For three nights in March, 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)

ROUND 1 (March 3-4) 20 contestants; 25-minute programs (More)

Michael Jackson's increasingly tragic-looking Neverland Ranch is going up for auction this weekend. Bids start at $24 million, which, in addition to the ranch, will get you: (More)

Kevn Kinney -- no "i" in there -- the frontman for Southern rockers Drivin' n' Cryin', has spent the last 10 years out on his own, and he performs this weekend as part of Stages' new Sunday night singer-songwriters' evening. (More)

At the risk of sounding like some sort of odd Luddite, some of my best friends have blogs. (More)

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I am something of an aficionado of fearsome, whoppingly huge ancient animals, a delightful personality trait I can trace to elementary school, when -- and I apologize for sounding arrogant here -- I was the UNDISPUTED GOD OF KNOWING DINOSAUR STUFF in all of Upland Elementary's fourth grade. (More)

Craig Morgan believes that even those who don't live in the country can relate to his latest Top 10 hit, "International Harvester." (More)

As a longtime critic of the unpleasant levels of violence and misogyny in some hip-hop music, it was probably only a matter of time before Bill Cosby threw his own hat, or sweater, in the ring. Indeed, the Cos is reportedly recording a rap album called "State of Emergency" for a release this year. The Guide offers a few predictions: (More)

Let me be the first to say that the closest I have ever come to owning a Britney Spears CD was taking Mariah Carey's "Daydream" album for a spin circa 1995. I was 13, impressionable and told by my mother that it would be inappropriate to purchase Green Day's "Dookie" instead. So there. Don't judge me. (More)

Music has a power like nothing else to make us recall loves past and present, break-ups, makeups, and first encounters. (More)

Island music fans generally know Angie Aparo for one of two reasons: 1. He's been a regular face on the local scene throughout the past decade or so, or 2. He penned the ballad "Cry," which country singer Faith Hill turned into a monster radio behemoth in 2002. (More)

This week, singer John Mellencamp politely asked Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain to knock off using his song "Our Country" at campaign appearances, which is no surprise: Anyone remotely familiar with Mellencamp's political leanings would know that he's about as likely to endorse a conservative candidate as he would be to record a New Kids on the Block cover. But McCain is hardly the first candidate to run into trouble regarding the selection of campaign songs: (More)

Most people do not care about fonts, which is mind-boggling to me. It's like learning that most people don't like Pop-Tarts, or Bruce Springsteen or, say, shoes. (More)

Just when you had finally managed to erase your bad memories of "Norbit," along comes "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," another uncommonly mean-spirited comedy that trades on every African-American stereotype on record. (More)

The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina is serving up A Taste of Gullah on Saturday with a side of native islander arts, crafts and culture. (More)

Art Garfunkel loves to walk. His own two feet have carried him (albeit in 40 trips) across the entire United States, from his apartment in Manhattan to the mouth of the Columbia River at the lip of the blue Pacific in Washington state. (More)

"Fool's Gold" is "Romancing the Stone" without the romance, or "National Treasure" without the tricky plot twists. This tale about the search for sunken treasure off the coast of Florida is the worst effort in its genre since the 1984 Brooke Shields TV movie "Wet Gold." (More)

The Beaufort Performing Arts Center this week presents DRUM! The show is a Nova Scotia-based musical production that brings four different cultures and, through the common theme of drumming and percussion, reveals their close relationship. (More)

Whatever you do, don't judge "Doubt: A Parable" by its plot synopsis alone. (More)

Clarence Greenwood already had developed his musical alter ego, Citizen Cope, when he went out on tour as a DJ with the Washington D.C. hip-hop artist Basehead in the late '90s. (More)

Though a proud and hardy bunch, we Vrabels are not, nor have ever been, what anyone could remotely call famous. None of us has ever invented anything important (with the exception of my uncle's failed attempt to patent his long-in-production Taffy Pants), no one has ever been the king, emir or despotic ruler of anything (although I must say that I ran the Crown Point Pool concession stand in high school with an iron fist), no one has starred in a movie (although I do have a brief cameo in the miserable 1993 comedy "Rookie of the Year" as Baseball Crowd Member #12,064). No, we are an understated and swarthy people, simple folk with simple means and simple goals, except my cousin Kevin, who wants very much to be a pirate. (More)

CHICAGO -- Mavis Staples was at a session in Los Angeles with the Freedom Singers last year recording her extraordinary new album, "We'll Never Turn Back." The air-conditioned studio seemed far removed from the world Staples and the Freedom Singers -- Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett and Bettie-Mae Fikes -- had known in the early '60s, she says. (More)

Long before the days of Cartoon Network, children bolted out of bed on Saturday mornings to satisfy their cartoon fix. And tucked somewhere between "He-Man" and "Thundercats" and "Muppet Babies" were old-school animated cartoon shorts called "Schoolhouse Rock!" Readers of a certain age might remember the grammar-centric "Conjunction Junction" or "I'm Just a Bill," an infectious ditty about the process of legislation that aired regularly between 1973 and 1986. (More)

Rumors are swirling on the Internet about a reunion of early-'90s boy band New Kids on the Block; a cryptic video on www.nkotb.com certainly hints as much. (More)