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FOCUS: Win a boat and have fun at a great party on Saturday

Staff reports | It’s only a few days until one of the most unique and fun parties of the year – the Rotary Club of Charleston’s annual Light Up the Night Parade Party. It will be held Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Charleston Maritime Center where festive attendees have a front row view for the 2016 Charleston Parade of Boats.

In fact, the party is a two-fer. Not only can you enjoy great food and drinks with hundreds of holiday-goers for an affordable price, but you can buy a chance to win a brand new 18-foot Commander Sea Fox boat being raffled by the club. Cost? $100 per ticket (and tickets are limited!)

Buy tickets to the party ($25 for adults; $5 for kids under 18)

Buy a $100 raffle ticket to win the boat

by Charleston Currents · 12/05/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: Packers wrap a lot of gifts at CSU party

Staff reports | Charleston Southern University students packed 1,823 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child at CSU’s 6th annual packing party last week. Also this week: New DASH buses downtown; Joe Engel Street; Ann Thrash’s new online holiday store.

by Charleston Currents · 12/05/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

MYSTERY: Locked out

So here’s a head-scratcher: Where was this photo taken and why in the world is it locked? (Big hint: Read this story; we don’t think you’ll be able to answer the second question because we can’t either!) Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.

by Charleston Currents · 12/05/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

CALENDAR, Nov. 28+: From feasting and browsing to viewing productions

Several events are on tap this week: A Yuletide Madrigal Feast at the College of Charleston, That Holiday Book Sale in Mount Pleasant, White Christmas, Nuncrackers and more

by Charleston Currents · 11/28/2016 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

FEEDBACK: Currents helps this sleuth better understand the South

George Graf: I noticed on your Charleston web page that it is your ninth year celebration of your Charleston Currents and you wanted to know what the weekly publication of good news means to me.

by Charleston Currents · 11/28/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

REVIEW: The Teaberry Strangler

Reviewed by Tameka Gordon | A mystery by Laura Childs — Although not a mystery fan, I thought of some personal association, I’d feel as I begun reading this story, having walked the streets of Charleston. I’ve seen the cobblestone alleys, horse drawn carriages, old plantation homes and war relics The Battery and Fort Sumter, all familiar sights serving as backdrops for the story that would play out in these pages.

by Charleston Currents · 11/28/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Reviews

FOCUS: A Hamilton walking tour of Charleston

By Andra Watkins, special to Charleston Currents | Most people associate Alexander Hamilton with New York, but his influence reached far beyond his adopted home state. Couple his reach with other characters from Hamilton: An American Musical on a future visit to historic Charleston, South Carolina.

A powerhouse of early America, Charleston rivaled Manhattan in size, money and influence. Its busy port was the first point of entry for many travelers to America, from foreigners seeking a fortune in the new world to Africans wrongly enslaved. Given the flood of people and commerce, Charleston was a hub for anyone after prosperity and power.

by Charleston Currents · 11/28/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: 4 meetings on tap for input on regional walk/bike plan

Staff reports | The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments is hosting four public meetings to gather input for Walk + Bike BCD, the regional pedestrian and bicycle master plan. Three meetings are this week with a new one just added for North Charleston on Dec. 13.

by Charleston Currents · 11/28/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

MYSTERY: Recognize this lighthouse?

If you traveled during the Thanksgiving holiday, you might have seen this lighthouse. Or you could remember it from a previous spot of traveling. Where is this photo sent in by veteran photo sleuth George Graf of Palmyra, Va.? Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.

by Charleston Currents · 11/28/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

REVIEW: All the Light We Cannot See

Reviewed by Mike Nelson: “All the Light We Cannot See” is a beautifully written book that took the author ten years to finish. It follows the lives of two main protagonists, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a young girl in France and Werner Pfennig, a German boy with a genius for electrical engineering as they grow up in the years before and during World War II.

by Charleston Currents · 11/21/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Reviews