The painting on our cover is "Gullah Strut" by Shirley "SA" Hunter, the featured artist in this year's Red Piano Too Summer Show. Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 4th, and look for more information in our next issue!
Photo Contest for 2013 Calendar
Art
Beaufort County Birds and Their Habitats is the theme for Beaufort County’s annual photo contest and photographers have until 5 p.m. September 4 to submit pictures of birds and/or selected habitat locations.
When Arnetta Devlin learned she had breast cancer five years ago, she set her mind to make the most of the experience.
“There’s no point in wallowing in self-pity,” said the 62-year-old Beaufort Middle School math teacher. “It’s counterproductive. You have to take what’s been given to you and go from there.”
James Otto brings his Nashville-to-Memphis, country-soul blend to Water Festival.
James Otto may be 100 percent country, but he’s also got a heart full of soul. On his third album, Shake What God Gave Ya, Nashville’s breakout star puts his God-given lung power to work on a set of songs that make even more determined use of the old-school R&B grit in his powerhouse voice. “I look at my sound as somewhere between Nashville and Memphis,” says Otto, setting the new record’s compass point firmly on the map.
Our own Debbi Covington’s gorgeous new cookbook asks the question “why wait to celebrate?”
(Story by Mark Shaffer, Food Photography by Paul Nurnberg)
Debbi Covington’s Everyday Gourmet column has been reason enough to pick up a copy of this publication for nearly a decade. Trust me, there are file folders and loose-leaf notebooks stuffed with pages of Debbi’s recipes in kitchens all over the Lowcountry and beyond. Anyone who’s ever attended an event she’s catered or even a simple social gathering she’s thrown together knows that Debbi is passionate about her craft and damn good at it.
Author/columnist Ken Burger heads to Beaufort with a new book about the South.
– Review by Margaret Evans, Editor
As a longtime columnist here at Lowcountry Weekly, I am always intrigued by other columnists and how they ply their trade – especially those who are much more successful than I and who, unlike me, have had the gumption to compile their old columns into books to be published. Ken Burger is just such a columnist, and I salute him.