Book compelling in explaining crisis

HOW MARKETS FAIL: The Logic of Economic Calamities. By John Cassidy. Farrar, Straus. 400 pages. $28. Read More

A critic's inside view of festival

PARK CITY, Utah -- It's nobody's fault, really it isn't, but there's a gap between the way the just-concluded Sundance Film Festival is written about in news reports and the way I experienced it as a critic on the ground, a gap that seemed especially large this year. Read More

Dock Street reopening celebrated

Renowned French soprano Natalie Dessay and violinist Geoff Nuttall, director of chamber music for Spoleto Festival USA, will be joined by chamber musicians Pedja Muzijevic (piano), Christopher Costanza (cello) and Caroline Blackwell (viola) for a special gala concert April 1 to celebrate the reopening of Charleston's historic Dock Street Theatre. Read More

An inside view of a woman in TV news

ALL THINGS AT ONCE. By Mika Brzezinski with Daniel Paisner. Weinstein Books. 232 pages. $25.95. Read More

Crazy Horse Memorial

Unfinished work in South Dakota's Black Hills continues to gain fame

The Lakota elders had a dream. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski had a vision. His wife, Ruth, and seven of his 10 children now have a mission. While South Dakota's Black Hills are probably best known as the home to Mount Rushmore, another carving, far larger in size and scope, continues to gain fame and attract visitors. Read More

Music Fest opens

Feb. 14 performance to raise funds for C of C string scholarships

As Valentine's Day fare, "HeartStrings" weds dulcet tones to the harmonies of romance, getting the fourth season of the College of Charleston chamber music series off to a winging start, Cupid-style. Read More

Book optioned for film

"Reefer Moon," the novel by Daufuskie Island's Roger Pinckney, has been optioned by Charleston native Elliott Merck for a proposed motion picture treatment. Read More

Is peace 'Beyond America's Grasp'?

BEYOND AMERICA'S GRASP: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East. By Stephen P. Cohen. Farrar, Straus. 284 pages. $27. Read More

Play weds audience to stage action

If you're brave enough to arrive as a "guest" at "Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding," you'll find you not only are treated to pasta and cake but you may become part of the play itself when it opens Thursday at the Village Playhouse. Read More

Detective fiction examined

TALKING ABOUT DETECTIVE FICTION. By P.D. James. Knopf. 208 pages. $22. Read More

Author writes of woman behind 'Alice'

CHICAGO -- Before "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865), most children's books were like hickory sticks: Hard, boring, humorless, intended only to punish or instruct. Read More

Happenings

--Ben Moise, author of "Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden" and editor of "A Southern Sportsman: The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis," will sign copies of these books during the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition at noon-5 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-Feb. 14 on the second floor mezzanine of Charleston Place hotel. Read More

'Southern Sportsman' like window to hunting's past

A SOUTHERN SPORTSMAN: The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis. Edited by Ben McC. Moise. University of South Carolina Press. 440 pages. $29.95. Read More

Architecture critic's essays highlighted

HEARTS OF THE CITY: The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp. Knopf. 892 pages. $50. Read More

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