Awakening Dark Forces
Erode the Dream summons the mystical and mythical Genrevolta at Tin Roof for a special one-night-only show on May 18 by Lorne Chambers | Editor For old music heads around town, the name Genrevolta carries some serious heft. A band that was so unconventional that it...
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Recycle. Reduce. Reuse. Re-Trend!
Re-Trend, a nomadic clothing swap started by local fashionista Lindsey Chambers (also this newspaper’s sales manager) will be setting up shop from 5-8 p.m. this Sunday, Aug. 17 at the Tin Roof in West Ashley. “It’s a fun way to keep your closet fresh, cute, and unique...
All Shook Up
After Elvis Presley’s second appearance on the Milton Berle show in 1956, critics tore him apart for the "suggestive and vulgar" way in which he danced, particularly the slow, grinding rotations of his pelvis. New York Times writer Jack Gould even wrote that "Mr....
Jamaica's Albino Son Returns
Yellowman, or King Yellowman as his is often called, has an incredible history in Reggae music. His upbringing at the Maxfield Home orphanage in Kingston and being albino in Jamaica were two obstacles the he overcame to become one of the biggest reggae artist since...
Opening a Can of Whoop Art
Somebody call the firemen! Someone is spray-painting graffiti on the St. Andrews Fire Station! Cool your jets, Bucky. They’re supposed to be there, and they’re muralists, not vandals. Crosby Jack and JahSun, a creative duo that just returned from completing five...
From Charleston to Pluto
When West Ashley resident Jonathan Miller graduated from the College of Charleston in 1998 with a business degree, he had no idea that the business he’d be managing would depend on his hidden talent as a paper cut artist. Today, Miller is known as the talented and...
Writing A New Song
While all the rocks have been turned hundreds of times and the melodies have become inverted to a fray, music still creates the freedom, expression, and escape that makes our world continue to search for innovation. From a man who originally set out to play jazz...
Playing On Your Heart Strings
As much as most of us would like to do what we love for a living, it often doesn’t work out that way. A waitress might be a gifted author or a lawyer an excellent musician, but life, more often than not, gets in the way. That doesn’t mean that these talents are...
The Girl with the Silver Thimble
Sigrid Rothchild is what you might call a clothing anthropologist. A graduate in Art History from the College of Charleston, Rothchild enjoys applying her seamstress skills not only to the everyday alterations and adjustments that make up her day to day business, but...
The Fool On Every Corner
Whether battling valiantly from behind the enemy lines of his dive-bar-underground past or blowing the doors off sold-out theaters as he’s done with Drive- By Truckers for the last decade, Mike Cooley has proved his mettle time and time again. He’s rock ‘n’ roll...
Documenting the History of West Ashley
In 1670, the English ship Carolina brought colonists to the west bank of the Ashley River. These settlers and their descendants built a flourishing plantation life in what became St. Andrew’s Parish, which is modern day West Ashley. The Civil War devastated the...
