Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette Blogs

USCB's visiting artist reception at 5:30 p.m.

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Opening reception is tonight (Feb. 8, 2013) from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at USCB Sea Island Center, 1106 Carteret Street in Beaufort

Animal farm

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Currently Listing: Tom Hanks crashed a Beaufort wedding, Sweet tea could kill you and the Grammy's dress code

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Bon Appetit's Sam Dean has a piece on the origin of oysters, gumbo and okra.

Sara Jenkins of New York City's Porcena has four tips for fool-proof pasta. 

The 10 chefs worth following on Instagram. Among them is Charleston's Craig Deihl. 

Currently ... Downloading: SpellTower, the next ridiculously addictive mobile game

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Try as I might to be on the cutting edge of all things pop culture and technology, sometimes I’m a little late to the party.

And in the case of developer Zach Gage’s insanely addictive word game, SpellTower, my tardiness might have something to with my apathy toward mobile games.

I didn’t play any of the seemingly hundreds of iterations of Angry Birds. Or Temple Run. Or Fruit Ninja. Or Plants vs. Zombies.

Currently Listing: Ray Rice falls off a float, the Lee Bros. new cookbook and another season of 'Buckwild'

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An Amazon engineer says the NFL could have easily avoided the blackout during Sunday's Super Bowl. 

Not a single city in South Carolina made a list of the country's most literate cities

Lessons learned from living in South Carolina (that don't involve sweet tea)

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I never envisioned myself living in the South.

And I certainly didn't imagine myself liking it this much.

Having spent most of my childhood in the tundra-like landscape of western New York and my adolescence and college years in Indiana, I had grown accustomed to a certain kind of lifestyle. One that didn't include sweet tea, a grammatically problematic conjunction that combined "you" and "all," and temperatures that make a sauna feel drafty.

Here we go again: Another frozen yogurt shop set to open on Hilton Head

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UPDATE: Yo Addiction is set to open March 24.

Ok, this is getting crazy. Just found out that what could be the sixth self-serve frozen yogurt shop is coming to the area. Yo Addiction is going in near Fresh Market on Hilton Head in the old Cold Stone Creamery spot.

No word yet on when it is opening, so follow them here on Facebook.

Currently Listing: A gross (but kind of awesome) 'Walking Dead' promo, Sean Brock on 'Top Chef' tonight and personalized Pez

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A pretty awesome/gross promo for The Walking Dead

A Charleston startup hits its Kickstarter goal in just four days.

Are personalized Pez dispensers on the way? 

Friday night kite

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School board to interview more superintendent candidates Wednesday

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The Beaufort County Board of Education will interview seven semi-finalists for superintendent this week, beginning Monday and continuing tomorrow.

The board also interviewed candidates today and will meet later this evening in County Council Chambers to consider a proposal from board chairman Bill Evans to create committees to gain feedback from teachers and staff, and advise the board on curriculum, finance and human resources issues.