Spoleto 2013 promises post-apocalyptic puppets, tap dancing, and (our favorite) a live-action graphic novel. Read more.
Charleston artist Scott Debus is having a going away show at Big John’s Tavern as he preps for a move to Austin. Maybe he had a feeling that Gov. Nikki Haley was going to make massive vetoes to state arts funding?
MARTIN, S.C. – At a depth of about four feet, 13,000-year-old artifacts emerge from the floor of a hole known as HS-N207E66 in such dense profusion that they leave the volunteers little room to work.
Like others who’ve dug here since the 1980s, the crew assigned to HS-N207E66 has reached the…
Thanks Archaeological News for picking up on this week’s cover story on Martin, S.C.’s Topper site, where they’re finding evidence that will upend the history of mankind.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s autobiography Can’t Is Not An Option, comes out today. She’ll be in town on Monday signing copies at Blue Bicycle Books, but we’re sure our Managing Editor Chris Haire will have read the memoir a thousand times by then — he won an AAN award for his piece on the governor last year.
Do you have plans to read the book?
Who’s going to today’s “THE ROCK ME LIKE A HERMAN CAIN: SOUTH CAIN-OLINA PRIMARY RALLY” at the Cistern Yard?
It’s funny what you can get politicians to do during an election season. Besides kissing babies. Ask ‘em to write an essay for your alt-weekly on why they should be your next GOP nominee for president and they’ll do it. Some of them, at least, specifically John Huntsman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum, but we’ve also got recommendations from supporters of Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, and Gov. Nikki Haley offered us her thoughts on Mitt Romney.
The politicians are coming! Here’s video from yesterday’s Mitt Romney rally, with Nikki Haley, John McCain, and, yep, an attempted Occupy Charleston protest.
Contributing writer Stratton Lawrence spent some time on Lake Moultrie’s Coon Island with his dog. You’ll have to read the story to see if he had any gator encounters.
Released 20 years ago, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust is a film about a Gullah-Geechee family at the turn of the 20th century. It’s also a story about women, and a story about American and human history. Dash is in town this week to celebrate the anniversary of the film, and the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston is hosting a two-day symposium with panels, lectures, and a screening of Daughters at Hampton Park.
