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Jennifer Blackwell was getting an art degree and running her Get-It-Straight home organization company in Charleston when her happy little accident came along. Blackwell was re-arranging a local artist's home when the idea occurred — what if there was someone who helped artists get their shit together, like, professionally?

[embed-2] Today Charleston Stage announced that their new facility, the West Ashley Theatre Center, is now open. The center (located at 1401 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. #11) includes two dance/rehearsal studio spaces and a 130 seat performance space, all available for rent.more…

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In honor of Chucky, here are some fun facts about the greatest tiny terror since Gremlins.

Even though it's not one of his most commercially successful films, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 spy thriller The 39 Steps has many of the hallmarks of the great director's repertoire.

When the national tour of Les Misérables stops at the North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center Oct. 16-21, audiences will have a chance to see a homegrown talent take the stage.

Just over 100 years ago, as humanity was learning to make death efficient, a tangle of rising nations and fading empires filled the fields of Europe to feed men into a meat grinder called the Great War.

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Marshmallow Ghosts and the Spooky Sideshow,The Marshmallow Ghosts (Oct. 19)
We have a Halloween band in-house called Marshmallow Ghosts and have released albums by them for a decade.more…

As the "Year of the Woman" winds to a close, could an angry, self-appointed spokesman for white men from the South dismissing a sexual assault victim be a catalyst for electoral parity in a state that's 51.5 percent female?

Blotter o' the Week: A girl slapped her grandma in the chin with a broken toilet seat because she didn't wanna get ready for school.

Angel Maldonado, who DJs around Charleston under the name Luis Skye, seems to be in a bit of disbelief while talking about his wife, Britny, and the last year or so of their life.

Concertgoers live in a world they believe to be loud and free. But there is, unheard by most, an outer world, a barrier between in and out, just as loud but not as free as they thought — the world outside a venue, where the door guy simply wants you to pay the cover charge. Take a spin in the head of Tin Roof's door dude, Rex Stickel, as he ponders admitting you to Tin Roof and then takes you on tour with his band.

Ocean Fiction, the new album by the Charleston quintet Whitehall, doesn’t sound like a debut, and in a certain sense, it doesn’t sound like it was released in 2018.

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It's a Wednesday morning and Rebecca Boie sits alone in a sun-lit conference room at the corner of the Dorchester Road Regional Library.

On Wed. Oct. 17, the Avery Research Center will host a discussion with a researcher leading a project to digitize newspaper ads used by former slaves to find long lost family members.

Dr. Judith Geisberg, a history professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia, will join Dr. Patricia Williams Lessane from Avery for a conversation about Last Seen, a project to collect, scan, and digitize the "Information Wanted" ads.

"The ads taken out in black newspapers mention family members, often by name, and also by physical description, last seen locations, and at times by the name of a former slave master," according to the Last Seen project website.

Geisberg and Lessane will touch on the challenges of researching African-American heritage, the opportunities provided by digital humanities, and the possibility for the ads to be used as a genealogy tool.more…

College of Charleston hosts "Stand Out, Rise Up, Shine Together" event today, part of the school's observance of LGBTQ History Month.

Join event organizers from 3-4:30 p.m. in Physician's Promenade just off George Street for a information fair. The event is a continuation of the College's LGBTQ Quilt Project, which features a quilt created by students and off-campus participants which will be unveiled in November.

The main event will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the newly-rebuilt Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center.more…

A tropical storm warning remains in effect for the tri-county area as Hurricane Michael gets ready to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle this afternoon.

Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties are under a tropical storm warning as of Wednesday at 8:41 a.m., according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Michael, now a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour, still remains about 460 miles away from Charleston.

"Michael is forecast to track northeastward across Georgia and South Carolina through Thursday gradually weakening to a tropical storm," according to the NHC.more…

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