By Sandi Kendrick
Last year’s inaugural Fabulous 50s Festival was so much fun, organizers are doing it all over again. The Horry County Arts and Cultural Council will hold its second annual Fabulous 50s Festival March 19-27, with events taking place throughout the Grand Strand.
This festival began as an effort to raise funds for the Horry [...]
Conspiracy theories can be very seductive.
Given a few strange clues and some seemingly random bits of information, it is easy to raise the suspicion of something sinister going on just beyond eyesight of normal men and women.
Star Chamber, Free Masons, Rosicrucians, Skull and Bones, the Catholic Church, CIA, Military-Industrial Complex, SMERSH, Environmentalists, and Communists; [...]
By Nancy Gray
The World Soccer Tour, one of the nation’s largest three people versus three people (3v3) soccer tours, announces its inaugural 2010 3v3 World Cup Championships to be held in Myrtle Beach Aug. 6-8. This national championship for players of all ages and abilities is expected to attract between 1,000 and 2,000 athletes and [...]
By TBone Terry
The biggest buzz around Myrtle Beach comes from Historic Downtown Broadway Street. The merchants of Broadway have come together under the leadership of attorney Angie Knight and others and formed the Historic Broadway Merchant’s Association. From its grass roots, an idea for a street festival was born and Karen Houck, the proprietor of [...]
By Dariel Bendin
I won’t say that music in Myrtle Beach died along with Jeff Roberts. But it took a hit and the whole community is feeling the pain.
Co-founder and director for Myrtle Beach’s nonprofit South By Southeast, Jeff has been working his butt off for years - keeping music in our schools, supporting our local [...]
Randal Wallace is a native of Myrtle Beach.
Wallace earned an Associate Degree from Spartanburg Methodist College in history and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Lander University in history and political science and took a degree in Mass Communications before returning to Myrtle Beach. He is currently employed with Waccamaw Land and Timber.
Having served on [...]
John T. Rhodes is a native of Raleigh, N.C. but has been in Myrtle Beach since his years at Coastal Carolina Universitywhere he studied Business Administration. His business background is in hotels and restaurants. He owned The Gullyfield, Arnie’s Steakhouse, Rhodes Smorgasbord and was part owner of Original Crab House, Grouper’s and Jackaroo Steakhouse and [...]
Let me tell you about South By Southeast, and why I think it’s so critical to the Carolinas, especially to its native Myrtle Beach.
The group was formed in 2003 by a bunch of music lovers who believed there was more to music than the Top 40. According to their mission statement, their goal is “to [...]
By Dirk Vanderwilt
Channel Lake, Inc. has contracted Charlie and Liz Mitchell to write a new independent travel guidebook about Myrtle Beach for spring publication in their 2010 Tourist Town Guides travel guidebook series. The New York publisher produces independent travel guides to America’s most popular regional tourist destinations. The Mitchells’ book will be available from [...]
Two Horry County committees will study the question of allowing the City of Myrtle Beach to assist in enforcing nuisance ordinances in unincorporated close to, and in some cases surrounded by city boundaries.
The Public Safety Committee will get first crack at the issue at its regular meeting next week and, after it decided on action, [...]
The city of Myrtle Beach is going to take back the beach with a brand new oceanfront boardwalk and promenade. The groundbreaking – complete with plastic beach shovels and sandfilled beach pails – took place earlier this month and the project should be complete by next summer.
The $6.4 million project stretches over a mile between [...]
By Tiffany Andrews
South Carolina’s Largest Garage Sale will be held on Saturday, September 12 from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. at a new location – the Myrtle Beach Convention Center 2101 N. Oak Street (corner of 21st Avenue North and Oak Street). Admission is free with only $2 parking.
On Wednesday, August 12 at 8 a.m. [...]
Corruption / Horry County Council / Myrtle Beach International Airport / misuse of public funds / scams / suspicious goings-on
August 4, 2009 0A recent meeting of the Horry County Airport Advisory Board heard that Myrtle Beach International Airport had lost over $1 million in revenue since airport fees were dropped late last year.
This revelation by airport finance director Pat Apone emphasized the paradox in which the airport constantly finds itself. The airport can either raise fees to [...]
One new lawsuit and one old one raise questions about how Myrtle Beach Police Department officers are managed by their superiors.
Brenda Christy, a 22-year veteran of the Myrtle Beach Police Department, filed a federal discrimination lawsuit in federal district court on May 31, 2009 against the department.
According to the complaint filed with the court, Christy [...]
Entertainment / Music / Nightlife/Entertainment / house of blues / myrtle beach / north myrtle beach
July 4, 2009 0By Brian M. Howle
There are some great things about being young (or not so young) and having some form of musical eccentricities enter your life, so much so that it becomes not just a genre or music, but a way of life.
And those who know moe., know what I mean.
For those you don’t, well, now’s [...]
Coast Cover Feature / Entertainment / Featured Story / Happenings / Music / Social Events / myrtle beach
June 5, 2009 0The Sun Fun Festival, brought to you by the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, has been kicking off summer along the Grand Strand since 1951 when a regional beauty pageant attracted some 8,000 vacationers.
In contrast, the 2009 Sun Fun Festival is expected to attract almost 40,000 and will include not only the 2010 Miss [...]
Alternatives Cover Feature / Briefs / Business / Freestyle Music Park / Hard Rock Park / Special Announcements
April 9, 2009 0With its second season as Myrtle Beach’s musical amusement park, the Park formerly known as Hard Rock Park was renamed Freestyle Music Park. The name and logo were announced Thursday.
By Cheryl Hardin
Burroughs & Chapin Company, Inc. has introduced the new Pine Lakes Country Club after a 20-month, $15 million project restored the golf course and clubhouse to its former status and early 20th century grandeur as a premier golf resort. Pine Lakes officially opened to the public on March 14.
The Pine Lakes renovation began [...]
Business / Community News / Hard Rock Park / Letters to the Editor / marketing / myrtle beach
April 2, 2009 0The new owners of the Hard Rock Theme Park have many challenges before them as they work to bring the park to life for a second season.
One of those challenges is overcoming the failures of the previous owners, who drove the amusement park into bankruptcy. One of the most often sited failures was in [...]
It could have been an episode of House. The patient comes in sick`, malnourished and abused. They might make it, but then the machines start to beep and alarms go off. The patient is dying and nobody can understand why. Doctors try to rush needed medicines into the system, but time is running out. Finally, [...]
By Nancy Gray
We love when all y’all come to visit, and this year is no different. Myrtle Beach area is rolling out the red carpet for its visitors to the North during the destination’s annual Canadian-American Days. This year, from March 14-22, the Myrtle Beach area will welcome Canadian and American visitors with a line-up [...]
This ole country boy from Abbott, Tex. has more talent in his little pinkie than most of us can even dream about. So, even though he was too busy to talk to me and even though his peeps wouldn’t authorize any great performance shots to share with you, and even though the current bio they [...]
By Chris Cavender
A military salute, awarding a $5,000 scholarship and seeing the best shaggers ever …. vie for national acclaim will occur on Saturday, March 12th through 14th. Studebakers will be the site of the 26th Annual National Shag Dance Championships for three nights. Thursday, March 12th will be “Preservation Night” with all contestants dancing [...]
If you only remember four words of this column, they should be Don’t Miss Randall Bramblett!
South By Southeast, the innovative nonprofit supporter of independent music is beginning their 2009 season with a bang. The group, in conjunction with New South Brewery, is bringing back the high octane Randall Bramblett Band for their third appearance at [...]
Marathon weekend is once again upon us. Organizers of this year’s Myrtle Beach Marathon are expecting about 10,000 participants in the various events of the marathon weekend. Not to worry, though; traffic should only be affected from 4 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14 during the main Marathon and from 7:30 a.m. [...]
