Archive for October, 2008

For the last several months, I’ve been picking a variety of local bands from MySpace and writing about what I’ve found. This week, I’d like to mix it up a little and ask you to tell me a little bit about local music. Any genre is fair game — from hardcore Christian metal to... »

The HUB-BUB started out as a few energetic people with a great idea, a lot of enthusiasm and the goal of making Spartanburg an even better place through the arts. The HUB-BUB began as an outgrowth of the Hub City Writers Project, a Spartanburg-based nonprofit independent press and literary arts organization. Starting out as an... »

Last week, the Theatre Converse debuted their Halloween play, The Anointing of Draculaa new production written and directed by theatre professor Brent Glenn. Now in it’s second week of production, the play has already become one of Spartanburg’s bigger arts coups of 2008, meriting the cover of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal’s weekly arts supplement The... »

By almost any measurement, this election has been an exciting one. Between the excitement generated by the Obama campaign with young, liberal and generally disenfranchised voters, to the frenzy stirred up in the typically not frenzied conservative camp by the McCain/Palin ticket, people seem to be much more invested in the outcome of this... »

Haunted elegance is the theme of HUB-BUB’s 4th annual Halloween party. Join costumed revelers for dancing, drinks, and heavy hors d’oeuvres at the historic Duncan Estate for the Devil’s Cotillion Masquerade Ball. And you can keep your limbs — all beverages and food, as well as the live DJ, are covered by a mere... »

Reader Soapbox lets you, the readers of Spartanburg Spark, create your own posts about topics you find interesting and important. To write your own post, visit our Reader Soapbox submission page. Soapbox contributor: Bryan “chAng” Teague Just wanted to give a heads up to everyone that the Hub-Bub’s Soapbox Session will once again take place at... »

There are great collections out there in the world. The art display at the Louvre, the Tutankhamen burial treasure, the books and documents in Library of Congress all are examples of some of the more well-known collections. Then there are the collectors. People from all walks of life who have made it a life passion... »

Each week, we give Spartanburg’s local print media a thorough read-through, and post our thoughts and opinions about what we find. What happened this week? Let’s find out … Headline: Room To Breathe Source: Spartanburg Journal Story: Print only, no online edition In a nutshell: A family in Converse Heights have home woes due to a nearby gas... »

What happened this week in Sparkle City’s vlog-o-sphere? We’ve checked out the recently uploaded YouTube videos tagged with “Spartanburg” to find out. One of the strangest things about YouTube is that things that were formerly done in a clandestine manner — such as a bunch of high-school-aged girls driving out to a girl’s house to... »

Each week, we post a round-up of what happened on the local blogosphere, hoping to educate readers about their online community. This week, however, we’re changing things up a bit. Starting today, and running until next Saturday, we’ll be accepting nominations for the very first Sparkle City Blogger Awards. These awards are for outstanding... »

Here’s the gimmick: Each week, we’ll pick two local bands — an opening act and a headliner — link to a site where you can listen to their songs for free, then ask you to spend a few moments of your precious time to tell us what you think about them. Some may be... »

Each week, we ask you, the readers, to tell us about what you’re excited about doing as the workweek winds down. Of course, it can be awkward to start this kind of conversation cold, so we’ll be the first to go. What are we looking forward to this weekend? »

What was bound to be a fun-filled weekend of good folks and great music quickly turned into the most eventful and memorial few days of my life. On the first weekend of October, I trekked on up to the northern part of Spartanburg County to attend the 16th annual Moonshiners Reunion at the Plum... »

Over the weekend, I spent some time in rapidly renovating downtown Greer. As most of you know, Greer is in a kind of Greenville-Spartanburg limbo, being technically in Greenville County, but sprawling out into Spartanburg County. In terms of the spirit of downtown revitalization, there’s an argument to be made that Greer has more... »

There is one question that, if you are a mom, you will hear thousands of times in your life. If you have more than one child living in your house, raise that number exponentially by the number of kids you have still at home. Age doesn’t seem to matter, as kids just entering kindergarten,... »