Category Archives: Weather
The end is near
This would seem to be it.
Yesterday’s Piccolo Finale was a sweat-soaked circus of blanketed picnickers who tried bravely to ignore the heat, but they may as well have tried to ignore the pull of gravity. Ninety-six degrees hung over Hampton Park like Hell’s own furnace turned on us, and in the end even the lure [...]
Throwing stones in Glass houses
Ninety-six degrees out there and rising. If we didn’t have calendars, that number alone would tell us the festival is drawing to a close and throwing open the door to the dog days of summer. There’s just about 28 hours left in Spoleto Festival 2007 – which means it’s not over yet for this Spoleto [...]
That was a lotta Latin
It looks like there may be another booming storm cooking up out there, preparing to punctuate the tail end of a fine day. As with last week, Monday and Tuesday have been low on rollouts for the Big Festival, as it recuperates from a second crazy weekend and gathers itself for the last mad rush [...]
A little mud never hurt anyone
“I’m from Asheville, which people say is kind of a hippy, hikey, granola-y, feminist, patchouli-smelling kind of place, where people have drum circles and probably trip on acid, too.” So joked chanteuse Christine Kane at Charleston Ballet Theatre on Sunday by way of introduction. Kane was performing a set of folksy music that was [...]
This Wei and that Wei
Despite gale-force winds, sideways rain, and the very real threat of becoming an impromptu flying projectile, I ventured out to see Shen Wei Dance Arts’ “Connect Transfer” at the Gaillard Saturday night. Outside, there was a chaos of thunder and lightening; inside, Shen Wei and his dancers delivered an work of abstract, sublime beauty that [...]
L’ile de Merlin welcomes a new character: Barry
In a post yesterday evening, New York Times blogger James Oestreich writes about the renovations Spoleto is undertaking of Memminger Auditorium and, once the festival is over, the Dock Street Theatre. He notes that the Dock Street will be out of commission for the next two festivals, and all its programming is to be directed [...]
CBT brings Angel Oak gig home
Second rain casualty: Charleston Ballet Theatre’s two performances with chanteuse Christine Kain that were to have taken place at Angel Oak on John’s Island this afternoon have been rescheduled for tomorrow at 1:30pm and 4pm at the dance company’s studio at 477 King St. Choreographer Jill Bahr says the company will be honoring all [...]
Forecast: damp
Lest anyone down here forget that today marks the first official day of hurricane season, Mother Nature’s provided us a gentle reminder: showers today a beautiful day today, despite predictions to the contrary this morning, and but scattered thunderstorms through Tuesday.
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo [...]