A Helping and Healing Hand
Glowing Fest at Woodlands Nature Preserve will raise funds for those impacted by Hurricane Helene from Staff Reports Presented by Gator in the Atmosphere, Glowing Fest, an intimate nature-based music, arts, skill-sharing, and art-making festival, will have its...
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Begin with Books Looks to Open Chapter in West Ashley
When should you start reading to your child? Now! Right now and as much as possible. It doesn’t matter if your little one is a day old or three years old, reading is one of the most important activities parents can do with their child. And to make this...
On a Roll
Stand up comedy returns to Bushido Japanese Restaurant, one of West Ashley’s favorite sushi houses starting this Friday, Dec. 20. The weekly “On A Roll” comedy showcase kicks off with a night featuring two of the best local comedians, Jason Groce and Tim Hoeckel, who...
15,000 One Step at a Time
“We’re led to believe love is complicated. It’s not the love that’s complicated. It’s all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you’re smart, you’ll realize this before it’s too late…” — Present Perfect, by Alison Bailey...
Handle With Care
No one has seen them together since 1990 and they never did get around to touring, but this Saturday, Dec. 14, they’ll reunite for one epic performance at the Tin Roof … sort of. Nelson, Otis, Lefty, Charlie T., and Lucky Wilbury, otherwise known as George Harrison,...
Nothing Passes, This Too Shall Pass
On Sunday, Dec. 15, artist Sarah Boyts Yoder will unveil her latest collection of daring, mixed media pieces at Jericho Advisors in Avondale, West Ashley, during her solo gallery show “Nothing Passes, This Too Shall Pass.” Created as part of her week-long residency at...
A Stroke of Nostalgia
On its surface, Mark Beale’s award-winning painting, “Creekside Dusk,” is simply a riverbank backlit by the setting sun. And he did such a fine job of it, it recently won a major local art award. Last week Beale was awarded a $3,000 first-prize from an art contest,...
Lighting a Fire Under Holiday Tradition
The Little Match Girl is a Christmas story that isn’t often read this time of year. During a time of warmth, family and sweet indulgences, Hans Christian Andersen’s short story about a penniless child trying to sell matchsticks on the last day of the year is a...
To Hear Them Tell It
“If you put two Charlestonians in a big room full of people, somehow they are going to find each other and they will start talking about Charleston and their memories of it,” says Mary Coy, author of To Hear Them Tell It: Memories of Growing Up in Charleston. This...
When Presumption Meets Providence
For six long days in the heat of a Charleston August, West Ashley resident Cynthia Pulsifer coached nine volunteer actors and a number of crew members through the production of a film that had come to represent as much of a journey for her as it had to her main...
Doing What Must be Done
“What must be done eventually, should be done immediately” - anon. Over the past several months, West Ashley resident Skyla Campbell has spent countless hours collecting and shipping school and art supplies, toys, shirts and shoes for more than 12 non-profit...
