- 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
48-Hour Film Project headed for Charleston
June 19, 2007 – 4:08 pm
Back in the summer of 2002, when I was still a freelancer for the City Paper waiting for all the post-9/11 brouhaha to blow over so I could return to New York City (how little I knew), I found myself participating in something called Stopwatch Cinema — a short film contest that pitted local teams […]
Colbert finally decides to play ball
June 15, 2007 – 12:33 pm
Stephen Colbert fan? Mark your calendar for July 7. That’s when the Colbert Report host and Porter-Gaud grad will be in back on his home turf, tossing out the first pitch (in a manner of speaking) at Joe Riley Park, when the Charleston RiverDogs meet the Savannah Sand Gnats. According to the RiverDogs, Colbert’s gonna […]
A new era for Millennium Music
May 15, 2007 – 4:27 pm
Interesting news from the gang at Millennium Music a few minutes ago. About two years ago, building owners PrimeSouth Real Estate made much of their annnounced plans to dynamite the building at King and Calhoun and put up — surprise! — a new condo development with some ground-floor retail (which didn’t include Millennium). The music […]
House Music
May 11, 2007 – 3:10 pm
With Spoleto prep consuming me lately, it’s been tough getting around to saying anything about last Tuesday’s season-ending concert from Chamber Music Charleston (formerly Charleston House Concerts, late of the Charleston Chamber Music Society), but the black-tie shindig seemed a nice way to send things out, even if my own tux stayed in the closet. […]
Battle royale at the Boston Pops
May 10, 2007 – 3:36 pm
Looks like somebody unwrapped one cough drop too many at the Boston Pops season opener last night. About 20 minutes into a performance of the score to the film Gigi (presumably not the inciting event, but one never knows) a couple of meatheads in a side balcony went all WWF on each other. The cellphone […]
Don’t force it, George
May 10, 2007 – 8:12 am
You knew it was coming: George Lucas has spilled that he will make two more live-action Star Wars installments. But at 60 minutes each, they’re destined for the small screen. Hope he chooses wisely, ’cause Battlestar Galactica will eat Luke and friends for lunch.
Long day’s journey into night
May 8, 2007 – 7:59 am
Dear god say it isn’t so. We’ve got to endure three more years of Lost?
Fundies love on Sharpton (for a night)
May 8, 2007 – 6:53 am
Over at the New York Times blog The Empire Zone, there’s a fascinating play-by-play of last night’s debate at the New York Public Library regarding the existence of God between rapier-tongued author Christopher Hitchens and, of all people, the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The question under debate (“Is God great?”) and the speakers — two men who […]
Go ahead, cyberpunk: make my day
May 6, 2007 – 5:23 pm
It’s not due out until Aug. 7, but I’m already salivating for William Gibson’s latest, Spook Country. His last novel, Pattern Recognition, was one of the high points of 2006 for me.
Spook Country: Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and […]
Bill Hawkins’ ringtone: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
May 4, 2007 – 9:56 am
Slow news day yesterday over at the P&C? It would seem so. Despite last night’s first Republican presidential debate, the S.C. General Assembly being in session, wildfires in Georgia smoking out Charlestonians yesterday, the U.S. House voting to include gays in hate-crime legislation, a major drought in progress, and the ever imminent collapse of Western […]
