Artist Nick Kuszyk of New York last week painted a bright, book-themed mural on a wall outside the John L. Dart Branch Library to honor Cynthia Graham Hurd, a librarian slain in the Emanuel AME Church tragedy. Read more below in Good News. (Photo by Andy Brack)
Lots of great theater and walks in the weeks ahead: “The Secret Garden” on stage at the College of Charleston; “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” at Midtown Theatre; “A Sudden Spontaneous Event” at PURE Theatre; “The Seat of Justice” by Charleston Stage, and the Walk for Water on March 12.
If you’ve been driving around the Charleston peninsula over the last couple of years, you might have noticed this in a public, but kind of off-the-beaten-track location. Where is this photo taken by contributing editor Michael Kaynard? Second correct guess gets a pair of tickets to Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Send your guess — and the name of the town you live in — to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.
The Scam, a novel by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg: In the newest installment of the O’Hare and Fox series, FBI Agent Kate O’Hare and con man Nicholas Fox continue to secretly work together to bring down the bad guys, one elaborate scam at a time.
S.C. Encyclopedia | The first significant jail in South Carolina, a twelve-foot square designed to accommodate sixteen prisoners, was built in Charleston in 1769. Additional jails were built following the division of South Carolina into judicial districts. According to one account, “These jails were forbidding structures, reared to prevent escape and make life gloomy for their inmates.” South Carolina was […]
Ninety-six percent of the 700,000+ South Carolinians who voted in Saturday’s GOP presidential primary were white, according to exit polls. You can sense that racial divide when you show up at polling locations in mostly black neighborhoods versus those in areas where more white residents live.
At left, no one was in line at 9:45 a.m. to vote at Sanders Clyde Elementary School on Charleston’s east side. When polls closed in the two precincts at the school, 75 of 2,620 registered voters (2.9 percent) cast ballots. Contrast the turnout at Stiles Point Elementary School in James Island, where almost 600 voted by noon and people had to wait 15 to 20 minutes to cast their ballots. When polls closed in the three precincts at the school, 1,242 voters of 4,839 cast ballots — a 25.7 percent turnout.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | With all of the finger-pointing, gesticulating, spite, retorts, nasty responses to retorts, robocalls and flood of oversized postcards, the presidential primary process has become a mess, more of a reality television show than reality.
It’s as if the grind of politics, which has been the social equivalent to a root canal for many, has become a caricature of itself. It’s as if real people are really acting like cartoon characters.
Summer is coming eventually, and you may want to take a last minute trip. Rental cars have become essential for many vacations or business trips, but rental contracts are often misunderstood. Better Business Bureau Serving Metro Atlanta, Athens and Northeast Georgia advises consumers to read contracts carefully before signing.
By Ben Fanning, contributing editor | Can you imagine spending $70+ for a massage and then walking out more stressed that when you arrived?
My client was getting regular massages but couldn’t completely turn her mind off and relax. She would vent to her masseuse about being overwhelmed at work! So she started this simple process I’ll share with you today, and finally zoned out for the first time during her massage. Ahhh!
For a law school, winning a national moot court title is an educational equivalent of winning an NCAA basketball title. After a weekend competition in Florida, a team from the Charleston School of Law has won its fifth — yes fifth! — national tax moot court championship in a row. Also in good news: Magnolia poetry contest, Business of Barbecue, and Homeless to Hope Fund.
We Can Do Better, South Carolina! (2019) by editor and publisher Andy Brack offers incisive commentaries on the American South, politics, the common good and interesting South Carolina leaders. Available exclusively for Kindle for $7.99. A paperback version will be ready soon. Learn more.
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