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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...
A Time For Giving Thanks
It’s the time of year for giving thanks. Thanks for all of the wonderful things that we have — family, friends, hope, and love. Let’s try to be positive and look for the good things in life. And, one of the good things we have is beer. This week, as you plan out your...
Putting The Lowcountry First
One of Charleston’s biggest local business boosters, Jamee Haley, calls West Ashley home, and thinks parts of this neck of the woods holds the perfect balance of local and national stores. For the past six years Haley, a native of Tulsa, Okla., has spearheaded...
SEED-ing the Future
This weekend, assembly began on a shed that will be the first cornerstone in the growing Magnolia-Sycamore Community Vegetable Garden. Led by Clemson architecture professor David Pastre, who teaches classes downtown at the Charleston Architecture Center, students and...
Rooting For The Home Team
Home Team BBQ Owner and Pitmaster Aaron Siegel was presented with area non-profit Operation Home’s annual “Kris Basala Person of the Year “award at a special ceremony during the annual fundraiser Drum It Up event on October 20, 2013. The Basala Award is in honor of...
Giving It Up for Avondale
Lava Salon co-owner Geoff Richardson has been called many things: hairdresser, husband, father, the unofficial Mayor of Avondale, arts booster, Airstream enthusiast, and involved citizen. Mostly, as many who know him best will tell you: he’s nuts. Never able to focus...
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...
Manny’s Turns 20
When West Of published its first issue in February of 2005, the West Ashley dining landscape looked quite a bit different. There were still several “old school” restaurants — places that were just synonomous with West Ashley — such as Liberty Café, Sunfire Grill,...
No Opportunity Wasted
Known to some as “downtown West Ashley,” the Avondale Business District certainly has a vibrant, mini-metropolitan vibe. There’s always something happening, and even bigger things on the way. Avondale Restaurant Week, Avondale 5k, a Halloween Pub Crawl, next week’s...
