CALENDAR, Oct 31+: Dracula is hanging around all week, more
On the calendar for Oct. 31, 2016 and beyond: Dracula play continues through Nov 6; Harvest Festival and Party fot the Parks, both on Nov. 5; Holiday of Lights Fun Run on Nov. 9; much more…
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FEEDBACK: Not very good neighbors or agency
P.C. Coker, Charleston: It is things like this [Photo: Good neighbors?] that have completely eroded the quality of life in downtown Charleston and particularly south of Broad and east of Lenwood and the French Quarter. Elected officials don’t care either, yet we elected a new mayor last year to supposedly bring some of this under control. Instead we see city council overriding him at every turn because only one of them lives downtown so the others are only looking at how much money comes in.
REVIEW: The Risen
Reviewed by Jim McQueen | In The Risen, a grisly discovery brings back the events of the long-ago summer of 1969, and calls into question what troubled alcoholic Eugene thinks he knows about what happened between his older brother, now a successful surgeon, and Ligeia, the worldly, free-spirited beauty “from off” who captivated them both when they were teenagers.
FOCUS: Yes, Tom, kids think about sex
By Meg Wallace, special to Charleston Currents | When referring to how students are taught reproductive health education in schools, Tom Ducker, a Charleston County School Board member, recently said to The Post and Courier, “This is not ‘games’. I believe when we do that [teach sex education], in order to gain or keep their interest, you’re also increasing their interest in sex. And I don’t think most middle schoolers are even thinking about sex.”
He was disparaging a piece of an evidence-based sex education curriculum that would teach middle school students about healthy relationships and birth control options, including the use of condoms. To be clear, I do not agree with his intended message, but I do have to agree on one point: the need for medically accurate, evidence-based comprehensive health education in South Carolina schools is not a game.
GOOD NEWS: New mystery has S.C. political connection from 200 years ago
Staff reports | A new mystery novel with political and historical connections to Hamiltonian days gone by will be available Nov. 1 when Charleston author Andra Watkins’ “Hard to Die” hits national bookstores.
Watkins, who is a New York Times bestselling author for a book chronicling her walk of the Natchez Trace, will offer remarks on the new novel at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at the main library on Calhoun Street in Charleston. She’ll make local history come alive by answering questions like: Where did George Washington have a drink? Did Aaron Burr visit a favorite haunt?
REVIEW: Leaving Time
Reviewed by Michel Hammes: If you would like to know more about elephants, but want the information wrapped in a spellbinding mystery with an unexpected plot twist…Leaving Time is a must read.
FOCUS: Daffodils to be planted Nov. 13 to remember holocaust
Staff reports | College of Charleston sophomore honors student Samantha Krantz is hoping to beautify the Charleston Holocaust Memorial in Marion Square by working Nov. 13 with volunteers to plant 1,800 daffodil bulbs as a living memorial.
You can join the effort at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 13 to remember the 1.5 million children who perished in the holocaust. The garden will be planted at the memorial, which was erected in 1999, “to remember those who were murdered in the Holocaust and to honor the survivors who came to South Carolina to rebuild their lives,” according to the college.
Krantz felt empowered to launch a living garden after discovering her family’s history with the holocaust, and traveling to Eastern Europe over the summer with College of Charleston Zucker/Goldberg Professor of Holocaust Studies Theodore Rosengarten, a press release said. Krantz is the recipient of the Klaper Fellowship in Jewish Studies, which charges recipients with bettering the Lowcountry.
GOOD NEWS: Bee Expo set for Oct. 30 at downtown library
Staff reports | Learn about the importance of honey bees in our daily lives, and find out things you can do at home to help out these busy little pollinators at the Main Library’s Bee Expo from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 30. Visit the Main Library Auditorium for the Expo, and then stay for a screening of the Ellen Page-narrated Vanishing of the Bees documentary. Also inside: Andra Watkins’s book launch, absentee voting, David Hay, Jim Elliott and Philip Simmons.
PHOTO: Good neighbors?
It’s a big deal to many when a movie crew comes here to film, as is the case with recent activity downtown with the Marlon Wayans movie, “Naked.” It’s new. It’s different.
But people’s lives have to go on, in spite of everything associated with movie crews, which cause streets to be blocked, traffic to be rerouted and local businesses reliant on tourism to see smaller numbers of people in shops. Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard recently found parking spaces and lots full with film trucks and other vehicle.
CALENDAR, Oct. 17+: Colour of Music and Italian film festivals, more
On the calendar for the week of Oct. 17, 2016 and beyond: The Colour of Music and Nuovo Cinema Italiano festivals are on tap for the coming weekend. Also ahead: “Dracula, King of Vampires” at Charleston Stage, Charleston Museum’s annual picnic and more.
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