It’s hard to believe, but Be is about to be two years old.

This little entertainment tab project started more than two years ago when my then Lifestyles editor approached me asking how I would feel about writing entertainment stories as my beat. Being the pop culture aficionado and the guy who hates writing crime stories, investigative stories, business stories and cops stories, I immediately said I would do it.

Since then, there have been a lot of changes both at the newspaper and within the pages of Be. Some have been great, others have been less than great, but through it all we have persevered and come out the other side with year number three firmly in our sights.

Since November 2006, Be has been, I think, a bastion of entertainment information. We have covered big names like Bob Weir, Bobby McFerrin, Fall Out Boys and Ludacris. We’ve helped to introduce things like Cornhole and Disc Golf to a community that might not have realized these games existed.

We’ve publicized great eateries, increased the buzz around dozens of local bands, told you when and where obscure things are happening and even made a name for ourselves in the community.

And as we start a third year, we are constantly thinking of new ways to make Be a better publication for those who put on these events and those who love going to them.

In just the last year, Be has introduced freelancers like Michael Staton and Scott Dunlap to your eyes. They cover everything from the Internet and local bands (Staton) to the Clemson entertainment scene (Dunlap). We’ve started features like “After Midnight” as Ryan Hardy takes his camera on his wild ride of a life and introduces us to characters and places we might never have visited. And we continue to provide a big-name aspect to our music coverage thanks to local, big-time music freelancer, Russell Hall.

But we think we could be doing more. That’s where you, the reader, comes in. Perhaps for the last two years you have been wondering what the heck is up with Be. Why do we put some features in and not others? Why didn’t we cover this? Why don’t we have an advice columnist? When are we going to put off-beat comics in the pages of Be? Why don’t we have a Web site of our own? What is with the name, Be?

Trust me, we have asked ourselves those same questions and sometimes wonder the same thing. Half the time I’m surprised I even have a job.

So, as we prepare for some interesting changes in a couple weeks where Be is concerned, we want to find out from you what you like and dislike about Be. What would you change? What do you love? What are you indifferent to? Let us know and we will get it in our pages. If you write and tell us what you love and hate about Be, we will make it a part of our new “Reader’s Write In” portion of Be. (It will have a better name than that when it starts.)

It’s all part of being a better Be and making sure that you get what you need from a publication that is all about helping you get out there and having a good time.

After all, he who dies having the most fun wins, right?