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10.22.09
Friends remember Liza Johnson

Compassion, energy and a deep love of life, people, animals, the arts and Charleston. The people who knew and loved Liza Johnson will remember all of these things along with each personal connection she had with everyone in her life.

10.22.09
In the land of the Wild Things
Unless you were raised by parents who were too scared to scare you, there was a copy of “Where the Wild Things Are” on your bookshelf or in your bed sheet fort. So upon learning the beloved 1963 book was being adapted to film, a certain amount of apprehension was not unfounded. Film adaptations rarely do justice to their parent projects. This is even truer of children’s classics. The recent Dr. Seuss book adaptations might have the doctor rolling over in his grave. And even Alvin and the Chipmunks had a great Christmas song before they became rapping CGI rodents.
10.14.09
Skeptics in the Holy City:

Atheism is not a new thing. For as long as there has been a belief in a god or gods, there have been people to deny it. Yet now there is a movement being labeled “New Atheism.”  It’s a community, however disjointed and spread about, of nonbelievers and freethinkers. Some are quiet, “closet” atheists. Others are forthright in their non-belief. More now than ever, atheists have a say. Even here, in the “Holy City” of South Carolina, the “buckle of the Bible belt,” they are making their voice heard.