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HOGS at Crabpot Players is a dark and unexpected mind-bender that will make you think twice about what you thought you knew. In other words, the customer might not always be right.

Indie label Hearts & Plugs has partnered with Redux Contemporary Art Center to present Redux Residency, a five-show series showcasing 10 bands from the South Carolina music scene on Wednesday nights. Columbia-based trio The Lovely Few and solo artist Michael Flynn (of Slow Runner) kicked off the first week with a dreamy set. It just goes to show you that #WednesdayisthenewFriday.

With your confessor, Charleston comedian Jeremy McLellan

With your confessor, Charleston comedian Jeremy McLellan

To wear black, or not to wear black—is that not always the question?

Music always takes me to the most magical places. This time, it brought me to a quaint Parisian-influenced boutique on North Market Street.

With your confessor, Charleston comedian Jeremy McLellan.

Get a taste of Cuba without leaving the Lowcountry.

Any relationship, sexual or not, is full of the ghosts of relationships past.

Grit-worthy Charleston events 3/20–3/22. Trust us, you'll have a blast.

Another run of mixed-direction, easterly swell for mid-March

Charleston Fashion Week® starts today, but you don't have to be a runway model to pull off these haute hairstyles.

Rory Gruler reflects on her six years as digital director of Charleston Fashion Week®.

PURE Theatre's production of "Outside Mullingar" is charmingly Irish and a perfect way to bid adieu to the gloom of winter.

Grit-worthy Charleston events 3/13–3/15. Trust us, you'll have a blast.

You many know Patti, but do you know Pat? In a town where his drag persona takes center stage, Pat Patterson talks about life growing up in a small, conservative enclave and the path paved by politicians that bred in him a desire to serve. In a unique and sometimes unconventional manner, using his stage name as well as his given moniker by birth, he goes above and beyond to give back to and enrich the communities that embrace them both. The resident drag queen of Dudley's on Ann steps aside for this one-on-one interview with the man behind by the makeup.

I speak for many when I say that the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, is a home away from home. This time, I got to return to the epic Aura Arts and Music Festival.

Joined by Finnegan Bell and Marci Shore, Jim Avett's sold-out show at The Society of St. Thomas & St. Denis was a celebration of song and storytelling for the young and young at heart.

News Flash: Nobody has perfect skin. But guess what? It's easy to fake it.

Gorgeous comes in all sizes, but the Chanel ski pants hanging in my closet do not. Uh-oh.