Representing West Ashley

The Coast Rangers (U9 boys) of The Charleston United Soccer Club (CUSC) recently won the 2017 SC Youth Soccer 2017 Publix Palmetto Academy Cup in Irmo. The Coast Rangers are coached by James Poole a West Ashley native and resident, he has coached six plus years for...

A Taste of Philly

The lunch rush is still winding down at 2 p.m. on a Wednesday, but Danny Bailey manages to slide off the line, still in his apron, to chat about his new restaurant, DB’s Cheesesteaks, which opened recently in the popular Avondale Business District. He’s a...

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...

America’s Jazzy Pilsners

I’ve recently been watching Ken Burns’ 10-part documentary Jazz from PBS. Now, to many of you, I suspect that sounds like 10 hours of pure torture. While I think the filmmaker spent much too long on Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, I understand the importance of...

From a Tenant South to the Tech South

Last year at Elvis Presley’s boyhood home in Tupelo, Miss., I was thrilled to see a white metal bowl with a red rim. It was the same kind of bowl my grandmother used to make biscuits. A lot of things in the two-room home looked familiar ­— an oilcloth on a kitchen...

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