Rhyme, for a reason
Converse College music professor Scott Robbins was one composition into his latest CD project when he decided the world didn’t really need any more polite Emily Dickinson songs written for…
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Young at their art
Taylor Moore already had a career. He was living in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, working as a journalist during the day, playing music at night. On his…
With grace and poise
“Giselle” is a poignant tale of love and loss. And never more so than for Carolina Ballet Theatre prima ballerina Anita Pacylowski-Justo. The Carolina Ballet’s April 9 production of “Giselle,”…
What’s old, it’s new
When it comes to Shakespeare, Will Ragland isn’t afraid to try something different. Take, for instance, his Wildcat Players’ production of “Macbeth” a couple of years ago. It was set…
Mike Gallagher, on stage
National syndicated conservative radio talk show host Mike Gallagher says being a conservative and having an appreciation for the arts is not mutually exclusive. He should know. Gallagher, a familiar…
Dream on, and on, and on
It will be “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” like Greenville – or anywhere else – has never seen before. In the early planning stages for the Warehouse Theatre’s production of the…
Electrifying: Frankenstein revisited
The Golden Age of horror would have been so different without Kenneth Strickfaden. It was Strickfaden’s weird electrical devices – machines that sparked and screeched with each pull of the…
“Life is short, Art endures.”
After a perfect storm of rising costs associated with the opening of the Chapman Center and flat revenues due to the recession, the Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg is back…
Art’s all in their family
Bending over backwards is something Rosa Eugene has had to work on all her life. As a girl, she had a habit of telling people the truth point-blank, never stopping…
Oh so sweet
When Kristin Kuhlke Cobb was looking for a place to open her fourth bakery in South Carolina, a business consultant suggested she visit Greenville. Cobb saw lots of people walking.…
Centre Stage
About three weeks into her new job as executive and artistic director at Centre Stage, Glenda ManWaring started receiving phone calls from creditors. Then auditors told her they were considering…
Have music, will travel
Spartanburg’s musical heritage did not start or stop with the Marshall Tucker Band. While the band is arguably the headliner of the influential musical acts to come from Spartanburg, it…
Portraits, moving
Dexter Goodwin remembers the sound of waves lapping up on a Long Island Sound beach that put him to sleep every night as a kid. He remembers the rocks, driftwood…