Amiri Geuka Farris is the winner of the Art League of Hilton Head’s 2012 RBC Heritage Poster Competition. The poster, celebrating the island’s 44-year old PGA golf tournament, depicts a young version of the event’s mascot gentleman golfer Sir William “Willie” Innes. Dressed in vintage Scottish plaid, Innes stands mid-swing at the 18th fairway overlooking the Hilton Head Lighthouse.
I am the parent of a 15-year-old student whose principal was recently let go because he changed the grades of quite a few students to make them eligible for college.
The Backyard Tourist suffers acute relapse, reprints old Spring Fever piece
Past is prologue
It’s true. The body of this piece originally appeared in this publication a few years back, shortly after my wife and I washed up on these shores. We were fresh – and by that I mean frigidly preserved – from a stint in Seattle. Shortly after we thawed out, purchased shorts and flip flops and we were no longer stupefied by the strange bright ball in the sky, we gazed around from our barstools and thought, What the hell were we doing in Seattle all that time? Quick, somebody play “Changes in Latitudes,” and bring us more refreshing beverages and locally sourced crustaceans!
The Beaufort Theatre Company to perform Tennessee Williams’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’
Big Daddy Pollitt and his dysfunctional family return to the stage in all their terrible glory as the Beaufort Theatre Company presents the Tennessee Williams classic “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” at the USCB Center for the Arts.
Duke Symphony Orchestra to Perform with BHS Voices
Written by Margaret Evans
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:10
The Duke Symphony Orchestra is making its annual road trip to the Lowcountry this spring to perform a benefit concert for Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Keyserling Cancer Center.
The Outsider goes on a photography excursion with Eric Horan
“I think when you talk about nature and wildlife photography, just by the title of it, you’re in two schools: the school of the natural world and the school of the box.” This is coming from Eric Horan, well-known local wildlife photographer. We’re driving to a boat landing that’s just before the Harbor Island Bridge, just after golden hour.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew “Bring a Parent to School Day” was coming up. There had been a flyer in Amelia’s backpack, or one of those dreadful robo-calls, or maybe both? Whatever the source, I had long ago relegated the information to some obscure part of my mental hard drive, one of those “folders” where you file things you don’t feel right about trashing… but have no real intention of revisiting.
“I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s in suburban Indiana, and directly up the street from my house was St. Charles Catholic Church,” says Gail Westerfield, director of “Catholic School Girls,” which opens at ARTworks March 22.