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Author: Margaret Evans

Shimmy, Shake & Jive

Shimmy, Shake & Jive

Posted by | Jul 6, 2011 | | 0

  The Arts Center transforms into “Smokey Joe’s Café” Get ready to rock and dance this summer when the Arts Center presents “Smokey Joe’s Café,” Broadway’s hit party musical featuring the chart-toppin’, doo-woppin’ tunes of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.   At the Arts Center through Aug. 6, tickets are $45 for adults and $31 for kids. Group rates are also available.   One of the most prolific songwriting teams of the ‘50s and ‘60s, the dynamic duo of Leiber and Stoller cranked out one gold record after another, among them “Hound Dog,” “On Broadway,” “Stand by Me,” “Yakety Yak” and “Love Potion No. 9.”

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Learn to play piano… instantly

Learn to play piano… instantly

Posted by | Jul 6, 2011 | | 0

If you yearn to experience the joy of playing piano but don’t want to spend hours engaged in a traditional approach to learning to play, then a short course offered at the Technical College of the Lowcountry in chord piano techniques may be just what you need.   Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People is a proven, fun and relaxed approach to professional-style piano playing that sets the learner on a course to playing favorite tunes after only one session.  The class will be offered from 6 to 9:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13 at the TCL Beaufort Campus.

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New Book Preserves Vanishing Culture

New Book Preserves Vanishing Culture

Posted by | Jul 6, 2011 | | 0

Halftide Publishing, Okatie, South Carolina, announces the publication of a new book, The Gullahs of South Carolina. The book is a work of art as well as a work of history, which tells an urgent and important story about the Gullah people and their vanishing way of life and culture. Many Americans are unaware that here, along the South Carolina coast, was a culture more strongly rooted in African ways than any other in America. It was a time when most sea islanders were black and understood the importance of tucking Spanish moss into a shoe, painting window trim blue, and running like mad from a coachwhip snake. The rivers and ocean was theirs for fishing; the salt marshes theirs for shrimping, crabbing and oystering; and the woods theirs for hunting.

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Sea and Symbols

Sea and Symbols

Posted by | Jul 6, 2011 | | 0

“The clay whispers, and I listen.” – Susan Ellzey   From July 11 through August 20, the Beaufort Art Association will feature “Sea and Symbols,” the raku art of Susan Ellzey. An opening reception in honor of the artist will be held on Friday, July 15, from 5:30 to 7:30 at the BAA Gallery, located at 913 Bay Street. The public is cordially invited.

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[arti]Fact & Fiction

[arti]Fact & Fiction

Posted by | Jul 6, 2011 | | 0

  artifact [ahr-tuh-fakt] something created by humans usually for a practical purpose; fiction [fik-shuhn] An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.   Rusty sheets of metal. Peeling painted boards. Rusted motor parts. Old printer’s blocks. All these things and more have found their way into Caroll Williams’ assemblage art and Donna Varner’s photography.  

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Art + Exploration

Art + Exploration

Posted by | Jul 6, 2011 | | 0

Is it “performance art”… or an art performance?   The Gallery in downtown Beaufort invites you to a weekend event that’s sure to bring out your inner explorer. For three days and three nights, Michigan based artist Jessica Montgomery (left) will live and work on public display. Completely submerged in her work, she’ll create art inspired by her experiences and explorations of the Lowcountry… and you’re invited to watch.

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More for Less

More for Less

Posted by | Jul 6, 2011 | | 0

Like so many families across America, mine has been chafing under the impact of the lingering (and lingering… and lingering…) economic recession. Making do with less has quickly and effectively become a way of life – hey, we had no choice – but the necessary attitude adjustment – always a choice – has been a little slow to catch up.   The good news is this: We’re getting there. And summer’s making it easier. ‘Tis the season for simple pleasures, and I’m beginning to think the simpler they get, the better.

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Reader to Reader

Reader to Reader

Posted by | Jun 21, 2011 | | 0

As editor, I’ve received a lot of comments about Lowcountry Weekly over the years – mostly good, occasionally otherwise. In the “good” category: People tell me they love our design, enjoy our photography, find our ads tasteful and attractive, swear by our maps, can’t live without our “What’s Happening” calendar, and so on and so forth. In the “otherwise” category? Well, let’s just say there are lots of armchair proofreaders out there. If I had the budget, I’d love to hire one of them. But as this is not the case, I must rely on your mercy and forbearance. Typos happen. And believe me – it hurts me more than it hurts you.

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Church Has Left the Building

Church Has Left the Building

Posted by | Jun 21, 2011 | | 0

Members of First Presbyterian in Beaufort packaged 10,000 meals (in two hours!) for school children in developing countries.   First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort packaged more than 10,000 meals on on a recent Sunday afternoon during a two hour event for Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief agency.

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