This year, in place of the biennial Wine Auction and Celebration, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina is hosting one of the biggest names in the recording industry to help raise funds for its education and outreach programs. (More)

For the very first time in its 23-year history, the Hilton Head Dance Theatre is bringing one of the most joyous classical ballets to life. (More)

The Institute of Palm Key is hosting Blues on the Marsh, its first blues festival, Saturday and Sunday at the Palm Key Nature Getaway, 330 Coosaw Way in Ridgeland. (More)

Since 2004, www.postsecret.com has served as the Web's premier repository of secrets, anonymous confessions sent in by readers that have become something of a nationwide trend. Having never met an idea we couldn't steal, here are a few confessions of our own. (More)

This year, in place of the biennial Wine Auction and Celebration, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina is hosting one of the biggest names in the recording industry to help raise funds for its education and outreach programs. (More)

For three nights this week, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Mary Woodmansee Green, will once again provide an evening of light classical and pops programming performed outdoors at Shelter Cove. (More)

It's a debate that's been plaguing nerds since a long, long time ago, and it's also an idea that someone came up with in here during a recent coffee break: Which item would you prefer to have access to on a daily basis, the Batmobile or a lightsaber? Our humble arguments, which we spent more time than you think coming up with, follow. (More)

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As if you don't have enough to worry about these days, a distant, unstable star named Wolf-Rayet is readying to unleash a beam of high-energy gamma rays -- yes, like the Death Star -- directly at us. But don't worry, Earthlings -- all is not lost. Some good things about potentially being on the business end of a cataclysmic supernova: (More)

Hard work and a fortuitous choice of licensing companies have started to pay off for rockers Luna Halo. (More)

It's not often that rock musicians have the forethought to offer a reporter freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and Perrier on ice for an interview. (More)

In celebration of National Youth Art Month, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina is hosting a children's version of the classic American variety show -- with a little something extra. (More)

The Island Recreation Association will present the 13th (More)

Five-time Grammy winner Dionne Warwick is coming to town March 29 for a special gala concert event to benefit Arts Center outreach programs like this weekend's Youth ArtsFest. (More)

There are a lot of things you give up when you have children, such as going to see movies within eight months of their release dates, much of your contact with adult humans after 9 p.m. and the ability to decide what song will be playing in your car for something like 20 consecutive years. (You also forfeit the ability to ever say, "No, I don't know what the Backyardigans are," and not be lying to protect your image and, of course, claim to not have to clean pee out of things much.) (More)

While the Beaufort Film Festival remains the heart of the Beaufort Kaleidoscope festival, which takes place this weekend in Beaufort, the four-day event is more than a celluloid parade. (More)

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is an area well known for its lively Celtic culture, which has produced an unusual percentage of world-renowned fiddlers. (More)

Although he's not yet 30 years old, jazz vibraphonist Christian Tamburr, who performs this weekend on Hilton Head Island, has already amasseda number of career highlights. (More)

A little bit of Nashville will come to the Lowcountry when singer-songwriter Branan Logan performs an intimate acoustic show Sunday night at Stages. (More)

Ten minutes before Kid Rock is due to call, an old joke comes to mind: How do you know Kid Rock isn't really hip-hop? His shows start on time. (More)

It'd be easy to come into this space and tell you about how Jeff Tweedy broke my heart, because his band Wilco has a very good song called "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." It'd be easy, because it's true. (More)

This past week, police were called to a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Natick, Mass., after receiving 911 calls about two women fighting during a 9-year-old's birthday party. What could have happened to set them off? (More)

MOMIX, the acclaimed dance/illusionist troupe known for its theatrics and daredevil choreography, will take the stage of the Elizabeth Wallace Theatre on Wednesday for a one-night-only performance at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. (More)

Jazz singer. It's a description charged with history and preconceptions:smoky clubs, torch songs, a rasp in the voice that signals a life spent on the road in every kind of room before every kind of crowd. There are some performers who sound like that, and some who don't. (More)

It is generally accepted that teenagers are terrible, terrible people, at least among the groups who decide such things, which are, in order, The Media, conservative commentators and organizations with the words "Parent" and "Concern" in their titles. If you had recently arrived here from another planet, like Ralph Nader, and turned on the TV, you could very quickly start believing that all teens do is spend most of their days punching each other, listening to terrible music, manufacturing babies like reproductive tommy guns and finding new and exotic ways to alter their mindstates, most of which, since I am over 30, I have never heard of. (More)