Author: Margaret Evans

Anticipating March Madness

By Margaret Evans, Editor I think y’all know me well enough by now to know I won’t be writing about basketball. Actually, if I were smart I wouldn’t write about anything at all for a while. I’m so disoriented and discombobulated that any opinion I express might very well change a few hours from now, and almost certainly will have changed by the time you read this.

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School Daze: The Roundtable Searches for Class Acts

“This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally. The American people didn’t . . . They understood that sometimes, when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar, you’re going to say things, and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up.”  – Corey Lewandowski “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”-   John F. Kennedy

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Deaf Actor Breaks Boundaries

Joseph Ausanio will star in Lean Ensemble Theatre’s ‘Tribes’ When Lean Ensemble Theater director Blake White decided to stage Nina Raine’s critically-acclaimed Tribes, he knew he’d be plunging the two-year-old theater company into new territory. The play, which tells the story of a young deaf man and his struggle to be understood in a hearing world, needed an actor who had experienced those challenges firsthand.

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‘La Boheme’ Soars

Review by Margaret Evans, Editor “Opera isn’t going anywhere… it’s just changing,” Maeve Hoglund tells me as we chat at the bar of the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head. “It’s becoming smaller. More intimate. Getting back to its roots. Like tonight.”

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Music for Organ and Brass

Charles D. Frost, organist, and the Charleston Symphony Brass Quintet will present a recital of music for organ and brass on Sunday, February 12 at 4:00 p.m at Sea Island Presbyterian Church, 81 Lady’s Island Drive, Beaufort, South Carolina.

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Harbormasters Sing to Sweethearts

For more than fifteen years now, the Beaufort Harbormasters have delivered Singing Valentines all around the Beaufort area. They have sung to sweethearts, wives, lovers, hospital patients and nurses, (even doctors), senior centers, office staff, Marine Corps families, restaurant and gallery patrons, firefighters, police officers, private parties, political meetings . . . and all sorts of innocent bystanders. What a way to spread the love.

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An Affair . . . with the Arts!

USCB Center for the Arts invites you to an Affair… with the Arts. The setting for this year’s fundraiser is late 1950’s Mad Men style cocktail lounges created by local designers Lisa Mykleby, Liz O’Herron, and Ann Gallant. The evening would not be complete with out signature cocktails, finger food, and of course, a chocolate fountain. Live Music by the Bull Grapes, dancing and a show are all part of the festivities. Local artists have created masterpieces on dinner plates that you will not believe.

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Beaufort County: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

First Presbyterian Church Hilton Head Island will present the two programs in the “Beaufort County Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” series at 6:30 pm on January 25 and February 1.  The programs are free and open to the public and are preceded by a dinner at 5:30 m. Dinner cost is $10 and reservations are required by 5 pm the Tuesday before.

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New Works by Karol Thompson

Karol Thompson will exhibit new works in graphite and pastels at the Charles Street Gallery in Beaufort from January 27 – February 18.             A sixth generation Floridian now living in the Lowcountry, Karol has a PhD in Arts Education from Penn State and spent much of her career teaching Art and Humanities.

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