By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | The effort by a secret, out-of-state group to denigrate West Ashley school board candidate Priscilla Jeffery has backfired with this voter.
Before receiving a nasty, hateful, unconscionable piece of direct mail on Saturday, I wasn’t sure which two candidates I would pick of three seeking two West Ashley seats on the board – Jeffery, former school administrator Gary Leonard or incumbent Michael Miller.
Here’s an odd, skyward view of a pretty famous place not in South Carolina. But where? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.
This photo was just too good to pass up. Editor and publisher Andy Brack says he was walking along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., on Friday afternoon and ran into a rally of women for Hillary Clinton for President. A block away loomed the Old Post Office, which GOP candidate Donald Trump has turned into one of his signature hotels. He apparently has joked that he’ll be living along Pennsylvania Avenue one way or another, regardless of how the election goes Tuesday. At left, you can see the post office’s tower. At right, you can see one woman’s poster, “Love trumps hate.”
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Kandinsky, Picasso, Modigliani, Bauer, Chagall, Leger – these aren’t names one normally associates with Charleston’s art scene. But you can see these 20th century abstract masters’ works now at a special new show at the Gibbes Museum of Art that has ties to the Lowcountry’s past.
If you enjoy modern art, you don’t want to miss the Realm of the Spirit show. You’ll find joy looking at the flair of lines and interplay of color in Kandinsky’s works. There’s a Picasso painting of an accordionist created at the height of the artist’s embrace of Cubism. Nearby is a somber, modern Mannerist portrait by Modigliani of the lover who killed herself soon after the painter died of tuberculosis. A few steps away are works that highlight the complete break with representational art that modernists made a century ago.
Most of the coming weekend will be taken up with thrills and chills from Halloween celebrations. But the weekend that follows will have festivals and parties. On the calendar: Dracula, King of Vampires: Through Nov. 6, Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St., Charleston. Charleston Stage will present an original reimagining of Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula just in time for Halloween at the […]
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | To say that recent actions by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control on proposed changes to abortion regulations are “troublesome” may be the understatement of the year.
What should happen, based on its errors at best or bureaucratic incompetence at worst, is the massive agency should be split into two — health and environment — to reduce its power and make sure it is responsive to South Carolina’s citizens. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | An estimated 350,000 people along our coast evacuated for Hurricane Matthew in a withdrawal that didn’t turn out to be a disaster in and of itself.
Even if you plodded in traffic on Interstate 26, the Matthew evacuation was nothing like the one years ago with Hurricane Floyd. Even if you were without power for days or suffered in the flooding aftermath in North Charleston or in the Pee Dee, it’s pretty clear that the state’s disaster plan passed the test of working effectively and efficiently to restore normalcy as quickly as possible.
This year’s annual gala for the Alliance for Full Acceptance on Saturday night at Memminger Auditorium offered a special twist for the 300 or so folks who gathered to raise money for the nonprofit: Entertainment by the Citadel Cadet Chorale. Not only did the cadets sing a medley of songs from “Jersey Boys” and tunes like “Little Deuce Coupe,” but the college surprised many by sponsoring a table at the event. Photo by Andy Brack.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Every one will have a different way of remembering Hurricane Matthew, which got everybody’s attention after it killed hundreds in Haiti on its way north to make a tempestuous landfall in South Carolina.
From now until eternity, I’m sure that every time I encounter a chocolate-covered almond, I’ll remember eating them while waiting out the storm in Georgia at my parent’s home with my daughters in the Atlanta area. My dad had a Costco-sized container full of them that we all ate until they were gone, And then another container miraculously appeared.
One daughter says she’ll likely remember visiting her grandparents whenever asked about Hurricane Matthew. Another daughter predicts she’ll recall worrying about the fate of our home in Charleston as the storm blew through.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Maybe it’s time for America to reinstitute conscription or develop a program to require national service for youths after high school or college.
Or maybe schools need to do a better and more comprehensive job of providing instruction on how America works from when students start school until they graduate.
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