Good Morning Lowcountry

8 things

Thank the stars and the dark side of the moon it is Friday.

GMLc has a big weekend planned.

Now here are eight things (we had 10 in mind, but we ran out of room) you might not know about:

Unsilent night. In what must be the coolest holiday event around, Unsilent Night will come to the streets of Charleston beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday. Unsilent Night is a group performance (or cacophony) of music composed by Phil Kline and scored for as many boom boxes as possible. So show up at City Gallery at Waterfront Park, 34 Prioleau St., with your boom box, and you'll be handed a cassette to stick into it. RSVP to nathan@newmusiccollective.org. The walk will end at Redux Studio, 136 St. Philip St. It's free.

Unsilent Night is sponsored for the second year here by Charleston's New Music Collective (www.newmusiccollective.org). Unsilent Night is happening elsewhere, too. Check it out at www.unsilentnight.com.

Open telescopes. The College of Charleston Observatory will hold an open house tonight, 7:30-9 p.m., at the Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center on Coming Street. Follow the signs to the roof. Comet 17P/Holmes is still visible, said C of C physics and astronomy professor Jim Neff. If by some slim chance it rains, watch for an announcement posted at www.cofc.edu/~neffj/WWW/observatory. In that case, room 125 of the science center will be open for you to meet with College of Charleston astronomers and students. No open-toed shoes, food, drinks or smoking on the observation deck. It's free.

Donate books. Goodwill will help stock the new library at the Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center's West Ashley location. The library will hold books, magazines and word puzzles for more than 2,000 clients. Got any books to donate? Drop them off at any one of the 14 Goodwill locations in the Lowcountry. Find them at www.palmettogoodwill.org/locate.cfm. Find more information about the Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center at www.cdcmhc.org.

Food distribution. Feed the Children, Star Touring and Riding, Crisis Ministries and Lowcountry Food Bank will be giving out food and hygiene items to families in need Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, at the food bank, 1635 Cosgrove Ave. Vouchers for these items have been given to local humanitarian agencies for distribution to low-income families throughout Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties.

White Christmas? Don't count on it, or even a drizzly one. According to the National Weather Service, November was one of the driest months in history at Charleston airport — .03 inch of rain was recorded for the entire month. Normal precipitation for November in Charleston is 2.66 inches. "We need some rain ... and soon," wrote blogger (and meteorologist) Brian Goode. "Once the atmosphere has been dry for so long, it will take a tremendous storm system to really moisten up all columns of the atmosphere to give decent rains."

Holiday giving. The Post and Courier's Good Cheer Fund (go back to Page 1B) raised $336,161 for needy people last year. GMLc hopes you'll consider contributing to it. If you're looking for another charity to give to this Christmas season, SCIway.net has a good list at www.sciway.net/org/community/charleston.html.

Shopping with Friends. Here's another idea. Shopping With Friends, an event ... well, a day, actually ... in which 10 percent of shop sales proceeds go directly to Lowcountry AIDS Services, is Saturday. More than 100 stores are participating. Find a list of them, and details, at www.aids-services.com/shopping.html.

A Lowcountry gift. Got people out of town who have, for example, never heard of pimiento cheese or benne seed cookies? Educate 'em. Send them a gift from the Lowcountry ... rice, pecans, benne seed wafers, stone-ground hominy, a recipe for Frogmore stew ... something to make their lives a little warmer. See www.carolinafoodpros.com or www.boiledpeanuts.com for ideas.

GMLc

Call 937-5564. Write gmlc@postandcourier.com. Find the blog at gmlc.typepad.com.

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