Chrysler showcases first wave of new models under Fiat ownership

In our continuing review of the 2010 automotive offerings, the Chrysler Corp. takes the spotlight. It is encouraging to note Chrysler USA is not waiting for the announced Fiat technological infusion, but it is showing marked improvements across the product line. Read More

Car Show Calendar

The Rockin’ Charleston Open Car & Truck Show will be held in Adams Run and in North Charleston. Registration, which is $20, is 9 a.m.-noon at 6373 Spring Grove Road in Adams Run. All cars, trucks and motorcycles are welcome. Read More

Auto Action

Local technician wins windshield ‘Olympics,’ program to tout S.C. vehicles, Boone Hall show postponed

The Charleston area and South Carolina as a whole had its share of car-related events and announcements as of late. Here’s a few. Read More

All in the Family

Minivans, sport utilities – and a few sedans – prove popular for hauling kids and teenagers

The soccer mom: it’s indelibly etched in the national conscience as the ultimate road warrior taking kids to and from school, sporting events, camp — whatever. In reality, the soccer mom might be a football dad, a lacrosse grandma, or a band significant other. Read More

Edgewater Plantation

High-end apartment complex near Wando River showcasing amenities, rental choices

Figures tell a lot about Edgewater Plantation, a 360-unit rental village, 90 percent occupied and visible to hundreds of people daily from Interstate 526 in Mount Pleasant. Yet the community – and its tenants – are hardly just numbers. Read More

Real Estate News

SIM Group hires pair, kitchen remodeler wins award, Walterboro estate sale proceeds to go to charity

Two Charleston area real estate veterans have joined the SIM Group Sales & Marketing LCC. Kimber McFadden is the new director of sales/broker-in-charge of the sales and marketing group, and Patricia Pangrass is a sales associate stationed at the Daniel’s Orchard neighborhood in downtown Summerville. Read More

127 Island Park Drive

Intricately designed Daniel Island home spacious, maneuverable for young families or retirees

Right from the start, Sis Marshall found 127 Island Park Drive to be unconventional. In a good way, mind you. “It is different and unusual,” says Marshall, residential sales associate with Poston & Co. Real Estate. But not quirky. The 3,315-square-foot home, priced for sale at $1,099,000, has classic lines and elegant trappings. It’s just that custom builder Chris Carson, who lives a block away, incorporated a sense of flair in creating a traditional yet original design. Read More

Homebuyer Tax Credit: Longer and Broader

Local housing market should accelerate as break extended for initial buyers, opened to existing ones

Winter can be the doldrums in real estate sales. But at least for the next five months, expect a flurry of activity in the local, and national, housing markets. That’s because Congress and the Obama administration has given first-time homebuyers an extra 150 days or so, until April 30 of next year, to buy a house and claim an $8,000 tax credit. On top of that, existing shoppers who have owned a home as a principal residence for at least five years can claim an up to $6,500 credit to purchase a house, as long as it’s $800,000 or less. Read More

Painting of McElveen salutes football at PC

John Carroll Doyle, a Charleston-based artist who played football for Presbyterian College in 1967, has shown his thanks to the school by presenting it with a large oil painting depicting Raymond McElveen, a player for the school in 1918, holding a leather helm... Read More

Sisters to team up on TV

Zooey Deschanel (left) will join her sister, Emily, on a special episode of "Bones" coming to Fox on Dec. 10. Read More

Actor shows his 'Bad' side in cop role

TORONTO -- Nicolas Cage figures he owes no apologies when critics gripe about all the Hollywood action flicks he's done. An Academy Award winner for "Leaving Las Vegas," Cage says those commercial movies provide the freedom to do smaller, smarter films such as his offbeat cop tale, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." Read More

Lane takes on Gomez in ‘The Addams Family’

CHICAGO -- For Nathan Lane, the fall of 2003 in Chicago was the happiest of times. The out-of-town tryout of Mel Brooks' "The Producers," which starred Lane and Matthew Broderick as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, was greeted by cheering audiences right from the first public performance. Read More

Fans of Fox musical series pay homage with own videos

"Glee," Fox's sharp and subversive musical comedy series, is averaging a respectable 8.6 million viewers a week. And apparently they are going online to champion and celebrate the show, which is turning out to be more viral than H1N1. Read More

Free-range grower returns to roots on family farm

Three degrees of separation. That's all it took, the temperature difference between 95 and 98, to doom half of Annie Keegan Filion's brood of 400 turkeys earlier this year. Turkey poults are extremely sensitive to warmth, and only 3 degrees cooler made them chilly despite the heat. Read More

Conflict in overfishing laws

The recent front-page article by Bo Petersen titled 'All fished out?' captured the mood of most in the production mode of the seafood industry. Read More

Gliding into the weekend

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A different kind of urban growth

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Gators surge past Jackets for victory

Goose Creek -- Goose Creek coach Chuck Reedy says his team does its best work in the fourth quarter when the other team is just flat worn out. North Augusta was the latest to find that out. Read More

Northwood comes up short

Junior quarterback Luke Sirgo tossed three touchdown passes and rushed for another to lead Hilton Head Christian to a 33-14 win over Northwood Academy in the SCISA Class AA State Championship game, played in Orangeburg. The Eagles finished the season with a 12-1 record, beating Northwood ... Read More

First-place Rays beaten by Gwinnett

The Stingrays had plenty of luck Friday night against the Gwinnett Gladiators. Unfortunately most of it was bad luck. Read More