With the new year comes a new feature for Interior Designers, Decorators, and home enthusiasts, Color My World. We will be tracking the Colors of the Year and Colors of the Seasons. These colors influence everything from fashion to housewares. Throughout the year we will run stories about how these colors are chosen and who chooses them. Best of all though, we will be featuring artwork from our artists that utilize or coordinate with the season’s colors. We’ll even be choosing some colors of our own!

Learn More About the New Online Playbill

We’re going green!

Flat Rock Playhouse is now producing online playbills! View the online playbill at your leisure before and after the performance!

You can view the online playbill ahead of time by clicking the link in your concierge email, which will be sent approximately 7 days before your performance.

The below instructions are for viewing the online playbill once at the theatre.

Chris plays 1950s Americana, Rockabilly, Country and Blues, along with originals. His single, “Fiona” was played on Rockabilly Radio in the UK and Brandon Anderson of AJ’s Rockin Music Reviews, described Chris’ style as “crooner with an edge.”

For the second year in a row, local Spartanburg businesses will participate in 31 days of awareness to support Developmental Disabilities Month in support of the Charles Lea Center Foundation. In 1987, the year that the March National Disabilities Awareness Month proclamation called for people to provide understanding, encouragement and opportunities to help persons with disabilities to lead productive and fulfilling lives, the Charles Lea Center Foundation was established to support the Center and its mission to improve the quality of life for those with disabilities and special needs

Last year the business community rallied to help raise nearly $30,000 to support the Foundation, and 60 plus local businesses are planning a range of community offerings with proceeds benefiting the Foundation this March.

“We are overwhelmed by the response of our ‘Community Champions’, over 60 local merchants who are participating this month by either choosing a day(s), week or the entire month to host what we are calling a “give back” day(s) to the CLC Foundation,” said Marisa Cecil – CLC Foundation President. “Some folks may not know that on average it costs $70 a day or $14,500 a year to support each community member the Charles Lea Center supports.”

Serving the greater Spartanburg area for over 45 years, The Charles Lea Center supports 1,500 community members with disabilities and special needs in Spartanburg County each year by providing a range of services to over 75 locations in the County.

The FR8yard will be back supporting CLCF during their St. Patty’s Day Celebration on March 19th with 10% of proceeds from the day benefiting the Foundation.

Community members are encouraged to patronize the stores, companies, and organizations like ‘Two Doors Down’, a retail store on Main Street, participating in the March awareness month who are making “Dreams Possible” for the individuals with special needs and disabilities right here in Spartanburg County. See the full calendar of participating businesses and daily activations here: https://www.charleslea.org/online-registration/

• ANR Designs
• Armoire
• Baehr Feet
• Bella Scott Salon
• Blue Moon Specialty Foods
• Bob’s Car Wash & Detail Center
• Bond Street Wines
• Broncos East Main
• Broncos Union St.
• Burn Boot Camp
• Carolina Plastic
• Cribb’s Kitchen
• CycleBar
• Dimension Cool Aesthetics
• Fr8Yard
• Green Papaya Salon
• Health and Hand
• Home & Garden Classics
• Hub City Writers Project
• Imagination Station
• Inside Irwins
• Keg & Cellar
• Little Pigs BBQ
• Little River Roasting Co.
• Main Street Pub
• Miss Marion’s School of Dance
• Nu Way Lounge
• Orange Theory Fitness Spartanburg
• Paisley Paw
• Pig Out BBQ Main
• Pig Out BBQ Spartanburg
• Pine Street Animal Hospital
• Pink on Main
• Planet Smoothie Spartanburg
• Pure Barre Spartanburg
• RJ Rockers
• Rufus D Lewis Jeweler
• ShowOffs Childrens Boutique
• Skin A Peel
• Smithworks Fine Jewelry
• Sparkle City Balloons
• Spartan Waste
• Spartanburg Dermatology
• Spartanburg Science Center
• Sugah Cakes
• Swangus Beef
• The Kennedy
• The Style House
• Two Doors Down
• Venus Pie
• Walnut Grove Farm

A list of organizations and services in the Upstate on an interactive map.

Upstate International is celebrating our 10 year anniversary of International Month, and we want you to join in on the fun!

UIM is a month-long program of internationally themed events designed to highlight, promote and celebrate the rich international and cultural diversity we all share in and benefit from living in the Upstate. Since it began in 2013, we’ve had over 100 internationally themed events happening throughout the Upstate every March providing opportunities for hundreds upon hundreds of people to be introduced to a variety of cultural experiences.  Upstate International is the catalyst that encourages, and the glue that holds together, all of the international events happening in March in an effort to educate and excite the public and celebrate the Upstate’s international diversity and connections.

Thanks to over 50 event hosts, we have been able to offer everything from international coffee and cuisine tastings, university lectures on global issues, various internationally themed musical performances, international film/documentary screenings, bi-lingual story times, various St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, international cooking classes, international dance performances and lessons, an international trivia night, an African Gala, a Korea Night, a Be Irish for a Day event, a Caliente Cuba night, international artists receptions and wine tastings, a town hall dialogue about Islam highlighting that knowledge ends extremism, and so much more….

The Virtual Railfan cameras were installed on Tuesday, July 6th at the Hub City Railroad Museum. There is one camera looking north and one looking south. The Hub City RR Museum wants to thank the City of Spartanburg for allowing us to install the cameras, and to Virtual Railfan for the install. We have already seen over 300 railfans at one time watching the video feed.
Links to live feeds:
[North Camera feed]
[South Camera feed]