Don't You Just Hate It?What is it, lately, with the word “hate”?Suddenly, this deadly serious and seldom-used term – one that was tantamount to a cuss word, and every bit as forbidden, when...Read More >>
Lifestyle
Life Behind BarsMARK SHAFFER's abbreviated guide to the watering holes of downtown Beaufort“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as...Read More >>
Lifestyle
Firefly:Distilling the Southern SpiritHow a start-up lowcountry distiller changed the law, beat the odds and became a national phenomenon... By Mark ShafferIt seems fitting and a bit ironic that something called Firefly...Read More >>
Culture
Dream Come TrueCorporate executive ditches his suit and moves to Italy to become a writer? For Mark Gordon Smith, it’s not just a fairy tale…Corporate businessman-turned-travel writer, Mark Gordon Smith, will...Read More >>
Culture
Lunch with Geraldine BrooksPulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks is traveling coast to coast and north to south on her book tour in January, but the only place she’s coming in South Carolina or...Read More >>
Culture
Roll Back the Rugs!During the Harlem Renaissance, when the going got tough, the tough threw a rent party... Save Saturday, January 31, 2009 for a Harlem Renaissance gala unlike any before....Read More >>
Arts
ARTworks AFTERschool... & BeyondThe community arts center offers creative classes for all ages.The new year offers new classes for kids and for adults at ARTworks, a community arts center where quality arts...Read More >>
The Photography Club of Beaufort To Host a Cool & Refreshing ExhibitSplish, Splash! “The Water Around Us” is the focus for the Photography Club of Beaufort's 2008 annual exhibit. At the beginning of every year the club chooses an assigned subject for members to photograph...Read More >>
At Christmastime we often think of the many traditions we have that originated in Germany. Look into the snowglobe of the tiny German village.The streets are decked with Christmas greens and ribbons. There is the toymaker’s and clockmaker’s shop. The windows are aglow and if...Read More >>
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and...Read More >>
Over one hundred volunteers are involved in the 2008 Valentine Ball. The committee heads are hard at work making plans for the 2008 Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation Valentine Ball, which will take place on February 7, 2009. This year’s Ball Co-chairs are Dr. and Mrs....Read More >>
As part of its Presents Series, the Hilton Head Choral Society is bringing the British group, The Swingle Singers, to the Lowcountry for a concert Jan. 30.These eight exceptionally talented vocalists boast an expansive discography of 50 albums and CDs featuring complicated, technically impressive a...Read More >>
