Did you watch the all-star tribute to Stevie Wonder television special last week? It was wonderful! I was 12 years old when Stevie’s album, Songs in the Key of Life, was at its peak. Listening to all of the old songs made me a bit homesick for my friends, my youth and the food that I grew up with.
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Mellow Mushroom of Hilton Head Island will host the fourth annual St. Baldrick’s headshaving fundraiser on Saturday, March 14 from 3pm -to 5pm.
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The Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) Foundation recently announced that Dr. and Mrs. John W. Gray III will serve as honorary chairs for the 2015 Duke Symphony Orchestra Concert which will be held on March 28th at the USCB Performing Arts Center.
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The Art League of Hilton Head proudly presents Journeys- People, Places, and Nature, an exhibit featuring the newest works of local artist Mark E. McCoy. The show will run from March 3rd through March 27th at the Art League Gallery located at 14 Shelter Cove Lane.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorLast week, when Pat Conroy stood up to present an award to Andie MacDowell at the 9th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival, he said, “As the first thing you’re seeing after watching a video montage of Andie MacDowell’s career, I have never felt uglier in my life.” The audience howled – it was classic Conroy – but something he said later struck a serious note with me. Speaking of movie stars, he said (and I paraphrase), “The ancient Greeks were not the only ones who needed gods and goddesses. People have always needed them, since the beginning of human history, and we still do.”
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“I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land,” Martin Luther King Jr. declared in his final speech April 3, 1968.
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Valentine’s Day, February 14th in the clutches of winter, still gets lots of attention every year despite its competition with football, basketball and all the storms, as many people love it because of its focus on, well, love.
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The Age of Romanticism – the European artistic and literary movement that arose in the latter half...
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Attention concertgoers! Fripp Friends of Music’s upcoming concert, featuring the sensational concert saxophonist, Ashu, is guaranteed to dispel February’s chill and warm your hearts; even NPR said Ashu had “pizzazz to burn!”
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In the early 1900s, penny valentine postcards made their appearance in the US and a postcard craze gripped the nation for the next 15 years. Many were printed in the US but the more elaborate and desirable cards were colorful and printed in Germany. Thousands of designs were copyrighted each year.
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