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There is plenty to do this weekend, both indoor and out! Plus, celebrate the beginning of Black History Month with several events highlighting Black excellence in the Lowcountry.
JUST PASSING THROUGH: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday: The Diaries and Photographs of Milton Gendel. Edited by Cullen Murphy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 272 pages. $35.
Last Sunday was Sanctity of Life Sunday, a day proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. And it was a hard subject to preach in my new church.
VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES. By Dan Kois. Harper. 336 pages. $27.99.
I met a man early last year named Jim Connor. He’d been diagnosed with advanced cancer, had no health insurance, and had recently tried to apply for Medicaid coverage in Dorchester County.
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One of the most common questions in landscaping and gardening is what good soil is and where to buy it. But this is one of those questions that can be misleading as there may be plenty of products labeled as good soil but, in reality, the product purchased at the store is essentially the starting material, not the final product. This is because good soil is not bought but grown and cultivated.
Oyster shells are a mainstay of Lowcountry culture. The Post and Courier spoke with three oyster shell artists who sell décor and art pieces made from the mollusk about what makes incorporating them into the home popular.
The play, which was written and rewritten by the company’s producing artistic director Julian Wiles, certainly draws from life, one of historic scale and an irresistible local connection.
Vision therapist Dr. Neil Draisin is about to celebrate 51 years of helping Lowcountry residents see better. He’ll be 80 years old in April, but still sees patients 2 days a week at the large West Ashley office he built and then sold to other doctors in 2017.
Fish can be one of the more interesting subjects to photograph. The way their scales shine and how they reflect light can make for a beautiful image.
All in all, an evening with Hendrix prompted by a new book release is many things — inventive, informative, exhaustive and infectious in its genre rigor, its ready humor and its culminating heart.
For the first time in at least recent history, Spoleto Festival USA has released ticket sales on the same day as the season lineup announcement.
This weekend, take in the irresistible aroma of fresh florals at the 72nd annual Flower Show or chow down with Charleston's finest at the Lowcountry Oyster Festival or Bo's Roast and Chili Cookoff. Or head to Park Circle and celebrate Commonhouse Aleworks' fifth anniversary with an all-encompassing block party.
Maybe that’s why we keep all this stuff in the first place. Things hold meaning. We could write a whole memoir from the ornaments on that tree. We could string their stories together like Christmas lights to create a colorful family narrative. And the older we get, at least in my experience, the more compelling it seems to recollect those personal stories and tell them.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG. By Bob Dylan. Simon and Schuster. 352 pages. $45.
RIKERS: An Oral History. By Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau. Random House. 464 pages. $28.99.
The Charleston Place and Buxton Books have started a new literary series. During the year, the series will feature special events, book signings and meetings with bestselling authors at the Riviera Theater, 227 King St.
In the Lowcountry, our lawns are warm-season turfgrasses that include centipedegrass, St. Augustine grass, zoysiagrass, or Bermuda grass. These are permanent lawn grasses that go dormant in winter and return in spring.
Like other places in South Carolina, this old coastal city is facing development pressure. A newly updated manual describes the latest thinking and materials to maintain historic buildings and preserve the Beaufort style.
All in all, with a brilliant work and effective ensemble, “Hangmen” leveled a sure hand — and a gripping chokehold, too.
Anyway, as I’m raking and raking and raking, I discover approximately a million or more acorns all over the ground. There were enough acorns to feed a large family of squirrels through the next presidential election. There were acorns everywhere!
Beautiful patterns can be found in even the most mundane of things, one only has to pay attention. Our submissions for this week did just that, capturing swirls in all kinds of settings and locations.
Harlan Greene will be at the Charleston Library Society in conversation with Stephanie Yuhl, author of the award-winning “A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston.”
Discerning viewers may have noticed the show's depiction of Folly Beach bears little resemblance to the real one.
With the current Charleston weather on the fritz, we are all struggling to either embrace the unseasonably warm moments or bundle up for the typical January chill. Thankfully, there are several indoor events and happenings this weekend, as well as chances to enjoy the mid-60 degree weather this Friday and Saturday.
Marjorie Boafo Appiah, whose pen name is Marjy Marj, is an Ghanaian-American author who addresses topics around race, religion, bullying and immigration in her children’s book series and adult books.
The Inflation Reduction Act makes money available for households looking to increase energy efficiency and cut down on energy costs.
HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE. By Grady Hendrix. Berkley. 400 pages. $28.
Suddenly, in this 70% non-white neighborhood, I was definitely seeing color. With a local crime rate 167% above the national average, I was taking notes about color. I felt sure I’d be the one — the one in 13 people who become crime victims in South Sacramento.
STILL PICTURES: On Photography and Memory. By Janet Malcolm. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 176 pages. $26.
In general, a plant’s hardiness rating is based on whether the plant will survive the low temperatures in its growing zone. Even plants rated for growth in Zone 8a or 8b will show cold damage when low temperatures last as long as they did.
Common household items such as hair ties, and even common food like grapes and sugarless gum, can be a hazard for pets and potentially toxic, experts said. Even landscape plants common to the Lowcountry, like sago palms, can be dangerous.
I know we all get aggravated and frustrated at some of the craziness we witness in our daily lives. If you look hard enough, though, I think there's enough good stuff being done to counterbalance or at least offset some of the bad.
For this week we had our readers send in their photos of the highest peaks and tallest points they've seen around the globe.
Here are our favorite albums that missed the cut for Best of South Carolina Music 2022.
As 2023 has come, let's take a moment to listen back on the last year.
Enjoy some of the best musicians in the Lowcountry at the Battle of the Bands or the MLK Jr. Tribute Concert, whet your appetite at the Taste of Folly or celebrate your inner nerd at CHS Nerdfest.
The Post and Courier and Free Times music writers explore their favorite albums of 2022 made by artists outside of South Carolina.
A seven-track album by John Bias topped The Post and Courier's list of best South Carolina albums in 2018, and a seven-track album by John Bias is again topping The Post and Courier's list of best South Carolina albums in 2022.
Matthew Warren, an IT professional living in West Ashley, won $55,000 and a trip to Mexico on an episode of "Wheel of Fortune" that aired on Jan. 2. It was Warren's second time appearing on a major network game show in his life.
For most of us fortunate enough to retire, the complexity of that transition is a very big deal. All of life’s major transitions have one thing in common: they offer a chance for self-discovery, change and a fresh start.
Classical music still has a phenomenal pulse, and a vital part, in how we navigate this tricky terrain called life. By the range of feelings it unleashed in me, I can pronounce my pulse is going too.
The museum is starting to plan for a new permanent exhibit devoted to the historical period beginning with Reconstruction and ending with the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
The Charleston Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2023. Founded by the Charles Town Library Society in 1773, it's the oldest museum in North America. Its accession book from 1798 records about 75 objects that had been accumulated in an effort to rebuild the collection destroyed in the massive 1778 fire.
BUTTS: A Backstory. By Heather Radke. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. 320 pages. $28.99.
The first museum in North America marks an auspicious milestone with special events and exhibits, the publication of a new book and ongoing archaeological research.
BOMB SHELTER: Love, Time, and Other Explosives. By Mary Laura Philpott. Atria Books. 288 pages. $27.
The strategy is what I call the power of “Little Bit More,” LBM for short. LBM is making small regular improvements to achieve big changes over an extended period of time.
A large volume of around 180 poems called “Weaned on War: The Collected Poems of Eugene Platt” now is available as a $25 paperback, published by Ireland-based Revival Press, and a $5 Kindle ebook. The volume is sold at local bookstores and by Amazon.
The museum's collection includes 2.4 million objects, most of which are in storage. Many of the objects are pottery shards, bone fragments and other materials recovered from archaeological digs, but the collection includes a lot of cool things that rarely make it to the exhibit floor. Nevertheless, scholars study them and curators contextualize them, adding to our knowledge of life in the Lowcountry.
Florida betony, Stachys floridana, is one of the more common winter weeds throughout much of the Lowcountry.
Finland is about being in your body. It’s about extreme cold and heat. It’s about eating food that you spent the day gathering — feasts of mushrooms and berries. Freezers full of fish and meat, caught and hunted.
Did you lose a close friend, relative or acquaintance in the last year? I attended more than my share of funerals in 2022. These days, I seem to spend more time than ever reading the obituary pages. I once would routinely learn of the death of a friend’s parent or maybe, a former teacher or coach. More and more, I am now informed of services planned for former classmates, teammates and various people I have known.
Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church, South Carolina’s largest UMC congregation, plans to separate from the denomination after the state approved an agreement for churches seeking disaffiliation.
This week, our readers sent in photos that represented their idea of celebration, and we loved to see all that happiness in our inbox.