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Video-O-Rama: jerk-konz, Teen Reading, Trench Rescue, and Emotional Distress

By Christopher George

It’s Sunday.  If you’re anything like me you need something upbeat to get you up and kicking on this laziest of days.  Keeping that in mind, I thought I’d start this week’s video rundown with something to get us all moving, so here’s the jerk-konz showing us all how the latest hip-hop dance craze... »

Video-O-Rama: Brass Band, Deadlift, Robots And Pole Dancing

By Steve Shanafelt

I suppose it won’t be a huge shock if I reveal that many of the videos uploaded this week relate directly to the Christmas holiday. Of course, now that Christmas is over, the last thing many of us really want to think about is more red-and-green costumes, carols, gifts and all the stuff we... »

Video-O-Rama: Marching Band, Cheerleading, Drinking Liberally, And The Antibodies

By Steve Shanafelt

You know, members of the high school marching band tend to get a lot of flack for being kind of nerdy. They generally wear kind of dorky uniforms and have to put on bizarre displays and marching routines while performing music that generally isn’t of the sort that actual high schoolers listen to. Yet,... »

Video-O-Rama: Art, Torture and Strip Teases

By Steve Shanafelt

If you’ve been to downtown Spartanburg recently, chances are you’ve seen various bicycle-related art on street corners on parks. It’s part of the ArtCycle initiative, which is a joint venture by Spartanburg Creative Energy, Hub-Bub.com, Spartanburg Art Museum and Partners for Active Living to promote (not surprisingly) creativity, art and bike culture in the... »

Video-O-Rama: January 11, 2008

By Steve Shanafelt

Missed out on a drunken New Years celebration where you watched some fireworks in a parking lot, went inside and listened as a random guy tells more-or-less unfunny jokes to you? Ever want to see what oh-so-rumored-about local club Ground Zero is really like? Have about six-and-a-half minutes to kill in a place where... »

Silliness at the Opera: Converse College presents “The Mikado”

By Lydia Anthony

Tonight is opening night for The Mikado, the fall production of the Converse Opera Theatre. It will run this weekend only, starting at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday and at 2:30pm on Sunday. Come early to catch the “Opera Talk” with Ross Magoulas, who will discuss the Mikado’s plot, its writers, Gilbert and Sullivan, and... »

Spark Question: Weekend plans?

By Steve Shanafelt

Each week, we ask you — our dear readers — to tell us what you’ve got lined-up for the weekend. Are you planning to check out local acoustic-rock act Hindsight (performing with Brandywine) at the HUB-BUB on Friday? Wanting to get your thrash on at tomorrow’s Lecherous Nocturne CD-release at Ground Zero more your speed?... »

Review: Spartanburg Little Theatre’s “Peter Pan”

By Steve Shanafelt

As often as not, community-theater productions of Peter Pan are horrible. Few people outside the theater community ever talk about this, of course, because it can seem deeply cruel to talk bad about, say, a particular 7-year-old’s performance simply wasn’t up to snuff because he got scared and vomited all over the girl who... »