Sinatra Night at Ireland’s Own
Lounge singer Mike Milo brings the sound and spirit of Ol’ Blue Eyes to West Ashley with a special evening of food and music by Lorne Chambers | Editor There are few performers as iconic as Frank Sinatra. The late-great crooner has sold more than 150 million records...
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A Song of Charleston
West Ashley-based visual artist Kate Hooray Osmond creates 2021 Piccolo Spoleto Festival Poster by Lorne Chambers | editor One of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic was last year’s Spoleto Festival USA and the accompanying Piccolo Spoleto, which is put on by the...
Don’t Call it A Comeback
Highfalutin show marks the triumphant return of Kevin Harrison to Charleston’s visual art scene by Lorne Chambers | editor It’s been 20 years since protesters filled the sidewalks of Broad Street in historic downtown Charleston, holding signs and picketing an art...
Getting Down with the Low Tide Boyz
Charleston’s only all-male charity dance team releases calendar just in time for the holidays by Lorne Chambers | Editor Every year the Charleston Firefighter calendar sets hearts ablaze across the Lowcountry. But this year our local hunky heroes have some...
Supporting Art in the Age of COVID
Local arts champion Susan Irish helps get Artist Support Pledge kicked off in the Carolinas, raises money for local artists by Lorne Chambers | Editor The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted every corner of our society in some way or the other over the last several...
West Ashley’s Grass is Blue
7th annual Bluegrass Festival returns to the Woodlands Nature Preserve with some of the biggest names in the business from Staff Reports There has been a noticeable leap in star power for the seventh annual Charleston Bluegrass Festival held Friday, March 20 and...
Art Matters — A Conversation with Gale Ray
Artist actively painting, retired weaver and faux finish painter Describe your work I capture passages and pathways, both manmade and in nature by painting landscapes and sculpting and making paintings of shells. Current project Making pottery based on shells that I...
Nostalgia Wave Hits West Ashley
NeoPop art show featuring works by Patrick Prickett and T.M. Showers is an homage to the TV, toys, and tech from their youth by Lorne Chambers | Editor When local artist Patrick Prickett first saw the work of fellow painter T.M. Showers he knew they were kindred...
Art Matters — Catherine Lamkin
Describe your art: Pictorial. Portraits, that tell stories of the African Diaspora. My people, my life, and how the world touches me. The joy in our lives, and the injustices, what would I see through the magnifying glass of my sewing needle. What makes your work...
The Harmony in Hominy
Brukes Coffee & Music brings passion for music to your neighborhood coffee shop by Lorne Chambers | Editor It’s two days before Christmas and as people are zooming all over West Ashley getting last minute gifts and holiday preparations, Brukes Coffee & Music...
Art Matters — Christopher Murphy
Describe your art: It is an exploration of movement, composition, color, and text. It is a process of discovery never knowing when it will end. It is abstract. Biggest challenge: Some people are turned off by non-representational art. I work in a frame show, too. My...