The popular open-air series “Lunch and Learn” has returned to the Port Royal Farmers Market! The series of talks kicked off with a presentation by J. Weidner called “How To Prune About Anything.” The season continues this Saturday and continues through mid-September. This FREE series is presented by the Lowcountry Master Gardeners Association. Classes begin at 11:30 each Saturday. Just bring a folding chair!
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Our own Debbi Covington’s gorgeous new cookbook asks the question “why wait to celebrate?” (Story by Mark Shaffer, Food Photography by Paul Nurnberg) Debbi Covington’s Everyday Gourmet column has been reason enough to pick up a copy of this publication for nearly a decade. Trust me, there are file folders and loose-leaf notebooks stuffed with pages of Debbi’s recipes in kitchens all over the Lowcountry and beyond. Anyone who’s ever attended an event she’s catered or even a simple social gathering she’s thrown together knows that Debbi is passionate about her craft and damn good at it.
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Author/columnist Ken Burger heads to Beaufort with a new book about the South. – Review by Margaret Evans, Editor As a longtime columnist here at Lowcountry Weekly, I am always intrigued by other columnists and how they ply their trade – especially those who are much more successful than I and who, unlike me, have had the gumption to compile their old columns into books to be published. Ken Burger is just such a columnist, and I salute him.
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You regular readers know that many of my big ideas – and the occasional little epiphany – come to me while I’m exercising. The fact that I’ve been a complete slug this summer explains a lot about the recent caliber of this column… But I did happen to be at the Y on the morning the Supreme Court announced its ruling on the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare” if you prefer).
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A great old Twilight Zone episode played on MeTV one night recently. It got me thinking about time and space, so the series’ creator Rod Serling (1924-1975) would have been happy. The story, “The Thirty-Fathom Grave,” starred Simon Oakland (remember him as Lieutenant Schrank in the movie version of “West Side Story”?), Mike Kellin (“American Buffalo”), and Bill Bixby (“The Incredible Hulk”). The year is 1963. A U.S. Navy destroyer is on a routine patrol in the South Pacific when its sonar detects the sound of metallic clanging under water. It sounds like a hammer banging against the hull of a ship.
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The image on our cover is “Looking Back, Rising Forward” by Amiri Gueka Farris. Amiri will be...
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The local television station will offer The Beaufort News, The Bluffton News and The Hilton Head News daily On December 18, 2005 Beaufort lost its only newscast when WJWJ-TV pulled the plug on its evening news report. A few years later in 2008, the Beaufort Gazette moved from its building on Salem Road to Bluffton, a move the publication still maintains was not a “merger” of the Gazette and The Island Packet. But we in Beaufort quickly realized the shift in priority. The dynamics between municipalities north and south of the Broad became more divided than ever after the move, to no one’s fault or benefit.
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Shout! The Mod Musical, the Arts Center’s big summer shindig, will have audiences shimmying and shaking to the chart-topping tunes that made England swing in the sixties. The show, now on stage of the Elizabeth Wallace Theatre through July 31, recreates the fancy free era of thigh-skimming skirts and white vinyl boots.
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On a gorgeous afternoon earlier this month, Lowcountry Weekly joined other media folks, along with a host of university employees, for a delightful cruise around the Calibogue Sound, courtesy of USCB and Vagabond Cruise.
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Penn Center is one of the oldest and most historically significant African American cultural and educational institutions in the United States. Founded in 1862 as one of the first schools established in the South to educate newly freed African slaves, today, Penn Center remains a major educational, historical and cultural resource and service center for Sea Islanders and offers a wide range of programs and activities to tens of thousands of visitors annually. The recent passing of the legislation of the Gullah/Geechee Act has focused on Penn Center as one of the interpretive sites along the national Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
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