At first glance, this might seem easy to many, but where actually was the photo taken? Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo: Our Sept. 24 mystery looked like the top of the Francis Marion Hotel to some, but it was actually the top of the Francis Marion’s former sister, the Westin Poinsett Hotel in Greenville.
Commentary by Andy Brack, editor and publisher | This is the time of the political season that an odd dance begins.
Politicians want to present a compelling image so you’ll cast a vote for them. But they often don’t want to give away too much of what they really think in case it gets them in trouble. So they may hedge, waffle or give so much bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo that the questioner falls asleep.
IN THIS ISSUE of Charleston Currents | Sept. 24, 2018
FOCUS: 35th annual MOJA Festival starts Thursday
COMMENTARY, Brack: 17 policy questions for South Carolina candidates
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
GOOD NEWS: Small grants available to spark your great idea
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Top of a building
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Artist William Halsey
CALENDAR: Sign up to host a Lowcountry On the Table gathering
By Andy Brack | If it were not for the dedicated men and women who keep the state ticking in good times and bad, imagine what life would be like. Instead of having a team of people who make our lives easier, we’d all have to be more self-sufficient. We’d have to take care of the educating, protecting, building and all sorts of other stuff every single day.
Commentary by Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Americans – liberal, conservative and in-between — need to be reminded of what it means to be American. For role models, they don’t need to look to just about anyone in Washington or state capitals like Columbia.
All that seems to be coming from Washington is nonsense that spans from a presidential administration in constant crisis mode to a Congress that ping-pongs from outrage to shock to digging in their heels about things petty and consequential. And then there are the tell-all books and anonymous opinion columns that shine spotlights on all of the dysfunction.
IN T HIS ISSUE OF CHARLESTON CURRENTS:
FOCUS: Batten down the hatches: Get ready for Hurricane Florence
COMMENTARY, Brack: Let’s have a national media campaign on civics
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
GOOD NEWS: Host an Oct. 4 community-wide civic discussion
FEEDBACK: McMaster should apologize for dog “joke”
MYSTERY PHOTO: Bold, big clouds
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hurricanes
CALENDAR: Great week for wining and dining in the Lowcountry
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | If there ever were someone who understands how something said by a politician was “just a joke,” you’re reading a column by him.
You see, I once worked as the press secretary for former U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, an outstanding South Carolinian known far and wide for a great wit, biting and otherwise.
On Waking With Anxiety
By Libby Bernardin
The Pacific could belch up a tsunami
churned from the sea’s floor
a roar of sucking air pulls water back
as it meets shore—
you could be caught unaware
by this wave on its way
Staff reports | As the last vestiges of summer are replaced by the chaos of back to school, the Charleston Gaillard Center is bringing the Lowcountry a reason to celebrate fall with Prints In Clay, a multi-disciplinary event celebrating the impact of the African-American culture on the city of Charleston.
Prints in Clay features an evening of commissioned arrangements of African–American spirituals featuring the powerful voice of mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges accompanied by an instrumental septet and Lowcountry Voices as well as a two-week photography exhibit by the Slave Dwelling Project in the grand lobby of the Gaillard, tours of the back buildings and former work lots of Charleston’s private historic homes, and a historically informed dinner featuring the food of the African diaspora.
The event title, Prints in Clay, comes directly from Joe McGill, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. In describing one patron’s experience during a slave dwelling tour, McGill noted …
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | State legislators should be demanding, in the loudest possible voices, that our state acquire new voting machines now to assure citizens their votes count. To do otherwise would give a silent nod to a state and national political culture marked by unacceptable levels of spineless do-nothingness.
A call for new machines is not to suggest South Carolina’s 13,000 touchscreen machines don’t work. They do. They’re safe, as we’ve written in the past. But they’re old and past their lifespan.
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