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Excerpts from John Jeter’s memoir Rockin’ a Hard Place

Purple International Bistro & Sushi, cider cocktails at The Owl, and Greer County Oktoberfest

Canes by Mel Dias, Good Ole Boys Apparel, artist Nikki Pressley, Dr. Stephen Jones, the Red Horse Inn, and more.

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Contemporary accents at Postcard from Paris Home, in-season shoes and accessories, and Shop Talk

THIS PAGE: Kelsie wears a Cynthia Vincent top, $295, from Augusta 20, (864) 233-2600, augustatwenty.com; Rebecca Taylor leggings, $325; shoes by Pura Lopéz, $448; Celine bag and bracelet, call for cost; earrings, call for cost, from Coplon’s, (864) 271-1600, coplons.com On the Cover: Rachel Zoe cape, $675, and Monique Lhuillier dress, call for cost.

Shoes by Valentino, $895; earrings, call for cost.

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Fall styles embody fashion, function, and an aura of sophistication, set against the rustic elegance of a Euro-inspired backdrop.

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Tattoos are no longer taboo.

Here, beauty runs skin deep.

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space, time

Italian-born Greenvillian Renato Moncini worked on Vespas before illustrating rockets.

/ by Steven Tingle / photography by Paul Mehaffey / illustrations by Renato Moncini

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Mark B. Johnston PUBLISHER mark@towngreenville.com Blair Knobel editor blair@towngreenville.com Paul Mehaffey art director Heidi Coryell Williams senior editor Jac Chebatoris senior editor Olivia de Castro ST YLE editor

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It is a new dawn for TOWN Magazine. With the departure of its founding editor Jack Bacot, we are pleased and proud to welcome TOWN’s new editorial leadership, Blair Knobel.

Since its start, Blair has worked relentlessly as the magazine’s managing editor to produce a publication worthy of your readership.

She has focused keenly on shaping unique stories, honing talented writers, ensuring the finest of graphics and photography, and turning out a product fit for an elite audience.

Under her guidance, I am certain that TOWN will continue to be your go-to read for the best of the Upstate.

This issue of TOWN is arguably the most anticipated of the year. It is our style issue—a collection of the area’s most in-trend fashion, design, and luxury.

Women’s fall styles punctuate a Euro-backdrop in “Belle Air” (page 70). Senior editor Jac Chebatoris explores a different side to ink in “Body Shop” (page 82), and contributing writer Steven Tingle talks mano-e-mano with a former Vespa builder and illustrator for NASA, Renato Moncini (“Space, Time,” page 90). Not to mention our usual don’t-miss events, shopping, dining, and more. With the October issue, we unveil the work of Blair and her team.

But to embrace the new, we must look to the past. TOWN Magazine, under the leadership of Jack Bacot, got your attention—and kept it. Jack’s legacy is the foundation of TOWN, and like a dutiful apprentice, Blair worked closely with Jack to learn from the best.

Still, it’s the way of life to make better what’s been done. As we look in anticipation to what’s next, I know the best is yet to come.

Welcome, Blair.

Contributing WRITERS Anna DiBenedetto Kimberly Johnson M. Linda Lee John Jeter April A. Morris Steven Tingle contributing PHOTOGRAPHErs TJ Getz J. Aaron Greene Jay Vaughan EDITORIAL INTERN Andrew Huang Holly Hardin production manager Graphic Designers Kristy Adair Michael Allen Caroline Reinhardt marketing representatives Mary Beth Culbertson Kristi Jennings Donna Johnston Pam Putman Katherine Elrod sales ADMINISTRATION MANAGER katherine@towngreenville.com Kate Banner COMMUNIT Y SPONSORSHIPS & EVENTs MANAGER kate@towngreenville.com Angela DeGarmo event marketing coordinator

Mark B. Johnston President & Publisher Community Journals LLC

Alan Martin SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Ryan Johnston Marketing Manager

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Senior editor Jac Chebatoris came home to Greenville after reporting and writing for Newsweek’s Arts & Entertainment department. She is a certified yoga instructor at Southern Om in Greenville.

TJ Getz

TJ Getz is the creative catalyst behind GetzCreative Photography. He finds joy in pushing his business to the next level, but can just as often be found outside, pondering the curve of a leaf with his two sons. He is a chaser of light, a photoshop Jedi, and an avid amateur mountain biker.

Steven Tingle

Steven Tingle is a writer, journalist, and single dad. When not arguing with teenagers, he writes for a variety of national and regional magazines. A former golf-course owner and restaurateur, he can hold a notebook, a seven iron, or a martini with equal expertise.

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TOWN Magazine (Vol. 2, 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 $45. 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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WHERE YOU WANT TO LIVE

Come home to the heart of Verdae. Hollingsworth Park reinvents a bygone era, creating an intimate community defined not merely by where—but also how—you want to live. Nestled within the City of Greenville, this new urban development offers a diversity of housing options at varying price points, from custom and estate homes to more modest single-family dwellings and townhomes. Residents enjoy a 20-acre central park, shared common areas, pedestrian-

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friendly streetscapes and being close to everything.

New homes under construction now.

Homes & Townhomes from the $200s Custom Designs from the mid $300s Estate Homes from the mid $700s

Sales Office Open Daily

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Fri, Oct 12, 8pm. $45, $55, $65. (864) 4673000, peacecenter.org

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Break out of your midweek routine with a night (or two) on the Town. TOWN Magazine presents Fashion on the Town, a multiboutique fashion crawl around downtown Greenville, with complimentary cocktails, snacks, and chances to win stellar prizes. shop, sip, and play—you deserve it.

wanda sykes’s brash, in-your-face approach to humor led Entertainment Weekly to name her one of the “25 Funniest People in America.” she has substance and intelligence to spare, as a four-time emmy Award winner and featured entertainer at the 2009 white house Correspondents’ Association dinner.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Sun, Oct 14, 7pm. $35, $45, $55. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

Locations vary, Greenville. Thurs–Fri, Oct 4–5.

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The 27th Annual Museum Antiques show features more than 20 select dealers. visitors can find examples of formal and country antique furniture, silver, porcelain, oriental rugs, linens, and fine art. Distinguished architect and interior designer John saladino will deliver a keynote presentation on Friday at 10:15am.

Greenville County Museum of Art, 420 College St, Greenville. Fri–Sat, Oct 12–13, 11am–5pm; Sun, Oct 14, 1–5pm. $5 advance, $8 at the door. (864) 271-7570, ext 1021, antiques.greenvillemuseum.org

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The Greenville Symphony’S okToberfeST Celebrate the falling leaves with a free beer tasting and German music. The Greenville Symphony Chamber orchestra presents oktoberfest, featuring furman professor and German native David Gross. The program includes Water Music (handel), Kammermusik No. 1 (hindemith), Burleske (Strauss), and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Der Burger als Edelmann) (Strauss).

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There is plenty to see, eat, drink, and hear at the annual St. francis fall for Greenville. visitors can sample more than 200 items from 39 of Greenville’s favorite restaurants including Smoke on the Water, Chicora alley, and Soby’s. visitors can also enjoy six stages full of musical entertainment throughout the weekend, as well as take part in beer and wine tastings.

Tap into the everyman’s political consciousness with this politically incorrect farce set in the oval office. This outrageous portrayal of bad behavior at the top of the political food chain will have you cracking up, no matter who you vote for on nov 6.

Main St, Greenville. Fri, Oct 12, 5–11pm; Sat, Oct 13, 11am–9pm; Sun, Oct 14, Noon–7pm. Free admission.

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The Warehouse Theatre, 37 Augusta St, Greenville. Oct 26–28, Nov 1–5, 8–10. Thurs–Sat, 8pm; Oct 28, Nov 4, 3pm. $30. (864) 235-6948, warehousetheatre.com

Photograph by Brian S. Kelly; courtesy of Mac Arnold

Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Fri–Sat, Oct 19–20, 8pm; Sun, Oct 21, 3pm. $39. (864) 467-3000, greenvillesymphony.org

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Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock, NC. Oct 3–28. Matinee: Wed–Thurs, Sat–Sun, 2pm; Evening: Wed–Sat, 8pm. $40. (866) 732-8008, flatrockplayhouse.org

Guild of the Greenville Symphony Tour of Homes zTake in a “Prelude to the Park” with the Guild of the Greenville Symphony. View beautiful homes on Ridgeland Dr, Crescent Ave, and McDaniel Ave in the Cleveland Park neighborhood. Proceeds from the tour support the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. There will also be a Patron Party on Oct 4 to kick off the tour.

Locations vary. Fri–Sat, Oct 5–6, 10am–4pm; Sun, Oct 7, 1–4pm. $20 advance, $25 day of tour. (864) 370-0965, guildgso.org

Euro Auto Festival

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zJoin Dennis Gage, host of My Classic Car, and scores of car enthusiasts for this 17th annual car show. Technical sessions and a car-detailing forum will be available to participants. Of course, participants are also free to admire the raison d’etre of this show: nearly 400 beautiful classic cars will be on display.

BMW Zentrum, Spartanburg. Fri, Oct 19, 10:30am– 9:30pm; Sat, Oct 20, 8am–11pm; Sun, Oct 21, 9am. $35. euroautofestival.com

Greenville Road Warriors Home Opener zAfter two away games to start the season, the Road Warriors come home to face off against their in-state rival, the South Carolina Stingrays. This ECHL team is affiliated with the NHL’s New York Rangers and is coming off of a 41–25 record and a playoff appearance in 2012.

Bi-Lo Center, 650 N Academy St, Greenville. Fri, Oct 19, 7pm. $9-26. (864) 674-7825, greenvilleroadwarriors.com

Rascal Flatts zJoin scores of dedicated Flatt Heads at the BiLo Center when this best-selling country group performs on their “Changed” tour. Since 2000, this band has released seven certified platinum albums and counted 12 number-one songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Bi-Lo Center, 650 N Academy St, Greenville. Thurs, Oct 18, 7pm. $30-70. (864) 241-3800, bilocenter.com

David Sedaris Join noted author, humorist, and comedian David Sedaris for an evening reading. Sedaris’s signature wit and unique spin on social issues have made him a favorite on NPR’s This American Life. He has also authored eight collections of stories and essays, so bring your favorite for him to sign— just be prepared for his sharp, satirical genius.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Thurs, Oct 25, 7:30pm. $35, $45. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

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The Greenville Zoo and Bi-Lo Charities partnered to hold their annual wine- and foodtasting event. In addition to food vendors, guests also participated in a silent auction.

Funds raised from this event will benefit the zoo’s Ed-zoo-cation programs.

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United Way of Greenville County Young Philanthropists held their annual Summer Celebration at the CU-ICAR plaza. More than 340 Young Philanthropists members and prospects attended the event. United Way Young Philanthropists is a program that encourages young people to create and participate in community philanthropy and networking opportunities.

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Though a popular funeral director for 54 years, Malcolm Walls says he never actually chose this as a career. “It chose me!” he smiles.

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He was between school and the Army when, as a favor, Malcolm agreed to cover a buddy’s job at a local mortuary. “They told me, ‘If you don’t like it, you can quit,’” he recalls. Instead, the young man discovered a compassionate affinity for serving others.

So in December 1958 – following a stint in the military – Malcolm joined Mackey Mortuary. “When you find a good job, well, you stay there,” he says, noting his “work” has always felt more like a mission. As a volunteer, too, Malcolm focuses on service; he is a long-time, active member of the Sertoma Club.

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Malcolm is now retired, except when he’s not. He worked with many a family over the past half century, and they frequently request his services again. “Consistency matters,” Malcolm says.

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Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Annual Banquet August 25, 2012 Camaraderie, food, drink, and bigticket prizes were up for grabs at the RMEF Upstate SC chapter’s 15th annual banquet. The RMEF currently protects more than 6.1 million acres of land and funds conservation education. The foundation also promotes safe and responsible hunting practices.

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August 26, 2012 Mary and Ellis Johnston hosted more than 80 Young Collectors at their home. In addition to cocktails and jazz, attendees participated in “Art Collecting 101,� a brief introduction on how to begin collecting art. The Young Collectors is a philanthropic branch of the Greenville County Museum of Art that works to promote art education, awareness, and appreciation.

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Sarah Ioannides, orchestra director, and Anthony McGill, principal clarinet at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, were on hand to introduce the season. The SPO also held their annual Baton Auction. Attorney Billy Gunn was the highest bidder and will have the opportunity to guest-conduct the SPO’s Valentine’s Day Pops Concert.

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Shannon Stark & Bryan Taylor June 23, 2012 Shannon and Bryan’s love knows no bounds. It has spanned the nation, from the Carolinas to Colorado and Arizona to California. The couple met on the first day of freshman orientation at Furman University and dated for seven and a half years, spending two and a half years apart while Bryan worked in Colorado and Shannon pursued a master’s degree. During a surprise trip to San Francisco, Bryan proposed with the Golden Gate Bridge as a backdrop. The couple’s ceremony was held at the Furman University chapel.

Shannon and Bryan live in Tempe, Arizona, where Shannon is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University, and Bryan is a management consultant at Accenture. photography by Josh Jones

Sarah Meszaros & Matt Gibbons May 27, 2012 Serendipity—how else could you describe the way this couple met? Sarah had just moved back to Greenville after living in Romania, and Matt moved to the city for a job just two months afterward. After dating for one and a half years, Matt just knew it was time—he couldn’t wait.

He drove 14 hours overnight from Missouri, where he was living at the time, and surprised Sarah with a Monday afternoon proposal. Family and friends joined the couple at the Wyche Pavilion for their ceremony before moving to the Huguenot Loft to continue the revelry. The couple resides in Greenville. photography by Josh Jones

Chelsea Cashour & Brandon Loftis May 19, 2012 With nothing but friends, family, and the sunlit warmth of May, Brandon and Chelsea were married with the beautiful lake at The Acanthus as a backdrop. You don’t need much else when you have a love as timeless and enduring as this couple’s. Brandon proposed after three years of dating. The couple’s son, Brayden, presented a note to Chelsea as Brandon got down on one knee, ring in hand. The couple and their son reside in Woodruff. Chelsea is majoring in early childhood education at USC Upstate, while Brandon works as an automotive painter at Image Collision.

Katie Braeunig & David Walsh August 11, 2012 Katie and David were playmates before they knew they were soul mates. The pair met in grade school but didn’t start dating until college. After six years, David surprised Katie at the quaint Pawleys Island Chapel: having weathered six decades and two hurricanes, it mirrors the strength of the couple’s relationship. Katie is developing a new business in real estate and property management, while David works with the St. Francis engineering department. Married at the First Baptist Church of Greenville, the couple resides in Greenville. photography by Josh Jones

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stronger than poplar”) in the foyer of his Greenville home.

He fashions water-buffalo horn onto them, then preserves the wood’s unique cursive of grain and sometimes protrusions of the knots to maintain character. The appropriate length is determined by measuring the length of one’s elbow to the floor, so each stick (or cane—the difference being that a cane is shorter) is custom-made. Just the polishing of the water-buffalo horn to make the black look as though it’s been lacquered can take a full two days to achieve.

So why don’t we see more of these in the hands of us ambulatory creatures? “It’s gone out of fashion,” says Dias.

“People are always driving, not walking, but until the 1940s people still carried canes. You see people with canes, but they’re the aluminum kind, but I think if they had the option they may carry a wood cane. The baby boomers are now 60plus, and there’s just going to be millions and millions of us running around,” he says, adding, not surprisingly—“and I’m going to have a wooden cane.”

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any people doodle. Perhaps absent-mindedly while talking on the phone, while watching television, or when they should be writing to meet a deadline (ahem). When Mel Dias doodles, however, he doodles with purpose. His doodles eventually take form in his shop in the basement of his home—after much cutting, heating, bending, sanding, and polishing—into an accessory that has its origins with sheep herders in Britain, but yet is synonymous with the most dapper of gentleman.

Dias is neither a shepherd nor some kind of Gary Cooper throwback, but he is a designer (of homes, having worked in the business for more than 25 years, including six working for the Cliffs until launching his own Mel Dias Designs a year ago) who has always enjoyed the notion of a walking stick. As a child growing up in Anderson, South Carolina, he would cut the best stick from the tree and use it to help flatten down the briars as he ran around. Later, when his son was a Boy Scout, he got into making walking sticks in earnest, crafting more sophisticated sticks. Now, that Boy Scout’s in college, and Dias’s primary hobby has become a side business.

Walking sticks might seem a humble (and outdated) accoutrement, but their distinction and beauty are in the subtlety, the nuance—much like the party guest who seems the quietest of the room, but who has the most interesting stories. The craft is cottage industry in Britain, where stick makers compete for cash prizes and blue ribbons, honing materials like antler or ram’s horn into intricately carved dog or pheasant heads, curled, swirled, and knobbed.

Dias prominently displays 16 sticks and canes of poplar (“Poplar grows straight,” says Dias) or oak (“It’s heavier and

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Line Driver: Neal Moseley started Good Ole Boys Apparel in honor of his grandfather, Bill.

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hile some teenagers would steer clear of wearing their grandparents’ clothing, that wasn’t the case for Neal Moseley when it came to his grandfather Bill’s golfing hats.

A legend around certain parts of Alabama, Bill Moseley built his reputation as a fullback for his high school team at Sidney Lanier and earned a football scholarship to play for the University of Kentucky Wildcats (Moseley was coached by Paul “Bear” Bryant). He went on to serve as assistant coach to the Wildcats before returning home to Sidney Lanier as a football coach, a baseball coach, and the athletic director.

Though Moseley made a career out of touchdowns and homeruns, he also enjoyed a day on the links. He and 26 of his golfing buddies nicknamed themselves the “Good Ole Boys,” and they made custom golfing hats for the group.

When Bill Moseley could no longer play golf, he passed on three of his legendary “Good Ole Boys” hats to his middle grandson, Neal Moseley. A sophomore at the time at Christ Church Episcopal School, it didn’t take long for Neal to realize that his grandfather had given him something special.

“People would just come up to me and ask where I got my hat,” Moseley says. That sparked an idea.

Neal, together with his three best friends, Bo Wood, Will Freemon, and Sam Kleckley, decided they were going to sell “Pop’s” Good Ole Boys hats.

After six years of handing out hats to friends, making calls to investors, selling orders to fraternities, graduating college, and living with “nothing more than a dime” in their pockets, the boys have finally arrived (an estimated 3,000 hats sold). Working solely for Good Ole Boys Apparel, the boys now put forth all of their effort into the company. With a launch this past September, the boys have expanded their brand with T-shirts, workout shirts, women’s tanks (for the Good Ole Gals out there), flags, cups, and boxers.

“My dream has always been to start a company and work with my best friends. And now, everything that Bo, Sam, Will, and I have worked for is slowly becoming a reality. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

The crew already has plans to host Bill’s ninetieth birthday in October with some of the original Good Ole Boys. After all, Pop Moseley is at the very heart of the company. “My Pop taught me how to throw a football, cast a line, give a firm handshake, basically how to be a man,” Neal says. And while Bill Moseley has had many accomplishments in his long life, perhaps his greatest has been to pass on his Ole hat.

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Conceptual artist Nikki Pressley molds her thoughts

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“A lot of stuff I was interested in at CalArts was about personal agency, as opposed to collective agency. To me, growing your own food and feeding your family, that’s personal and political—not having to depend upon this larger thing in order to exist and live. And I think that’s really powerful. Farming is the best-functioning system that we have. We are emulating nature.

We’re still trying to go back to the original: see a system, watching it do its thing. It’s just been good, because luckily it integrates well into the art practice.”

Pressley, 30, manifests ideas with a variety of media, and her work, largely about relationships and identity—the root of things—has already garnered critical acclaim. A Mauldin native, she first considered a pre-med track at Furman University before settling on studio art. She credits her professors for exposing her to artists who are working in a similar vein, inspiring Pressley to pursue an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts, which she received in 2008. She was recently recognized by California

Home + Design magazine as one of ten California artists on the rise. She also participated in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, and she was one of 29 emerging artists selected for the Studio Museum in Harlem’s “F” series exhibition, Fore, which opens in November.

The artist considers her work to be “open investigations.” “If I wasn’t making art, I’d be reading and researching anyways, so putting a visual language to it is valuable to me,” she says. Pressley utilizes typography, artifacts, drawings, video, photography, and plants to package her inquiries, always in mind of providing the audience “access points” to her work. She’s now building furniture.

Pressley adds, “I’m making stuff I would put in my house. It’s simple, but there’s still an attention to an aesthetic. People are living with it. There’s an innate history there. What are the layers behind it?”

And though her work is layered, Pressley encourages the viewer to have a personal experience. She says, “How do you allow people to have an experience, to sink into something? I want to release control a little bit sometimes.”

But Pressley will continue to dig. And as for her rise? The sky’s the limit.

Artwork and portrait courtesy of Nikki Pressley

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God Is the Gospel. I enjoy the classics, Jane Austen, Dickens . . .

I read The Hunger Games back in the spring because I knew it was going to be big.

> Joyce Parks and DeWitt Jones were my favorite professors during my time at BJU. Parks was a parliamentarian and was a consultant for Robert’s Rules of Order. She was extremely hard—she would give you the unvarnished truth. Girls cried and guys cried—but in the end you loved her. Jones was my private-lessons instructor in public speaking and helped me with my recital. I traveled with him when I was a graduate assistant with the debate team, and he was the same as Joyce Parks. > I usually go to my study in my house to get quiet. On campus, I like driving around after everyone is in the residence halls after 11. It’s beautiful, it’s quiet, and I can think and pray. It’s very restful, unlike the pace of the day. > We really like going up to the Asheville, Tryon, Hendersonville, Landrum areas. We love antiquing up there, and there’s enough separation that I’m not in the fishbowl.

> I would like to visit my brother in New York City sometime in the fall. And in December, down to Hilton Head, which is where we honeymooned. > If I weren’t president of BJU, I would probably be in a classroom, preferably here. If I didn’t do that, it would be a tie between architecture and interior design. > In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my kids, of course. I also love to read Car and Driver and Motortrend magazines, keeping up with production cars; I’m not really a fan of the classic cars. Also, reading Architectural Digest. > I would love an S-Class Mercedes. But I could never drive one, unless it was a gift. > My favorite scripture verse is Isaiah 41:13. Right before I would make a speech and my heart was pounding, and still today right before I step into the pulpit, I’ll close my hand as a reminder of the promise that He’s holding it and He’ll strengthen me.”

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Inn of the Earth: The Red Horse Inn is an escape to nature. Enjoy the fall color of the grounds this month. Rates for the 6 rooms and 6 cottages range from $175/night for a small inn room to $320/night for the Grainery Cottage.

Back to Nature The Red Horse Inn is an idyllic respite in the Landrum hills

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ranquility greets you at the top of the gravel road leading to the Red Horse Inn, off Route 414.

Chirping birds punctuate a peaceful silence, as does the burbling water flowing down stone tiers into the tiny pond by the parking lot. As far as the eye can see, rolling green hills hemmed in by white farm fences stretch over the property’s 192 acres. Atop a nearby rise, you’ll spy a couple of the inn’s six cottages; beyond, Glassy Mountain’s bare cliff towers in the distance.

Follow the brick path through a small garden of boxwoods and bright flowers to the entrance. Inside, owner Mary Wolters welcomes guests with a sunny smile.

Wolters and her husband, Roger, built the inn and six cottages in 1995. The couple met in art school in New York City, but their passion for restoring old houses eventually led them back to Upstate South Carolina, where Mary grew up.

Their original concept of an artist’s retreat has evolved into a romantic getaway. “Our great reward,” Wolters says, “is to provide people an oasis in the midst of life’s chaos.” So she is happy to supplement standard room amenities—fireplaces, DVD player, robes, and wireless

Internet access—with luxuries such as wine, roses, inroom massages, and gourmet dinners upon request.

In the bedrooms, gauzy white fabric drapes over fourposter beds strewn with rose petals, and Oriental rugs cover hardwood floors. Wolters’s artistic talent reveals itself in the hunt-country murals that decorate many of the interiors. Cottages, equipped with vaulted ceilings, porches, and kitchenettes, provide privacy; one even has an outdoor hot tub. Breakfast is a private affair in any room: the likes of fruit parfaits, quiches, and muffins are put in each room’s mini refrigerator the night before. In the morning, guests can warm up egg dishes in the inroom microwave at their leisure.

October has a special allure; this month, the foliage on the surrounding mountainsides flames in hues of scarlet, vermillion, and gold. And Wolters’s fall package includes foliage tours that she designs as day trips from the inn.

When Mary Wolters first saw this property, she declared it a little slice of heaven. No doubt you will, too.

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ometimes a simple meal is anything but.

At least, that’s the reality experienced about 1,500 times a day in Greenville County at the hand of Meals on Wheels. The local organization, which has distributed meals daily since 1968 to those left homebound from physical and mental disabilities, is on track this year to cook up its tenmillionth meal in October.

It’s a milestone that speaks to the determination of the army of 140 volunteers working daily to help those in need age with grace and dignity, says the organization’s leader.

“The people who receive our meals, so often the volunteer is the only person they see all day long,” says Liz Seman, executive director of Greenville County’s Meals on Wheels. “While it’s important that we serve a hot, nutritious meal, it’s the interaction and the socialization that the volunteer has with the client that helps allow them to stay in their homes and maintain their independence.”

Meals on Wheels clients are referred by physician or social service worker, which helps the organization tailor food selections, such as diabetic, pureed, or vegetarian offerings.

“It also helps us understand what our clients are facing. Being homebound is hard enough, with limited driving, limited support from family or friends or a church. They may also be

suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, or high blood pressure,” she adds.

While there are no age or financial qualifications for participation in the program, Seman says the vast majority of clients are 75 years old or older, with many falling below the poverty line. All the meals are provided free of charge, provided by private donation.

The organization delivered more than 370,000 hot meals in 2011 throughout Greenville County—a feat reliant upon a daily drill of military precision. All meals are prepared at their Oregon Street location off Augusta Road in Greenville, then shuttled to five drop-off locations throughout the county. There, they are picked up by volunteers.

“We have 125 companies that deliver with us on a regular basis, from small one- or two-man accounting firms to Fluor and Michelin,” Seman says. “We actually take the meals to the companies, where employees deliver right from their office.”

There is a trickle effect, from keeping down healthcare costs, to keeping clients out of nursing homes, Seman explains. “It’s the meal, the interaction, and the safety check so families know there’s a friendly face checking in on their loved ones every day,” she says. “In about an hour, you can change the lives of so many people that you’re delivering to.”

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Run of the Mill: John Jeter and his brother Stephen converted the Mills Mill into a stage and listening room. It was the original location of The Handlebar.

Here, country singer Mark Collie croons to a packed house.

Stage Hands In his new memoir Rockin’ a Hard Place, The Handlebar’s John Jeter recounts a tale of chasing dreams and a life in music / selected excer pts by John Jeter

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he promoter knows why they’re here, all those fans lining up outside the doors tonight. They file in, moving along the walls that are plastered with posters, garish bills, and glossy flyers that advertise upcoming shows in black Magic Marker scrawls. He watches his customers—the ticket buyers, the economic lifeblood of a global business whose seeds he plants right here—he watches them stop at the boxoffice counter and hand over their hard-earned money. They could have spent their time and treasure on a movie or a burger and beer somewhere else; he understands that. But tonight, they have come to his venue instead.

Their reasons seem to transcend the need to eat or to spend a couple of hours in a dark cinema. Almost better than anyone else in his chosen industry, the promoter knows why these people came here: to share an experience that predates films and restaurants. He convinced himself years ago that he wanted to open his own place for live music because the art form endures as a remnant of prehistoric tribal gatherings. For millennia, stories set to song have helped interpret and commemorate the human experience. That was then. Now the promoter can only hope that he will sell enough beer and booze to make music make him a living.

Inside the concert hall, big foam dice, half the size of a Smart car, dangle from the barrel roof’s steel trusses. A few years ago, a friend fashioned the big ornaments as a tribute to the Rolling Stones—“Tumbling Dice.” At the back end of the brick-walled room looms the large stage, with its black curtains and black sound baffles. It’s dark up there, except for tiny red lights and the orange glow of decibel meters from guitar amps and from the reflective glitter of drum cymbals. The carpeted floor seems to writhe with cables and wires. In a few moments, this space will give way to magic.

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Some in the growing crowd sit, some stand, some wait to be served at the concert-hall bar. Many of them sip cold beer from a longneck bottle or a colorful cocktail from a plastic cup. Lively, anticipatory chatter gurgles through the hall.

In the booth at the far back wall, the house sound guy sits and fiddles with his Blackberry. He glances toward the stage from time to time, looking for the signal from the door off stage-right.

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they shouldn’t be doing, maybe even calming a little stage fright.

Now the house guy sees a flash, a Maglite signal from backstage.

He turns around and presses a button.

The house lights fade.

The crowd erupts. *** The old textile mill stood like a forgotten mausoleum. All used up after a hundred years, the abandoned factory housed only a ghost or two in its time-chipped walls. Now, though, my brother and I had other plans for this place whose red bricks had been fired from clay not far from the site of a Civil War gun factory. The first time we saw the decrepit mill, Stephen and I, a light spring breeze perfumed the air with honeysuckle and jasmine. White and pink dogwood blossoms decorated South Carolina with giddy promise. My brother and I came to look at this old factory that for decades had lured dirtpoor sharecroppers and struggling farm families to lives of urban destitution. Today, the mill was enticing us into a similar gamble with Fate.

We were snooping around for a spot to start our lives in the music business.

We wound up at the old Mills Mill in Greenville because Stephen knew that I’d love the place. He knew I would agree that this would be the perfect spot for our dream, our endeavor together as brothers . . . our own concert hall.

The year was 1994. That year, Kurt Cobain killed himself, despite

the huge success of Nirvana. O.J. Simpson was found innocent of killing other people, despite apparent evidence to the contrary. The economy was making a killing, despite “irrational exuberance” that everyone knew couldn’t last. The music business was making a killing, despite the dawn of the Internet age, which would eventually convulse the music business. That summer also marked the tenth anniversary that my brother had donated his kidney and saved my life, despite the fact that doctors told my mother I wouldn’t live past five.

Things seemed right with the world on that lovely spring day.

The historic mill appeared to be as full of promise as it was empty—much like our knowledge of business, any business, especially the music business. But as a friend told me once about learning something new: “Wanna know the best way to learn Spanish? I give you a parachute and drop you into the middle of Colombia. In a few short weeks, su vida es fantástico! A day or so before, I had driven up from Florida. At the time, I was living with my fiancée, Kathy, in St. Petersburg, where I had burned out after ten years in the newspaper game. Deliberately unemployed, I had spent the previous year “writing” and traveling—and accomplishing little more than incinerating my savings. Now, though, if my brother and I did find some place to open our dreamed-up music venue, I would just have to persuade Kathy to quit her newsroom job and move with me to a strange town.

What could possibly go wrong?

Photographs (John Jeter) by Jessica Tapp; (construction) courtesy of Hub City Press; (book cover) courtesy of Hub City Press; (Drive-By Truckers) by Ed McDonald; (exterior) by Paul Mehaffey

Band Together: (clockwise from bottomright) Rockin’ a Hard Place is out this month by Spartanburg’s Hub City Press; Drive-By Truckers perform at The Handlebar in 2008; exterior shot of today’s Stone Avenue location; owner and author John Jeter; construction of the current Handlebar location

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*** What a way to start a lifelong partnership: Quit your job; persuade your betrothed to abandon her career; get married; take a six-week honeymoon drive in a crammed Honda; return home; move your entire household to an unfamiliar town; and open your own small business—all in about three months. Oh, and we’re not talking about just any small business, but a live-music venue, a risky venture, at best, in an industry that the three of us knew absolutely nothing about.

That didn’t stop my brother and me from working up a business plan whose wild-eyed enthusiasm was matched only by its unfounded optimism and astonishing ignorance. In our formal blueprint, we dubbed our new company Handlebar Enterprises Inc., which, as they say in business jargon, was d/b/a—or “doing business as”—The Handlebar: A Listening Room. We rocked our presentation with fancy (and costly) spreadsheets, a profit and loss statement and projections, and a zippy narrative; I was a writer, after all. With our inch-thick plan in hand and our decision—without Kathy—to pursue a lease at the old mill, he and I decided that we would open for business on September 30, 1994.

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*** The century, meanwhile, played toward its finale. Along with the global freak-out over Y2K, while the record industry hovered on the verge of digital meltdown, we also faced a future as uncertain as Robinson Crusoe’s. Yes, we still lived with more debt than cash, sort of like the government. And while most everyone agrees that money doesn’t buy happiness, it does buy memories. Lots of them.

We collected and stored them up like so much cordwood to keep us warm whenever the big, cold world got that much colder.

As it always has been and always would be, the music endured.

Among the hundreds of shows that we had presented, a handful come to mind: Nils Lofgren, Mickey Newbury, and Gillian Welch with David Rawlings. (Other fans might disagree; any list of favorite Handlebar concerts would be as subjective as every Rolling Stone Greatest Album, Greatest Guitar Player, Greatest Rock Song.) But those three shows in particular, and in memory, all pulled me into the Listening Room, where I watched in admiration and wonder, every moment suspended in time.

It was amazing to me that we could even book Nils Lofgren. He had once belonged to Neil Young’s Crazy Horse, but was perhaps best known for his acrobatics in Springsteen’s E Street Band, where he would flip on a trampoline while he played. (In 2011, Rolling Stone named him the fourth Greatest Guitarist of All Time, between Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.)

In February 1996, the diminutive performer showed up with a hirsute band of grouchy roadies and some of the most amazing musicians in the business. It’s pretty hard to keep track of the hundreds, even thousands, of band members who come through, but Nils had hired some serious sidemen: on guitar and keyboards, Jeff Thall, who had played with John Cale and Bryan Ferry; on bass and vocals, Wornell Jones, who had worked with the Pointer Sisters and Earth Wind & Fire; and Andy Newmark, a drummer for damn near everybody, from Cat Stevens to George Harrison and Sting to George Benson. Andy had appeared on Carly Simon’s 1971 album, Anticipation, and was the sole drummer on John Lennon’s last album, Double Fantasy. To say that Nils’s band that night was among the best group of musicians we had ever seen would be like saying that Shakespeare wrote good.

The quartet packed those hundred minutes with long, elegant jams and jaw-dropping guitar wizardry that skirted the line between rock and jazz. He spoke little to the crowd, which filled only about half the room, stopping only once to comment on the meager size of our stage: “Kinda tight up here,” he said. “I think you’ve got a lot more room than us, but this way we can’t hide anything from you. That’s all right.” He chuckled. “No, this is nice. It’s like my basement, except there’s a lot more people, and instead of feeling like work, this is fun.”

Once again, too many people missed that show, but those who did see it, I knew, would remember it forever.

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GARDEN DELIGHT Opposite page: Sweater by Cynthia Vincent, $325, from Augusta 20. Boots by Tretorn, $80, from Muse Shoe Studio. Ring by Alexis Bittar, call for cost, from Augusta 20, (864) 233-2600, augustatwenty.com This page: Dress by Stella McCartney, call for cost. Shoes by Brian Atwood, $385. Earrings, call for cost.

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BLACK, BONE This page: Dress by Badgley Mischka, $595, from Coplon’s.

Shoes by Vince Camuto, $139, from Muse Shoe Studio. Earrings, call for cost, from Coplon’s, (864) 271-1600, coplons.com Opposite page: Right: Gown by Tadashi Shoji, $530, from Coplon’s. Shoes, call for cost, from Muse Shoe Studio.

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Left: Gown by Monique Lhuillier, $698, from Coplon’s. Shoes, call for cost, from Muse Shoe Studio, (864) 271-9750, museshoestudio. com. Earrings, call for cost, from Coplon’s. Bracelets, call for cost, from Coplon’s.

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Body Shop Once considered barbarian, uncouth, and taboo, the tattoo has punctured the mainstream as a means to commemorate, to celebrate, and to elevate. Here, beauty runs skin-deep.

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ou always remember your first. It’s a rite a passage, symbolic in and of itself. Emily Jones, 18, wants to do it to celebrate her boyfriend Alex DeFlorio’s birthday. She is so excited and not nervous at all, she says—that is, until tattoo artist Tim Farmer switches on the machine, the buzz snapping Jones’s nerves into attention as she reclines into the chair. The machine poised just above her left hip about to take aim—ink into flesh— in the form of . . . a sparrow.

“And not the modern one that everyone gets,” Jones instructs, “but the swirly one that’s more old-fashioned.”

“By the way,” Farmer interjects in the room that is now pulsing with palpable anticipation, “a sparrow tattoo symbolizes freedom and also commitment to a single individual.”

“You planned that didn’t you?” says DeFlorio, looking down at his girlfriend, who has just asked that he please hold her hand to help keep her calm.

“No,” she says, laughing in that beautifully genuine way that 18-year-olds can when their defenses are down, “I didn’t.”

It might not be planned, but it is permanent. And, now, from high-school grads and bikers to buttoned-up bankers and sorority sisters, with suburban soccer moms in between, we’ll have to acquire a new barometer to indicate the “other,” because these days tattoos are anything but taboo.

When you think ink, the connotations in the past were firmly rooted with renegades—outlaws, sailors, and pirates, gang members, artists, and musicians who were desperate for attention by announcing I am not like you! with tribal armbands, Celtic symbols, Chinese characters, or you name it.

But since the practice has evolved, there is a softer side to the art of getting inked. It has effectively moved into mainstream style—what wasn’t the norm is now widely accepted. It’s now more of an accessory than an announcement.

The sparrow that Jones (who, it should be noted, is not a gang member or a pirate) selected is there simply because she likes it. The tattoo that her boyfriend got that same night?

He found it on Google Images. It didn’t come weighted with symbolism, nostalgia, or a rap sheet—just an Internet address.

The tattoo didn’t come weighted with symbolism, nostalgia, or a rap sheet... just an Internet address.

That may be the free-wheeling ways and/or folly of youth, sure, or just the natural evolution of something that had its beginnings some 5,000 years ago, though the word tattoo originated with English explorer Captain James Cook’s 1769 landing in Tahiti when he noted that the Tahitian word for “to mark” was tattau.

It had been an effective way to identify those Christians in the Crusades in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, says Buck, one of the artists at Physical Graffiti South—the only custom tattoo studio in Greenville. Former Rochester, New York, native, Chuck Falkoff and his partner and latesweetheart, Tracy Moran, opened the shop five years ago.

The association with those of a seafaring way makes sense when you consider that it was merchants and naval seamen who spread the art to North America and Europe.

In fact, at some point, the inscribed in England were not inmates or circus freaks, but aristocrats. Both Winston Churchill and his mother, Jennie, had tattoos—hers was a snake wrapping around her wrist; his was a rather conservative anchor on his arm. (Or, consider our American Camelot— Caroline Kennedy has a butterfly on her right elbow from a dare that her brother John Jr. and cousin Teddy prevailed upon her during a family trip to Hong Kong in the 1980s. And her late father, our nation’s thirty-fifth president, had both a dagger [right bicep] and a shamrock [left foot] as tattoos.)

As they get collected, tattoos become a permanent travelogue of the past; at the least, they are something that means enough to want to stare at for the rest of your life.

Unless you are someone like, say, actress Megan Fox who had her Marilyn Monroe tat lasered from her forearm last year, apparently changing her mind of the icon’s image being a necessity on her body.

And, as far as relationship markers go, tattoos only run skin deep. Hey, if it didn’t work for Johnny Depp, it’s probably not going to work for you. “Winona Forever” quickly became “Wino Forever” once the couple (Depp and Winona Ryder) uncoupled. “I am here to tell you right now,” Farmer says, “it is the kiss of a death for a relationship. It is not a joke. I’ve seen it a million times,” whose own tattoo across his chest was done by Farmer himself.

NEEDLE WORK: (previous spread) Dragon tattoo on Mark Fain; (opposite, clockwise from top-left) Fain’s “96” tattoo to commemorate his wedding year as a stand-in for a wedding band; Tim Farmer, artist at Greenville’s Physical Graffiti South, who tattooed his own chest; Emily Jones’s sparrow; a “spider mum” plant on Jodi Silver; the tool of the trade; Shane, foreground, and Buck, artists at Physical Graffiti South; detail of the tattoo machine; owner of Physical Graffiti South, Chuck Falkoff

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There are also tattoos that hold much meaning. Sometimes so much meaning, their intention is not to be seen.

GRAPHIC ARTS: (previous spread) Tattoo flash art by Brandon, an artist at Physical Graffiti South; (opposite, clockwise from top-left) detail of Brandon’s dragon tattoo; Buck at work; Hayley Caddell and owl; Brandon Mogan’s arm art; ink bottles; stencil application; the arm of Buck; wall of tattoo flash art; Brandon’s colorful back; artwork by Tim Farmer

New mom Meg LaCasse, 24, has another take on that superstition—and not just because she and her husband have their wedding date (inscripted as “fourteen.august. twenty.ten”) on their arms. “My wedding tattoo spurs a lot of comments from strangers,” says LaCasse. “Usually, it’s along the lines of, ‘What is that? Oh, cool.’ But I was once given this advice from a teenaged barista: ‘Don’t people always say that you shouldn’t get a wedding tattoo in case something happens?’ My feeling is, if you’re going to go into marriage planning for if/when it goes south, you probably shouldn’t get married. Tattoos are permanent, but the forever we said ‘I do’ to is permanent, too.”

In 2004, South Carolina became the forty-ninth state to legalize tattoos, with Oklahoma following last in 2006.

Though it was legal here, Falkoff hit many a speed bump— and many a city council meeting—for a couple of years waiting for approval to open his business while regulations were put in place. Since then, business has flourished at his studio on Haywood Road.

Nothing is off limits (and we mean, nothing). “I’ve had to tattoo the nether regions of a 65-year-old woman,” says Farmer—though he unabashedly admits that he’ll charge a “handling fee” for similar services for his same gender.

Depending on the size and location of your chosen design, rates range from a minimum of $60 to larger tattoos that will run $120 an hour, with an average of eight hours, usually. But the artists—Physical Graffiti has four—who are usually as colorful in their personalities as their art, will make certain that you are 100-percent sure you’re ready to go under the machine (and not “gun,” which Farmer explains is not correct terminology). Buck has talked people out of the placement of their tattoos.

There are also the tattoos that hold much meaning.

Sometimes so much meaning, their intention is to not be seen, as in the case of Dr. Paul Siffri, an orthopedic surgeon at Steadman Hawkins in Greenville, who says his four tattoos were “something I wanted to do just for myself. I didn’t want to do it for decorative purposes or for other people to see.”

His first one was at 21-years-old, when his father passed away in 1989. He and his brother and sister decided to honor their father’s faith and his memory with a permanent reminder.

“Many people call it a Jesus fish,” says Siffri, who is married with three children, “but our religion is Eastern Orthodox Christian, and so it’s a fish with the hand of God pointing to Heaven. It was a custom tattoo, and it’s very meaningful for us.”

Meaningful, as well as a chance for he and his siblings to mark their solidarity permanently, which they did again with the next tattoo the three of them had done.

“The Eastern Orthodox Christian faith has a unique cross; it’s not just a typical cross you see with horizontal and vertical lines. It’s got a couple of extra things on it, and we wanted to get a tattoo of that cross.”

But don’t expect to see them underneath his scrubs in the OR. “I’d get more tattoos right now if I could,” he says, “but I’m running out of places to put them that are inconspicuous. I do them for myself. I don’t do them for other people to see them.”

Which is maybe part of the fun when they’re hidden from view as an indelible, historical roadmap of who you are and where you’ve been.

Or where you come from, like environmental engineer Brandon Mogan, a 27-year-old married father of two who has his late grandfather’s last name of “Hastings” in script running down his triceps. “He was a preacher and a big influence on my life,” he says, though Mogan appreciates the artistic expression that comes with adorning one’s body in such a manner, as well. “My passion was more from the religious side based on the core values that I learned growing up, and the influence my grandfather had on me,” says Mogan, “and my artistic expression was to put that on myself—as an artistic expression and as a reminder of that upbringing.”

In an eloquent piece that appeared in Town & Country magazine in the Social Graces section from last August, writer Emily Carter wryly suggests that parents let go of the judgments and worries of a doomed future for their children who have adorned themselves with this permanent expression: “Yes, in another decade having a tattoo might be like wearing a lifelong pair of skinny jeans. But this is all likely to turn out to be an issue of aesthetics rather than economics.

Your children are not on the fast track to oblivion because of a youthful fashion misstep any more than you were. Don’t forget to act appalled, of course, lest they be driven to some kind of ridiculous extreme, like no-practice stunt falls. And if they are, don’t be surprised if their orthopedic surgeon is sporting some serious ink.”

And so it is written—yet, also, on the body.

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time Renato Moncini rocketed from his native Italy to Greenville, with a stop in Alabama.

He worked on Vespas, illustrated space technology for NASA, then led the illustration team at Fluor Daniel. Now, retired, Moncini continues to tinker, build, and pursue his main interest—la bella vita.

by steven tingle photography by paul Mehaffey ILLUSTRATIONS by RENATO MONCINI

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Teen musician Noah Guthrie of Greer has a guitar, video camera, and a dream. But most importantly, the kid’s got talent— big time.

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Renato Moncini sits patiently in a chair in his living room as I desperately search through my bag for a pen. Approaching 80, Moncini is slightly hard of hearing and, with a thick Italian accent, slightly hard to understand.

But he is a gracious host, opening his home and offering refreshment to an ill-prepared writer, on short notice for a brief interview.

“What magazine are you from again?” says Moncini, his accent adding a vowel between each word. I answer, and he cocks his head and squints suspiciously. “On the phone I thought you said Time magazine.”

He laughs and waves away the thought.

“Sit, please,” he says, as I give up my search and turn on a digital recorder.

Flustered and embarrassed I haphazardly begin. “So tell me, Mr. Moncini, what do you do? ” Moncini’s eyes drop to half-mast, and he looks down as if the answer might be found among the fibers of the living room carpet. I immediately regret the question. What was I thinking? Moncini is in his late-seventies, retired. He obviously doesn’t currently “do” anything. I was there because I’d heard he’d once worked for Piaggio, the company that makes Vespa scooters, and that he had a few early models tucked away. An easy interview, 30 minutes at most, but currently off to a very bad start.

There is a long pause, then suddenly Moncini breaks into a smile and looks up. He answers the question with only two words. Two words that I will discover over the next couple of hours to define the essence of this Renaissance man. Two words that transcend occupation or vocation or livelihood. Two words we often forget as we stress over traffic or calories or bank balances or missing pens.

Two. Simple. Words. “I enjoy.”

A government contractor working with NASA hired Moncini. “I could barely speak English, can you imagine?” he says. “But the need for manpower was so bad, especially in illustration, they would hire anybody if they were legal.”

Renato Moncini was born in Migliarino Pisano, a suburb of Pisa, in 1934. In high school, he discovered an enthusiasm and gift for artistic and mechanical pursuits. “It was good school,” he says.

“They would prepare students. It wasn’t mostly vocational; we had a lot of subjects, foreign language, science, drawing, and even music.

It was very interesting.”

After graduation, Moncini found work at the Piaggio factory, spot-welding 125cc Vespa scooters and eating bowls of minestrone in the company canteen. After a year he was promoted to the group responsible for the fabrication of jigs and equipment used on the assembly line. At 20, Moncini put his Piaggio factory skills to work for the Italian Air Force as a flight engineer. “That’s where I learned so much about engine, it was fascinating.” While in the Air Force, Moncini was selected to be one of 35 servicemen to take part in a cooperative air-defense program between Italy and the United States in Huntsville, Alabama. “During that time,” he says, “breaking all the rules, I got married and everybody got mad at me. I had to go back to Italy. I stayed there over a year. I left my wife here, she thought I was never coming back.” After honoring his obligation to the Air Force, Moncini returned to Huntsville and his wife in 1960.

Upon his return, a government contractor working with NASA hired Moncini. “I could barely speak English, can you imagine? ” he says. “But the need for manpower was so bad, especially in illustration, they would hire anybody if they were legal.” He stayed with the company three years until, as Moncini puts it, “came the

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ABOUT SPACE:

Renato Moncini (top-right) was a fulltime illustrator for NASA in the 1960s. His renderings of the space program were critical for public consumption and political persuasion.

American Dream.” His illustrative and rendering talents had caught the eyes of NASA, and he joined the agency’s Marshall Space Center as a full-time illustrator in 1965.

“The job for me was so rewarding,” he says. “It was on the edge of technology.” While with NASA, Moncini produced thousands of full-color, airbrushed renderings of rockets and machinery. His work was used to promote America’s space program to the public and to politicians who held NASA’s purse strings. Moncini was inspired by the technology that surrounded him. “They were working with lasers at a time when it was hush, hush, very mysterious,” he says.

“They were zapping aluminum, they were zapping the wall of the building.” He often wonders why fifty years later the promise of some of this technology has never been realized. “They had a house in 1972 that would maintain itself with solar power,” he says. “It would provide all of the electricity on its own. I know that because I had to do all of the illustration. What a technology. We haven’t heard nothing about it ever since.”

The more the discussion focuses on technology and mechanics, the louder and faster Moncini speaks, his hands circling through the air as if painting on an invisible canvas. “Let’s go downstairs,” he says, quickly rising from his chair. Despite mild Multiple Sclerosis and the lingering pains of a 2004 Vespa accident, Moncini is surprisingly agile, descending the basement stairs with the enthusiasm of a scientist entering his laboratory or a kid hurrying to a secret clubhouse. “Excuse the dust,” he says, as we enter. I ask how often he comes down here. “I stay down here all the time, working, working.” He turns on the light and points to one of three Vespas. “That’s an old one, 1959. This guy dumped the thing in the driveway because it was all parts. I put it together.” At one time Moncini had nine Vespas in his collection. “I used to enjoy riding so much.”

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Outside in the backyard, he proudly points out more of his work, decorative metal gates, a fig harvester, a carport complete with brick archways (“It took me a year to build�) and a zip line he constructed for his grandkids.

life drawing:

Moncini (top-left) poses rocket-side. The artist depicted space technology, then later created airbrushed renderings of mechanical parts for Fluor Daniel, where he worked as creative director and lead illustrator.

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Moncini moves to a long file cabinet tucked under the basement stairs. It holds hundreds of prints, the fruits of his work as creative director and lead illustrator for Fluor Daniel, the job that brought him to Greenville after 14 years with NASA. He rifles through the cabinet and pulls out a rendering of BMW’s Upstate plant. “Would you like this?” he says. He then extracts a print of a city skyline. “Asheville!” he exclaims, as he hands it to me, an Asheville native. I’m soon carrying six prints as we continue our tour.

The basement is crammed with projects and inventions, tools and scraps. “I do quite a bit of welding,” Moncini says, pointing to a stick welder in the corner. Near the machine stands a dog sculpture made of pipe and painted to resemble a Dalmatian, one leg raised. “You connect a hose, and he pee all over the yard,” Moncini says. Next is a hose storage system made out of PVC pipe, a metal and plastic weed-eater guide for edging the driveway, metal rocking benches, a hickory cabinet, and dangerously sharp metal garden tools, all

created by Moncini. Outside in the backyard, he proudly points out more of his work, decorative metal gates, a fig harvester, a carport complete with brick archways (“It took me a year to build”) and a zip line he constructed for his grandkids (“I’m so nervous,” he says). Back inside, I ask Moncini what he is working on today.

“Soup!” he says. “I don’t want to brag, but I can do a few things, like cooking.”

Eager to get his soup started, Moncini quickly autographs the prints he’s given me and leads me to the door. I’m reluctant to leave, so I turn to him. “Mr. Moncini, is there anything else I need to know?” He looks away for a moment before responding. “Have you heard of the Olive Garden?” he says. I think he’s pulling my leg, but he’s serious. “Somebody gave me a gift certificate, and my wife say, ‘We’ve got to go there.’ She said, ‘You bad-mouth the place all the time, and you don’t even know what they serve.’ So we went, and order chicken Marsala. It was excellent. I enjoy.”

I wonder why he’s telling me this, but then I realize it’s another gift: He knows I’ve recently relocated from Asheville, and he’s giving me advice, man to man. As I shake his hand and thank him for his time, he leans close and whispers, “Take your girlfriend to the Olive Garden, she’ll love it.” Indeed, I enjoy.

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baseball-throw from Fluor Field, Purple International Bistro & Sushi bears little resemblance to its sports-bar neighbors in either its atmosphere or its food. Inside the cozy former coffee shop, a sensuous mural of human forms by Chef Jack Fang hangs above the upholstered booths along one wall.

Most of the seating in the small downstairs room lies within view of the sushi bar, where the chef, a native of Sapporo, Japan, wields a skillful knife on fish flown in fresh from Tokyo and elsewhere. More unusual offerings include cherry blossom sushi: a piece of albacore tuna wrapped in cherry blossom leaves, which the chef imports from Japan and cures himself. Traditionally used in desserts in Japan, the soft leaves that enrobe the tuna have a subtly sweet, grassy taste with a hint of cinnamon.

Chef Jack uses the leaves in several preparations; he even makes his own cherry blossom salt.

The chef’s wife, Jacque, runs the front of the house, and is the most knowledgeable about the food and sake. Ask her for suggestions about what to order, and you won’t be disappointed. She steers me toward the signature Hako sushi, but not before we sample tuna tataki and an order of shumai to start.

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citrus- and soy-based ponzu sauce. Plump, bite-sized shumai dumplings are stuffed with succulent jumbo shrimp and steamed. A small bowl of mild lemongrass chili “water” provides a pool for dipping.

Price of disHes: The four diners at our table agree that the fish in Entrées range from various rolls (some covered in sesame seeds, some in $16–$30 tempura crumbs) is wonderfully fresh. A standout, my Hako, or “box,” sushi—so called, because fish and rice are layered and cut in a rectangular shape rather than a roll—bats a thousand. Purple’s Hako sushi stacks layers of eel, smoked salmon, avocado, sushi rice, minced spicy tuna, and crunchy tempura crumbs. Since I don’t care for eel, however, I ask our waitress if the chef could substitute something else. Chef Jack, who is happy to oblige, sends braised squash in to pinch-hit for the eel while retaining a similar texture.

For those who shy away from sushi, there are cooked entrées, too (the roast duckling with cherry blossom, red wine reduction sounds tempting). Sushi, however, remains the most valuable player here. And though clearly not typical game-day fare, the sushi at Purple nevertheless hits one out of the park.

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Thank chef/owner Aaron Manter for including these libations; hard cider, it turns out, is the apple of his eye.

“It’s the only alcoholic drink he really likes,” admits his wife, Justi.

And crisp cider cocktails make the perfect drinks for fall. All three at The Owl are made with Thistly Cross, a farmhouse-style cider from Scotland. The Brandy Cross adds Boulard Calvados, while the Apple Flower mixes St. Germain elderflower liqueur and Bauchant orange essence brandy for a slightly sweeter, floral quaff.

Ingram claims the Apple Flower is the most popular of the three, but the Colonial Cross (the name refers to the Laird’s Applejack, a family-owned distillery in Virginia that traces its roots to colonial times) deserves an honorable mention.

For this, Ingram pours an ounce of Laird’s Applejack, 3/4-ounce Bauchant orange essence brandy, and 1/2-ounce of house-made lemon sour into a tall glass.

He tops these with the cider, rolls the cocktail once over ice, et voila: a ginger-ale-colored autumn sparkler whose sweetness, balanced by the tart lemon, reappears on the finish with a lingering whisper of orange.

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Luckily, you don’t have to cross the Atlantic to enjoy this German festival. On October 6, downtown Greer will transform into a mecca of German sensory delight. The Countybank Greer Station Oktoberfest will feature Oompah bands on two stages, as well as work by local artists and craftsmen. Visitors can find ceramics, photography, woodwork, jewelry, and more.

Of course, the entertainment is just windowdressing for the food. Sizzling bratwurst, knackwurst, Bavarian white sausages, freshbaked pretzels, and more go down nicely with a cold glass of Warsteiner (or beer from local brewery Thomas Creek). Then, tame your sweet tooth with kettle corn, hot funnel cake, or German chocolate and Black Forest cakes.

It’s that time. Rake the yard, then raise a glass to fall.

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21 East This new hotspot has a focus on fun, from the city-slick décor to the dance floor upstairs. Even the food shines as small plates to mix and match (and pair with standout cocktails). Try the sexy roasted beet salad or the lobster “mac n cheese,” a dressed-up riff with generous bites of sweet lobster meat tucked into gouda-swathed corkscrew pasta. $-$$, D. 17 E Washington St. (864) 271-0533

Guide aDDY’s DUtCH CaFÉ Addy’s fosters a comfortable, intimate atmosphere of uniquely European charm. At the bar, choose from an eclectic selection of small plates: assorted cheese platter, sate (glazed, spicy chicken kabobs), Swedish meatballs, and more. Or head upstairs to dine on Dutch entrées with an Indonesian tinge. $$-$$$, D. Closed Monday. 17 E Coffee St. (864) 232-2339

BLUE RiDGE BREWiNG COMPaNY Inspired by brew pubs in the Pacific Northwest, the Blue Ridge Brewing Company caters to Upstate connoisseurs. Pair a Colonel Paris Pale Ale, Kurli Blonde Ale, Total Eclipse Stout, or seasonal offering with a slow-roasted cut of beef, pork, or chicken. Or for the adventurous, choose selections from the Wild Game Sampler. $$-$$$, L, D, SBR. 217 N Main St. (864) 2324677, blueridgebrewing.com

BaRLEY’s taPROOM & PizzERia Pizza and beer—flowing from more than 27 taps downstairs and another 31 upstairs—are what bring students and young revelers to Barley’s.

Besides the tap, there’s a list as long as your arm of selections by the bottle. Try your luck upstairs at the billiards tables and the dartboard lanes. $-$$, L, D. 25 W Washington St. (864) 2323706, barleystaproom.com/ greenville

BREaKWatER REstaURaNt Breakwater is one of those places that makes Greenville shine: an unpretentious hotspot that serves exquisite food (blue crab marinated in olive oil and lemon atop a farro salad) and creative drinks in a New York City-meets-Lowcountry vibe. A game changer for the ever-evolving West End. $$$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday.

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BRiCK stREEt CaFÉ You’ll likely have to loosen your belt after chowing down at this Augusta Street mainstay, serving the comforts of home. Try Mom’s Spaghetti, Miss Sara’s Crab Cakes, or the signature fried shrimp with sweet potato fries.

But do save room for dessert. Madefrom-scratch sweets like the “24 Karrot” cake, peanut butter cake, and sweet potato pie are hard to resist (desserts are available for special-order, too). $$-$$$, L, D (Thurs–Sat). Closed Sunday. 315 Augusta St. (864) 421-0111, brickstreetcafe.com tHE BROWN stREEt CLUB You’ll think you stepped out of time at this ’20s-inspired jazz bar. The Brown Street Club offers a polished menu that partners well with its fine bar selection. Pair your Brown Street Sidecar with the beef short ribs and spicy macaroni and cheese, or match your Oregon Pinot Noir with the fig-glazed pork tenderloin. Enjoy live jazz and take a turn on the floor—it all goes down easy here. $$$, D. 115 N Brown St. (864) 2509193, brownstreetclub.com

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We offer full service event management with catering and staff from our restaurants, The Green Room and Ford’s Oyster House and Cajun Kitchen. The space is located above Ford’s Oyster House and Cajun Kitchen at 631 S. Main Street, Greenville.

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CAROLINA ALE HOUSE Regional chain Carolina Ale House serves up all-American bar fare of gooey cheese fries, thick Angusbeef burgers, finger-lickin’ ribs, and specialty desserts, like the Dessert Nachos and Ale House Mud Pie. This joint satisfies both foodie and fan alike. Enjoy its open-air bar upstairs to the tune of your favorite team stomping the competition. $-$$$, L, D. 113 S Main St. (864) 351-0521, carolinaalehouse.com

AmericAn Grocery American Grocery offers refined American cuisine (and a frequently changing menu) that emphasizes the highest-quality ingredients from local, regional, and national produce.

The fried Blue Chips Farm rabbit makes a decadent starter. For an entrée, the potatocrusted Sunburst trout or the grilled bistro steak are standout options. Finish with the flourless chocolate cake. $$$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday & Monday. 732 S Main St. (864) 232-7665, americangr.com

THE CAZBAH For a unique dining experience, try the Cazbah. Linger over a light dinner, or create a sumptuous meal of the menu’s tapas, such as the lobster cigars or sesame-seared tuna. While you won’t find sweet tea, an extensive wine selection will delight those looking for a more sophisticated evening. There is a sister location in Greer. $, D. 16 W McBee Ave. (864) 241-9909, thecazbah.com

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CHICORA ALLEY Chicora Alley’s Caribbean riff on traditional Mexican and Southern fare offers signature crab cakes or mountain-high nachos, shrimp and chicken burritos, quesadillas, and more. With a Falls Park view or patio seat, you won’t leave unsatisfied. $-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday.

608-B S Main St. (864) 232-4100, chicoraalley.com 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 fresh-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.

1Augusta St, Ste 101. (864) 3739836, coffeetoatea.com COFFEE UNDERGROUND Coffee Underground boasts a wide selection of specialty coffees, hot chocolate, and adult libations. If you’re craving more substantial fare, choose from a splendid breakfastanytime option, sandwiches, soups,

salads, pastries, and desserts. And don’t miss Sunday brunch in the Red Room. $-$$, B, L, D, SBR. 1 E Coffee St. (864) 298-0494, coffeeunderground.biz COMPADRE’S This Mexican grill and cantina in the West End is a good spot to grab a bite and a margarita before a Drive game. Tried-and-true combinations of chalupas, burritos, tacos, and chile rellenos don’t disappoint, but authentic Mexican accents spark dishes such as a ribeye with cactus (nopales) and camarones a la mojo de ajo (grilled shrimp in a garlic-laced marinade). $, L, D. 929 S Main St. (864) 2828945, compadresmex.com DEVEREAUX’S Housed in a century-old cigar factory, Devereaux’s offers New American cuisine prepared in an open kitchen. Exposed brick balances the space’s more modern furnishings and contemporary art. For a savory surprise, try the Chef’s Ultimate Menu: 10 spontaneous courses created for the evening, or the lighter five-course tasting menu. $$$-$$$$, D. Closed Monday. 25 E Court St. (864) 241-3030, devereauxsdining.com

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The Bohemian CafÉ Treat your taste buds and ears at the Bohemian Café, side-by-side with the legendary Horizon Records music store. This electic café with an international flair serves up daily specials for curry and pasta.

For Sunday brunch, treat yourself to a Bloody Mary bar, or indulge your sweet tooth with a slice of homemade rum cake. $$, L, D, SBR. Closed Monday. 2 W Stone Ave, Greenville. (864) 233-0006, thebohemiancafe.com

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FORD’S OYSTER HOUSE Ford’s—a nod to Greenville’s first Ford dealership of 1918 in the same building—combines fresh seafood with Cajun flavor straight from New Orleans. The gumbo or shrimpjalapeño beignets are satisfying starters. Try the BLT po’boy, with thick-cut, smoked bacon, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and Creole mayo, stuffed in a soft sub roll. The double chocolate bread pudding will make your dancin’ legs wobbly. $-$$, L, D, SBR. Ford’s Oyster House & Cajun Kitchen, 631 S Main St. (864) 223-6009, fordsoysterhouse.com HANDI INDIAN CUISINE At lunch, sample items from a reasonably priced buffet with plentiful choices that change daily. From the menu, try the Handi Special: a sampler of tandoori chicken, lamb kabobs, lamb or chicken curry, and vegetable korma, served with basmati rice, naan, condiments, and dessert. $$-$$$, L, D. 18 N Main St. (864) 2417999, handiindiancuisine.com THE LAZY GOAT The Lazy Goat’s tapas-style menu is distinctly Mediterranean. Sample from the Graze and Nibble dishes, featuring such unusual pairings as trout spanikopita and grilled

calamari. An extensive variety of wines is available in addition to a full bar. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday.

170 River Pl. (864) 679-5299, thelazygoat.com LEMONGRASS Lemongrass Thai brings flavor to please. Choose from curry, noodles, and fried rice, or vegetarian dishes.

The Bangkok Street Cuisine menu includes Siam Chicken (grilled, marinated chicken breast with chunks of pineapple, carrots, bell pepper, cashew nuts, and mushrooms) and Prik King (chicken or pork sautéed in spicy chili sauce), while the chef’s specialties offer even more choices. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday.

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Across from Liberty Taproom, Mac’s looks to be family friendly for both the Harley-set as well as the post-Drive-baseball crowd with plenty of brisket, ribs, and beer-can chicken. “Start your engine” with a plate of Tabasco fried pickles, washed down (quickly, no doubt) with one of the 50 craft beers on tap. With outdoor seating, you’ll likely want to lay some rubber on the road to grab your spot. $-$$$, L, D. 930 S Main St, macsspeedshop.com

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MARY’S RESTAURANT AT FALLS pARk Located in historic Falls Cottage, Mary’s offers brunch and lunch. The menu includes the Ultimate Reuben and Chicken Salad Croissant, as well as Southern-comfort favorites such as the black-eyed-pea salad and Mary’s Pimiento Cheese. $, L, SBR. Closed Monday. 615 S Main St. (864) 2980005, fallscottage.com MELLOW MUSHROOM Greenville’s West End outpost of this beloved pizza joint is perfect for families, parties, duos, or flying solo. Try the Kosmic Karma with sundried tomatoes, feta, and pesto, or the House Special, stacked with three meats, veggies, and extra cheese. Wash it all down with one of the artisanal brews on tap. $-$$$, L, D. 1 Augusta St, Ste 101. (864) 233-9020, mellowmushroom. com/greenville NANTUCkET SEAFOOd GRiLL Greenville may be landlocked, but Rick Erwin’s restaurant brings us closer to the sea. The day’s fresh catch tops the menu, grilled, seared, broiled, blackened, or in chefdesigned specialties. Try the bluecrab hushpuppies with a drink at the elegant bar, pre– or post–Peace Center performance. $$-$$$$, D, SBR. 40 W Broad St. (864) 546-3535, nantucketseafoodgrill.com NORTHAMpTON WiNES & WiNE CAFÉ Linger in the relaxed atmosphere of Northampton’s wine bar. Choose a bottle from the thousands for sale, open it for a corkage fee (no fee before 6pm), and enjoy it with a selection of cheese. Then venture to the dining area for dinner from an ever-changing menu that typically includes seafood, beef, and wild game.

Enjoy lunch on Saturdays. $$-$$$$, L (Sat only), D. Closed Sunday. 211-A E Broad St. (864) 271-3919, northamptonwines.com ORiENT ON MAiN Here, you’ll find the standards, along with house specialties (whole steamed flounder or a Triple Gourmet Bird Nest, a “nest” of lo mein noodles filled with a mix of meat and veggies), and hibachi dinner entrées that come with rice, vegetables, soup, and salad. From kung pao shrimp to chicken coconut curry to tofu, there’s something for everyone. $-$$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 4 S Main St. (864) 787-6241

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OVERLOOK GRILL Perched on the edge of Falls Park, the Overlook features a flavorful blend of burgers, salads, wraps, and Southern favorites. Indulge in a spicy, New Orleans–style crab cake sandwich or a loaded Philly cheese steak for lunch.

Savor stone-ground grits and sautéed shrimp topped with Tasso ham sauce for dinner. $$, L, D. 601 S Main St. (864) 271-9700, overlookgrill.com

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POMEGRANATE ON MAIN Pomegranate serves traditional Persian cuisine in an eclectic Eastern ambience.

Attentive service, reasonable prices, and a flavorful variety, such as the slowcooked lamb shank or the charbroiled Cornish hen kabobs, make this an excellent spot for lunch or dinner. Also try the martini menu. $$-$$$, L, D. 618 S Main St. (864) 241-3012, pomegranateonmain.com

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PURPLE INTERNATIONAL BISTRO & SUSHI A stone’s throw from Fluor Field, this place serves an Asian mix. There are Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Asianfusion entrées, but sushi is a strong suit—go for the specials, offered at lunch and dinner. The udon with Prince Edward Island mussels, mahi-

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mahi with a spicy crawfish glaze, or roasted duck are worthy options. The latter, perfumed with star anise, is roasted to order—and worth the wait. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday.

933 S Main St. (864) 232-3255 RAINER’S Across from Falls Park, gallerist Betty Bercowski opened this cute café named for her son Rainer (pronounced RHY-nûr), where everything—including the furniture— is for sale. Homemade chicken salad and fresh cold cuts are delightful options, but the homemade desserts are the pièce de résistance, including a mile-high chocolate torte and sinfully good New York cheesecake. $, L, D. Closed Sunday. 610-A S Main St. (864) 232-1753, talldudecafe.com RICK ERWIN’S WEST END GRILL Traditional surf-and-turf meets upscale dining at Rick Erwin’s. The dining room is decorated in rich, dark woods that, along with low lighting, create an intimate, stylish atmosphere. Entrées range from sashimi-grade tuna and Chilean sea bass, to certified Angus beef. À la cârte sides round out any entrée. $$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday. 648 S Main St. (864) 232-8999, rickerwins.com

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Stop by and enjoy great deals on your favorites, and don’t forget about our 1/2 off wine Tuesdays and 1/2 off martini Wednesdays! All while enjoying the distinct sound of live jazz!

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AdAms Bistro Adams Bistro is located in a little shopping strip on Pelham Road and offers something for everyone, from kids to grandparents.

The menu covers the bases from simple sandwiches, soups, and burgers to entrées such as veal Marsala, chicken Florentine, and shrimp stuffed with crabmeat. Adams doesn’t serve alcohol, but you can bring your own beer or wine (there’s no corkage fee).

Friendly service and a scattering of sidewalk tables are just more reasons to dine here. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 221 Pelham Rd, Greenville. (864) 370-8055

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SAFFRON’S SIDEWALK CAFÉ Saffron’s Sidewalk Café offers a large selection of salads, burgers, sandwiches, and more. Eat inside or in the sun at one of the sidewalk tables. On- and off-site catering is also available. $-$$, L. 31 Augusta St. (864) 241-0401, saffronscafe.com SASSAFRAS SOUTHERN BISTRO Sassafras Southern Bistro offers traditional Lowcountry cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Meet friends at the large bar area or take a seat outside for Southern culinary creations ranging from rainbow trout to quail. $$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday & Monday. 103 N Main St, Ste 107. (864) 2355670, sassafrasbistro.com SMOKE ON THE WATER Located in the West End Market, Smoke on the Water has a homey feel, with a separate street-side dining area and outdoor tables great for sunny days.

Choose something from the smoker (Beer-Butt Chicken), or pick from sandwiches, burgers, or salads. Smoke ’n’ sides vary from mac ’n’ cheese to a bowl of greens, and even spinach casserole. $-$$$, L, D. 1 Augusta St, Ste 202. (864) 232-9091, saucytavern.

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TorTilla Maria At this Pelham Court shopping center eatery, organic produce and grains, naturally raised meats, hormone-free dairy products, and MSG-free seasonings go into the made-from-scratch tacos, enchiladas, and quesadillas. It’s all rolled up in tortillas that are handmade onsite, from organic corn flour each day. While the original concept was to provide healthy carryout fare, Tortilla Maria’s popularity has prompted owners Bahram and Maria Mehrabani to expand into the space next door and offer raw food and an extended menu of entrées. $, L, D. Closed Sunday & Monday. 115 Pelham Rd, Greenville. (864) 271-0742, tortillamaria.com

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Southern style. Lunch here is best begun with a cup of Lowcountry crab and corn chowder, followed by a patty melt or perhaps a Poinsett Chicken BLT. Sunday brunch offers elegant buffet service and a la carte options. $-$$$, B, L, SBR. 120 S Main St. (864) 421-9700 STELLAR RESTAURANT & WINE BAR Elegant tapas and an extensive wine list (including beer) punctuate this initmate second-story space. Try the Seared Diver Scallops or the Pork Tenderloin Wellington. Finish off with chocolate fondue. $-$$$, L, D. 20 N Main St, Ste B. (864) 438-4954, stellarwinebar.com SUSHI KOJI Sushi Koji flaunts a contemporary air.

Chef Koji Fujikawa presides over the five-seat sushi bar. If you order one of the two omakase menus, you’ll be treated to the chef’s choice of the freshest fish flown in from markets in Japan and the United States. $-$$, L, D. Closed Monday. 217 N Main St. (864) 631-1145 TAKOSUSHI Good for a group, especially if you’re in the mood for a sushi roll and your friends are craving burritos. You can start with shumai; your pals with nachos. Then you’ll have to pare

down the long list of makimono rolls while the rest of the table decides between tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and quesadillas. $-$$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 34 S Main St. (864) 271-5055, tako-sushi.com THE TRAPPE DOOR A rathskeller vibe pervades this underground tavern that boasts an incredible beer program, with 10 on tap and more than 150 bottles. Mussels come in six different preparations, served with crispy homemade frites.

Other Belgian specialties include waterzooi (a creamy seafood stew), and carbonnades flamandes (beef stew braised in Belgian beer). $$, L, D. Closed Monday. 23 W Washington St. (864) 451-7490, trappedoor.com TSUNAMI Come here for fresh fish, sure, but if you’re in the mood for something hot, try one of the many hibachi selections, including filet mignon, or the teriyakis, stirfries, and soups—steaming bowls of fresh udon or soba noodles. Perfect for slurping. $-$$, L ( Mon–Fri), D. 106 E North St. (864) 467-1055, tsunamigreenville.com

Pelham ROaD BIMINI’S OySTER BAR & SEAfOOD CAfé This casual Myrtle Beach oyster bar opened a satellite franchise in Greenville in spring 2012. Roasted oysters are a specialty at Bimini’s.

You can get a pot of them for just under $29, complete with coleslaw and hush puppies for a little Southern accent. Otherwise, fried and steamed seafood rules the menu in this island-style eatery. $$$, L, D. Closed Monday. 100 Villa Rd, Greenville. (864) 242-2497, biminisoysterbar.com COAL fIRED BISTRO & WINE BAR The pastas here are a good bet for a reasonably priced dinner. The rigatoni Bolognese, made with braised pork and veal shank and topped with a dollop of creamy mascarpone cheese, is especially hearty. In between, the menu encompasses a large selection of fish, poultry, and meat dishes. There’s a full wine list, but don’t miss the chance to sample the variety of pours from the self-service wine machine. $$$-$$$$, L (Mon–Fri), D. Closed Sunday.

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melt and roasted pork quesadilla) and homemade soups. The deli hasn’t always served dinner, but it’s now open from Thursday through Saturday nights.

At dinnertime, the place changes names to Yia Yia’s (Greek for “grandmother”) and serves generous portions of Mediterranean and Greek specialties from traditional family recipes. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sun. 115 Pelham Rd, #20, Greenville. (864) 233-0492 HANS & fRANz Hans & Franz resides within a Civil War–era brick building, next door to the strip mall housing Two Chefs Deli.

Grab a seat at one of the high-topped tables in this cozy space and dig into traditional German fare: schnitzel, bratwurst, spaetzle, fleishkäse, and the like. Of course, you’ll want to wash it all down with one of the German or Belgian beers on the extensive international list. In nice weather, enjoy a wurst or a beer in the pleasant, palm-edged cabana bar out front. $$-$$$; L (Thurs–Sat); D (daily).

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Threads of our heriTage Experience another dimension to historic Spartanburg County.

Jody Raines’s collection Threads of Our Heritage is on display at the Chapman Cultural Center. This collection of landscape quilts and thread paintings includes, among others, depictions of Anderson Mill, Walnut Grove Plantation, and the Cleveland Park Gazebo.

Carlos Dupre Moseley Building, Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E St John St, Spartanburg. Mon–Sat, 10am–5pm. Free. (864) 542-2787, chapmanculturalcenter.org

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New Play Festival Join fellow theatre lovers for the 10th annual New Play Festival. Four new plays selected from hundreds of submissions will be performed in a readers’ theatre format. Audience members are welcomed to give feedback to the playwrights, and one play will be selected as the most outstanding new work. The plays are Goodnight Sunshine by Terence Patrick Hughes, The Iris Incident by Amy Lanasa, The Retirement Plan by Robin Pond, and an untitled play by Mark Medoff.

Centre Stage, 501 River St, Greenville.

Wed–Sat, call for times. Free. (864) 233-6733, centrestage.org

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Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricist Jack Murphy have partnered with the Flat Rock Playhouse to bring a new “jazz age” musical set in Asheville, NC. The musical loosely parallels the lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald as they meet and fall in love. Experience the Lost Generation as the Fitzgeralds rise and fall with their times.

Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock, NC. Matinee: Wed–Thurs, Sat–Sun, 2pm; Evening: Wed–Sat, 8pm. $40. (866) 732-8008, flatrockplayhouse.org

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Break out of your midweek routine with a night (or two) on the TOWN. TOWN Magazine presents Fashion on the TOWN, a multi-boutique fashion crawl around downtown Greenville, with complimentary cocktails, snacks, and chances to win stellar prizes. Shop, sip, and play—you deserve it.

Locations vary, Greenville.

Thurs–Fri, Oct 4–5. (864) 679-1200, towncarolina.com

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Get an eyeful at gallery-centric West Greenville and surrounds.

More than 25 local art galleries and venues will be open, with works by emerging and established artists.

Oils, watercolors, pottery, jewelry, woodworks, and photography, among other media, will be on display. Locations vary. Fri, Oct 5, 6–9pm. Free admission. (864) 325-4445, firstfridaysonline.com

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Guild of the Greenville Symphony Tour of Homes Take in a “Prelude to the Park� with the Guild of the Greenville Symphony.

View beautiful homes on Ridgeland Dr, Crescent Ave, and McDaniel Ave in the Cleveland Park neighborhood.

Proceeds from the tour support the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. There will also be a Patron Party on Oct 4 to kick off the tour.

Locations vary. Fri–Sat, 10am–4pm; Sun, 1–4pm. $20 advance, $25 day of tour. (864) 370-0965, guildgso.org

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Fresh, local, healthy. Shoppers can expect their produce, baked goods, meats, and cheeses to be all of these when they come to this weekly market.

Make sure you pick up a batch of farmfresh goods before the end of market season. You can also learn a little more about food preparation with chef demonstrations.

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Guided Hikes The natural beauty of the Blue Ridge is on full display this season, and these themed hikes are an excellent way to take enjoy it all. Nature photographer Steven Faucette will lead a hike featuring fall wildflowers on Oct 6, while Ron Lance will take hikers atop Chimney Rock Mountain to see the fall leaves’ dramatic hues on Oct 20.

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Greenville-based artist Katie Walker returns to her alma mater with a selection of abstract paintings. Walker fills large canvases with bold lines, blocks of color, and multiple layers in a visual dialogue.

Thompson Gallery, Roe Art Building, Furman University, 3000 Poinsett Hwy, Greenville. Fri, 9am–5pm; Sat, 9am–1pm. Gallery talk and reception, Thurs, Oct 18, 6:30–8:30pm. Free. (864) 294-2074, furman.edu

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Whether you call his style blues or Southern rock, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gregg Allman holds the line.

With a career spanning nearly four decades, Allman brings the goods with soul, backed by a band with critical acclaim.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Fri, 8pm. $45, $55, $65.

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Hear renowned architectural and interior designer John Saladino as the keynote speaker for the 27th Annual Museum Antiques Show. Saladino utilizes old and new elements to lend a timeless style. View a retrospective of the designer’s work, on display through October 28.

Greenville Museum of Art, 420 College St. Fri, 10:15am. $30 (includes refreshments); exhibition, free. (864) 271-7570, ext 1021, greenvillemuseum.org

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We are pleased to offer Annie Sloan’s amazing, easy-to-work-with Chalk Paint™ that is taking the country by storm. With this paint there is no need for priming or sanding, and it goes on virtually any surface, indoors and outdoors.

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There is plenty to see, eat, drink, and Jennie Gainey, Certified Instructor of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™ hear at the annual St. Francis Fall for Greenville. Sample more than 200 items from 39 of Greenville’s favorite 2422 Laurens Rd, Greenville | 864.385.5004 restaurants including Smoke on the Water, Chicora Alley, and Soby’s, and enjoy six stages full of musical entertainment, including Justin Townes Earle (below), Sunday at 5:30 p.m. on JennieLeigh 4thS SeptOct12.indd 1 the Main Stage.

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The 27th Annual Museum Antiques Show features more than 20 select dealers. Visitors can find examples of formal and country antique furniture, silver, porcelain, Oriental rugs, linens, and fine art. Distinguished architect and interior designer John Saladino will deliver a keynote presentation on Friday at 10:15 am.

Greenville County Museum of Art, 420 College St, Greenville.

Fri–Sat, 11am–5pm; Sun, 1–5pm. $5 advance, $8 at the door. (864) 271-7570, ext 1021, antiques.greenvillemuseum.org

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Greenville road Warriors Home opener

After two away games to start the season, the Road Warriors come home to face off against their in-state rival, the South Carolina Stingrays.

This ECHL team is affiliated with the NHL’s New York Rangers and is coming off of a 41–25 record and a playoff appearance in 2012.

BI-LO Center, 650 N Academy St, Greenville. Fri, 7pm. $9-26. (864) 6747825, greenvilleroadwarriors.com

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Join scores of dedicated Flatt Heads at the BI-LO Center when this best-selling country group performs on their “Changed” tour.

Since 2000, this band has released seven certified platinum albums and counted 12 number-one songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

BI-LO Center, 650 N Academy St, Greenville. Thurs, 7pm. $30-70.

(864) 241-3800, bilocenter.com

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raison d’etre of this show: nearly 400 beautiful classic cars will be on display.

BMW Zentrum, Spartanburg. Fri, 10:30am–9:30PM; Sat, 8am–11pm; Sun, 9am. $35. euroautofestival.com

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Hopkins Farm, 3717 Fork Shoals Rd, Simpsonville. Sun, 2pm. $25. (864) 243-4010, greenvillepoloclassic.com

Carolina Ballet theatre: Ghost

Just in time for Halloween, the Carolina Ballet Theatre brings a Michael Jackson–inspired performance. Ghosts, goblins, and dance are the order of the day.

Following the performance, there will be a costumes-optional party, replete with heavy hors d’oeuvres, treats, and live music.

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

Fri, 7pm. $75. (864) 421-0940, carolinaballet.org

Join noted author, humorist, and comedian David Sedaris for an evening reading. Sedaris’s signature wit and unique spin on social issues have made him a favorite on NPR’s This American Life. He also has authored eight collections of stories and essays, so bring your favorite for him to sign—and be prepared for his sharp, satirical genius.

Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Thurs, 7:30pm. $35, $45.

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One hilarious disaster follows another when an egotistical director is given the reins to a small town production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Outrageous demands and a memorable collection of misfit actors round out the cast of this show within a show.

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

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Heritage Park, 861 SE Main St, Simpsonville. Sat, Nov 3, 5–7pm. $30, as a runner, $35, as a zombie. greenvillezombierun.com

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