Gloriosa Trio on Fripp
The Fripp Island Friends of Music will host the Gloriosa Trio on Sunday, February 26. Gloriosa, the beautiful flame lily, is an apt name for a trio that never fails to fire up an audience.
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Author: Margaret Evans
‘Sylvia’ at The Shed
Comedy lovers and dog owners take note: This winter Coastal Stage Productions (CSP) unleashes a howlingly funny and touching tale that turns romance, marriage and pet ownership on its’ ear.
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Short Story Festival Returns
The 2017 Short Story America Festival and Conference will be held in Beaufort for the fourth time, during the weekend of February 24th-26th. This three-day literary celebration of the short story will begin with a catered opening reception on Friday, February 24th, from 5 pm to 8 pm at the historic Lewis Reeve Sams House overlooking the water in downtown Beaufort.
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Poets Respond to Race
“In the vast repository of language, the poets never shout at you when you pass them by. Theirs is a seductive, meditative art. They hand you a file to cut your way out from any prison of misrule…. The poets of the world occupy a place of high honor in my city of books.” – Pat Conroy, My Reading Life
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Bren McClain in Beaufort
South Carolina native Bren McClain will be touring extensively with her debut novel, One Good Mama Bone, published by USC Press under its Story River Books imprint. The imprint was founded by Pat Conroy, and McClain’s book was selected for publication by Conroy, himself, before his death last March.
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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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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
