Friday, June 29, 2007

Mika Brzezinski bitch-slaps Paris

Posted by Patrick Sharbaugh on Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 4:09 PM

Sick to death of the way the mainstream media is reporting on Paris as if there were no other earthshaking tragedies occurring in the world? So is MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski, apparently. This is priceless.

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Topics: Celebrities

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Clara’s Coffee to close this weekend

Posted by Patrick Sharbaugh on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 2:27 PM

In another sign of the impending apocalypse, and of the big changes overtaking King Street, we received word this weekend that Clara’s Coffee will close for good this Saturday, June 30, when owner “Papa” Ron plans to shut the doors at 344 King St. for the last time. The neighborhood coffee shop has been a Lower King institution for 14 years — a hangout for countless college kids, favorite locals-only lunch spot, top people-watching spot, and the site of probably untold thousands of fervent, caffeine-fueled, badly supported philosophy debates. An employee tell us that Ron has simply had enough (of the retail business, one assumes, not the philosophy debates), and that the space will become home to yet another King Street antique shop.

Topics: Retail, Recreation

SCETV to rebroadcast firefighter memorial tonight

Posted by Patrick Sharbaugh on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 2:00 PM

If you weren’t one of the 30,000-plus people who trekked out to North Chuck for the stirring memorial service the City of Charleston held for its nine fallen firefighters last week, you can still experience the communal catharsis via television: SCETV’s rebroadcasting the whole thing tonight at 9 p.m. and again Wed. July 4 at 12:30 p.m.

Topics: Events

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Yet more evidence that consultants are unevolved lifeforms

Posted by Patrick Sharbaugh on Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:45 PM

This is priceless. Just received an e-mail press release from a health care consulting group annnouncing an award presented to Roper’s Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital last week. Call me crazy, but something tells me Bon Secours is going keep awfully quiet on this one, at least for the next few weeks. Why? The name of the award. See below:

Studer Group, an outcome-focused health care consultancy, presented a “Fire Starter Award” June 12 to Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital at the annual What’s RIGHT in Health Care conference in Orlando. Many times there are hospitals or health care groups that stand out from their peers and serve as perfect examples of what is right in health care. Studer Group recognizes these organizations as Fire Starters.

A Fire Starter Award?! For a hospital?! Soemthing like this could only emerge from the brains of consultants... Look out next month for their Running With Scissors Award and Unprotected Sex Award…

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

48-Hour Film Project headed for Charleston

Posted by Patrick Sharbaugh on Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 4:08 PM

Back in the summer of 2002, when I was still a freelancer for the City Paper waiting for all the post-9/11  brouhaha to blow over so I could return to New York City (how little I knew), I found myself participating in something called Stopwatch Cinema — a short film contest that pitted local teams of filmmakers against each other in a sprint to cook up an idea for a 6-7-minute short, write it, shoot it, and edit it in just two sleepless days. Incredibly, my team — which included Brad Jayne and local actors Rodney Rogers and Sharon Graci — won the damn thing with a thriller Rogers wrote called Montagu (shot at my then Montagu Street apartment). Once the producers left town, though, they vanished for good, their phone number was disconnected, and our promised prize (a measley plaque and a copy of Final Draft Pro) never arrived. So much for fame and glory. And it was so close we could almost touch it...

Five years later, another company’s giving it a go. The Washington, D.C.-based 48 Hour Film Project, with 100 successful competitions here and abroad under their belt, is adding Charleston to its expansion list. Local filmmaker and ChasDoc Film Festival organizer Justin Nathanson is already on board as local coordinator for the competition, which lands on the peninsula Aug. 17-19. Registration opens Mon. June 25. Don’t worry about selling your body, or parts thereof, for fancy new filmmaking equipment. Shorts are judged by officials based on creativity and storytelling, not production values. If you have a camcorder and iMovie, you’re set.

Topics: Film, Events
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