Piano Duo Lomazov & Rackers make a much anticipated return to Fripp Island. Fans remember their incredible Fripp performance two seasons ago. Scarcely had the encores and raucous standing ovations faded, when the audience was demanding that Fripp Island Friends of Music book Marina Lomazov & Joseph Rackers again as soon as possible. Well, their many fans are getting their wish!
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”It would be hard – very hard – to find better chamber music playing than at the cellist Edward Arron’s enterprising series.” This high praise appeared in the NEW YORKER, and although the reference was to Mr. Arron’s chamber music series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it could just as easily be said of the USCB Festival Series that Mr. Arron will continue in the Lowcountry on December 9 at the USCB Center for the Arts.
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Friends of Caroline Hospice seeks sponsors for its 25th Annual Festival of Trees. HURRY! Now is the time to sponsor a tree for the Annual Festival of Trees! You, your family, your business — light up this year’s holiday with your signature tree.
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The bestselling writer (and College of Charleston professor) has a new book out and an upcoming appearance at USCB’s Lunch with Authors. Sometimes the aura that surrounds a writer obstructs his image to those who are the nearest. This could be said of Bret Lott, highly acclaimed, nationally awarded Southern author who teaches creative writing at the College of Charleston.
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The Greenery Inc. was recently given the Grand Award in the 2012 Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET).
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Well, I’ve just had an adventure. This past weekend, while the rest of you were speculating on the future of the GOP, shaking your heads over the David Petraeus scandal, watching college football, and doing your best to avoid Christmas music before Thanksgiving, I was being initiated into a somewhat notorious sisterhood. It’s official. You may now call me Dance Mom.
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A playful winter scene is in the works for this year’s Beaufort Homes for the Holidays annual gala, Friday evening, November 16 in St. Peter’s Walsh Palmetto Room. The ball kicks off the weekend home tour at Islands of Beaufort. Wintery white, beguiling and jumping with the jazz and dance sounds of Deas Guys, the gala’s theme is a Snow Ball sure to belie any conventional predilections as event planner Ashley Rhodes and Granville catering of Charleston work their creative winter magic.
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An interview with Actor Michael Weaver, starring in “The Misanthrope” at ARTworks Michael Weaver auditioned for this long respected and influential play from the 1600s because “it’s one of those things you don’t pass up if you’re serious about acting.” Director JW Rone gave Weaver the lead role of Alceste in the November 8-18 production, in the black box theater at ARTworks in Beaufort.
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Leapin’ Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage November 16 -17 at 7 PM and Sunday, November 18 at 3 PM at USCB Center for the Arts in one of the world’s best-loved musicals. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan ANNIE charms everyone’s hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan.
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Madeleine Pollitzer lived life with vitatlity. My daughters, Abbie and Julia, and their cousin, Madeleine, sleep right now after a long day yesterday saying goodbye to their beloved great-grandmother, Madeleine Paula vonBernuth Pollitzer. I’m certain Madeleine is looking at them from Heaven, smiling contagiously as she always did, and saying, “I am so blessed to know my great-grands!”
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