Steve Jones | Myrtle Beach Online

Erin Burge

MYRTLE BEACH — A multi-year downward trend in business has led the owners of KISS Coffeehouse at Broadway at the Beach to decide to close the store around the end of September.

An exact date for the closing has not been set yet, said Matthew Goldschmidt, the store’s general manager.

KISS Coffeehouse has been a staple at Broadway’s Celebrity Square for seven years. KISS co-founder Gene Simmons came to Myrtle Beach for the opening of the Coffeehouse.

“It’s not that we didn’t do well,” Goldschmidt explained the reason for leaving, “it was just a steady decline.”

Goldschmidt said that everything in the store, which includes KISS memorabilia, is marked down to sell.

Jen Christianson

Wisconsin Team ‘Mudlicious’

We’re friends. We’re sisters. We’re girls. We’re bad ass. We love to get dirty. We’re Kiss fans. Most of all, we’re pissed off at that ugly, damn disease called cancer. Therefore, it was very fitting for our “Team Mudlicious” to run this years WI Dirty Girl Mud Run with the theme of “Kiss Off Cancer!!” Our bad ass selves donned on the makeup, had a fabulous time constructing our costumes and perfected sticking out our tongues as far as they could go. And yes, we ran the course in costume and got very, very muddy!

The Dirty Girl Mud Run series is a women’s mud 5K run event, with more fun, more obstacles, more girl power, more creativity, more high fives, more excitement and, of course, more mud than any other mud run can muster. Additionally, Dirty Girl Mud Run continues to support Breast Cancer awareness and research, donating more monetary support to this worthy cause every year.

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