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Communities In Schools Charleston + The Brick

Compete to help students and you may even win a suite at the Riverdogs!

Crumbs 4 Charleston is an amazing local company who donates 100% proceeds from yummy bake goods to a local Charity or Organization in order to help the community.

Celebrate Life with Keep It Gay Cabaret

Life's a party, so come to the celebration—Keep It Gay 2.0: A Fundraising Cabaret!

Widespread Panic's Slow Kiss Goodbye

As Widespread Panic prepares to wind down it's touring schedule, the band paid another visit to the Lowcountry Friday night.

Shuck It at the Lowcountry Oyster Festival on 1/31/16

The 33rd annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival is happening on January 31, 2016 at Boone Hall Plantation. Tickets are on sale now! Shuck, yeah.

Tiny Tim and his Crippled Leg:

Our fearless author got that surgery—To recap it was to fix the varicose veins in his right leg. The timing was both good, and bad.

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.

Beckie Dobbs #internationalBossLady

The very first International Boss Lady, former Charleston native.

Grit Picks for your Weekend, July 17-19

A roundup of events this weekend, July 17-19

#DearWhitePeople: Recognizing Racism and Redefining Whiteness

If white people want to make a substantial contribution to society and the fight against racism, they need to develop an awareness of the real ways it impacts non-whites

I’ve Been First and Last, Look at How the Time Goes Past: Father’s Day

Father's Day was a fairly somber day this year, but sometimes the best days, the days where you feel like you and your community have moved forward, are

The Failures of US Public Schooling: Past and Present

As the community continues to advocate on behalf of the future of Burke High School, it's important to draw on the lessons of past educational movements and their failings.

Black Lives Matter: A Moment or a Movement

Examining the legacy of the civil rights movement and what work still needs to be done

Easter Bunny Leaves Some Surf

Early April sees trade-wind swell

Deconstructing Patti O'Furniture

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.

School Daze

Alan Bennett's "The History Boys," the inaugural production in Woolfe Street Playhouse's new SideStage black box, is a rockin' 80s play about the nature of knowledge and its acquisition and use.

Those So-Called Christians

Instead of ranting on social media about prayer in schools or passing judgement on the beliefs of others, maybe it's time for so-called Christians to focus on the real issues.

We Are Family

Melissa Moore, executive director of We Are Family, opens up about coming out, empowering Charleston's LBGTQ youth, and fighting the good fight.

Fashion as a Legitimate K–12 Academic Discipline?

Cavortress Fashion Show Fundraiser!

Truly Frightening: CCSD School Board

Fiasco. Debacle. Travesty. Clusterf*&^k. You name it. But yesterday's firing certainly was no "trick or treat."

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