URBAN CAMPING IN AN URBAN OASIS
I came up with a term for it: urban camping.
It's when we'd pack up the...
LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM
On my desk is a copy of "Long Road to Freedom" edited by Mark Thompson. The book features The Advocate's history of the...
IT'S TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE
Last month I wrote about Tom Barry, a local with cancer with whom we rode to fulfill his dream to take part in a group motorcycle ride...
TAPPING A NEW BATCH OF BIERSCH
The first tapping party at Myrtle Beach's Gordon Biersch Restaurant Brewery involved a ritual that could have made chief brewer...
WAY COOL JUNIOR
There's always a new kid in town. The Eagles made millions of dollars by reminding the world of that fact....
News of the WEIRD
China continues to prepare for the Olympics: Officials have issued a standard chanting routine that all Chinese spectators should employ...
Dropping poetic pointers like a lyrical concierge
Edwin McCain
"Nobody's Fault But Mine"
Saguaro Road Records
Pudgy white boy soul
Puts stamp on old school covers
It is Edwin's fault
Echo Jet
"Echo Jet"
The Machine Records
Echoes Brit Pop
But comes straight outta Cali
Nice slice, ear candy
-Kent Kimes, Editor
Why is it when most women replace the toilet tissue, the roll is upside down?
- Jack "Stack" Stackhouse, Longs
We knew some of our rock 'n' roll heroes were getting long in the tooth, but classic rockers Foreigner's tour, which stops over at the House of Blues in North Myrtle Beach on July 31, is being sponsored by AARP - that's the group formerly known as the American Association for Retired Persons. Rock out with your dentures out!
-Kent Kimes, Editor
Okay, so this isn't New York or L.A., or even Miami or Chicago.
But there's still plenty going on along the Grand Strand that doesn't involve Calabash seafood and country line dancing. So we don't want to hear "I'm so bored - there's nothing to do around here!"
Here's something cool to do: the works of S.C. artist Mike Williams is on display through July 19 at the Cheryl Newby Gallery in Pawleys Island.
The exhibit features 15 of Williams' paintings, with a focus on nature, derived from the artist's love of the outdoors. He combines elements of abstract art with realism.
Williams, who grew up hunting and fishing in Sumter, was recently featured in Garden & Gun Magazine in an article by Daniel Wallace, who wrote the novel "Big Fish," which was made into a flippin' awesome movie.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
The Cheryl Newby Gallery is located at the Shops at Oak Lea, 11096 Ocean Highway (U.S. 17), Suite 4, Pawleys Island.
For more information, call 979-0149 or visit www.cherylnewbygallery.com.
-Kent Kimes, Editor
Trash or Smash
Back in 1995, waify, folky pop singer Jill Sobule had a surprise pop hit with the Sapphic ode "I Kissed a Girl," just as the whole girls-kissing-girls-just-for-fun phenomenon was on the upswing.
Fast forward to 2008, and once again, "I Kissed a Girl," is on the pop charts - only this time, it's not the same song, and it's sung by a tongue-in-cheek smarty Katy Perry. But, obviously, it's the same subject matter, and practically the same chorus, albeit a different melody.
So, it begs the question: Which song entitled "I Kissed a Girl'' is better?
We'll let you decide which one's trash, and which one's a smash.
Capsule reviews of films opening this week
"HANCOCK"
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Weekly Surge beats the street each week to gauge the pulse of our community. This week we asked:
How do you plan to celebrate the 4th of July?
Jessica Sluys, 19,Myrtle Beach
"I just plan to spend time with my family and friends at my house having a bbq and setting off fireworks."
Chad Coats, 20, Myrtle Beach
"For some of the 4th I'll be working but I have plans to spend time with my girl that night."
Amanda Smith, 20,Myrtle Beach
"I'm going to be working on the 4th but after that I'm going to watch some fireworks in my neighborhood and hang out with the family."
Weekly Surge staff
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Models: Meryl Coffey and Kevin Koessler.
Photo by Scott Smallin for Weekly Surge
This week's contributors
Writers: Derrick Bracey, Colin Burch, Christian S. Gore, Paul Grimshaw, Rebecca Homitz, Ashley Morris, Ashleigh Nelson, Chris Raposa Michael Wood, Roger Yale & Logan K. Young.
Photographers: Scott Smallin, Mathias Hungler & Paul Grimshaw