Cheer on the Charleston Battery as the team faces off against Phoenix Rising FC during this month’s only home match. Patriots Point Soccer Stadium, 85 Patriots Point Rd., Mount Pleasant. Friday, ...

Everyone who went through Hurricane Hugo has a story—a memory as dramatic and unforgettable as the storm itself. Hugo left us with boats on land, houses in water, and fish in places where fish aren’t ...

Class 1 Wilderness: Leaving Garris Landing (closest pier above) and crossing the Intracoastal to wind through the 25,000 acres of salt marsh and estuaries between the mainland and Bulls Island, you ...

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Emanuel AME massacre, eight authors—journalists, historians, poets, and family members, whose books tell the stories of unfathomable heartbreak, survival, and ...

Indeed there’s a whole literary ecosystem thriving in our culture-drenched climate. Seeds get planted and budding writers nurtured thanks to YALLFest and Free Verse’s outreach to schools and the Write ...

Matthews is undaunted. “I prefer roles that have a learning curve,” she says. “To be leading an organization committed to trying to centralize the African American voice, to center it in a history ...

Ever since the voyagers on the sailing ship Carolina slipped up the Ashley River in 1670 and founded Charles Towne, the Holy City’s rivers have been its lifeblood. For more than 200 years, the ...

If there’s a plant that deserves a place in every Charleston garden, it’s the Noisette rose. Created amid elaborate “pleasure grounds” in Ravenel at the start of the 19th century, it set off an ...

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 10-inch cake pans. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together into a bowl. Put the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle ...

The reopening has also created occasion for the original owners to reminisce. McMillan—now the ombudsman for Charleston County—smiles about his son wearing a Music Farm T-shirt to school and getting ...

The Pollitzer story begins, like many family sagas in the South, at the end of the Civil War. Its scion, Moritz Pollitzer, however, was different from his peers. The Austrian-born, immigrant Jew was a ...

Perfect Fit: David and Emily Warren (left) designed the ideal house for their family of five—including kids (left to right) Lane, Greta, and Jack, plus golden retriever Wade—to grow into. The ...