2nd Sunday on King Street

For fans of Charleston culture

As it Turns Out, Soap is One of the Heroes

Charleston MadeSusan Lucas

Charleston's own Old Whaling Co. soap has a gentle, creamy lather that is great for shaving, bathing, hands and faces. It is cleansing, moisturizing and lovely to use from hair to toes! The handcrafted soap bars are large, weighing around 5oz each.

Just a few examples are Coastal Calm, French Lavender, Oatmeal Milk & Honey, Seaberry & Rose Clay, Seaweed & Sea Salt. There are so many beautifully packaged, delicious smelling soaps available. The downtown store at 43 Broad Street downtown is temporarily shuttered, but their beautifully crafted, effective and affordable modern bath and body products, inspired by the sea, are available online, with free shipping over $40. 

One of our all-time favorites, Savannah Bee Company will have you finding every excuse possible to wash your hands, just so you can relish in the luxurious lather and fresh fragrance. Wash all you want because Savannah Bee hand soap is made with skin-softening pure honey, a gentle but highly effective cleanser and moisturizer.

The bottle says hand soap, but it's gentle enough for your face, Energizing lemongrass and cooling spearmint, sweet orange blossom, rosemary lavender, too. 276 King Street is closed for now, but order online here and these sweet smelling saviors will come to your door at discounted shipping rates.


When your hands are clean and you're looking for something to do, here's another hero, our public library, CCPL. Free audiobooks, free internet access in the parking lot, virtual programs for kids and adults, audiobooks, streaming music, magazines, TV and music.

You can get your library card online, and the app is free too! Click here for CCPL'S extensive learn-at-home program.

Berkeley County has a similar online library program, and here's Dorcester.

Here's to us! Keep clean, healthy and in touch.

Brian Hicks, Metro Columnist for the Post and Courier, Speaking at Small Business Lunch at Halls Thursday, March 12

Business, ExperiencesSusan Lucas

Brian Hicks, Metro Columnist for the Post and Courier, Speaking at Small Business Lunch at Halls Thursday, March 12

The King Street Marketing Group and the Hall Family are pleased to present Brian Hicks, the much-quoted Metro Columnist of the Post and Courier, as our guest speaker for Small Business Lunch at Halls Thursday, March 12. 

Hicks newspaper column is the most read and most popular opinion piece in 

Charleston.

Brian Hicks is a senior writer and Metro Columnist with the Post and Courier. He has covered Southern politics for more than 25 years, including turns as a statehouse correspondent in three states. Since 1986 his journalism has appeared in national and international publications. 

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He has also authored nine books including The Mayor: Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston and his latest, In Darkest South Carolina.

Hicks and his books have been featured on National Public Radio and in major newspapers including the Boston Globe, Philadelphia Enquirer, and Chicago Tribune. He has been featured on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic and CBS Sunday Morning.

He has won more than 30 journalism awards including the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Award for humorous commentary and the South Carolina Press Association’s award for Journalist of the Year.

In 1998, he was named South Carolina Journalist of the Year by the S.C. Press Association. And in 2008, the Society of Professional Journalists named Hicks the best humor columnist in the Southeast. A native of Cleveland, Tennessee, he lives in Charleston with his wife Beth and their sons Cole and Nate.

Tickets are $32 per person for the luncheon. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click here to order tickets.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three-course meal prepared by Executive Chef Adam Jakins.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Convenient parking is available at the Visitor's Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Buxton Books Presents Home Making, Lunch with Lee Matalone at High Cotton

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The Millions' Most Anticipated Books in February

"An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style."Weike Wang, author of "Chemistry".

Time: 12:00 pm

Date: Wednesday, March 11

Place: High Cotton, 199 East Bay 

Lunch: Three delicious courses by 

Halls Executive Chef Brad Kelly.

$32 per person.

Books: Provided by Buxton Books, will be available for purchase at the event.

Cover Art by Grace Helmer, UK

From a talented, powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home.

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"Before, before—a young woman, in a modest but pristine apartment in Tokyo, paints a castle on paper, unlike any castle in Japan. Where is this castle? her mother, who secretly writes poetry on gum wrappers, whose ancestors created beauty with katana rather than pen, asks her daughter. She starts to answer, but her mother grabs the paper and flips it over. Your mind is a ship, she says. It will take you away from me and leave me here aloneYour hair is dirty. Why don’t you do something about that? So this young woman, her name lost to the wrinkles of history, washes her hair, and it is clean and black and straight and falls at the arch of her bony shoulders. She is all bones, lanky and bendy like a strip of Wrigley’s. We need . . . her mother says, and she probably said more tea or meriken-ko or toothpaste, and sent her daughter out into the noontime street, into the crowded Tokyo Saturday, where families are sitting in parks or visiting grave sites of their mothers and fathers and grandmothers, who were unlucky enough to live in Hiroshima or Nagasaki." Read More.

Lee Matalone's writing has been featured in The Offing, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Denver Quarterly, and Hobart, among other places. Home Making is her first novel. She lives in South Carolina and teaches at Clemson University.

Fiction by Lee Matalone

The OffingSundog Lit, Denver Quarterly, Hobart, Bat City Review, 5X5, X-R-A-Y Literary MagazineJellyfish ReviewcragJoyland, Nat.Brut, The Austin ReviewVol.1 BrooklynCosmonauts AvenueBridge Eight

Non Fiction by Lee Matalone

Lit HubElectric Literature, Los Angeles Review of BooksThe RumpusThe NationalHeavy Feather ReviewInside Higher EdVice Munchies, BookslutCurbedFiction Advocate, Perversion Magazine, Flavorwire

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Books, ExperiencesSusan Lucas

Lori Gottlieb, NY Times Bestselling author of 

"Maybe You Should Talk 

to Someone," at Charleston Author Series Friday, March 27th

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, nationally recognized journalist, and weekly Dear Therapist columnist for The Atlantic. She blends her clinical experience with the latest research and cultural developments to help people live better lives.

On March 27th at Halls Signature Events at 5 Faber Street in downtown Charleston, you'll enjoy three courses by Hall's Executive Chef Robyn Guisto, a full service cash bar, excellent company and a discussion of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

Gottlieb will be in conversation with Claire Bidwell Smith, Charleston resident and author of The Rules of Inheritance. Smith is an author and a grief therapist, whose mission is to broaden the conversation about grief and loss and help our culture reach a healthier understanding of death.

Luncheon Tickets are $64 and include a signed copy of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Books provided by Charleston's own Blue Bicycle Books. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is served at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with the author. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which is being adapted as a television series with Eva Longoria.

In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The Atlantic's weekly Dear Therapist advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times and many other publications. She is also a TED speaker, a member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change to Mind and advisor to the Aspen Institute.

A contributing writer for The Atlantic, she has written hundreds of articles related to psychology and culture, many of which have become viral sensations. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, CNN, and NPR's Fresh Air.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist's couch and some of these patients are therapists. In her remarkable new book, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and rigorous training, her most significant credential is that she's a card-carrying member of the human race. I know what it is like to be a person, she writes, as a crisis causes her world to come crashing down.

Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients lives, a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys (even one from the waiting room)she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb reveals our blind spots, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

REVIEWS

"An addictive book that's part Oliver Sacks and part Nora Ephron. Prepare to be riveted."

--- People Magazine, Book of the Week

"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." --- Kirkus, starred review

"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book." --- Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Huffington Post 

"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing." --- Katie Couric

"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. If you have even an ounce of interest in the conundrum of being human, you must read this book." --- Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet.

"Gottlieb is an utterly compelling narrator: funny, probing, surprising, savvy, vulnerable. She pays attention to the small stuff, the box of tissues and the Legos in the carpet, as she honors the more expansive mysteries of our wild, aching hearts." Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering.

Charleston Author Series presents Kimmery Martin

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Kimmery Martin Releases her Newest Novel, The Antidote for Everything, at Halls Signature Events February 20th

Kimmery Martin Releases her Newest Novel, The Antidote for Everything, at Halls Signature Events February 20th

This whip-smart and timely novel from acclaimed author Kimmery Martin explores a unique friendship between two doctors. 

Here's your chance to have lunch with your favorite author! Thursday, February 20th at Halls Signature Events, you'll enjoy three courses by Hall's Executive Chef Robyn Guisto, excellent company and a discussion of Kimmery Martin's THE ANTIDOTE FOR EVERYTHING.

Luncheon Tickets are $32, or $62 with a signed copy of Kimmery's newest novel, The Antidote for Everything. Books provided by Charleston's own Blue Bicycle Books.

Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is served at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with the author. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kimmery Martin is an emergency medicine doctor-turned novelist whose works of medical fiction have been praised by The Harvard Crimson, Southern Living, The Charlotte Observer and The New York Times, among others. 

A lifelong literary nerd, she promotes reading, interviews authors, and teaches writing seminars. She’s a frequent speaker at libraries, conferences, and bookstores around the United States. 

Kimmery completed her medical training at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She lives with her husband and three children in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

"Martin leverages her own background as a doctor to great effect throughout.”—The New York Times on TQOH

“With issues ripped straight from the headlines, The Antidote For Everything is a book for our times.” – GoodReads

“Martin’s trademark witty repartee makes her characters fun to be with, and she both entertains and tackles thought-provoking questions of honor and integrity….”—Booklist

ABOUT THE BOOK

Georgia Brown’s profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked men, but her romantic prospects have fizzled. The most important person in her life is her friend Jonah Tsukada, a funny, empathetic family medicine doctor who works at the same hospital in Charleston, South Carolina and who has become as close as family to her.

Just after Georgia leaves the country for a medical conference, Jonah shares startling news. The hospital is instructing doctors to stop providing medical care for transgender patients. Jonah, a gay man, is the first to be fired when he refuses to abandon his patients. 

Stunned by the predicament of her closest friend, Georgia’s natural instinct is to fight alongside him. But when her attempts to address the situation result in incalculable harm, both Georgia and Jonah find themselves facing the loss of much more than their careers.

2nd Sunday on King Street Holiday Edition December 8

ExperiencesSusan Lucas
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Everything you would expect from the most popular regularly scheduled event in Charleston SC, only holidays! Shopping for oh just everything! Clothing, handbags, shoes, sweaters, gifts, toys. Hot coffee on the street courtesy of College of Charleston, art on the street courtesy of Charleston Gallery Association and our many fine Charleston Artists, carolers, cellists, a cappella choirs, school bands and Santa at the Restoration on King’s beautiful Library. Read the newsletter here — it’s just the start of a wonderful downtown experience. Join us won’t you?

Luna de Esperanza Wine Dinner at The Establishment November 5

Experiences, Dinner, Fine DiningSusan Lucas

Join us on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 for a wine dinner at The Establishment featuring the Argentine wines of Luna de Esperanza and dishes paired by Executive Chef Matt Canter. This four course meal will highlight the versatility of the Luna de Esperanza wines with cuisine, with winery owners Andy Berly and David Lyle representing the winery to dive deeper into why these wines are so special. In addition, we will offer the opportunity at the end of the meal to purchase some of your favorite Luna wines!

Menu and Pairings

First

Steelhead, blood orange  
2018 Three Henrys Rose

Second

Fromage de Tete, pickled cherries, rouille  
2015 Luna de Esperanza Barrel Fermented Cabernet Franc

Third 

Lamb Braciole, peperonata, red currant jus 
2014 Luna de Esperanza Grand Blend

Fourth 

Battery Park Cheese, brie-style, sorghum, toast  
2014 Luna de Esperanza Barrel Fermented Malbec


The $150 ticket price will include gratuity. The event will begin promptly at 6:15pm.

November 10 2nd Sunday Sunset Sail

Sunset Sail, ExperiencesSusan Lucas

Included in each 2nd Sunday Sunset Sail, you'll select from fine curated wines and delightful hors d'oeuvres. It's a curated wine and food adventure on the water, on a classically beautiful ship with an experienced, competent staff and a delightful wine expert.

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On boarding, you'll enjoy a lovely glass of bubbly, followed by four iconic wine selections. The ride is always epic!

You cannot buy these special wines in a grocery store, which makes the Sunset Sail all the more special. Enjoy excellent wines, an abundance of elegant hors d'oeuvres and the most beautiful sailing experience anywhere.

Join us. The ship sails at 4:00 pm on 2nd Sunday! For questions or assistance, call 843.303.1113. Hurry, only 40 seats are available for this unique experience each month.

It’s a two-hour date, a two-hour photo session, a two-hour sail, a two-hour dolphin watch, a two-hour wind bath. Two hours of wine and food, two lovely hours of whatever you make it.

Small Business Lunch at Halls Presents Dr. Mark Scheurer, Chief Medical Officer for the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital Nov. 7th

BusinessSusan Lucas
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The King Street Marketing Group and the Hall Family are pleased to present Dr. Mark Scheurer, Chief Medical Officer for the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital as our guest speaker for Small Business Lunch at Halls, Thursday, November 7th.

The new hospital, and its Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion, will bring the Charleston community:

More beds

Private, spacious patient rooms

Designed for family support

Families as partners in care

Expanded patient care units, amenities

Seamless medical care

The hospital will seamlessly integrate children’s care and maternity services, enhancing safety and improving outcomes in high-risk pregnancies.

Inpatient and outpatient care will be fully integrated on the cancer and heart floors, promoting seamless care, continuity of caregivers, and a strong community of care among families going through the same experiences.

Originally from Tennessee, Dr. Scheurer earned his medical degree at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where he also earned a Master’s of Science in Clinical Research after medical school. He spent time completing internships, residencies, and fellowships at Duke Medical University, MUSC, and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Scheurer currently serves as a pediatric cardiac intensivist in the MUSC heart center. In 2014, he was appointed to the role of Chief Medical Officer of the Children’s Hospital and in 2016 as the Chief of the Integrated Clinical Center of Excellence for Children’s and Women’s Health.

“When this facility opens its doors to patients, it will be the most patient-and family-centered and technologically advanced children’s hospital in the nation. What a blessing for the children and mothers of this state and a beacon of hope and progress for our counterparts as we lead the way in raising all standards of excellence for patient care,” said MUSC Health CEO Patrick J. Cawley, M.D.

Tickets are $32 per person for the luncheon. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with each speaker.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three-course meal prepared by Executive Chef Adam Jakins.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Convenient parking is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

October 13 2nd Sunday Sunset Sail on The Schooner Pride

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Included in each 2nd Sunday Sunset Sail, you'll select from fine curated wines and delightful hors d'oeuvres. It's a curated wine and food adventure on the water, on a classically beautiful ship with an experienced, competent staff and a delightful wine expert.



On boarding, you'll enjoy a lovely glass of a true Sparkling Cremant from Louis Latour in Burgundy, followed by four iconic wine selections. including the fine wines of Murrietta’s Well that most do not even realize exist. The ride is always epic!

You cannot buy these special wines in a grocery store, which makes the Sunset Sail all the more special. Enjoy excellent wines, an abundance of elegant hors d'oeuvres and the most beautiful sailing experience anywhere.

Join us. The ship sails at 6:00 pm on 2nd Sunday! For questions or assistance, call 843.303.1113. Hurry, only 40 seats are available for this unique experience each month.

It’s a two-hour date, a two-hour photo session, a two-hour sail, a two-hour dolphin watch, a two-hour wind bath. Two hours of wine and food, two lovely hours of whatever you make it.

Charleston Harbor and Hudson River Images

ArtSusan Lucas

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.” ~Annie Dillard

Modestly returning to my fine art photography roots, I offer two works of water from places where I have been fortunate to spend my time, energy and love. They may be seen at one of my favorite galleries—there are so many—in Charleston, SC, The Corneau Goldsmithing Jewelry Gallery at 92 Hasell Street.

Each of the two works is a 40x30” canvas giclée wrap.

I don’t have a boat, but Charleston Harbor Tours has a beautiful three-masted schooner that sails regularly from the Aquarium Wharf, and their sister company Hudson River Cruises does a stunning sail down the Hudson and back to Kingston, NY. What more could one ask?

Being in the right place at the right time is everything.

Charleston Harbor from The Schooner Pride

Charleston Harbor from The Schooner Pride

Hudson River from the Rip Van Winkle

Hudson River from the Rip Van Winkle

Sample on the wall…

Sample on the wall…

Gailliard's Steve Bedard at Small Business Lunch at Halls Signature Events

Susan Lucas

The King Street Marketing Group and Halls Management Group are pleased to welcome Stephen A. Bedard, President and CEO of the Gaillard Management Corporation, as our guest speaker Thursday, September 6th at Small Business Lunch at Halls Signature Events.

Described as an "an absolute genius" in municipal finance when he was the CFO for the City of Charleston for 18 years, now Steve is bringing some of the biggest entertainers in the world to Charleston, like Yo-Yo Ma, Joe Walsh, Tony Bennett... Wow!

In July 2016, he began his full-time service at the Gaillard, the City's  $145M Martha and John Rivers Performance Hall, Grand Ballrooms and Salons. It's one of the finest multiple purpose performance hall/exhibition hall complexes in the world.

 

 

Emmy and Tony Award winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth Oct.9

In May 1998, Steve was named the City of Charleston's first ever Chief Financial Officer and continued to serve in this position through June 2016. During his tenure with the City, financial rating agencies ranked Charleston the number one city in South Carolina and recognized the City with eight bond rating increases.

In early January of 2009, at the start of the great recession, Charleston became the first South Carolina municipality ever to receive the highest rating possible from Standard & Poor's, the coveted AAA rating. In October 2014, Moody's Investors Service upgraded the City's credit rating from Aa1 to Aaa, the highest possible rating, making Charleston the first municipality in South Carolina history to hold both S&P's AAA rating and Moody's Aaa rating concurrently.


Bedard is a 1976 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy; holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics. He served 20 years in the U.S. Navy specializing in financial management retiring at the rank of full Commander in 1996. He spent his last three years in the Navy as a financial liaison to the Department of Defense, the Executive Branch's Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Congress for Navy Undersea Warfare programs. He was awarded the seventh highest military medal, The Legion of Merit, from the Secretary of the Navy upon his retirement.


From 1996 through mid-1998, Steve held a key executive position at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Northern Virginia working on cutting edge naval ship development programs as DARPA's Business Manager for Maritime Research.

Steve is an honor graduate with an MBA from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the College of Charleston teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes in financial management, budgeting and strategic planning for the last eight years.

 

Tickets are $31 per person for the imaginative three-course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matt Greene. A full-service cash bar is available for your enjoyment. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For Ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

 

About the Venue

Halls Signature Events is located at No.5 Faber Street, just off East Bay Street and directly behind S.N.O.B. There is a city-owned parking garage right next door, with an entrance on Cumberland Street for your convenience.

 

 

 

In July 2016, he began his full-time service at the Gaillard, the City's  $145M Martha and John Rivers Performance Hall, Grand Ballrooms and Salons. It's one of the finest multiple purpose performance hall/exhibition hall complexes in the world.

In May 1998, Steve was named the City of Charleston's first ever Chief Financial Officer and continued to serve in this position through June 2016. During his tenure with the City, financial rating agencies ranked Charleston the number one city in South Carolina and recognized the City with eight bond rating increases.

In early January of 2009, at the start of the great recession, Charleston became the first South Carolina municipality ever to receive the highest rating possible from Standard & Poor's, the coveted AAA rating. In October 2014, Moody's Investors Service upgraded the City's credit rating from Aa1 to Aaa, the highest possible rating, making Charleston the first municipality in South Carolina history to hold both S&P's AAA rating and Moody's Aaa rating concurrently.


Bedard is a 1976 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy; holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics. He served 20 years in the U.S. Navy specializing in financial management retiring at the rank of full Commander in 1996. He spent his last three years in the Navy as a financial liaison to the Department of Defense, the Executive Branch's Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Congress for Navy Undersea Warfare programs. He was awarded the seventh highest military medal, The Legion of Merit, from the Secretary of the Navy upon his retirement.


From 1996 through mid-1998, Steve held a key executive position at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Northern Virginia working on cutting edge naval ship development programs as DARPA's Business Manager for Maritime Research.

Steve is an honor graduate with an MBA from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the College of Charleston teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes in financial management, budgeting and strategic planning for the last eight years.

Tickets are $31 per person for the imaginative three-course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matt Greene. A full-service cash bar is available for your enjoyment. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For Ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Antinori Wine Dinner November 10

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On Saturday, November 10 at 7 p.m. Halls Signature Events will present an extraordinary four-course dinner party of exquisite food paired with four remarkable wines from one of the most renowned wineries in the world, Marchesi Antinori. Plus there's a red and white to begin the evening from Santa Cristina winery in Cortona, Tuscany.

This will an evening to remember with thoughtful wine pairings and a delightful cuisine created by Halls Executive Chef Matt Greene. Tickets are $199.95 per person. Seating will be limited. 

About the Winemaker, Marchesi Antinori
Tradition, passion, and intuition are the three driving forces that led Marchesi Antinori to establish itself as one of the most important winemakers of elite Italian wine.

The Antinori family has been committed to the art of winemaking for over six centuries since 1385 when Giovanni di Piero Antinori became a member, of the "Arte Fiorentina dei Vinattieri", the Florentine Winemakers' Guild. All throughout its history, 26 generations long, the Antinori family has managed the business directly making innovative and sometimes bold decisions while upholding the utmost respect for traditions and the environment.

The evening begins with two wines from Santa Christina: Pinot Grigio 'delle Venezie IGT' 2017, Veneto and Toscana 'Rosso IGT' 2015, Tuscany paired with passed hors d'oeuvres
--- Confit Winter Squash Bruschetta, Caper Jam
--- Bresaola Carpaccio, Bagna Cauda, Green Olive
--- Crispy Polenta, Tomato Garlic Shrimp

MENU AND WINE PAIRINGS

The First Course, a lomo-wrapped Honolulu fish, panzanella salad, tomato vinaigrette, pesto, is paired with Castello della Sala, Chardonnay, 'Bramito della Sala' 2017, Umbria.

The Second Course, a slow-roasted goat agnolotti with confit tomato, pea tendrils, pecorino romano, is paired with Tenuta Guado al Tasso, Bolgheri Rosso, 'Il Bruciato' 2016, Tuscany

The Entrée is an Allen Brothers Dry-Aged New York Strip, with garlic rapini, beech mushrooms, pearl onion, citrus Tuscan white beans, balsamic glace paired with Marchesi Antinori, Toscana IGT 'Tignanello' 2015.

Following the Main Course is a special Italian cheese, brioche crisp teleggio, cherry honey gastrique.

Dessert is an olive oil pine nut gelato, zeppole with citrus sugar, almond apricot biscotti. Both the cheese and dessert will be served with Castello della Sala, 'Muffato della Sala' 2008, Umbria.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with passed hors d'oeuvres and wine beginning at 7:00 p.m. Seating is limited, so please order your tickets early.