High Water Fest Continues to Find Its Groove
Two days of great weather and better music outshine a few sour notes by Lorne Chambers | Editor There are worse ways to spend a spring weekend than being in Riverfront Park with a breeze coming off the Cooper River, live music in the air, and the sun melting...
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Thank-you, Music Man
Charleston music community mourns loss of local luminary Ted McKee by Lorne Chambers | editor A little after midnight on Friday, Dec. 18, Skye McKee posted on Facebook that her husband, local musician Ted McKee, was in the ICU at Roper St. Francis Bon Secours...
Still Dirty. Still Rotten.
Crossover thrash legends D.R.I. bring the noise to Tin Roof on Sept. 18 from Staff Reports For nearly a decade and a half, Tin Roof, the small dive bar housed in what used to be a tackle shop, has been West Ashley’s biggest champion of live music. It has welcomed...
Laughter is the Best Medicine
New monthly comedy showcase kicks off this month at Ireland’s Own by Lorne Chambers | Editor Things just got a whole lot funnier West of the Ashley. That’s because Ireland’s Own is now the official home of the Best Medicine Brigade, the brainchild of local comedian...
Read in Color
The Cynthia Graham Hurd Foundation and Reading Partners team up for Book Drive from Staff Reports The Cynthia Graham Hurd Foundation and Reading Partners recently announced that they are kicking off their 6th annual book drive to promote literacy in memory of Cynthia...
An Art Initiative with Real Roots
The eighth installment of Artcelium brings creative community together in nature by Lorne Chambers | Editor In the plant world, mycelium is a network of underground fungal threads that work like a root structure, branching out and connecting many of the living things...
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Rainbow Kitten Surprise has surpassed one billion streams on digital platforms, set to play The Woodlands July 1st from Staff Reports As if channeling another dimension where genres simply don’t exist, Rainbow Kitten Surprise finds harmony in unpredictability —...
High Water, Higher Standards
Charleston’s signature music festival delivers hometown pride and world-class sound by Lorne Chambers | Editor If there’s a weekend that proves Charleston can hold its own on the national music stage, it’s High Water—and the 2022 edition may have been its strongest...
Off the Rails
Mex 1 Coastal Cantina will transform their front parking lot into an epic snowboarding jump on Jan. 15 from Staff Reports Forty-thousand pounds of snow will be falling in West Ashley on Saturday, Jan. 15. Specificially it will land in the parking lot of Mex 1 Coastal...
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...
