Author: Margaret Evans

The Marsh Hatters of Beaufort, SC, a chapter of the international women’s organization, The Red Hat Society, is hosting a luncheon on Saturday, October 23 at The Holiday Inn and Suites in Beaufort.  A “Glitz and Gritz” Red Hat Cabaret, with Angela Beasley’s world famous “The Puppet People” of Savannah, GA will be the featured entertainment.  This event is open to all Red and Pink Hatters, and all visitors and guests are welcome.  Come meet Lady Formica Dinette, in her Red Hat finery, and meet her friends as they join together to entertain the Marsh Hatters and their guests.

Beaufort Three-Century Project (B3C) and its partners will host two events during a special Sunday afternoon in downtown Beaufort.  The Exhibition Opening of EXPO 2011—The Future Form of Historic Beaufort will be from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at the Verdier House, 801 Bay Street.  The Opening Reception for Lipsitz Department Store:   Treasures in the Attic, Photography by Susan DeLoach and Paul Nurnberg will be from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at Lipsitz Shoes, 828 Bay Street.  Both are free and open to the public.  Downtown parking is also free on Sundays.

  “People just don’t have high expectations from an actor with a band. The goal is to always surprise them.” – Gary Sinise Before Lt. Dan there was Tom Joad, but I’m getting ahead of myself.  I’m standing in line at the discount ticket booth in the middle of the maelstrom that is New York City’s Times Square circa 1990. This is the last stop on a long theater weekend in the Big Apple and once again we’re hoping to score some of the hottest tickets in town, the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s production of “The Grapes of Wrath.” A few nights before we paid a ridiculous amount of money for a spectacularly forgettable evening with “The Phantom of the Opera.” I believe Andrew Lloyd Weber actually negotiated a deal with the city making this a requirement for all out of town visitors back in the day. There was no Sarah Brightman and no Michael Crawford, but each audience member was actually assigned a personal souvenir vender, as I recall.   The next day was no better as once again tickets to the Steinbeck show disappeared faster than free hair mousse at a Flock of Seagulls reunion concert. I was eventually talked into an off-Broadway show billed as “The next Rocky Horror Picture Show!” A couple of those words were right. It was a horror show for sure. Two decades later and I still can’t quite erase the memory or find a meaning. I am only left with the “Why?”  “Off Broadway” was way too close to Broadway for this little bit of theatrical Ebola. Come to think of it, Ohio would have been too close.

Dancing Dogs Yoga  will celebrate National Yoga Month by providing new students one free week of yoga with a Yoga Month Card, available on www.yogamonth.org, and with YogaFest 2010, a weekend of totally free yoga for new and existing students, on September 25th and 26th. YogaFest 2010 will kick off on Saturday, September 25th at 9am with Weekend Zen, a class for all levels of students, followed by Yoga Fusion at 11am, a mix of yoga and pilates.  After lunch, try All Levels Alignment Yoga at 1pm, and Taste the Nectar, an Anusara Yoga Inversions practice from 3-5pm, followed by a wine tasting for all practitioners 21 and over.