Art League of Hilton Head announces Anything Goes!, the 2018 annual member show. The entire gallery will be devoted to the best works from more than 170 exhibiting members. Artworks in all media will be on display and for sale. Truly, Anything Goes!
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By Margaret Evans, EditorBack in May, I put together a “graduation address” of sorts, using random posts from my Facebook timeline, where no opinion is too trivial to go unexpressed. It was so much fun (i.e. so easy), I decided to stitch together a “year in review” using the same method. Behold, a smattering of miscellaneous thoughts that crossed my mind in 2017 – some decidedly less profound than others.
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“We must now reckon with this fact: human history is the bumbling about of self-deluded and incompetent doinks. Surely you are not going to deny that. It is nothing so much as a series of pratfalls by inept leaders and the suckers who follow them toward doom. Their incompetence is a historical force in the lives of each and all of us.”- Crispin Sartwell, “History, Totally Destroyed,” The New York Times, 11/11/17
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Thirty-one year old Katharine Hepburn is determined to be Scarlett O’Hara. It’s her chance to salvage her reputation as “Box Office Poison,” a moniker theater owners have thrust on her after a string of box office flops. Never mind that she won an Academy Award two years earlier. As she waits the studio’s decision on casting Gone With The Wind, she reflects on the inner workings of the Hollywood star system including an experience with John Barrymore that seems ripped right out of today’s headlines.
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My favorite holiday has long been Thanksgiving. I recognize that it may not suggest the same...
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Part Two of the reform to South Carolina’s public-employee pension system is turning out to be a classic case of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs, a phenomenon which favors recipients of government payments at the expense of the average taxpayer. There’s a way we might mitigate some of the harm that’s already been done; but first, let’s review where we are now and how we got there.
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Jazz saxophonist Thom Chambers will headline the second Notes: An Evening of Musical Storytelling & Casual Conversation to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Beaufort County. The first Notes event in 2016 set a very high bar - showcasing Frank Almond and his Lipinski Stradivarius - and the organizers are delighted to follow that success with a musical guest of equal caliber who might just be Beaufort’s best-kept secret.
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The December tenth USCB Chamber Music concert features four works that range from tuneful, evocative, vibrant, and achingly rhapsodic. It begins with a work for friends: Beethoven’sDuo in E-flat Major for Viola and Cello. Beethoven was a passable violist, and he wrote a duet for himself to perform with an amateur-cellist pal.
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It is the time of year to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas, and the Presbyterian Women of First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort want to help you do just that with “A Nativity Celebration.”
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Marshall Chapman grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. As a debutante and the daughter of a textile mill owner she started life “firmly part of proper society” but was determined to make a very different life doing something else - somewhere else.
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