The New World Beer

Last weekend, the guys at Hi-Wire Brewing Company in Asheville, NC put on the event How Do You LagerFest, an affair in honor of the cold fermenting beer. To be fair, I’m buddies with one of the co-owners, but still, I’m a big fan of the brewery; there’s almost always...

Fix Squishy Candidate Residency Laws

You, like most people, probably figure that candidates who run for state House and Senate are required to live in the district in which they run. You’d be pretty much right. But there’s a big loophole: You only have to live in the district on election days and on the...

Mug Shots

The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left out to protect the innocent. All suspects are  innocent...

A Bounty of Culinary Creativity

Typically the West Of Cookbook issues features recipes from local chefs and restaurateurs. But for this issue, we tried something different. Teaming up with local farm share program The Bounty Box, we offered eight local chefs eight boxes of locally-sourced produce...

Race The Landing

“The Friends of Charles Towne Landing hope you’ll will be able to join us for the 2016 Race the Landing Series,” says Gary Nichols President of the Friends of Charles Towne Landing, who will be putting on the 2016 Race The Landing Series. The series officially began...

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