“Hey, let’s put on a show! We can put a stage in that old barn out back, and surely it won’t be too hard to rig up a spotlight or two…” This movie motif became a cultural cliché thanks to young film stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. (If you’re too young to remember them or their impact on pop culture, think Brad and Angelina.)
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In recognition of their long-standing support of both the hospital and the arts, the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation has announced that Bill and Martha Harvey will serve as honorary chairmen for its 13th annual Duke Symphony Orchestra concert fundraiser, scheduled for April 9.
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Set in the turbulent, colorful 1970’s, Stephanie Austin Edwards’ debut novel What We Set in Motion finds the daughter of a prominent old South Carolina Lowcountry family fleeing to New York’s Greenwich Village in pursuit of a dance career.
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Bay Street Jewelers celebrates 75 years in the heart of downtown Beaufort. Last Wednesday afternoon, Mark and Terri Stokes finally cut the ribbon they never got to cut 25 years ago when they purchased Fox Jewelers, which was already a staple of downtown Beaufort after 50 years in business.
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Art League Academy students who have won awards during the Spring 2015-Winter2016 sessions will showcase their award-winning artworks alongside their instructors at “The Academy Awards” exhibition opening on April 5, 2016 at Art League Gallery. Winning categories are: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention and People’s Choice awards. The public is invited to the artist’s reception on Thursday, April 7th from 5-7pm.
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Bees, Cold Wax, and Melba Cooper Oil paint and beeswax are a marriage of content and medium in Melba Cooper’s new abstract paintings inspired by the Honeybee.
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By Margaret Evans, Editor In the days immediately following Pat Conroy’s death, I couldn’t write a word. It happened on a Friday night, and by Saturday morning there were already long, comprehensive tributes appearing in publications as nearby as the Beaufort Gazette, as far-flung as the New York Times, and everywhere in between. Lowcountry Weekly was scheduled to go to print the following Monday morning. I’d already written my column – some trifle, or so it now seemed, about the Trump phenomenon – but there was still time to bump it for a Conroy homage. And I couldn’t write a word.
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Bill Mead is the featured artist at Thibault Gallery during the month of March. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Lowcountry and possessed of a sardonic wit, Bill is known for what some have called “Lowcountry Surrealism.” He typically combines landscape with still life to create a strangely realistic illusion.
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Ka-booooom. In this era of political bomb throwing, with negative ads and rancor having sadly demonstrated their grating effectiveness, it is worth considering how we came to so admire the power of a bomb. Or, frequently, clusters of them.
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Beaufort Theatre Company will present the iconic and inspiring musical Godspell, March 12, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm and March 13 and 20 at 3 pm at USCB Center for the Arts.
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