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Welcome to West Ashley 2.0
It’s 8:18 p.m. Friday night and the last of a line of subcontractor vans is leaving Rutherford Way, the cut through road connecting the Essex and Carolina Bay neighborhoods. Workers throw trash into rented dumpsters in the yard of one of many uncompleted homes along...
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program Saved By Local Donor
Less than a week after Big Brothers Big Sisters announced its closing, a significant contribution from an anonymous local donor came in. This investment will allow BBBS to keep its doors open and continue to offer support services to all 114 of its existing matches...
ELLE Gives Lava More Love
For the second year in a row, West Ashley-based Lava Salon was named to fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine ELLE’s annual list of Top 100 salon in the United States. Located in the Avondale business district, Lava joins the prestigious list as one of two salons...
MUG SHOTS
The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left off to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
Bringing Community Into Focus
This August, Draisin Vision in West Ashley is asking for you help. Swing by its Tobias Gadson Boulevard office with any new or used books and they will donate them to the Charleston Friends of the Library. In return for your donation, Draisin will be offering half-off...
Local Author Turns to Romance
Romance at 57? Well, why not? Local author Katherine McDermott had previously published in non-fiction and children’s literature, but decided at 55 to try her hand at writing romance. “At first, it was rather daunting. I started by sending manuscripts out to contests...
Happy Birthday Julia Child
On Saturday, Aug. 15, what would have been Julia Child’s 103rd birthday, The Glass Onion will host its annual celebration dinner in her honor. For $45 per person, dinners can enjoy a special three-course menu for the night. There will be optional French wine pairings...
Cream Soda Beer
I drank a lot of soda in my youth. I mean a lot. My soda of choice was Dr. Pepper, but Cheerwine, Cherry Coke, and some of the yellow fizzy ones that are now promoted as mild stimulant beverages. However, on a family trip one summer, I happened upon some mysterious...
West Ashley’s Music Man
On December 12, 1941, the students of St. Andrew’s Parish High School performed Blitzkrieg - A Musical Revue under the direction of their faculty advisor, E. Bernard Hester. This was just the first of Hester’s many musicals. Known to his students as “Fess,” short for...
Rock Stars of Jazz
The term “supergroup” is usually applied to rock bands, featuring members from other popular bands. But in the case of Gradual Lean, it’s a supergroup made up of some of Charleston’s most accomplished jazz musicians. And they didn’t really come from other big name...
