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...

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