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Many cities across our state offer assistance to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Today, we’re going to learn a little more about one of these in the Upstate. Mike Switzer interviews Reno Deaton, executive director of the Greer Development Corporation, whose entrepreneurial program is The Platform at Greer.

John Warner introduced us to our next guest during one of our regular Monday morning discussions back in January. He told us about a social enterprise lunch cafe designed to provide employment to abused women in the Upstate. It’s part of a two-year residential program for adult women survivors of human trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. Mike Switzer interviews Beth Messick, executive director of Jasmine Road in Greenville, SC.

The word sonata comes from the Italian sonare, an old form of suonare, which means “to sound,” or “to play,” as in “to play an instrument.”

Atonal music is music that isn’t written in a key, music that doesn’t follow the traditional rules of harmony. But although the term “atonal” tells us what a piece isn’t, it doesn’t tell us what it is. Many different styles and musical languages, whether harsh or lush, cool or intense, simple or complex can be described as atonal.

Atonality and dissonance are often linked in listeners’ minds, but they’re not the same thing. Dissonance, from the Latin words for “sounding” and “apart,” is the simultaneous sounding of two or more notes to produce a clashing, or unpleasant effect. Its opposite is consonance, a pleasing sound, a “sounding together.”

Serenade is one of those musical terms that has meant many different things at many different times. The term itself comes from the Italian sereno, which is from the Latin serenus, which means “serene.”

March 5, 2022 — The bipartisan early voting and election reform bill passed by state House lawmakers this week; the debate in the state Senate medical affairs committee over three controversial bills; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduces a resolution to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for war crimes; and more.

“S” is for St. Philip’s Church (Charleston). Located at 146 Church Street, St. Philip’s was the first English church established in South Carolina.

“P” is for Patterson, John James (1830-1912). U.S. senator. Paterson became known by the nickname “Honest John”—honest because if he promised a bribe, he always paid it.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Silvia Pereira-Smith about infants born prematurely, and developmental milestones in the first years. Dr. Pereira-Smith is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a developmental-behavioral pediatrician at MUSC Children’s Health.