REDEFINING REAL ESTATE
NOT ONLY IS THE REAL ESTATE market in the Charleston area changing rapidly, but the way people buy and sell homes is also changing just as fast. Today, almost half of homebuyers find their home through online platforms, including Facebook. That means sellers, or at least their agents, have to be online marketing experts if […]
PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAHLIAS
MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH the genus Dahlia (D. spp.) began when I was getting ready for Brownie camp. Because I had to receive medical approval before being sent to the woods, I visited our family doctor. While sitting in the waiting room, I became enchanted with a still life hanging on the opposite wall. It […]
DELANEY OYSTER HOUSE
SALTWATER RUNS THROUGH Shamil Velazquez’s veins. The Delaney Oyster House executive chef hails from the island of Puerto Rico and says “it was music to my ears” when he was tapped to helm the opening of the seafood-centric restaurant last fall. The latest venture of The Neighborhood Dining Group (NDG), whose multistate portfolio includes Charleston […]
55+ AND LIVING IN STYLE
WHEN DECIDING WHERE TO RETIRE in the Lowcountry, is it even a contest? Cresswind Charleston was named one of the 50 best master-planned communities in the United States by Where to Retire magazine. Since opening in 2013, the development for adults 55 and older has been turning heads with its amazing amenities and fabulous light-filled […]
THE WOMEN WINEMAKERS OF BORDEAUX
BORDEAUX IS ONE OF THE MOST celebrated wine regions in the world. It’s a collector’s delight, known for storied names like Lafite, Margaux, Pétrus, and Haut-Brion that command record-breaking auction prices and a cult following. Bordeaux is also one of the largest regions in France, and with that comes a diversity of wines and opportunity. […]
Charleston Wine + Food Festival Returns
MARCH IS SYNONYMOUS with the Charleston Wine + Food Festival. For five days, from March 4 to 8, 2020, Charleston will serve as the backdrop for a gathering of top chefs, winemakers, authors, storytellers, artisans and food enthusiasts from around the world. Now in its 15th year, the festival will feature more than 100 unique […]
CONSTANT REINVENTION, CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE
THOUGH HE IS CERTAINLY not a French lyric poet, Carroll Brown embodies all the qualities of a classic troubadour, and then some. He is a traveling musician of rare gifts, whose compositions are as diverse in genre as they are soulful. One of the most enduring of South Carolina-based performers, Brown is equally at home […]
THE RELUCTANT FAN
I WASN’T RAISED IN A sporty family. Our Marches didn’t contain madness. We were never ready for Monday Night Football. The only conference I cared about was when my parents were summoned to the parent/teacher kind. Despite this, I was an athletic kid by nature, and I dabbled a bit in team sports. I tried […]
ADVENTURE AND DARING IN CONTEMPORARY ART
ART, LIKE LIFE, THRIVES WHERE there is a sense of adventure, of extending one’s gaze beyond immediate perceptions. In the 25 years since Mark Sloan took the helm as director of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston, the old maxim has been embraced wholeheartedly. The Halsey is both an enterprising […]
LOWCOUNTRY AQUATIC GARDENING
WHILE RECENTLY SIFTING THROUGH a pile of old gardening files, I came across my bog garden plant list. I had to laugh. Decades ago, I had tried to turn a soggy spot in my landscape into a flowery French Impressionistic-like setting. In other words, a Charleston version of Claude Monet’s garden. I got as far […]
