Midday Cafes at 10 Storehouse Row

We just heard about these great events at 10 Storehouse Row in North Charleston – below is information from Jenny Wiedower. Midday Cafes, Fridays in October and November 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Location: 10 Storehouse Row, 2120 Noisette Blvd, North Charleston, SC 29405 Website: http://www.navyyardsc.com Email: jwiedower@navyyardsc.com Free live music Fridays at lunchtime at [...]

“Green Your Ride” Event at Pep Boys in West Ashley

On Sunday, Oct. 12 from 10am-12pm, Charleston County Recycling will have a booth at Pep Boys in West Ashley (1550 Savannah Highway) with representatives available to answer questions about making your driving more environmentally friendly.  Of course, the most effective way to make your transportation more environmentally friendly is to drive as little as possible, [...]

Public meeting on proposed Kinder Morgan expansion

Here’s your chance to get involved and ensure you and your neighbors have clean air!  The City of North Charleston is holding a public meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 6:30 pm to discuss the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan, a massive energy transportation company which transports coal into Charleston.   The company doesn’t have the best environmental record, so it’s [...]

I’On Concert for Change on October 11

This comes from our friend William Hamilton… Click october-11-change-up-flyer-standard for the event flier. Concert for Change Announced for October 11 in Mt. Pleasant For Immediate Release Mt. Pleasant, SC- Music of Hope and Community focused on the November elections will fill the air at the Amphitheater in the I’On Community in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina [...]

Park(ing) Day in downtown Charleston

How much space do you think those metered parking spaces downtown take up?  How much space in any city is ceded to cars and their needs, instead of people and THEIR needs?  On September 19, you can catch a glimpse of what those parking spaces could become, if only we citizens would work together to [...]

Updated: North Charleston Play Fest Schedule

We just got the latest schedule for the N. Chas. Play Fest (Mixson’s a sponsor), from Mary Gould of South of Broadway – and whether you’re a dedicated writer, avid spectator, fervent reader, or even a lover of fun food and drink (check out the Oscar Wilde martini bar at The Chart!) there is something [...]

North Charleston Play Fest!

Play as in theater, that is – for the last three Saturdays in September, South of Broadway Theatre Company, together with the Old North Charleston Merchants’ Association, will host the first annual North Charleston Playwrights Festival. Mary Gould, who heads up South of Broadway (which also has an amazing program called Summer in the City, [...]

Charleston Poets in North Charleston

Many of you may have come to the weekly open mic events at Kudu and East Bay Coffee House, hosted by Charleston Poets, but did you know they have an event in North Charleston too?  It’s the last Friday of each month at Sonia’s Manila Grill and Lounge, at 3381 Ashley Phosphate Rd.  Open mics don’t work all that well [...]

Help plan “The Promenade”

You can still make the last day of presentations on proposed projects to redevelop the old Romney St. landfill into a downtown arts district: from 9:00 am to 11:30 am there will be an open house, and the public presentation will run from 11:30 to 12:30. The event will be held at the Charleston County [...]

Critical Mass in Charleston

Critical Mass is a world-wide bicycling movement that started in San Francisco in 1992, in which bicyclists gather together regularly for community rides around their cities. We’re lucky enough to have one here in Charleston, SC, which meets the last Friday of every month at 5:30 in Cannon Park, downtown (at Calhoun and Rutledge Streets). [...]