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First Time Rail Reader? Great! We luv when that happens! From our ‘08 Summer Staff, The Supreme Masters of
“Money’s Worth” Relaxed Living of the World, We’d Like to welcome Y’all to our little neighborhood..,
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Welcome Folks.., to one of the Low Country’s finest hours. If you don’t find something inside that moves you,
there’s a very good chance that you may be dead. Otherwise, we’d like to welcome the good folks of..,
Hilton Head, B’Town, Daufuskie, Moss Creek, Buckingham, Heritage Lakes, Colleton River, Sawmill Forest, Westbury park, Woodbridge,
The Farm, Lake Linden and now Pineridge. Welcome, you’ve got Rail! – Rail staff 2008 –
October-2008
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Rail 2008 Staffers
The Woman
Gene InSide: October-2008 -Fall kicks
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HelpWanted
like to read long
last little complaint an’ it’s not like the drawn out missives, so here's the execu- that, here’s an interesting fact or two
last one was any less important but tive summary. about war that protesters and passivist
the fact of the matter is that these McCain:Congress-26yrs. Military 22Years should consider.
days are tough enough without having The historian Will Durant calculated that
Local Leaders everbuddy including the wizards at the
Obama: Congress-143 days. Military 0
Just think how great a professional of there have been only 29 years in all of
human history during which a war was not
“Town” whining out loud. OkieDokie? any kind you could be with only 143 days
The working folks of Hilton Head of experience!!! People want change so under way somewhere. Rather than being
Everyday is trying, wearing, frustrating
Island are seeking intelligent, civic bad? Maybe we should lower the experi- aberrations, war and tyranny expose a
and awesome all at the same time an’ side of human nature that is masked by
minded individuals for the purposes of ence requirement for doctors, lawyers,
we’re all living in a World where the the often unacknowledged constraints
serving a local government that will airline pilots, etc. This would cause some
cards being dealt may not be real pret- that glue society together. Our cultivated
address the growing problems and change! Just how much Senate experi-
ty but doesn’t it make sense to at least conventions and little lies of civility lull us
needs of the Community today. ence does Barack Obama have in terms
think about doin’ anything a body can of actual work days? Not much. From the into a refined and idealistic view of our-
Applicants must be prepared to
do to make it better the least of which time Barack Obama was sworn in as a selves. But look at our last two decades—
work on a full time basis and be 2 million dead in the war in Afghanistan,
is to cease and desist with all the United States Senator, to the time he
responsive to the expressed concerns 1.5 million dead in the fighting in Sudan,
going around crying out loud all the announced he was forming a Presidential
of all constituents including but not some 800,000 butchered in the 90-day
time for Christ sake? Damn right it does good exploratory Committee, he logged 143
limited to the members of each major slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus
buddy! days of experience in the Senate.
Industry in the order of it’s population. That's how many days the Senate was by soldiers and militias directed by the
To insure that the future Mayors and actually in session and working. The one Hutu government in Rwanda, a half-mil-
“Town” Councilmen ultimately elected Reason’s Horizon single Senate committee that he headed lion dead in Angola, a quarter of a million
dead in Bosnia, 200,000 dead in
will not be shills or otherwise parti- never even met once. After 143 days of
san–subjective–race or gender based, work experience, Obama believed he was Guatemala, 150,000 dead in Liberia, a
Well what else are we gonna do quarter of a million dead in Burundi,
all trial lawyers, preachers, bankers after all’s said an’ done at the end of ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader
of the Free World, and fill the shoes of 75,000 dead in Algeria, at least 600,000
and sub-division developers need not the day but sort’a grin an’ bend an
Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald dead in Iraq, the fighting in Colombia, the
apply. Please email your resumé elbow to these contempory women Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Chechnya, Sri
along with a recent photo to: Reagan. Think about it ....... 143 days --
that have finally conjured up one of Lanka, southeastern Turkey, Sierra
firethemall@hargray.com 20.4 weeks -- 4.7 months ..Our children
their own that’s more than merely wor- spend more time in pre-school getting Leone, Northern Ireland, Kosovo. Civil
Does anybuddy know what this hillbilly’s talking war, brutality, ideological intolerance, con-
thy enough for the National political ready for kindergarten.
about here?
arena but long overdue? The name’s spiracy and murderous repression are the
Palin and we opine her not only a tiny daily fare for all but the privileged few in
Philosophical
Has The “Town” little ray of hope but heads and shoul-
War Wax
the industrialized world.
In short, Americans should take a
ders above any other “minority” effort
Gone Bust? we ever saw which th’ point we hope
To:railmail@hargray moment to realize that the reason we
Fwd From: mac-n-ellie @ don’t have a war rageing in this Country is
to make here sooner or later is that because we have taken it to them and
Now ain’t it special that the wizards
Franklin’s got his face in a smirk all Considering that Republicans ruled the that makes it all worth it to me.
at the “Town” are finally thinking ahead
about how duh Dems have seemed to
for a change referrin’ of course to their
have somehow forgotten the strong
latest force-fed September 29 Packet
probablity that Martin Luther King was
piece re. “Shrinking revenue forces
a Republican an’ just keep on claiming
the island to prioritize public projects”
to be the undisputed champions for
which suddenly reveals that all that
every black man, woman and child in
previous “vision” was more myopic
this Country while BHO just keeps on
than anything and all regular/irregu-
quoting the man at every turn which is
lar/occasional Rail readers have to
pretty funny when ya’ get to thinking
know we been ranting about it for
about it? (see pg 6) Damned sure is good
years and that the Headline should’ve
buddy, damned sure is!
read more like “Shrinking revenue
forces the “Town” to seek more
sources of Revenue” which is what ✳❋IG❊ILI Island Rail
they’re thinking as we speak on
account’a it’ll pretty soon be time for M❏II❍❙I❘➠◗I❊❘❙
the one time only bonuses and cost of
living pay increases that “Town”
L❊I❙❚MG❖M❚✒✫❙ Rail ✹✬ ❀❊GL
staffers get every year don’t ya’ know?
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(More pg 22) Is this guy some sort of derivitive or ❊IL❊I◗GL✒
atavistic pull OR what?
– Rail Staff 2008 –
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Frailties Of The Human Condition
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– William Shakespeare–
Op Ed
For Thinking
Out Loud
By C James, HHI
Incredible is just not enough of a word come out of the bad in the case of many ed that limiting the number of liquor per-
of the descendents of slavery in the Of course, this will never mits would be a good place to start. A
for the times. It conjures up a curious sit-
uation when considering what the present United States. Look at the wealthy black happen. The reparations decade or so ago, when there were about
economic scenario does to yesterday’s families around our little paradise, crowd wants to "acknowl- 50 less bars and restaurants, each one
priorities and to this writer at least, it’s a This is not to excuse the act or to white- edge the tragic parts" of was busy during the Summer months at
difinitive plus. For most Americans today, wash the motives, but reparations are not our history while conve- least. Perhaps, with the economy such as
yesterday’s priorities left much to be about that. Reparations are about making it is today, having 50 less F&B installa-
financially whole... and whole is necessar-
niently forgetting that tions wouldn’t make that great a differ-
desired. Relativly speaking of course, but America is the nation that
no longer are we seeing the mainstream ily determined by what the financial status ence but it would be making some. Ditto
media’s daily barrage of what they would be without the grievous act. has provided the most for housing. Is there an obvious reason
declared to be in the hearts and minds of Without the heinous act of the slave trade, opportunities to it's citi- that there are so many houses sitting
the masses just a few months ago. many if not most or all of the descendents zens, regardless of the cir- empty on the market? We think so. Is
Compared to today’s major concerns, of slavery would be far worse off today, cumstances of their arrival. there anyone to blame except a munici-
yesterday’s glaring headlines come off as living in African nations with extreme pality that refused to apply the least bit of
irrelevent, trivial pursuits. Heated issues poverty rampant. Very few, in fact, would “vision” to little more than feathering their
Jackson, Al Sharpton and Jeremiah
such as the war, immigration, the gender trade places with the descendents of the own pockets?
Wright.
wars and same sex marriage have given blacks who were the sellers. One glaring problem as we see it, with
Of course, this will never happen. The
it up to this election and what’s in your And the proof? Well, there are no walls the exception of the HH Hospitality
reparations crowd wants to "acknowledge
wallet? Most people simply have bigger keeping folks in America (or out for that Assoc., the “Town’s personal pet project,
the tragic parts" of our history while con-
fish to fry and one of the biggest is catch- matter, but that's another issue). the F&B Industry is not, nor has it ever
veniently forgetting that America is the
ing more fish. Theoretically, to make reparations been, factored into the bigger “con-
nation that has provided the most oppor-
This is not to imply that these “issues” absolutely fair, those African Americans stituents” picture. “Town” leaders have
tunities to it's citizens, regardless of the
are in any way obsolete, but while they who have struck it rich (white liberals never shown Hospitality F&B the same
circumstances of their arrival.
have seemingly been pushed to a back would call this "winning lifes's lottery") deference as Building and Mortgage com-
burner, a few once back burnered are now would have to pay the rest of the panies have received even though
back on the table and racial equality and American citizens the difference between These Little Town Blues Hospitality, from beach to bars/restau-
“reperations” among them. what their net worth is now and what it rants, to golf, resorts/villa rentals and
could have reasonably been without them Our leaders at the “Town” have been ground transportation companies, employ
Obviously, the slave trade involving the
living in this country. In other words silent for the most part since this little eco- about 2/3rds of the working residents on
United States, (where the buyers were
Oprah, Michael, Bill Cosby... get out your nomic meltdown became inarguable and Hilton Head.
white but the sellers were black, by the
checkbooks. Uh, you too Obama, Jesse with the exception of the BCSO, public Hospitality appears to have been little
way) was an evil enterprise. But good has
officials in general seem to be lying dor- more than a source of revenue for our
mant, doing nothing. No new visions or local leaders all these years, while being
“studies” being touted. Do they now real- ignored as a segment that receives equal
ize what long lasting effect their past MO consideration such as the “Town’s” con-
has had on the local economy? Does it stituents. F&B is however targeted heavi-
cross their minds that they are more than ly by code enforcement officers whose job
a bit responsible for the tough times most descriptions include driving the streets
businesses are experiencing here locally? seeking signage and color code infrac-
The feeding frenzy created by real estate tions. Fees and fines, Is that the total
esculations and the building and mort- worth? Granted, there are no restaurant
gage companies running amoc to acco- owners or chefs sitting on “Town” council.
modate without the least bit of considera- F&B is not represented in any way. One
tion that it would sooner or later come to might argue that Hospitality business
an end. So much for “vision”. Each major owners or managers have never stepped
Industry from Hospitality to Building to up to the plate which would be a good
Banking is in the tank but daily headlines arguement had not the retired community,
regarding what’s being done here at the building and mortgage banking com-
home are nonexistant. Not a peep. Where munities been so blatently deferred to and
are their visions now? Where’s the effort? Hospitality relegated to the position of a
Are they waiting for the Federal revenue source.
Government bailout?
This publication has for years advocat-
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Each day, animals throughout the
forests, wetlands and beaches are dying.
Each month the Rail will be featuring one
of these diminishing animals.
Piping Plover
(Charadrius melodus)
The Piping Plover is generally five and a
half inches long and is a small shorbird. It has a short, stubby tail, pale gray or
white underparts, a white collar, a dark bill, and orange legs. Sometimes Piping
Plovers have thin black breast bands, orange bases to dark bills, black lines from
eye to eye across the forehead, and gray crowns.
mark@sc.gov. Geeks • Gadgets • Digital Goodies
should be faster are indeed faster. Installing
apps is quicker than ever, and we don't see FYI re. Bad Weather Power
the traditional installation hang when the
process is 95 percent completed. We During a major storm, it could be vital to be able to stay in touch with the out-
haven't had a chance to put every one of side world so give this a little thought.
our apps through extensive tests just yet, • Cordless phones require electricity and will not continue to work during a power
but games and other apps that frequently outage.
crashed before are performing much better • Cellular systems and towers are not required to provide back-up power, so cell
so far. phones may not operate during a power outage.
Wrist Watch
Digital/Video Camera
More ways to sneakily take pictures or video of
other people is found with the Covert Wrist Watch
Digital Camera and Video Camera! It is a wrist
watch with a covert digital camera and video cam-
era built-in. It will take up to 312 “full color, excellent
Grins: I see says the blind man
resolution” photos or about 10 minutes of video. It Two blonde nuns are ordered to paint a room in the convent, and
comes with a USB dock to contact it to your com- the last instruction of the Mother Superior is that they must not get
puter for downloading.
even a drop of paint on their habits. After conferring about this for a
Specs: while, the two nuns decide to lock the door of the room, strip off their
• Storage Memory Size: 8M • Number Of Photos: 640 X 480 Mode: 78 Photos habits, and paint naked. In the middle of the project, there comes a
Number Of Photos: 320 X 240 Mode: 312 Photos • Aperture: 2.8 • 1/4th Inch Fixed Lens knock at the door. Who is it?' calls one of the nuns.
• Exposure Mode: Auto • White Balance: Auto • Soft-Timer Delay: 10 Seconds 'Blind man,' replies a voice from the other side of the door.
• Image Sensor: 1/4 inch CMOS • Modes: Single/ Self timer/ Continuous Shot
• Exposure Speed: 1/60 Second - 1/1500 Second • Two Frame Rates: 12 frames Per Second The two nuns look at each other and shrug, both deciding that no
Or 8 Frames Per Second • Weigh: 47 g • Operation System: wIN98/200/ ME/ XP harm can come from letting a blind man into the room, they open the
door. 'Nice boobs,' says the man, 'Where do you want the blinds? aw
( $69.95) man.
Political Junkie Opinions are like what?
Little Joe The 2008 Presidential race just keeps
6 Pack on getting dirtier by the day and MSM
seems to love every minute. How
at your service
about you?
Little Joe fan? Let us hear. railmail@hargray.com
• www.islandrail.sc
McCain/Palin the power of 7. She wants to drill for more oil in the fed-
eralized wilderness areas of her state. It's
Of Art exist.
Artists are generally very liberal because
peers, and won't dent their
own fortunes for the sake
good or self-promoting enough. Conser-
vatives have a problem with artists, just as
By JD Tuccilli most can't afford decent housing, private most artists have a problem with conser-
education for their children, medical of their own kind, but are vatives. Artists are generally very liberal
Islanders of a 20 years or more may recall expenses, or retirement funds. They tend more than ready to raise a because they can't afford decent housing,
the days when the number of full time pro- not to be religious anymore, so they can't working family's taxes. private education for their children, med-
fessional authors, artists and musicians ical expenses, or retirement funds. They
reap mega fortunes apparently don't care
tend not to be religious anymore, so they
a whit about their struggling peers, and
can't ask such communities for help, so
won't dent their own fortunes for the sake
they turn to government.
of their own kind, but are more than ready
The conservative vision of every man
to raise a working family's taxes. As long
under his own fig tree simply doesn't work
as we have a large, educated, creative, but
when it comes to people who are willing to
under-employed class of artists in
struggle and strive for the sake of develop-
America, there will be a huge propaganda
ing their craft and desire for mastery of cre-
machine directed with energy and hostility
ative work. It easy enough to say, "tough
at conservative values, tradition, and natu-
luck, hard world." But they aren't buying.
ral law.
could be counted on one’s fingers. Just ask such communities for help, so many
one writer’s opinion of course, but today turn to government.
there are so many that they actually Artists don't really care about the poor
appear to be influencing the way our little except that it helps them to make an argu-
paradise is perceiving itself. ment for their own needs. You don't see
Artists have long and sadly accepted the Barbra Streisand or Steven Spielberg
general proposition that they cannot pur- offering to create a huge endowment fund
sue a vocation in the arts and expect to be for starving actors out of their own vast
liquid or create much equity. No, “starving wealth. No, they prefer that ordinary peo-
artist” is not a misnomer or stereotype. ple pay for starving actors' and artists'
People only get to become great (or very needs through the government programs
good) at an art by doing it full time. But most liberals love. The very few artists who
doing so means they most likely scrape to
The success of Diamond Club GM John Laney’s annual benefit Tourney protends anoth-
MMA: er active cool weather golf season that should be brisk in spite of the pump pain as
reduced green fees, discounted Resort/Hotels & F&B steal deals make HH a bargain.
Just Not apparel company’s new direction.
Cutting Golden Boy attempted to The original headlining act at “Day of
reschedule the bout to
It? Reckoning” between Arlovski and Barnett
Affliction’s Big An-nouncement: Deal with take place on the Cops &Jocks
Golden Boy?
Men’s
Rules!
REEL FLIX
Frances McDormand and
George Clooney. They also Bottle Shock is a pleasant come- Classic Film Quotes:
Burn After introduce Brad Pitt to their
cinematic family, and he does
dy that is based on a true story and
set against the same backdrop as
When all was black & white
• Now Recorded/LOCAL•
The Rail’s Local talent watch series is pleased to feature a compila-
tion of Jazz standards featuring South of the Broad’s top names.
Pick up a copy at the Jazz Corner, located at Wexford Village on
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By Cork James
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Summer Session
2008
Chinese Year of The Rat?
No doubt!
Is No News
G ood News? undoubtedly portends additional burdens
on every business owner on Hilton Head.
The September 29 piece re. “Shrinking
We opine on occasion, but historically
revenue forces the island to prioritize pub-
speaking not when it comes to the “Town”
lic projects”, ostensibly penned by Tim
of Hilton Head and the lengths they’ve
Donnelly, declares that “a major shake-
been known to go in order to enforce their
up of the town's capital improvements
“visions”. The cards being dealt these
program is expected”.
days are not the best but that doesn’t
The message, as traditionally revealed
mean that most F&B installation
between the lines, doesn’t bode well for
owner/GM’s aren’t making the best of
business owners which ultimately means
such an imperceivable deal which has
that every Islander presently employed
currently become even more obscure as
may be facing yet greater challenges to a
our municipal leaders have suddenly
day to day existance that has already
resulted in the tightest belts that local
F&B Business own- working residents have ever had to live
ers/GM’s Island-wide with.
If Not For
Beer?
there would be no
white, fat boys that
could dance!
✭❊❖✼❚❙•Music• ✭❊❖✼❚❙ •Posh Nosh• ✭❊❖✼❚❙ •NiteLifeNewz• pg 25
✭❊❖✼❚❙•Chow• ✭❊❖✼❚❙ •New Tires• ✭❊❖✼❚❙ •NiteLifeNewz• pg 26
& Bars
New bars/restaurants , latest cuisine offer-
At such a time when daily reminders
of tight money and economic woes
dominate the media its ironic that
Hilton Head has most recently mor-
ings and live music venue line-ups
phed into more of a mainstream enter-
– Updated monthly – tainment destination.
Clockwise from the top-Comedian Pat Godwin opens at the HH Comedy Club Oct H H Comedy
WiseGuys: Located two 28, the Free Shots and The Daley Jam will alternate Wednesdays @ Remy’s, Club:
doors down from Frankie Bones on the cheap transportation is all the rage w/ new fashion to boot, The Jazz Corner is New to the rock and charging straight
278 side of the Main Street complex got breathing fresh air on stage Sundays with regular appearances by the Permanant ahead with their first sold out performance
doors open last month and a drop-in for Tourists and in the Kitchen with the addition of new Chef Mark Gaylord. More on 2 wks after getting doors open in August is
cocktails revealed another signature Gaylord on page 29. Vegas transplant & comedienne John
SERG presentation of soft lighting, dark- Biddle & partner Michael Paskevich with
woods and subtle colors in keeping with Island’s latest of a growing number of spawned and will be able to cater to the the new HH Comedy Club featuring high
SERG dark spots like the Brick Oven, beautiful dance and live music venues maximum capacity off 500. Week-day energy Vegas/W-Coast touring acts w/a
Marley’s and Frankie Bones. The mantra and long-time Islanders may recall plans now include steal deal beverages zany visual emphasis and fast action
“BigWines • SmallPlates translates to 20- Octavio Campo of Club Life and The Zoo with $1 Vodkas and $2 drafts on audience participation.
plus predominately seafood items ranging -Sav- fame who laid out and designed this Thursdays there.
from $5 to $12 and a 125 bottle wine list. spot and will be handling general man-
agement as well as the recorded and live Station 70: is the main-
XO Lounge: Located in music line-up which will feature local Shoreline:@The Ocean land’s most unique offering with a never
theHilton Resort the all new and very posh bands on Wed & Thur nights there. Center at Beach and Tennis –formerly before heard of firefighter’s motif and a
XO Lounge and HH Prime Steakhouse Kings Wharf– has completed a total ren- stage built over the bar which gives the
has added local appeal to what has for novation of the main ballroom and the all entireroom a clear shot of the bands
years been a fave dance spot for the 55- Rock City: is an all new new Zone Sports Bar –formerly the there. Formerly One Hot Mama’s B’Town
plus set but with the recent addition of and diff concert formatted DarkSpot - Station 70 is the mainlands latest frugal
Kings Wharf Tavern – and will for a forth
acts such as John Wassem a younger set located in B’Town behind the DMV on minded menu and live music offering now
is apparently being targeted there. month feature Nat’l talent at the
Persimmon St- and we have to give it up featuring Spike Irish on Open Mic
to Mitch Trupia for having the juevos to Shoreline Ballroom there. The Zone is
Tuesdays, local bands Sats and serving
venture such a concept during this shakey the latest N-end bar and with the recent
from 11am til weekdays as well as hosting
Prana: formerly Club Paradise, economic era. Rock City is easily the addition of the Billiard Room is becoming an all day biker jam on Sundays there.
opened doors in August to reveal the largest night club B’Town has ever one of the North Island’s hottest spots.
785 7006
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Hours
❀IPG❙◗I✏❂❙➠I✰❙ Rail's
•❀MP❍ ❀M❘❑ ✘✑✛ is one of the
Island's most consistant top happy
hour spots offering 2fers on Tuesdays
No Ad Driven BS Guide! and daily beer and cocktail stealdeals.
From 278 take SP(O) and go left 12
Local’s of less than 10 years or so blocks w/eyes (R) to Circle Center.
won’t recall the days when happy Can’t miss it. Say hello to bar
hour usually meant comped finger staffers Heath, Chris, Easy & and
foods. As w/few exceptions now a Mike Taylor in the kitchen there.
thing of the past what’s since evolved
is the steal deal HH offering that looks ❼✽LI✵❙❍❑I most recent week-day
and eats like a meal. Here are our 4-7 pm happy hour deal is one of
pics for the best of the best posh nosh Fall-08’s most frugal minded offerings
spots for Fall/Winter 2007. re. $3 wells, imported pints & well tinis
accentuated by $2 domestics & 1/2-
❼ ✼M❚I 5:30 - 6:30 may be the off apps there. Take 278 straight
shortest happy hour offering but thru SP Circle to 1st drive-L
makes it up quite nicely with a $5 w/eye’s right. Say hey to Tony
apps menu and $2 bucks off all cock- there.
tails at the bar there.
Take 278 to Seapines circle--2nd ✬❊❚❊M❘ ❀❙❙❍➠ ✘✑✛ has been a
exit -- to first street and left 1 block traditional local’s fave bar offering for
with eyes Left. years now featuring in-house soups &
large portioned apps, $2 domestics
❼✶IPP❙✶L❙❙◗has it going on What could be more important than getting your money’s worth $2.50 import beers, $2.50 cocktails
for the Spring season with a 3-6pm these days? M-Fri 4-7 Woody’s will be hotter than
stealdeal offering of $1 slices and ever throughout the cool months.
Shroom Brews 3-7 accentuated by $3 From 278 headed East take First exit
wells and $2 vodka on Thur after 9pm ✶❊PI➠all new warm weather 5-7 area. Say hello to Jaimie Greenier
off SP(O) to the 2nd light (R) then
there. offering will go 7 days a week there in the front of the house there.
1st (L) to Palmetto Bay Marina w/
Take 278 to Seapines circle--2nd featuring $2.50 Ritas/Mojitas/house eyes (R). Say hellow to Russel and
exit -- to first street and left and vinos and $1.50 drafts accentuated by ❼✬❊PP❊L❊❘➠ still flourishing at the
Shannon.
immediate right with eye's straight $2.50 chicken enchiladas and fish beginning of a 5th year under new
tacos there. Take 278 through ownership/GM is back up and running
ahead. Say hello to John and Kim ✻IMPPI☛✑✼ has been one of the
Boyce in the front of the house Seapines circle--half way around-- this Fall with what we have to believe
Island's longest running and most tra-
there. to first street left and immediate the most diverse frugal minded HH
ditional 7day 4-7 Happy Hours and
right with eye's right for parking offering featuring the now traditional
continues to be one of the most frugal
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half-off apps acentuated by $2 wells
minded re. $2 well cocktails and true
& 1$ draft..
beer lover's destination offering of a
Pass MM#10 & (L) @ New Orleans
number of fine imports @ $2 at the
Rd go 1/4 mi w/ eyes left. say hey to
bar only there. Pass MM # 10 to SP
Jessie behind the bar.
circle and around to 1st Left
✻I◗➠ new location at Heritage w/eyes Right. Say hello to Booth,
Plaza on Pope Avenue offers one of Keith and Shane behind the bar
the Island’s better steal deal happy there.
hours featuring 1/2 dz Buffalo Shrimp
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water shrimp @3$, 10oz Crab legs hour doin’s is the latest for Fall-08 and
@$4, Blue Crab @$1 each and offers Palmetto Bay Marina’s most
accentuated by discounted beer and frugal minded steal-deals re. $3 Ritas
cocktails Mon-Sat there. From 278 and Hurricanes, $2.50 house vinos
take Seapines circle to Pope ave, L and $2 off all wells accentuated by
on Lagoon, L @ 2nd drive& straight $9.99 Crablegs, $2.49 fish or shrimp
up or around to the L and park. tacos and $5.99 1/2 lb peel and eat
local shrimp.
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Chilada’s will maintain the status quo (R) then 1st (L) to Palmetto Bay
this Fall via Crab legs @ $7 Lb., $3 Marin). Say hellow to Kim in the
steamed clam dishes and $1 tacos front of the house.
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From Rail Staff Reports
Island residents have voiced their choice once again and it gives us great pleasure to bring you the restau-
rants and eateries that year’round residents loved and recommended the most in 2007..,
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•Sage Room •Jazz Corner •Kurama’s • Charlies’L • Marley’s •Hinoki’s • PB Sunrise Cafe • Tapas •CQ’s
•Stellini’s • Red Fish • Sea Shack • Stripes • Mi Tierra • Alligator Grille • Michael Anthony’s • Frankie
Bones •Truffels • Catch 22 • Reilley’s-S • Captain Woody’s • San Miguels • Santa Fe Cafe
were just that. But at the same time, we
also realized that while these were usual- Editor Notz: Monty Preiser is the
ly politically driven, that they were never- founder of the Hilton Head chapter of
About The Island’s theless recommendations for one or
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the American Institute of Wine and
more of these same 50 or so restaurants
and potentially good sources when can- Food.
did opinions could be gleened from vari-
ous information offered. Long-time
& TableTops concierges and timeshare dealers usual-
a few seldom Asked Questions.., ly eat out more than the average Island
resident and via experience knows some-
While staying abreast of the Island's
thing about the best of the best.
most recommended restaurants, particu-
larly in poshy, tourista driven resort areas
like Hilton Head, we've had to face the
fact that perhaps the biggest challenge,
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Rail’s
second only to re-checking source lists For Top Tables 2008 In an 2007 year’round resident’s poll
and suggested rosters of legit con- Marley’s was selected as one of
tenders, has been weighing the various Elbows are bent for the good
HH’s Top Tables. Marley’s Co-owner
reasons why particular individuals recom- folks @ Rob Jordan pictured above.
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mend the eateries they do, and how their
motivations might apply to what we're try-
ing to accomplish. Consider at least the whole wood
The other 230 or so, seem much clos- grilled fish of the day; the delicious
er to a tourist format and tend only to 35 OFFICE PARK RD. (PARK spicy tuna sashimi (more like a tar-
include rather than embrace the Islander.
PLAZA) 686-5800 tar); the butternut squash soup; the
And if we may be so bold, we've further sesame seared yellowfin tuna; the
observed that the savvy restauranteur will By Monty Preiser
With a style that is quasi-Caribbean, sugar cane scallops; and the Cuban
primarily target the Island resident, which
and food that is fresh and flavorful style steak in lime, garlic, cilantro, and
also attracts a particular breed of tourist,
and considers the annual bridge market due to the wood-fired hickory grill and cumin. But the menu is vast (with so
as the gravey. the deft use of spices, Marleys has many choices we can't see how the
Restaurant owners and Chefs have carved a niche for itself among a chef can prepare them all well,
their own particular reasons just as do though what we recommended above
broad clientele. Take all of that and
longtime residents priding themselves in were expertly served), so you will
having tested the waters of every restau- add a nice wine list, a rum bar, well
made martinis, and an attractive have no trouble finding something
rant on Hilton Head. We realized from the
start that politically driven recommenda- room, and you have the elements of a you desire. The service is quite effi-
tions from resort concierges, time-share very nice evening. cient and very pleasant, but the ever-
dealers or the Chamber of Commerce present crowd slows things down.
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during NFL and MLB seasons. Take SP
Local Bar UpDates: July-08 circle to Pope Ave and U-turn @
Lagoon & 2 blks w/eyes (R).
LocalBars
Located via 278 Mile Markers
Callahan’s Featuring a money’s worth
median priced lunch and brisk 4-7pm
happy hour Callahan’s casual dinner
offerings ranging from $6 to $10 and post
Traditionally, a genuine Island local bar
midnight burgers and finger food makes
was characterized by peaked bottom lines
this long-time local’s destination one of
during the off-months and reflecting the
the most popular year’round. Pass MM
year's slowest as May thru August.
#10 & left on New Orleans and 1/2 mile
However this year’s recession atmos-
w/ eye’s left.
phere has most posting weaker #’s and as
After 20 years of local bar status The
many longtime residents tend to stay clos-
Earl Of Sandwich remains a regular des-
er to the house during the warm months
tination for S-end locals seeking familiar
citing the crowds, the traffic, awful drivers
faces. From the seapines circle take
etc. this Summer’s pump pain is shaping
Pope ave & go (L)@ lagoon Rd. and (R)
up to be the slowest in many years.
@ 1st drive past Rollers to the end with
eye’s (L)
As the N-end’s latest The Zone located
at Beach and Tennis is one of a handful
doing steady numbers along w/the heavy
boosts from the new Shoreline’s concert
nights is combining for some of the better
local bar numbers Island-wide. Happy
Adult
Hour offerings 4-8 as well as 10-2am fea-
tures $1.50 house drafts, $2.00 Rum and
Vodkas, and daily 1/2 price appetizers
running daily from 4-8pm there. Go 278
from either direction and take the turn
@ Folly Field Rd-3 blocks to Beach &
Tennis & (R) w/eyes (L)
Tn year’round local bar status has become recently reached local bar status and
Remy’s has no doubt reestablished apparent. much like the Earl’s annual
itself and long time Islanders are taking to From any approach take the Summer/Tourista to off-season/locals
the new diggs very well. Maintaining con- SeaPines circle to Greenwood Drive to transition caters to a mid-aged group early
sistency from the meat and 3 lunch offer- first (L) w/eyes (R) w/entrance behind and the 21-25 set post midnight
ing, a $5 happy hour menu offering and Reilley’s-S. there.Take SP circle down Pope Ave
regularly scheduled live music Mon- The Wild Wing Cafe continues to be and (L) on Lagoon & (R) @ 3rd drive-
Saturday nights there.
From the seapines circle take Pope ave
one of the S-end’s hotter local spots fea- way. Eyes straight ahead OK for park- Destinations
turing live entertainment Wed-Fri-Sat & ing@ Nash Drugs after 7pm.
& go (L)@ lagoon Rd. w/a quick (L) @ Sun accentuated by the Island’s most fru- The Drydock has over the past 13 hee Diamond Club has been an integral
1st drive past the bike shop to the end gal minded menu, -never a cover-. (see years become one of the North-eastern part of the nightlife of Hilton Head Island
with eye’s straight ahead. back cover) 278 to Seapine's circle and transplanted local's regular destinations for the past six years and as the only com-
Park Plaza’s Tavern On The Park 3/4's around to Pope Avenue, go half and home away from home for many NY petitor in adult nightlife re. Club Paradise
maintains a regular post shift F&B desti- mile to circle center complex w/ eyes Yankee fans. The Dock’s frugal minded closed doors permanently in July is once
nation due to a consistant menu and when R. Say hello to Brian Corey behind the lunch and early dinner specials by Chef again the only game in town. The beauti-
the live music plays Thu, Fri and Sat bar there. John will run throughout the Winter there. ful women that this popular adult gentle-
there. From any approach take the Hinchey's Chi Bar is one of the 278 to Seapine's circle and 3/4's man’s club attracts have wowed anyone
SeaPines circle to Greenwood Drive to South-end working local's fave wee hour around to Pope Avenue and left at the who is an island native or a frequent year-
the 1st street and L to 2nd Park Plaza destinations featuring the real music from 2nd street re. Pope Ave Executive Park ly visitor. All of these beautiful women are
entrance w/eyes straight ahead. around midnight on Mon-Thur and w/eye's R. dancing all night for your pleasure and
While The Lodge was initially format- Sunday nights there. Take Seapines cir- While Aunt Chilada’s long time enjoyment. The gowns are stunning.
ted and generally most frequented during cle to Pope Ave, go to the end re. year’round gathering gets interrupted dur- These ladies know how to dress to
the off-season’s cooler months this cozy Coligny Circle and 3/4's around with an ing the warm season this bar nevertheless impress. They all know how to treat a gen-
Barmuda Triangle nightlife destination has immediate right at the first drive for has a loyal patronage envied by most Irish tleman. Have a drink with a southern belle
over the past few years acquired such a convenient underground parking. and Sport’s bar formats due to the 4-7 or an exotic princess.
substantial regular clientele base that The Frosty Frog now in a 7th year has happy hour and all the action taking place Located on Dunnagan’s Alley @
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spots like The Golden Rose, The Crows on there.
Nest ---now The Marriott Grand Ocean on
SFB-Scarlet O’Hara’s -now the Hilton Friday’s: is of course the SOTB’s
XO- The Old Post Office -now Adelphia hottest real music night and Tavern On
Cable Co on Pope- Jim’s Paradise -now The Park late with Cliff Swanson gets fair
Mezzaluna Restaurant, and Remy’s crowds, early performances at the Big
were just about all of the off-seaon Bamboo featuring The Beagles and
options there were. Martin Lesch Trio at Remy’s will likely
make for 3 of the most locals frequented
Monday: Slim pickin’s this month as Friday nite destinations. The Permanent
The Jazz Corner maintains regular Tourists carry over this month at Stages
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and B’Town’s all new Station 70-former-
ly One Hot Mama’s will feature Karaoke
by “Big B” and the Wild WIng will keep
Music, Wine, Food & Bodies add Monday night options and at HHI. regional bands -see display ad back
(Not Ad Driven/UpDated August 25-08) Hinchey’s ‘round midnight with local fave cover- and continues to offer some of the
Last month’s nightly bar surf found
sax-man/entertainer Earl Williams goes til us at Murpheys Pub one Friday and best local/regional entertainment.
HH Islander’s of 10 years or less may
4 am. unexpectedly in the midst of one of the
not recall weeknights when finding a
jumpin’good, fun lovin’ scene on any Island’s latest, and no doubt up and Saturday’s: will offer more diversity
given night could mean a road trip.
Tuesdays: One Hot Mama’s is host- coming, local young entertainers. than ever before this Fall w/Jessie
ing 16 yo Sara Burns from 6:30 to 9:30 16 yo Sara Burns grew up mentored Watkins now@Brick Oven. Remy’s will
During the mid-80’s to early ninties little
there and The Jazz Corner’s all new line- by a sax playing Grandfather and was maintain the latest Spare Parts around 10
was happening with any regularity
up featuring Martin Lesch and the Multi- further influenced by an uncle who is with Martin Lesch moving back to The
throughout the peak season to speak of,
Jazz Quintet is breathing new life. the CFO at the Rock and Roll Hall of Tavern. Esh will stay on at the Kingfisher
pitiful actually, and short of a half dozen or
On the mainland it’s now Station 70 Fame in Cleveland. “I love the 80s” @ 7. Accentuated by John O’Gorman’s
so guitar solo’s doing a predominant
with open stage nite featuring Spike Irish she told us. “the clothes, the big hair, B’Town Playaz @ Stages- formerly
tourista formatted, slow-hand Jimmy
which will continue to be where the main- the music, everything. I don't really lis- Monkey Biz- and the Simpsons at the
Buffet routine, festive week-end only dark
land lion’s share can be found for the real ten to our present era of music. I just new XO Sat nightcrowds should be brisk
love classic rock!” And she’s smart. this Fall.
After spending 20-plus years as a
fulltime musician before getting into Sunday’s: may not be the slackest
this publishing gig some 13 years ago, day of the week for live music this Fall
comparing her to the cynicism that beginning early Jessie Watkins @ Brick
pervades these days, it’s a pleasure Oven. Late nite atmospheres such as
to see the passion for music still lives. Sun’s
Catch Sara Tuesday’s this month @
B
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6:30 pm at One Hot Mamas, HHI.
music lovers on through the year. i
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Wednesdays: Early on 8-midnight at k
the Jazz Corner alternating Bobby Ryder
with Earl Williams will continue to be a
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popular local 8 to midnight destination
and its the The Free Shots now at v
Remy’s around 10pm @ Twist its Cheryl e
Christine from 8-12 on the Baby Grand n
there and Sterling and Schuvette at the
Hinchey’s Chi Bar ‘round midnight fea-
Electric Piano from 9-midnight.
turing alternating soloists Mike
Kavanaugh and Reid Richmond/ and
Thursdays: The Tavern On The Park Riders Fall lineup will feature DJ
will rotate Solley, Joey & Wilkins with Eric
Rockalotta w/House Music Defined. The
& Rodney around 10pm with Phatboyz
Jazz Corner’s Sunday nite doin’s with
Revenge now at Rider’s @ 11pm. Spare
Deas Guys will likely continue to be the
Parts with a newly formed 3 pc. will be
hottest Sunday might destination
replacing MArtin Lesch @ Remy’s and @
throughout the year.
the new XO the Simpsons play from 8pm
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October-08 Nightlife
On The Come
Shows - Jams - Concerts This month South of the ol’ Broad River
Saturday
nights @
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October 13
@ ✽L B’Town
• Oct. 11th Mr Wiley 10pm
• Oct. 18 High Velocity 10pm
• Oct. 25th Trainwreck
• Oct 31, Bacardi Halloween
Pimp & ho party with LEVOR
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John Padon Shoreline Ballroom October
As seen on;
Evening at • The Zone Sports Bar • Beach Billiards&
Lagoon Deck Bar •The Shoreline
the Improv (4times) , A&E Ballroom •Rumrunner’s Oceanfront Bar & Sunday, October 26th
Comedy on the Road, MTV , Grill The Coastal Jazz Association's monthly concert will be held on Sunday,
VH-1 and Showtime Comedy October 26th at 5 pm at Four Points by Sheraton Historic Savannah -
• Oct. 10 - Edgar and Johnny 520 West Bryan Street. (Bryan & MLK). The concert is free for Coastal
All-stars Jazz Association members and $10 for non-members. Attendees who
Winter
• Oct. 14th thru Oct. 18th join CJA while at the concert will also be admitted free.
• Oct. 11 - The Bounce Circus
Todd Paul BACK BY POPU- For more information call: 912.675-5419 or go to www.coastal-jazz.org
Historically Speaking Local Shows • Concer ts • Events • Jams
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and rhythm. How Don Cherry tilted his
head, made a face, showed his hand,
bent his body and gave voice - or played Thursday nights this month @
LOCAL
piano, melodica, the African hunter's harp
douss'n guni, and the world's most
The Jazz Corner, HHI Cafes
famous pocket trumpet - sang volumes.
His beginnings were in the American Bars
west of the great depression; he was
born in 1936 to a part-Choctaw Indian
his five children (singer Neneh Cherry is
his step-daughter) played music, and
Jukes
family of Oklahoma City. Cherry's grand- loved and understood the importance of
mother played piano for silent movies music in life.
Concerts
and her daughter, Don's mother, played "The form of jazz where you had the
at home. His father owned a music venue composition, then the sax solo, trumpet
before the family moved to the Watts area
of Los Angeles, where he became a bar-
solo, piano solo, drum solo, then trade
fours - that concept doesn't open up for
Sept Tavern On The Park
tender at the Plantation Club, a bebop
• Sept 12 White Liquor
surprises. And surprise is, to me, one of
hangout. Cherry took up trumpet in his the most important things in life, for inspi-
early teens and went to reform school for ration. I would write compositions so I
skipping assigned classes to sit in on a could change those compositions. Or I'd • 19th&20th FungusAmungus
better bandmaster's classes. have one artist solo in one piece and out
Ornette Coleman was a unique and of that piece we'd go to another, maybe • Saturday nights at 10:
idiosyncratic genius of free music, but
Don Cherry was Coleman's equal, bril-
liantly shadowing, responding, counter-
never going back to what we started
with." Martin Lesch Trio
Cherry stood out without showing-off in
posing and quipping with Coleman each large ensembles including George
step of a creative and enduring, if as yet Russell's big band ("George wrotes such Friday nights @ Big Bamboo, HHI
incompletely articulated, way. Cherry
subscribed to Ornette's theory of har-
molodics, and was indeed its chief propo-
difficult music, though," Don's said) and
Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra OCT @ Remy’s
(recorded once in the '60s by Impulse). A
nent, since not even Ornette enjoyed place of honor was reserved for him in
more diverse, fruitful collaborations than Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio of
Cherry. Woodstock, New York, an outgrowth of
Beyond being the most attentive, fluid, the Jazz Composers Orchestra
flexible sideman, Cherry was a great Association co-run by Carla Bley and
bandleader, as when he convened the
international group in Paris that recorded
Michael Mantler into the '70s .
He had a long history of problems with
Wednesday : Daly Bred
marvelously tuneful and syncopated drugs, and seemed to have increasing
Complete Communion (with Blackwell, difficulties with his health. Cherry died
Thursday: Martin Lesch
saxist Gato Barbieri and bassist Henry October 19, 1995, of liver failure caused
Grimes), then the even richer Symphony by hepatitis, with his family around him at Fridays : Craig Coyne
For Improvisers (adding bassist J.-F. his stepdaughter Neneh's home in Spain.
Jenny Clarke, vibist-pianist Karl Berger But he liked to say, "There are only begin- Saturday : Spare Parts
and Pharoah Sanders, notably on picol- nings, there is never an end. Music never
lo). stops. It's you who is stopping it. It's you
Cherry always claimed that his concern who is ending.
was not so much with idiom and form, or
with the technicalities of the trumpet, as
with creating music itself. He took
immense satisfaction in the fact that all of
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17th- Good Times
18th- Moonshine Jenny
24th- Radio Cult
25th- Silicone Sister Friday Nights this month @The
31st- Simplified
Zone
Tuesdays @
Wild Wing
B’Town
Saturdays this
month @ Cheryle
STAGES, HHI Wed nights @Twist and Thur
Deas Guys and Friday evenings@
Sundays nights this month XO lounge @ HH Prime-
Hilton Oceanfront
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