"Carolina Arts Unleashed" – Page 31 – A Blog by Tom Starland, Editor/Publisher of Carolina Arts

Tracking the Number of Downloads of the PDF of the April 2011 Issue of Carolina Arts

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Just the other day I was telling someone that the number of downloads for the April issue of Carolina Arts were coming in higher than they were in March, and they were at the time. Then lightening struck or it was a bolt from the Greek god Hubris. Well, there may not be a Greek ... Read More

Columbia, SC’s Spring Arts Festival – Artista Vista – Celebrates 20 Years – Apr. 28-30, 2011

Artista Vista, the Columbia, SC’s, Congaree Vista’s annual gallery crawl, will once again usher in spring in the Midlands from Thursday, Apr. 28 through Saturday, Apr. 30, 2011. The event features special exhibits at each of the participating galleries from 5-9pm on Thursday night and from 11am-5pm on Friday and Saturday. In celebration of Artista ... Read More

The Annual Spring Kiln Opening at Whynot Pottery in Seagrove, NC, Takes Place – Apr. 16 and 17, 2011

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The annual Spring Kiln Opening at Whynot Pottery in Seagrove, NC, will take place on April 16, 10am-5pm and April 17, from 10am-4pm. I know there will be other kiln openings in Seagrove during this time and we’ll get to that, but these folks sent us info and they are good supporters of Carolina Arts. We ... Read More

The Day of April Fools and the Broad Street Art Walk in Charleston, SC

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April 1st for us started on March 31, 2011, at about 10:15pm when we loaded up the April 2011 issue of Carolina Arts on our website at (www.carolinaarts.com) – all 71 pages of it. By midnight I had sent out an e-mail message to our growing list, posted notices on both our blogs,Carolina Arts Unleashed ... Read More

The End of the Month Wrap-Up on the March 2011 Issue of Carolina Arts

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Well, it goes without saying that Carolina Arts had a good month in March – as far as viewers go. We had 45,298 downloads of the PDF of the entire paper. Thank you to all who helped spread the paper around. Of course the big unknown is the (other) category on our statistics final report ... Read More

The April 2011 Issue of Carolina Arts is Now Ready

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The April 2011 issue of Carolina Arts is up on our website at (www.carolinaarts.com) – all 71 pages of it. We had over 45,000 downloads of the March 2011 issue, so you folks will have to work very hard to break that record this month. But, spreading the link around to your e-mail lists and ... Read More

A March Through SC’s Pee Dee Area – Viewing Exhibits Here, There, and Everywhere – Part Two

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Well, after the rush of the day, Linda and I arrive in Florence, SC, fairly early – long before the 5:30pm reception for the Pee Dee Regional Photography Exhibit 2011 – Photofabulous! at the Art Trail Gallery. So, we end up taking a driving tour of Florence, exploring areas where I have never been before. ... Read More

A March Through SC’s Pee Dee Area – Viewing Exhibits Here, There, and Everywhere – Part One

Linda, my better half, and I planned a grand trek to see numerous exhibits on Friday, March 18, 2011, with the end stop being the reception for thePhotofabulous exhibit, the largest collection of photography on display in SC, at the Art Trail Gallery in Florence, SC, which started at 5:30pm. The master plan was to ... Read More

The Accounts Of Our Journey Through SC’s Pee Dee Area Will Have To Be Delayed – The British Are On Our Tail

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I know there might be some folks out there who are waiting to read what I have to say about the trip Linda and I made Friday, March 18, 2011, to Sumter, SC – not in the Pee Dee area and several locations in the Pee Dee, including Hartsville, Darlington and Florence. In fact this ... Read More

How Much Do SC’s Public Workers Get Paid?

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I was surfing through The State newspaper (online version) in Columbia, SC, as I do many Carolina newspapers keeping up with what’s going on and I noticed a headline which has probably been there for months, but for some reason caught my eye today. The headline was, “How much do SC’s public workers get paid?”. ... Read More