- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Author Archives: Patrick Sharbaugh
Terrace Theater changes ownership
July 24, 2007 – 12:01 pm
The indie and art house film business in Charleston has rarely been a sure path to riches, but nobody’s been in it longer than Marcie Marzluff, who 10 years ago built The Terrace Theater on James Island after spending time as owners of the Roxy at 245 East Bay St. (where Earthling Day Spa is […]
Summer be damned: Footlight schedules open auditions
July 13, 2007 – 10:15 am
Just because Spoleto’s a month past and summer’s set at full broil doesn’t mean local arts orgs are all in complete hibernation. They take a couple months off following the festival’s three week bender to chill, pat themselves on the back, do a little fundraising and housekeeping, and prepare season announcements and promotional material for […]
Travel + Leisure loves on Charleston
July 11, 2007 – 12:47 pm
If we had an ounce of humility, we’d say this is starting to get embarrassing. Travel + Leisure’s August magazine — its annual World Best Awards readers’ survey ish — hits newsstands next week, and advance word puts Charleston in the number six spot for Best City in America and Canada. Better than Vancouver. Better […]
Celebrity the way it used to be
July 6, 2007 – 12:00 pm
American opera legend Beverly Sills died last week at 78. Readers of a certain age don’t have the slightest clue who she is, of course — they’re fixated on the modern variety of celebrity, the Parises and Anna Nicoles who are famous for nothing more than being attractive, completely talentless, and very, very wealthy. But […]
How to clean up a city park: send in the mimes
July 5, 2007 – 5:15 pm
Are your city’s public parks spilling over with vagrants, junkies, and hookers? Here’s an idea that could only originate on the West Coast: pay people to hang out in them. Call it preventive busking. Last week Seattle began paying street performers to busk in five urban spaces and parks, apparently hoping to liven up the […]
Film Production Fund deadline looms
July 3, 2007 – 12:55 pm
It’s come-to-Jesus time for anyone wanted to get in on the S.C. Film Commission’s second annual Film Production Fund grant awards. The deadline for submission of script and project ideas is August 31. (If you’re planning on participating in August’s 48-Hour Film Project, there’s that much less time to waste.) Local filmmaker Brad Jayne’s […]
Mika Brzezinski bitch-slaps Paris
June 29, 2007 – 4:09 pm
Sick to death of the way the mainstream media is reporting on Paris as if there were no other earthshaking tragedies occurring in the world? So is MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski, apparently. This is priceless.
Clara’s Coffee to close this weekend
June 27, 2007 – 2:27 pm
In another sign of the impending apocalypse, and of the big changes overtaking King Street, we received word this weekend that Clara’s Coffee will close for good this Saturday, June 30, when owner “Papa” Ron plans to shut the doors at 344 King St. for the last time. The neighborhood coffee shop has been a […]
SCETV to rebroadcast firefighter memorial tonight
June 27, 2007 – 2:00 pm
If you weren’t one of the 30,000-plus people who trekked out to North Chuck for the stirring memorial service the City of Charleston held for its nine fallen firefighters last week, you can still experience the communal catharsis via television: SCETV’s rebroadcasting the whole thing tonight at 9 p.m. and again Wed. July 4 at […]
Yet more evidence that consultants are unevolved lifeforms
June 20, 2007 – 12:45 pm
This is priceless. Just received an e-mail press release from a health care consulting group annnouncing an award presented to Roper’s Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital last week. Call me crazy, but something tells me Bon Secours is going keep awfully quiet on this one, at least for the next few weeks. Why? The name […]
