Improving Indoor Air Quality: Identify and eliminate the hidden threats to your home’s safety and health
Our homes are our havens where we go to recharge and find safety from the outside world. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that many times indoor air quality can be two to five times worse than outdoor air quality, and it’s not unusual to see...
Shamrock Ships Flotilla Provides Unique, Safe Alternative for St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah
It is the second largest in the United States; it is certainly the most welcoming; and the Irish community takes its religious implications seriously. For the second year in a row, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah has been canceled as many believe the Hostess...
10 Tips for Remodeling Your Bath
Remodeling your bathroom can breathe new life into your home. Plus, since many people are spending so much more time at home, having a functional, beautiful bathroom is now on the top of the priority list for homeowners. Renovations might be as simple as installing...
Floors To Go by High Tide: Local service, unrivaled value and craftsmanship
Steve Fisher has enjoyed being a tradesman as long as he can remember. That joy in seeing a job done right from start to finish began as a stone mason in Rochester, N.Y. He quickly learned that upstate New York winters were not a stone mason’s friend. “Epic...
CHS Pressure Washing & Window Cleaning
More than a tagline or promotional copy, there’s a story behind the headline of a kid who learned organization from military parents and grew up on his dad’s job sites, seeing firsthand how a good business is run and how to get the job done. Varnes’ dad (re-)started...
Chip Michalove: The Great White Shark Whisperer
Seven years ago, one moment forever changed Chip Michalove’s whole world. All alone at sea, aboard his 26-foot fishing boat off the coast of Hilton Head Island, Michalove saw something he had been waiting his whole life for: a great white shark. “It circled my boat...
Charles Schwab Bluffton: Local Knowledge with Financial Support
Fred Gaskin grew up naturally curious and got hooked on finances in his teens, fascinated by what made markets go up and down and how investors found their edge. That’s led him to a 35-year career as a financial professional with established investment firms including...
Celebrating 25 years in business this year, Auto Spa continues to set the standard for automotive amazement.
There is an art to the automobile. Each swooping line, each chrome accent, each stylish piece of trim, is carefully chosen by a small army of engineers and craftsmen to make the automobile something that doesn’t just move you—it moves you. But once it leaves the...
A Note from Our Mayors: March 2021
Our Comprehensive Plan a Reflection of Excellence I was thrilled to hear that our recently adopted comprehensive plan earned the 2020 Outstanding Planning Project, awarded by the South Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association (SCAPA) at its winter...
The Best Laid Plans
Meet the visionaries behind the free-standing artwork that is the lowcountry’s architecture.
Editor’s Note: March 2021
In our bi-yearly Home + Garden issues, we get to take a peek inside some of the most beautiful homes in the Lowcountry. To kick things off, we profile the consultants right at the start of the homebuilding process: the architects, if you will. And yes, I mean the...
Unbroken Thread
Carmine Setola carries a title you don’t see very often these days – he is a master upholsterer. When he first learned the art, it was through an upholstery trade school, offered by the VA after his service in WWII. His mother, a skilled seamstress, instilled in him...
Like a Good Neighbor…Kevin Sevier is an old-school insurance agent with a few new-school ideas for bringing insurance to the people.
As a professional insurance agent with State Farm for more than 13 years and 24 years in total with the company, Kevin Sevier understands what insurance means to you. And for most of us, insurance is what we see on TV: talking reptiles, Dr. Rick showing us how not to...
Musicians in Bathrooms featuring Stee and the Ear Candy Band
with Sterlin Colvin II (Stee), Brooke Horne, Greg Critchley, T.J. Ling, Malcom Horne
A Tale of Two Hues: Pantone names a duo as Colors of the Year for 2021
Pantone, the global color authority and provider of professional color language standards and digital solutions for the design community, has named “Ultimate Gray” and the lemony yellow “Illuminating” as the duo Colors of the Year for 2021. In a year when most of us...
From Manhattan to Modern Farmhouse on Spring Island
A Spring Island Couple Finds Their Lifestyle Reimagined in the Lowcountry.
Bar Hopping
CycleBar blends the dance club experience with a pulse-pounding workout for the most fun you’ll ever have breaking a sweat
Twin Blessings: Beaufort Memorial Physician Delivers Healthy Babies at the Height of Pademic.
As an OB-GYN with Beaufort Memorial Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialists, Dr. Tiffany Bersani has reassured her share of anxious expectant mothers. But it wasn’t until she was pregnant herself that she experienced first-hand the worry and concern that comes with carrying a baby—or two, in her case. Not only was Bersani pregnant with twins; they were due at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last April.
A Note from Lisa Sulka: Business as Usual with a New Normal
Although Town Hall remains closed for the public for safety precautions related to the current pandemic, town staff is still doing business as usual, with a new normal. Town staff continues to review plans and permits, conduct site inspections and conduct Zoom meetings.
A Note from John McCann: New Town Manager Comes with Local Knowledge and Experience
Hilton Head Island Town Council voted in December to offer the Hilton Head Island town manager position to Marc Orlando, who most recently served as town manager for Bluffton. Our action represents one of the highest duties of Town Council in employing a manager and determining what skills, experience, and personality are best suited to meet the needs and opportunities of the Town of Hilton Head Island.
News from “The Sound”: Taking the music of the Lowcountry beyond our shores
Late 2020 and early 2021 have seen an endless and varied list of music projects flow through my recording studio, “The Sound.” 2020 ended on a high note with the manifestation of a brand new, non-profit philanthropic endeavor: the Hilton Head Island Music and Arts Coalition (HHMAC). HHMAC focuses on addressing the needs of children in our community via the local Boys & Girls Club, Backpack Buddies, and the Beaufort County PTA. In its burgeoning online fundraising event known as “We Are the Island,” I was tasked with finding a safe and socially distanced recording and production process in which more than 45 singers, one rapper, three 10-person choirs, nine drummers, 10 guitar players, one pianist, bass player, organist, trombonist, and accordion player, would all appear together performing one song, the apt and timely Burt Bacharach classic, “What the World Needs Now.”
Crazy Little Thing Called Love: Making sense of the science
In the history of the English language, one four-letter word—L.O.V.E.—is perhaps the most powerful and most confounding. “I love you” is a phrase that can be hard to utter or easy to turn. When we say it to a lover, it means one thing. When we say it to a friend, it...
Heritage Academy: New Owner, Same Commitment to Excellence
Amanda Williams-O’Nan was grateful for the oppor-tunity to return to educating youngsters at Hilton Head Island private school Heritage Academy last summer. Just four months later, she got an oppor-tunity she never imagined possible. “I bought the school,” said Williams’-O’Nan, the school’s new owner and Head of School.
Perfecting the Experience: Nunzio Patruno will stop at nothing until the restaurant that bears his name offers absolute perfection.
It was a night not so long ago, more or less the same as any other night at Nunzio Restaurant + Bar. The wine was flowing, uncorked and poured with practiced ease from a carefully curated collection that takes center stage right as you walk in. The food was as sublimely delicious as ever, each dish chosen to represent the pinnacle of Italian techniques and local flavors. And the conversation buzzed, as it tends to when diners are enjoying a meal to remember.
Nice Legs! Innovative Vein Clinic elevates confidence and improves quality of life
Innovative Vein Center, located at 176 Dermis Road in Hardeeville, is a clinic with an innovative approach to treatment. Dr. David Capallo (a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon with 35 years of experience) leads the team. He added vein surgery to his practice 15 years ago and now devotes his practice exclusively to venous disease.
The Voice of Experience: After a quarter of a century, Gina Faucette-Farbman has seen it all when it comes to Hilton Head Island real estate.
It might be one of the most well-worn tenants of the real estate industry, but there truly is no substitute for experience. Especially when it comes to buying and selling on Hilton Head Island, the best aspect a realtor can bring to the table is knowledge: what communities offer which amenities, where buyers can find the best value, how much sellers can expect their property to be worth … it all needs to be on command at a moment’s notice.
Editor’s Note: February 2021
I present to you an issue featuring all of the things I don’t currently have. A pet, romantic love and … well, never mind. I still have my teeth.
Technology at the Dentist Office: Developments in dental technology make future visits better than ever
While predicting what your next visit to the dentist will reveal is sometimes hard to imagine, one thing that is almost certain is that you’ll encounter some new dental technology that will benefit your oral health and make your visit more comfortable.
The Pet People: Meet a few locals who make it their business to see that our pets are well cared for.
Meet a few locals who make it their business to see that our pets are well care for.
Love and Marriage (And Everything in Between)
As Paul McCartney once co-wrote, “All you need is love.” Of course, he would later go on to write, “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.”
His wild swing in perspective here more than likely boils down to one thing: sometime between writing those two songs, he got married. Because marriage and love are two different things.
Love is a fleeting rush of dopamine, a temporary fluttering of butterflies, a silly infatuation. Marriage is something much stronger. Marriage is all that’s best about love—the selflessness, the devotion, the absolute inability to live without another person—but aged like wine.
If love is the block of marble, then marriage is the sculpture. And the couples on the following pages have created some beautiful works together.