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News Bites: Potential celebrity sightings
Keep your eyes peeled this weekend for culinary stars. The Lowcountry Celebration in Palmetto Bluff brings some top talent not only from the Lowcountry but nationwide, as well. Food Network host Tyler Florence is attending, along with Top Chef contestant Kevin Gillespie. Check out a full list of the attendees here.
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"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and "Bruno"
IN THEATERS
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If coupons could take out restraining orders, I'd be in trouble
Like most adult children of discount shoppers, I’ve had to cope with the lingering psychological wounds of a childhood spent mostly at grocery store customer service counters, where no line was ever too long to keep my mother from getting a five-cent refund because of a mismarked box of corn flakes.
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Board of Education committee to discuss TIFs
A Beaufort County Board of Education committee on tax increment financing will meet at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at the school district office in Beaufort to hear a report from the Beaufort city manager
Click here for a copy of the agenda.
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New Beaufort company bows with 'Arsenic and Old Lace'
It’s been more than eight years since Beaufort has had its own community theatre, but this weekend, the Beaufort Theatre Company at the University of South Carolina Performing Arts Center is bringing the idea back with its inaugural production, the comedy classic “Arsenic and Old Lace.”
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"New Moon": Love bites
Today sees the release of “The Twilight Saga — New Moon,” the vampire-love-triangle movie that is the reason you’re not going to find a real good spot at the movie theater tonight. The movie is the second installment of the crazy popular series, which involves vampires, werewolves, a pretty incredible amount of moping, and hair that stands directly up all times. But that’s not all you’ll find, for there are also these...
Surprises in the new ‘Twilight’ movie
• Contains 30 percent more smoldering.
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Edwin McCain brings a 'special, intimate' show to Bluffton
Edwin McCain is coming home — sort of.
McCain is based in Greenville these days, but said that he considers Hilton Head Island and the Lowcountry the place where he finally made it as a musician.
“Basically, I got my start in Hilton Head,” McCain said.
An Intimate Acoustic Evening with Edwin McCain
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Blind Pig Saloon, 39 Persimmon St., Bluffton
Tickets: $25
Information: 843-706-0744, www.blindpigsc.com
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Movie Review: "New Moon" feels like it's killing time
‘This is the last time you’ll ever see me,” Edward Cullen says to Bella Swan.
As if.
Spoken early in “New Moon,” that promise is one of the least likely to be kept in movie history. With most of that film still to unfold, and two more adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series in the works — the next due out as soon as next summer — the world is going to see as much of Kristen Stewart’s melancholy Bella and Robert Pattinson’s undead Edward as it can take. Maybe more.
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‘The Twilight Saga — New Moon’
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What's Going On Around Here: Thanksgiving dinner, 'Angry Woman' at BHS and praise bands in Wexford
Hudson’s Thanksgiving dinner begins at 11 a.m.
The 11th annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held at Hudson’s seafood restaurant at 11 a.m. Thursday on Hilton Head Island. The free dinner will have turkey, dressing and all the trimmings. Transportation can be arranged. This event is organized by St. Andrew By-the-Sea United Methodist Church and Hudson’s, and all donations on the day of the event will benefit The Deep Well Project.
Details: 843-694-1093
Praise Band festival comes to Wexford
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Anonymity is a problem with new media, and solutions remain hidden, too
When someone has a bone to pick with me or the newspapers I work for, you almost always can gauge the severity and civility of the criticism by its method of arrival.
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