The Society of Bluffton Artists (SoBA) welcomes featured artist Kendra Natter — whose photography will exhibit from June 3rd – June 30th at the SoBA gallery. The Gallery Opening Reception is from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, June 9th at the SoBA gallery, located at 6 Church Street in Old Town Bluffton. These events are free and open to the public.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorThe Friday following Good Friday was a very bad Friday for my family. It started off ho-hum enough, then I got a mid-morning phone call from my sister in Charleston, who’d just had a phone call from my sister in Alabama, saying, “Dad’s collapsed. He’s on his way to the hospital! There’s no pulse and he’s not breathing!”
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“Dear Diary: There is an older man who stands at the corner of Stockholm Street and Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn selling churros every day. ‘Two for a dollar,’ he says to those who pass by. He keeps the churros in an empty cooler. It’s the dead of winter, and the winds from the polar vortex are causing branches to tap at my window. Looking out, I see frozen puddles, and litter lining the curb. An empty chip bag would shatter like glass if it was picked up and dropped. I take a sip of coffee. ‘Oh my God,’ I think, ‘the churro man.’” – Cameron Gleason, The New York, 3/18/19
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The second show of the Coastal Stage Productions fifth season, “Bus Stop,” will be onstage May 24 through June 2 at its new performance venue, Coastal Stage at AMVETS, 1831 Ribaut Rd in Port Royal, SC.
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The Holy City’s loss was Beaufort’s gain when Dr. Steve Rosenberg retired from his longtime position as Music Department chair at the College of Charleston and decided to move south. “Living in Charleston, naturally I got to know Beaufort,” he says. “And I always considered it the most amazing and beautiful town in the US. I was ready for a new chapter in my life, so I decided to retire here and contribute to the cultural life.”
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By Margaret Evans, EditorIt’s prom night at Beaufort High, and I’m down in Waterfront Park at the Great Parental Prom Pic Preening. Okay, I just made up that name, but the annual gathering is very real, and it’s something to behold – hundreds of teenagers swanning around the seawall in dazzling finery as their parents snap away and the early evening sun spits fire off the river.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor Dick Andrzejczyk is sweeping the sidewalk outside his shop when I arrive for our interview. It’s a familiar sight to anybody who knows downtown Beaufort. “I like your attire,” he cracks. (I’m wearing jeans.) Very professional. Especially those flip-flops.” (They’re sandals, for the record, and perfectly respectable.) I remain unfazed as we walk into Finders Keepers together. I’ve known Dick a long time, and this ribbing is part of his shtick. The Curmudgeonly Shopkeep. Beneath that crusty exterior beats a warm and good-humored heart, but you didn’t hear it from me.
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USCB Center for the Arts and The Beaufort Children’s Theatre will present the beloved family musical, “The Wizard of OZ, young performers edition” May 17 and 18 at 7 pm and Sunday, May 19 at 3 pm. This one-hour edition begins when a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Scarlett Mercier) and her dog, Toto, (Maren Tillapaugh) are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz.
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The Beaufort Academy Blue Notes, directed by Victor Varner, will present their Spring Show at 7 pm Thursday, May 2 at Tidal Creek Fellowship, 290 Brickyard Point Road South.
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The city of Beaufort’s Cultural District Advisory Board has scheduled a sit-in. The event, Friday, May 10 at 6 pm in the University of South Carolina Center for the Arts Center on Carteret Street will be the launch date for the CDAB’s newest project designed to draw attention to the area’s multitude of cultural opportunities and the one-year-old free public shuttle.
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