Staff reports | Party at The Point, a long-beloved Happy Hour concert series is back for its 20th season this year on Friday evenings next month starting July 2. The series, which features bands like the Dubplates and three tribute bands, is the area’s longest-running happy hour concert series, now back after a year off thanks to the pandemic.
IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Rain inundates Charleston, closing 17 streets midday Sunday
COMMENTARY, Brack: Give special treatment to tailgaters
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
NEWS BRIEFS: Harris to be in Greenville Monday for vaccination tour kickoff
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Cool bridge
CALENDAR: Party at The Point returns with five July shows
Staff reports | What do these five names have in common — Nifty Lifty, Sir Lift-A-Lot, No Crane No Gain, South Craneolina and The Reel Steel?
Answer: They’re the new names of five big ship-to-shore cranes at the S.C. Ports Authority’s Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal in North Charleston.
Each of the cranes was named as part of a “Name the Cranes” contest with area elementary students in third to fifth grades. The winners represent five schools and four municipalities, including two schools in North Charleston, which is where Leatherman Terminal is located, according to the ports.
“South Carolina Ports enjoys partnering with local schools to engage students and connect them to our operations and workforce. Our Names the Cranes contest is a really special way for students to connect with the port,” said Barbara Melvin, chief operating officer of SC Ports.
Staff reports | A plan to restart a defunct South Carolina nuclear facility near Aiken with a new mission has safety advocates worried about tons of new nuclear waste in a state with a checkered radioactivity record.
Charleston’s Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto Festival continue through June 13 with performances and events all over town. You can find the printed 16-page Piccolo Spoleto 2021 guide online (right) in the Charleston City Paper and at venues around town. But because this season’s free events are being continuously updated, you might want to also check at charlestonarts.org to get the most updated information on events. Piccolo is a companion celebration to Spoleto Festival USA.
Here’s a neat building that looks kind of religious, but is it? What is it and where? Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live. And if you’ve got a clever mystery photo for our readers, send it to the same address (Try to stump us!)
Our previous Mystery Photo
Last week’s mystery, “Wild mural,” was tough, particularly if you didn’t live on James Island or have not been to the Pour House, which is where it was located.
IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Area students name five cranes at new terminal
COMMENTARY, Brack: Why getting vaccinated is more important than ever
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston Gaillard Center
NEWS BRIEFS: Tons of nuclear waste predicted at proposed SRS project
FEEDBACK: Heritage Act column makes sense
MYSTERY PHOTO: Looks religious
CALENDAR: One week left for Spoleto festivals
Staff reports | The Redux Contemporary Art Center opens two new shows this week with one dedicated to a talented watercolorist and the other featuring works of several studio artists.
Charleston native Becca Hopkins offers a series of poignant watercolors June 4 to June 17 in her first solo show at Redux’s Gallery 1056. Called, “Expressway” and curated by Mia Loa, Hopkins’ art highlights the “immensity and artificiality of the Septima P. Clark Expressway stands in jarring contrast with the soft and settled 19th and early 20th century homes around it. It is an alien and alienating landscape that interrupted the human ebb-and-flow of mid-century Charleston,” according to the gallery.
A generation ago, the highway carved through a tight-knit predominantly Black community, displacing approximately 150 residences and businesses in its path. …
Staff reports | Hundreds of people snapped pictures last week as the largest ship ever to call on the East Coast sailed into the port of Charleston. The South Carolina Ports Authority welcomed the record-breaking CMA CGM MARCO POLO to Wando Welch Terminal on May 28. The vessel measures 1,300 feet long and can carry up to 16,022 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent container units). That makes the ship as long as 1.5 USS Yorktowns and seven 787-8 Boeing-made Dreamliner jets.
Staff reports | The Charleston Museum will present The Lowcountry in Living Color: Making Historical Photographs Come to Life starting June 7 as the latest offering in its Lowcountry Image Gallery.
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