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Lots of fun on the calendar

FollyGras, Jeff Grigg, All-Stars, Tom Turner, OHM Radio and lots more on the calendar.

by Charleston Currents · 02/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

Photo: What’s missing?

Hanahan photographer Chuck Boyd offers this retouched picture, which might make you scratch your head a bit. Could something be missing?

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Girardeau, the first honor graduate of the College of Charleston.

At Columbia, Girardeau represented the most conservative elements in the Southern Presbyterian Church. He bitterly opposed his colleague James Woodrow who was advocating a theistic interpretation of evolution.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 02/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

Review: Station Eleven

Mandel deftly weaves these complex threads into a chilling tale that is by turns darkly comic, horrifically bleak, and achingly brilliant. A beautifully crafted post-apocalyptic survival story for grownups.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 02/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Reviews

Sabine: PAW (parents are watching) social media

Enter the multifaceted, ever changing world of technology. We’ve come a long way since that first email was sent in 1971. Every imaginable tool of our new tech world fits nicely into the compact cell phone that our children now cradle in the palm of their hand. Are you really ready to hand them the world? Can your child handle this fully loaded Lamborghini before they’ve even earned their driver’s permit?

by Andy Brack · 02/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Kids, Views

Issue 7.16: McConnell, civics, tween texting

Issue 7.15, Feb. 16, 2015: Features an interview with College of Charleston President Glenn McConnell plus thoughts on civics education and tween texting … and more.

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The coverage area of the library's proposed station.

Brack: Library may offer local radio station

The Charleston County Public Library is looking into offering a new radio station to provide local educational and cultural programming now missing from the Lowcountry airwaves.

In November, the library system, which got overwhelming support from voters in a recent $108 million bond referendum, received approval from the Federal Communications Commission for a construction permit for a low-power FM station based at the main library on Calhoun Street. If it becomes a reality, it would broadcast at 97.5 on the FM dial.

by Andy Brack · 02/09/2015 · 4 comments · Andy Brack, Views

SEWE comes to town for the 33rd time

The Southeastern Wildlife Exhibition — that three-day celebration of wildlife and nature (umm, more than folks drinking beer and partying outside) — comes to down on Valentine’s weekend with lots of stuff for families to enjoy.

by Charleston Currents · 02/09/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Good news

Latest on the calendar

Chamber music, Anne Frank, Blithe Spirit, more

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A look at women’s suffrage in S.C.

Excerpted with permission from the S.C. Encyclopedia: The enfranchisement of women in South Carolina was first discussed publicly during the Reconstruction period. A women’s rights convention held in Columbia in December 1870 received a warm letter of support from Governor R. K. Scott.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 02/09/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia