Get your game - and party - on
For many sports fans, the Super Bowl is the party of the year. For others, it's simply the first party of the year. Hey, any reason to get together with friends and throw back a few brews is a good one. Put it together with sports and you've got a guaranteed winner.
Myrtle Beach's Minister of Music laid to rest
The mood was mostly somber and reflective Jan 15. as the standing-room-only crowd gathered at Myrtle Beach's McMillan-Small Funeral Home to pay final respects to Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (1954-2010).
Myrtle Beach gets ready to rumble...MMA Style
The Grand Strand has a strong sports history - the Senior PGA Tour Championship, an LPGA Tour event, a NASCAR Busch Series and minor-league football, basketball, hockey and soccer franchises. Unfortunately, all are exactly that - history, as in no longer in existence in the area.
Warm up with winterfest
We're all back to work after the holidays, and let's be honest - the holidays weren't entirely restful and peaceful, were they? That's exactly why the inaugural WinterFest Oyster Roast at The Market Common on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base is the right thing to do from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Top of the Pops
Lists are common-place this time of year when it's out with the old and in with the new, but the list-makers get an extra bump due to the closing of the first decade of the new millennium, the Naughts, or the 2000s, or whatever you want to call it.
_0_1262804734Diary of a Taxi Driver
A line of empty, idling cabs stretches for what seems like a half-mile at Broadway at the Beach, the exhaust sending small clouds of steam and smoke into the chilly night air.
Getting a Quickie
Your boss actually let you leave a little bit early today, because, you know he was feeling charitable since your hours and salary were cut this year, despite your ever-increasing workload.
Getting a QuickieWill health care reform stop the bleeding?
As South Carolinians hunker down for another winter of double-digit unemployment and slow economic recovery, President Barrack Obama is pushing Congress to pass a massive, 2,000-page healthcare reform bill that would overhaul the nation's struggling health care system.
Crime scene investigations: fact vs. fiction
"NCIS," "Law and Order," "Criminal Minds'' and the "CSI" franchises are some of the most popular television shows in regular prime time and syndication. These shows have put law enforcement and the crime scene investigator in the spotlight like never before.
Burlesque at the Beach?
Burlesque is an often misunderstood and sometimes-maligned form of entertainment that can be best described as vaudeville's naughty cousin. Mention the word burlesque and many images spring to mind - pasties, feathers, fan dances - ribald music and comedy and a bevy of lovely ladies of all shapes and sizes. Some folks' minds might hearken back to a bygone era of music halls, sideshows, pinup girls and carnival barkers, romanticizing the art form with...
_0_1259776558Myrtle Beach's Film Fest Continues to Grow
Who doesn't love the magic of movies? Nothing stimulates the senses and has the power to move or simply entertain us in 120-minutes (more or less), quite the way a good movie can.
WE ARE FAMILY
The streets are quiet in Garden City Beach. Gone are the summer crowds, the late-night seasonal partiers who cruise by on decked-out golf carts or walk to their favorite watering holes from nearby oceanfront condos. The carnival hum of this small seaside community straddling the Horry-Georgetown county line may be mothballed for the winter – but on a random...
Football's fall fashion makeover
Don't bother watching your Gamecocks take on the top-ranked Gators on Saturday. You won't be able to see them on TV. Well, at least not at first. That's because South Carolina is eschewing its traditional garnet and black uniforms for military-issue desert camouflage ones, so you'll have to look hard to see them in action...
Football's fall fashion makeoverFrom Brazil to the Beach... and Back
Marcelo Araujo, 39, grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the oldest of three children and the family's only son. A Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor at Gold's Gym in Myrtle Beach, Araujo is proud of his heritage, but enjoys his adopted home. Araujo had visited Myrtle Beach in the summers of 2001 and 2002 and liked it.
Ghostbusting on the Grand Strand
We are surrounded by ghosts, maybe not literally engulfed by the undead but elements of the otherworldly are more prevalent than ever on TV and in film. TV is brimming with shows concerning ghost hunting. There are the reality shows "Ghost Hunters," "Most Haunted" and "Paranormal State."
MYRTLE-OPOLY: You too can be a real estate mogul
Sixty-five years after its creation (the game's central character, Mr. Monopoly, would be drawing Social Security this year), more than 250 million Monopoly sets have been sold worldwide, more than 5 trillion little green houses have been "constructed,'' games are being produced in 27 languages and the world's most popular board game appears to be more popular than ever.