Rumors & Notes: 5/28/14

TOP STORIES

• Midnight booze ban moves forward in Charleston City Council (Live 5 News).
  • Charleston After 12 makes debut online in response.
  • As did this petition (Change).
• Maya Angelou remembered by News 2 (WCBD).
• Haley signs make-up day bill, classes in Berkeley, DD2 end May 30 (ABC News 4).
• SC sex education bill blocked in Senate committee (News 2).
• Aerospace engineering company to expand, bring jobs over time to North Charleston (ABC News 4).

SPOLETO FESTIVAL

• A Strong Start for Spoleto 2014 (Charleston City Paper).
• A real-life mother and son take the stage in A Brimful of Asha (Charleston City Paper).
• Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn create a blessed union of twang (Charleston City Paper).
• Comedian Ithamar Enriquez finds the funny in silence (Charleston City Paper).
• MCs Squirm and Germ are totally cool with you being pregnant in the club (Charleston City Paper).
• Martin Dockery’s The Pit is both funny and poignant (Charleston City Paper).
• Columbia City Ballet keep the comedy in their A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Charleston City Paper).
• The Testament of Mary at PURE Theatre (Charleston City Paper).
• Organist JeeYoon Choi takes on five greats (Charleston City Paper).

FOOD/DRINKS

• The Stone Bill: What the Compromise Actually Means (Beers of SC).
  • Beer bill headed to Governor’s office (News 2).
• A First Look at Charleston’s Newest Hotspot: Leon’s Oyster Shop (Garden & Gun).
• Quick Transition From O’Malleys to Public House (Eater Charleston).
• Sullivan’s High Thyme is the island’s best-kept brunch secret (Charleston City Paper).
• Markets For Those Without Farms (Yelp Charleston).
• The Review: The Granary (Charleston Magazine).

POLITICS

• Senate candidate Richard Cash has new anti-Lindsey Graham ad out (Post & Courier).
• Crunch time for CPR bill (ABC News 4).
• Mayor Riley meeting with Bill Clinton on International African American Museum (Post & Courier).
• Powerful senators look to kill University of Charleston measure (ABC News 4).
• Berkeley schools’ Amy Kovach asks to have ethics charges dropped (Post & Courier).
• Aiken, Hampton elected to open Lincolnville council seats (ABC News 4).

MISC

• Myrtle Beach Mayor: ‘It was like our city being under siege’ (Live 5 News).
• City planners predict 90,000 will live in West Ashley by 2015 (ABC News 4).
• Homicide victim faced charge in one of three New Year’s Day shootings in North Charleston (Post & Courier).
• Expert: Increased gator sightings not uncommon this time of year (Live 5 News).
• Verizon goes ‘smart’ in Mount Pleasant; Loco Record Shop closing after 40 years (Post & Courier).
• Officials say mixed-use biotech project would bring 3,000 residential units, generate $1 billion in investment (Charleston City Paper).
• Report: 128K people took out 1M payday loans in SC (ABC News 4).
• Deputies: 138 ‘One-Pot’ meth labs found in Moncks Corner home (Live 5 News).
• Shoppers shocked after alligator shows up at North Charleston Tanger Outlets (Live 5 News).
• Pitching ace Jordan Montgomery will start Friday vs. Campbell as Gamecocks open NCAA tournament (Post & Courier).
• Volunteer Fire Departments bring concerns to Berkeley County Council (News 2).
• Just when you thought it was safe to go into public relations… (Post & Courier).
• Delicate 2 hour rescue saves Orangeburg worker buried in corn (News 2).
• More Meth Mopes (Charleston Thug Life).
• Frank Turner dissects love and politics on Tape Deck Heart (Charleston City Paper).
• Thief takes off running after faking wheelchair handicap (Live 5 News).
• Nine juveniles transported to Columbia following riot at Dorchester DJJ facility (Live 5 News).
• Hanahan woman charged in deadly drunk driving accident pleads guilty (Live 5 News).
• 2 men drown in Lake Marion near I-95 bridge (ABC News 4).
• Parents sentenced to life in prison in 4-year-old son’s death (Live 5 News).

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