Several churches across the Charleston region still stand, but they aren't houses of worship and prayer. Instead, they have been re-purposed as homes, restaurants and museums.
If there is a big studio movie that's more generally crowd-pleasing than "Green Book" this season, I have yet to find it. In this landscape of challenging, provocative, edgy films, Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali and, of all people, director Peter Farrelly have come along with a movie about …
Several members of the private, all-white Charleston Rifle Club say the nonprofit social group is a discriminatory “race-based organization” after it refused to admit its first black candidate for membership.
With South Carolina being consistently ranked as one of the lowest states in terms of health, local state health experts seek to address this issue with the announcement of a new plan called Live Healthy SC.
After the National Rifle Association condemned doctors for speaking about gun violence as a public health crisis, physicians around the country made their voices heard.
Jesus believed in keeping it simple. If you love God, he said, you have to “love your neighbor as yourself.” This means accepting your neighbor without all of our qualifiers such as religion, politics, race, favorite rock bands and boxers or briefs.
As first lady, every word Michelle Obama uttered and every action she took received advance scrutiny for signs of potential damage to her husband's presidency. Now, freed of the constraints of the White House, she is ready to tell it as she sees it.
As first lady, every word Michelle Obama uttered and every action she took received advance scrutiny for signs of potential damage to her husband's presidency. Now, freed of the constraints of the White House, she is ready to tell it as she sees it.
THE DISAPPEARING. By Lori Roy. Penguin Random House. 352 pages. $27.
Comedian Dusty Slaygets ABC series deal
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THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH: Essays. By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 240 pages. $26.
LONG ROAD TO MERCY: An Atlee Pine Thriller. By David Baldacci. Grand Central Publishing. 416 pages. $29.
Thinking about what to plant in your yard or garden next spring? Consider a pollinator garden, which is beautiful and functional.
There used to be an unspoken consensus: Christmas decorations go up after Thanksgiving. Now, though, how early is too early?
The Brick Church at Wambaw will host a Thanksgiving Harvest service on Sunday to celebrate its 250th anniversary. A traditional Episcopal worship service will honor those who laid the foundation of the parish along with modern-day parishioners who've helped preserve the site.
The series of photo illustrations is called “Linked.” He meant to make just one or two. Quashie’s made 11 so far. And he’s not done.
So this week's topic was football fans, and, frankly, we don't think people are going to the games to shoot photos of their friends and families. Or they are busy having fun at the games and cheering on their teams.
The application of some medical treatments, once considered extravagant when applied to pets, have become commonplace, such as radiation therapy, total hip replacements and root canals.
The Ralph H. Johnson Veteran Affairs Medical Center was one of 8 sites across the United States to participate in a pilot lung cancer screening project for heavy smokers back in 2013. Because of the program’s success, the project is still on-going.
The price of hepatitis C treatments have dropped significantly in the past five years. Even so, the South Carolina Medicaid program has spent tens of millions on these drugs.
On Halloween Day, I delivered a speech in the student chapel service at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. My topic was “What Really Scares Me.” The speech was an expanded version of an October column I’d written on the same theme. The irony of my chosen subject wasn’t lost on me given my weak knees on stage. I was battling one of the most common of all terrors: glossophobia, the fear of public speaking.
SUMMER. By Karl Ove Knausgaard. FSG. 416 pages. $30.
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The Harry Bosch series started out bleak and, with the passing years, has only gotten bleaker. The deepening of the gloom certainly has something to do with the aging of its hero. In 1992 when Michael Connelly first introduced Bosch in "The Black Echo," he was an LAPD detective in the prime of his lonely life.
NINE PERFECT STRANGERS. By Liane Moriarty. Flatiron Books. 464 pages. $28.99.
Joshua Corrigan is a real estate photographer who specializes in capturing some of the Charleston area's most expensive homes.
Today, many people caring for infants and children at churches must complete CPR and Darkness to Light training, along with background checks. But with these rigorous requirements, some congregations are struggling to find employees to work their nurseries.
“I still think (the U.S.) is the best game in town,” she said. “Of all the places that I’ve been, there’s something about the energy of America that’s really interesting, and it has something to do with this deranged idea we still have that we’re free.”
C4WNEW is the annual conference organized by the Center for Women. Scheduled for Thursday and Friday, Nov. 15 and 16, it’s meant to furnish women with information and inspiration that empowers them to advance careers in business and politics.
The Underground Railroad took many forms; water-based travel to Florida was just one.
With Veteran's Day right around the corner, we asked our readers to send us photos that shared their feelings about our veterans and their sacrifices.
"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" has "assembled" a new children's book called "Whose Boat Is This Boat? Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane."
Martin, Short cancelN. Charleston show
Mepkin Abbey's Monastic Guest program allows some men who, without becoming monks themselves, find refuge. August Turak, a former corporate executive in New York City, is one of them.
Your houseplants may be suffering from low quality light. Of course there’s plenty of sunlight for us to read a book, but it might be insufficient for photosynthesis.
After being three years in remission from Breast Cancer, local survivor Lynn Joye is looking to kick-start a local cancer support network to add to the cancer resources in the area.
In 1960, several high schools across South Carolina, and the nation, participated in a study called Project Talent. Nearly 60 years later, the study plans to follow-up with participants to hopefully answer long-term health questions.
Clemson researcher Paul Dawson has answers for the questions parents were afraid to ask: Does blowing out candles spread germs all over a birthday cake? (It does.) Is it sanitary to share a bucket of popcorn with your kids at the movie theater? (Almost certainly not.) And is the five-second rule a real thing? (No way.)
Chamber music offeredat Dock Street Theatre
I have some great readers who sometimes disagree with me but will only rarely become disagreeable. However, once in a great while I get a letter reeking of discontent.
“The Age of Eisenhower” provides a definitive interpretation of an often under-examined decade and often misunderstood presidency.
Patrick O'Donnell to present his book
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The National Council of Jewish Women is presenting an interfaith educational event about the #MeToo Movement at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting St.
But a new book on the counterculture crusader attempts to dig deeper into the mission of writer Hunter S. Thompson, who pushed "gonzo journalism," a style of journalism written without claims of objectivity and with the journalist at the center.
Instead of terrors and scares, Stephen King is offering us insight and courage instead.
Last year, President Donald Trump vowed to reduce the size of some national parks, prompting praise and outrage from different corners.
Of Utah's famed national parks, Zion may be the most beloved, Bryce Canyon the most striking, the sandstone formations of Arches more aesthetic, and the sight lines of Canyonlands more vast, but there is something about the imposing scale of Capitol Reef that arrests the imagination.
The following gardening questions were submitted by readers. Have a question yourself? Contact gardening columnist Anthony Keinath by email, tknth@clemson.edu.
There's nothing like gathering around the fireplace on a chilly evening, but when's the last time the chimney was cleaned? A look at fireplace and chimney maintenance now that cool weather is here.