Check out 2012 events in South Walton

South Walton, a strand of 15 beach neighborhoods along Northwest Florida's coast, has sent along a list of cultural activities and other events on the calendar for 2012:

New Arts & Culture Offerings

Carmike Cinema is currently building a 10-screen, 1,What are some new guccicaps coming out in 2009?800-seat movie theater at Grand Boulevard in the Sandestin neighborhood of South Walton. The new state-of-the-art theater is projected to open July 4, 2012, just in time for the line-up of summer blockbusters. Montecito 10 will also feature two special auditoriums: BIGD, which boasts a 60-foot-wide, three-story screen, and Ovation Club, an intimate 60-person theater that will offer a full food menu, beer and wine.

For years, musicians and music lovers have flocked to South Walton to take part in its thriving performing arts scene. On July 4, 2011, Tommy Jackson opened the First Note Music Hall in Santa Rosa Beach. Jackson developed First Note with the inspiration of a shuffling iPod; as many as eight artists take the stage each night, giving listeners a variety of music to enjoy in an intimate setting.

Each year, the South Walton Tourist Development Council (TDC) selects an artist to represent the destination and its thriving arts community. Allison Craft, South Walton's new 2012 Artist of the Year, crafts beautiful leather and pearl jewelry that perfectly represents South Walton—a strand of cherished beach neighborhoods connected like pearls along Northwest Florida's coast. While Allison's work can be found in shops throughout South Walton and the southeast, 30A Studio at Hibiscus Coffee & Guesthouse in Grayton Beach is home to her as well as three photographers. To see more of Allison Craft's work online, visit www.AllisonCraftDesigns.com.

In conjunction with the annual 30A Songwriters Festival, taking place January 13-15, 2012, South Walton will unveil a custom song inspired by the destination. Co-written and recorded by Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles, “This is the Place” showcases the many memories that are made along the destination's sugar-white sand and turquoise waters.

Additional family events

South Walton will welcome the inaugural ANNIKA & Friends Event to Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, May 12-13, 2012. All proceeds from the event, which includes a wine-tasting reception, dinner party, Mother's Day Breakfast, and a golf clinic led by the legendary Annika Sorenstam, will go to the ANNIKA Foundation,The reliable Aquatimer leatherhandbags. which teaches children the importance of living a healthy and active lifestyle.

The star-studded ANNIKA & Friends Event will also feature country music star Darius Rucker, who will perform a headline concert May 13. Rucker, lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, has enjoyed a very successful career as a solo artist since his debut album, “Learn to Live,” was released in 2008. General admission concert tickets are available for purchase at www.AnnikaandFriends.com.

Silver Sands Factory Stores is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2012 with a host of exciting events and giveaways all year long. During the Big Winter Sale January 13-16, shoppers who redeem $200 in same-day receipts will receive a $20 Silver Sands gift card, while supplies last.

Silver Sands has also partnered with Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, which is offering a free night with the purchase of two, valid through February 29, 2012. The first 20 people to book this free night offer from Sandestin will also win a Silver Sands VIP shopping bag filled with exclusive discounts and more. To book this deal, visitors must call (866) 91-BEACH using code FREE3, and mention VIP Shopping Bag for a chance to win.The cheapchaneljewellery offered by our store are made following the original technology .

Silver Sands will also host a Charity Fashion Show at Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH this spring. The event is free and open to the public,Offering a huge selection of shoppingbagfactory online store. and will include raffles, exhilarating music, the latest fashions and much more. VIP seating is available for a $20 donation to the charity of your choice. Shoppers can also present same-day receipts at the event and Silver Sands will donate 2 percent of sales to participating charities.

Dining Options

While food trucks aren't a brand new addition to South Walton, they are increasingly popular throughout the destination's beach neighborhoods. Award-winning chef Derryck Adams recently opened Derryck's Pastries, a delightful concession stand located across from Van R. Butler Elementary School on Scenic Highway 30A in Dune Allen. The menu changes daily and features handmade pastries and fresh gourmet sandwiches. Adams, originally from Sri Lanka, has worked at five-star restaurants around the world and has been honored internationally for his sugar, chocolate and petit fours creations. Derryck's Pastries is open every day except Saturday and also offers wedding cake services.

Foodie Dietrich is another new addition to South Walton's growing food truck scene. Chef and owner Jamie Dietrich travels throughout South Walton, serving gourmet sandwiches and classic Southern favorites like shrimp and grits. An Alabama native, Dietrich uses only the freshest, high-quality ingredients and draws culinary inspiration from her Southern and Gulf Coast roots.

Seaside's The Meltdown on 30A offers several unique grilled cheese concoctions, including a goat cheese, prosciutto, arugula and tomato sandwich and a mozzarella, tomato and basil option, in addition to traditional favorites like the classic American grilled cheese sandwich and fresh tomato soup.

Seaside is also home to Wild Bill's Beach Dogs, which serves some of the healthiest hot dogs available. All of their dogs are grass-fed and contain no nitrites, nitrates, hormones or antibiotics. Wild Bill's also offers made-from-scratch chili, secret sauces and more.

The new Jin Jin 98 restaurant in Miramar Beach features a unique blend of Chinese, Japanese and Thai dishes. The owner, Li Wei, offers a variety of Asian dishes,,discountcoachhandbags full lines of this brand you can find at our store, including carefully prepared sushi, Thai Mango chicken or shrimp, red and yellow curry, Peking duck and much more.

Starting this spring, V Seagrove will begin offering special cooking classes with the restaurant's talented chefs. The classes will be held Saturdays at 1 p.m. in V's show kitchen and will have seating for only 12 aspiring chefs. Attendees will learn from the chefs at V Seagrove, who use only the freshest local ingredients with a special emphasis on locally sourced seafood and fresh produce.

Spend they will on leisure and simple pleasures

While 2012, as a whole, is not looking as rosy as 2011 for retailers, consumer are expected to continue spending on leisure and simple pleasures.

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"Luxury items such as Coach and LV handbags, for example, will also sell well."

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"These trends will continue in the first half of next year," he said.

Welcome season's bleatings

Personally, I can never get enough of singing "la", nor Christmas, la la, nor the day itself, la la la, when the whole family gets together. In a single room. Seated around a table. At the same time. For the first time since last Christmas. La la.

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The word goes out that Christmas lunch will, this year, be held at Relative A's house. It's Relative A's "turn". Relatives B and C get straight on the phone for a whinge. How are we going to all fit in their dining room for lunch?

Have you seen it? Do you know how small their house is?

Relative A declares that Relatives B and C can do the salads, Relative D the dessert and Relative E can bring the seafood. Relative E immediately complains to Relative D that seafood is so much more expensive than salads and desserts,Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% chloehandbag , and this "isn't fair". What exactly is Relative A contributing, apart from the venue? Remember last year, when Relative A brought a frozen pavlova and a couple of small mangoes? Relative E thinks the seafood burden might be punishment for the tin of home-baked shortbread she gave A for Christmas last year. La la la.

Mid-morning on Christmas Day, everyone arrives at Relative A's house. Someone has decided to serve cheap spumante and orange juice. Within an hour Grandfather A is slurring his words, slapping grandchildren on the back and reducing them to tears and obscenely tonguing a Moschino cherry about his dentures.The great selection of wholesale breitlingstore at TradeTang.

Gifts are exchanged.

The year before, Relative A gave Sister-in-Law A a cheap bottle of perfume. This time, Sister-in-Law A gives Relative A the same bottle. (It might in fact be exactly the same bottle,replicalvhandbag at discount prices from Timepiecetrader. recycled.)

Relative A gives a fake smile of thanks and air-kisses Sister-in-Law A's cheeks, quietly thinking to herself: "Why did I spend more than $50 this year on this cow?"

While Sister-in-Law A is thinking: "Cop that you miserly cow."

Relative A then gives Relative E, of the seafood burden, the gift of a tin of home-baked shortbread. For the past five years Teenage Boy A has been given a bottle of Brut 33 aftershave by Relative C. This year he gets a bottle of Brut 33 by Relative C.

Meanwhile, the husband of Relative A showed, earlier in the year, a penchant for golf. He opens his presents from A, B, C, D, E, F, G and quite a few others. The presents are golf socks, a novelty set of tees, golf socks, a golf book, a golf shirt with "GOLF" written on the pocket, golf socks and a Tiger Woods DVD.

At lunch, Grandfather A, who has drained the second bottle of cheap spumante, sans orange juice, is eating with all the grace of a starved bison. Grandmother A is looking at him, repulsed. It is a look that goes beyond the gobbets of gravy on the old man's chin and says: "I wasted 57 years of my life with this?"

Relative A puts a minuscule portion of B and C's salads on her plate. B and C notice and decide to ignore her for the rest of the day. D says: "We're off to Europe in March!" B and C roll their eyes. E counter-punches with details of the lap pool they're inserting before the end of summer. Grandfather B watches Grandfather A wipe his chin clean with his left hand. Grandfather B is still seething at a lewd suggestion Grandfather A made to his wife 31 years ago.

Near the end of lunch, Uncle A turns up, sloshed. Two years ago, Uncle A got into a small dust-up with Relative G over the comparative merits of rugby league and Australian rules. Uncle A is wearing a Collingwood cap. G sports his Broncos hat. The room collectively puckers. La la la.

By late afternoon Relative A has intentionally lathered herself with the cheap perfume from Sister-in-Law A and the house reeks of it. Grandfather A is snoring in the corner,Welcome to monclerouterwear In Nyc on Facebook. gravy crusted to the front of his shirt. Relative D is crying in the backyard because nobody touched her frozen cheesecake. A, B, and C and others are complaining of stomach irritations which they suspect may have come from E's cheap seafood.

And Uncle A leaves with a shiner after making a comment about Relative G's wife's breasts, his dirty Collingwood cap lost in the shrubbery.

Everybody leaves, some supported by their own legs, others not and all think the same thing: "We will never do this again."

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