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NORTH CHARLESTON — Daryl Hall, who used to live in Charleston, is now coming back for a concert.

The rock ‘n’ roll hall of famer, made popular by pop-rock music duo Hall & Oates, will play at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center on Aug. 11.

Hall bought and renovated a house on Meeting Street, below Broad Street, in the 2010s, which he lived in for years and then sold during the pandemic.

Hall began sharing his love for home preservation and restoration back in 2014 on his Magnolia Network show “Daryl’s Restoration Over-Hall.”

“One of my passions outside of music is antique architecture,” Hall told The Post and Courier over the phone. “Obviously, Charleston is chock-full of it. I found this 1750s house South of Broad and renovated it and lived there for years.”

Hall said his passion for architecture and renovating, along with music, runs in his family. His grandfather was a stone and brick mason and used to build houses and chimneys. So, Hall was around a lot of construction sites in his hometown of Philadelphia; he used to help with some renovations himself.

He’s also spent a lot of time in England renovating houses there, some of which are featured on his TV show.

“I really love the craftsmanship involved in it,” he said.

He shared that his Charleston house needed less of a restoration than many of the other houses he’s worked on in the past, but he did restore some parts of the top two floors and tore one floor apart completely to reconfigure the space.

“I didn’t want to alter the integrity of the house,” Hall said. “I’m a purist. I mostly left it alone.”

Now, he lives in Connecticut in another house he’s restored, but he remembers his time in Charleston fondly.

Hall, who classifies himself as a homebody, said he didn’t go out much when he lived here but loved to host friends at his home.

“I’m not a person who likes to do a lot of things,” he said with a laugh. “But I do love Charleston. It’s one of my favorite cities.”

He also recorded music at a couple of local studios while he lived in the Holy City.

Those include Truphonic Recording Studios in West Ashley, where Ranky Tanky, Stop Light Observations and Darius Rucker have recorded.

And The Space in North Charleston with Wolfgang Zimmerman, the producer behind some Band of Horses, Susto and Futurebirds records.

Hall’s stepdaughter March Fry worked at The Space.

“We didn’t actually get to work with him, but he did come in when (March) was recording,” Zimmerman said. “I did want to record with him, though.”

During this upcoming trip to Charleston, Hall won’t be sharing the stage with his usual counterpart John Oates.

For this tour, he’s joined by Daryl’s House Band, the group that plays with him on another TV show he hosts, “Live From Daryl’s House.”

The live performance, Hall said, is very similar to the show. Todd Rundgren and his band open up the set, and the environment is staged to feel familiar to “Live From Daryl’s House.”

While Hall does, of course, play some classic Hall & Oates hits, he also has been focusing on the songs throughout his catalogue that might not have been as recognized or appreciated at the time. Most are being pulled from his latest album, “Before After,” which is a solo retrospective that chronicles his music the way he wants, as an alternative history of sorts.

“I’ve always been interested in a lot of directions,” Hall said. “What I do with John Oates, that’s one thing, but over the years I’ve been doing creative projects with a lot of people and in a lot of situations that have not been exhibited as largely as what I do with John or under the name Hall & Oates.”

He said he thinks the new album is necessary to equalize things and show off the different aspects of his musical life. It’s a reintroduction to his catalogue, and “it’s all things Daryl,” he shared.

“There’s a lot more freedom involved,” he added. “I’ve never been comfortable being half-something, that’s not where I’m coming from. In truth, I never was, so clarifying and vindicating that makes me feel good.”

Hall has also been getting back into those “Live from Daryl’s House” jams, which were stopped during the pandemic. Filming will pick up in September and last through November; he doesn’t know exactly how he will release the series this time around, but it’s more about the experience for him.

And he shared that he’s excited about some guests he’ll be collaborating with this fall.

“I love everything about it: spontaneity, variation, the challenge of it, the working with people who are complete strangers,” he said. “I never know what’s going to happen, and I never come out of it the same way I go into it.”

He’s also been recording music with Dave Stewart of British pop duo Eurythmics, who has co-produced albums with Hall in the past, at Stewart’s house in the Bahamas. They’ve got eight songs under their belt so far, Hall said.

No matter who he’s playing or recording with, Hall said, he holds onto his sensibilities and his voice. That’s the glue that keeps all his projects together, despite how different they might seem.

He hopes this Charleston show will be a reintroduction, not only of him to his former place of residence, but of his fans to some of his work over the years that hasn’t gotten a chance in the spotlight.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - ELGIN, S.C. (WIS) - A volunteer-based haunted house is keeping true to a family tradition of scaring customers at every turn.

Dark Castle Haunted Attractions is based out of a warehouse with over 30 horror scenes on Highway Church Rd in Elgin. The attraction was founded as the Dark Knight’s Terror Trail by U.S. Army Veteran Larry Oates in 1999.

“When my grandfather was spearheading, we’d get setup in two weeks, go for the month of October and shut down in two weeks. We had this huge castle façade,” said Elizabeth Oliveira, Oates’ granddaughter

Oates operated the annual pop-up horror show until he was diagnosed with cancer in 2003. After a lengthy battle with the illness, he passed away in the mid-2000s.

Come 2012, the Oates family and subsequent village returned to the haunt with a vengeance. They rebranded themselves as Dark Castle and opened the brick-and-mortar facility one year later.

Now, volunteers from ‘the old haunt’ are keeping Oats’ legacy alive.

“Both of my children were born into this. They were a part of it before they even knew they were. And both of my children are actually actors on the trail as well as my husband,” said Tracey Roberts, a longstanding scare-actor for the family business.

Robert’s used her fear of clowns to create a monster titled “Ringmaster Coulro” for the Carnival De Chaos trail. She says Dark Castle is a creative outlet for her and her family.

“We built a Ferris wheel, we built a carousel. We don’t buy most of our props, we build them. That’s the creativity that we throw into it. It’s a passion that we bring to the game,” said Roberts.

According to Oliveira, upward of 70 volunteers are making Dark Castle a reality this year. She attributes the passion of every community member to its year-round success.

“We are a volunteer-based haunt which means that everyone who’s here wants to be here. They love to scare. They love to entertain… And it really does make a difference when you go through a haunt where people like it versus a haunt where they’re just doing it for a paycheck,” concluded Oliveira.

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Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie and Louise Erdrich were among the writers he first published

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C. Michael Curtis, who as fiction editor for the Atlantic mined 12,000 short-story submissions a year in search of undiscovered voices, turning up Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie and Louise Erdrich among countless other writers who went on to literary prominence, died Jan. 11 at a hospice facility in Spartanburg, S.C. He was 88.

His wife, author Elizabeth Cox, confirmed his death and said he had kidney failure, pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus, among other ailments.

During a 57-year career at the Atlantic, Mr. Curtis was renowned by colleagues and the literary world writ large for spotting and nurturing talent, often corresponding with writers he turned down multiple times before finally saying yes — a narrative arc of rejection to acceptance sometimes spanning two decades.

“We’d rather invest the effort, even at the risk of wasting time with bad work, to find the improbable, utterly unexpected story by a writer we’ve never heard of,” Mr. Curtis said in a 2005 interview published in an all-fiction issue of the Atlantic.

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Among the hundreds of submissions Mr. Curtis received every week, he found Oates, Beattie and Erdrich and many more writers who went on to long careers: Bobbie Ann Mason, Ethan Canin, James Alan McPherson, Michael Cunningham, Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff.

Mr. Curtis was partial to work submitted directly from writers, not agents or publishers. “We prefer unagented work,” he said at a 2016 writers conference in North Carolina, according to the Salisbury Post. “We like to feel we discovered somebody.”

In 2005, Mr. Curtis discovered Lauren Groff, saying yes to her story “L. DeBard and Aliette.”

“I was in my first semester in graduate school,” she recalled in the Atlantic in 2020. “… In the years since I’d graduated from college, I’d been a bartender and administrative assistant and had worked my brain and fingers raw, trying and mostly failing to write well on my own.”

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Groff’s story was selected for the annual “Best American Short Stories” anthology. Her career took off.

“My agent contacted me after he read it and we fell into our long and affectionate relationship; not long afterward, he sold my first novel,” she said. “My entire life as a writer unfolded from that moment of acceptance from C. Michael Curtis and the Atlantic, and the sheer luck of that snip in time feels holy to me.”

Mr. Curtis prized one quality among all others in writing: action.

“I want something to happen,” he recalled in the 2005 interview. “I prefer a story that concerns itself with events and their consequences in the lives of principal characters. I’m not partial to what you might call a sketch or a glimpse. I also read every story looking for distinctive dialogue, strong mechanics and skillful use of figurative language — things that create a sense of artfulness rather than just a plodding working-through of plot.”

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Though the New Yorker, the Atlantic’s chief competitor in fiction, published many of the same writers — Beattie’s work emerged there around the same time in the early 1970s — Mr. Curtis thought the Atlantic’s short stories were more focused on “a sense of story,” he told the Missouri Review in 1984.

“I think the New Yorker is much more willing than we are to publish what I would call a sketch, or a portrait, or simply a reflective memoir,” he continued. “… We really do like a well-organized, focused, organic narrative. And we will rarely want to publish what we acknowledge is a very fine or elegant piece of writing just because it’s nicely written.”

Christopher Michael Curtis was born in New York on May 7, 1934. His father was Ely Kahn, a prominent Manhattan architect, and his mother, Dorothy Curtis, was an assistant with whom he was having an affair, Mr. Curtis’s wife said. He was 4 when his mother sent him to foster homes and boarding schools while she attended medical school, and he would return home to New York during the summers.

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He went to high school in Magnolia, Ark. After graduating, he worked as a fry cook at a local restaurant. He had no plans to attend college.

“But I read an article in Reader’s Digest about the Cornell School of Hotel Management, where you didn’t have to take regular courses,” he told the Boston Globe. “I actually went up to Ithaca to see if I could talk my way into the school. A dean there suggested I take some high school courses at Ithaca High, which I did, and the hotel school eventually admitted me.”

One night during his sophomore year, he attended a party and spotted a collection of Franz Kafka’s short stories on a bookshelf.

“I opened one, and I began to read it and was so taken with it, I sat down on the floor with my back to the wall while the party sort of swirled around me and kept on reading,” Mr. Curtis recalled to the Hartford Courant. He changed his major to English, began working for campus literary publications and briefly became roommates with Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author of “The Crying of Lot 49” and “Gravity’s Rainbow.”

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After graduating in 1956, Mr. Curtis worked as a reporter at the Ithaca Journal and Newsweek but decided to pursue a doctorate in political science at Cornell while writing poetry in his spare time. In 1961, Peter Davison, the Atlantic’s poetry editor, visited campus for a reading. Mr. Curtis gave him some poems to read. Davison offered him a summer job that turned into a permanent position in 1963. The doctorate was never completed.

Mr. Curtis’s connection to the magazine began winding down in 2005 when the magazine ceased regular publication of fiction, opting to publish special fiction issues instead. A year later, when the magazine moved from Boston to Washington, Mr. Curtis and his wife relocated to South Carolina, where they taught at Wofford College.

A previous marriage, to Jean Getchell, ended in divorce.

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Survivors include his wife of 29 years; two children from his first marriage, Hilary Curtis Osmer of Ayer, Mass., and Hans Curtis of Acton, Mass.; two stepchildren, Elizabeth Morrow of Windsor, Colo., and Michael Cox of Denver; two brothers; and five grandchildren. A son from his first marriage, Christopher Curtis, died in 2013.

Mr. Curtis, who also wrote short stories of his own, fully retired from the Atlantic in 2020. After his death, the magazine published a remembrance of him, including reflections by several of his writers.

“He was such an astute reader, and, in his interactions with writers, a listener,” Beattie said. “Watchful. Helpful and kind. He just assumed that reading and writing were important, essential pursuits, and that it was his role to encourage things along, spreading the good word. In many senses, he was a true believer.”

Henley To Lead New York Development Business at Lendlease

Lendlease, a leading global real estate investment management group, appointed a veteran development executive to strengthen the firm in the region.

Monique Henley joins Lendlease as an executive general manager to lead its Americas development business in the firm's New York City office.

In her new role, Henley will lead the firm's integrated projects in the greater New York market and manage a cross-functional team within its development group. She will focus on identifying and pursuing development opportunities and large-scale urban regeneration projects while supporting the growth of Lendlease's development business and facilitating collaborative relationships to support development efforts nationally, according to the company.

She reports to Mark Dickinson, managing director of development for the Americas at Lendlease.

"Monique's breadth of development experience and proven track record of operational success across the full project life cycle will benefit the entire organization as we continue the growth and execution of our East Coast pipeline," Dickinson said in a statement announcing the hire. "I look forward to working with her to bring pioneering projects to market and further establish Lendlease’s leadership in sustainable, equitable development that enhances the communities in which we operate."

Henley brings nearly two decades of real estate experience, having sourced, developed or managed 8.7 million square feet of institutional real estate in the residential, office and mixed-use property sectors across the United States throughout her career.

Henley joins Lendlease from New York-based Rockefeller Group, most recently as vice president and regional director of Southeast development. In that role, she focused on the establishment of a residential and mixed-use platform in Atlanta that led to the development of a 19-story condominium project as well as overseeing land sourcing and pre-development work on a 60-story multifamily and office tower.

Henley holds a master's degree in real estate with a concentration in finance from New York University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Smith College.

SOUTH BAY

Hoffmann Joins Growing Life Science Team at JLL

Amid rapid growth in Northern California's life science industry, global real estate brokerage and investment management firm JLL has hired Allison Hoffmann as an executive vice president in its Silicon Valley office.

In her new role, Hoffmann will continue to specialize in tenant representation for life sciences companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

She joins the life science team led by Scott W. Miller, Grant Dettmer, Cole Smith and Grant Yeatman that has assisted the industry's growth in the region and helped JLL lead roughly 43% of all life science leasing volume in the Bay Area, according to the company. JLL’s 2022 Life Sciences Research Outlook & Cluster Rankings report ranks the San Francisco Bay Area as second in the United States among strongly positioned cluster markets, exhibiting many of the factors needed for continued opportunity and growth.

"The San Francisco Bay Area continues to stand tall as one of the top life sciences clusters in the U.S., and, due to venture capital flows and access to skilled talent, its growth prospects continue to impress occupiers and investors," said Travis McCready, head of life sciences industries Americas for JLL, in a statement. "Allison’s expertise, background and reputation for sourcing innovative solutions makes her exceptionally qualified to advise and service clients and their specific needs. Looking forward, she will be a vital part of our life sciences team both regionally and nationally."

Hoffmann joins JLL from T3 Advisors, a Savills company, where she most recently served as managing director of life sciences. She began her career in healthcare at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Genentech and Gilead, holding various sales and public relations positions there. Hoffmann earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Colorado and is a member of the board of advisers for Life Science Cares Bay Area.

SEATTLE

Loveall Begins Term as SIOR Global President

The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, the leading industry group for industrial and office real estate professionals, has inducted Kidder Mathews Executive Vice President Patricia Loveall, as its 2022-2023 global president.

Loveall has been an active SIOR member since 1997, and served as SIOR global vice president in 2019. In addition to her involvement with SIOR, Loveall is a fellow and past board director of the Industrial Asset Management Council, past board member with Commercial Real Estate Women, a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks and the King County Board of Realtors.

Loveall began her commercial real estate career more than 35 years ago. She is ranked as a top producer at Kidder Mathews, where she works as an industrial and corporate services specialist in the brokerage's south Seattle office. Throughout her career, Loveall has been involved in sales and leasing transactions valued in excess of $3 billion on behalf of a client list that includes Weyerhaeuser, Home Depot, Nuveen, Dermody Properties, CenterPoint and Clarion.

Loveall and the rest of SIOR's new board of directors were sworn in during the group's CREate 360 event in Dallas. David Lockwood with Colliers in Columbia, South Carolina, took office as SIOR president elect. Mike Ohmes, an office specialist with Cushman & Wakefield in Minneapolis, will serve as SIOR's vice president for a one-year term before being named president elect for a year and then stepping into the global presidency role in the fall of 2024.

NEW YORK CITY

Oates To Chair CMAA Board of Directors

Christine Oates, vice president and operations leader of Northeast program management/construction management at Jacobs in New York, has begun a one-year term as chair of the board of directors for the Construction Management Association of America.

Oates is a construction management industry professional with over 25 years of experience leading public- and private-sector building and infrastructure projects.

Oates joined CMAA 20 years ago, supporting the local New York and New Jersey chapter in a variety of roles before going on to serve on the chapter's board of directors and eventually as president of the chapter. During her tenure as president, her chapter received the CMAA Chapter of the Year award, and Oates earned her Certified Construction Manager designation and became a standards of practice course instructor.

Oates was inducted at CMAA2022, the association's national conference held in San Diego. The board of directors for 2022-2023 also includes Khaled Naja with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Brian McCarthy with CDM Smith, Doug McCutchen with Keville Enterprises, Michael Houston with the Bowa Group, Jim Murphy with STV and Anne Timmermans at Parametrix.

SAN DIEGO

Hill Joins MedWest Realty as Senior Vice President

Healthcare real estate brokerage and advisory services firm MedWest Realty has hired medical industry veteran Kellie Hill as a senior vice president in the firm's San Diego office.

In her new role, Hill will expand the firm's presence in the Southwestern United States, offering both landlord and tenant advisory services in the region.

Hill brings more than 25 years of industry experience, most recently as a vice president with JLL, where she oversaw the brokerage firm's healthcare practice in Orange County and served national and local medical clients throughout Southern California, Texas and Arizona. Before that, she worked in a variety of construction and project management roles.

ATLANTA

Rainone Promoted to Director at Lee & Associates

Lee & Associates has promoted Patricia Rainone, née Donahue, to director in the firm's Atlanta office.

In her expanded role, Rainone will continue to focus on tenant advisory services, including location consulting, site selection and build-to-suit coordination for local and national clients.

Rainone transitioned into industrial real estate brokerage as an associate with Lee & Associates Atlanta in April 2021, and before that held marketing roles at Lee & Associates and Cushman & Wakefield.

WASHINGTON DC

Hara Joins JLL Clean Energy Infrastructure Team

JLL has hired Jennifer Hara as a vice president with its clean energy and infrastructure advisory team in Washington, D.C.

In her new role, Hara will play a role in expanding the firm's public-private partnership business while managing transportation and energy engagements throughout the region. The group works with clients to address aging infrastructure at a pivotal time.

Hara brings more than 15 years of project development and financing experience for large-scale capital projects on behalf of export credit agencies, multilateral firms and commercial banks. She most recently served as a brand director with Access Intelligence and, before that, as director at the Institute for Public-Private Partnerships, a Tetra Tech company. Hara began her career at Taylor-DeJongh, a boutique international project finance advisory firm.

After snipping the tattered threads along the edge of Old Glory, Trey Oates carefully folds over a few inches of the red and white striped cloth and then eases the yards of cumbersome material through an industrial-grade sewing machine.

His actions continue a tradition that has threaded through the Oates family for more than 70 years.

"We get busy with repairs this time of year; there's Memorial Day, Flag Day and the Fourth of July," said Oates, operations manager at Oates Promotional Services, a family-owned business that specializes in an assortment of American-made flags, banners and related products and services.

"These large American flags can cost hundreds and thousands of dollars depending on the size, so spending $150 to have them repaired on a regular basis makes a lot of sense."

The red, white and blue symbol of America has been at the heart of the Oates family business ever since C.R. Oates Sr. started the Oates Flag Company in 1945, when he returned to Louisville after World War II. When he passed in 1965, C.R.'s wife, Tonya, took over until 1971. Randy Oates Jr. and his brother, Reggie Oates, continued the family business until Randy’s passing and Reggie’s retirement in 2019.

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Today the Louisville business, located in the Bluegrass Industrial Park in Jeffersontown, is operated by Randy’s wife Gwynne, Trey and Julie Oates, Leigh Oates McFarland and general manager Greg Strafer.

"Selling American flags handcrafted in the U.S.A. is obviously very important to our business.," Gwynne Oates said. "There are a lot of sites online where you can buy products from overseas, but that is not an option for us."

An antique foot pedal-operated Singer sewing machine greets customers in the lobby of the facility at 10951 Electron Dr. When C.R. Oates first started the business, his flag company used the machine to produce locally made American flags.

Years later the family changed course and expanded its focus from flags to numerous other promotional items.

"We like to think of ourselves as a one-stop-shop for your branding needs," said Greg Strafer, general manager. "That's why we rebranded ourselves from Oates Flag to Oates Promotional Services."

While the locally owned business no longer assembles the Stars and Stripes, it does sell American-made flags sewn at New Jersey's Annin Flagmakers, the nation's oldest and largest flag maker and one of half a dozen larger manufacturers of flags in the United States.

The business sells hundreds of flags and continues to install flag poles, sell flag hardware and repair flags. And, when someone drops off a flag to be retired with reverence, they handle that too.

"Today we offer a variety of services," Strafer told The Courier Journal. "We have all new screen printing and embroidery machines, and we offer full-service promotional items like cheer flags and banners. Customers can come in and work with a designer and everything is made in-house."

Besides the symbol of the United States, Oates carries state flags, military flags and custom flags. Also popular are Irish flags in March and the Old City of Louisville flag, which is in demand each spring close to the Kentucky Derby.

In fact, take a drive through the city, attend a sporting event or watch one on television, and from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the Tennessee Titans, there is a good chance you'll see a product made at the Oates facility.

"There was a time when everything that hung in Rupp Arena we had made," Gwynne Oates said. "We've done flags and banners in the YUM Center; we've made spirit flags for so many schools — the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, Stanford University, Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss, you name it. And for local high school and elementary schools like Trinity, Sacred Heart, St. Agnes and St. Edwards."

Flags made at this iconic Louisville business were also flown during the 75th Anniversary of D-Day over the skies of Normandy, France, and over Afghanistan in 2010 during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Closer to home, Oates is responsible for the neighborhood banners you see hanging along major streets throughout Louisville.

Finishing a task handed down through the generations of the Oates family, Trey Oates clips a final piece of loose thread from the massive flag. This one belongs to a popular Louisville Chick-Fil-A restaurant. Like his father and grandfather before him, Oates understands that proper care can ensure the stars and stripes will continue to fly.

And this flag is ready to return to its flagpole and right on time for the Fourth of July.

Reach Kirby Adams at kadams@courier-journal.com or Twitter @kirbylouisville.

Flag etiquette guidelines

Some things to know about the proper way to display the Unites States Flag from Oates Promotional Services. For further guidelines about proper etiquette when flying the American Flag visit oatesflag.com.

Displaying the flag outdoors

On a vehicle – Attach the flag to the antenna or clamp the flagstaff to the right fender. Do not lay the flag over the vehicle.

On a building – Hang the flag on a staff or on a rope over the sidewalk with the stars away from the building.

Over the street – Hang the flag with the stars to the east on a north-south street or north on an east-west street.

Above other flags – Hang the American flag above any other flag on the same pole.

In a window – Hang the flag vertically with the stars to the left of anyone looking at it from the street.

Half-staff – This is a sign of mourning. Raise the flag to the top of the pole then lower it to the half-way point. Before lowering the flag, raise it to the top again at the end of the day.

Upside down – An upside-down flag is considered a distress signal.