Media Services, which has vast experience producing quality home shows and retirement living shows in the Carolinas, is bringing back Charleston’s Women’s Show – after a 16-year hiatus. The event, set for March 3 and March 4, 2012, at the Omar Shrine Auditorium and Convention Center in Mount Pleasant, will be sponsored by Mount Pleasant Magazine. “Our first women’s show … [Read more...]
World Team Tennis Finals Return to Daniel Island
The World Team Tennis Finals are returning to Daniel Island in 2012. WTT officials announced that the Family Circle Tennis Center on Daniel Island, will once again host the WTT Finals Weekend presented by GEICO, on September 14-16, 2012. The Road to the Family Circle Tennis Center begins when the 37th season of the WTT Pro League kicks off with regular season action, July … [Read more...]
Crackin’ Open a Tradition: Nearly Three Decades of Oysters
As the weather chills, excitement builds. A favorite winter-season event approaches. The lowcountry Oyster Festival, believed to be the world’s largest oyster roast, marks its 29th year on Jan. 29, 2012. Boone Hall Plantation off Long Point Road hosts the event, but the Charleston Restaurant Association organizes the annual fest. Flash back to January 1984. A News & … [Read more...]
No Guns Allowed: Mount Pleasant Citizens Police Academy
When my wife, Judy, and I packed up the Jeep and headed for Mount Pleasant, we were relying on luck to guide us. Except for a whirlwind weekend trip to purchase a home, we knew nothing about the Lowcountry. We later learned that many of our new friends had vacationed here, had children and relatives here and had all kinds of other roots in Mount Pleasant. The only local we knew … [Read more...]
An Elite Fivesome: Kiawah Hosting 2012 PGA Championship
The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island will join an elite group of golf venues in August 2012, when the best golfers in the world compete for top honors at the 94th PGA Championship. Kiawah, located 21 miles south of Charleston, will earn the distinct honor of being only the fifth course to host the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup and the Senior PGA Championship. The others are … [Read more...]
Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival
The Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival provides an excellent opportunity to take advantage of great food and entertainment and a vast array of the Charleston area's signature souvenir, all the while enjoying coastal Carolina's near-perfect late-spring weather. But the event, held each year in Mount Pleasant, also can be a learning experience, a chance to delve deeply into the … [Read more...]
Celebrating All Things Nautical: Harbor Fest
If you love being on the water, you’ll adore the annual Charleston Harbor Fest, a family-friendly and tourist friendly celebration of all things nautical. Held each spring just as the outdoor weather beckons again, Harbor Fest offers just the right balance of maritime elements, whether you like to board the tall ships – classic beauties from around the world – witness an … [Read more...]
Tennis Town, U.S.A.
Charleston has long been known for its crucial role in American history, its distinctive brand of architecture, its abundance of churches and its welcoming attitude toward visitors from throughout the Southeast, the nation and the world. An early and decisive battle of the Revolution was waged nearby, and the first shots of the Civil War were fired at a fort in its harbor. … [Read more...]
A Culinary Destination: Charleston, S.C.
In 2010, a billboard on Highway 17 South in Charleston featured Bobby Flay, the Food Network’s grill king. A year later, another celebrity chef, Sara Moulton, was spotted walking down East Bay Street after a celebratory brunch at High Cotton. And longtime Mayor Joe Riley took a stab at culinary immortality at the 2011 Charleston Wine + Food Festival, donning a chef’s jacket and … [Read more...]
Charleston Race Week
Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week Creates Sailing Memories In mid-April, when traditionally Americans are racing to file their income tax returns, sailors are racing to catch the Charleston Harbor wind in what is now the largest keel board sailing regatta in the United States. The popularity of the Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week, organized by the South … [Read more...]