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Your go-to guide for all things Charleston this weekend, January 29-31

Charleston: One Simple (Hopefully Not Impossible Request)

Charleston, I have one simple (and hopefully not impossible) request: let’s keep housing affordable for the food and bev community.

Weekend Roundup December 4-6

Your go-to guide for all things Charleston this weekend, December 4-6

Studio 300 Brings Disco Back

For its third anniversary, The Alley did what it does best: invite the town out to a big, sexy party dressed out in the finest fashions history and budgets could afford. All we had to do in return was allow a portion of our ticket to be donated to the Be a Mentor Program, and enjoy the show.

Boss Lady Coleen of Five Five Studio

Five Five Studio is built on the traditional practices of weaving and quilting curated with her modern eye.

Casanova's in the Corner and He's Asking for a Dance: In Defense of The Recovery Room

Bartenders have an unspoken oath: Don't talk poorly of bars where you don't work. It's unbecoming. Well luckily I've always thought that was a dumb rule. Corporate bars are garbage. Spending a half million dollars to create a "dive" bar is a joke. There are maybe 10 bars I like in Charleston. And I frequent less than that. One of those bars that I do frequent is The Recovery Room.

The Glass Alone

Feeling lonely? Are you alone? Do you experience loneliness? What's that all about?

Weekend Roundup November 6-8

We've got your Grit Picks—all the best events happening in Charleston this weekend, November 6-8

The Charleston Mayoral Race

On November 3rd, 2015, the people of Charleston will do something that has not been done since 1975: go vote in a mayoral race that won’t have Joseph P. Riley, Jr. on the ballot. For this historical election, I decided to research the candidates to discover more about them, and determine who were my top choices and who I felt needed one more four year term before winning the hottest seat in town.

SOUND + LIGHT Preview Experience

As I wandered further and further back in the darkness, I had the distinct feeling of Alice in Wonderland when, after growing too big, she suddenly finds herself getting smaller and smaller, everything around her seeming enormously out of proportion...

Palmetto Brewing Co. Quenches Your Thirst All October Long

Palmetto Brewing's lineup of October events - hope you're ready to booze all month long

Ginny Deerin—Will she be Charleston's first female mayor and South Carolina's first LGBT mayor?

If Ginny Deerin is successful in her upcoming bid to be Charleston, South Carolina’s next mayor, she will make history, becoming Charleston’s first female mayor and South Carolina’s first LGBT mayor.

STAC House Shows—The Barefoot Movement in Church

When's the last time you sipped a glass of wine, slipped off your shoes, and stomped your feet in a 300 year old church?

The Grand Opening of Mercantile and Mash

A first look and first (and second, and third, and fourth) taste of Mercantile and Mash, the new gourmet food emporium and American whiskey and beer bar located in The Cigar Factory

Hispanic Heritage Month – Celebrating Afro Hispanic Identity

As an African Studies enthusiast, I learned a long time ago that the overwhelming majority of enslaved people brought from Africa during the Trans Atlantic Slave trade ended up in Hispanic colonies throughout the Caribbean and South America. So for me, Hispanic Heritage Month represents another opportunity to celebrate and uplift black history on a national scale, similarly to how it’s done in February for African American History.

From the Leftist Christian to the Socially Conscious Anarchist: The People’s Solidarity Society

“When you criminalize the poor, this is class war!” The Peoples Solidarity Society held a protest against the new law banning pan handling in Charleston, SC. The new ordinance prohibits anyone — including panhandlers, people collecting money for charities, handing out religious fliers or selling newspapers — from passing items to or from the occupant of a vehicle on a roadway in a traffic lane.

She Returns From War Pre-Album Release Show

Hunter Park of She Returns From War played a pre-album release show for her upcoming album, Oh What a Love, at The Rarebit. Park’s songs come from a deep place of emotion that of course feels personal, but like any great song, also universal.

Boss Lady Lee Deas

Lee Deas is the founder and Principal Imaginator at Obviouslee Marketing and her company works on some of Charleston’s biggest events and with some of its best companies including the Charleston Wine + Food Festival, Cigar Row, SEWE, Family Circle Cup, Kiawah Partners, The Gaillard Center and a whole host of local and regional businesses within the creative and hospitality centric realm.

Dance | Never Good Enough

A self-reflection on why I am sometimes my worst enemy

There’s No Place Like Charleston

A local artist and businessman making a big movement in the local Charleston community with his "There's No Place Like Charleston" T-shirts.

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