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Chef to helm new Italian-American restaurant on James Island
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Kevin Bruntz is the consulting chef for La Tabella, which opens Monday on James Island. Bruntz, who until recently could be found in the kitchen at Necter, has an integral role in the development and menu planning for the new Italian-American restaurant.
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Catch woodturner Harwood at the farmers market every Saturday
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Last Saturday at the downtown farmers market, you may have noticed a constant crowd around Ashley Harwood as she leaned over her lathe wearing protective headgear and demonstrated wood turning.
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Bullock commands screen in 'The Blind Side'
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Sandra Bullock retrieves much of the career momentum that "The Proposal" gave her and that "All About Steve" threatened to kill with "The Blind Side," a surprisingly smart and moving drama about a Memphis steel magnolia who doesn't truly bloom until she takes in a homeless teen and gives him a life.
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'Planet 51' Animated tale high on special effects, low on laughs
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
How might a kid, OK, a teenager, protect himself from that dreaded fate described in legions of sci-fi movies (including "The Fourth Kind"), the anal probe? If you weren't thinking "champagne cork," you were way off according to the sci-fi kids cartoon "Planet 51." A genial but ge...
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Tokyo Bistro and Sushi Bar
Culinary Caravan of the Far East
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Tokyo Bistro and Sushi Bar had hardly cut its culinary teeth on hamachi kami and tonkatsu when it announced "You asked, we listened" and revealed its new menu. The restaurant is now featuring the foods of Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and China! Granted the foods of China and ...
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JI Pizza
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
One could be seduced by JI's ginormous specialty pies, the pizzeria's 24-inch whoppers being the size of smart cars. And why not? We're only human. But doing so might mean sacrificing our appetite, and JI's Pizza has much to offer, those monster pizza pies notwithstanding.
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HEAD2HEAD Trivia
'New Moon,' new trivia
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Edward fans, the wait is over!
The second installment of the Twilight Saga, "New Moon," hits theaters this week.
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'An Education'
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
HHHH (of 5) Director: Lone Scherfig. Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Alfred Molina. Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexual content, and for smoking. Run Time: 1 hr. 40 min. What did you think?: Fin...
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Everybody could use 'An Education'
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
It's 1961 and London is just a few years from swinging. But that's too long to wait for Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a precocious Twickenham teen in a hurry to soak up life and start doing adult things, preferably in France.
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Gaillard concert a smash
REVIEW
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
The Charleston Concert Association brought Bruckner Orchester Linz to the Gaillard Auditorium for a smashing all-Leonard Bernstein concert Monday night.
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This Week in the Arts
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009
Closing this week "last days of don juan": The College of Charleston's theater department presents "The Last Days of Don Juan," Nick Dear's contemporary adaptation of the classic tale. 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 3 p.m. today. Emmett Robinson Theatre, 54 St. Philip St. ...
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CSO makes it work
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009
The downsized Charleston Symphony Orchestra offered all the "Sonic Splendour" required for Saturday night's so-named Masterworks concert in Gaillard Municipal Auditorium. With an orchestral size of 43, conductor David Stahl drew out the best melodic themes and vivid aural representations ...
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Charleston's own Darius Rucker takes new artist honors at CMA awards
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Country Music Association members may have voted Taylor Swift as entertainer of the year, but Charleston’s own Darius Rucker became the second black performer to win a major individual award when he took the new artist title at the awards ceremony Wednesday night.
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Painting the town — and the walls and the floors and parts of the ceiling — red
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Painting is easy.
You simply gather up all your old paint brushes, roller trays, drop cloths and -- VOILA! -- throw them in the trash and call a professional. Because when it comes to doing it yourself, it always ends the same way: With you getting paint in your hair, on the floor and occasionally, if you're lucky, on the wall, all the while killing your back because you were too cheap to buy that stupid $6 extender thingy for the paint roller that my wife told me I needed.
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Hardy remarkable as real-life British prisoner in 'Bronson'
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
English actor Tom Hardy is rumored to be the new Mad Max in that franchise's reboot. If he does end up in Mel Gibson's boots, judging from Hardy's riveting work in the new film "Bronson," the "mad" part won't be an issue.
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Central BBQ tender to the bone
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Barbecue: Early on in my food career, the great debate was is it a noun or a verb? Is it pork, beef or chicken? And how did you spell it, with a "c" or a "q"?
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Late night alarm clock
Benevento-Russo Duo's uplifting dark jams
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
By 2 a.m. at 2007's Re:Generation festival in Asheville, N.C., we could barely stand.
After a full day of dancing and hiking, I collapsed into my tent, moments from blissful sleep.
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Kulture Klash 5 ups the ante; Wyatt etches a name for herself
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
This season, Kulture Klash 5 turned up the art notch. In response to criticisms that past festivals focused more on the party than the art, organizers threw a free reception in the event space last Friday. Guests had the chance to appreciate and buy works from almost 70 artists before the crowds descended on Saturday.
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HEAD2HEAD TRIVIA
Seriously, what's your issue?
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
The November issue of the Conde Nast Traveler magazine is its annual "Best Of" issue, where readers pick the top cities, airlines, islands, hotels and cruises based on a variety of criteria.
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