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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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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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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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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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The Endtimes are coming. It's probably time to call Britney.
By JEFF VRABEL • 843-706-8140
‘What do you think about this 2012 madness?” Paul Mitchell asks me via the newsroom’s instant-message system earlier this week. Paul Mitchell is a line of high-end hair care products, but he also is an actual human person who works in the newsroom. At one time Paul, being of a considerably younger vintage, failed to correctly identify Bruce Springsteen on the television. Illogically, we’re friends anyway.
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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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'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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Pete Yorn's appearance at the Shoreline Ballroom canceled
Pete Yorn's scheduled Saturday appearance at the Shoreline Ballroom has been called off, according to the venue and Yorn's national publicist. Both say the date will be rescheduled. For information and refunds, call 843-842-0358 or go to http://shorelineballroom.com.
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Pianist Xiayin Wang: "What one can do with music has no boundaries"
The Chinese-born, America-based pianist Xiayin Wang is receiving rave reviews for her new CD of the work of Alexander Scriabin. She’ll be performing several of his pieces — along with work by Haydn, Debussy, Gershwin, Bach and Chopin — at 8 p.m. today at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Island.
Wang said her early exposure to Scriabin came from a performance by one of the 20th century’s master pianists, Vladimir Horowitz.
“The first piano work I heard of Scriabin was the ‘Vers La Flamme’ performed by Vladimir Horowitz, and right then I fell in love with Scriabin’s music,” she said. “His music is full of colors, fire, mysticism, passion and a tremendous amount of emotions, and to me, those things are what I am looking for in music, in piano playing and performing.”
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