburg’s rebranding efforts in the early 2000s. “Part of the purpose of HUB-BUB was to make things happen,” explains executive director Cate Ryba. And while the organization made plenty of things happen—gallery showings, public art, community workshops—there was something missing: a way to communicate what was and is cool in Spartanburg. HUB-BUB needed to give their vision of cool a name.

Luckily, the HUB-BUB Showroom’s location near the historic Spartan Grain Mill and its grain silos provided natural inspiration.

“We liked the idea of creating a ‘district,’ making an identity,” says Stephen Long, director of the Showroom. Out of that impulse came the Grain District. The District, whose boundaries are marked by Spring, West St. John, and West Henry streets, at its inception, was just a branding exercise for existing businesses. However, Long and Ryba have since leveraged the Grain District’s identity into a destination for the creative class.

The HUB City Bookshop, which took root in the old Masonic Temple on Main Street, was one of the first businesses to arrive. The bookshop was a natural outgrowth of HUBBUB alum Betsy Teter’s brainchild, Hub City Writers Project: “It was very important that, if our organization expanded, we would expand here,” says Teter. But the bookshop didn’t arrive alone. Cakehead Bakeshop and the Little River Roasting Coffee Bar also set up shop in the Masonic Temple. “We knew we needed a coffee shop, but Little River wanted a bakery before they were willing to open a coffee shop,” Teter explains.

Though the recession has slowed some of the growth Long and Ryba had hoped to see, the Grain District lays claim to a robust core of businesses. In addition to the Hub City Bookshop, the RJ Rockers Brewing Company moved to their current location on Main Street, adding a modern tie-in to the Grain District’s historic branding. Cribbs Kitchen is another recent addition, playing edible counterpart to RJ Rockers’ drinks. Dottie’s Toffee and Carriage House Wines round out a bevy of small boutiques taking root.

The Grain District hasn’t neglected its original purpose to bring in and retain the area’s creative resources, either. The Iron Yard has established an accelerator for digital-health startups down the hill from the Showroom, and HUB-BUB has done its part to promote artists in its Showroom gallery and in public spaces. Muralist Molly Rose Freeman is one such artist, whose work adorns the side of the RJ Rockers Brewery.

So—will they stay? Crystal balls and meteorological reports aside, it’s hard to predict the future. But the Grain District is a good bet they will.

Mill Village: Hip, creative spaces have set up shop in Spartanburg’s Grain District (marked by Spring, West St. John, and West Henry streets): (this page, from far left) a mural along S Daniel Morgan Ave; Little River Roasting Coffee Bar; (opposite, clockwise from top left) Cakehead Bakeshop; the HUB-BUB Showroom; HUB City Bookshop; coworking space at The Iron Yard; the Masonic Temple on W Main St

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he fact that urban-chic boutique We Took to the Woods is located in a refurbished former pawnshop says a thing or two about its style and scope— a balance of raw and refined. Walking in is like stepping into an Aspen cabin, warmth taking over before any itch to browse. Then, you spot the goods—smart domestic and international finds, both old and new, precisely placed and fitting every nook and cranny. The feeling is of being in the well-appointed home of a friend whose loot you secretly wish to swipe, or at least discreetly envy. Luckily, no discretion—or deception—is necessary here: most everything is for sale.

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This season—October through December—We Took to the Woods will embrace another urban trend: the pop-up shop. A temporary location will appear in The Village of West Greenville, in the studio of photographer J. Aaron Greene. It will have a funkier, bohemian style, carrying Nashvillebased designer Imogene & Willie, vintage jewelry, and more, and will serve Stumptown coffee. All the more reason to come in while it’s hot.

1 JOHNSTONS OF ELGIN ALPACA RUG, $227 2 STUMPTOWN7 COFFEE ROASTERS WHOLE BEAN COFFEE, MARKET PRICE 3 ANTIQUE MINIATURE LOG CABIN, MADE CIRCA LATE 1800S, $1,850 4 VINTAGE FLASKS, $75 - $350 5 MAST BROTHERS CHOCOLATES, $ 8 - $12

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s kids growing up in a small, Southern town, my friends and I approached Halloween strictly as a candygathering operation. Candy was the main objective and wearing a disguise merely an added bonus. Looking back, it seems odd that children who were constantly told not to take candy from strangers were, on this particular night, actually encouraged to do so. Of course some neighborhood kids would waste the fruitful hours of Halloween night egging houses or threading toilet paper through trees, but we shook our heads at their shortsightedness. Mischief was available any time; freeflowing candy came but once a year.

For several years, the operation remained the same. We would meet at my house to don our costumes and pick at whatever snacks my mother had put out for my friends’ parents, usually Ritz crackers and a brick of cream cheese topped with pepper jelly (the late ’70s were not exactly the golden age of hors d’oeuvres). Then, splitting into groups of two (trial and error had taught us smaller groups equaled more candy per person), we would blanket the neighborhood, buzzing from door to door like bees collecting pollen.

When our bags were overflowing, we would reassemble at my house and spread our bounty on the red shag carpet of my parents’ rumpus room. Here we would separate the wheat from

the chaff, organizing our harvest in order of value—high: fullsize candy bars and packs of bubblegum; low: pencils, boxes of raisins, and apples. Everything else fell somewhere in between.

Then a complex trading ritual would commence. To someone unfamiliar with Halloween this would be a bizarre sight: small cowboys, superheroes, and vampires sitting crossed-legged on the floor, bartering Gobstoppers and Pop Rocks. All this taking place while the grown-ups sat in the “formal” living room, drinking whiskey sours and listening to Percy Faith 8-tracks.

Thirty-five years later, I still get excited about Halloween and choose to celebrate it much the way my parents did, at home with a few good friends waiting for a new generation of trickor-treaters to ring the doorbell. I always wear a costume, and in past years have answered the door dressed as everything from Britney Spears, à la “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” to a Franciscan friar. This year, thanks to my friend Lydia at the Costume Curio on Laurens Road, I will be entertaining guests as Oscar Wilde in a frock coat, thin-striped black pants, cravat, and ankle boots, plus a glass of absinthe to complete the effect.

I can’t wait to see the looks in the children’s eyes when I open the door and reply to their query of “Trick or treat?” with a witty, Wilde quote, a box of raisins, and a pencil. Is it just me, or do kids eat way too much candy these days?

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eer City USA, Freakiest City in America, Best Place to Start a Fall Foliage Tour. Asheville, North Carolina, has been hailed as all these things and more. And if you’ve lived in Greenville for any length of time, chances are you’ve visited our artsy neighbor, 63 miles to the north, at least once. Just when you think you know Asheville, however, this liberal-minded town wrapped in the arms of the Blue Ridge Mountains pulls a new trick out of its sleeve.

Take the River Arts District (aka RAD), for instance.

Occupying a group of late-nineteenth-century industrial structures, this area just southwest of downtown spreads over both sides of the railroad tracks along the French Broad River.

Here, 23 historic buildings house more than 180 artists who manipulate a mix of media from jewelry and textiles to metal sculpture and raku pottery.

Many of the studios are open daily, but during the second weekends of June and November, all studios open to visitors for the semi-annual Studio Stroll. If you go, stop by the event’s information booth, at the five points intersection of Depot Street, for a map and studio guide. Parking is free, and you can hop on the trolley (also free) that circulates around the district during Stroll weekends.

Don’t think you’re stranded when lunchtime rolls around.

Behind Hatchery Studios (Roberts and W Haywood sts), White Duck Taco Shop serves the likes of duck with mole, and Bangkok shrimp tacos at picnic tables outside. Across from Curve (Lyman St and Riverside Dr), 12 Bones barbecue won the presidential seal of approval when President Obama ate there. You’ll know why after you taste a rack of ribs doused with the house blueberry chipotle barbecue sauce and a side of the Damn Good Corn Puddin’, which does delicious credit to its name. New to the ’hood, Bull and Beggar (37 Payne’s Way) is a tasty partnership between Drew Wallace, creator of The Admiral, and Matt Dawes, the former chef at Table.

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Shape Shifter: Asheville’s many tastes on display (clockwise, from top left): fossilized seashells at Cornerstone Minerals; charred octopus with giant lima beans from Bull & Beggar; sake at Ben’s TuneUp; indie vinyl at Harvest Records; the Grand Bohemian Hotel’s private dining room; the historic Black Walnut Inn

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Boasting the motto, “Beer Is Art,” Wedge Brewing Company slips seamlessly into the lower level of The Wedge studio building. In addition to producing IPAs, pilsners, porters, and more, the brewery hosts live music on Tuesday nights, as well as a summer outdoor film series. Food trucks roll in on a regular basis, providing sustenance to pair with the eight beers on tap. Wedge Brewing is just one of 16 microbreweries (and counting) in Asheville, with names like Wicked Weed, Thirsty Monk, and Burial (new to the edgy South Slope neighborhood on the fringe of downtown). Remarkably, Asheville surpasses Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado, for the number of brew pubs per capita within the city limits. Sample your way through several of them on the Brews Cruise, which affords an insider’s glimpse of Asheville’s local beer scene.

Oenophiles unwind with a good book and a glass of bubbly at the dog-friendly Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne Bar, which nestles amid other shops and restaurants downtown in the 1929 Grove Arcade. The novel concept joins two levels of bookshelves, punctuated by comfy seating areas, with a wine and espresso bar. Chocoholics get their fix at the French Broad Chocolate Lounge on South Lexington Avenue in the form of hand-crafted, bean-to-bar bonbons.

At its core, Asheville retains all the tried-and-true attractions that have been bringing folks here for decades, the foremost of which is the Biltmore Estate. A site for all seasons, the largest private residence in North America was built by George W. Vanderbilt in 1895. In autumn, the Architect’s Tour, which accesses the mansion’s rooftop, affords a stunning perspective on the area’s brilliant foliage.

Vanderbilt also erected the fan-shaped village across from the estate’s entrance in the 1890s as a self-sustaining community. Now a lovely little shopping venue, Biltmore Village retains a few of its original structures, notably the red brick All Souls Cathedral, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and consecrated in 1896 as the Vanderbilt’s parish church.

Hit more of the city’s highlights aboard LaZoom’s big purple bus. Incorporating a little history and a lot of laughs, LaZoom Tours pass the house where Thomas Wolfe grew up and used as the setting of his novel Look Homeward, Angel, and the hospital where Zelda Fitzgerald (F. Scott’s wife) died.

You’ll also find out why Asheville claims the second-largest collection of Art Deco buildings in the United States, after Miami, Florida (strapped by Depression-era debt, the city didn’t have the money to tear down the old buildings).

Today, though, Asheville relishes its historic architecture almost as much as its counter-cultural vibe. Witness the drum circle downtown on Friday nights, shops filled with tie-dyed clothing, a salt-cave spa, independent films screened at the Fine Arts Theatre, and so many alternative-medicine practitioners that, as our LaZoom guide quipped: “You can’t swing a massage therapist here without hitting an acupuncturist.”

Surprised yet? No matter how many times you’ve driven up to this mountain haven, there’s always a new reason to go back. That’s the magic of Asheville.

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EAT Ben’s Tune-Up New to the up-and-coming South Slope neighborhood, this former auto-repair shop now serves ramen, yakitori, and other Japanese pub fare crafted by Elliott Moss, former chef at The Admiral. 195 Hilliard Ave. (828) 424-7580, benstuneup.com Chai Pani Chaat (Indian street food), including samosas and pakoras, make satisfying snacks at this inexpensive downtown eatery. 22 Battery Park Ave. (828) 254-4003, chaipani.net Cúrate Don’t miss Chef Katie Button’s memorable tapas, from nutty jamón Ibérico de Bellota to sweet crema Catalana. 11 Biltmore Ave. (828) 239-2946, curatetapasbar.com PLAY Biltmore Estate Guided horseback trail rides and river float trips through the 8,000-acre estate grounds take visitors off the beaten path to revel in fall foliage. 1 Lodge St, entrance off US-25. (828) 225-1333, biltmore.com Blue Ridge Parkway The 90-mile stretch from Asheville to Cherokee of this 469-mile scenic drive boasts the Parkway’s highest overlooks—perfect places for fall leaf-peeping. Enter the parkway at US-25 in south Asheville. (828) 298-0398, blueridgeparkway.org French Broad Chocolate Factory Reserve Saturday at 2pm for an hour-long tour of French Broad’s bean-to-bar chocolate-making process, which ends with a mouth-watering chocolate tasting. 21 Buxton Ave. (828) 505-4996, frenchbroadchocolates.com SHOP Cornerstone Minerals Whether you’re hunting for gemstone amulets, ammonites, or onyx wine goblets, you’ll find them in this downtown shop. 52 N Lexington Ave. (828) 225-3888, cornerstoneminerals.com Harvest Records Indie rockers dropping by to look for used vinyl have been known to give impromptu performances at this West Asheville record emporium. 415-B Haywood Rd. (828) 258-2999, harvestrecords.com Old North Clothing From field jackets and jeans to work boots and Moonshine cologne, Old North stocks “rugged clothes for rugged men.”

182 N Lexington Ave. (828) 505-6495, oldnorthclothing.com STAY The Black Walnut Inn This sprawling 1899 home in the historic Montford neighborhood offers eight luxurious rooms, two of which are pet-friendly suites in the renovated carriage house. 1288 Montford Ave. (800) 3813878, blackwalnut.com Grand Bohemian Hotel In Biltmore Village, this Tudor-style boutique hotel sports a wilderness-lodge décor, highlighted by an open-stone fireplace in the lobby and taxidermy throughout. 11 Boston Way. (828) 5052949, bohemianhotelasheville.com Omni Grove Park Inn Perched high on Sunset Mountain, the 100-year-old stone hotel (recently purchased by Omni) holds the world’s largest collection of Arts and Crafts furnishings. 290 Macon Ave. (828) 252-2711, groveparkinn.com OCTOBER 2013 / 69

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SPRING POPS IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE— AND AN ORDINARY DAY CAN CHANGE JUST THE SAME. FASHION SMACKS OF CLASSIC LINES WITH A SPARK. FROM DARK TO LIGHT AND DAWN TO DUSK, IT’S A NEW BEGINNING.

Photography by PATRICK CAVAN BROWN Styling by SPENCER ZETTLER Hair by JUSTIN TUCKER Make-up by CRYSTAL BOYD, LASHBAR DOWNTOWN WHITE SPACE Winter whites and creams give a gentrified, ultra-luxe makeover to Americana with hints of Downton Abbey.

Sweater, $796, and skirt, $360, both by Chanel; from Labels Designer Consignments. Vegan leather cutout top, $179, by BCBG; from Augusta Twenty.

Leather brogues are the stylist’s own.

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GREY SCALE Cropped proportions, geometric patterns, and leather accents give this black, white, and grey palette an irreverent nonchalance.

Vest, $525, by Rebecca Taylor; patterned blouse, $125, by Patterson J Kincaid; leather shorts, $295, by Tibi; all from Augusta Twenty.

Boots, $35, from Target.

Black handbag, $225, by Z Spoke; bone handbag, $1,399, by Chanel; maroon handbag, $359, by Tory Burch; all from Labels Designer Consignments.

Green handbag, $550, by Tory Burch; from Monkee’s of the West End. FRAME WORK High, embellished necklines set striking facial features as the main attraction.

Silk blouse, $695; from Coplon’s.

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LIQUID GOLD An architectural back flows seamlessly into bold molten metallics.

PATTERN MADNESS Complementary palettes form the bedrock of mixing and matching patterns.

Sequined gown, call for cost; from Gregory Ellenburg.

Coat, $550, by Clover Canyon; leopard blouse, $650; both from Coplon’s. Vintage trousers are the stylist’s own.

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SHEER ALLURE Peek-through lace over leather layers femininity with edge.

PURPLE REIGN Not your traditional suede, vibrant hues lend a futuristic and warrioresque silhouette.

Lace coat, $255, by Per Se; from Labels Designer Consignments.

Turtleneck, $95, by Vince; from Augusta Twenty. Leather leggings, $140; from Coplon’s.

Purple suede dress, $1,000, by Shoshanna; from Monkee’s of the West End. Gold wedges, $448, by Pura Lopez; from Coplon’s.

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LUXE PUNK Attitude by way of goth glamour and rock ’n’ roll chic.

Fur coat, $425, by Twelfth Street

by Cynthia Vincent; lace blouse, $178, by BCBG; both from Augusta Twenty. Skirt, $325, by Chanel; from Labels Designer Consignments. Wolf head clutch, $50; from Monkee’s of the West End. Boots are the stylist’s own.

POWER MOVES Clean lines, restrained tailoring, and subtle details remixed in simple black.

Blazer, $425, and tuxedo pants, $275, both by Vince; from Augusta Twenty. Fedora, button-up shirt, tie, and leopard print belt are the stylist’s own.

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AUGUSTA TWENTY 20 Augusta St, Greenville.

(864) 233-2600, augustatwenty.com COPLON’S 1922 Augusta St, Greenville.

(864) 271-1600, coplons.com GREGORY ELLENBURG 119 Cleveland St, Greenville.

(864) 298-0072, gregoryellenburg.com LABELS DESIGNER CONSIGNMENTS 1922 Augusta St, Greenville.

(864) 631-1919 MONKEE’S OF THE WEST END 103 Augusta St, Ste A, Greenville. (864) 239-0788, monkeesofthewestend.com

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Mod ern spin LUXURY TAKES A NEW TURN IN THE RECENTLY OPENED HOTEL DOMESTIQUE, OUTSIDE OF TRAVELERS REST. BROTHERS RICH AND GEORGE HINCAPIE, OF INTERNATIONAL CYCLING FAME, ENLISTED A VERITABLE DREAM TEAM TO TRANSFORM THE PROPERTY ONCE CALLED LA BASTIDE. DESIGNER ERIC BROWN’S VISION OF CLASSIC-MEETSMODERN WHISKS GUESTS TO A EUROPEAN GETAWAY—THAT’S, THANKFULLY FOR US, CLOSE TO HOME.

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rom the pebbled terrace gazing across Mediterranean plantings, handsome potted topiaries, a modernist reflecting pool akin to a kinetic water sculpture when running, and manicured vineyards, one can almost smell the scent of lavender fields just over the horizon. But this is not Provence, and neighboring fields are far more likely to grow apples and corn than French lavender, for these are the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Upstate South Carolina—not the South of France.

One could, of course, be forgiven for falling into such reverie over this place-out-of-time, perhaps penultimate proof that the new Hotel Domestique near Travelers Rest is both transportive and transformative. Drawing on a triumvirate of talent in design, food, and management, business partners Rich and George Hincapie (of Tour de France fame) with Peter Gilgan have put together a team of experts in Greenville designer Eric Brown, general manager Richard Jardin, and executive chef Adam Cooke, who carry the vision of this boutique hotel forward.

Once a formal, somewhat Old World setting, in its previous incarnation as La Bastide—a chintz-andbrocade-heavy French-themed bed and breakfast—Hotel Domestique is poised to be a forerunner in the luxury boutique-hotel industry, where high style, experiential retreat, award-winning cuisine, and relaxation meet under one roof.

Domestique purports to be more than just a collection of well-appointed guest rooms. Think cycling trails (including a bike shop, on-staff mechanic, staff-led rides), top-chef-run restaurant, cooking classes, photography seminars, stylish wine bar, modern art, rustic outdoor pizza oven, and poolside cabana cocktails, with lush views of mountains—all a mere 20 minutes from downtown Greenville.

While cycling will play a major role in the realm of activities, it is not the focal point of this Hincapie project.

Explains Rich Hincapie, “It was important to us to represent who George and I are, but our cycling friends will walk in and see that there is nothing cycling-related here—no cycling art or framed jerseys—almost the opposite of what people thought we might have done.”

Nothing really “screams” cycling he notes, but rather embodies the youthful, sporty, fashion-forward, international lifestyle that the athletic brothers represent.

Even the name “Domestique” sounds appropriately French, but in the cycling world the term refers to the lead cyclist on a team who pushes aside the air in front of him, allowing the teammates behind him to ride in his slipstream. George Hincapie rose to fame as one of the best domestiques of his era.

ENTER DESIGNER ERIC BROWN

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HE MOST REMARKABLE CHANGES TO THE VENUE ARE READILY VISIBLE—A NEW RESTAURANT ADDITION, LUXURIOUS POOL, ELEGANT PATIO TERRACE, AND COMPLETELY REMODELED INTERIOR. TOUR DE FORCE GREENVILLE DESIGNER ERIC BROWN, KNOWN FOR HIS COMBINATION OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN, NARRATIVE, AND “ABSTRACT HISTORICISM,” HAS BEEN THE GALVANIZING INFLUENCE BEHIND COLOR, THEME, ART, AND ATMOSPHERE.

“Often we see someone’s concept of what they think ‘European design’ should be,” says Brown, referring to the building’s past, “but it is often a static interpretation, when European style today is very modern and forward-thinking.

“Europeans don’t freeze in time. Just look at the glass pyramids outside the Louvre, or the modern glass and mirror dome on the Reichstag in Berlin,” he contends.

Having created George Hincapie’s Italianate villa at Montebello with more than a nod to contemporary Italian design, Brown had a well-established feel for the Hincapie-family aesthetic.

While Domestique is not so much French as it is fresh, modern European—much like what would be experienced by George Hincapie on international travels during his cycling career—it speaks to all young, welltraveled folk, or those who want to be.

“Eric is not a typical Southern designer,” says Rich Hincapie. “He’s very New York–chic, sophisticated, with great design skills and a great eye. It’s hard to find a designer to pull out what George and I had in our heads. We wanted what we got. But how do you make that happen—Old World mixed with new world—which would be easier to do when building a facility from scratch?” he marvels.

“When we sat down with Eric, he really got that. He knew immediately what we wanted,” Hincapie reflects.

“The first idea he sketched out was the courtyard water feature to maximize the view. He nailed it on the first try.”

One long evening some four years ago at the beginning of the project, the team brainstormed design concepts around the dinner table. Brown came back after the weekend with many precise drawings, which are close to the exact design as it stands today.

“I think better with pen and paper,” says the genteel designer, reclining on a sofa in his second-floor East Washington Street studio.

INSIDE OUT: Contemporary art punctuates the minimalist, earthentoned interior, while the courtyard water feature adds a kinetic touch to the unimpeded view of the Blue Ridge.

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While Domestique is not so much French as it is fresh, modern European—much like what would be experienced by George Hincapie on international travels during his cycling career—it speaks to all young, well-traveled folk, or those who want to be.

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FIRST DRAFT: After initial talks to purchase and transform the property, Brown created several precise drawings, including this detailed rendering of the hotel’s reconceived grounds. The samples reflect the color and textural schemes throughout.

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A student of both art and history, many of Brown’s designs carry a narrative with dramatic arcs throughout a project, circling back around to a common theme.

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The Veuve Clicquot bottle’s bright yelloworange label intrigued Brown, who took it to be color-matched for the walls of the hotel’s corridors. The effect is refreshing, clearly modern, setting the dark interior hallways aglow in a perpetual sunrise.

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The Charleston-born, Spartanburg-raised designer indeed cut his teeth on interior design in New York City.

A student of both art and history, many of his designs carry a narrative with dramatic arcs throughout a project, circling back around to a common theme.

While the individual guest rooms of Domestique are kept largely minimalist and de-cluttered—cool earthen tones with contemporary art splashes, French Maisonstyle iron beds, white bedding, understated Ralph Lauren and Thomas O’Brian lamps, a simple gas fireplace—the common areas carry exclamation points of color.

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THEME THAT INSPIRED BROWN WAS THE VEUVE CLICQUOT BOTTLE, FOR EXAMPLE. AN EMPTY BOTTLE SITS ON HIS MARBLE WORKTABLE.

Founded in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot-Muiron, the Rheims Champagne house played a vital role in establishing the beverage as the elixir of nobility throughout Europe. The bottle’s bright yellow-orange label intrigued Brown, who took it to be color-matched for the walls of the hotel’s corridors. The effect is almost shocking upon first introduction, but refreshing, clearly modern, setting the dark interior hallways aglow in a perpetual sunrise.

To complete the circle of Clicquot-inspired imagery, Brown suggested a “bubble” chandelier rising two stories above the dining tables at Restaurant 17 (named for the 17 times George Hincapie was starter for his team in the Tour de France). The hand-blown glass globes sparkle with fiber-optic light and reflect natural light from the windows, as if just released in an energetic burst from their corked confines.

To that end, says Stephanie Bauknight, head of special projects for the Greenville County Museum of Art, “Eric has an innate ability to bring together the world of design, history, and art. Eric grasps not only the history and fundamentals of design, but how to make it work for today’s lifestyle. He’s a true tastemaker.”

Brown sits on the museum’s board and curated a 2012 John Saladino Retrospective, the first of its kind of the international designer’s complete body of work.

CHAMPAGNE TOAST : The hotel’s interior, including its hallways, library, and lobby, reflect Brown’s visual inspiration—the famous orange of the Veuve Clicquot Champagne bottle. Gold accents in the bar (opposite, far left) likewise lend warmth.

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“Like my artists,” states Rupp, “Eric faces a blank canvas with the spirit of exploration and creates something meaningful. His design elements translate into timeless spaces, moving seamlessly between old and new, unity and variety, humble and rare. Beautiful art goes far beyond just an added element for design. Eric gets that.”

Rupp says she introduced many of the artists to Brown, resulting in the inclusion of Paul Yanko’s geometrically-patterned, mixed-media paintings for the bedrooms, which Rupp recognizes as some of the “original works that bring a unity, yet variety to the designs.”

The contemporary pen-and-ink drawings and mixedmedia works of listed artists from Hampton III Gallery imbue the upstairs with a sleek, museum-corridor quality.

For now, the art leans towards the contemporary— abstract, linear, blacks, whites, greys—but that, too, will change, says Brown, noting that the museum-quality art will be rotated out on a revolving basis, available for guests to acquire, as well.

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HAT THE ART WILL CHANGE AND INDIVIDUAL ROOMS DIFFER IN MOOD FROM THE EXPRESSIVE PUBLIC AREAS IS RIGHT ON PAR WITH A CUSTOMIZED EXPERIENCE FOR EACH VISITOR.

General manager Richard Jardin, a 20-year boutique hospitality veteran and graduate of Cornell University’s prestigious hotel school, points out the reason for paring down to the essence in the guest rooms.

“People’s lives are so cluttered, the idea is for them to come here and let it all go,” he explains, suggesting that guests might even feel free to customize their rooms with fresh-picked flowers from the gardens, for example. A warm, gunmetal gray wraps itself around the guestroom walls, while slate bathroom tiles and espresso-brown poured-concrete sinks give way to a mosaic of smooth river stones in the showers. Luxurious elements like the Parisian Hermès bathroom amenities pamper guests, just like requests can be made at the tap of a touch screen, via

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the in-room iPads on which guests will actually check in.

“That way it’s a much less formal check-in process,” Jardin says. “Travel-weary guests can get to their rooms, decompress, freshen up, as they check in at their own pace. We’ll be able to tailor the wishes to each guest, know their likes and dislikes while they are here, and when they come back.”

Jardin, who most recently ran a consulting company for the boutique hospitality field, comes to Domestique with a background managing The Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Virginia, the number-one boutique hotel and restaurant in the country at the time, as well as managing the famed Peninsula Grill in Charleston.

When guests repair to the common areas—much like being a guest in someone’s home during a weekend house-party, says Jardin—they can relax in the wine bar, enjoy John Acorn’s sculptural works, and leaf through a book plucked from a shelf, that is itself made to look like a giant book, in the library.

Eric Brown’s whimsical side comes through here—a nod to French Art Deco merging with the later era of French surrealism à la Rene Magritte. “It is a vast difference to the dark library that was here before,” says Brown on a recent tour of the property, recalling the dimly lit, darkly stained wood space that is now a light, peppy room with swooping, contemporary wing-backed chairs in cream.

“I definitely wanted to keep an appreciation of the building’s ‘imagined’ past history,” he muses. Were this a structure of its chronological architectural era in France, he contends, certainly the owners would have updated the home/petit chateau/manor over the decades as per the fashion.

“There would be touches of updating—so we pay homage to that with a bit of Art Deco in the library and the wine bar,” he says, spinning another delightful narrative, gifting a place without actual history, its own story.

Likewise Modernism and even Mid-Century design sneaks into the Cubist, eco-farmed exotic wood console in the foyer. Just above it is a boldly colorful, near-Fauvist portrait by Philip Morsberger.

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EFORE HEADING TO DINNER IN RESTAURANT 17, BROWN ENVISIONED GUESTS RECLINING ON A SOFT, GREY FELT SOFA AND CREAMY IVORY OTTOMAN SURROUNDED BY TANGERINE “CHAIR SCULPTURES,” WHOSE WOVEN SEATS ASCEND INTO TWIG FORMATIONS. THE OUTRÉ TWIG CHAIRS THAT BROWN CHOSE SO CAPTIVATED THE PARTNERS THAT A SINGLE ONE BECAME THE HOTEL’S SIGNATURE LOGO.

“They’re not the most comfortable,” Brown allows, “but you’re going to be perching on them for a 20-minute conversation, and then off to the next thing.”

Which may very well be dinner under the care of executive chef Adam Cooke. Leaving the plates a crisp white and color accents close to nature, Brown presents a soft backdrop for Cooke’s sensational culinary creations where “the food will be the art.”

Cooke, named one of 40 Chefs under 40 by the Mother Nature Network while working at the renowned Barn at Blackberry Farm in Tennessee, beat out other formidable contenders to head Restaurant 17’s kitchen.

“Finding Adam took four months,” Rich Hincapie admits. “We’d find chefs that cook fantastic, but didn’t really fit our image. At end of the day, we are Hincapie Sportswear and Cycling. There’s an image of the family, and we’re pretty particular and picky and knew that the person had to be personable, young, hip, hardworking, cool . . . We wanted people who related to the high-end racers we’ll be bringing up here like we do; not a chef in the kitchen who you’d never see, never had access to.

We found this in Adam, before he even cooked for us.”

For his part, Cooke is energized to let the market drive his menu, excited about growing a kitchen garden on the property, but also working consistently with local farmers to bring in the most seasonally-fresh produce.

“My ingredient combinations won’t be outlandish— here it’s about clean and delicious flavors,” he reflects.

Elk carpaccio with blood orange, horseradish, and pea shoots, or rabbit meatballs with peas, sage, and wild leeks, Cooke has already pinpointed for the menu, for example. Jardin, also a sommelier, will work with Cooke to create signature, custom-infused cocktails and an enviable wine list.

Breakfast from smoked-trout pastrami and duck-egg biscuits to homemade pastry and preserves will be served informally to guests anywhere on property. Cooke will also make lunches in the outdoor wood-burning oven, as well as teach cooking seminars from there.

Most guests will want at least one dining room experience, though, since designer Eric Brown is also putting the finishing touch here—bringing the outdoors in with a state-of-the-art, multi-media projection wall to display mesmerizing shadow imagery or artistic color schemes that change by season or by whim, which, like Hotel Domestique and its grand design, will weave stories to establish its sense of place and time.

CHAMBER MADE: Guests at Hotel Domestique are encouraged to create their own experience by checking in at their leisure via inroom iPads or by arranging fresh flowers from the gardens outside.

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“I definitely wanted to keep an appreciation of the building’s ‘imagined’ past history,” Brown muses. Were this a structure of its chronological architectural era in France, he contends, certainly the owners would have updated it over the decades as per the fashion.

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WHO’S WHO? ARE YOU?

THE SPARK STARTERS. THE NOISEMAKERS. THE GAME CHANGERS. The UBJ Who’s Who recognizes the people in our community who are committed to advancing their fields. Whether new on the scene or veterans in the trenches, they’re the professional to look out for and look up to. Their names are on the tips of colleague’s tongues for making strides in pushing their organizations, their professions, and our community to the next level. They’re asking hard questions and finding solid solutions.

Many have gone uncelebrated. Until now.

NOMINATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM

SEPTEMBER 20-NOVEMBER 8 FORMS CAN BE FILLED OUT ON: upstatebusinessjournal.com/whos-who OR MAILED TO: Community Journals, LLC ATTN: Kate Banner 148 River Street, Suite 120 Greenville, SC 29601

A third party panel of Community Leaders will select 8 “Who’s Who” recipients, from the nominations submitted, that will be announced in February 2014.

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Dr. Chowdhary can fix broken bones or help you recover from injury in her real career at GHS, but she enjoys the occasional“sleep in”on her day off.

Job she wanted to do when little: marine biologist.

• Skort, blouse & clutch from Traveling Chic Boutique; Shoes from MUSE Shoe Studio This ballerina wannabe is a Virgo who loves shoes!

When she is not trying to figure out her favorite Greenville restaurant (there are too many good ones), she’s excercising and walking her Westie. She’s a city girl with lots to do, but loves the mountains and the beach for relaxing.

• Dress, handbag, jewelry from Augusta 20; Shoes from MUSE Shoe Studio Instead of being the President she thought she would grow up to be, Dr. Thurston might be bringing a future Commander in chief into the world in her GHS ObGyn medical practice. But when she is not, this Aquarius is true to the sign, loving a hot bath or trip to the beach. Combing the city for a great handbag or tote also makes her stylish and happy. For solo time, it’ s running with her music—there’s a reason it’s called“i”tunes!

• Jacket, skirt, pants, black handbag from Sassy On Augusta; Shoes from MUSE Shoe Studio; Tan handbag from coxleather.com Perhaps it’s because she wanted to grow up to be a clothing designer, this Gemini is happy shopping in Greenville (especially Monkees!), dining in her favorite restaurant, Breakwater, and is a city girl through and through. But family is important too, and in her free time, she is often found playing with her nieces and nephew.

• Blouse, skirt, boots, necklace from Monkee’s of the West End; Handbag from Postcard from Paris Cette belle francaise is drawn to the beauty of both mountains and the beach and loves animals so much she wanted to grow up to be a veterinarian. But this mother of two (and dog!) spends her spare time punching the bag(boxing! Watch out!!) and shopping particularly for shoes and perfume. Wellheeled and smelling good, her favorite past time is sitting by a pool with dear friends and a cold bottle of rosé. Voila.

• Dress, bracelet from WISH; Handbag from CUSTARD Boutique; Shoes from MUSE Shoe Studio

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The Admiral in Asheville delivers upscale food in lowbrow digs

Sweet Deal: Veal sweetbreads with fried justo cheese, egg, grilled peach, and honey-sesame gastrique

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Captain’s Table The Admiral in West Asheville is as eclectic (and appealing) as its locale / by Steven Tingle

asparagus, remoulade, and chanterelles topped with a brown-butter sauce and bacon breadcrumbs, as well as a Heritage Farms pork chop served with dirty rice, crispy andouille, bread and butter pickles, and a buttermilk biscuit. To get the most out of The Admiral experience, the “Tastes” and “Small Plates” menu items deliver a good bang for your buck. Items such as Ricotta Gnocchi, House Smoked Duck, and Short Rib Ropa Vieja are large enough to share.

Of course all of this should be enjoyed with a glass of wine, a local beer, or one of The Admiral’s craft cocktails. But as you savor the veal sweetbreads or decipher the flavors of the curry corn bisque, look around and remember where you are: a cinderblock building in West Asheville. So go with it and order a PBR.

The Admiral, 400 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC. (828) 252-2541, theadmiralnc.com Open daily, 5–10pm Tastes and small plates, $8–$15; entrées, $20–$30

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here are many adjectives to accurately describe Asheville’s flourishing culinary scene: eclectic, diverse, trendy, extraordinary, bizarre, offbeat, delectable. But only one Asheville restaurant is all of those things at once. Located in a cinderblock bunker in the hipster haven known as West Asheville, The Admiral is a six-year-old oddity that has to be experienced to be believed.

If you judge a book by its cover, you may want to close your eyes while pulling into The Admiral’s parking lot. Hidden between a barbed-wire-protected body shop and a shady-looking convenience store, the restaurant itself could be mistaken for a pawn shop or bail bondmen’s office. Inside, the look is pure “dive bar” with a low, drop ceiling and mismatched furnishings. An old, neon Budweiser sign hangs in the corner, the well-known script lettering creatively blacked out so only the word “dive” proudly glows. In a newer place this type of decor would be considered “ironic,” but for The Admiral it’s dead-on authentic.

Twenty-seven-year-old Ivan Candido took over the reins as head chef in March of this year with the tall order to continue the restaurant’s gastronomic inventiveness. Candido’s menu changes daily and represents a creative yet simple style of cooking that crosses continents and traditions. Recent items include crab cake ravioli with

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Chop Talk: The Admiral’s menu changes daily, based on seasonal produce and the chef’s whims; recent dishes include the Heritage Farms pork chop with andouille jambalaya and grilled radicchio, (opposite, from left) housesmoked duck with fennel espuma, and house-made bratwurst with pumperknickel and a smoked cheddar witbier sauce; enjoy inventive cocktails in The Admiral’s dive-chic interior.

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here isn’t a recipe for meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, or even a dessert that wouldn’t be enhanced by a sprinkle of the Spice & Tea Exchange’s bountiful offerings. This recently opened addition to Greenville’s culinary scene on Main Street is an olfactory delight.

Sourced from all over the globe, you’ll find the tempting and the tasty—from seasonings, rubs, spices, sugars, and salts to herbs, extracts, and teas—in addition to gourmet and gift accessories like grinders and mills. Searching for Habanero or Salted Caramel Sugar? Check. Malaysian Ginger Curry Powder or Ghost Pepper Salt? Check.

Originally opened in Florida in 2003, the Spice & Tea Exchange is now a franchise operation with stores in more than 30 cities, due to its initial success. Greenville owner Bob Long’s third Spice & Tea Exchange store was a natural outgrowth of his passion for seasonings. “I’m a grillmaster, and I was always looking for something to season the grill items. I’m proudest of our custom, handmade blends done right here in the store. Our signature Espresso Steak blend is amazing.”

With more than 600 items (there are 17 sugars alone), freshness and quality are the hallmarks here.

Luckily, customers don’t have to buy huge quantities; purchasing small, one-ounce packets is a great way to sample a dizzying array of edible delights.

Dip in by trying the best-selling Black Truffle Salt.

Your popcorn will never be the same.

The Spice & Tea Exchange 124 N Main St, Greenville.

(864) 509-0125, spiceandtea.com

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Second Annual Polo Classic benefitting the Greenville Health System Neurological Institute

Join us at Historic Hopkins Farm

Sunday, October 20th | 2:00 pm Simpsonville, SC Tickets are $25

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Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin

This hazy orange pour certainly looks the part of a fall beer. Vanilla and cinnamon notes provide a nice sweetness, but don’t take the spotlight away from a full roasted pumpkin flavor. Easydrinking with a nice, long finish that leaves you feeling satisfied without being overfull. $8 for a 22oz growler

Terrapin Pumpkinfest

The beginning of October presents a bit of a pickle.

The calendar says autumn, but daytime temperatures feel like summer. Juggle this contradiction with Terrapin’s lighter, lagerstyle beer, complete with hints of pumpkin, cinnamon, and vanilla.

Just enough to get you in the mood without weighing you down. $8-$9 for a 4-pack of 12oz bottles

Spicy Suds A seasonal favorite traces its origins back to colonial America

Anderson Valley Fall Hornin’ Pumpkin Ale

Available in South Carolina for the first time, Anderson Valley’s take on the pumpkin ale hits a nice middle ground with a creamy texture wrapped around cinnamon and nutmeg highlights with a hoppy finish. Earthy, like going to your local pumpkin patch and handpicking a jacko’-lantern. $12 for a 6-pack of 12oz bottles

Southern Tier Pumking

An undeniable heavyweight on the sales charts and in your mouth, the perennially popular Pumking is the epitome of what most expect out of a pumpkin ale. The bold flavor is pumpkin pie in its entirety—graham cracker crust included. At 8.6% ABV and in a 22-ounce bottle, it’s a substantial commitment, but don’t let that stop you from

pairing it with dessert. $8 for a 22oz growler

Long before marketing geniuses brought us pumpkin-flavored vodkas, pumpkinscented candles, and pumpkin-spice lattes, the round, orange gourd was used out of necessity. American colonists in the sixteenth-century found the native pumpkin a plentiful ingredient for breads, custards, sauces, molasses,

To sample these beers and other seasonally appropriate beverages, check out: Greenville Beer Exchange, 7 S Laurens St, Ste 101-A, Greenville. (864) 232-3533, greenvillebeerexchange. com; Community Tap, 205 Wade Hampton Blvd, Greenville. (864) 631-2525; The Growler Station, 109 Augusta St, Greenville.

(864) 400-8327, growlerstation.com; Cork & Tap, 409 Mills Ave, Ste 201, Greenville. (864) 241-2022, corkandtap.com.

Availability varies.

and even vinegar. It was only a matter of time before pumpkins found their way into beer recipes as a way around the New World’s scarce supply of malt.

Give thanks for this seasonal treat and raise a pint to the forefathers who first engineered this spiced-up beverage.

—Andrew Huang

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PAPI’S TACOS

Papi’s Tacos in downtown Greenville is a food truck in disguise Something new is cooking inside the little storefront next to O-CHA Tea Bar at RiverPlace. If you guessed pork al pastor and chicken barbacoa, you’ve hit the piñata on the head. Papi’s Tacos, a “taco truck without wheels” (as owner Carl Sobocinski calls it), opened in late August as the newest member of the Table 301 group.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Papi (aka Jorge Barrales), and you’ll find him in the tiny kitchen behind the counter, where he whips up tacos and tortas (Mexican sandwiches), and homemade salsas. This is the real deal: delicious, rustic food like peanut salsa and barbacoa made with anise-scented, dried, Mexican avocado leaves. Peanut salsa, authentic to Papi’s native Morelos region of south-central Mexico, takes its deep-red hue from guajillo peppers. The taste is nutty and slightly bitter, with a hit of heat to finish. Wash it down with horchata, a sweet, milkbased beverage made with rice and flavored with cinnamon, or an agua fresca, in exotic flavors like tamarindo. And you can still buy gelato here, though in addition to the flavors you’re used to seeing, you might find Mexican-inspired varieties such as horchata, Mexican chocolate, and tamarind.

Bright murals line the walls of the compact space, along with two gentlemen’s bars (where you can eat standing up) and limited seating. The murals, actually giant stickers, began as original paintings by Greg Ramsey of Brains on Fire, and were then digitized and reproduced as adhesive panels.

As for Papi, he’s thrilled to have his own taqueria after 16 years with the Table 301 group (he’s the guy who made those garlic-cheese biscuits at Soby’s that we all love so much). “Growing up, I was always in the kitchen when my mother and grandmother were cooking,” he says. “Like them, I put lots of love into my food.”

—M. Linda Lee

Taco al pastor, marinated pork, with fresh pineapple, onion, and cilantro, in a homemade corn tortilla

BETWEEN THE BREADS BELLACINO’S PIZZA & GRINDERS

Bellacino’s, in the former historic Carpenter Brother’s Drugstore, specializes in hot, savory sandwiches. Order an Italian Grinder with ham, sausage, salami, onions, and mushrooms piled high atop a toasted sub roll. If you’re not looking for a sandwich, that’s okay too. Pizzas and calzones round out the menu. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 123 S Main St, Greenville. (864) 242-6009, bellacinosupstate.com

$, L, D. 300 River St, Greenville.

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BLUE MARBLE CAFÉ AND BAKERY

BROADWAY BAGELS

Using all-organic products from local farmers, owners Matthew Black and Kimberly Hemby craft signature sandwiches like the B-3 with bacon and brie on a warm baguette, and the portabella patty melt with mushrooms, pepper jack, caramelized onions, and Thousand Island dressing. Blue Marble also sells loaves of their tasty breads so you can stack your very own masterpiece at home. $, B, L. Closed

Crusty yet soft, and always fresh— that’s a quick-and-dirty description for Broadway Bagels. Cut apart and piled with lunchmeat, mixed greens, and every sandwich topping you can imagine, these bagels are a substantial alternative to your run-ofthe-mill deli offering. $, B, L. Closed

Sunday & Monday. 12019A N Radio Station Rd, Seneca. (864) 882-2434, bluemarblebaked.com

Saturday & Sunday. 1200 E Main St, Ste 4, Spartanburg. (864) 591-0058 BRUEGGER’S BAGELS

To get the essence of Bruegger’s, take a bagel recipe from NYC, perfect it over the course of two years, and throw in stone-hearth ovens. In

addition to bagels baked fresh daily, the menu includes other fresh breads, Vermont cream cheeses, breakfast sandwiches, soups, and salads— basically anything to satisfy your workday hunger pangs. $, B, L. 1717 Woodruff Rd, Ste A, Greenville.

(864) 234-1565, brueggers.com

THE CAFÉ AT WILLIAMS HARDWARE

When the McCarrell sisters— Joyce and Nancy—moved back to Travelers Rest and bought the Williams Hardware building, they were interested in bringing back a sense of community to the town.

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BARS, CAFÉS, & RESTAURANTS produce at the center of their efforts, they’ve managed to slow things down so that neighbors and friends can savor meals and enjoy each others’ company at this hometown café. $$, B (Sat-Sun), L (daily). 13 S Main St, Travelers Rest. (864) 834-7888, cafeatwilliamshardware.com THE CLOCK

A Greenville institution, the Clock is more than an old-timey drive-in; it’s a piece of history. In the early ’50s when the place opened on Wade Hampton Boulevard, it was the favorite hangout of local high school students who came here for cheap burgers and shakes.

Today, the modest structure marked by a large towering clock no longer offers drive-in service (you have to go inside to order), but that doesn’t stop fans from coming here for the signature chili cheeseburgers. In case you’re wondering, the Clock takes its name from the original Billy Haley song, “Rock Around the Clock.”

$, L, D. 1844 Wade Hampton Blvd, Greenville. (864) 244-5122 COFFEE TO A TEA

Mornings (and afternoons) are made better at this quaint spot with a focus on local products and healthy options. Start your day with a signature breakfast sandwich or freshly baked cinnamon roll. Lunch shines with a chicken or tuna salad sandwich on house-baked bread. For dessert, try a slice of cake from the rotating counter selection. Gluten-free options abound.

$-$$, B, L. Closed Sunday.

1 Augusta St, Ste 101. (864) 373-9836, coffeetoatea.com ESSO CLUB

This Clemson landmark has been around for decades, since 1933 to be exact. Originally a gas station/general store, the Esso Club has evolved into a renowned sports bar, where students, faculty, players, and alumni congregate to have a brew and rehash the Tigers’ latest victory. Prices cater to light budgets, with few food items over $10.

Burgers, wraps, pizzas, and salads may be preceded with the likes of fried pickle spears and cheese fries. Despite a recent and much-needed renovation, the place keeps its historic mystique in the photos and articles that paper the walls. $, L, D. Closed Sunday. 129 Old Greenville Hwy, #1, Clemson.

(864) 654-5120, theessoclub.com FUNNELICIOUS

Here, fair season lasts all year. Fried desserts like Oreo balls and funnel cake are this Augusta Rd eatery’s specialty.

If you’re looking for something savory, Funnelicious can fill you up with hot soup, fried mac and cheese balls, hot dogs, and sandwiches. $, L, D. 155 Augusta Rd, Greenville. (864) 6311527, funnelicious.com

GRILL MARKS

The newest concept in the Larkin’s family, Grill MARKS marries old-school charm with creative twists for a modern burger joint. Brioche buns sourced from a local baker and 100-percent-certified Angus beef form the base of these succulent burgers. Gourmet cheeses, mushrooms, and bacon round out the list of toppings. Grab a milkshake for the full experience. If you want to experiment, there are also ShakeTails, adult versions of those creamy delights. $$, L, D. 209 S Main St, Greenville.

(864) 233-5825, marksburgers.com GRILLE 33 AT THE CHANNEL

The average burger gets a makeover at Grille 33. Each burger (named after downtown Greenville districts) starts out with an Angus patty before getting a neat twist. Try the Stone, which is topped with cheddar and sandwiched between a glazed donut, or add a little breakfast flavor with the Southern Connector’s waffle, bacon, eggs, and syrup. This restaurant funds the Channel, an all-ages community space and music venue. $-$$, L (Sun–Mon), D (Mon–Sat). 221 N Main St, Greenville. (864) 552-1970, thechannelonline.org/grille-33

GROUCHO’S DELI

Quality is the key ingredient at this deli franchise begun in Columbia in 1941. Specialty sandwiches cover the bases, from the Cole Special Dipper (turkey and bacon crumbles blanketed in cheddar cheese) to the Brown Moose (a roast beef and provolone melt with Groucho’s signature Formula 45 sauce, a spicy, herb-infused blend of Russian and Thousand Island dressings). The recipes for cole slaw, potato salad, and many of the salad/sandwich dressings originated with the founder. $, L, D (closes at 4pm Sun). 20 E Coffee St, Greenville. (864) 552-1541, grouchos.com

KARRIE’S DELI & PUB

The Reuben known as “Pam’s Favorite” is a bit of a misnomer. If you’ve had it, more than likely, it’ll become your favorite as well. This deli’s madeto-order sandwiches are popular with the Furman University set, and experimentation in the kitchen means there’s bound to be an interesting side order on the menu—a BBQ coleslaw, for example. $, L (Mon–Sat), D

(Tues–Fri). Closed Sunday. 5000 Old Buncombe Rd, Greenville. (864) 2353033, karriesdeliandpub.com LEGRAND BAKERY

Where Legrand Bakery is concerned, the answer is always yes. Would you like a crusty baguette? Loaves of buttery brioche? Chocolate-dipped meringues?

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who relocated to Greenville after 16 years of baking excellence in the Loire Valley. Swing by for a light Parisian breakfast of coffee, baguette, butter, and jam if you don’t want to indulge too early. $, B, L. Closed

Sunday. 1818 Augusta St, Ste 106, Greenville. (864) 991-8592, legrandbakery.com LITTLE BISTRO

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Off the beaten path on a sleepy main street in Liberty, this quaint lunch-only spot appeals for its highceiling room hung with antique quilts and decorated with China plates. The generous menu includes homemade sandwiches, salads, soups (and combinations thereof), and quesadillas. Sandwiches come on regular bread or on a 12-inch sub roll, depending on your appetite. Choose from two versions of the popular chicken salad: regular and chunky, the latter deliciously enhanced with walnuts, apples, and grapes. Desserts, made in-house change daily; your server will show you the options. $, L. Closed Saturday & Sunday.

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These days, it almost seems that the tried-and-true combination of ground beef, cheese, and lettuce is the primary shareholder of the taco market. Hoping to change this assumption (and widen your ethnic horizons), The Local Taco offers an eclectic blend of this folded favorite, with unexpected fillings like marinated portabella mushrooms and Philly cheesesteak. The menu also plays nice with classic picks like fish and tequila-lime chicken. $, L, D. 15

Conestee Ave, Greenville. (864) 509-1081, thelocaltaco.com MAC’S DRIVE IN

It may be little, but Mac’s ranch-style, roadside eatery has had a big impact on generations of Clemson-area diners. From soldiers to students, the world has sought out Mac’s for its cheeseburgers, shakes, and sweet tea. The drive-in was established by the late Clemson grad Harold McKeown—aka Mac—in 1956. Grab a seat at the short-order counter, the main place to sit other than the handful of tables on the outdoor patio, and listen to the burgers sizzle on the grill. It’s a sound that never goes out of style. $, L, D. Closed Sunday. 404 Pendleton Rd, Clemson. (864) 654-2845

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MIDTOWN DELI

Life on the go doesn’t have to result in eating poorly, at least when there’s an option like Midtown Deli. There’s a full array of sandwich and Panini varieties—Reuben, club, meatloaf, BLT, Cuban—as well as salads and custom sandwiches. You can also indulge in a little ballpark cuisine with hot dogs smothered in chili or sauerkraut, or dig into a hearty baked

potato. $, B, L. 1022 Woodruff Rd,

Ste B, Greenville. (864) 248-0893, midtowndeli.biz

MOJO’S FAMOUS BURGERS & MORE

This Simpsonville-based chain of burger joints prides itself on serving premium-aged beef, hand-cut fries, onion rings, and thick shakes. Burgers come in abundant incarnations, from the mild Mushroom Swiss burger to the El Diablo (blackened and topped with jalapeños, pepper-jack, and hot sauce). And if you’re into supersizing, the Quadruple Coronary Challenge—clear this with your doctor first!—stacks four “chubby” burgers with American cheese, chili, bacon, and fried eggs between four grilled-cheese sandwiches. It’s not for the faint of heart . . . or appetite. $, L, D. 2541 N Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville. (864) 552-1398, mojosfamousburgers.com

NU-WAY LOUNGE & RESTAURANT

The Nu-Way’s dive-bar atmosphere might not give the impression that it has gastro-pub quality and creativity in the kitchen, but Food Network Magazine named the bar home of South Carolina’s best burger in 2009.

The Redneck Cheeseburger is the star, with hand-patted beef topped with chili and pimiento cheese. $, L,

D. Closed Sunday. 373 E Kennedy St, Spartanburg. (864) 582-9685

PAULISTA’S DELIGHT

The small kitchen and trio of booths are easy to miss amongst the stocked shelves of the Drop-In. But for those who take a closer look, the scrumptious rewards are bountiful.

Owned and run by chef Valeria Rebellato, the diverse menu features plenty of flavorful hands-on treats like tamales, empanadas, and tacos, in addition to a rotating selection of global gourmet done Brazilian, Korean, or Italian style. $, L, D. 709 N

Main St, Greenville. (864) 283-1938 PITA HOUSE

Located at the intersection of Pleasantburg Drive and Faris Road, the Pita House has been familyoperated since 1989. Inside it’s bare bones—plastic booths and simple tables—but the cognoscenti come here for good Middle Eastern fare, such as hummus, falafel, kibbeh, and shwarma. The menu is basically the same for lunch and dinner; if you’re having trouble deciding, go for one of the sampler plates (they may set you back a few more bucks). And save room for baklava and other Mediterranean sweets for dessert.

Want to cook up some authentic dishes at home? Check out the little grocery in the back of the restaurant. $, L, D. Closed Sunday. 495 S. Pleasantburg Dr, #B, Greenville.

(864) 271-9895, pitahousesc.com

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One suspects the chalkboard menu of deli standards (made with gourmet attention to detail) is just pretense for Michelin-rated chef Emmanuel Hodencq’s true love: pastries. After all, you have to view a gauntlet of colorful macarons (rose, pistachio, and salted caramel), flaky croissants, and delicate choux before even getting to the savory stuff. For something more sophisticated than deli sandwiches, stick around for dinner. Beef tartare, risotto with morel cream, and a host of cheese and charcuterie make the cut.

offers a colorful selection of healthy smoothies and juices. The Mean Green Juice blends apples, celery, cucumber, ginger, lemon, and spinach together for a refreshing, cleansing beverage.

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$$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 101 W Camperdown Way, Greenville.

(864) 312-9060, rickerwinsdeli.com SULLY’S STEAMERS

When considering the ingredients for the perfect sandwich, steam isn’t often the first (or even last) thing to come to mind. For Robert Sullivan, hot air is the key to handheld nirvana. With a smorgasbord of ingredients like cut meats, veggies, and homemade cream cheeses, Sully’s stacks up custom bagel sandwiches served piping fresh. There are countless combinations, so plan on more than one visit to turn up the heat. $, B, L, (daily), D (closed Sunday).

6 E Washington St, Greenville.

(864) 509-6061, sullysteamers.com SWAMP RABBIT CAFÉ AND GROCERY

Downtown Greenville, Swamp Rabbit Trail. Grocery store, neighborhood café. Local produce, delicious food.

These intersections are what make the Swamp Rabbit Café a staple. Biking to work? Stop by for breakfast and enjoy fresh baked scones and muffins (made with King Arthur Artisan flour), or enjoy a pogacha (a Turkish pastry stuffed with beef, spinach, and feta) for lunch. And while you’re here, peruse the grocery’s inventory to continue the local trend at home. $, B, L. 205 Cedar Lane Rd, Greenville. (864) 255-3385, swamprabbitcafe.com

TACO CASA

This little red-roofed Mexican place dates back to 1985, a time when there wasn’t much diversity in the area’s cuisine. Do as the locals do and start with an order of nachos. When your meal comes, you can spice up your entrée, from the simple menu of tacos, burritos, tostadas, and enchiladas, with a variety of salsas (mild to tonguesearing). A nod to its setting in the South, the restaurant even serves sweet tea. Prices here are a real deal, but be sure to bring cash—Taco Casa doesn’t accept credit cards. $, L, D. Closed

$, L, D. Closed Sunday & Monday.

115 Pelham Rd, Greenville. (864) 2710742, tortillamaria.com

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TWO CHEFS DELI & MARKET

Count on this deli for fast, highquality food. Hot and cold lunch fare is available, ranging from homemade soups to a traditional grinder and a turkey melt. If you’re not up to cooking, there’s a case of “crafted carryout” entrées and sides to go.

Impress those last-minute guests with the likes of stuffed chicken and Parmesan potatoes. For Eastsiders, there’s another location at the intersection of Pelham Road and Route 14. $-$$, B, L, D. Closed Saturday &

Sunday. 104 S Main St, Greenville.

(864) 370-9336, twochefsdeli.com UPCOUNTRY PROVISIONS

Clemson and USC Collars, Bandanas, and Football Treats!

• Locally made TUG rope toys in Clemson & USC Colors • Eco-friendly toys FULL SERVICE GROOMING • Collars and leashes • All-natural grain free dog foods • One-stop shop for puppy showers and birthday parties.

• Gourmet all-natural and organic treats – made in the USA!

Local produce, hormone-free meats, and fresh bread baked in-house marry to produce delicious sandwiches in a renovated red barn just off the Travelers Rest Main Street. The food is simple, satisfying, wholesome, and undeniably fresh—much of the 2123 produce and many of the herbs come straight from a garden out in front.

864-236-1503 With all the attention Upcountry Provisions pays to crafting your food, it’s only polite to return the favor and devote yourself to a healthy sampling of fresh-baked muffins, cakes, and Barkery_4thS_Town Oct13.indd 1 cookies. $, B, L, D. Closed Sunday &

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Monday. 102 S Poinsett Highway, Travelers Rest. (864) 834-8433, upcountryprovisions.com

THE VILLAGE BAKER

Bordering Pendleton’s square across from Farmers Hall, the family-owned Village Baker devotes itself to creating artisan breads without additives and preservatives. No bleached flour, trans-fats, or artificial flavors go into the goods created here by members of the Rizzo family. At the Village Baker, the day starts with omelets and French toast, and progresses to quiche, salads, and sandwiches—on freshbaked bread, of course—at lunch. If you have a sweet tooth, you’ll find it difficult to pass up the tempting pastries and homemade cakes. $, B, L. Closed Monday–Tuesday. 108 E Main St, Pendleton. (864) 646-5800, myvillagebaker.com

Sunday. 1002 N Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville. (864) 232-1021, tacocasa.tk

TORTILLA MARIA

Local, organic, and gluten-free—while a growing number of restaurants check off those boxes, it is still a rarity to find Mexican food that satisfies those requirements. Enter Tortilla Maria. In addition to the innovative takes on enchiladas and tacos, the restaurant

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CATS

When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS debuted in 1981, we all started looking at the stray cats in our neighborhood just a bit differently.

Billed as the second-longest running production in Broadway history, the T.S. Eliot takeoff spawned classic songs like “Memory” and introduced the phrase “jellicle” to the dictionary.

Flat Rock Playhouse brings the junkyard downtown in their production, promising an evening of feline fun for the whole family.

Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown, 125 S Main St, Hendersonville. Wed–Sat, 8pm; Thurs–Sun, 2pm. $40. (828) 6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org

This ain’t your grandmother’s cabaret. On second thought, maybe it is. Swapping out sequins for straw hats, the Pumpkintown Mountain Opry serves up Southern-fried comedy with a steaming side of rip-roaring fun. And with a new comedy set each Saturday, you’ll never see the same show twice.

The Pumpkintown Opry Dinner Theater, 3414 Hwy 11, Pickens.

Sat, 7pm. $30. (864) 836-8141, pumpkintownopry.com

Thru Nov 12

MUSIC LESSONS THROUGH FURMAN UNIVERSITY’S LEARNING FOR YOU It’s never too late to pick up an instrument and learn how to be one of the greats. But if you need a little encouragement this fall, Furman University is here to help. The Learning for You program offers a number of classes for beginners and the slightly more seasoned, all taught by renowned professionals

in their field. Whistle a harmonica tune with members of the Mac Arnold Band, pick up the basics of guitar, or learn the piano in a few hours flat.

Locations, times vary. $29-$129.

(864) 294-2135, furman.edu/learningforyou

Thru Nov 14 LEND ME A TENOR

Who says opera has to be boring?

With a bit of off-brand humor, the story centers on Max, a young assistant who is forced into the shoes of famed tenor Tito Merelli after the singer is accidentally drugged. With a case of mistaken identity and more mix-ups than Pavarotti has solos, you might wonder how they’ll ever dig themselves out of this disastro enorme.

Centre Stage, 501 River St, Greenville. Thurs–Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm. Adults, $25; seniors, $23; juniors, $15. (864) 2336733, centrestage.org

Thru Nov 16 UNNECESSARY FARCE

What do you get when you take two inexperienced cops, a ditzy mayor, and a hit man whose calling cards include a kilt and a set of bagpipes?

This hilarious new stage comedy

by Paul Slade Smith. When rookie cops Eric Sheridan and Billie Dwyer attempt to uncover an embezzlement scheme, they are thrust into the world of the Scottish Clan mafia.

Through a series of unfortunately comedic events, their bumbling tactics may just save the day.

Centre Stage, 501 River St, Greenville. Thurs–Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm. Adults, $25; seniors, $23; juniors, $15. (864) 233-6733, centrestage.org

2–Nov 3 HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY

Although his tragically short career lasted only 15 years, there is no denying that Hank Williams is a key influence on many of today’s biggest country stars. However, much of the Alabama-bred crooner’s classic hits did not mirror his personal battles

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CAN’T-MISS CULTURE / EVENTS / ATTRACTIONS with drugs and alcoholism. Lost Highway is a strikingly candid and provocative musical biography that sheds light on the stories behind Williams’ greatest cuts and most dangerous pitfalls.

Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock.

Wed–Thurs, Sat–Sun, 2pm; Wed–Sat, 8pm. $40. (866) 7328008, flatrockplayhouse.org

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I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY

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We may never be able to fully understand the horrors that occurred within the walls of concentration camps like Theresienstadt, but now those who suffered finally have a voice.

Based on the collected poetry and artwork by children held in the camp, the one-act play follows the life of Raja, whose life inside Theresienstadt is told through her interactions with family and friends. The world inside may be ugly, but she and the other children cling to hope with the dream of beauty outside. The play is presented in conjunction with the Year of Altruism.

Billingsley Theatre, North Greenville University, 7801 N Tigerville Rd, Travelers Rest. Thurs–Sat, 7:30pm. $8. yearofaltruism.org

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SYMPHONY TOUR OF HOMES Get a sneak peek inside some of the Upstate’s most regal homes— without breaking and entering. The 35th annual event opens doors to homes in the Collins Creek and recently developed Hollingsworth Park communities, touring visitors through stately abodes and lush parks to showcase the latest in residence style. Light lunches, fashion shows, and of course, shopping will be available for patrons. Proceeds will benefit the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.

Collins Creek & Hollingsworth Park neighborhoods, Greenville. Fri–Sat, 10am– 4pm; Sun, 1–4pm. $20-$25.

(864) 370-0965, guildGSO.org

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What’s better than spending a day taste-testing some of the area’s finest craft beers and delicious delicacies? Doing it all with your furry best friend at your side. Sponsored by the Greenville Humane Society, Woofstock brings together Upstate dogs and their owners for one full day of brews, bands, and barks. Jam out with Buckwheat Zydeco as you tap into ales from RJ Rockers, Highland, and Quest. Then, you (and possibly your pet) can dig into eats from Mac’s Speed Shop, Asada Food Truck, and Earthfare. This festival is for the dogs, and for once, that’s okay.

Watson Field, 65 Watson Aviation Rd, Greenville. Sat, Noon–6pm. $25-$50. (864) 242-3636, ghswoofstock.com

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GREER STATION OKTOBERFEST

Knackwurst, bratwurst, and spaetzel, oh my! Get your German on at one of the Upstate’s favorite festivals celebrating all-things-Bavarian. Grab a frosted mug full of Warsteiner, nibble on a toasted pretzel, or dig into a thick slice of Black Forest cake—and don’t worry about the calories ’til Sunday. Local crafts will also be on display along with live oompah bands.

Trade Street, Downtown Greer. Sat, Noon–10pm. Free. (864) 877-3131, greerchamber.com

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GOODWILL MUD RUN

Dreaming of flying full-frontal into a mud pit and cleaning dirt out of your ears ’til next Tuesday? Here’s your race. Boost your ego with the same rope-climbing, wall-hopping, and belly-crawling that soldiers-in-training go through on this three-and-a-halfmile course. This race may not be for the faint of heart, but athletes of almost any age and endurance are encouraged to participate and raise a little money for Goodwill charities.

SC Technology and Aviation Center, 5 Chapel Rd, Greenville. Sun, 8am. $140. goodwillmudrun.org

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NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

Breaking into the world of playwriting is certainly no easy feat, but local theater Centre Stage is giving aspiring writers a leg up on the competition. After whittling down countless entries to three finalists, the organization will present staged readings of each script followed by a discussion with this year’s playwrightin-residence, Jeffrey Sweet. Select high school art programs will hold educational sessions and there will be workshops for budding script-stars, culminating in the production of Sweet’s own highly-acclaimed work, You Only Shoot the Ones You Love.

Centre Stage, 501 River St, Greenville. Mon–Thurs, 7pm. Free.

(864) 233-6733, centrestage.org

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FASHION ON THE TOWN VIP PARTY

High fashion and haute design collide with savory dishes at the exclusive roll-out party for this year’s Fashion on the TOWN shopping crawl. Sink your teeth into couture samplings of oyster po’ boys and chocolatedipped orange peels in the tranquilmeets-trendy atmosphere of Hotel Domestique. The following Thursday, sharpen your shopping claws in the Upstate as a number of area businesses from Macy’s to Muse Shoe Studio open their doors for a two-day retail extravaganza.

Hotel Domestique, 10 Road of Vines, Travelers Rest. Wed, 6–9pm. $75. FOTTVIP2013.eventbrite.com

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FALL FOR GREENVILLE

You aren’t a true Greenvillian until you’ve attended this annual autumn festival. Top local dining spots are out to dazzle crowds, and the spirit of competition is alive with contests for crowd favorite, tastiest fall cocktail, and a server obstacle course. Bands like Futurebirds and Chocolate Thunder are slated to take the stages.

In between eating and listening, make sure you check out the festival’s cooking classes and a garden filled with the best kind of flower: the kind that comes in a frosted glass.

Downtown Greenville.

Fri, 5–11pm; Sat, 11am–9pm; Sun, Noon–7pm. Free. (864) 467-2728, fallforgreenville.net

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It’s hard to hate a balloon; it floats, it’s colorful, and you can twist it into the shape of your favorite animal. Join the celebration of all things helium for a family-friendly weekend of balloon rides, live music, and onsite vendors to cater to your every whim. This year’s lineup includes a kickoff set by Outshyne and the Piedmont Boys, as well as performances by Southern Expressions and Mile Marker 0. There will also be plenty of activities for the kiddies (Thomas the Train!) and a balloon glow run.

Anderson Civic Center, 3027 MLK Jr Blvd, Anderson. Fri, 3–9pm; Sat, 7am–7:30pm; Sun, 7am–7pm.

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THE JAMES HUNTER SIX

This may be the first album the bluesy sextet has released together, but James Hunter has been one of the jazz kingdom’s top dogs for more than two decades. Drawing inspiration from some of rhythm’s greats, Hunter has toured with crooners Van Morrison and Etta James, and released numerous albums to critical acclaim.

Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville.

Tues, 7:30pm. $50. (864) 4673000, peacecenter.org

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FREUD’S LAST SESSION

Freud unveiled man’s inner conflict between id and ego, and also labeled a woman’s sudden impulse to scratch your eyes out when you only asked if she got a new haircut (it’s called displacement, fellas, and it’s not your fault). But the father of psychoanalysis’s historic session with a young C.S. Lewis is the basis for this play, set on the day England enters World War II. Pick the brains of two of history’s greatest minds as they ponder the meaning of life and the pursuit of love, sex, and satisfaction.

Centre Stage, 501 River St, Greenville. Tues, 7pm. $20-$30.

(864) 233-6733, centrestage.org

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A DAY TO REMEMBER

If you were an emotional teenager in middle school, A Day to Remember was probably blasting through the headphones as you sat in your room wondering why no one understands. The punk-metal quintet

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Charter Amphitheater at Heritage Park, 861 SE Main St, Simpsonville.

Thurs, 6:45pm. $30-$39. (864) 2413800, charteramphitheatre.com

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The Handlebar, 304 E Stone Ave, Greenville. Thurs, 8:30pm. $31. (864) 233-6173, handlebar-online.com

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There’s a powerful relationship between a boy and his pet, especially when that pet is a fearless warrior horse fighting the Germans in World War I. In this award-winning play, young Albert befriends a foal named Joey, and as the pair grows, they become lifetime companions. But when war and tragedy tear them apart, it will take all the courage in the world to bring man and beast back together.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Thurs, 7:30pm; Fri–Sat, 2pm & 8pm; Sun, 1pm & 6:30pm.

(864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

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DANA CARVEY, DENNIS MILLER, KEVIN NEALON

Well, isn’t that special? The comedy trio credited with resuscitating a flailing mid-’80s Saturday Night Live reunites for a rare stage performance sure to provide laughs bigger than Hans and Franz’s muscles. It’s hard to find a perfect mix of iconic and hilarious, but these former men of late-night rowdiness will be busting your gut all night with spot-on

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Bon Secours Wellness Arena, 650 N Academy St, Greenville.

Fri, 8pm. $69-$89. (864) 241-3800, bswarena.com

18–19

EURO AUTO FESTIVAL

Each year, this gearhead meetup attracts thousands of entries and spectators from around the world to honor the best in European machinery. The 2013 centerpiece will be (drumroll please) the Ferrari, but other elegantly engineered vehicles from BMW, Porsche, and Aston Martin will also be on display for your drooling pleasure.

BMW Zentrum, 1400 Hwy 101 S, Greer. Fri, 9am–11pm; Sat, 8am–11pm. $30-$45. euroautofestival.com

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CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

At one point or another, we’ve all compared someone to an animal: boys are rats, your best friend’s a snake, and your teacher bares a striking resemblance to an elephant with a pituitary problem. But what if one day that all came true? Take a sneak peek inside the mind of one student as he falls asleep in the American Museum of Natural History and fantasies of people-turnedanimals become a reality. A perfect

balance of comedic narration and impressive acrobatics, this ballet is one daydream you won’t want to wake from.

David Reid Theater, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E St John St, Spartanburg. Fri, 4pm; Sat, 11am & 2pm. $15. (864) 542-2787, chapmanculturalcenter.org

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GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OKTOBERFEST

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This might be Oktoberfest, but that doesn’t mean you need to get drunk and start chucking schnitzel at the cellist. Instead, delight your ears with the melodic sounds of German composers like Brahms and Mendelssohn while sampling a few festive beers. The evening will even feature select bassoon pieces by soloist Amy Yang.

Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Fri–Sat, 8pm. Sun, 3pm. $41. (864) 232-0344, greenvillesymphony.org

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games, costumed characters, and, of course, candy. Get the best out of the season of creepy while still being safe—and maintaining your sanity.

Greenville Zoo, 150 Cleveland Park Dr, Greenville. Fri, 5:30–8pm; SatSun, 4–8pm. Adults, $4; children, $6.

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BOO IN THE ZOO

While nothing screams fun, fun, fun like dragging a five-year-old Spiderman around the neighborhood for hours praying that no one dares give him a box of raisins, it’s much better to have all that excitement in one place. This annual event has become an Upstate staple, as the zoo is transformed into a one-stop shop of Halloween

There are only a few places in the world where it’s socially acceptable to stuff your face with a one-pound funnel cake and eight corn dogs in under 30 minutes. Sure, this year’s festival will be loaded with favorites like the Ferris wheel, beauty pageants, and farm animals, but there will also be a few fair newcomers like the Great American Frontier Show. Here is a place where no one looks at you sideways for wearing a shirt with the sleeves cut off or wedging multiple wads of cotton in your cheeks. Take advantage while you can.

Greenville Pickens Speedway, 3800 Calhoun Memorial Park Hwy, Easley. Mon–Fri, 4pm; Sat–Sun, Noon. (864) 269-0852, upperscstatefair.com

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THE TEMPEST

So, what does one do when deposed from your rightful throne and sent off to sea with your young daughter? Why, you create

a horrific storm (the tempest, for those unaccustomed to Bard lingo) and shipwreck the traitors until you take back what’s yours. It’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind storyline between Prospero, Alonso, and Miranda. Shakespeare’s drama will leave you feeling a little lost at sea, yourself.

The Warehouse Theatre, 37 Augusta St, Greenville. Thurs–Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm. $30. (864) 2356948, warehousetheatre.com

18–April 13 GREENVILLE ROAD WARRIORS

Four years later, a new set of puck lovers are calling the Bi-Lo Center home, with near-nightly matches against numerous surrounding league teams. Hockey may not be America’s sport, but with thousands of fans cheering and a fun dynamic for the whole family, it certainly could be.

Bon Secours Wellness Arena 650 N Academy St, Greenville. Days, times vary. $9-$25. (864) 674-7825, greenvilleroadwarriors.com

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Locations, times vary. Thurs. (864) 608-9819, lettherebemom.org

designed to strengthen community awareness and support for the cause with participants combining donations toward an ultimate goal of $116,000. Whether you throw in $1 or $100, every little bit helps towards finding an answer.

Greenville County Square, 301 University Ridge, Greenville.

Sat, 9am. Free. (864) 250-0029, act.alz.org

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POLO CLASSIC

The Greenville Hospital System kicks off its second annual Polo Classic tournament to benefit the Neurological Institute. Like any equine event, patrons are expected to dress in their best Carolina Casual— khakis and sun hats—to participate in the opening ceremonies. Pop a few corks at the Champagne luncheon prior to the match and mingle with other equestrian enthusiasts.

Historic Hopkins Farm, 3717 Fork Shoals Rd, Simpsonville.

Sun, 1–4:30pm. $25. greenvillepoloclassic.com

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DINE OUT FOR MOM

Moms are typically the first ones to mend our broken hearts, remind us to take a sweater, and offer questionable mixtures of “family remedies” to cure what ails us. Now, it’s time to give a little back. For the entire day, local eateries will donate a percentage of their profits to Let There Be Mom, an organization devoted to preserving the legacy of parents with life-threatening illnesses.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE TOUR 2013

One of America’s biggest problems?

It’s not the national debt; it’s that too many people think they can dance.

Bringing some actual talent to the Upstate are the top ten contestants from the best thing to happen to television since Paula Abdul left American Idol. This year’s hoofing hopefuls include Hayley Erbert, Aaron Turner, and Tucker Knox. Just try to refrain from twerking in the aisles.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Thurs, 7:30pm. $45-$65.

(864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

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ARABIAN NIGHTS: SINBAD’S ADVENTURE

Give the lamp a rub and see what enchantment is released during this Carolina Ballet production. Come along with Sinbad as he journeys through ancient lands of harem beauties, sailors, and cutthroat thieves, all with a single touch of the lamp. With as much magic as there is mayhem, you won’t need 1,001 nights to become entranced with this talented group of dancers. Don’t want the festivities to end? Join in Saturday’s performance after-party at the Wyche Pavilion for a night of Persian treats, themed entertainment, and cocktails.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Fri–Sat, 7:30pm; Sat– Sun, 2pm. After-party, $75; adults, $35; students, seniors, $25. (864) 421-0940, carolinaballet.org

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JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

Carl Jung is one of the foremost fathers of psychology, and his work in analyzing the human mind and behavior can be applied to almost every aspect of our lives. At this inaugural event of the Greenville Friends of Jung, Dr. Jerry Wright brings the psychologist’s theories into the 21st century with a discussion on spirituality and how it guides modern man today. Learn more about the theorist and yourself through the power of enlightenment.

Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1135 State Park Rd, Greenville. Fri, 7–9:15pm. $20 (advance); $30 (door). (864) 3508591, greenvillefriendsofjung.com

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NU-WAY 5K

If the thought of the Mud Run gives you night terrors, fear not drinkers and those who prefer glazed to paced. Sure, you’ll have to find some way to hurl yourself over the finish line, but nothing fuels the body better for a 3.1-mile run than a pit stop for doughnuts and beer. Traipse your way through downtown Spartanburg in a costume of your choosing before gobbling down a quick Krispy Kreme and Pabst in Hampton Heights. Then

head on to the Nu-Way for the race’s end, where waiting for you will be . . . more beer and food!

Downtown Spartanburg.

Sat, 11am–1pm. $10-$15. nuway5k2013.eventbrite.com

Dec 31–Jan 1 NEW YEAR’S EVE CHAMPAGNE RUN

End 2013 on the right note and kickstart your 2014 health resolutions with the Greenville Track Club-ELITE. Sure, there’s a 5K race in the mix, but don’t let your competitive spirit interfere with your fun. There will be prizes for best costumes, and if you can round up 7 other friends, you can register as a centipede team: 8 runners connected and running together.

Best of all, there’s a New Year’s Eve party afterwards, complete with Champagne, a dance competition, and a midnight countdown.

CU-ICAR Campus, 5 Research Dr, Greenville. Tues–Wed; race, 8:58pm; party, 10pm–12:15am.

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5BR, 6.5BATH · MLS#1260284 · $1,540,000 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Kathy Cassity (864) 678-5250 3joshuasplace.com

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4BR, 3.5BATH · MLS#1262796 · $1,169,000 The Marchant Company Tom Marchant (864) 449-1658 MarchantCo.com

207 Satterfield Road

3BR, 2BATH · MLS#1261808 · $779,000 Keller Williams (The Bachtel Team) Bruce Bachtel (864) 313-3606 www.GreenvilleHomeClick.com

26 Donatello Court

5BR, 5.5BATH · MLS#1261438 · $2,790,000 The Marchant Company Karen Turpin (864) 230-5176 marchantco.com

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4BR, 3.5BATH · MLS#1259014 · $1,500,000 Hamilton & Co. | Keller Williams Realty Dan Hamilton (864) 527-7685 www.73TheCliffsParkway.info

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5BR, 4.5BATH · MLS#1224647 · $1,095,000 Coldwell Banker Caine Sharon Wilson (864) 9181140 sharonwilson.net

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3BR, 4.5BATH · MLS#1260445 · $699,000 CB Caine Re Peggy Major (864) 325-7141 pmajor@cbcaine.com

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4BR, 6BATH · MLS#20143360 · $1,950,000 Cliffs Realty Sales SC, LLC Ross Kester (864) 660-8401 cliffscommunities.com

94 Secret Hollow Trail

5BR, 5.5BATH · MLS#1250407 · $1,295,000 Cliffs Realty Sales SC, LLC Vince Roser (864) 660-8422 cliffscommunities.com

380 Cliffs South Parkway

4BR, 6BATH · MLS#20144154 · $995,000 Cliffs Realty Sales SC, LLC Ross Kester (864) 660-8401 cliffscommunities.com

51 Belmont Ave

5BR, 3.5BATH · MLS#1261734 · $639,900 Coldwell Banker Caine Helen Hagood (864) 419 2889 helenhagood.com

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4BR, 5.5BATH · MLS#1258016 · $1,900,000 Cliffs Realty Sales SC, LLC Vince Roser (864) 660-8422 cliffscommunities.com

106 Rockingham Rd

5BR, 6BATH · MLS#1258019 · $1,250,000 Coldwell Banker Caine Jacob Mann (864)325-6266 Cbcaine.com

724 Brixton Circle

4BR, 4.5BATH · MLS#1262911 · $959,900 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Melissa Morrell (864) 9181734 www.greenvilleagent247.com

12 Woodland Way

5BR, 5.5BATH · MLS#1255584 · $1,845,000 Lil Glenn (864) 242-0088 www.lilglenn.com

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6BR, 5.5BATH · MLS#1258812 · $1,239,000 Coldwell Banker Caine Sharon Wilson (864) 9181140 sharonwilson.net

303 Bruce Farm Circle

5BR, 5.5BATH · MLS#1262401 · $859,900 Prudential C. Dan Joyner Melissa Morrell (864) 9181734 www.greenvilleagent247.com

1323 Mountain Summit Road

4BR, 4.5BATH · MLS#1256234 · $1,695,000 Cliffs Realty Sales SC, LLC Vince Roser (864) 660-8422 cliffscommunities.com

112 Antigua Way

4BR, 3.5BATH · MLS#1265517 · $1,195,000 The Parker Company Drew Parker (864) 3805825 theparkercompanyre.com

116 Ridge Glen

4BR, 3BATH · MLS#1252670 · $830,000 The Marchant Company Valerie Miller (864)430-6602 www.valeriejsmiller.com

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5BR, 5BATH · MLS#1264241 · $539,900 Keller Williams (The Bachtel Team) Bruce Bachtel (864) 313-3606 www.GreenvilleHomeClick.com

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Maybe you studied art history in college. Maybe your travels have inspired a newfound appreciation for sun-aged frescoes and wind-blasted stone. Maybe brushstrokes set your heart aflutter with creative infatuation. Or maybe you just need something to match the couch in your living room. We all have a relationship with art, and with Greenville Open Studios, those relationships have plentiful opportunities to grow and flourish. The 12th annual showcase, presented by Regions Bank and SEW-Eurodrive, features a roster of 124 artists and studios located within a 15-mile radius of downtown Greenville. With so much talent on display, the only problem will be reining in your enthusiasm.

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Greenville Open Studios will take place Nov 2–3. For a sampling of each participating artist, visit the Metropolitan Arts Council gallery at 16 Augusta St, Greenville. An Open Studios exhibit, on display from Oct 25–Dec 6, will feature one 12”x12” work by each artist. Comprehensive guides to the weekend are also available at MAC. For more information, visit greenvillearts.com and greenvilleopenstudios.com.

Julie Hughes Shabkie, Translucent; courtesy of the Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville

Greenville Open Studios feeds the Upstate’s art addiction

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