From staff reports The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center has added two new student interns from Pat Conroy’s alma mater, Beaufort High School, Alisha Arora and Millie Bennett. The Conroy Center’s internship program was created by Holland Perryman, now Beaufort High student body president and also the first student intern of the statewide Friends of… Keep Reading
From staff reports Shorts at High Noon, the collaboration between the Beaufort Film Society and the Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL), runs through November 17. Screenings are from noon to 1 p.m. every Wednesday at TCL’s Beaufort campus and are free and open to the public. Check-in is at 11:30 a.m. Masks are required.… Keep Reading
By Mike McCombs “It’s gonna be awesome.” Beaufort Mayor Stephen Murray found it difficult to hide his enthusiasm when talking about the 27th annual Beaufort Shrimp Festival, scheduled for this weekend at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Last year’s event was one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s been a long year… Keep Reading
Big Al and the Heavyweights from Baton Rouge, La., perform Saturday, Sept. 18 during the last in the Fall series of Street Music concerts in the Port Royal Skate Park. Photos by Bob Sofaly. Keep Reading
By Becky Sprecher The Met Hi-Def Broadcast Series opens its 2021-22 season on Saturday, Oct. 9 with Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. It is the only opera Mussorgsky ever completed and one of the most famous in the Russian repertory. Based on the play by Alexander Pushkin, it begins in 1598 after the death of Ivan… Keep Reading
From staff reports Charleston-born and Greenville-based recording artist Edwin McCain will perform a benefit concert on John Paul II Catholic School’s campus Saturday, Nov. 6 during his 2021 tour. McCain found top-40 success on the Billboard charts in the late 1990s with I’ll Be (No. 5, 1998) and I Could Not Ask For More (No.… Keep Reading