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Magnolia Plantation to host beginner-friendly photography workshop series from Staff Reports If you’re curious about finally learning what all those camera buttons do, you will have a chance to sharpen your skills this month. Magnolia Plantation & Gardens hosts a...
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Souvenirs of Summer
As summer swiftly comes to a close, Fabulon: Center for Art & Education transitions to new schedules, rituals, and routines. For some it is a new beginning associated with starting school, but for others it is bittersweet evidence that children are growing up and...
Getting Jerked Around
Celebrate Jamaica as you wine and dine at the 4th Annual SC Reggae Jerk & Wine Festival from 12 noon to 7 pm on Sunday, Aug. 27 at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Meet Chef Ty from Jamaica and enjoy a sample of Jerk chicken paired with a wine sample in your...
Rock the Rescue
Over the course of two days this week, 40 bands are coming together to support Frances R. Willis SPCA (FRWSPCA), located in Summerville. But two of the participating venues are located right here in West Ashley. On Friday, Aug. 18 and Saturday, Aug. 19, The Tin Roof,...
Youth In Revolt
5th Wall Productions opens their fourth season with the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening (book and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik). The production, which opens August 11, may be the West Ashley-based theatre company’s most ambitious project...
Comedy and Curls
“Every relationship has a few split ends” is the subtitle to real life couple Fray Forde and Catherine Dee Holly’s new romantic comedy short film Good Hair, in which a conditioner bottle sets a chain of hilarious events. Not to be confused with the 2009 Chris Rock...
A Musical Throw-Back
Micah Scott is a singer/songwriter who was raised in a small northern New York State town with Revolutionary War bones in the fields he grew up around. So it’s no wonder that he has a penchant for history, be it American or Americana. Born in 1978, he developed a...
Pickin’ On Home Team
Asheville-based singer, songwriter, and flatpicker Ken Chapple headlines Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ’s Bar-B-Qued Bluegrass event next week. An award-winning guitarist and songwriter in bluegrass and acoustic pop genres, Chapple will be playing along with his band...
Revivalizing West Ashley
Another Spoleto Festival USA comes to a close this weekend right here in West Ashley with the Wells Fargo Festival Finale once again being held at Middleton Place on Sunday, June 11. Headlining this year’s finale is seven-piece New Orleans roots-driven rock band The...
Oh Spoleto, Where Art Thou?
Blink too long and the Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto arts festivals will be over, especially in West Ashley where there is only one scheduled event before the June 11 finale at Middleton Gardens. One of the enduring complaints about the internationally heralded Spoleto...
The French Connection
As part of Piccolo Spoleto, UNED!TED, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to integrating arts, cultures, and communities through collaborative concert events and programs, brings West Ashley audiences the rare treat of being the first to discover the outstanding...
