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What’s inside
4 | Dollar Days
Check out Dollar Days, written by Charleston Scene editor Allison Nugent
5-7 | Movies
“Amour,” “Beautiful Creatures,” “Safe Haven”
8 | Movie listings 9-10 | Food + Bev
Olympik Restaurant and Bakery, Moose’s Mobile BBQ
11-13 | Music
Upcoming shows, CD reviews
15 | Weekend events 18-20 | Calendar, Nightlife, Sudoku 22-26 | Comics + TV grid
With horoscopes and crossword puzzle
27 | Trivia, Abby
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Thursday, February 14, 2013: E3
E4: Thursday, February 14, 2013
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Variety of events cap off busy Valentine’s weekend
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alentine’s Day, Singles Awareness Day — whatever you like to call it — Feb. 14 is upon us. Whether you’re one of the folks who loves this laceand heart-filled day or one who thinks it’s an artificial “holiday” cooked up by the floral and greeting-card industries, the day is here and impossible to ignore. (In case you missed it, stores had Valentine’s Day items out before Christmas.) While I typically fall under the latter category, it doesn’t
mean I can’t get on board, if only for a day, to school you on some interesting facts regarding Valentine’s Day.
Did you know ... The average American spends about $130 for the holiday. The most popular gift given to celebrate is a greeting card, with cards totaling about 65 percent of all gifts given today. You know the childhood staple Sweethearts Conversation Hearts? Eight billion are manufactured each year. It’s estimated that 15 percent of women will send themselves flowers. The average number of
wedding proposals on Valentine’s Day each year is 220,000, which is 10 percent of the annual total. This last factoid leads us to recognize the holiday as one of the most popular for engagements, along with Thanksgiving and Christmas. So if you were one of the lucky ladies who had a guy get down on bended knee in the past few months, consider heading to the Charleston Area Convention FILE/CHARLES KRUPA/AP Center on Sunday for the Did you know that eight billion of these Sweethearts Southern Bridal Show. Conversation Hearts are manufactured each year? Billed as the “South’s elite bridal event since 1990,” the worth a stop. show brings together wedFrom 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Satding professionals to offer the urday, explore the rich fossil chance to see gowns, taste history that Coastal South cake and food samples, hear Carolina is known for. From music, check out floral dewhales to sharks, mastodons signs, plan your honeymoon to camels and horses, the and more, all in one place. festival will feature displays The Southern Bridal Show of local fossils found and costs $10, with children 5 prepared by local collectors and under getting in free. as well as some exotic fossil www.eliteevents.com material. You can bring in Camellia Walks your own finds to have them For those still looking for a identified. Kids will get to way to celebrate Valentine’s experience the excitement Day, consider heading out of a dig first-hand, and door PROVIDED prizes will be awarded every to Middleton Place as the Middleton Place’s Camilla hour. Camellia Walks tours kick Admission is $10 for adults, Walks will begin today. off today. $9 for seniors and $5 for ages Featuring more than 3,500 and make it to the weekend, 6-12 with kids 5 and under camellias, some more than there are a few events that getting in free. Berkeley 220 years old, Middleton County residents will get Place is said to have some of may help keep you focused on the future. free admission with a picthe first to be planted in an On Saturday, the good old ture ID until noon. Find out American garden. bearded boys of the Holy more at www.cypress The Southern landscape City Beard & Moustache gardens.info. favorite will be the focus of Society will unveil the poster hourlong guided tours that for the fourth annual South- Gun and Knife Show begin at 11 a.m. at the GarAnother event this weekend den Market & Nursery. Tours eastern Beard & Moustache that’s likely to garner some Championships at the Rewill be held every Tuesday, attention from collectors, covery Room, 685 King St. Thursday and Saturday beamong others, is the CharlesIf you’re unfamiliar with ginning today and continuthese guys, head over to the ton Gun and Knife Show. ing through March 23. Held at the Exchange Park bar for the 8 p.m. event, as a Camellia Walks are free Fairgrounds in Ladson, with paid admission to Mid- good time is guaranteed to peruse 350 tables of guns, dleton Place ($25 for adults, follow the furry fellows. The Southeastern Beard & knives, ammo, surplus, re$15 for students, $10 for Moustache Championships loading supplies and shootages 6-13, kids 5 and under ing accessories from some of have been scheduled for free), but reservations are May 25 at The Music Farm. the state’s biggest dealers. required. For reservations, The event will be held 9 a.m.call 556-6020 or go to www. Fossil Show 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.middletonplace.org. Whether you’re a col4 p.m. Sunday. Admission Beard & Moustache lector or just looking for a is $8 for adults with kids 12 For those who are just little fun, the Fossil Show at and under getting in for free. looking to get through today Cypress Gardens would be Parking is free.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013: E5
‘Amour’ is an emotional tale of enduring love BY KENNETH TURAN Los Angeles Times
Movie review
by Alexandre (Alexandre Tharaud, a top French pia""""½ (out of five stars) nist), one of Anne’s many t won the Palme d’Or at DIRECTOR: Michael students, we intuitively Cannes. Haneke understand, who have sucIt accomplished an unCAST: Jean-Louis ceeded professionally. precedented sweep of the Trintignant, Emmanuelle Then, the next morning as European Film Awards, Riva, Isabelle Huppert they share a cozy breakfast taking best picture, director, RATED: PG-13 for mature in their kitchen, something actor and actress. thematic material, includhappens. It happens so sudThe Los Angeles Film Criting a disturbing act, and for denly, so imperceptibly, we ics Association thinks it’s the brief language can’t see it even if we know best picture of the year. RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, it’s coming. But it changes And so do I. 7 minutes everything. What is it about Michael MORE PHOTOS: For Georges asks Anne a PROVIDED Haneke’s “Amour” that more photoquestion, and just like that Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva star in inspires this level of fervor graphs from the she does not respond; her ‘Amour.” and respect, given that it’s film, check out mind has gone away. The basically a two-character the review at change is so subtle it takes drama set almost exclusive- has said, “how we cope with lar classics as “A Man and charleston both Georges and viewers ly in an unassuming Paris the suffering of someone we a Woman,” “Z” and “The scene.com. a minute or so to realize apartment? love very deeply” — casting Conformist.” that anything has occurred. The answer is that could not be more critical. It is a bit of a shock to see This brief catatonic state “Amour” is a perfect storm The subtle but unstoppable these familiar faces so aged In fact, Haneke is so rigor- is soon over, and not only of a motion picture, with acting here is impossible to (especially Trintignant, who ous in what he wants that does Anne not remember an icy, immaculate direcimprove on. essentially retired from film Trintignant considers him it, but she also has diffitor unexpectedly taking on Though Haneke is Austri- in 1998). But watching them the most demanding filmculty believing it took place. deeply emotional subject an, some of his best-known act here, seeing how a lifemaker he’s ever worked for. Though a trip to the docmatter: What happens to a films, including “Cache” and time’s worth of craft informs “Often, directors ask us to tor terrifies them both for lifelong, harmonious mar“The Piano Teacher,” feature their ability to convey so show what we feel, and with different reasons, a visit is riage when the wife suffers a French players, and he has much without seeming to Haneke, no, above all you clearly necessary. series of debilitating strokes set “Amour” in Paris and be doing anything at all, is a mustn’t show what you feel,” An unspecified time later, that changes the couple’s life elicited shattering perforrevelation. he told one interviewer. “You Georges is in conversation beyond recognition. mances by two superb actors Essential to these perforhave to just feel, and he does with the couple’s daughter, The resulting interplay of we have been watching all mances is Haneke’s surpass- the rest.” Eva (Haneke regular Isabelle ruthless restraint and unour movie lives, Emmanuing skill as a minimalist diBefore the tenor of the Huppert), who has come avoidable passion, plus the elle Riva and Jean-Louis rector, someone who adroit- couple’s experience irover from London, where film’s refusal to shrink from Trintignant. ly pares away everything revocably alters, “Amour” she lives with her fellow depicting the inevitable horRiva, who is 85, made her that is extraneous and, with introduces us to them as classical musician husband. rors of physical deteriorafirst splash as the star of a severity that has felt like they enjoy the kind of lovAnne has suffered a minor tion, is devastating. Alain Resnais’ 1959 “Hirocoldness in other films but ing, companionable old age stroke because of a blockBecause the key focus of shima Mon Amour,” while is welcome here, absolutely we all hope we can have. age of the carotid artery, “Amour” is on the endurthe 82-year-old Trintignant forbids the slightest whiff of We encounter Georges and and surgery to clear up the ing love between this couple has starred in some 135 the kind of sentimentality Anne at a Paris concert hall, condition has made things — or, as the writer-director films, including such popu- that would be ruinous. attending a classical recital worse, leaving her fright-
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ened and unable to move around the apartment without a wheelchair. Eva offers to help, but Georges says firmly, “We’ve always coped, your mother and I.” With Anne’s mobility impaired, the film never leaves that apartment again (in one of “Amour’s” many personal touches, the home is modeled after the former apartment of Haneke’s parents). Veteran cinematographer Darius Khondji is an expert in keeping us visually involved despite the restricted setting. Camera movements are limited but fluidly executed, and Haneke is not afraid to keep the camera motionless and frame scenes in a static wide shot. Georges and Anne do their best to get used to their dramatically different circumstances, to cope not only with Anne’s altered physical condition but also with the changes in their individual psychology and how they relate to each other. Their unspoken fear is that things will get only worse. And, of course, they do. This is a narrative not of the end of love but of love taken to the bitter, hard-tobear end. When Anne says at one point as she looks at photo albums of their past, “it’s a beautiful life,” we are meant to understand that nothing we’ve seen or will see can possibly alter that.
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Even witches can be ‘Beautiful Creatures’ BY ROGER MOORE MCT
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oung love, so sorely tested by vampirism and zombification in “Twilight” and “Warm Bodies,” finds the road to romance sunnier in “Beautiful Creatures,” in which two teens pair up despite the fact that one of them is a witch in training. The one-liners drawl from the lips of the South Carolina characters like Spanish moss dripping from the oaks in a script so witty it attracted Oscar winners Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons and Oscar nominee Viola Davis in supporting roles. Alden Ehrenreich gives a breakout performance as Ethan, a dreamer and square peg in the round hole of rural Gatlin, S.C. A high school junior who longs for the day he can escape his provincial life, he’s an incessant reader — Henry Miller, Ayn Rand, William Burroughs — and that manifests itself in his narration and his take on his town. (“They keep re-enacting the Civil War like it’s gonna come out different.”) He’s jilted the pretty, but less bookish and more fundamentalist Emily (Zoey Deutch), but open to the charms of the “new girl,” a raven-haired vision who appeared to him in dreams. Lena (Alice Englert) is a 15-year-old Southern Gothic Goth Girl: dark and mysterious, an aspiring poetess with numbers tattooed on one hand and a sullen sarcasm that is catnip to Ethan. He ignores the Mean Girlmongering of Emily, the fear-mongering of the local fundamentalist crusader (Thompson) and the counsel of family friend Amma (Davis). Lena resists the warnings of her patrician uncle (Irons), a recluse who presides over an estate that once encompassed
WARNER BROS.
Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert in “Beautiful Creatures.”
Movie review
role the mysterious Amma and bombshell witch-coven """½ (out of five stars) cousin Ridley (Emmy RosDIRECTOR: Richard sum), tarted up like a lingerie LaGravenese model, will play in that finale. CAST: Alice Englert, Alden But there’s something so Ehrenreich, Jeremy Irons, delicious when Brits such as Emma Thompson, Viola Thompson and Irons sink Davis, Emmy Rossum their fangs — sorry — into RATED: PG-13 for violence, Deep South dialect. Thompscary images and some son devours scenery, supsexual material porting players and dialogue RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, with every “Bless your heart, 57 minutes shooo-gah” in the script, MORE PHOTOS: For more and Irons curls his nonexphotographs from istent moustache over every the film, check syrupy zinger. out the review on The film bogs down in the charlestonscene. usual attempts at reinventcom. ing witchcraft — “We prefer the term ‘casters’ ” — and burdensome research the the whole town. kids have to do to ensure Of course they’re fated to their love isn’t “doomed” be together. And the fact after all. that she’s a witch, and that Young Englert, daughter of only he’s supposed to know? the Australian director Jane That just doubles down on Campion, is more girl next the doomed love/forbidden door than Cover Girl (i.e. love thing. Rossom and Deutch). She Veteran writer-director and Davis are tasked with Richard LaGravenese (“Wa- giving the story pathos, but ter for Elephants,” “Freedom Englert’s real job is to hold Writers”) boiled the Kami her own with some of the Garcia-Margaret Stohl novel finest actors to ever “Bless down to characters, sharp your heart” on the screen. dialogue and a palpable She does. sense of place. It’s Ehrenreich who makes The story arc has few surthe romantic longing beprises — the odd flipped lievable enough for us to expectation or character root for these impassioned in disguise. We can guess teens, even if we know what the climax in the opening 17-year-old Ethan doesn’t: scenes and figure out the “15 will get you 20.”
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Thursday, February 14, 2013: E7
‘Haven’ another Sparks adaptation that plays it safe BY ROGER MOORE MCT
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he movies based on the novels of Nicholas Sparks always emphasize the simple pleasures. A quiet locale, a leisurely stroll down the beach, a romance that doesn’t begin in a bar and end in bed that same night. Those simple pleasures are in the forefront of “Safe Haven,” another treacly tale from the “beach book” author who gave us “The Notebook,” “Dear John” and “The Last Song.” There’s another beach town — sleepy, bucolic Southport, N.C. — another pair of lovers, each with his (Josh Duhamel) or her (Julianne Hough) “big secrets.” And as they court, the Nebraska native Sparks serves up more of the homey homilies he’s picked up, studying the South.
Movie review
""½ (out of five stars) DIRECTOR: Lasse Hallstrom CAST: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons RATED: PG-13 for thematic material involving threatening behavior, violence and sexuality
RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 55 minutes MORE PHOTOS: For more photographs from the film, check out the review on charleston scene.com.
Yemen,” “Chocolat”) goes to some pains to hide each JAMES BRIDGES/RELATIVITY MEDIA character’s secrets. The BosJulianne Hough and Josh Duhamel star in “Safe Haven.” ton cop (David Lyons) obsessed with tracking down The girl, Katie, is on the “If you’re goin’ to live (Cobie Smulders) and a Katie uses more police work run from Boston, and the South of the Mason-Dixon twinkly old uncle (Red than common sense to find locals, especially the handline, honey, people GIVE West) to prod Alex into apher, and we glimpse the late some widowed shopkeeper you stuff.” proaching the pretty new wife’s attic office that Alex Alex, take an interest and Katie learns to spear-fish waitress in town. And a cou- rarely visits. try to make her fresh start flounder, cope with critters ple of cute kids eyeball Katie, Hallstrom and his screenwork out. But Katie’s reading in the shack she rents in one hoping she’ll replace her writers may be stuck with this helpfulness — he gives the woods and accept those dead mom, the other fearing Sparks’ formula, but they her an old bike to get to her unrequested gifts. that same thing. take advantage of the geogjob at the seafood joint — all There’s an overly nosy/ Director Lasse Hallstrom raphy, the leads and a couple wrong. overly friendly neighbor (“Salmon Fishing in the of homespun supporting
players — Robin Mullins is a wonderfully folksy owner of the seaside seafood shack. The offhandedly charming Duhamel is more seasoned and better at this sort of laidback, slow-burn love than the still-green Hough, who seems too young for somebody with this much baggage. She is never more than adequate. Keira Knightley originally was talked up for the part, and that would have made a much more interesting couple.
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The Post and Courier SCORE: Out of 5 stars G: General Audiences PG: Parental Guidance PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned, some content unsuitable for children under 13 NR: Not Rated R: Restricted
Note: Dates and times are subject to change. Call the theater to make sure times are correct.
Opening 2013 Oscar Shorts NR
A showing of this year’s Oscar nominees for the Best Short Film category: “Redemption,” “Open Heart,” “Mondays at Racine,” “Kings Point” and “Inocente.” PARK CIRCLE: Sat: 7
4:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:40, 10:20 CITADEL: Today-Feb. 21: 2, 4:15, 6:45, 9 CITADEL IMAX: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 HWY 21: Today-Sun: 7:30 JAMES ISLAND: Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:20; SatSun: 1:25, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 NORTHWOODS: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:50, 2, 3, 4;15, 5:15, 6;50, 7:30, 9:10, 9:45
Amour
The Powerbroker
PG-13
Documentary of Whitney M. Young Jr., a celebrated and controversial civil rights leader who became the head of the National Urban League.
""""½ French-language drama about a married elderly couple, retired music teachers, who have their love tested when the wife suffers a stroke. TERRACE: Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:25, 9:35
Beautiful Creatures
"""½ PG-13
Two teenagers in a small Southern town discover romance, but dark and mysterious secrets threaten their love.
CINEBARRE: Today: 1, 4, 7:15, 10:05; Fri: 12:30, 3:25, 7:20, 10:10; Sat-Sun: 9:40, 12:30, 3:25, 7:20, 10:10; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:30, 3:25, 7:20, 10:10 CITADEL: Today-Feb. 21: 1:10, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9:40 JAMES ISLAND: Fri: 4, 6:55, 9:50; Sat-Sun: 1, 4, 6:55, 9:50; Mon-Feb. 21: 4, 6:55, 9:50 NORTHWOODS: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:20, 2, 4:10, 5, 7, 8, 9:35
Escape From Planet Earth PG
Animated feature about an astronaut hero who rushes to answer a distress call from a dangerous alien planet and must be saved by his brother.
CINEBARRE: Today: 4:30, 9:15; Fri: 4:20, 9:20; Sat-Sun: 10:40, 4:20, 9:20; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 4:20, 9:20 CINEBARRE 3D: Today: 1:30, 7; Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:20, 7:05 CITADEL: Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:55, 3:05, 7:25 CITADEL 3D: Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 5:15, 9:35 HWY 21: Fri-Sun: 7 JAMES ISLAND: Fri: 4, 8:50; Sat-Sun: 1:20, 6:30; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 4, 8:50 JAMES ISLAND 3D: Fri: 6:30; Sat-Sun: 4, 8:50; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 6:30 NORTHWOODS: Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:55, 2, 3:05, 4, 7:25 NORTHWOODS 3D: Fri-Feb. 21: 5:15, 9:35
A Good Day to Die Hard R
Former police detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) travels to Russia to help his incarcerated son and discovers that he is a CIA operative, and they team up to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist. CINEBARRE: Today: 1:15, 4:15, 7:35, 10; Fri: 12:45, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:40, 10:20; SatSun: 10:15, 10:45, 12:45, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:40, 10:20 ; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:45, 1:15,
THEATERS
NR
PARK CIRCLE: Sun: 4
Safe Haven ""½ PG-13
Based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel, a mysterious newcomer (Julianne Hough) in a North Carolina town has her budding romance with a local widower (Josh Duhamel) threatened when she must confront the dark secrets of her past.
CINEBARRE: Today: 1:05, 4:05, 7:25, 10:10; Fri: 12:40, 3:40, 7:30, 10:15; Sat-Sun: 9:55, 12:40, 3:40, 7:30, 10:15; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:40, 3:40, 7:30, 10:15 CITADEL: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:10, 2, 3:55, 5:10, 7, 8:10, 9:35 JAMES ISLAND: Fri: 4:05, 7, 9:45; Sat-Sun: 1:10, 4:05, 7, 9:45; Mon-Feb. 21: 4:05, 7, 9:45 NORTHWOODS: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:10, 2, 3:55, 5:10, 7:05, 8:10, 9:35
Playing Argo
""""½ R
This film chronicles a CIA operation to free six American hostages during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
CINEBARRE: Today: 12:45, 3:45, 7:10, 9:50; Fri: 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 9:55; Sat-Sun: 9:45, 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 9:55; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 9:55 CITADEL: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 1, 6:50 JAMES ISLAND: Today-Fri: 4, 6:50, 9:40; Sat-Sun: 1, 4, 6:50, 9:40; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 4, 6:50, 9:40
Bullet to the Head "" R
A New Orleans hitman (Sylvester Stallone) joins forces with a young D.C. detective to avenge their partners’ deaths. CINEBARRE: Today: 1:15, 4:15, 7:50, 10;10 NORTHWOODS: Today: 1:25, 4, 7, 9:30
Django Unchained ""½ R
A slave-turned-bounty hunter (Jamie Foxx) teams up with his mentor to hunt
down a ruthless gang and rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner. CINEBARRE: Today: 3:10, 7, 10:30 CITADEL: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 9:20 JAMES ISLAND: Today: 4:25, 8
Gangster Squad """½ R
In 1949, LAPD outsiders (Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling) take on gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). CINEBARRE: Today: 1:05, 4:05, 7:35, 10:15; Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 3:45 JAMES ISLAND: Today: 4:10, 7, 9:45
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Impossible
CITADEL: Today-Feb. 21: 1:20, 3:50, 6:50
10:10; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 1, 4, 7:40, 10:10 CITADEL: Today-Feb. 21: 1:20, 3:45, 7:05, 9:35 JAMES ISLAND: Today-Fri: 4:15, 6:55, 9:40; Sat-Sun: 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40; MonThurs Feb. 21: 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 NORTHWOODS: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30
Les Miserables
Silver Linings Playbook
""""½ PG-13
An account of a family caught in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time.
"""½ PG-13
This musical tells the story of a police inspector’s (Russell Crowe) decades-long pursuit of an ex-prisoner (Hugh Jackman). CINEBARRE: Today: 12:05, 3:30
Life of Pi
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Siblings Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have grown up to become vigilante bounty hunters.
An adventure of a 16-year-old boy who ends up in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
R
CINEBARRE: Today: 4:30 CINEBARRE 3D: Today: 1:30, 7:40, 9:55 CITADEL: Today: 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:10; FriThurs Feb. 21: 1:30, 6:50 JAMES ISLAND 3D: Today: 4:15, 7:10, 9:30 NORTHWOODS: Today: 1:20, 3:50, 7:15, 9:40; Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:20, 7:15
A Haunted House "½ R
In this comedy-horror spoof, Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) requires the help of a priest, psychic and other mediums when his girlfriend becomes possessed. NORTHWOODS: Today: 1, 3:05, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30; Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 7:20, 9:30
Hyde Park on Hudson
"""½ R
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin, Margaret Stuckley, centers around the weekend in 1939 when the king and queen of the U.K. visited Upstate New York. TERRACE: Today: 12:30, 2:40, 7:15; FriThurs Feb. 21: 4:05, 9:40
Identity Thief "" R
A mild-mannered accounts representative (Jason Bateman) crosses the country to confront the con artist (Melissa McCarthy) who has stolen his identity. CINEBARRE: Today: 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 9:55; Fri: 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:15; Sat-Sun: 10:25, 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:15; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:15 CITADEL: Today-Feb. 21: 1:25, 3:55, 7, 9:35 JAMES ISLAND: Today-Fri: 4:10, 7, 9:45; Sat-Sun: 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:45; Mon-Thurs Feb. 21: 4:10, 7, 9:45 NORTHWOODS: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 1:15, 3:50, 7, 9:35
PG
CITADEL: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 3:20, 9:30 TERRACE: Today: 5, 9:25
Mama
"""½ PG-13
A supernatural thriller about two young sisters who move in with their uncle and his girlfriend but may have brought an evil presence with them from the woods.
CITADEL: Today: 1:10, 4, 7, 9:30; Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 4, 9:30 JAMES ISLAND: Today: 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 NORTHWOODS: Today: 1:20, 3:50, 7:15, 9:40; Fri-Thurs Feb. 21: 3:50, 9:40
Parker
"""½ R
After being double-crossed by his crew, a thief (Jason Statham) vows revenge and uses a Palm Beach real estate agent (Jennifer Lopez) to hijack their heist. CINEBARRE: Today: 7:45, 10:25 HWY 21: Fri-Sun: 9:20 NORTHWOODS: Today: 1:10, 3:55, 7, 9:35
The Quartet """½ PG-13
At a special home for retired musicians, three members of a famous quartet have their lives disrupted when the fourth member, a soloist-gone-diva, becomes the newest resident. TERRACE: Today-Thurs Feb. 21: 12:40, 2:35, 4:30, 7, 8:55
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After eight months in an institution, a man moves in with his parents and bonds with a mysterious girl.
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A zombie rescues and falls in love with a human, and his relationship with her makes him become more human.
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Olympik’s Greek-American menu authentic BY DEIDRE SCHIPANI Special to The Post and Courier
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ore than a quartercentury is a long time for a restaurant to take up residence in one location. For owners Ali and Charmaine Naderi, proprietors of Olympik Restaurant and Bakery, the time to make their move was now. But they were not going very far: Their loyal and regular customers from nearby neighborhoods would never forgive them if they relocated far from their Savannah Highway roots. And they did not. With a schedule in place to hardly miss a meal, the Naderi’s planned to reopen in the Indigo Village Shopping Center, a few blocks away from their longtime home. The new location provides a larger kitchen with the opportunity to bring equipment up to speed and in compliance with state health standards. More space would permit the bakery to grow its popular special-order business and produce the cookies and Greek desserts that they are famous for.
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The new restaurant proper is only a bit larger than the previous Savannah Highway location and features the Aegean blue and whitewashed color palette that defines the look of many GreekAmerican restaurants. Potted plants add bits of greenery to the tables, and shutters hang at the end of the booths, framing a vista to nowhere. Posters of the cliff-top monasteries of 14thand 15th-century Greece share wall space with the modern monoliths of flatscreen televisions. The space is spare; the warmth comes from the owners and staff who not only greet their regulars with the warm embrace of memory but also even scoot into the booths with them to catch up on their lives and satisfaction with their food.
bination plates and sampler platters. Substitutions are graciously permitted, and a sandwich easily can become a platter served with a side dish and small salad for a minimal up-charge. The combination platters and samplers allow for small tastes of a variety of offerings and are the way to go if you are new to the cuisine or cannot make up your mind. Mezes, the small plates of the Greek Islands, are a good way to begin ($5.99-$8.55). In these platters you can sample dolmas, which are grape PAUL ZOELLER/STAFF leaves stuffed with seasoned Olympik Restaurant and Bakery is at 1662 Savannah rice; hummus, the chick pea Highway. and tahini dip; olives; warm triangles of pita; feta cheese; and the cucumber-based tzatziki sauce. CUISINE: Greek, Italian menu $8.45-$14.99, Follow any of these with a CATEGORY: Neighborsides and extras 65 warm bowl of soup ($3.99) hood Favorite cents-$3.25, desserts 89 and you have a meal. LOCATION: 1662 Savannah cents-$3.25. Beer and wine The Greek lemon-chicken Highway, Unit 120, Indigo $2.99-$4.65. soup called avgolemeno was Village Shopping Center VEGETARIAN OPTIONS: laced with lemon and would PHONE: 556-9359 Yes benefit from enriching with HOURS: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. WHEELCHAIR rice or orzo. “Meaty” lentil Monday-Saturday ACCESSIBLE: Yes soup is vegetarian and nicely FOOD: ""½ BAR: No, beer and wine seasoned. SERVICE: """ available If you are new to the foods ATMOSPHERE: ""½ PARKING: Shopping of the American-Greek PRICE: $-$$ center lot canon, the folks at Olympik COSTS: Appetizers $2.99OTHER: Carry-out, home encourage you to ask for a $8.55, soups and salads delivery by Quick Foxes at sample. $2.95-$12.99, sandwiches 277-9271, online purchases We took them up on it and $5.69-$10-45, kebabs of condiments and baked tried a tender casserole of $8.99-$14.99, entrees $8.75- goods, special-order bakpastitsio ($9.45), the Greek’s $18.99, vegetarian dishes ery, wheat and gluten-free answer to lasagna, and the $5.69-$9.45, children’s dosas, plate sharing 75 eggplant anchored mousmenu $2.99-$5.45, pastas cents, www.naderikitchen. saka ($9.45) that resonated org $8.99-$12.99, low-carb with cinnamon. Each of these casseroles are served with a side dish, a salad, pita beans, vegetable medleys The food bread and tzatziki sauce. This is an affordable, and classic Mediterranean For $13.20, you can family-friendly restaurant spreads can be enjoyed by combine souvlaki with where a Greek dinner for those who adhere to a meat- Greek-style chicken. This two can be had for $18.99 free diet. entree included a side — and includes a quarter of a The Olympik dosa ($8.75) Greek-style potatoes were chicken, half of a gyro sand- is a crepe-like wrap made my choice — and a small wich, a side dish and Greek from a rice and pea batter. Greek salad ($1.45 upcharge) salad for each person. This Gluten-free, it can be filled substituted for the side is true value dining. with cheeses, onions, grilled salad accompaniment. The Vegetarians will find a tomatoes, peppers, mushchicken, marinated with substantial menu of options rooms, cheeses or avocado. lemon and spices, was tender including vegetarian pitas Each order permits the inand moist but tasted of a soy ($8.35), spanakopita ($9.45), clusion of five items. Meat glaze that was unexpected. melts, wraps and tofu. The eaters can add gyro meat, The portion was substantial Greek sides also are prechicken, shrimp or “Philly and made for another day’s pared without any meat or steak” for $2.50. lunch. I was expecting that The menu is rich with com- the Greek potatoes ($2.95) meat-products, so green
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were the twice-cooked versions of my memory, made tender by simmering and then oven roasted to a crisp garlic and rosemary finish. The Olympik’s version is a boiled, seasoned potato that I found lackluster. The gyros platter ($8.45) paired well-seasoned slices of spit beef and lamb topped with onions and tomatoes on a pita round. The only downside to this dish is that the chilled onions, tomatoes and tzatziki sauce quickly cool the meat and flatbread. The flavors, though, were spot-on. The vegetable medley ($2.95 as a side) of zucchini, tomatoes, onions and herbs was slowed cooked to a meltdown of flavors that spoke to
the cooking of grandmothers, the yia-yias. Naderi’s career has strong roots in the pastry side, so do save room for dessert. Baklava ($1.99) was not overly sweet, and the honey glaze secured all the walnuts in place. An almond marzipan cookie (89 cents) can satisfy the sweet tooth of the gluten-free, and the bakery case will surely house a variety of daily cake flavors. Friendly servers do their best to keep up with the dinner rush, but do bring your patience as this is a small operation. Olympik Restaurant and Bakery offers great value and generous portions, and that may be the key to its enduring success.
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Barbecue goes mobile with ‘The Moose Lodge’ BY ROB YOUNG Special to The Post and Courier
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Check the website, www. moosesmobilebbq.com, for an updated schedule. uestion: What do you WHAT: Moose’s Mobile Then just drive over and call a baby moose? BBQ (rigs are affectionately order up. Answer: A calf, silly. referred to as “The Moose Here’s your best bet: the A better answer: Moose’s Lodge”) brisket plate ($8 for two Mobile BBQ, also known as WHERE: Revolving. Check sides, plus roll). Featuring The Moose Lodge. website for updates. a healthy fat cap layer, the It’s an offshoot or satellite FOR MORE INFO: www. meat emerges moist, the vehicle of Moose’s Famous moosesmobilebbq.com bark crusty and charred, BBQ, the Summerville resand all of it handsomely taurant recognized for its flavored. The parent office in Sumsmoked brisket and pulled Moose’s pulled pork plate merville preps the food prior ($8) isn’t as strong — how pork. It’s also an addition to the to transport, the menu incould it be, really? — as growing number of Charles- cluding sides like macaroni it tends to be tender but ton area food trucks/trailers/ and cheese, baked beans, mushy. carts. hash and rice, coleslaw and Good thing they’ve got a You can check the cart green beans. trio of sauces — mustard, category on this one. Then Most Mondays, The Moose vinegar and a rich red (best you can check the menu for Lodge rests its wheels, but on the brisket) — to add smoked chicken, Texas beef on other days, it rambles flavor. brisket, pit-cooked barbecue over to North Charleston And it’s a good thing that and an item called “sausage businesses like Benefitfocus, Moose’s is movable, too. fatty”: a maple sausage roll MeadWestvaco, First FedSure makes conquering that cooked over low heat for eral Corporate Center, SAIC brisket fix a heckuva lot hours. and Remount Business Park. easier.
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A barbecue sandwich and beef brisket from Moose’s Mobile BBQ, an offshoot of Moose’s Famous BBQ in Summerville.
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Eliot Lipp of Pretty Lights Music Go to musicfarm.com or BY MATTHEW GODBEY Special to The Post and Courier call 577-6969.
Winter Masquerade Ball
Two Man Gentlemen Band
The Music Farm and Confidential Bass Affair will host a barrage of electronic artists Saturday night, with Eliot Lipp from Pretty Lights Music (not to be confused with Pretty Lights) serving as the headliner. After nearly a decade invested in the ever-evolving electronic music scene, Lipp has become known as a veteran of the crowded and often-competitive genre, one in which the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based performer has achieved a rare level of success. Lipp will be joined by several other electronic artists Saturday, including DJ John Kutter, Skitch, Intermixture and BLKMRKT. The event is a 16-and-up show. Tickets are $15 in advance, $17 the day of and are available at the door or online at etix.com. Doors open at 8 p.m. The Music Farm is at 32 Ann St.
Andy Bean and Charleston native Fuller Condon started the Two Man Gentleman Band nearly eight years ago while living in Brooklyn, N.Y., before the pair relocated to Los Angeles. Since then, the acoustic duo has been categorized as everything from neo-vaudevillian to Dixieland jazz, swing and Americana. Despite the rather historical classifications, the Two Man Gentlemen Band counters dusty music genres with funny, modern-edged lyrics, such as tales of “slinging drinks at Applebee’s,” prescription drugs, Panama City and the “pretty good beards of the Civil War.” The band is touring in support of its latest album, “Two at a Time.” The pair will perform Friday at The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 the
day of the show and are available at the door or online at etix.com. Doors open at 9 p.m. Go to charlestonpour house.com or call 571-4343.
Cosmic Charlie
Cosmic Charlie originally intended to perform its unusual version of Grateful Dead covers as a “one-nightonly” act for a Jerry Garcia birthday tribute several years ago. When the band began receiving offers for large gigs, however, the members decided to continue their crowd-pleasing performances full time. The group’s renditions are precise, fluid and focus more on the spirit of The Dead in their quest to pay homage than mirroring it. Cosmic Charlie will perform Saturday at The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 the day of the show and are available at the door or online at etix.com. Doors open at 9 p.m. Go to charlestonpour house.com or call 571-4343.
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Local singer Testone embraces independence BY BALLARD LESEMANN of special local guests, TesSpecial to The Post and Courier tone seems eager to step into a non-“Idol” role as a wellhe last time Charlesseasoned singer-songwriter ton-based vocalist and bandleader operating on and songwriter Elise her own terms. Testone performed a major “I was thinking about concert in town, it was as moving, but when I came part of the American Idol back to Charleston after Live! showcase at the North the ‘Idol’ tours, I realized Charleston Coliseum. I didn’t want to live anyIn her first major homewhere else,” she said. “Now, town concert since her offiI have a lot more time to cial “Idol” duties ceased, the focus on a bunch of songs smoky-voiced entertainer that I’ve written. I have will present a Valentine’s some new songs, but a lot Day program titled “A of my later material comes Whole Lotta Love” at the from song ideas I’ve been Charleston Music Hall. working on for years. I had “The American Idol Live! all of these ideas in my tour was fantastic, and head, but I didn’t have the I loved it,” Testone said. opportunity to embellish “While a few other people them with a band. They’re complained that they were starting to take on a new tired, it was easy for me belife with new arrangements cause I had worked hard in and harmonies.” Charleston for years, setting Testone grew up in Kinup shows and playing every nelon, N.J., before moving week. to South Carolina to attend “To do the tour seemed so Coastal Carolina University smooth, even though we had to study music. She arrived to work every day. When it in Charleston in 2006 and was over, I wanted to keep immediately began performcommunicating with the fans ing with a variety of musiwhile I started to get my own cians in the rock, funk and stuff ready to go,” she said. jazz side of the local scene. With a newly assembled She earned a strong reputabacking band and a handful tion for her impressive range
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Elise Testone and her band. and soulful style. In July 2011, Testone auditioned to become a contestant on Season 11 of “American Idol.” She won a spot alongside 24 up-and-coming male and female vocalists. Through the spring of 2012, Testone worked her way through the rounds, finally taking sixth place. “I really never lost myself in any of that stuff,” Testone said. “I’m still the same person, only with a lot more experience.” This winter, Testone enlisted some of “the most reliable and talented musicians I know,” as she puts it, to become part of her official band. Some of her new bandmates are longtime colleagues, including guitarist Wallace Mullinax and percussionist Jack Burg, both of whom played with Testone in the late 2000s in a local funk/rock combo called the Freeloaders. “I sang with my friends in the Freeloaders for six years,
“Bold as Love.” The lineup also features bassist Ben Wells (of the WHAT: Elise Testone, live Jazz Artists of Charleston), and unplugged with special keyboardist Gerald Gregory guests, presents “A Whole (also of JAC), cellist Lonnie Lotta Love” Root (of the Entropy EnsemWHEN: 7:30 p.m. today; ble), drummer Daniel Crider doors open at 6:30 p.m. (of the Dead 27’s) and backWHERE: Charleston Music ing vocalists Shannon Cook Hall, 37 John St. and Diane Fabiano. PRICE: $18-$20 Saxophonists Michael FOR MORE INFO: www. Quinn and Simon Harding charlestonmusichall.com and other musical guests will be on hand at the Music Hall, as well. but we never practiced more “I have a few things on the than twice,” she recalls. “We books, but right now I’m just played out at local clubs committed to this band that all of the time and had fun. I’ve put together,” Testone “With this new band, we’re said. “Everyone is into it, actually rehearsing three and we’re already bookdays a week. We’ll be as ready ing tours for the summer. I as possible for any concert or wasn’t sure how things were recording session.” going to pan out, but I’ve Mullinax, who plays in lo- had a loose plan and a concal jam/fusion combo the fident feeling. Dead 27’s, made a guest “Having that platform and appearance on “American exposure (on ‘Idol’), and getIdol” in April as Testone’s ting people’s attention were backing guitarist during a more than I could ask for,” rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s she said. “But I’m grateful
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that I didn’t win in a way because I know that I’m not a commercial pop star, and I wouldn’t be happy in a lifestyle like that. So to be free from some of those contracts and have an artistic decision in what I do next is really a blessing.” Billed as “A Whole Lotta Love,” Testone’s Valentine’s Day set will feature 12 of her originals as well as a handful of classic tunes by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Bonnie Raitt, the Jackson Five, Adele and other artists. “I’ve been in so many different band settings over the years, and I think their styles will be reflected in the show,” Testone said. “They’ll vary between folk, rock and blues sounds with some jazz and Americana-ish sounds. They’re all tied together with my bluesy soul style, and I think they flow well. I want the individual personalities of my bandmates and the chemistry between us all to show through.”
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Megan Jean and the KFB
has released its latest studio album. The money they raised to record the album was well-spent. The music on “The Devil Herself” begs to be Ever since migrating from New York to the heard through headphones, so that the listener Lowcountry a few years back, Megan Jean and can hear every sound, from Klay’s bowed bass her husband, Byrne Klay, have slowly built a fan and clawhammer-style banjo to Megan Jean’s base not just here in Charleston, but up and down washboard and bells and the creepy wail of a the Eastern Seaboard and beyond. theremin on one track. There is a lot going on They are seasoned road warriors, traveling most in the songs, and the duo has retained its love of of the year playing their music anywhere they can the macabre that was exhibited on its last album, to whoever will listen. “Dead Woman Walking.” After a Kickstarter.com project that exceeded For the uninitiated, the music of Megan Jean even their expectations (they set out to raise and the KFB sounds like the soundtrack for some $8,000 and ended up with almost $11,000), the long-forgotten carnival. Jack Skellington, the duo, better known as Megan Jean and the KFB, ghoulish hero of “The Nightmare Before ChristThe Devil Herself/Independent
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Richard Thompson doesn’t have as high a public profile as fellow British singer-songwriters Eric Clapton and Robert Plant. Nonetheless, ask any music fan worth his weight to name the best of the best in that musical family, and it is likely he will include Thompson’s name on the list. From his early work in Fairport Convention
Jim James
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While Jim James has spent the majority of his professional musical career recording and performing with his band, My Morning Jacket, he is no stranger to striking out on his own for side projects, including Yim Yames and Monsters of Folk. “Regions of Light and Sound of God” is James’ first solo album of original work. While there is some artistic stretching of limbs
mas,” would likely have this album on repeat on his iPod. The entire album works as a cohesive collection of songs, but some of the better moments include Megan Jean’s hypnotic vocals on “Mr. Bone Man,” the otherworldly beauty of “Martians” and what is probably my favorite track on the album, “These Bones.” Megan Jean and the KFB are already back out on the road supporting the new CD, and will be back in town for a show at the Tin Roof in West Ashley on March 1. KEY TRACKS: “Mr. Bone Man,” “Martians,” “These Bones”
to his collaborations with former wife Linda Thompson and his acclaimed solo releases, Thompson has always done it his way, and more often than not those musical bursts of expression have been well-received. On his latest effort, “Electric,” Thompson continues his tradition of marrying thoughtprovoking and often darkly funny lyrics with melodic music led by his brilliant guitar playing. “Stony Ground,” the track that leads off the
album, is a bluesy number that features Thompson sounding a lot like Mark Knopfler stylistically. And excellent tracks such as “Sally B” and “Good Things Happen to Bad People” demonstrate that even almost a half-century after making his professional debut with Fairport Convention, it seems that Thompson still has much to say musically, and he’s saying it eloquently these days.
going on here, for the most part, fans will find the resulting music similar to what was on My Morning Jacket’s last album, “Circuital.” Aside from the strings and percussion, James plays every instrument on the album. The opening track, “State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.),” starts the album on a slow burn, much like “Victory Dance” does on “Circuital.” While not every song on “Regions of Light and Sound of God” is a home run, the album as a whole makes for some interesting listening. Some of the better moments on the new album
include the laid-back funk of “Know ’Til Now,” the Peter Gabriel-esque “Of the Mother Again” and the gorgeous “A New Life.” Jim James is one of those rare artists who definitely hears vast symphonies of ridiculously original music in his brain. How fortunate for us that he chooses to share what’s rolling around in his noggin.
KEY TRACKS: “Stony Ground,” “Sally B,” “Good Things Happen to Bad People”
KEY TRACKS: “State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.),” “A New Life,” “Of the Mother Again” — By Devin Grant
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FEBRUARY 15-17, 2013
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18 -21 F E AT U R E D PA I N T E R Jay Kemp’s work is highly sought after by art connoisseurs for its perfection of detail, exquisite coloration and unique style that juxtaposes illusion and emotion with super realism. An avid outdoorsman, Kemp paints subjects he knows best and enjoys most — wildlife, nature and the outdoors.
22-24 FE ATU R E D SCU LP TO R Pete Zaluzec strives to distill the essence of his subjects and capture its gestures, personality and character. His work has been selected nine times for the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s “Birds in Art” and he has a piece in their permanent collection.
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The Southeastern Wildlife Exposition marks its 31st year with some venue changes, an expansion of the popular DockDogs competition, a new live performance event and more.
Hour-by-hour rundown of events and locations, plus VIP functions.
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A second tank has been added to the DockDogs competition, making it the only event east of the Mississippi to use two. Read on for tips on registering your powerful pooch in the contest or just watching the events.
The Center for Birds of Prey demonstrations always draw a crowd. Find out some of the milestones the center hit in the past year.
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Get to know some of the Lowcountry painters, sculptors and craftsmen and women featured in the expo’s Local Artists Exhibit.
Check out the various food events going on as part of SEWE, along with some interesting wildlife-themed offering at restaurants around town.
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Shorty, a 5-year-old Chilean flamingo from the Columbus Zoo, was a star at last year’s preview gala.
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wildlife, habitat and environmental missions. “The festival has such a variety of cultured aspects, and that’s partially what we’d like to help recognize,” said John Powell, SEWE’s second-year executive director. “This is certainly one of the largest and most important wildlife events in the United States.” In its 31st year, the festival remains a treat for serious collectors, yes, but other demographics, as well. In a broader sense, SEWE functions as a tent, and beneath it are nestled several smaller festivals — or smaller SEWEs, if you will.
Expect a grand scale as SEWE has not granted this much space to the art of decoys in nearly 20 years. The auction and sale are Southeastern Wildlife Exposition set for Friday, and the exhibit lasts throughout the weekend. “These objects have enjoyed increasing value. Many of these are quite rare and unique because of the artist, quality manufactured and the region,” Powell said. While the decoy exhibit and related programming speaks to a segmented clientele, other events cater to a more general audience, such as the annual showcase of 120 painters, carvers and sculptors in Charleston Place’s grand ballroom. Art for everyone But there are newer offerings such as 99 This year’s expo offers a return of old faBottles of Art on the Wall, to be held in the vorites like the Decoy Auction & Exhibit by Edmunds Room of Charleston Place. 1) SEWE’s impressive stock of North BY ROB YOUNG Guyette, Schmidt & Deeter, which features The festival asked SEWE artists to design Special to The Post and Courier American decoys being exhibited and sold work from famous practitioners like Elmer 99 original wine labels illustrative of varifor thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, Crowell. His decoys reveal carved wings ous techniques and settings. Then, in a nod Occasionally, the Southeastern Wildlife of dollars. and glass eyes, as he frequently used a rasp to the event’s title, 99 tickets will be sold for Exposition still finds itself fighting rough2) The volume and variance of the festival’s to help create “feathers” on the heads and $100 apiece, as each ensures the purchase of edged preconceptions: That the event is original wildlife and sporting art collecbreasts of his decoys. a bottle. “Everyone who buys one or who enters is guaranteed to win,” Powell said. dedicated to camouflage-clad, tricked-out tions, the exhibit halls inside Charleston Other notable artists include the Ward Come Saturday evening, a drawing will astruck drivers. Place Hotel teeming with offerings. Brothers of Maryland, who focus on decoraIt’s an outdated stereotype that quickly can sign tickets to bottles, and one lucky ticket3) A programmatic focus on conservation tive pieces, and Ken Anger, who has perbe put to rest, particularly once one considers: and sustainability, granting awareness to holder will take home the special 100th fected rasp techniques.
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Center for Birds of Prey staff member Audrey Poplin handles an owl during a demonstration at last year’s SEWE. bottle: a magnum size also decorated with an original canvas piece. For those who can’t wait, each bottle also will feature a “Buy it Now” price. “It provides nice affordable opportunities for the beginner,” Powell said. The Quick Draw/Speed Sculpt on Friday represents a similar opportunity. Each artist will have an hour to create a piece from start to finish, as a live auction will follow. “It’s fun to walk around and talk to artists to see what they’ve already done, but to watch them create is a different experience,” Powell said.
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that combined stone and metal and thought it would be a great combination of materials WHAT: Southeastern Wildlife Exposition for wildlife art,” he said. WHEN: Friday-Sunday He finds most of the rocks out West on WHERE: Various venues on the Charleston photography trips but keeps a couple of peninsula empty 5-gallon buckets in his pickup to colPRICE: General admission tickets are $20 lect interesting stones wherever they may Friday and Saturday, $10 Sunday, $40 for turn up. a three-day pass; VIP packages are $150“These are some of my favorite works in all $5,000 of SEWE,” Powell said. MORE INFO: 723-1748 or www.sewe.com Zaluzec also makes Gampi prints, heavily processed photographs that involve color, balance and contrast adjustments. able; his work could be mistaken for a pho“Although the finished artwork is dramatitograph. In fact, his style is best described as cally different, the basic thought process beFeatured artists photo-realism or super-realism, dozens of hind the Gampi and structural work is simiAs usual, SEWE will pay homage to a pair visual points referenced in a single painting. lar,” Zaluzec said. “I start by doing field work of artists. Jay Kemp of Gainesville, Ga., has Still, he uses a conceptual or abstract apand taking reference photographs. From been chosen as the featured painter, and proach to arrive at the finished product. those, I choose a pose or composition I like Pete Zaluzec of Lake Villa, Ill., is the fea“I don’t give much thought to the identity and expand on it in my chosen medium.” tured sculptor. of the object that I’m painting,” Kemp said. Other programming Kemp first visited the festival as a 21-year- “An elk might be an oval shape, or a tree Naturally, SEWE’s annual itinerary would old art student at North Georgia College might be a vertical cylinder. I’m very much & State University. He was energized by in tuned with getting the foundation or ba- not be complete without several other stopovers. Among this year’s attractions: the opportunity to see one of his earliest sic design right before I layer anything else ! DockDogs: The uber-popular competiheroes: Belgian painter and naturalist Carl on top.” tion is back these year with two — two! — Brenders. “I found out he was going to be Zaluzec renders some of his best work in tanks, as dogs of all kinds will vie in waterin Charleston, and I jumped in my Toyota three-dimensional fashion, composing his jumping contests at Brittlebank Park. The to see him,” Kemp remembers. “When I got pieces from river stones and bronze casts. 40-by-20-foot tanks will be placed side by there, I started thinking, ‘How could I get in He takes pictures of his subjects — for inside, making SEWE the only event to host that show?’ stance, bison, blacktail deer, bull moose, “But by the time I was 26 or 27, I got in. It gazelles and grizzlies — and chooses stones two-tank DockDog competitions this side jump-started my career. It helped me earn of the Mississippi. to help make up the animals’ bodies. Then several offers and a national contract.” he pours bronze around the stones to give This year, Kemp’s “Riversong” serves as the the art shape and form, the casting expertise ! SeaWorld and Busch Gardens animal SEWE poster. The painting depicts an asambassador Julie Scardina: A frequent courtesy of his friend and 2012 SEWE Feasured egret, one outstretched wing greeting tured Sculptor Don Rambadt. guest on NBC’s “Today” show as well as his audience. It’s a detailed piece that took “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” ScardiZaluzec arrived at the idea after work2½ months start to finish. na will share her love for animals and wilding with birds for some time. He sought to Another piece titled “Woodland Forest Re- change his stylistic approach and visited sev- life conservation during her SEWE debut. pose” is a considerable work, the 4-by-3-foot eral museums to view modern pieces to see With more than two decades of experience vertical painting showing an elk bedding in animal care, Scardina has worked with how various artists used different mediums. down. The texture and minutiae are notice“I came across some contemporary works the 8,000-pound killer whale Shamu, along 8 ! SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION 2013
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The exposition’s preview gala usually draws big spenders to Charleston Place.
with otters, sea lions, walruses, elephants, kangaroos and various birds of prey. Her presentations include two shows on Friday and two on Saturday. ! Living With Wolves: For six years, husband and wife Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived with a pack of wolves in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. The couple settled in a tented camp as they studied the behaviors and social inclinations of the Sawtooth Pack. The Dutchers’ research enabled the documentation of behaviors previously unrecorded, leading to the release of Emmy Award-winning films and publication of the National Geographic book “The Hidden Life of Wolves.” At SEWE, the couple will discuss their experiences during presentations on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. ! Chef demos: Come watch Charleston chefs show off their wares in Marion Square with favorite recipes incorporating locally grown and produced ingredients. This year, the lineup includes Michelle Weaver of Charleston Grill, Marc Collins of Circa 1886, John Ondo of Lana, Nate Whiting of Tristan, Fred Neuville of Fat Hen and David Pell of Coast Bar & Grill, among others. ! Animals up close: Busch Wildlife Sanctuary grants guests a change to see alligators, bobcats, foxes, birds of prey and snakes at the Charleston Music Hall. Brittlebank Park hosts pony and camel rides, a petting zoo and the Edisto Island Serpentarium tent, while the Center for Birds of Prey returns with free flight demonstrations in Marion Square. Kids love this stuff. “You have to get them interested now,” Powell said. “And really, that’s what much of SEWE is about — honoring nature and helping introduce it to newer audiences.”
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Misty Costello of Gibson, Ga., watches as her retriever leaps into the air during the 2010 Dock Dogs competition at SEWE.
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DockDogs Have a doggone good time at Brittlebank Park
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One of the most popular events at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, DockDogs returns this year bigger than ever. The world’s premier canine aquatics competition is bringing a second tank, which will make SEWE the only event east of the Mississippi to use dual 30,000-gallon tanks for this high-flying event. What began as a “filler” event in ESPN’s Great Outdoor Games has morphed into 230 worldwide events per year, including in the U.K., Australia and Japan, with plans to expand to Russia and Germany. The “Late Show w ith David Letterman” helped raise visibility with its periodic dogjumping features. While copied, DockDogs is widely recognized as the official sanctioning body. Just as a rodeo comprises separate events, DockDogs now consists of three separate competitions with all breeds of dogs open to participate in three skill levels: pro, semi-pro and amateur. The entry fee is $30 per team per event. DockDogs began with Big Air, the long jump for dogs. Each human handler and dog team competes head-to-head against each other. Still the most popular event, each team has 90 seconds for the run down the dock and into the water. All jumps are electronically measured using a proprietary digital video stop-action technology developed by the ESPN television network. After being used as a training tool for the Big Air competition, DockDogs officially launched Extreme Vertical in 2005. For this high-jump event, the dogs run and jump to remove a “bumper” suspended over the water 8 feet from the edge of the dock. The bumper is raised 2 inches each round until the highest jumping dog wins. The third event focuses not on jumping ability but speed. The dogs must swim to the end of the 40-foot pool and remove an object. The fastest time wins. As with human sports that combine events into one competition, the Iron Dog Challenge combines the best results from each of the events for those that participate in all three contests. The DockDogs organization keeps world records, and Guinness World Records is the process of recognizing the events. The current best length for Big Air
If you go WHAT: DockDogs WHEN: Big Air Waves at 10 and 11 a.m. and 1, 2:30 and 4 p.m. Friday; Big Air Waves at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. and Extreme Vertical at 4 p.m. Saturday; Big Air Waves at 10 a.m. and noon, Speed Retrieve (all in one finals) at 2 p.m. and Big Air Finals at 4 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Brittlebank Park, Lockwood Drive PRICE: Included under general admission tickets; $20 Friday and Saturday, $10 Sunday, $40 for a three-day pass MORE INFO: 330-241-4975, www.dock dogs.com; 723-1748, www.sewe.com is 31 feet, while 8 feet, 4 inches marks the record height for Extreme Vertical. Two prior SEWE participants are logged in the DockDogs list of top accomplishments. DockDogs is not all about fun and competition, though. The organizations supports such charities as the Bay Area Animal Rescue Klub, (BAARK), which “rehabilitates cocker spaniels and helps to find them a loving home”; Team 21, which raises money and awareness for children with Down syndrome; and Chase Away K9 Cancer, which funds cancer studies and awareness efforts. DockDogs CEO Grant Reeves said, “DockDogs is a great way to bond and have a blast with your dog, any dog, no matter what your dog’s breed, size or abilities, from the smallest Pomeranian to the largest Great Dane, we welcome you. We look forward to seeing you on the dock at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition.” Given DockDogs’ growing popularity and as wave slots are limited, participants are being advised to register early. On-site registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and begins at 9 a.m. for each day’s events. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT
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Lowcountry woodturner Ashley Harwood gives fallen trees a second life as artful bowls, ornaments and even earrings.
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Local Artists Exhibit
Meet the makers BY OLIVIA POOL Special to The Post and Courier
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he annual Southeastern Wildlife Expo always brings excitement to the Lowcountry with the numerous events and awe-inspiring showcases of incredible animals and artwork from all over the country. But what’s truly exciting this year is the fact that about a quarter of the more than 100 artists featured at SEWE have local ties and will be honored in the Local Artists Exhibit at The Mills House Hotel, 115 Meeting St. 12 ! SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION 2013
Meet the local artists:
Anita Blewer
Anita Blewer spent more than 20 years raising children and working with horses before she decided to start taking painting classes from local artists. A gifted natural, it wasn’t long before painting became a career for her. She says she enjoys capturing the beauty of the Lowcountry marshes and woodlands of Charleston, Beaufort, Hunting Island and “Old Florida.” Blewer’s work won first place in the 2001 Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Artists’
Exhibition; she has a piece in the Museum and Gallery of Collage in Serfines, France; some of her works are part of the mayor of North Charleston’s collection; and she’s won numerous awards. She loves that her biggest fans remain her family. debostic. wix.com/abfineart
Anne Bradford
Anne Bradford has had an interesting life, living in all kinds of inspirational places. Although born in England, she was raised in Canada and the United States. She spent 12 years working as a graphic/ multimedia designer and fine artist in New York before she moved to San Diego, then just north of San Francisco, and now to Charleston. She continues her work as a fine art painter, often focusing on the Charleston landscape as well as wildlife paintings. www.annebradfordgallery.com
Pat Branning
“The South is a place where tea is sweet and accents are sweeter, macaroni and
cheese is a vegetable, front porches are wide and words are long. Buttermilk pie is a staple. Y’all is the only proper noun. Chicken is fried and biscuits come with cream gravy. Everything is darlin’ and someone’s heart is always being blessed,” says Pat Branning, author of the book “Shrimp, Collards, and Grits.” Even though the book has more than 200 Lowcountry recipes, this is not your average cookbook. The coffee table-style book also features 150 fine art paintings by famous Southern artists such as Ray Ellis, Nancy Ricker Rhett, John Carroll Doyle and Joe Bowler, among others. www.shrimp collardsgrits.com
Capers Cauthen
Local woodworker Capers Cauthen uses reclaimed wood from historic homes throughout Charleston County to create new pieces of furniture. He truly loves the fact that his business, Landrum Tables LLC, is based on using pieces of wood that others see as trash and turning them into beautiful
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works of art. He says he is deeply inspired by “his father, Henry F. Cauthen, the former director of the Preservation Society, who taught him everything he knows about furniture, antiques and design.” Examples of Cauthen’s work can be found all around town, including at Charleston City Gallery, Two Boroughs Larder, Bull Street Gourmet, Indigo and Cotton, FIG and The Grocery. www. landrumtables.com
Kathy Clark
Lowcountry artist Christina Hewson is showing this bear piece at the 2013 Southeastern Wildlife Exposition.
Born and raised in Charleston “during a period of time when families were large and incomes modest,” Kathy Clark’s fondest childhood memories include crabbing and fishing off the local dock with her family. The Lowcountry is a huge part of who she is, and her love of it is evident in her landscape paintings of the place she’s always called home. Her art career began later in life after her children were grown. After her mother died, she stumbled on some of her sketches and drawings, and she felt as if her mother were sending her a message to express herself artistically to bring her out of her grieving period. www.kathyclark fineart.com
Anna Cox
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Pat Forsberg
Award-winning artist Pat Forsberg studied at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., as well as with wellknown artist Elizabeth Bronson for multiple years. She has won numerous awards, including the Charleston Artist Guild’s 2008 People’s Choice Award sponsored by First Federal Bank of Charleston. Forsberg currently lives and paints in Charleston. www.patforsberg.com
When an interior designer decides to become a painter, you can wager that the painting most likely will be one that is created to look amazing in a home. Anna Cox has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in interior design and a master’s in urban and regional planning. She also has had significant schooling in fine art including classes at the Corcoran School of Art & Design in Washington with Ellen Zelano, even traveling to Italy for further study with Zelano. Cox is now an accomplished landscape painter with her works appearing regularly at the Gibbes’ Kiawah Art and House Tour. “When I paint, I like to visualize the painting complementing an actual interior space — likely due to my experience as an interior designer. It feels great when the artwork has found its home.” www.annacoxstudio.com
Not yet familiar with the fish camps of the region’s Sea Islands? Author and photographer Janet Garrity has created a published book about these fish camps. They are “a very old, generational tradition that is part of being raised on the river,” she says. Her book, “Goin’ Down the River, Fish Camps of the Sea Islands,” captures the special character of these fascinating places through her photos and stories. Originally from Ithaca, N.Y., Garrity moved to Beaufort in 2008. Even though her professional career was in marketing and sales, her love for photography since age 8 has been her lifelong passion. www.garrity.com
Elizabeth Curry
Ashley Harwood
Elizabeth Curry grew up the daughter of a longtime area fisherman and has been throwing reels, casting nets and dropping crab traps “from here to Murrells Inlet” her entire life. The artist says her inspiration to work with wooden historical windows came to her on a backroads drive on Wadamalaw Island, when she “passed a stack of old shotgun shack windows set out for trash. Later that day ... my mind turned back to those windows. I went back and loaded up every window.” She now re-creates the view of the marshland using dried floral arrangements, local grasses, washed up shells, fallen butterflies and dragonflies. www.charlestonviews.net
Anne Bradford spent 12 years working as a graphic/multimedia designer and fine artist in New York before eventually moving to Charleston.
she started her studies of art. She began at Carnegie Mellon University, following that up with a degree in art at Washington & Jefferson College and teaching art as an adjunct professor. She also has a degree in communications from Penn State and has authored two books. Dobbin is a member of the American Impressionist Society as well as the Oil Painters of America, and her work has been featured in American Art Collector Magazine. Her work is included in the collections of former President George W. Bush and at Washington & Jefferson College, as well as in corporate and private collections throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia. She describes her work as “impressionistic palette knife paintings (that) exhibit lush textures, at times almost sculptural, combined with detailed brushwork to emphasize the focal point.” www.adobbin.net
Alice Ann Dobbin
It’s been said that Alice Ann Dobbin’s work “touches the soul.” At a young age,
Janet Garrity
Woodturner Ashley Harwood gives fallen trees a second life as artful bowls, ornaments and even earrings. She discovered her craft at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina after enrolling in a workshop with her father. She considered a career in glass blowing while earning an art degree from Carnegie Mellon University but liked the salvage aspect of working with wood. Her work has caught the attention of collectors including Paul Richelson, chief curator at the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama. www.ashley harwood.net
Christina Louise Hewson
Artist Christina Hewson was born and raised in Awendaw. Since she was homeschooled through high school, she says she had plenty of time to explore personal interests such as swimming, drawing, piano, SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT
math and science. It was this time in her life that helped her develop an interest in wildlife, the human body and music. When she went to the College of Charleston, she fell in love with drawing. “I love to capture the souls of living creatures in as pure and simple a style as possible. My sincere hope is that you enjoy my art and that my art will in some way benefit animals of all species. Although I am currently absorbed in the study of dogs, I plan to make time in the future to study the human body and large cats.” www.christinahewson.com
Kellie Jacobs
“I am fascinated with the light at the end of the day. When the evening sun is low and warm touching the tops of the sand dunes and grasses of the marsh is the time of day I love best,” says pastel artist Kellie Jacobs. She uses atmosphere and light to create mood and expression in her work, which is in collections locally as well as internationally. kelliejacobsart.com
Diane Odachowski
Diane Odachowski attributes her creativity to her grandfather, who was a famous fashion designer in New York. She has spent many years studying at the likes of the Du Cret School of Art, the Art Institutes of Atlanta, Cincinnati and Buffalo, and also the New Jersey School of Visual Arts. When she moved to Charleston in 1996, she and her husband used their imaginations to restore two period homes in the Historic District for which they were awarded a Carolopolis Award for Restoration. Odachowski has worked in watercolor and pastels but now considers herself primarily an oil painter who specializes in landscape, architecture, still-life and figures. She is a juried member of the Charleston Artist Guild and the Charleston Plein Air Painters, and has won numerous awards for her paintings.
Curtis Phillips
Born in Columbia, Curtis Phillips began his artistic endeavors early on, studying art, piano, printmaking and portraiture. He also has spent time growing and learning in many different places. He moved to Los Angeles to further his career but felt disconnected with the city and moved back to South Carolina to teach art. He then felt he needed something else and moved to New York, where he stayed and trained for quite some time. “I learned more in my stay in New York City than at any other time in my career. That experience had a profound impact on my work,” he says. Now back in Charleston, he works as a professional artist. His artwork can be found in public and private collections throughout the country. www.phillipsart. net
Vicki Robinson
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Ben Ross
Hunter and fisherman Ben Ross grew up experiencing, and falling in love with, the great outdoors of South Carolina. As he got older and many of his friends were getting married, he wanted to wear something more interesting than your basic black bow tie. Never one to conform, he ended up creating his own bow tie — one that combined his love of the outdoors and being well dressed. It was made out of turkey feathers. On his own wedding day, Ross gave all his groomsmen their own Brackish Bow Ties. They were such a hit that Ross now has a business making and selling them. No two are the same. www.brackishbowties.com
Sheryl Stalnaker
Award-winning oil painter Sheryl Stalnaker’s work long has been part of Piccolo Spoleto and SEWE, as well as the Telfair Museum of Art Fair in Savannah. She also exhibits regularly in galleries in the Carolinas and Georgia. Her palette knife paintings focus on beautiful light and intersection perspectives in her composiHunter and fisherman Ben Ross makes these bowties with turkey feathers. tions. One of her pieces was chosen as the official poster image for the 2011 Charleston Farmers Market as well as the 2011 Old Village Home, Garden & Art Tour. www.sherylstalnaker.com
Peter Van Voris
Peter Van Voris, a resident of Daniel Island, creates tables from wine barrels.
Lisa Willits
Painter Lisa Willits has a bachelor’s and master’s in biology and was employed in the biomedical research field. As a hobby in the mid-’90s, she started taking photography, drawing and painting classes at the Gibbes Museum School. She recounts that after years of storing the paintings from these classes under the bed in her guest room, friends and family encouraged her to get her art “out there” for others to see. Willits now works as a fulltime professional painter and has since 2005. As an avid lover of the outdoors, she says that skies, water and trees are her favorite things to paint, and she loves to paint plein air. Willits is an exhibiting member of the Charleston Artist Guild, an associate member of Oil Painters of America and formerly the coordinator of Charleston Outdoor Painters. www. lisawillits.com
Matt Wilson
“Influenced by natural elements, my art is a reflection of the environment in which I live. Using organic and recycled materials — bone, driftwood, scrap metal, etc., my sculptures depict continuous life cycles that consciously and unconsciously permeate our awareness,” says artist Matt Wilson. He says he hopes that his sculptures will help others to appreciate the simple things from which he derives inspiration.
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2013 schedule
2013 schedule Friday, February 15 Friday, February 15
Venue change this year With Gaillard Auditorium undergoing a massive renovation project, SEWE has shifted some of the events and features normally found there into other venues. Knifemakers, jewelers, artisans and other exhibitors formerly housed at the Gaillard Auditorium have found a new home at the Francis Marion Hotel next to Marion Square. The Charleston Music Hall, meanwhile, will host live presentations by Julie Scardina (above), SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Animal Ambassador, and Jim and Jamie Dutcher of “Living With Wolves.” Scardina, a frequent guest on NBC’s “Today” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” will make her SEWE debut with a special talk and live-animal presentation. The Dutcher spent six years living with a pack of wolves at the edge of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, and are returning to SEWE for an encore presentation. Seating for live shows is first-come, first-served.
Decoys to view and buy A decoy exhibit at the Aiken-Rhett House Museum will showcase the private collection of Alan and Elaine Haid, including several of the rarest decoy examples of this unique craft. SEWE also will host a number of respected dealers of antique and working decoys, making it the largest amount of space dedicated to the art of the decoy during SEWE in nearly 20 years. An investment-quality decoy auction held Feb. 15 by Guyette, Schmidt & Deeter will offer nearly 200 decoys, ranging from $200 to over $10,000.
9 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . DockDogs registration opens Brittlebank Park Hours 9 a.m . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Private Viewing 10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . .Charleston ALL EXHIBITS PlaceOPEN 10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . DockDogs competition starts 9 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .DockDogs registration opens BrittlebankPark Park (all day) Brittlebank 10:30 a.m. . . . . . . . Julie Scardina/Animal 10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . .ALL EXHIBITS OPEN Amb. Charleston Music Hall Multiple Locations 11 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . Birds of Prey Marion Square 10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . .Cooking Classes 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . .Charleston Cast Net Brittlebank Park Cooks! 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . Chef Demos Marion Square 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . . Birds of Prey Flight Demo Noon . . . . . . . . . . . .Marion Chef Demos SquareMarion Park Square Noon . . . . . . . . . . . . Retrievers Brittlebank Park 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . .Fly Fishing Demonstration 12:30 p.m. . . . . . . .Brittlebank Julie Scardina/Animal Amb. Park Charleston Music Hall 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . .Julie Scardina with 1 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . .Busch Chef Demos Square WildlifeMarion Sanctuary 2 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . .Charleston Chef Demos Marion Square Music Hall 2 p.m. . Decoy Auction Chas. Marriott noon . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Retriever Demonstration 2 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . .Brittlebank Living with Wolves Park Charleston Hall 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birds of PreyMusic Flight Demo 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . .Marion Birds of Prey Marion Square Park Square 3 p.m. . ChefScardina Demos Marion 3 p.m. . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Julie with Square 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . .Busch QuickWildlife Draw/Speed Sculpt Sanctuary CharlestonMusic PlaceHall Charleston 3:30 p.m. . . . . . . . . Fly Fishing Brittlebank Park 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Quick Draw/Speed Sculpt 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Charleston . Busch Wildlife PlaceSanctuary Charleston Music Hall 3:30 p.m. . . . . . . . . . .Cast Net Demonstration 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . .Brittlebank RetrieversPark Brittlebank Park 5 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Live auction for Quick 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Retriever Demonstration Draw/Speed Brittlebank ParkSculpt Charleston Place Stroll 5 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .SEWE King Street 6:30 p.m. . . . . . . . .King SEWE King Street Stroll Street King Street
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11:30 a.m.. . . . . . . . Birds of Prey Marion Square Noon . . . . . . . . . . . . Chef Demos Marion Square Noon . . . . . . . . . . . . Retrievers Brittlebank Park 12:30 p.m. . . . . . . . Julie Scardina/Animal Amb. Charleston Music Hall 1 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Chef Demos Marion Square 1:30 p.m.. . . . . . . . . Kids Cast Brittlebank Park . .2. p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Photo Contest Winners Chef Demos Marion Square Brittlebank 2 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Living withPark Wolves 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . .Saltwater Inshore 101 Charleston Music Hall Brittlebank Park 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Birds of Prey Marion Square 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . .Julie Scardina 3 p.m. Fly Fishing Brittlebank Park with Busch Wildlife Sanctuary 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Charleston Music Hall Charleston Music Hall 11:30 a.m.. of Prey Flight Demos 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . .Birds Retrievers Brittlebank Park Marion Square Park 12 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . Retriever Demonstration Brittlebank Park 1:30 p.m.. Cast Net Demos/Rodeo 9 a.m.. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .Kids DockDogs registration opens Brittlebank Park Brittlebank Park 310 p.m. Fly EXHIBITS Fishing Demonstration a.m.. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .ALL OPEN Brittlebank Park 10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . DockDogs competition starts 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birds of Prey Flight Demos Brittlebank Park (all day) MarionWildlife SquareSanctuary Park 11 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Busch 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Julie Scardina Charleston Music Hall with Busch Wildlife Sanctuary 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . Retrievers Brittlebank Park Charleston Music Hall 1 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Chef Demos Marion Square 41p.m. Demonstration p.m.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .Retriever Birds of Prey Marion Square Brittlebank 1 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Living withPark Wolves Charleston Music Hall 2 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Chef Demos Marion Square 2 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Fly Fishing Brittlebank Park 93a.m.. registration p.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . .DockDogs Busch Wildlife Sanctuaryopens Brittlebank Park Charleston Music Hall 10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . .ALL OPENSquare 3 p.m. Chef EXHIBITS Demos Marion Multiple Locations 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . Retrievers Brittlebank Park 10 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . .DockDogs Competition 4 p.m. DockDogs Finals Brittlebank Park Brittlebank Park 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . .Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Show Charleston Music Hall 11 a.m.. . . . . . . . . . . . .Retriever Demonstration Brittlebank Park Feb. 14. . . . . . . . . . . Private viewing 1 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birds of Prey Flight Demos Noon, Charleston Place Marion Square Park Preview Afternoon 2 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fly Fishing Demonstration 1-5 p.m., multiple locations Brittlebank Park Preview Gala and Auction Wildlife Sanctuary Show 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Busch 7 p.m., Charleston Place Charleston Music Hall Feb. 15. . . . . . . . . . . Private viewing 3 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Retriever Demonstration 9-10 a.m., Charleston Place Brittlebank Park Feb. 16. . . . . . . . . . . Bluegrass Breakfast 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . .DockDogs Finals Place 9-11 a.m., Charleston Brittlebank Park SEWE Soiree (ticket required) 7 p.m., Charleston Visitor Center
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Featured Painter
Jay Kemp
“Close Encounter” by SEWE featured artist Jay Kemp.
Southern painter Jay Kemp’s naturalist style has earned critical acclaim and attention in the art world over the years. Kemp started his career in the early 1990s in the northeast Georgia town of Gainesville, not far from where he grew up and attended school at North Georgia College & State University. A dedicated outdoorsman, Kemp captures the fine detail of his subject and aims for a fluid, realistic style. Kemp’s recent masterpiece, “Riversong,” is a vibrant painting that was inspired by observing a preening egret in the sun after a rain shower. After the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition announced Kemp as the featured painter of 2013, it chose to use “Riversong” as the expo’s official poster (below). By Ballard Lesemann Special to The Post and Courier Q: What was it that initially attracted you to painting and visual art? A: I’ve always enjoyed working with my hands, and I became especially interested in painting my senior year of college. Q: How or why were you drawn to painting wildlife? Was that something you enjoyed right away as a painter or did it gradually become a specialty? A: I’ve always been interested in wildlife and nature, even as a small child. I’ve never really considered any other subject. On occasion, I have done a barn or farmhouse, but it’s usually a structure that is showing the effects of Mother Nature and has become a part of the natural landscape. I did not become addicted to art until I started painting things that I was passionate about, like wildlife and nature. That happened when I was a senior in college. Q: What are some of the outdoor activities you’ve enjoyed over the years that tie into your experience as a wildlife painter? A: I’ve always enjoyed fishing, hunting and hiking. There’s nothing like being in the woods at dawn, watching the woods wake up or watching the sun go down. I live on a 38,000-acre lake at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I can see about a mile across the water where I’ve seen lots of wildlife, including bald eagles, osprey, loons, herons and many duck species. We also have lots of whitetail deer, fox and other mammals. My family and I enjoy boating and spend a good bit of time on the water. We have a dock and several boats right in our backyard. Q: Where and with whom did you study and train as a young artist? A: When I was in elementary school, an art teacher came to the school on Fridays. I always enjoyed her visits. She then became a full-time teacher at the high school I went to. Her name was Mrs. Delaperriere. She was a devoted art teacher that loved art and loved her 18 • Southeastern Wildlife Exposition 2013
students. She had a knack for keeping kids interested in art. I played baseball in college for a couple years and did not take any art classes. I then transferred to North Georgia University on an art scholarship, and that’s where I began my career as a wildlife artist. My professors, Winslow Crannell and Tommye Scanlin, where very instrumental in my career and are still dear friends to this day. Crannel told us students the first day of class that one out of a hundred of us might make a living as an artist, and I agreed with that. After we turned in our first project, he pulled me aside and said, “You can make a living with your art if you will listen to me.” I didn’t really believe it, but I listened and I tried. He gave me the confidence and vision that I needed. I am not sure what would have happened with my career if I had not been influenced by him. I can remember telling Tommye that I was scared that I would get to a certain level with my work and then plateau. She told me that as long as I had that fear and
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that attitude, that it would not happen to me. They were both full of great advice. They were more than teachers, they were friends. They were also very accomplished artists which helped them be great teachers. Q: When and how did you start developing your own painting style? A: I started out painting with watercolor, and then I added gouache. It became difficult and aggravating to work large and to capture the kind of images I wanted with that medium. It’s a very technical and fragile medium that’s good for certain styles of work. It also requires glass, which is a pain to deal with, especially on large paintings. I now paint in acrylic, and it has changed my career. I can attack the painting and control it Kemp better since acrylic is waterproof and permanent. My style has not changed a whole lot, but my mentality has. My focus has been on composition and design, the intellectual part of my art. Q: Critics and reviewers have commented on the precision and realistic detail in your work. Was that an approach or technique that you’ve fine-tuned along the way as an artist? A: My work is detailed and realistic, and it always has been. I am a naturalist, and this is a normal style for anyone that is interested in the details in nature. I love paintings done
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with bold brush strokes or a looser style, but I have never been concerned with the surface of the paint. As a matter of fact, I don’t think the detail I put in my paintings has much to do with the success or failure of the painting. It is just a personal preference. If I’m painting the natural world, I do want my paintings to feel alive, as if they could have happened. Q: How does the landscape, scenery and wildlife of North Georgia influence your art? A: The area that I am from affects my work tremendously. Many of my paintings are based on ideas or references that I have seen within a few miles of my home. Q: Who are some of the other North American wildlife artists who’ve influenced and encouraged your work? A: The artists that have influenced my work the most are Robert Bateman, Carl Brenders, John Seerey-Lester and Andrew Wyeth. Q: When did you first get involved with the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition? A: I visited the show when I was in college. I went to see the work of Carl Brenders. It was an inspirational trip, to say the least. I left Charleston wondering if I would ever be able to get in to the show. My first year doing the show was 1996, and it was a great
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experience. I went on to sign with a national publishing company. Q: Is “Riversong” indicative of the other recent works in your repertoire in style and tone? A: “Riversong” is a little different from some of my work. I tried to keep some of the detail soft and the colors soft and pastel to emphasize the misty effect and the mood of the painting.
I’m constantly manipulating my paintings, by adding, subtracting and rearranging. I try to either have the animal or the landscape dominate, but not both.
Q: How important is the natural scenery surrounding the main subject in a wild— Jay Kemp, featured painter, whose life painting? Do you enhance or adjust “Working Lab” is seen above. anything to specifically fit the focus of the work? A: I’m constantly manipulating my paintA: The best thing about being an artist is ings, by adding, subtracting and rearrangthat I am never bored. I enjoy the challenge, ing. I try to either have the animal or the even though it’s frustrating. I also like the landscape dominate, but not both. I feel that fact that my paintings are able to help raise it’s confusing to have both of them equally money for the environment and nature. My dominant. work also helps educate people about what Occasionally, when I have the landscape we have to protect. dominate, the animal is still the focus. Whichever I decide to make dominant, I Q: What is your personal favorite paintmake the other complimentary of it. I use ing in your collection, and which work references from many different locations seems to be the most popular with your and adventures. fans? Many elements in my paintings come A: I’ve had several images that have sold from my head or intuition. My goal is to out in the print market, so it is hard for me make my paintings look as if they could to know which is the most popular. I favor have happened. my later paintings. I feel that they’ve become a bit more sophisticated, regarding my ideas Q: After years of experience, what are and composition and design. the greatest challenges and frustrations that come up when you start working on a Q: What can attendees expect to see from painting? you at this year’s SEWE? A: Your paper doesn’t have enough pages A: They can expect a wide variety of subfor me to answer this question appropriately. jects, from elk in the Canadian Rockies to There are a multitude of issues with every polar bears and to shore birds in Florida. I painting. The No. 1 problem is coming up have several large paintings this year that I with a good idea and composition. There are have done for the show, two paintings that a thousand ways to mess up a painting, and are 48 inches and three that are 40 inches. I feel like I’ve done them all. Each painting is a constant struggle and I keep working Q: What do you most look forward to and reworking it until I finally have some doing in Charleston this year? peace with it. A: Seeing all of the wonderful artwork, visiting with my artist friends and collectors. Q: What do you enjoy most about being And I always enjoy the city of Charleston. It a painter? is a beautiful city. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT
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Featured Sculptor
Pete Zaluzec
Illinois-based wildlife artist Pete Zaluzec leads a multifaceted career in art, conservation and outdoor sporting. His mediums bounce from sketch work, nontraditional prints and oil paintings to stone, bronze and other forms of sculpting. Zaluzec earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago and started working professionally in the 1970s. His earliest works featured numerous detailed wood carvings of birds, winning him multiple awards, including “Best in World” in decorative miniature wood at the Ward World
Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition for an unprecedented three consecutive years. His latest works have included lifelike wood and bronze sculptures of North American wildlife, from bears and bison to birds and small mammals. He lives near Lake Michigan in Lake Villa, Ill., between Chicago and Milwaukee. Selected as the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition’s featured sculptor for 2013, Zaluzec first got involved with SEWE when he came to the expo in 1998. He has attended all but two SEWE events in the years since.
BY BALLARD LESEMANN Special to The Post and Courier Q: When, how and where did you first start working as a professional sculptor? A: I’ve always had an interest in art but didn’t start seriously focusing on sculpture until I was in my 30s. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972, I worked as a social worker and custom woodworker until I settled in at my current company in 1985. At that point, I really had the freedom to explore my artwork on my own terms and began taking bird carving fairly seriously. After years of doing the really tight, realistic carvings, I decided to loosen up a bit and switched to bronze in the late ’90s. Q: What was it about sculpting that drew you in? A: I’ve always been a very hands-on type of person. I think it’s the act of coming up with an idea then figuring out how to actually make it that’s most appealing. Q: Were you an animal lover all of your life or was it a passion that developed over the years? A: When I was a kid, my parents would take me to the Field Museum (of Natural History) and Chicago-area zoos several times a year, so, like most kids, I had an interest in animals from an early age. When I started doing artwork, animals were a natural fit. Q: Did you study sculpting and art in general before your college days? A: Art classes weren’t really available to me in high school, but my mother painted as a hobby, so there were always materials available for me to work with. Q: What experiences at the Art Institute of Chicago left the biggest impact on you as a sculptor? A: Although my degree is in painting, my education there had a big impact on how I approach things, no matter what medium I’m working in. Probably the biggest benefit I gained from my experience there was the daily exposure to all the artwork in the institute’s museum. 22 ! SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION 2013
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The quality of work I saw there is what I set my standards against early on.
your various pieces, from prints to sculptures? Maybe a formal/realism side and a more abstract side? A: I like artwork that has a nice balance between realism and abstraction, and I try to include both in various degrees in my own work. Since the prints are based on photographs, they lean heavily towards realism, but I also include strong compositional elements and adjust the light and dark values to make for a more striking image. My sculptures, on the other hand, are much more interpretive, but I still put a lot of effort into keeping them true to the form of my subject, both anatomically and in character. Yes, you could say there are two different approaches in my work. The prints are generated from photographs, so they do have a more formal realistic quality to them. The sculptures are a bit more interpretive.
Q: When and how did you start developing your own style? A: My stylistic approach isn’t as much about a specific type of clay work or imagery as it is about the character or demeanor of my subject. I became enamored with portraying a very relaxed, low-key attitude in my work when I was doing the bird carvings, and this carried over to my bronzes, and the stone and bronze sculpture I’m currently working on. Q: Does the landscape, scenery and wildlife of Illinois and the Midwest influence your art more than other regions? If so, how? A: It did when I was working primarily with birds, but since I started working more with mammals, I take several trips out West every year to get reference and find inspiration. Q: How do you tend to develop and start to shape an idea for a sculpture? A: For the work I’m doing now, I generally start by searching through my photo reference for a pose I think would work well with the stone. From there, I sketch out my idea and decide which shapes I’m going to define with the river rocks, and which shapes will need to be modeled in wax. Q: What medium do you prefer these days? A: I’m really enjoying the stone/bronze pieces right now because the stone adds an element of unpredictability that I don’t often get in my other mediums. There’s something inherently interesting and beautiful in the stone itself, and I never quite know what cracks or changes in the surface will
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happen when the bronze is poured around it. I like the fact that it forces me to let go a little and allow the medium itself to have some say in the outcome of the piece. Q: When and how did you start combining bronze and stone into single works? A: About three or four years ago, I started experimenting with the combination of materials as a departure from my traditional bronze work. I’d just started doing mammals, and I found the stones worked really well to define the large mass of the subject while the bronze was better for defining the more subtle shapes and profiles. I think that the combination of the two materials made for an overall more interesting piece of artwork. Q: Are there several personalities that come through in
Q: Do you travel to and attend many expos like this throughout the year? A: I used to, but the last few years I’ve spent more of my time going out West to shoot photos. Q: What is your personal favorite piece in your collection and why? A: Of the work I’ll have at the show this year, the “Beeeaters” is my personal favorite. It’s a grouping of birds, and each one has a little different personality. Q: What can attendees expect to see and hear from you at this year’s SEWE? A: I’m bringing a large collection of the Gampi images and stone/bronze pieces, as well as a few of my more traditional bronze bird sculptures, and I’m looking forward to spending a bit of time explaining the processes involved in my new work.
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A Eurasion owl swoops in to snag a treat during the Center for Birds of Prey demonstration at last year’s SEWE.
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Jim Elliott remembers one moment during a Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in the mid-1990s that made him realize the importance of the mission of the Awendaw-based Center for Birds of Prey. It was back when the center just had a display and brought demonstration birds, which cannot be released into the wild and are used for education reasons, to the event. “I had a broad-winged hawk on my fist and handed the bird off to someone else,” recalls Elliott. “I remember standing back and looking at this huddle of people around us drawn to these beautiful animals. It looked like a Norman Rockwell painting in all its diversity — young and old, big and little. It
WHAT: Birds of Prey Flight Demonstration WHEN: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Marion Square downtown PRICE: Included under general admission tickets; $20 Friday and Saturday, $10 Sunday, $40 for a three-day pass MORE INFO: www.sewe.com was the total cross-section of everybody we hoped to reach. They were there, enthralled and engaged, asking about this bird. “I won’t ever forget that. What it told me was that there is an appeal or resonance with everyone we talk to. Somewhere there’s
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a connection with what we were doing.” Those were the early days of the center, back when it was called the Charleston Raptor Center, back when Elliott, two or three staffers and dozens of volunteers worked out of his 5-acre residence in the middle of Francis Marion National Forest.
Milestones
Much has changed since then. The gift of a 150-acre property, closer to Charleston but still in Awendaw, has allowed the Center for Birds of Prey to soar to new heights. Now, instead of relying entirely on taking the birds to the public for educational reasons, the center invites the public inside its facility for regular demonstrations Thursdays through Sundays. The larger space also has allowed it to pursue initiatives that previously were next to impossible. In the past year, the center marked three milestones. The first was treating its 6,000th bird, which took place in December, since the center’s founding in 1991. Besides the satisfaction of returning those birds to the wild, Elliott said that number has another meaning to him. “The total number of birds is what it is, but it’s also an experience for us,” he said. “The experience we’ve gained from those birds is so valuable for the next 6,000. It tells us a little bit about the universe out there and our impact on it.” Another milestone was adding its 50th
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Center for Birds of Prey Executive Director Jim Elliott holds a newly acquired swallow-tailed kite. The center now houses 50 different species of birds for education and breeding. DAVID QUICK/THE POST AND COURIER
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Audrey Poplin, husbandry coordinator and educator at the Center for Birds of Prey, holds a Harris hawk, native to the desert Southwest region of the United States.
species of bird, a short-tailed hawk, to its That level of volunteer support played a educational program, which was a goal set role in luring the center’s current medical for 2015. clinic director, Debbie Mauney, whose husThe importance of have different birds, band works with the red wolf restoration both native and non-native, is to tell a program in Alligator River, N.C. deeper story about each one’s struggle with “I love the volunteer aspect of this, too, habitat loss and other challenges, as well as because of all the different backgrounds draw attention to the center’s mission. of these people who would otherwise “We don’t want to be a roadside zoo, but never meet or hang out,” Mauney said. from an organizational standpoint, we’re “Everybody just seems to come together. It making some headway into being more vis- doesn’t matter what your income level is, ible,” Elliott said of the center drawing visieveryone is here for the birds. And I love tors to hear the message of that atmosphere.” conservation. And besides the obvious “It’s so much a part of what efforts to help injured and we need to be doing. One orphaned birds of prey and of our founding objectives educate the public of the is to reach as many people importance of the birds, the center is involved in research as we can to help. We know efforts, has a successful capthe more informed we are, tive breeding program, and the more environmentally is trained and prepared for responsible we are.” oil spill response along the The third milestone was South Carolina coast. more technical. One of many efforts of the For years, the Center for Making time Center for Birds of Prey is Birds of Prey monitored With all those pots on the bird migration Sept. 15-Nov. a captive breeding program, and a recent hatch- stove, the 24/7/365 center’s 30 every year. Last year, it staff veers off-course only added a radar system sensi- ings was an Asian brown once a year: for SEWE. tive enough to pick up even wood owl chick. “To be honest, it’s a stresssongbirds and give them anful event for both the staff and the birds. For other ability they didn’t have before: countus, it’s a lot of effort to move them. We can’t ing birds at night. leave the birds downtown. We move this 12,000 hours cadre of birds, they work all day, as do the In addition to those milestones, the center staff. Three days in a row,” Elliott said. also reached some other impressive num“But people expect us to be there. They bers and added programming. would miss us. We would be conspicuAssisting its paid staff of 12, three of ously absent if we weren’t there, and the whom are part time, are dozens of volunaudience has grown. We’ve got 40,000 teers who logged a whopping 12,000 volun- people over that weekend, and the majorteer hours in 2012. Elliott said that equates ity of them see us at one point or another, to six full-time staff members. and that’s a good thing.” 30 ! SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION 2013
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Attendees of last year’s SEWE Soiree pick a pig at the Charleston Visitor Center Bus Shed.
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! 2 p.m., Michelle Weaver of Charleston Grill
Fresh on the menu
! 3 p.m., Eric Huff of Burwell’s Stone Fire Grill
Marion Square becomes center stage as more than a dozen of the Lowcountry’s top chefs demonstrate how to make some of their favorite recipes with ingredients that are grown and produced in South Carolina. Presented by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture, attendees also will be able to sample products from the producers, processors and vendors that make up the Certified South Carolina program. The chef demonstrations will take place in the Certified S.C. Tent at Marion Square and are covered by general admission tickets ($20 Friday and Saturday, $10 Sunday; $40 for a three-day pass). Here’s the schedule:
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! 11 a.m., John Ondo of Lana ! Noon, Miles Huff of The Culinary Institute of Charleston ! 1 p.m., Fred Neuville of Fat Hen ! 2 p.m., Mark Collins of Circa 1886
Sunday ! 1 p.m., Jill Mathias of Carolina’s ! 2 p.m., David Pell of Coast Bar & Grill
! 11 a.m., Nate Whiting of Tristan
! 3 p.m., Jason Reed of Boone Hall Farms
! Noon, Simon Andrews ofThe Swamp Fox Restaurant
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Join East Cooper Ducks Unlimited for the 16th annual oyster roast and a Lowcountry cookout.
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In addition to all-you-can-eat oysters and Southern delicacies, enjoy an open bar, music, raffles and live and silent auctions. The event will be 6-11 p.m. Friday at the Charleston Visitor Center, 375 Meeting St. Tickets are $60 in advance, $75 at the door if still available, and include a 2013 membership to Ducks Unlimited. Find out more or order tickets at www. ducks.org/south-carolina or by calling 5137387.
Bluegrass Breakfast
On Saturday, start your day with breakfast, bloody mary’s and live bluegrass at the Francis Marion Hotel, 387 King St. Music will be performed by the Lindsay Holler Band. The event will run 9-11 a.m. and is part of the VIP calendar of events. VIP tickets start at $150 for two patrons. Find out more at www.sewe.com/become vip.php.
Duck Shuck Oyster Roast
The South Carolina Waterfowl Association’s 18th annual event will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Omar Shrine Center, 176 Patriots Point Road, in Mount Pleasant. The event will include live music, a live and silent auction, plus raffles. The attire is casual. Tickets are $50. To order, call 803-4526000 or go to www.scwa.org.
Lowcountry Bistro
The flavors of the wild are on the menu at Lowcountry Bistro, 49 South Market St. No guide is required, just an appetite for buffalo, alligator, duck and quail. Check out the section of their website, www.lowcountrybistro.com, where executive chef Steven Lusby and chef Matt Paul “got game.” Find out more at 302-0290.
82 Queen
Let your appetite take flight at 82 Queen, where duck wings, elk burgers, boar sausage and lamb ribs walk on the wild side with creative sides, ragouts and reductions that speak to where the wild things are. During SEWE, executive chef Steven Lusby plans daily specials. 82 Queen is at 82 Queen St. Call 723-7591 or go to www.82queen.com.
Charleston Cooks!
Sharpen your skills at Charleston Cooks! The retail shop at 194 East Bay St. will hold two classes that will feature the perfect recipes for your SEWE adventure. The classes will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. The cost is $60. Go to www.mavericksouthernkitchens. com for more.
Red’s Ice House
Red’s Ice House, 98 Church St., on Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant will kick off the weekend in fine outdoor style. Check out their website, www.redsice house.com, for up-to-date details. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT
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Yo Gabba Gabba! Live’ Get the sillies out with DJ Lance Rock and the colorful cast of “Yo Gabba Gabba” in this live show. It features favorite characters Brobee, Foofa, Toodee, Muno and Plex, and fans are invited to jump, shake and shimmy in this interactive show. The award-winning television series is one of the most popular with fans ranging from preschoolers to teens and adults. The live tour infuses retro-style and beat-driven music to teach simple life lessons.
Rascal Flatts Country vocal group Rascal Flatts will perform a special Valentine’s Day show with opener Kristen Kelly and special guests The Band Perry. Rascal Flatts is one of the bestselling country acts of the past decade with songs such as “Bless the Broken Road,” “What Hurts the Most,” “My Wish” and “Feels Like Today.” Selling more than 21 million albums since its debut in 2000, the group has delivered 13 No. 1 singles and has earned more than 40 trophies at award shows such as the American Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and more.
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. today WHERE: North Charleston Coliseum, 5001 Coliseum Drive PRICE: $29.75$59.75 MORE INFO: www.north charleston coliseumpac. com or www. rascalflatts. com
Charleston Blues Festival
The Charleston Blues Festival returns for a second year and will feature Millie Jackson, Mel Waiters, TK Soul, Latimore, Theodis Ealey and The Klass Band. WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday WHERE: North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 5001 Coliseum Drive PRICE: $40-$48 MORE INFO: www.northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com
Charity Vintage Fashion Show Runaround Sue Vintage will host its second annual vintage fashion show with proceeds benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The event will begin with a social as Holy City Brewing will offer $3 brews, and all profits from sales go to charity. The first 50 in the door will get goody bags with items from the likes of Al Di La, Carla Bakes, Lava Salon and Spacecraft Studios. The fashion show will begin at 9 p.m. and will feature vintage styles spanning several eras; the clothing will be on sale after the show. Afterward, stick around to enjoy the V-Tones, the Flat Foot Floozies and the Roaring 20s Hot Jazz Dance Club. WHEN: 8 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Tin Roof, 1117 Magnolia Road PRICE: $10 minimum at the door; additional donations welcome FOR MORE INFO: www.facebook.com/ runaroundsuevintage
Carolina Challenge Cup The Charleston Battery will host the 10th annual Carolina Challenge Cup over the course of a week. The four-team round-robin preseason competition will feature Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo, Chicago Fire and the Vancouver Whitecaps, making their first appearance. The schedule for the doubleheader games can be found online. WHEN: Saturday, Wednesday and Feb. 23; gates open at 4 p.m. with kickoff set for 5 and 7:15 p.m. each night WHERE: Blackbaud Stadium, 1990 Daniel Island Drive PRICE: $15-$25 MORE INFO: charlestonbattery.com
WHEN: 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday WHERE: North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 5001 Coliseum Drive PRICE: $18-$48; kids 1 year and older will need a ticket to attend MORE INFO: www.north charlestoncoliseumpac.com or www.yogabbagabba.com
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‘Les Miserables’ Acclaimed Broadway musical arrives in North Charleston hot on Hollywood’s heels
BY STRATTON LAWRENCE || Special to The Post and Courier
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ere Victor Hugo still alive today, one can only hope he’d be proud. Beginning with the release of the Frenchlanguage musical play in 1980, more than 130 years after Hugo penned his epic novel, “Les Miserables,” its adaptations continue to garner awards akin to the attention that the book received upon its release in 1862.
By interweaving stories of justice and redemption with tales of unquenchable, yearning love and the historical drama of revolutionary Paris, Hugo fashioned an opus that peers like Upton Sinclair lauded as one of the greatest novels in history. Translations from its original French to English reduced the novel to a still-staggering 1,500 pages, yet it’s remained popular and relevant over the course of the following century. In 1976, an updated translation in modern British English helped foster resurgence in the book’s popularity. French composer ClaudeMichel Schonberg soon paired with two lyricists to adapt the novel into song. “Les Miserables” the musical debuted in Paris in 1980. But it wasn’t until three years later that British producer Cameron Mackintosh, fresh off the debut of “Cats” on Broadway, heard a copy of the French songs written for “Les Miserables.” In 1985, the Royal Shakespeare Company debuted the Englishlanguage musical in London’s West End. Just as some fans of any book are likely to decry the artistic liberties taken by Hollywood in bringing the story to screen, “Les Miserables” had its share of detractors in the early years. Ticket sales, however, overwhelmed any
If you go WHAT: “Les Miserables” WHEN: 7:30 p.m. TuesdayFeb. 24 with 2 p.m. matinees Feb. 23 and 24 WHERE: North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 5001 Coliseum Drive PRICE: $50-$80 FOR MORE INFO: www.north charlestoncoliseumpac.com
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The company of the 25th anniversary production of “Les Miserables.”
naysayers, with a Broadway show opening in New York in 1987. That same year, the play won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. “Les Miserables” would remain on Broadway until 2003 before enjoying a two-year resurgence in 2006. The English production has run continuously since 1985, celebrating 10,000 shows in 2010. That same year, a multiyear national tour commenced in the United States. The show reaching North Charleston Tuesday is staying for six nights. And with no Broadway production running, the Lowcountry will be the only place in the country to see an official, full-scale production of “Les Miserables.” Adding to the excitement is the Feb. 24 Academy Awards, where Please see MIZ, Page E17
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‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ Director James Powell began his life with “Les Miserables” as an actor, playing one of the musical’s revolutionary students who builds barricades in the streets of Paris. He kept that role until 1996, when he was offered the position of resident director at London’s Palace Theatre. He’s been directing various productions of “Les Miserables” for the past 16 years, including the current touring ensemble. “It’s almost as long as the amount of auditions I had to get into the show,” laughs Powell, who tried out 17 times before landing his acting role. “Les Miserables has been a massive part of my life.” Fresh out of drama school, Powell witnessed the original English cast perform the musical in London in 1985. “I was absolutely knocked out,” he recollects. “I thought, ‘My God, look at this. It’s a musical for actors.’ It just bowled me over and I fell in love with it, and I’ve been in love with it ever since.” Powell’s realization about the interplay of singers and actors in “Les Miserables” has perhaps found its pinnacle in Mackintosh’s recent adaptation for the screen, featuring actors Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried, to name a few of the high-profile actors involved. The film includes very few spoken lines; in fact, the actors sang live throughout filming. With renowned stage veteran Mackintosh taking a key role in shaping the film, unlike earlier screen productions of Hugo’s book that used spoken word rather than song (including a 1998 film starring Liam Neeson and a 2000 French miniseries with Gerard Depardieu), the epic set and feel of the 2012 release may lead some people to ques-
Peter Lockyer as Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables.” tion whether attending the live stage show still holds its value. “That’s not a question about ‘Les Miserables’ the movie versus ‘Les Miserables’ the stage production; it’s actually about the difference between film and theater,” Powell explains. “I love the whole experience of going to the movies, and I also love live theater, for very different reasons. When you’re there and you’re hearing it and seeing it live, it’s just thrilling. You’re taken on a journey.” Powell hopes that the ongoing stage productions and the film will “serve each other.” Even after a huge celebration of the play’s 25th anniversary at the O2 arena in London, the Hollywood film has likely pushed “Les Miserables” to its greatest global awareness to date. “The film and the live
show are happy bedfellows,” Powell said. “My hope is that if people go to the movie, they’ll be inspired to see the stage show, and vice versa.”
‘At the End of the Day’ With touring productions of Broadway musicals, there can be a perception that the cast performing in markets such as Charleston may be a “B-list” group, as opposed to the top actors and singers in New York. Without an ongoing Broadway production, however, Powell emphasizes that the touring ensemble provides the same experience an attendee would receive at any official production of “Les Miserables” in the world. “The bar is set very high,” proclaims Powell. “Cam-
eron (Mackintosh) is a difficult man to please, and he wants an audience to come out thinking, ‘That was value for money,’ and I don’t think he’ll ever compromise on that. We’d all be proud to see this touring version of the show in the West End (London) or on Broadway.” The musical stretches over three hours, with an intermission, and includes dozens of actors, including the key roles of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, Fantine and Cosette. For those who are unfamiliar with or need a refresher on the story, here’s a summary: After serving 19 years as a prisoner for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, Valjean is released. He immediately steals silver from a priest who takes him in off the street, but is unexpectedly shown mercy, a life-changing experience that leads him to change his ways, assume a new identity and eventually become a wealthy factory-owner and civic leader. At every step, however, Valjean is tracked by Javert, a detective intent on uncovering Valjean’s true identity and returning him to justice. Valjean, in turn, again becomes a fugitive, dedicating his life to raising and caring for Cosette, an orphaned daughter of a former worker at his factory. Throughout the story, the characters are faced with questions of retribution and morality, complicated by a society in the flux of revolution and the balance of love with life’s other demands. It’s a story that’s deep on many levels, rife with meaning behind every layer and plot detail and developing human relationships. Much of its enduring legacy stems from a lasting relevance that’s as poignant today as 150 years ago, fluctuating in the musical depiction from epic to totally intimate in a moment’s notice. “When we cast a stage production, we can have the greatest voices in the world, but unless they’re really inhabiting the story
as performers, they won’t get cast,” Powell said. “The spine of this is the great acting and storytelling that bolsters the plot. These are creative people filling these roles, and each new actor’s interpretation is different, so it guarantees that it’s always original and interesting and unique.” Powell adds that the camaraderie among the cast has a “family feel” of supportiveness that’s unique to “Les Miserables.” “Other shows I’ve been involved with don’t get that same bond,” he elaborates. “I think that has to do with the subject matter. It’s about people and the human condition, and I think that actors become aware
of that, and even if it’s in a subconscious way, it filters through.” Of all the plays in the world to spend nearly two decades perfecting, Powell says that “Les Miserables” may be the only one that could never grow stale. “It’s the same but different each time I visit it, and it’s always loaded with surprises,” Powell said. “It’s perpetual in the way that it lets us create something new each time. ‘Les Miserables’ is just riddled with opportunities for that to happen. I would hate to think that it could ever just get stale in a format or a pattern. That would just be hell, and it’s certainly not that.”
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Today ‘Vanities’
WHAT: A bittersweet comedy that is a chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy and Mary are vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their friendship is strained and ambiguous. Doors open one hour prior to curtain. Presented by Charleston Stage. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 WHERE: Pure Theatre, 477 King St. PRICE: General $20, senior $17, student $15 MORE INFO: 888-303-0763, ext. 0 or www.crabpotplayers.com/ mainstage/season_20-2
‘Our Town’
WHAT: Directed by Evan Parry, written by Thornton Wilder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama spans the history of a small New Hampshire town. WHEN: 8 p.m. Feb. 14-16; 3 p.m. Feb. 17 WHERE: The Footlight Players, 20 Queen St. PRICE: Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors, and $15 for students
MORE INFO: 722-4487 or http:// footlightplayers.net
Love songs
WHAT: “Tell Me the Truth About Love” is a recital of songs about the many and varied aspects of love. Vocal students from the Horton School of Music will perform with varied accompaniments, including piano, guitar and harp. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 WHERE: Charleston Southern University Lightsey Chapel Auditorium, 9200 University Blvd. PRICE: Free MORE INFO: 863-7966 or http:// charlestonsouthern.edu
Friday Art & Wine Walk
WHAT: Freshfields Village will host its eighth annual Art & Wine Walk. Visitors will have the opportunity to see live art demonstrations and view works from local and regional artists in more than a dozen stores. In addition to the variety of art that will be on display in watercolors, pottery, hand-blown glass, oil paints and photography, guests also will be able to sample an array of wine and hors d’oeuvres. WHEN: 4-7 p.m. Feb. 15 WHERE: Freshfields Village Green, Crossroads of Johns, Seabrook and
Kiawah islands PRICE: Free MORE INFO: 768-6491 or http:// freshfieldsvillage.com/events/ view/art-wine-walk
French Film
WHAT: Alliance Francaise presents “La Delicatesse (Delicacy)”. When Nathalie marries Francois, she is young, beautiful and living the perfect life. But her husband dies in a tragic accident and her life falls apart. She walls herself in and loses herself in her job. Three years later, an unlikely candidate appears: Markus, her Swedish, balding, unassuming co-worker. WHEN: 7 p.m. Feb. 15 WHERE: Institute of Psychiatry, MUSC, 67 President St. PRICE: $5; $3 for AF members and students MORE INFO: 235-6447 or www. afusa.org/af/charleston/
All Brahms
WHAT: James Feddeck, assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, leads the CSO in this program showcasing the music of Johannes Brahms. The composer’s final orchestral work, Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra features the CSO’s own Yuriy Bek-
ker, concertmaster, and Norbert Lewandowski, principal cello. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and 16 WHERE: Sottile Theatre, 44 George St. PRICE: Tickets start at $25 in advance or $30 at the door if available. MORE INFO: 723-7528 or www. charlestonsymphony.org
‘Gidion’s Knot’
WHAT: There are adult content and themes in this intellectually demanding play about art vs. order and dealing with school systems, bullying, violence and inappropriate behavior. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15-16, Feb. 18, Feb. 21-23; 3 p.m. Feb. 17 WHERE: South of Broadway Theatre Company, 1080 E. Montague Ave. PRICE: $18 plus applicable fees MORE INFO: 745-0317 or www. southofbroadway.com
‘Woman Called Truth’
WHAT: “A Woman Called Truth” chronicles the remarkable story of Sojourner Truth from the day she was a slave girl and sold away from her family, through her struggle to free herself and her son, to her emergence as a revered leader and farsighted advocate for abolition, and visionary pioneer
for women’s rights. The play combines Truth’s actual words with authentic slave songs, spirituals and folk songs of the period to tell a moving and powerful story. Presented by Charleston Stage. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and 16, 20-23, 28, March 1, 2; 3 p.m. Feb. 17, 24, March 3 WHERE: Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St. PRICE: $34.50-$53.50 for adults, $32.50-$53.50 for seniors (60+) and $22.50-$53.50 for students (25 and under) MORE INFO: 577-7183 or www. charlestonstage.com
CSU Wind Ensemble
WHAT: The Charleston Southern University Wind Ensemble will present”Wizards, Elves, Hobbits & Swords.” The ensemble will perform three movements of the Symphony No. 1, subtitled “The Lord of the Rings” by Dutch composer Johan deMeij. The three movements featured are Gandalf (The Wizard), Lothlorien (The Elvenwood) and Hobbits. Also included is “The Sword of Strathcarron” from Highland Hymn Suite by British composer Philip Sparke. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 WHERE: Charleston Southern University Lightsey Chapel Auditorium, 9200 University Blvd.
PRICE: Free MORE INFO: 863-7966 or www. charlestonsouthern.edu
Saturday MUSC Charity Ball
WHAT: The 26th annual MUSC Charity Ball includes live music by Permanent Vacation, heavy hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and a silent auction. This year’s event benefits Crisis Ministries, Operation Home, the Children’s Garden Project, Lowcountry Pregnancy Center, Junior Girls Day Out, Cares Clinic, Crisis Ministries and Fight for Sight. Tickets are available at the MUSC College of Medicine dean’s office. The dress is black tie optional. WHEN: 7-11 p.m. Feb. 16 WHERE: Memminger Auditorium, 56 Beaufain St. PRICE: $50 MORE INFO: 792-5862 or www. musc.edu/charityball
Sunday Cypress Gardens
WHAT: Lowcountry Heritage Day is a celebration of Black History month and life in the Lowcountry. Enjoy performances, exhibits and demonstrations for the entire
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Today Teresa Parrish
WHAT: Half of the Americana/ bluegrass/variety duo Sweet Tn’A will perform during this AntiValentine’s Day Singles Party. WHEN: 9 p.m. Feb. 14 WHERE: Planet Follywood, 32 Center St.
Stooges Brass Band
WHAT: Elite funk, hip hop jazz and brass band out of New Orleans. WHEN: 9 p.m. doors Feb. 14 WHERE: The Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway, James Island PRICE: $10 MORE INFO: 571-4343 or www. charlestonpourhouse.com
Valentine’s Day Dance
WHAT: Taking it back to school dances from the ’80s and ’90s with DJ LanAtron, including some Sadie Hawkins slow jams. WHEN: 9 p.m. Feb. 14 WHERE: Tin Roof, 1117 Magnolia Road, Charleston PRICE: Free
Jilted Lovers Party
WHAT: Live music from the David Higgins Band (rock/pop covers) and a chance to share your best jilted lover story to win a compli-
mentary cocktail class for two. WHEN: 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Feb. 14 WHERE: The Cocktail Club, 479 King St., downtown Charleston PRICE: Free MORE INFO: 724-9411 or www. thecocktailclubcharleston.com
Davis Coen
WHAT: Self-described “Bluntry” (country and blues). WHEN: 9 p.m.-midnight Feb. 14 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 1205 Ashley River Road, Charleston PRICE: Free
Flannel Church
WHAT: Duane Trucks, brother of Derek, is the drummer for this “jazzy NOLA blues and gospel funk” band. WHEN: 10 p.m. Feb. 14 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 2209 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island PRICE: $5
Friday Cotton Jones
WHAT: Indie folk band, with elements of psychedelic folk, dream pop, baroque pop and Americana out of Cumberland, Md. WHEN: 8 p.m. Feb. 15 WHERE: Tin Roof, 1117 Magnolia
Road, Charleston PRICE: $8
Sweetgrass Girls
WHAT: Bluegrass/country. WHEN: Feb. 15 WHERE: Tru Blues, 1039 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Mount Pleasant MORE INFO: 881-1858
Papadosio w/ Dopapod
WHAT: Electronica/experimental/ progressive/improv from Papadosio and experimental jazz/funkrock from Dopapod. WHEN: 8 p.m. doors Feb. 15 WHERE: The Music Farm, 32 Ann St., downtown Charleston PRICE: $12 advance, $15 day-ofshow MORE INFO: 722-8904 or www. musicfarm.com/main.html
Eric Culberson
WHAT: American blues guitarist/ singer-songwriter out of Savannah. WHEN: 10 p.m. Feb. 15 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 2209 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island PRICE: $5
Skinny Velvet
WHAT: Blues/rock/funk/Southern soul out of Charlotte.
WHEN: 10 p.m. Feb. 15 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 1205 Ashley River Road, Charleston PRICE: $5
Eric Jerardi Band
Saturday
WHAT: Blues/rock out of Ohio. WHEN: 10 p.m. Feb. 16 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 2209 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island PRICE: $5
Blues & BBQ Cruise
Eric Culberson
WHAT: This “Blues Harp Blowout” will feature Juke Joint Johnny and Chuck “The Cat” Morris backed by the Shrimp City Slim Band, as well as a buffet from Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 WHERE: Carolina Queen, City Marina Mega Dock, 17 Lockwood Drive, downtown Charleston PRICE: $39.95 MORE INFO: 722-1112 or www. charlestonharbortours.com/special-events-blues-barbeque.cfm
Jon Snodgrass & Cory Branan
WHAT: Rock/indie rock singersongwriters. WHEN: 8 p.m. Feb. 16 WHERE: Tin Roof, 1117 Magnolia Road, Charleston PRICE: $10 advance, $13 day-ofshow MORE INFO: www.charleston.strangertickets.com/ events/6941910/jon-snodgrass-wcory-branan
WHAT: American blues guitarist/ singer-songwriter out of Savannah. WHEN: 10 p.m. Feb. 16 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 1205 Ashley River Road, Charleston PRICE: $5
Sunday Big Bill Morganfield
WHAT: Traditional blues guitarist/ singer-songwriter (son of Muddy Waters). WHEN: 9 p.m. Feb. 17 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 2209 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island PRICE: $12
Kung Fu
WHAT: Jazz/funk/rock fusion out of New Haven, Conn. WHEN: 9 p.m. doors Feb. 17 WHERE: The Charleston Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway,
James Island PRICE: $10 advance, $12 day-of MORE INFO: 571-4343 or www. charlestonpourhouse.com
Monday Joyce Manor
WHAT: Indie rock/pop punk/ thrash out of California. WHEN: Feb. 18 WHERE: Oasis Pub, 778 Folly Road, James Island
Tuesday Luke Cunningham
WHAT: Local rock singer-songwriter. WHEN: 9 p.m.-midnight Feb. 19 WHERE: Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ, 1205 Ashley River Road, Charleston PRICE: No cover.
Wednesday Holly Williams
WHAT: The granddaughter of Hank Williams performs alternative, country and folk rock. WHEN: 8 p.m. Feb. 20 WHERE: Music Farm, 32 Ann St., downtown Charleston PRICE: $8 in advance, $10 the day of show
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EVENTS from Page E18 family. Enjoy the Heritage Museum, flat-bottom boats, butterfly House, Swamparium, Nature Trails and more. Activities include Gullah storytelling, African drum and dance performance, book signing by Lowcountry chef Charlotte Jenkins, an archeological presentation of plantation era artifacts, sweetgrass and pottery demonstrations, and more. WHEN: 1-4 p.m. Feb. 17 WHERE: Cypress Gardens, 3030 Cypress Gardens Road, Moncks Corner PRICE: $10 adult; $5 for ages 6-12; free for ages 5 and under free. Look for special on website MORE INFO: 553-0515 or www. cypressgardens.info
Blueberry Jam
WHAT: Join us at the Pearl as Laura Thurston sings and entertains with her “One Woman” band. Featured will be hand-crafted treasures, fun for kids, oysters and steamed crabs, beer and wine, blueberry treats. Bring a chair, friends and family, but no pets or outside coolers. WHEN: 3 p.m. Feb. 17 WHERE: Blue Pearl Farms, 9760 Randall Road, McClellanville PRICE: Free
Tuesday Poetry Series
WHAT: Concurrent with the “Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan” exhibition, the Halsey Institute is hosting four evenings of poetry readings in the gallery. WHEN: 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 19 WHERE: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, 161 Calhoun St. PRICE: Free MORE INFO: 953-4422 or http://halsey.cofc.edu/events/ tongues-aflame-poetry-series/
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ACE’S ON BRIDGE
By BOBBY WOLFF
This week’s deals all come from past NEC tournaments. In today’s deal four spades looks like a decent spot unless the defenders lead a top club early, as you can play to establish the diamond queen for a club discard. Naturally, at the featured table in a match between Australia and a Chinese squad, the lead was the club king. Both declarers fell from grace. The Australian declarer took the club lead, cashed a top spade, and played a heart. When a diamond came back, he had no chance to make. The Chinese declarer won the opening lead and played a heart at once, which East won to play back a club (a diamond was necessary now). West did his best by winning and switching back to
hearts,butdeclarerruffedandled a club, and the 2-2 trump break meant he was home. The board was played at eight tables in the quarterfinals of the mainevent,butonlyonedeclarer, Leon Jacobs of the Netherlands, made four spades by ducking the opening club lead. This might feel as if it risks undertricks, and indeeditdoesiftheclubssplit4-1; but then you were never making your game whatever you did. The point is that after declarer ducks the club, the defenders can’t continue clubs, or the diamond loser eventually goes away when clubs break 3-2. Even after a heart shift at trick two, followed by a diamond through from East, declarer sets up a diamond discard for the losing club.
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SALLY FORTH By Francesco Marciuliano & Craig Macintosh PEANUTS By Charles Schulz
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BLONDIE By Dean Young
DUSTIN By Steve Kelley & Jeff Parker CURTIS By Ray Billingsley
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WORD GAME YESTERDAY’S WORD: CLARENCE cancel cancer cane caner care careen cereal clan clean cleaner clear 2/14 crane
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MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
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BEETLE BAILEY By Mort, Greg & Brian Walker
MALLARD FILLMORE By Bruce Tinsley
JUDGE PARKER By Woody Wilson & Mike Manley
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE By Lynn Johnston
ROSE IS ROSE By Pat Brady & Don Wimmer
MARY WORTH By Joe Giella & Karen Moy
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE By Stephan Pastis
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DILBERT By Scott Adams
ANDY CAPP By Reg Smythe
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE By Chris Browne GET FUZZY By Darby Conley
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE ZITS By Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nurture partnerships that are under pressure. It’s better to be nice than nasty if you want to get a good response. TAURUS (April 20May 20): Discipline and practical applications will help you solve any problem you face. Showing your concern for others will lead to an interesting alliance.
GRAND AVENUE By Steve Breen
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t meddle or offer help. If you get involved in a sticky situation, you will risk being blamed. Love is in the stars.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will enhance your outlook, ideas and imagination if you visit people or places that are unusual or offer something you’ve never experienced before. VIRGO (Aug. 23Sept. 22): A contract or partnership can alter your financial future. Details will be what separate you from the competition.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23OCT. 22): Engage in pastimes or groups that will introduce you to new and exciting people. It’s time to spice up your life and CANCER (June 21-July 22): put yourself first. Don’t be shy; share SCORPIO (OCT. 23your thoughts and NOV. 21): Home is ideas and you will where you belong. gain momentum and Set aside time to take attract the help you require care of your personal desires to excel. Let your intuition and to explore possibilities guide you. that will shape your future.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22DEC. 21): Read between the lines or you may fall victim to a scam. Keep your conversations to the point and as honest as possible. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22JAN. 19): Ease into whatever you want to pursue. Making assumptions based on too few facts will lead to an emotional mess. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20FEB. 18): Look and you shall find. Don’t mess with what’s working. Focus on what you can do to improve your position and your home base. PISCES (FEB. 19MARCH 20): Take everything you do seriously and show others that you mean business. It’s your attitude that will make the difference at the end of the day.
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Grandma pays to keep kids from smoking
Trivia goes to the dogs, and birds, as SEWE is upon us
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BY REBEKAH BRADFORD Special to The Post and Courier
T
he Southeastern Wildlife Expo returns this weekend, officially kicking off the 2013 events season. Whether you like the flight demonstrations from the folks at the Center for Birds of Prey, the DockDogs competition or the wildlife artwork on display, there’s pretty much something for everyone. Marcy Baker, Head2Head trivia champ, is being challenged by Brenda Franklin.
QUESTIONS
1. How many years has SEWE been in Charleston? 2. The winner of a DockDogs “Big Air” competition is one who’s done what? 3. What is the largest bird of prey in South Carolina? 4. What is South Carolina’s state dog? 5. Name one of the two featured artists at this year’s SEWE. 6. SeaWorld’s Animal Ambassador Julie Scardina will be making her SEWE debut this year to talk about her work with animals, including an 8,000-pound killer whale who goes by what name? 7. Presenters Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived in the Idaho mountains for six years studying what kind of animal? 8. This hunting “aid” has come to be considered a form of North American folk art with antique ones selling for thousands of dollars. What is it? 9. What Charleston-based magazine has the slogan “The Soul of the South”? 10. What is the only native wild cat in South Carolina today?
FILE/STAFF
According to the Center for Birds of Prey, the bald eagle is the largest bird of prey in South Carolina.
MARCY’S ANSWERS
1. I’m afraid I don’t know much about the expo. 2. Jumped the highest off the ground. 3. Osprey 4. A Boykin, I think. 5. I don’t know. 6. Shamu? 7. Mountain lion 8. Duck decoy 9. Garden & Gun 10. Probably the bobcat.
CONCLUSION Once again Head2Head has a new trivia champ with Brenda edging out Marcy by two. Brenda will be back next week. SEWE runs Friday-Sunday with a variety of events held throughout downtown Charleston. Check out the special section insert for full details.
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BRENDA’S ANSWERS
1. I read in the paper 31. 2. Jumps the longest distance. 3. A bald eagle. 4. Some kind of hound. 5. I have no idea. 6. Shamu? That’s the only one I know. 7. Wolves 8. Hunting rifle? 9. Garden & Gun 10. Is it the bobcat?
CORRECT ANSWERS 1. 31 2. Jumped the farthest 3. Bald eagle 4. Boykin spaniel 5. Painter Jay Kemp,
sculptor Pete Zaluzec 6. Shamu 7. Wolf 8. Duck decoy 9. Garden & Gun 10. Bobcat
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