A Multimedia Celebration of Downtown Greenville

March 2011
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Trey’s Jam 6
Musicality 8 Contributors

3 Questions with Von Frank 11

Jack DelGado
Designer

Retention and Creativity 22 Trey Pennington

Columnist

4 The PULSE Kathryn Hardaway

Columnist, Fête Socialista

15 Jordana’s Life
Stacy Hammac

19 A Little Dose of Fiction Columnist

20 Creative License Gene Berger

The Vibe Guru

25 I Remember
30 Stacy’s View 6
Jordana Megonigal
Special Guest Columnist

32 The Ides of March

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Check out these March Chamber Events & More at

www.GreenvilleChamber.org
March 4: Upstate Labor and Employment Summit
March 10: PULSE in the Arts
March 15: Business After Hours at Salsatheque
March 18: TEDx
March 23: Business Women in Action Lunch & Learn
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 Fre e outdoor street parties
Featuring live musical entertainment
Kicks off Thursday,
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March 17
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Fridays

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Special Events

Events for
MARCH
Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive
to benefit the Metropolitan Arts Council
3/17 Green Vegas (Indie/Rock) – Greenville, SC
Hyatt Plaza - Downtown Greenville
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
3/24 Soulution (Funk/Soul) – Greenville SC
(*Event will run until 9:30 p.m. on March 17)
3/31 Sarah Cole and the Hawkes (Soul/Blues) – Charleston, SC

BB&T Main Street Fridays

Hyatt Plaza - Downtown Greenville 3/18 Craig Sorrells Project (Funk/Jazz) – Spartanburg, SC
5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.M. 3/25 Rickey Godfrey (Blues/R&B) – Nashville, TN

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Trey Pennington Design Thinking Creates
A Jam in the Upstate

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Joel Van Dyke, Freeman & Major Architects

Greenville architect Joel Van Dyke is bringing a unique global event to the Upstate. It’s the Global Service
Jam and here’s what will be happening at the NEXT Innovation Center:

During the weekend of March 11-13, people interested in service and customer experience will meet at
locations all over the globe. They will be designers, students, academics, business people,
and customers. In a spirit of experimentation, innovation, co-operation and friendly
competition, teams will have less than 48 hours to develop and prototype completely
new services inspired by a shared theme. At the end of the weekend, their collection
of brand new services will be published to the world.

If you’d like to be a part of the Global Service Jam, visit the Facebook Page for
the Greenville event.

Joel Van Dyke is a managing partner at Freeman & Major Architects.

You can reach him by email at jvandyke@fmarch.com or by phone
at 864-672-0202.

Trey Pennington is a story prospector and professional speaker. He founded the

747-member Social Media Club Greenville and started clubs in Spartanburg
and Columbia. You’ll find his blog on marketing at treypennington.com
and hear him each week on the radio program Open for Business.

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Horizon Records The Voice of Brad Mehldau
By Gene Berger, Horizon Records

When I hear the music of Brad Mehldau I don’t hear
Jazz, I hear Brad Mehldau; a voice, a melody and a
sound. Of course I hear lot’s of voices that blend into
his particular resonance; J. S. Bach, Bill Evans, Keith
Jarrett, Brahms. His two recent releases, Highway
Rider of March 2010 and the brand new Live In
Marciac only re-affirm and enhance the opinion
I’ve had when I first laid ears on his Introducing
Brad Mehldau CD of 1995. It is all so familiar yet
different. I have devoured and lived by every one of
his nearly 20 releases ever since. Each one offering
quintessential beauty of sound in a modern sea of
cacophony; a tone innovator via innovation of nuance
rather than blasting or aggression.
This is Mehldau center stage, all alone but creating a
orchestra and kaleidoscope of colors, moods, tones,
rhythms, and dynamics with just his imagination, 2
hands and a piano; pounding intensity, multi-rhythmic
chords ala Bach or McCoy Tyner give way to tender
heart achingly crystalline quiet beauty. He travels
swingingly from two fisted muscular to romantic
introspection and back all sprawled out in 2 60
minute live concert cds.
Brad Mehldau pianist, composer, band leader blurring
the lines between jazz and classical in way that no
one has achieved so far and likely won’t come near
for many many years.

These latest two present a marvelous contrast and Horizon Records is located at 2A West Stone Ave
serve to undisputedly re-enforce the astounding in Greenville
depth and width of Mehldau’s artistry. Highway
Rider is a 2 CD opus magnus studio recording
of compositions featuring piano trio, a chamber
orchestra and everything in-between; swinging jazz
trio action wanders into classical sounding orchestral
zones which drift back to solo piano soliloquies –
snappy and slow, silky and edgy, all in two sixty
minute episodes. This months new Live In Marciac
presents again a two CD set (plus a bonus DVD).

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In a world of over produced and unoriginal music,
Niel Brooks shines as our own example of Americana.
Gifted, soulful and live on the following dates.

March 17 Smiley’s 10:00

March 18 TEDx gig
March 25 Smiley’s 10:00

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The Gas Holes
The Gas Holes are a high energy, high octane dose of true
rock-n-roll from Greenville, SC. A combination of musical
mastery, skillful performances, and an incredible songs.
If you like rock-n-roll, you’ll LOVE the Gas Holes!

March 19 Brown Street Jazz Club

April 9 Chiefs

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The Note Ropers
From Greenville, SC, The Note Ropers combine Honky Tonk
Country music with traditional Rockabilly creating a sound
they call “Honkabilly” music.

March 5 Cheers on Augusta 9pm

March 18 TEDx Greenville
April 16 The Handlebar 8pm
June 3 Main St Fridays

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March 17–19

Other In-Store Trunk Show Events

February 21–March 13 Allen Edmonds March 21–April 2 Robert Talbott Promotions
March 4 Measure Up Custom Shirts March 25 Southwick and Alden
March 18 Oxxford Clothes

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implementation team in Greenville, SC. We work for clients who are making a difference and striving to
BE different. We help deepen the connection and build the relationships between our clients and the
people they serve. We believe all media has the potential to be “social.” We dig technology, but we also
think it’s the people operating the technology that will matter more than ever to the success of
organizations in the 21st century.

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Cover Artist Austin Ryan’s work was selected to
represent the TEDx conference on March 18th.
Austin Ryan, Senior at J. L. Mann High School

I took my first art class my sophomore year in high school.

All of my art training has come from public school system.
In one year I fell in love with art, as I was continually
challenged to use something I had not often used before,
creativity. The next year I could not resist moving on to
the next level of art. Art 2 proved to be more challenging,
as creativity was encouraged even more in the projects
we would do. It was in this class that I painted my
George Washington painting, often referred to as “Good
Ole’ George”. I was pushed to a level of creativity that
was often frustrating and tiresome, which in turn made
“Good Ole’ George” a very time-consuming project. I am
currently in AP 2-D design, which is a college level art
class. In total, I need 24 pieces for my AP portfolio, 12
front pieces and 12 concentration pieces. The front 12
pieces are random, demonstrating diversity in medias,
while the concentration is 12 pieces on a certain subject
of your choice. Art has opened up a whole new world to
me, where it takes me in life I don’t quite know yet, but I
know that art has helped me develop my talents in many
other aspects of my life.

We have a diverse approach with

our main purpose to educate and
enlighten the students of J. L. Mann
in the Visual Arts. Problem solving
and higher order thinking skills are
evident in all classes.

Steve R. Garner,
Fine Arts Department Head

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 Don’t
Chase Your Dreams,
Live Them.
There’s a story of an unknown author, in which a businessman on vacation meets a local in a pristine, beachy-type location.
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The businessman asks the local what he does all day.The local replies, “I sleep in, play with my kids, spend time with my
wife, fish, and enjoy time with family and friends over good dinner and wine.”

The businessman is amused. He, of course, is an investor, well-educated, with a firm that is booming and more money
than he knows what to do with. He quickly begans to teach the local about growing business—“you should get a bigger
boat, and then you’ll be able to bring in a bigger haul.Then you can sell it and make more money. Soon you’d be able to
grow into a larger company, and have a monopoly on the fish industry in this region.You would have more money than
you know what to with.”
The local thinks for a minute, then says,“And then what?” Follow
Jordana
“Well,” the businessman replies, without skipping a beat,“then you can grow the business for 15 years or so, and then you’ll
be wealthy when you retire.”

“Yes,” says the local, ”but then what?”

“Well, then, you wouldn’t have to worry about anything. You could retire and simply live on the beach…” His speaking
slowed as he grasped the reality— that this man already lived the life he wanted to achieve, a reality that the businessman
himself had devoted 60 hours a week, as well as much stress and heartache.

I love this story, because it says so much in so little. It makes you think about so much in just a few sentences. I don’t know
who wrote it (every source I find says “Anonymous”) but it’s a true mirror as to what we do to ourselves every day.

An acquaintance and I were talking one day about retiring and I asked her what she wanted
to do when she “broke free” of all the work and responsibility that we had been discussing
and retired. She said, “I want to scuba dive all over the Caribbean.” “Oh, so you like
to scuba?” I asked. No, actually, she had never done it. Never even snorkeled, never
took the first lesson, but that was what she wanted. I couldn’t help but imagine her
retiring and then realizing that she still didn’t know how to do what she had wanted
her whole life to do.

How many of us have it all backwards?

Here’s the best remedy I’ve found — live life by living. Want to spend more
time with your family? Take a day or two off and do it. Want to learn
a new career that makes you happy? Sign up for a class and do it.
Want a new car? Hit the Motormile. (Okay, maybe that last
one doesn’t quite fit, but you get what I’m saying, right?)

If you want something, don’t just sit there and want it.
Even the businessman thought he was progressing
toward the dream with all the hard work and pride
he took in every hour he put in.

Sure, in this society, work equals survival, but

there’s so much more that we miss if we
have The Ideal as just the goal, and not part
of the journey.

Editor, Business Black Box

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 37 Augusta St. Greenville, SC | www.warehousetheatre.com | Box Office: 864.235.6948
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A Play within a Play within a Play!!

In this play about transformation, come see how The Warehouse Theatre transforms everything, including
themselves, for a theatrical experience that blurs reality and theatre... Theatregoers should prepare to
be thrilled and “wowbergasted” by what unfolds as the sensational Teatro Moltoimpassionata—who
look remarkably similar to some of the Upstate’s best known actors—are introduced to an American
audience for the first time.

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is hosting a �ardi Gras party!
�ome enjoy � �idsummer �i��t’s �ream &
the craziest �ardi Gras �elebration east o� �’awlins!
Food, libations (2 drink tickets- beer, wine, & daiquiris) and King Cake!
Special edition WHT Mardi Gras beads, a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
and an after party immediately following with Athens, GA funk band, THE HEAP.
when. Saturday March 5th from 7:00pm-until... at The Warehouse Theatre.
theme. Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mardi Gras masks are a must (we will have
some available for purchase); fairie wings and donkey ears optional.
tickets. $60/person to go all-out with us in true Mardi Gras style OR
$25/person for the10pm afterparty featuring THE HEAP
how. Call The Warehouse Theatre box office for reservations: 864.235.6948

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Peace Center
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INSPIRING OUR FUTURE

#TEDxGreenville www.TEDxGreenville.org

A family-friendly party of epic proportions.

From the team that brought you Google On Main

When: Friday, March18, 2011 from 7:30-10pm

Where: Peace Center Amphitheatre & Wyche Pavilion
How: Get info & tickets @ www.xperiencegreenville.org. $15 (includes a glow stick & 3D glasses)

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 A DOSE OF
F iction
The Strawberry Blond
in a Red Mercedes
By Tim O’Neill

I noticed the car first. More precisely, the Mercedes emblem on the front of the car. Three simple lines
inside a perfect circle. It was surrounded by a spectacular field of red. A red that doesn’t appear anywhere
in nature and is probably patented with a name like “Mercedes Red.” It was a convertible (what else?) and
since the weather was fine, the top was down. As my eyes danced from the hood, over the windshield…
I saw her.

I’ve always been partial to strawberry blonds. She had her hair pulled back but I could see a few rebellious
curls freeing themselves from their scrunchie bondage. She wore big, dark sunglasses, á la Audrey
Hepburn. What was she hiding? She had a pretty smile. Not gorgeous. Pretty. Was she smiling at me?
Or just squinting in the sunlight? She wore a white oxford shirt, rolled up to her elbow with the top two
buttons undone. My brain flooded with a million questions.

What color are her eyes? Can she see me? Where’s she going? Where is she from? Is that her car? Is she
married? Is she happy? Automatic or standard? Does she know how good she looks? What kind of books
does she read? What kind of movies does she watch? Does she get scared in a thunderstorm? Does she
get mad when people “assume” things about her? How does it feel to hold her? Could I love her? Could
she love me?

Traffic being what it is, I was soon going my way and she was going hers. I can’t even say we had a real
connection. (Those damn glasses.) Deep in my heart, I hope I never see her again. Reality only complicates
things. Besides, what if she was just squinting and she chose never to grace me with her pretty smile? No.
I choose to believe that her smile was for me. And for that split second that our eyes met, we were in love.

Either way, to the strawberry blond in that red Mercedes: thank you.

T i m O ’ N e i l l i s a n A dv e r t i s i n g
C r eat i v e D i r ec t o r / S t o ry t e l l e r .
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 Hello. My name is Kat
and I’m a social media junkie.
The madness began when
both of my sweet sisters-
in-law, Stephanie & Mollie
tried to talk me into joining
Facebook back in 2007.
You see, back then, Facebook was just a college thing...
and even though I pretend like I’m still in college, I wasn’t
going to get on as one of those “moms”. Then, in June
of 2008, I was talking to a dear friend, Mark Kramer and
he said “Kathryn, you HAVE to get on Facebook. YOU, of
all people, need to be on Facebook!” The rest is history.
I COMPLETELY blame this addiction on Kramer. My
husband thanks you.
I like to consider Facebook my virtual bar. Nothing makes
me happier than to be in my pajamas, drinking wine, on
my sofa & talking to so many of my friends. The best thing
is the DELETE button - I use it often. I wish I had that
DELETE button for real life interactions. It would make my
life so much easier. Even though it sounds ridiculous, there
are some fabulous relationships that have evolved through
me being a social media junkie.
Normally, I treat Facebook as my personal social club.
Membership has its privileges. Everything is private and
only if you’re my friend can you see anything - pictures,
information, my status updates...anything. On Facebook,
people sometimes get a bit serious telling their every
move step by step. My goal on Facebook is just to make
people laugh and connect with my friends. Period. If I
succeed in making someone laugh, my job is done. Trust
me,I fail many times TRYING to make people laugh.
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Twitter is a bit different. Twitter is my way to connect and
engage with prospective friends on personal & professional
levels. I have made some fantastic connections! LinkedIn
is my professional bridge to connect for possible
networking opportunities in the future.
Check out
Between these three levels of networking sites, I’m Kat’s Fête Blog
always connecting with different outlets and constantly
building my contact list. I love meeting people, connecting
with them and somehow creating some sort of common
ground. Being on common ground with everyone I know
is how I have luckily made so many genuine friendships
over the years. Well, that and acting a fool. Either way,
the friendships that have been formed are lifelong &
memorable treasured friendships. That to me, is pretty
incredible and crucial. You can never have enough great
friends. Being thirtyish (humor me)..and a girl, it has
become increasingly more difficult to find true dear
girlfriends. It seems like girl friendships mainly stem
from school age years, college years and wives of
spouses’ friends.
I never expected to make some of the best friendships I
have ever had by meeting them virtually on these
networks. NEVER. In the past three years, my world has
been rocked by some incredibly wonderful people that I am
fortunate to now call my dearest of friends that I would love
to tell you about, but you’re going to have to check out my
blog to read anymore. Feel free to send me any comments.
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How do we keep our talented college graduates
in Greenville and in our state?
Featuring Executive Director Russell Stall

Greenville Forward executed the “South Carolina Student Survey” in 2010 that interviewed juniors and
seniors at major colleges and universities in South Carolina to ask the question, “Do you expect to stay in
South Carolina after graduation?” Now, as we focus on the Creative Vision of Vision 2025 in our first quarter
of 2011 at Greenville Forward, we are seeking to implement programs and projects that respond to the
results we found.

Each quarter, Greenville Forward focuses on one of six main Vision areas (Green, Learning, Creative, Inclusive,
Connected, and Healthy). The first quarter of 2011 is emphasizing the Creative Vision. The Creative Greenville
vision includes the visions for the arts, sense of place, and talent retention task forces.

Greenville Forward was created in January 2006 to help Greenville achieve Vision 2025, the bold, comprehensive, and
aggressive plan to create a vibrant Greenville in the next twenty-five years. By having a group like Greenville Forward,
whose sole purpose is to facilitate, coordinate, and communicate the ideas from Vision 2025, the aggressive goals for
Vision 2025 will be kept vibrant, alive, and attainable.

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MUSEUM
March 18, 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Featuring a screening of the Ben Stiller classic,
Night at the Museum, and a chance to meet
characters from Upcountry history!
Admission $15.00, Members $10.00

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By Stacy Hammac

The best part about March in downtown Greenville is watching everything come
back to life. The weather gets nicer, the flowers start blooming, people come out to stroll the streets, baseball’s
back, and the sounds of music are everywhere. Even on the streets of downtown. That’s right, folks, Downtown
Alive and Main Street Fridays are back! And this girl couldn’t be happier.

Thursday, March 17, marks the beginning of Greenville’s annual spring/summer outdoor music series. Between
mid-March and September, you can check out live music at Hyatt Plaza on Main Street every Thursday and
Friday night. Thursdays are the Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive series, and Fridays are the BB&T
Main Street Fridays. I’ve checked out the line-up, and I must say that I’m impressed. And I’m particularly
impressed with the number of local acts who are getting some much-deserved exposure.

To kick things off on Thursday, March 17, you can rock out with Greenville’s own Green Vegas. Billed as, “One of
the most entertaining shows around,” Green Vegas never disappoints. And the 17th just so happens to be St.
Patrick’s Day, so there will certainly be plenty of green everything. On Friday, the 18th, Greenville’s own Craig
Sorrells Project kicks off Main Street Fridays. A mixture of funk, jazz and general good times, this is a band you
don’t want to miss. I’m not exaggerating a bit when I say that these are two of my favorite bands around. And to be
able to see them outside, back-to-back and FREE is a whole bunch of awesomeness in my book. As the series
goes on, the line-up continues to impress, with groups like Mighty McFly, The Note Ropers, Lionz of Zion, and
plenty more. For a complete schedule, click here for Downtown Alive or here for Main Street Fridays.

Like any city-sanctioned event, there are a few rules to remember. First of all, no pets and no smoking inside the
actual event area. Those are the biggies. These are family-friendly events, so there are usually games and stuff set
up for kids, and a beer truck for us grown folks. A dollar and a valid ID buys you a wristband, and you can purchase
tickets for beer or wine. A personal tip from me to you, though, is to check out Blue Ridge Brewing Company and
Sky at Blue Ridge. For about the same price as the beer truck, you can get some of Blue Ridge’s craft microbrews
and the food is amazing. You don’t have to deal with tickets or lines (they sell it right out their front windows), and
they’ll even pour it in a plastic cup so you can carry it around in the event area. Now that’s convenience.

For those of you looking for a more high-energy “xperience,” March 18th is going to be an event like Greenville has
never seen. The folks that brought you Google on Main have come together again to bring you Xperience: the
world’s first immersive event™. The unofficial after-party for Greenville’s TedX conference, Xperience is open to the
public, and promises to be a historical event of epic proportions. It’s part laser show, part glow party, and all-
immersive. You ARE the party. Sounds like a good time to me!

Chances are, if you’re out and about in Downtown during the month of March, you’ll see me. I might be walking
down the street, I might be watching a baseball game, I might be jamming out to a band, but I can guarantee you,
I’ll be the girl with a smile on my face.

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(864) 235-5297 Since 1961
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 The Ides Are Coming!
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.

CAESAR
He is a dreamer; let us leave him

Ignore a dreamer at your own peril. Julius Caesar ignored a dreamer and doom set upon him.
Shakespeare may not have been there in 44 BC, but he sure knew how to turn a phrase.
“Beware the ides of March” was once a cliché and is now only used by history geeks like me
and an odd actor or two who gets to say this line twice in a minute or two.

The bloody coup – the revolution to come. Ironic, all these years later, that revolutions are still bloody,
dictators still don’t see them coming and dreamers are still among us.

It is the dreamer in this play that sets the stage and provides an ominous vision of a future turning point.
Imagine us without the dreamers and you quickly see that monolithic “things” stay in control.

Well, enough of that…

Ask Mubarak if he read Julius Caesar lately.

Ask any CEO if some small and insignificant plebeian ever revolutionized the way he used to do things.

Ask any person on the street why they end up cheering the dreamer when they succeed beyond their
wildest dreams.

When Rick begins to embrace the

struggle in Casablanca he is branded
as a “rank sentimentalist”, but when he
nods to the band to allow Victor Lazlo
to sing La Marseillaise – we all pull for
the dreamer who is struggling to realize
that dream. And he gets the girl…

Viva la liberte’
Viva la Fete

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The Fête Marketing Model is the
most unique way to promote your
non-profit event or business.
Put together 30+ organizations, businesses and individuals in one issue of Fête.
Add up all of their supporters, patrons and fans.
And get over 35,000 gross Facebook users
involved with each issue of Fête.
Now add all the twitter users of these 30+ entities to the mix. Add guest bloggers.

And throw in the fact that Fête will be in over

135,000 emails in the month of March.
Next, figure in the links on multiple websites, and add in 30,000 post views of the
Fête Greenville Facebook page each month.

And, lastly, factor in that Fête is an online media sponsor of:

The Peace Center Pedal Chic’s “Avant Garde Fashion Show”
The Warehouse Theater TEDx
The Greenville Chamber of Commerce the Xperience
Downtown Alive and Main Street Friday Pulse
Greenville Forward and a few others to come…
TecAfter5

Shazaam!
You have now reached more people in
more ways than you ever dreamed…

Keep Up With
Downtown Greenville’s
Latest and Greatest!
Follow Fête on your
favorite social media.

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Fête-Worthy Links from the Editor

Straight Up With Sturg

Mark Sturgis has started his own
radio show on Saturday mornings
at 11am on 104.9. Wanna know
ACC and SEC sports? Tune in.
“But Then” - Jeff Sumerel’s latest installment in
his video project. Take a look!

Go visit my buddy Kelly Odom at

The Pickwick Pharmacy & Soda Fountain
at 3219 Augusta Street • Phone: 864-277-4180 • www.thepickwick.net

Find them on Facebook too!

~ Your neighborhood pharmacy and soda fountain ~

Johanna Blakley:
Social Media and the End of Gender
Johanna Blakley studies the impact of mass media and entertainment on our
world. Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to
understand audiences, but they’re becoming increasingly harder to track online,
says media researcher Johanna Blakley.

WORD Upstate Radio Show with Stacy Hammac

and John Oliver - Saturday’s at 3pm

651B S. Main St. Greenville, SC

www.pedalchic.com

A Multimedia Celebration
of Downtown Greenville