Artist and author Nick Kuszyk, also known as “R. Robots,” painted a colorful mural on an exterior wall of the John L. Dart Branch Library last week to honor Cynthia Graham Hurd, a 31-year employee of Charleston County Public Library and one of nine victims shot last year at Emanuel AME Church.
In the days ahead: “A Sudden Spontaneous Event,” Where the Wild Things Run/Walk, “The Seat of Justice,” Terrace Charleston Film Festival, Walk for Water
Longmire, TV series: Westerns are not really my favorite, but the TV series “Longmire” is an exception. This series is set in present day Wyoming, though it’s actually filmed in New Mexico. The scenery is quite rugged and beautiful.
To the editor: A couple of other things to be careful of when renting a car – make sure you can drive to the state(s) that you want to go. I was driving to Florida and one of the car rental places (not at the airport but a national company) prohibited taking the car to Florida. Also, if traveling with […]
The 1929 Highway Bond Bill authorized the State Highway Commission to sell bonds to build a system of hard-surfaced roads throughout the state. Beginning with the creation of the State Highway Commission in 1917, state officials had used available gas tax revenue to build roads on a pay-as-you-go basis. This proved to be a slow process, and Lowcountry legislators decided […]
Set under magnificent moss-draped oaks, the fourth annual Charleston Tells Storytelling Festival on March 11 and 12 will bring together some of the best national and local storytellers with performances that reminisce about the carefree days of childhood, showcase humorous slice of life moments and transport audiences to significant times in history.
The festival, held at Wragg Square in downtown Charleston, offers full weekend passes for $40 each before March 10. Click link above to find other prices and more info.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | The brouhaha over the next person who will sit on the U.S. Supreme Court is a political game of chess in which the people are being used as pawns.
Unless you’ve been asleep under a rock, you know the issue started with the unexpected recent death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Within hours, leading Republicans in the Senate said they wouldn’t confirm any nominee sent by President Barack Obama because they thought it was a job for the new president next year.
By Kyra Morris, contributing editor | This is an election year, and often we hear that election years are bad years for market returns. This is a particularly interesting, unusual and unexpected election year. The markets are jittery. What though really is the correlation of election years and the subsequent years to market returns?
Somebody took a little nap on a sunny day last week in Charleston, but where? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live. Photo by Michael Kaynard, Kaynard Photography.
There’s a big difference in pictures taken at two precincts on Saturday during the Democratic presidential primary compared to two taken a week earlier during the GOP primary: There wasn’t much of a line Saturday at a James Island precinct compared to a week earlier. At left, a voter signs in at Sanders Clyde Elementary School in downtown Charleston, a […]
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