SPOLETO BUZZ BLOG

So what gives with the weather? I’m getting conflicting accounts of what we can expect for Sunday’s Finale at Middleton Place. Last year we got thoroughly rained out — even the F&B crowd, who were boozing it up right next to the City Paper spread (which was pimp, by the way), eventually threw in a very wet towl and said to hell with it. And you know that crowd doesn’t go down without a hard fight. And even the year before that was damp, if not completely wet. So we really, really deserve a nice day for Sunday’s festivities. We need the Piccolo stage to be dry so that Paul Scheer and Paul McBrayer can get up there and amuse all hell out of us. We need to be able to romance our girlfriends, boyfriends, and spouses with walks around sunny Middleton Place grounds. We need to be able to amble from picnic to picnic greeting friends and sampling food & drink without slogging through a muddy marsh of a Greensward. And we need to be able to hear the Spoleto Festival Orchestra perform its Prokofiev, its Shostakovitch, its Newman, and its, um, Newman unhindered by falling water of any kind. And most of all we need to see those badass fireworks. But weather.com is calling for a high of 85 and isolated thunderstorms, while over at the Post and Courier, Dave Munday says Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season (did I not see this coming?) might bring yet more rain to Charleston late Saturday. Is there an anti-rain dance?!