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MAY 2019
issue 5 : vol. 15
WELCOME TO
NORTH
CHARLESTON
(in West Ashley)
North Charleston
leap-frogs across river
to grab West Ashley land,
City vows to continue the fight
story on page 10
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IN THIS ISSUE
6 NEWS 28 DINING
• The ‘Right’ Way
• Home Cooking
• Mug Shots
• Farmer’s Market Returns To West Ashley
• Welcome to North Charleston (in West Ashley)
• Beer Snob
• Local Soccer Club Honored
• Taking Care of the Skin You’re in
34 COMMUNITY
18 SCHOOLS • West Ashley Flashback
• In-Shore Fishing Report
• Be Their Guest
• Fun & Games
• Dash Through the Den
• Worship Directory
• Community Billboard
20 A&E
• Where Art Thou, Piccolo Spoleto?
• Still ‘Rocking’ Out
• Art Matters — Kate Kennedy
• Night Life
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NEWS
“That’s a function that the Greenway and the Bikeway serve. It’s a huge opportunity
for West Ashley to be more connected in a pedestrian way and a bicyclist way.”
— Harry Lesesne, executive director of Charleston Parks Conservancy
W
hile its dreams might not happen the plan. It’s just there to help, should City bikeway-renovation.) Donations were taken at the door
overnight, the Charleston Parks Council approve of its suggestions. One that excites Lesesne was the for entrance to the event and set aside
Conservancy recently revealed The city already spent millions consultants’ suggestion of installing a long, to help fund WAU’s latest pet project:
its master plan for arts along the West improving the bikeway, by including steel table, painted and treated to look like improving the gateway intersection where
Ashley Greenway and Bikeway. landscaping elements into its drainage a picnic table, to be installed in a small Wappoo Road and the bikeway intersect,
Regardless, West Ashley United, a project that runs under the bikeway from circular park near where the Charleston dovetailing with the conservancy’s
local non-profit advocating for the area, Magnolia Road before it vents into the Tennis Center abuts the greenway. master plan design parameters.
is jumping right in there. Ashley River. There, large and smaller groups WAU founder Teresa Tidestrom
Last year, the conservancy The lush greenery and occasional could co-mingle, dine together, share estimates that the fund-raiser will raise
delivered its master revitalization plan pond show how much can be done
The ‘Right’ Way
for both vertical parks to the West with a bulldozer, as the first phase of
Ashley Revitalization Commission for the project was completed without a
inclusion in the city’s efforts to spruce landscape architect
up and improve this part of town. Lesesne’s most recent plan, completed
Last month, the conservancy unveiled with the help of a national design firm,
its arts master plan, which executive includes what he terms as “interventions”
director Harry Lesesne says is not meant on three scales. Perhaps the flashiest of the
to lock-in any single plan, but act as a interventions is for gateway installations at Parks conservancy unveils West Ashley
“guidepost” for improvements along the points where the greenway and bikeway
bikeway and greenway, which will help intersect with roads. Green/Bikeway’s ‘future’
with the area’s overall connectivity. There, the plan foresees public art by Bill Davis | News Editor
“The need for more connectivity. as “social sculpture,” like installing an
That is really one of the primary enormous cast concrete couch at an
recommendations from Plan West intersection that invites pedestrians, ideas, get to know each other better. a few thousand of the $20-$ 40,000
Ashley for making West Ashley more cyclists, and those pushing baby buggies Which is exactly what happened on needed to redo the spot (see diagram
connected,” Lesesne told members of to sit a spell, and perhaps meet someone Saturday, April 27 when West Ashley below).
the West Ashley-James Island Business else from the community. United (WAU) joined with the city to host Tidestrom says it was important
Association (WAJIBA) last month. “And Other elements include public a Longest Table event in the parking lot for her organization, seen by too many
that’s a function that the Greenway and gathering spaces further off the of Citadel Mall. in her eyes as just a “Facebook” group
the Bikeway serve. It’s a huge opportunity beaten paths, where an outdoor stage With the city carrying much of the page, to provide something “tangible”
for West Ashley to be more connected in could host a small play. (To view both hard costs, and local businesses and to the public. To see, she says, what
a pedestrian way and a bicyclist way.” master planning efforts, go to: www. schools chipping in food, WAU invited the her organization has become and for
Lesesne insists that no dollar amount, charlestonparksconservancy.org/ public to come and discuss their solutions the public to gain a vision of what West
or funding source, has been identified in renovation/west-ashley-greenway- to problems vexing this part of town. Ashley could become.
Photo by Joan Perry
Attendees of The Longest Table — West Ashley discuss ideas for the future of the area Plans for the West Ashley Bikeway entrance near Wappoo Road
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NEWS
An artist rendering of a possible
crossing for the West Ashley
Bikeway along Ashley River Road
7 MAY 2019
firm working on an apartment complex April 25 name she knew. She thought the photo
on Azure Lane, noticed 14 air- ALL OTHER LARCENY shoot would take place in a studio, but
conditioning units had been stolen from due to it being occupied at the time, the
Police arrested a man who claimed
the site a week before, but forgot to man suggested they move it to a motel.
to be a member of a famous metal
call police. The units had been installed
band, Slipknot, at a Skylark Drive
several months prior. Whoever took April 25
restaurant after he was unable to pay
the items did a peculiarly clean job of
a $ 33 tab. The man had ordered four INTIMIDATION
it, judging from how the units were
alcoholic drinks and two hamburgers A local resource officer at a West
removed. The units were valued at
and said he had to call his record Ashley public school discovered one
$5,600 total.
company manager to get some money. of the school’s former students had
The man claimed to be Sid Wilson, been repeatedly threatening the life
April 23 the gas mask-wearing turntablist of a student at school and at their
IDENTITY THEFT AK A DJ Starscream from the band West Ashley home. The threatening
The following were taken from actual Slipknot. He claimed to be staying at
A Sugar Magnolia Way couple former student also claimed to have
incident reports filed last month by the a nearby Motel6 but did not have a
reported that while trying to purchase ties to the “Blood Gang” affiliation.
City of Charleston Police Department. room key, nor did he have a cellphone
a house, a credit check turned up a The day before, while still in school the
These are not convictions and the names or wallet. Police found he was carrying
host of fraudulent accounts in their threatening student had slapped the
of businesses, complainants, and suspects identification, which showed he was
name, many already under collection. other in the face in class with a plastic
have been left out to protect the innocent. not the famous musician.
The wife found out there were 13 glove, saying, “I am going to kill you.”
All suspects are innocent until proven
different fraudulent accounts under
guilty ... of course.
name for more than $8,000 in her name; April 25 April 25
the husband found seven accounts for DEATH INVESTIGATION
April 22 WEAPONS LAW VIOLATION
closer to $9,000 in his.
Police responded to a Savannah Police charged a middle school
WIRE FRAUD
Highway motel and found an Italian man student with carrying a razorblade
A Charlestowne Drive woman told April 24 cold and unresponsive to the touch. to school. A school administrator,
police she’d deposited $8,000 into a
SIMPLE ASSAULT After the man was pronounced dead, working of a tip, searched the child’s
local bank account to pay for the taxes
A student with a histor y of police covered him with a comforter. backpack looking for the razorblade
on a new Mercedes Benz she’d in what
threatening to stab staff and students He had been staying at the hotel with and a Taser but found only the 2-inch
appears to be fraud. A man had called
with pens, was arrested at a local two other Italian men, all in town on blade. The administrator told police
the woman and told her she’d won the
school after he was seen approaching work. The deceased man had returned that he’d been told that the student had
car and had a chance to win $7,000
a teacher in an aggressive manner from dinner with them the night before, threatened students on the bus the day
a week for life. The man told her that
as if he were about to at tack the and vomited at 1 a.m., and then again before on the way home. Witnesses
all she had to do was pay the taxes
teacher while carrying a pen in his three hours later. That morning, the stated that the student had taken the
on the vehicle and it would delivered
hand. The student had stormed out man stayed in bed instead of going blade out and threatened to “slit” the
to her house. The man told the
of the teacher’s classroom earlier to work. When the other two men boys who were teasing the student.
woman, and she complied, to deposit
and refused to comply with orders. returned, they found him unresponsive
two separate checks into the same
While the student was being arrested, and immediately called 911.
account with a different man’s name April 25
the teacher continued to talk to the
on it at two different bank branches. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT,
A family member discovered what had
student in an effort to calm him down April 25 FIREARM
while the pen was removed from his SEX OFFENSE, FONDLING,
happened and contacted police. Police Police arrived at the scene of an
hand, to which the student responded INDECENT LIBERTIES, CHILD
called the number back on the number apparent shooting at the intersection
by spitting in the teacher’s face. The MOLESTING
he had called her from, but he did not of Paul Cantrell Boulevard and I-526.
student continued to resist, kicking
pick up. A young lady told police that a man Once there, officers found a man who
an officer three times in the leg. Once
supposed to be photographing her had suffered gunshots to his left back
handcuffed and placed in the rear of a
April 22 while at a Savannah Highway motel and upper arm. The man was treated on
police cruiser, the student attempted
touched her inappropriately in a private the scene and transported to a nearby
BURGLARY, BREAKING AND to use a metal part of an ink pen that
area without her permission. The young hospital.
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C
ity of Charleston Mayor John State law limits cities’ expansion plans push forward with a full-blown appeal.
Tecklenburg and his administration to coincide with properties that abut Charleston has been clear with its
ROSÉ remain committed to keeping
2,200 acres of county lands out of
land previously incorporated into the
annexing city.
concern: that North Charleston could
allow for overdevelopment on the land
TASTING
the hands of North Charleston and its This is quite different from that could damage the abutting Ashley
mayor, Keith Summey. annexation within West Ashley, in River Historic District and bring further
Two years ago, Charleston joined which properties apply to become environmental problems to that part of
SATURDAYS with the National Trust for Historic
Preservation to challenge Nor th
part of the city and leave St. Andrews
Public Service District. Gobbling up
West Ashley.
Several plantations are already
2-6PM Charleston’s annexation of the tract,
which had been the home of Runnymede
“donut holes” is quite different from
swallowing an entire plantation.
included in the district, like Drayton Hall.
Carter Hudgins is the president and
Plantation along the Ashley River. Charleston spokesperson Jack chief executive officer of Drayton Hall,
The city and the trust fought, O’Toole says that as of last month the city which invites visitors for tours and
unsuccessfully, in court to have is still waiting to hear back from its motion educational excursions to its historic
the annexation ruled illegal as it to reconsider from the judge who ruled and preserved grounds. He is very
hopscotched over a piece of land firmly in North Charleston’s favor last concerned who, or what, could be his
already annexed into Charleston proper. year. Should that fail, he says, the city will
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“Bottom line is that Drayton Hall River, over marsh and island, along
Preservation Trust is in the business the outskirts of Johns Island rural
of preserving the unique cultural and neighborhoods, into and up the Stono
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Historic District,” says Hudgins. “This Church Creek before it dead-ends into
of course includes the preservation the Ashley River in West Ashley past
of Dray ton Hall, but also the larger Shadowmoss.
district.” Inside the UGB, development —
The district, consisting today of houses, stores, and the like — can
23,000 acres, was originally placed be more intense and tighter packed.
on the National Register of Historic
Places in 1994, and this nomination
Beyond the UGB, the intent is to stop
development into rural areas and limit
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“I’m excited about this show because it demonstrates how many talented
students we have here at West Ashley High School.”
— Michelle Jones , WAHS Drama Studio, co-director
F
or many as the leaves begin to change Beast when she arrives at his castle to free Studio plans to set up an art show where story about redemption; that people can make
colors and flowers begin to bloom, it her father, slowly begins to help the Beast different pieces of student work such as mistakes and still become better people.”
signals the start of springtime. At West come out of his shell. With the help of his paintings and sculptures will be on display. West Ashley High School’s The Drama
Ashley High School, it means that it’s almost servants, all of whom are under the same There will also be a slideshow running in the Studio will present Beauty and the Beast on
time for the spring musical. Having put spell, Belle is able to soften the Beast’s auditorium before the evening’s performance May 15, 16, and 17 at 7 p.m. and will present
one on each year that the school has been cold-hearted nature. begins that will feature different works of art a special matinee performance on May 18th
open, (except for the first year when it was This year’s production is made up of over
split between two campuses) students and 60 students who have worked on every single
Be Their Guest
teachers are hard at work preparing for their piece of this production. From performing
18th production, Beauty and the Beast. onstage and building the sets, to designing
The Drama Studio is set to premiere the costumes and setting the light cues, each
the production on Wednesday, May 15 at aspect of Beauty and the Beast has been
7 p.m., which will be followed by two more touched by a West Ashley High student.
evening performances (May 16th and 17th)
and, for the first time ever, a matinee on
As an added bonus, members of the
WAHS Band and Orchestra will be providing
The Drama Studio at West Ashley High School
Saturday, May 18th at 2 p.m. Following the
matinee there will be a Character Tea Party
the musical accompaniment for each number
and members of the WAHS Chorus will be stages Beauty and the Beast for spring musical
in the WAHS Cafeteria. singing backup. by Donnie Newton | Contributing Writer
Tickets for the evening performances “I’m excited about this show because it
and matinee are $10. Admittance to the tea demonstrates how many talented students
party is $5 for children who bring a guest. we have here at West Ashley High School,” as well. The art show will begin at 6:30 p.m. at 2 p.m. Each performance will take place
Children are encouraged to wear a costume said co-director Michelle Jones. “This is in the WAHS Cafeteria. Visitors will have the in the WAHS Auditorium. Tickets to the
to the matinee and tea. the first collaborative production we have opportunity to meet many of the artists who Character Tea Party, which will follow the
The musical, based on the acclaimed done that incorporates the entire Fine Arts created the works as well. matinee performance, are $5 for each child
Broadway show and the Oscar-nominated Department. It’s been really great!” The “The thing I like the most about this (accompanied by an adult).
film of the same name, tells the story of mechanical invention used by Belle’s father, production is that, as a culture, we’ve become
an arrogant prince who’s cursed to live his Maurice, was designed by students in the very much about aesthetics so it’s nice to Tickets to each performance are $10
life as a beast unless he learns to love and WAHS Robotics program. see a story that shows love from the heart,” and can be purchased at the door or by
to be loved in return. Belle, who meets the Before the show on May 17th, The Art said co-director Latanya Mueller. “It is also a visiting www.wahsdramastudio.com.
Dash Through the Den
West Ashley High’s DECA chapter puts on
fundraiser event for the community
by Donnie Newton | Contributing Writer
F
or the fifth year in a row, West Ashley The event began five years ago as a way
High School’s DECA chapter will host the to create an annual community-wide event on
Dash Thru the Den 5K on Saturday, May the West Ashley High campus where people
18th at 9 a.m. The run / walk, planned and could come together and enjoy some fun
executed entirely by DECA students, leads and good times with their friends. It was also
participants on a tour of the entire campus as designed as a way to alleviate the cost for
they make their way through the race course. the students who were having to travel ICDC
The student group is looking for West Ashley each year to compete. Each year the trip costs
High students and staff as well as families and roughly $1,000 per student.
To sign up for the 5K, please go to at 7 p.m., The Drama Studio is set to perform
members of the West Ashley Community and “The Dash Thru the Den is so close,”
runsignup.com and search Dash Thru the Den. this year’s spring musical, Beauty and the
beyond to take part in this year’s event. said DECA member Kimberly McCurdy. “You
Registration is $25. The race packet includes Beast. In an effort to encourage community
The Dash Thru the Den 5K serves as a don’t want to miss it! Join us May 18th to
an official race t-shirt, a draw-string bag, Dash support between multiple events, anyone
fundraiser for the students in DECA so that help support the WAHS DECA chapter. Our
Thru the Den sunglasses, and a race bib. who brings their ticket stub from one of the
they can attend the International Career organization puts on this run each year to
Each year a medal is given to the top evening performances to the 5K, will be
Development Conference (ICDC) each year. help raise funds for the International Career
three male and female winners overall as well given $10 off the $30 sign up fee. Similarly,
This year’s conference was held in Orlando, Development Conference. This year almost
as the top male and female in each age group. if you bring your race bib to the May 18th
FL from April 26th – May 1st. For more info 20,000 DECA members from all over the
Walk ups the day of the race will pay matinee, they will allow you preferential
on DECA, visit www.deca.org/high-school- world were in attendance to compete in this
$30 to sign up. On May 15th, 16th, and 17th seating in the WAHS Auditorium.
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A&E
“The Schoolhouse is the perfect venue for Overhaul because we will be sharing
the performance space with the musicians. The audience will be up close to the
dance and the music!” — Kristin Alexander, Creative Director of Annex Dance Company
E
ver since Spoleto Festival USA pulled augment Piccolo offerings. He organized Dock Street Theatre. still want more. But, he says a balance
its annual finale from Middleton outdoor arts, music, and performances in The Pearl features 130 seats, but has to be struck so that the self-producing
Place after the 2017 performance, the Avondale Business District for several unlike The Schoolhouse, already has artist “isn’t left holding the bag.”
it’s been up to Piccolo Festival to pick up years. But he had to take a break from professional lighting and sound equipment Those renting The Pearl for Piccolo
the slack here in West Ashley. This year it as he grew his Lava Salon business, in place. As such, it is hosting several this year, could be paying close to $700 a
is no exception, with still only a handful opening a second salon in Park Circle. Piccolo programs. night for the facility, a house steward, box
of offerings left. But, last year with the advent of The The lack of lighting or sound office personnel and etc., according to its
Spoleto Festival USA is a 17-day Schoolhouse, a retrofitted elementary equipment at The Schoolhouse, and other online non-profit rental card. That can be a
international performing arts festival in its school at the intersection of Magnolia potential performance spaces, means daunting amount to struggling arts groups
42nd year, bringing theater, opera, ballet, and Road and Sycamore Avenue, art found a more expense and effort for the artist “It’s difficult navigating the various
music largely to the peninsula between the new home on this side of the river. and festival. price points,” says Watson. Last year, he
last days of May and the first days of June. The facility, home to many start-ups But for some, like Alexander of Annex says his office found that very few people
Piccolo, its little brother, was launched and other smaller businesses in what had
Where Art Thou?
two years later as a complementary, been classrooms, also features a 200-seat
city-run multi-disciplinary festival with event space in the former gymnasium.
more of a focus on smaller, national and The venue cut its rates for the city,
regional arts. and several shows were produced there,
And almost since day one, people but for some reasons it lies largely dark
on the peninsula have complained that
Spoleto doesn’t have a bigger, year-round
during this Piccolo season, save for one
dance performance this year. Piccolo Spoleto picks up where Spoleto left
presence in the community. And similarly, “Annex Dance Company performs
people in West Ashley and other ‘burbs throughout Charleston during our season, off in West Ashley with a handful of events
that Piccolo doesn’t come out to them. and The Schoolhouse has become one by Bill Davis | News Editor
For years, the city’s Office of Cultural of our favorite performance venues,”
Affairs had said that West Ashley’s says Kristin Alexander, founding Creative
lack of performance venues, outside of Director of Annex Dance Company, which Dance Company, that can be a plus. “I wanted to pay $30 for a ticket to see Anne
churches for music and coffee shops for will be staging Overhaul on Monday, June love that it is a blank canvas that can be Caldwell and her troupe sing at Lutheran
art, had hindered programming. In 2017, it 3 at The Schoolhouse. transformed for each concert,” she says. Redeemer Church in Avondale. “We had
only hosted two Piccolo events in West In March another new performance “The large Main Hall of The Schoolhouse to give away many ‘outreach tickets.’”
Ashley. space, The Pearl at The West Ashley is the perfect venue for Overhaul because Watson says the festival will continue
That same year, the same year Theatre Center, came on line in West Ashley. we will be sharing the performance space to host free “pop-up” events in West
Spoleto finally left Middleton Place, a This one is located at the redeveloping with the musicians. The audience will be Ashley, as it has done at the community
spokesperson for the festival said the Ashley Landing shopping center at the up close to the dance and the music!” garden next to the Schoolhouse, as well
they were “hopeful” it could expand its intersection of Sam Rittenberg Boulevard Scott Watson, the director of the as along the West Ashley Greenway.
presence in West Ashley. So far, nothing. and Old Towne Road. The Pearl is the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, which Watson is also bringing a series
West Ashley business owner, and new home of the venerable Charleston oversees Piccolo and other events like of pop-ups to micro-breweries in West
founder of chART (Charleston Outdoor Art Stage theater company that produces MOJA Arts Festival and more, says he Ashley, including a night of axe-throwing
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West Ashley Crab Shack: Team Trivia Mex 1: Team Trivia d.d. Pecker’s Wing Shack: BINGO Gathering Cafe: Jazz Brunch FRIDAY, MAY 24 Tin Roof: Yearlove
Pub on 61: Team Trivia Home Team BBQ: Trivia (Geeks Who Tattooed Moose: Sunflowers & Sin Back 9 Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron Trayce’s Too: Music Bingo
THURSDAY, MAY 2 The Roost: Sports Trivia Drink) Tin Roof: Karaoke Mex 1: The Ol 55’s West Ashley Crab Shack: Team Trivia
d.d. Peckers’ Wing Shack: Tin Roof: The Trivia Factory R Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron Voodoo: Yaaaasss Queen Bingo w/ R Pub: Vinyl Daze
Peckerhead Trivia Voodoo: Me & Mr. Jones Well The Roost: Trivia Ava Clear! Tin Roof: Reese McHenry THURSDAY, MAY 30
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Hunley’s Tavern: Music Trivia MONDAY, MAY 20 SATURDAY, MAY 25 Peckerhead Trivia
Manny’s: Trivia WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 TUESDAY, MAY 14 d.d. Pecker’s Wing Shack: BINGO R Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron Frothy Beard: Trivia w/ Friends
Pub on 61: Karaoke Ackerman Park: West Ashley Home Team BBQ: Holy City Home Team BBQ: Trivia (Geeks Who TBonz: Cotton Blue Band Hunley’s Tavern: Music Trivia
The Roost: Jaykob K duo Farmer’s Market w/ The V-Tones Confessional Drink) Tin Roof: Don Merckle & The Manny’s: Trivia
R Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron Charles Towne Fermentory: Trivia The Roost: Sports Trivia R Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron Blacksmiths; George Fetner & The Pub on 61: Karaoke
Tbonz: Chris Dodson Frothy Beard: Beer & Bingo Tin Roof: The Trivia Factory Strays The Roost: Jaykob K Duo
Tin Roof: Andy the Doorbum; The Hunley’s Tavern: Karaoke Voodoo: Me & Mr. Jones TUESDAY, MAY 21 R Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron
Emotron Manny’s: Bingo Back 9 Pub: Trivia SUNDAY, MAY 26 Tattooed Moose: Ward B. Duo
Trayce’s Too: Team Trivia Old Towne Creek County Park: Wine WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 Charleston Sports Pub: Team Trivia Back 9 Pub: Free Pool TBonz: Lane Doss
Triangle Char & Bar: Geeks Who Down Wednesday: David Grunstra 3 Matadors: Team Trivia Home Team BBQ: Holy City d.d. Peckers’ Wing Shack: Live Tin Roof: A Fragile Tomorrow;
Drink Trivia Pub on 61: Name That Tune Ackerman Park: West Ashley Confessional Music Phantom Phunk; Easy Honey
Tin Roof: Danny Feedback; Psychic Farmer’s Market w/ Buzz Run Mellow Mushroom: Trivia Gathering Cafe: Jazz Brunch Trayce’s Too: Team Trivia
FRIDAY, MAY 3 Pets Frothy Beard: Beer & Bingo Mex 1: Team Trivia Tattooed Moose: DD and Alpine Triangle Char & Bar: Geeks Who
Back 9 Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron Trayce’s Too: Music Bingo Pub on 61: Name That Tune Pub on 61: Team Trivia Tin Roof: Karaoke Drink Trivia
Mex 1: Just Groove West Ashley Crab Shack: Team Trivia Trayce’s Too: Music Bingo The Roost: Sports Trivia Triangle: Lane Doss
Tin Roof: The Trivia Factory Voodoo: Lunacy w/ DJ Sparkbox; The FRIDAY, MAY 31
SATURDAY, MAY 4 THURSDAY, MAY 9 THURSDAY, MAY 16 Voodoo: Mike Quinn and Friends Break Circuit Break Dancers Back 9 Pub: Karaoke w/ Aaron
Manny’s: Star Wars Themed Trivia d.d. Peckers’ Wing Shack: d.d. Peckers’ Wing Shack: Mex 1: Yellowknife
Mex 1: Seitu Soloman Steeldrum; Peckerhead Trivia Peckerhead Trivia WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 MONDAY, MAY 27 R Pub: DJ Insain
Strawberry Squad w/ Ben Fagan; Frothy Beard: Trivia w/ Friends Frothy Beard: Trivia w/ Friends Ackerman Park: West Ashley Home Team BBQ: Trivia (Geeks Who
The Dubplates Hunley’s Tavern: Music Trivia Hunley’s Tavern: Music Trivia Farmer’s Market w/ Cane Creek Drink)
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