Best Day in Charleston 2011

I could tell you about reuniting with “the girls” at Social. I could tell you about sand between my toes and Shem Creek dolphin-watching with my family. Or maybe the fact that Charleston left me a reminder: bronchitis and an ear infection. Fact is the trip was too chock-full of good stuff to tell you [...]

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The Best Concerts I’ve Ever Seen

Because Jake is the BEST BOYFRIEND EVER, he was sneaky and bought me and his mom tickets to see Norah Jones this past weekend at the Dodge Theater. A couple interesting items about this show: 1) Norah’s opener and backup singer, Sasha Dobson, may have outshined the headliner. 2) Norah’s new album, sadly, feels very [...]

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Micah McLaurin Makes Me Cry

I don’t remember when I fell in love with Frederic Chopin. I’m not sure when I first heard Clair De Lune or Debussy’s Beau Soir, but both still give me goose bumps. I know I hated playing piano as a child, so where did the love come from? What formed the fixation? Was it my [...]

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band celebrates 25 years and the Saints

Mardi Gras came early this year, thanks to a Saints’ NFL playoff victory Saturday afternoon. It’s a good thing, too, because it gave the renowned New Orleans Dirty Dozen Brass Band an excuse to invite young women to dance on stage at the Pour House … as long as they were wearing Saints jerseys. Saturday [...]

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The Halsey New Moon: New Museum celestial celebration

The Halsey Institute’s 5th Annual Membership Event felt a lot like Heaven: bright white light, walls covered in what looked like stain glass, and crowded with people who seemed confused, wondering how they had gotten there. On the topic of Heaven, if the Friday image stands true, there will be wide food spreads, free wine, [...]

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Pecha Kucha 4 reminds us why we live in Charleston

Holy City Idol Worship By Sara Dobie, for the Charleston City Paper One of Pecha Kucha’s taglines? “Thinking and drinking.” Standing at the Music Farm in a crowd of beer-holding, Buddy Holly glasses-wearing, demographic-defying participants, I’d have to say that yes, there was much thinking and drinking going on. There was also the embracing of [...]

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Fletcher 3 rocks the Charleston Righchus Renaissance

I felt like the oldest person in the room. I also felt extremely untalented, surrounded by artists of impressive caliber who were barely old enough to buy beer. I’m talking about Friday’s Righchus Renaissance, hosted by Eye Level Art at their Warehouse Gallery on Heriot Street. The Warehouse Gallery is high up on the far [...]

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My Charleston City Paper Debut (in homage to Edgar Allen Poe)

From The Charleston City Paper: Back from the Grave side shows took center stage: Poe would have approved by Sara Dobie The setting was ideal. The weather was threatening. And the performances, high caliber. However, that being said, we think that Edgar Allan Poe would have been most attuned to the female talent and the [...]

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Boone Hall BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival

To think, I was just there to see Ricky Skaggs. But here’s what happened…I fell in love with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Let me back up. I hadn’t heard about the Boone Hall BBQ Championship and Bluegrass Festival. Thankfully, one of my friends HAD, because well, I would have been disappointed to hear about it [...]

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Who’s Bad: So BAD they’re GOOD

Who’s Bad is a Michael Jackson cover band. The first time I saw them, I was wearing stiletto heels, and no one told me the band was playing on a BEACH. Therefore, the stilettos sunk like the dudes in Blazing Saddles, and I rarely moved anything but my hips. (I was also wearing my Pittsburgh [...]

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