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News Bites: Get into the Thanksgiving spirit
We're a week into November, so that means it's time to get into the holiday spirit whether you like it or not. Christmas music isn't populating the airwaves quite yet, but Thanksgiving spirit is in the air.
Before you start deep-frying your own bird or whatever, a few local chefs are hosting Thanksgiving cooking classes. Read on for details.
There's plenty going on in the coming weeks, as oyster roast season is just kicking off, as well. As usual, log in and let me know if there's anything else cool going on in the Lowcountry.
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Week 11 Football NOteBook: The Crossroads
After 10 weeks on the regular-season freeway, both Battery Creek and Beaufort high schools have come to the proverbial fork in the road.
For the Dolphins, the hope is to stay in the left lane for tonight's Class 3-A playoff opener at Lake City, zooming ahead from the gust generated by last week's 48-point, season-saving victory against Lake Marion.
As for the Eagles, they've got on their blinker. No way do they want to stay in the same lane that produced their worst defeat in six years -- a 33-3 loss to Summerville in last week's unofficial Region 8-AAAA title game.
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Jon and Kate, you are ruining marriage for me
Yesterday, in a very casual yet purposeful manner, my husband announced — with little consideration for my cats’ feelings — that he wants to get a dog.
A dog.
To most normal, full-blooded suburban wives who drive SUVs, are fully vested in their 401(k)s and think puppies (and, by extension, human children) are adorable and necessary, this might be really satisfying news — which would, no doubt, be followed up with plans to put that dog in a jaunty Santa hat and add him to this year’s beach-scape Christmas card portrait.
But to my ears, his announcement sounded more like, “I want eight kids and a divorce. P.S. I’m friends with Michael Lohan now.”
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Get your shucker out for Capt. Woody's first fall oyster roast
The oyster roast season has arrived. Capt. Woody's of Hilton Head hosts its first of five monthly roasts this Saturday at Palmetto Bay Marina.
If you can't make this one, don't fret. Capt. Woody's holds a roast the first Saturday of each month through March.
Capt. Woody's Hilton Head Oyster Roast
When: 4 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 7)
Where: Palmetto Bay Marina
Cost: Bucket of oysters $9, soups $4, burgers and hot dogs $4, happy hour prices at bar.
Entertainment: White Liquor
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"A Christmas Carol" and "I Love You, Beth Cooper"
IN THEATERS
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No more jet-assisted takeoff for Fat Albert
The Blue Angels, expected to return to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort’s air show in 2011, will lack one part of its repertoire.
The Blue Angels’ C-130T Hercules, known as Fat Albert, will perform its jet-assisted takeoff for the last time at an airshow Nov. 14 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla.
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ACE to host fourth-graders for career fair
The Beaufort-Jasper Academy for Career Excellence will host more than 900 students from local schools at its annual Fourth-Grade Career Carnival this week and next.
The Education and Economic Development Act of 2005 mandates elementary school students be exposed to different career opportunities, said Geri Henderson, a school-to-career director for ACE.
The EEDA law is designed to give South Carolina students the tools they need to build successful careers, including career and technical courses.
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'Spirit' in the night: A ghost story with a twist
By Tim Adam Donnelly • Special to The Guide
Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” was designed to serve as an escape from wartime London in the midst of the tragedy of World War II.
The story — a comic farce with plenty of Coward’s trademark twists — was written in 1941 in the midst of the siege on Britain, but it’s set in the decade before the war. It begins with novelist Charles Condomine (Michael Weaver) inviting the spirit medium Madame Arcati (Sheila Kadra) over for a dinner party to help research his new mystery novel. While there, the medium conducts a séance and inadvertently summons the ghost of Charles’ first wife, Elvira (Christine Grefe), whose embarks on mission of trying to disrupt Charles’ marriage to his second wife, Ruth (Maya White).
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Movie Review: Clooney and company encounter a goat curse
George Clooney’s strong suit as an actor is not necessarily being wacky, but it’s always at least amusing to watch the suave, silky leading man let his freak flag fly.
It flutters and flaps in “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” an odder-than-odd farce about a small-town reporter (Ewan McGregor) who stumbles across the graduates of an Army “psychic-soldier” program, self-described “Jedi Warriors” who are taught to fly, walk through walls and practice “cloud bursting” — concentrating on a cloud until it breaks up, then taking the credit for it. (Goat staring is where these “remote viewing” psychics glare at a hapless farm animal until its heart stops.)
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Dance Theatre's 'Nutcracker' heralds the return of the holiday season
With its unforgettable music, charming story and the iconic imagery, “The Nutcracker” has become synonymous with the holiday season. The Hilton Head Dance Theatre has presented “The Nutcracker” every November since 1985, and this year’s 24th annual production opens this weekend.
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