“Every time we think we forget, someone reminds us,” a local pastor said. “They remind us in a song, they remind us in a painting.”
A new book celebrates some of the best of Charleston's smaller scale, eclectic architecture and poses the question of why the city isn't encouraging more of it.
Prayer should express exactly what we are thinking. If you’re mad at God, I encourage you to stand up and shake your fist at him. Tell him to his face, not behind his back. That’s right, God overhears your complaints to friends about him not taking your calls.
Prayer should express exactly what we are thinking. If you’re mad at God, I encourage you to stand up and shake your fist at him. Tell him to his face, not behind his back. That’s right, God overhears your complaints to friends about him not taking your calls.
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HOW TO DO NOTHING: Resisting the Attention Economy. By Jenny Odell. Melville House. 232 pages. $25.99.
The only physical remembrance at the Medical University of South Carolina of the 1969 hospital workers strike is a silver-and-black historic marker that stands modestly along a pedestrian entrance to the campus.
THE ELECTRIC HOTEL. By Dominic Smith. Sarah Crichton. 352 pages. $27.
LEAVING THE WITNESS: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life. By Amber Scorah. Viking. 288 pages. $28.
New book examines life of Lachlan McIntosh
Emanuel AME Church and other houses of worship traumatized by mass shootings are reaching out to offer lessons learned and shoulders to lean on.
Take a ride around a newer neighborhood and you’re likely to see lots that contain a house with a few shrubs, possibly a tree and the rest lawn.
Months after the United Methodist Church strengthened restrictions around LGBTQ rights, a group of centrist and progressive Methodists are making a push to make the church more inclusive.
Every June 1, the official start of hurricane season, I cannot help think about my Floyd experience. I know the entire event would have gone smoother had we been prepared. For all who have experienced it, you know how stressful these storm threats are. Being prepared is the best way to reduce this stress.
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The Charleston Gaillard Center has announced that Charleston Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker will join the organization as an artist-in-residence.
The following are events held in coordination with the fourth anniversary of the June 17, 2015, Emanuel AME Church shooting.
This isn’t your ordinary feature documentary. This is a film about an act of horrific violence. By a white supremacist. In a historic black church.
Its political lyrics touch on topics like institutional racism, black empowerment and feminism.
The Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic partners with the national MAVEN Project initiative to expand their network of volunteer specialists.
“A lot of people ask ‘so y'all are doing hair plugs now," said Dr. Patrick Angelos, a hair restoration clinician with Charleston Plastic Surgery. ”Like no that was decades ago.”
“This opera gives us a way to look at Charleston in a more comprehensive way,” Spoleto's general director said. “And in exploring Charleston’s history, we’re exploring America’s history.”
This week's topic was critters. There were so many good photos, and we loved the way you went into the wild, that we chose a collage of photos. There was everything from the bug on the gorgeous yellow flower to the ibis fluffing its wings. And, of course, no group of critters would be comple…
This weekend, on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, I’m reading “The Liberator” by Alex Kershaw.
THIS STORM: By James Ellroy. Knopf. 608 pages. $29.95.
SHE LIES IN WAIT. By Gytha Lodge. Random House. 350 pages. $27.
Lowcountry author pens book about dragons
SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE: By Jean Kwok. William Morrow. 314 pages. $26.99.
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A handful of 19th-century graveyards across the country are restoring the bygone tradition of cemetery gardening, enlisting volunteers to help keep things green and tidy.
Christian rap artists, use their platform to spread the Gospel to youth and discuss theological and community-based issues through hip-hop.
Like the text for which it's named, Caracalla Dance Theatre's "One Thousand and One Nights" is a behemoth. Boasting a cast of 40 dancers, singers and actors, the production is as grand as can be imagined.
Spoleto Festival USA is set to close at Riverfront Park on Sunday in a flurry of emotions, at least if Curtis Harding has anything to say about it.
Attend a Spoleto Festival chamber music concert at the Dock Street Theatre and you enter a self-contained sphere of music- and merry-making.
Cool vibe! Walking into the Memminger Auditorium, Bjork’s “Bachelorette” was playing. The stage is set for a concert. Then playwright Cora Bissett tells the story of her early rock 'n' roll career and the fallout that ensued. A really entertaining evening of theater. Music, performances, lig…
Samaria Cantey, a 17-year-old junior at North Charleston High School, is reading her words on the wall of the Gibbes Museum of Art.
Q: I have a 14-month-old golden retriever who is in need of being spayed. I have read that there are some health benefits to waiting until a dog is over a year old before spaying. However, now the surgery seems like a much bigger deal than it would have been if she were only a 20- to 25-poun…
During their childhood, sisters Emily Grace Miller and Lacy Miller — better known as Gracie and Lacy — developed a profound appreciation for Golden Age movie musicals after being introduced to them by their grandmother.
From the 2013 TV drama “Reign” to Saoirse Ronan’s memorable performance in the 2018 film “Mary Queen of Scots,” the dramatic life of the 16th century Scottish monarch doesn’t seem to lose intrigue. On Saturday, The King’s Counterpoint, conducted by co-founder David Acres, presented its music…
A perfectly paired duo got to the heart of the matter in a space fit for their music. Tenor saxophonist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson took the stage of the intimate Simons Center Recital Hall on Wednesday evening for the first performance of their residency at this year’s Spoleto Fes…
Performing artists embody their characters on stage, channel expertly a composer's intentions, dance and sing with grace and verve. Somehow they must get into the zone.
The stage, completely barren, is encased in fog. This starkness, which remains throughout the performance, contrasts with the intense physicality of Circa’s “What Will Have Been,” an intimate show the Australia-based physical theater troupe has brought to Spoleto Festival USA this year.
It took Abdel-Halim Caracalla, the founder of Caracalla Dance Theatre, years of travelling around the world and examining fabrics to come up with the costume designs featured in “One Thousand and One Nights.”
William Shakespeare is the most prolific playwright in history. Lists of Most Produced Playwrights don’t bother to include The Bard’s works. It’s unfair to everyone else.
Opera is integral to Spoleto Festival USA. Festival founder Gian Carlo Menotti was an opera composer. And for most of its 42 seasons, Spoleto Festival has offered at least two productions, sometimes familiar works, sometimes obscure ones.
Performing artists embody their characters on stage, channel expertly a composer's intentions, dance and sing with grace and verve. Somehow they must get into the zone.
600 Highwaymen’s "The Fever," brought to the Woolfe Street Playhouse by Spoleto Festival USA, is so effective because it's so unexpected. I fear that qualifying it, explaining it, will rob it of some of its power, its mystique. Just go see it. Go ahead, I’ll wait right here. The review will …
Charlestonians seeking a reprieve from the heat might look to Sunday, June 9, when the International Ocean Film Tour comes to the Charleston Music Hall.
Performing artists generally are a durable lot, muscling through appearances (sometimes many in quick succession) no matter their physical or emotional condition. They get into the zone one way or another, and the best among them deliver consistently. They embody their characters on stage, t…
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Monk and Coltrane. Hancock and Shorter. Fitzgerald and Armstrong. Jazz has a long tradition of legendary duos. Now, saxophonist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson are looking to place their own stamp on jazz royalty.
Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone are not interested in behaving. The Obie Award-winning contemporary theater duo, a married couple who work under the name 600 Highwaymen, are bringing their experimental piece, “The Fever,” to Spoleto Festival this week.