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‘Frozen in Time’ set for Cypress Gardens

Cypress Gardens Winter Fossil Show will offer everyone from paleontology enthusiasts to the general public a rare and unique look into the Lowcountry’s exciting and lively prehistoric past.
The “Frozen in Time” Winter Fossil Show will take place Saturday, Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tech to hold Valentine’s concert

Start your Valentine’s Day celebration early at Trident Technical College on Friday, Feb. 10, as Charleston’s Premier Big Band, featuring Nancy Clayton, plays the standards of the Swing era.
The music of George Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and others will fill the College Center in the Complex for Economic Development (Building 920) on Main Campus, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston from 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Goose Creek artists to be featured in North Charleston

North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department recently announced that works by members of the Goose Creek Artists Guild will be on exhibit at the North Charleston City Gallery from Feb. 1-29. 

A free reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday, Feb. 2, from 5-7 p.m. Many of the exhibiting artists will be present and refreshments will be served. 

CSO Gospel Choir presents Pure Gospel: Authentic Reflections II Saturday February 11, 2012

Calvary Baptist Church presents the celebrated CSO Gospel Choir in a performance event entitled Pure Gospel, Authentic Reflections II, Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 5pm at Calvary Baptist Church, 620 Rutledge Avenue, downtown Charleston. Under the direction of Sandra S. Barnhardt, the Choir will honor four influential artists that defined the gospel canon. 

The introduction of the African-American spiritual blended the secular form of the blues to merge into a unique fusion of music we now know as Gospel Music. Pure Gospel: Authentic Reflections II will chronicle four major contributors and pioneers of the African-American Gospel Music style—renowned artists and composers Reverend James Cleveland, Andraé Crouch, Edwin Hawkins and Walter Hawkins will be honored during the performance. 

A low sodium – yet delicious – recipe

The holidays are officially over, the wrapping paper, boxes and bows well on the way to the recyclers to begin life again in another incarnation. The New Year’s Eve party flotsam and jetsam cleared away to make room for a clean new start in January complete with a shiny list of New Year’s Resolutions.  I make them every year.
This year, after much thought and soul searching I decided to tackle the hardest New Year’s Resolution of them all: I’m going to reduce the sodium in my diet.

‘Celebrate the Season’ a success

Moncks Corner Town Council Member David Kizer provided a recap of Santee Cooper’s inaugural Celebrate the Season festival of lights, and called the 30-day guided tour a rousing success.
Kizer told the Dec. 20 meeting of town council that, as of that date, over 6,000 cars had passed through the display of more than 53 light displays running the 1.5 mile-course from Santee Cooper headquarters through Old Santee Canal Park.

Dance classes offered in Hanahan

Wildfire Dance classes, with three styles of dance in every class, are being held in Hanahan for children ages Pre-K through fourth grade. Classes will include Hip Hop, POM and Jazz.
For more information visit www.wildfiredance.com, or call (440) 789-9541.

Angel Food Cake – with a coconut twist

As a child, I always dreamed of a White Christmas, but Christmas in Mississippi meant snow was hit or miss, mostly miss. Although we lacked real snow outside, Christmas meant my mother would make a towering, icy- white coconut cake that looked amazingly like a giant snowball sitting on the sideboard in the dining room.
The confection never appeared before Christmas Eve, but by early afternoon on that special day, we could count on seeing that lofty white beauty sitting atop a crystal cake stand, begging little (and big) fingers to swipe a bit of icing.