Fall Lifelong Learning Begins! The fall semester of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Coastal Carolina University starts Wednesday, Sept. 12. The course catalog is available at the three outreach centers in Conway, Myrtle Beach and Litchfield, as well as at area libraries. More than 350 courses and workshops are offered for seasoned adults [...]
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Fall Lifelong Learning Free Week! The fall course catalog for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Coastal Carolina University is available at the three outreach centers in Conway (2431 U.S. 501 E.), Myrtle Beach (900 79th Ave. N.) and Litchfield (160 Willbrook Blvd.), as well as at area libraries. More than 350 courses and [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Retro Blues: They’re What’s New Sometimes, to be on the leading edge of the blues, you gotta look back. Case in point: this year’s Cape Fear Blues Festival. The headliner for the annual event is EllerSoul recording artist Li’l Ronnie & the Grand Dukes. This group mixes up elements of 50s R&B, soul, [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking about their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III The Red Horse Inn: Landrum, S.C. A Luxurious Vacation Getaway! Located in the sweeping mountains of South Carolina just outside Landrum, there is a beautiful place of perfection created by Mary and Roger Wolters, the owners. Known as The Red Horse Inn, it is an escape of pastoral vistas and an [...]
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By Paul Gable Gary Watson After graduating from high school in Buffalo, NY, Gary Watson joined the U.S. Navy where he was trained in the Advanced Electronics Program. After completing nearly two years of schooling, Watson was stationed at Naval Security Group Activity Edzell, Scotland where he maintained and repaired a variety of cryptographic equipment. [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Jumpin’ On the Mary4Music Bandwagon Mary4Music.com gets over 32,000 unique visitors a month, and I don’t mean hits. (That number is in the hundreds of thousands.) I’m talking about individuals who come back to the site over and over again. I’m not particularly surprised, because I’m one of them. It’s a great [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III 200 Year Anniversary Of The Bavarian Beer Gardens – Part I Once Upon A Time ……. and then there was beer! Now I am not talking about the American brands of our famous beers, but the beer under the purity laws of Germany. There is nothing more enjoyable and there are [...]
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By Paul Gable Vaught Looking to Help Disabled Veterans Local veteran James Vaught (Lt. Gen. USA – retired) has a vision for using some of the land on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base to help disabled veterans. Certified 100 percent disabled himself, due to injuries and PTSD resulting from the Vietnam War, Vaught [...]
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By Brian M. Howle From the Saturday, June 9 show at House Of Blues Myrtle Beach: HOB Review In 3 – Gretchen Wilson: 1) Les Pauls, Les Pauls, Les Pauls and life is all Jacked up; 2) One of the smokin’est young bands backing any artist BY FAR, those boys rock; and, 3) Yes, she’s [...]
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By Brian M. Howle Well, kids, here’s the dealio … all the bad motor scooters have come and gone in massive numbers, everyone had a great time and made it thru another Spring Bike Rally and Memorial Bike Rally … so now what are we to do, hmmmmm? Hey, here’s an idea – let House [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Road Trip: Pop Ferguson Blues Fest in Lenoir, N.C. Clyde “Pop” Ferguson is a legend. Never mind that you may not know his name. He’s a legend anyway. At 84 years old, he’s still playing the blues, and let me make it as clear as possible. He’s the real deal. He’s not [...]
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Take a Local Author to the Beach What a difference a year makes! Last June, Bob O’Brien started Prose Press to publish his first novel “The Toppled Pawn” and a joint effort with Ted Gagliano (“Circle of Twelve”). This May at the South Carolina Book Festival in Columbia, Prose Press set up a booth to [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III Grenada, the Spice Island The Paradise of the West Indies It is a sparkling diamond surrounded by emerald, aqua marine, blue sapphire and flickering stars creating a jewel of the West Indies. I am talking about the Island of Grenada. After my recent visit I have I decided no more Nassau, [...]
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By Dariel Bendin The debut album of Royal Southern Brotherhood, which hit the street on May 8, is one of the most exciting releases of the year, and that’s only slightly due to the hype that preceded it. The lion’s share of the credit flat out goes to the band, Royal Southern Brotherhood: Cyril Neville, [...]
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By Brian M. Howle As life continues its daily, relentless grind on us all, wearing us down, beating us into submission – it is only natural for almost everyone to just accept this as a given; to take in stride the changes that affect us in all the negative manners we are told is our [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Multi-talented S.C. musician Rick Strickland is a one-man band. To say he’s a prolific songwriter just hints at his lyrical stamina. His soulful stylings are out of this world and and – with a four-octave range – his vocals reach even further. Add to that technical savvy, masterful guitar work and a [...]
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FOWL Request for Art Donations The Friends of the Waccamaw Library (FOWL) will be holding a live and online art auction Saturday, June 23, at the home of Caroline and Rich Drummond in Prince George ~ River to raise matching funds for The Library Center – Waccamaw (TLC), a new facility to be constructed on [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III Manchester New Hampshire A Living Historical Treasure in America! It’s a marshmallow world, accented with gourmet cupcakes and topped off with a delicious glass of fine wine. That is just the beginning of Manchester, N.H. Who would have thought this old historical cotton mill town would become a livable, lovable and [...]
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By Paul Gable Don Wolford Don Wolford enlisted in the Air Force after graduating from high school in his native Roanoke, Va. “I was 18 years old and I wanted to get some training,” said Wolford. “It was 1958 and I didn’t have the money for college. I thought I could gain some skills and [...]
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By Dariel Bendin This is going to be a lot of fun, so I thought I’d share it with you. Sunset River Marketplace, the very cool gallery in Calabash, N.C. where I hang out so much, is bringing in Bo Schronce to speak at their next Creative Exchange event on Monday, April 23 from 11 [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Nashville singer/songwriter David Fair is coming to Myrtle Beach this weekend for two shows. Tonight, Friday night, he’s opening for Phil Vassar at Club Boca at Broadway At the Beach (in fact, he’s probably on stage now!); on Saturday, he’ll be at 2001 Nightclub in their intimate Stage room. David plays a [...]
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FOWL Request for Art Donations The Friends of the Waccamaw Library (FOWL) will be holding a live and online art auction Saturday, June 9, at the home of Caroline and Rich Drummond in Prince George River to raise matching funds for The Library Center – Waccamaw (TLC), a new facility to be constructed on Willbrook [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Charlie Snuggs On Guitar If you’ve been in the Carolinas for any length of time, most likely you know Charlie Snuggs. You may not remember which band you know him from, but you definitely know him. “I’ve played in so many bands, even I can’t remember them all,” laughs the versatile guitarist [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III Sofitel Luxury Hotel in Miami, Fla. Life Is Magnifique! Ever wanted to find a hotel that is perfectly located to great shopping, the airport, the port for cruising and the beaches without having to stay right on the beach? How about an easy drive to one of America’s most famous communities [...]
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By Paul Gable Walt Meierdierks A native of Brooklyn, NY, Walt Meierdierks enlisted in the U.S. Navy after graduating from high school in 1949. “I was only 17 and I wanted to go into the Navy,” said Meierdierks. “My parents had to sign for me to join.” Meierdierks was inducted on June 2, 1949 and [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Harold’s On the Ocean, known to locals as HOTO’s, opens their always popular deck for their Summer Concert Series on April 1 (no joke, folks). Entertainment on the oceanfront deck will be the Craig Woolard Band from 1 to 5 p.m. Additional entertainment for the month of April includes: Stevie Mac, 4 [...]
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Soulful Troubadour Randall Bramblett Back at Myrtle Beach Train Depot for South By Southeast Music Feast By Dariel Bendin It’s become a wonderful tradition for South By Southeast concert goers in Myrtle Beach. Right about this time of year, the Randall Bramblett Band – and we’re talking the full band here – head to the [...]
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Songs of the Unpainted South Join music, poetry and photography enthusiasts at Coastal Carolina University’s Waccamaw Higher Education Center (160 Willbrook Blvd., Litchfield) for a free OLLI-sponsored performance, Sunday, March 11, 4 to 5:30 p.m. The Songs of the Unpainted South is a collaboration between Mindy Burgin (vocals, guitar, cello), Rutledge Leland (vocals, mandolin, guitar, [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III Remembering the Original Socastee Singers! Those Were the Real Days in Education! It happened many years ago! It was the “Glee” of its time! There were hundreds of young people involved and they successfully introduced the name of Socastee to the world. It started with a small group of girls and [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its 14th season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III Sand-Free On the Beach? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! Hello Beach goers! It is all about comfort. Have you heard about the powder that will keep your hands free from sand while on the beach? There is a company out there that has a special formula and it works. However, yesterday [...]
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By Paul Gable Guy Moulton Guy Moulton enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in early 1942. “The draft was getting increased and I wanted to be in the Air Corps, so I enlisted rather than waiting to be drafted,” said Moulton. After completing basic training, he was sent to school near St. Louis, Mo. [...]
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By Brian M. Howle Michael “Buffalo” Smith: A South Carolina Writer’s Take On Southern Rock And More We southerners are a unique breed, in all humbleness and honesty. And the way we are perceived is often multi-layered and complex, for a geographically and stereotypically pigeonholed group of folks. Sometimes it’s disarmingly charming, sometimes it’s laden with [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Blues hounds, get ready to howl. It’s almost time for the 2012 Lowcountry Blues Bash, now in its twenty-second year. This ten-day celebration of America’s oldest music form is being held in and around Charleston, S.C. from Wednesday, Feb. 8 through Tuesday, Feb. 21. According organizer Gary Erwin aka Shrimp City Slim, [...]
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The Moveable Feast This popular series is presenting its fourteenth season of exciting authors talking their new books at Waccamaw Neck restaurants, followed by lunch and a book signing. Held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., paid reservations are requested by the Wednesday prior to the feast. Each feast is $25. The 2012 [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III The Year of the Viking! River Cruise Through The Heart Of Europe Talk about cruising, well with the sinking of the ship in Italy, that should change a few minds. Titanic could have been repeated, but the ship was near the coast and sank in “so-called” shallow waters. Now that is [...]
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By Paul Gable Andrew Hornbuckle This issue’s veteran profile highlights a person who is involved in providing help to American veterans and also is a veteran of the New York City Fire Department who was on the scene at Ground Zero on 9/11. Andrew Hornbuckle is the son of both a military veteran and a [...]
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By Dariel Bendin More Live Music In 2012! I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions. I never do. But I just heard one that I can support wholeheartedly. More live music in 2012! So, for this piece, I’ll be focusing on my own local stomping grounds, from the port city of Wilmington in North Carolina [...]
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Strand Cinema Located in Georgetown, the region’s only art film theatre opened the first weekend in December with a slam-dunk subtitled French film, four inspiring documentaries of the American spirit during World War II, and a vintage holiday charmer. If you missed them, no worries – the selection committee has chosen outstanding films for the [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III 2012 and a New Beginning Where Do We Go From Here? “And with a wink of his eye, it is over!” For some reason it was slow getting to Christmas the year because I decorated in October, then BOOM, Christmas is over! So, I started taking down the decorations and I [...]
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By Paul Gable Herb Bellamy Born and raised in Longs, Herb Bellamy was a member of the last class to graduate from Chestnut High School in 1970, one year before integration came to Horry County schools. “I was hoping through my high school years that I would be able to go to an integrated school [...]
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By Brian M. Howle It really is hard to believe that yet another Christmas has snuck right up and foisted itself upon an unprepared and skittish world. As I write this, it is the literal beginning of the 12 Days of Christmas, as we get that honest assessment deal going on just in time for [...]
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Stocking Stuffers Music Picks to Keep You Groovin’ Through 2012 By Dariel Bendin This is the time of year when I sit back with a nog while all y’all tell me what’s cool, hip and happenin’ in the world of music. Enjoy! Mike Farris mikefarrismusic.com Intense, talented and on fire, this Nashville boy is one [...]
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The Moveable Feast for Winter 2012 The perfect stocking stuffer or girlfriend gift: A gift certificate for one or more feasts in this popular series of literary luncheons! Each features an exciting author at different Waccamaw Neck restaurants and is held every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paid reservations are requested by the [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III It Happens At Christmas! Munch or Giver? Once upon a time there was the village of Snow Flurry where hundreds of happy people worked and played. One day a scrawny wretched little man named Munch arrived to change their love to hate and their smiles to frown. It was a day [...]
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By Paul Gable Pearl Harbor As a Navy veteran, Dec. 7 has special meaning to me. Seventy years ago, without first declaring war, the Japanese Imperial fleet attacked the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor causing considerable damage to the Navy’s Pacific Fleet and bringing America into World War II. A total of 2,402 American [...]
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GRAMMY Winner Yonrico Scott Heads to Myrtle Beach for SxSE Show By Dariel Bendin On Jan. 31, 2010 drummer Yonrico Scott was onstage at the L.A. Convention Center for the pre-telecast award ceremony of the GRAMMYS accepting the award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for the Derek Trucks Band. On Dec. 3, he and his [...]
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Strand Cinema Opens with a Veterans Tribute The new Strand Cinema opens Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m., with a delightful French romantic comedy, “Potiche” (English subtitles) starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu, following a reception. Then two shows on Saturday, Dec. 3, will feature documentary films of World War II battles: Heidi Mehltretter and [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III Santa Is Real! The Sleigh Is Ready To Fly! Is Your Package On Board? What does Christmas mean to you? Does it bring happiness into your life? How can you not have great memories when you see all the sparkling lights and hear the wonderful songs of the holiday? To me [...]
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By Paul Gable Jim Murph Born and raised in downtown Loris, Jim Murph decided to join the military before graduating from high school. “I believed the service would help me mature by learning to be out on my own,” Murph said. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1962, immediately after graduation. Sent to [...]
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Memphis Bound By Dariel Bendin Randy McQuay, Lawyers Guns & Money Win Cape Fear Blues Challenge I was fortunate enough to be one of the judges for the Cape Fear Blues Challenge this year. It was a lot of fun and I got to hear some great music. If you ever get a chance to [...]
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Les Films Having recently returned from a memorable two weeks following writers, artists and musicians around Paris via David McCullough’s “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris” and John Baxter’s “The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: Pedestrians in Paris,” I’m sufficiently Francophiled to reap great satisfaction in the debut film choices for the area’s first [...]
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By Glenn Arnette, III 2011 Mepkin Abbey Crèche Festival The World of the Nativity It is considered to be one of the highlights of the Christmas Season in the Southeast. It brings thousands of people together to view a special exhibit of Nativity Sets from around the world featuring local collectors and artists. The 2011 [...]
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By Paul Gable Richard Cote Richard Cote entered the U.S. Navy after graduating from high school in Glens Falls, N.Y. He spent four years on active duty as a parachute rigger, including an assignment with the helicopter unit assigned to the Iranian hostage rescue attempt in April 1980. “I enjoyed my time in the Navy,” [...]
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By Dariel Bendin Sweet Goodbyes to Molly & a Warm Welcome for Allie Until Oct. 27, Allie Privette was a dental assistant in Raleigh, N.C. Now she’s the girl in the band. Twenty-seven-year-old Allie has the challenging job of filling the shoes and monumental vocal vacancy left when singer Molly Askins decided it was time [...]
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OLLI Conway Book Club Three for the price of one: Free! Join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Conway Book Club at the Foundation Center (2431 U.S. 501 East near Coastal Carolina University’s campus) for a special meeting on Monday, Nov. 14 at 1 p.m. Authors Robert O’Brien (“The Toppled Pawn”), Ted Gagliano (“Circle of Twelve”) [...]
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