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It's On! Charleston's Big Literary Smackdown...
Maybe you're like me and up until now, you had no idea that Veronica Roth (age 25), author of the #1 New York Times selling Divergent series, is the hottest thing since Taylor Swift (age 23, recipient...
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Meet the King of Awesomeness... & Other Tidbits From Our Sweaty Holiday Season
It felt more like summer than December as I biked to work Friday morning, wiping sweat as I rode past the pitiful candy canes affixed to light posts on Coleman Boulevard. But I was so glad I had my...
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The 2 Must-See Performances of the Season... Right Here
I remember my first Nutcracker Ballet. I was maybe eight or nine years old, and my family had driven our wood-paneled Dodge station wagon from North Carolina to West Palm Beach, playing a Beatles...
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The Extension Cord, Family Style
Tonight our family will gather for Christmas Eve dinner. I haven't done a lick of grocery shopping yet, but I've done the important stuff—the inviting, the gathering, the cooking up of gratitude and...
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Follow the Money
The recent trailers and teasers promoting Southern Charm elicit a collective gag for a multitude of reasons (godawful lipstick colors being the least of them -- don't they have professional makeup...
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Local Artists in Fast Lane
When the art-savvy Allison Williamson started the Charleston Artist Collective a few years ago, she broadened the booming local gallery scene well beyond Chalmers Street's venerable Pink House and the...
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The Real Renegade
At last night's private preview for the Halsey's 30th Anniversary exhibition, The Insistent Image: Recurrent Motifs in the Art of Shepard Fairey and Jasper Johns, the spotlight was on Shepard Fairey,...
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TEDx brings Soapy Beasts to the Summer Rescue
Here's hoping Team USA is as hot as team TEDxCharleston has been lately. Curator Edith Howle got word this week that yet another of the 2014 TEDxCharleston talks has been selected as an Editor's Pick...
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Good Hair Day
Last week, in the wake of announcements for the MacArthur Genius Awards (hooray for Alison Bechdel, whom, if you saw the CofC FunHome production, you already knew was a genius), another artist also...
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Falernum For Your Monday
I admit that in the cocktail category, I set the bar pretty low. Much beyond a gin and tonic or a trusty top-shelf margarita, no salt, never frozen, and I'm not terribly adverturesome. I'm a sipper not...
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Haunted House-shopping. Buyers (and readers) Beware!
I'm not sure what's scarier: the fast-paced frights that make you whip through the pages of HORRORSTOR, or the thought of what actually drives an imagination as wildly unfettered as that of Grady...
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Truly Frightening: CCSD School Board
Talk about scary. The goons and goblins are out for sure, or they were yesterday, all eight of them on the CCSD school board who voted to “accept” the resignation they strong-armed Dr. Nancy McGinley...
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Om at the Waterfront
It's that time of year already—barely even mid-November and the holiday "rush" is on. Catalogues clog the mail, cheap decorations clutter up stores, and the mind cranks it up a notch or two to try to...
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What We Don't Have Time For
So today is the day, the swearing in. To swear: to vow, pledge, promise, affirm, to insist, to undertake. Or, of course, to curse, blaspheme, cuss, make profane. Sadly, as Governor Nikki Haley takes...
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Hot & Cool, Cool & Hot
Photographs by Ashley Curtis"Hot can be cool, and cool can be hot, and each can be both. But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz." Louis Armstrong Leah Suarez and Erin Fornadel Satch had it right: jazz is...
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