Atlantic Green Conference features Mixson in its tour of LEED projects

The Sustainability Institute’s Atlantic Green Conference starts TOMORROW, June 19, and while tickets to the conference are sold out, you can still get in on some of their tours – including the Green Residential Tour, featuring Mixson, Hunley Waters, and Oak Terrace Preserve.  The tour runs on Saturday, June 20 from 12-2 and tickets for [...]

Park Circle named one of nation’s best neighborhoods

You and I know that Park Circle is a vibrant, engaging place to live, but Men’s Journal has picked up on it too!  The most recent edition of the magazine cites Park Circle as an under-the-radar enclave whose recent development boom has mercifully “left its liberalism intact.”  They also mention that Park Circle is full [...]

Evolution Art Show continues this week

Evolution, Charleston’s most progressive, inclusive art show, is back for a second year and got off to an amazing start this weekend.  Visual arts displays abounded in North Charleston and downtown, and the Talking Picture House on E. Montague Ave. showed two great indie films, The Graffitti Artist and The Lost Boys. Here’s what’s coming [...]

Go local with Piccolo Spoleto!

It’s Piccolo time once again, and the rainy weather seems to have turned just in time!  Piccolo Spoleto and Piccolo Fringe offer a spectacular chance to see a plethora of comedy, theater, music, and dance shows in two weeks.  Get your rest in these next two days, because it’s going to be a busy two [...]

Film Screening by Charleston Moves – VEER

Charleston Moves, our local organization advocating “active lifestyles and community well-being through transportation choices” is hosting a PRE-RELEASE screening of Veer, a documentary exploring America’s growing bicycle culture.  The film follows 5 people whose lives are inextricably tied to bicycling over one year, detailing their personal struggles and what it means to be part of [...]

This week in North Charleston…

is going to be a busy one!  First of all, there’s the Art Walk in the Olde North Charleston Business District (that’s E. Montague Ave, near Park Circle) on Wednesday, May 6 from 6-8pm. You won’t want to miss this chance to see the artwork REALLY north of Broad Street. To ring in the summertime, [...]

Greater Park Circle Film Society – next show on May 16

The Film Society is still going strong in their home at the Olde Village Talking Picture House, at 1080 E. Montague Ave.  In fact, back in March the House got voted “Best Place to Watch Cheap Movies” by the Charleston City Paper (movies there are only $5 for non-members, and $2 for members!).  If you’ve [...]

Mixson’s Big Pre-Earth Day

It was a busy Saturday, April 18 for Mixson.  The morning began with the Green Village Tour finishing at Mixson.  The Green Village Tour is in it’s third year and is produced by the Sustainability Institute. This annual community-oriented event winds through the streets of North Charleston, featuring the sustainable development projects of the past, [...]

“Hits for HALOS” March 28-29 at the I’On Club

“Hits for HALOS” Tennis Fundraiser for Abused and Neglected Local Children March 28-29   HALOS invites tennis fans, sponsors, and donors to a Pro/Am doubles tournament and Silent Auction March 28-29 at The I’On Club to raise funds for the HALOS Summer Camp Program for abused and neglected children in Charleston County.   Charleston, SC [...]

South of Broadway Film Premiere THIS SUNDAY

The North Charleston theater company, South of Broadway, is presenting its first feature documentary entitled “Performing Arts Bootcamp: Summer in the City 2008″ this Sunday, Jan. 25 at 5:00 pm at 1080 E. Montague Ave, right past Park Circle. The film covers South of Broadway’s 2008 summer program for performing arts students, which takes them [...]