West Ashley’s Littlest Artists
The Youth Art Gallery at West Ashley Branch Library returns with Spring exhibit, summer packets now available by Lorne Chambers | Editor Last year, the recently reopened West Ashley Library in South Windermere began a program that highlighted the work of some of West...
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Not Your Typical Love Story
Originally Valentine’s Day was about respecting people’s need for love, compassion, and acceptance. It is in this spirit that Fabulon art gallery is hosting a group show illustrating various local artists’ interpretations on the theme. Come out to Fabulon for an...
Local Church Home to Historic Organ
The Holy Spirit Lutheran Church on Bees Ferry Road is now home to a historic William R. Quarterman Memorial Pipe Organ, which was originally located in the rear gallery of the nave of the former St. Richard of Chicester Episcopal Church, the gift of the late Edward...
Get All Doll-ed Up
Come out to the Tin Roof this Saturday, Jan. 28 and help raise funds to support the victims of the historic wildfire that swept through the Smoky Mountains recently and celebrate the birthday of country music icon Dolly Parton, who was born in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. just...
Be Photo-Ready in 2017
For the first time ever, AccuPhotoLab & Studio in West Ashley is hosting a Camera Expo in conjunction with its annual Buy, Sell, Clean Event. Cardinal Camera of Charlotte and Philadelphia is setting up a pop-up camera and equipment expo starting at 10 a.m. this...
Traveling The Folk Underground Railroad
Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, award-winning folk and Americana artist Andrew McKnight’s musical journey has traced nearly a million miles of highway, and earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and enthusiastic fans...
Snow Day at Mex 1
While the temperatures may have dipped below freezing a couple times last weekend, we didn’t exactly get buried in snow or ice. And now temps are going to shoot back up to the 70s later this week. Gotta love winter in Charleston! But no matter what the thermostat says...
Capturing Passionate People and Meditative Landscapes
A firefighter crouched in a cloud of smoke; a maintenance man, covered in grease, next to the enormous wheel he’s fixing; a member of country band Little Big Town rocking out — some of local artist Melissa Miley’s favorite photos are not her most stellar technical...
Mysterious Musicians Invade West Ashley
Recently, they performed at the C.E. Williams PTSA meeting and once again at the annual “Taste of C.E.” and Holiday Band Concert on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at West Ashley High School. The C.E. Williams Drumline, under the direction of Denisse Stanbery, performs annually at...
Turning Up The Heat
As darkness blankets the holy city of Charleston, Brack Pelton steps out of a rundown bar after a long night. Before he gets to his truck, he finds himself in the middle of a domestic dispute between a man and a woman on the sidewalk. When a little girl joins the...
The Artist Behind The Eggplant
The eggplant is everywhere. West Ashley has been covered in it since the summer, when posters advertising the West Ashley Farmer’s Market sprang up in the windows of businesses around the area. But where did the eggplant come from? It sprang from the brush of...
