Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire

Nikki Haley's sister is a new age 'visionary'new

Simran is a highly successful "visionary" and "life coach," as well as a magazine publisher and talk show host. She also has some very unconventional beliefs.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 08-20-2010 | Commentary

Tags: Nikki Haley, local politics, state politics, national politics, 11:11, Debbie Gibson, Exotica International, Megashark, Pyramid Healing, Simran Singh

Hey kids, U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene has some advice for younew

Alvin Greene has a diploma. And not from the Forrest Gump School of Wisdom-Spouting Rubes either. Heck, despite his action-figure-making aspirations, as far as we know, he never went to Mattel University to major in G.I. Joe.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 08-18-2010 | Unclassified

Tags: Alvin Greene, College Student Guide 2010

The SCGOP makes a pitch for the pocketbooks of empowered womennew

Ladies of the Lowcountry, South Carolina GOP chair Karen Floyd has a message for you: She wants your money. And, well, that's about it. See, last week, the SCGOP launched a new initiative to encourage more women to participate in the political process, namely the fundraising side of it.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 08-17-2010 | Unclassified

Tags: South Carolina GOP

Jonah Goldberg Loves Scatnew

I've got to hand to conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg: He is the King Shit of Bad Metaphors. The evidence? Goldberg's latest column on JournoList.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 07-28-2010 | Commentary

Tags: Jonah Goldberg, JournoList

Hannity is Irked by Tea Partiersnew

Sean Hannity has nothing but disdain for the Tea Party's No. 1 goal: to vote all the bums out, Democrat and Republican alike. Hannity wants to keep those bums in power, as long as they're members of the GOP and their last name isn't Paul.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 04-14-2010 | Politics

Tags: Tea Party, Sean Hannity

Sanford Biopic 'The Earth Moved' is a Sexy Affairnew

Not only can Twitter topple regimes and replace newspapers, but it can see into the future. And thanks to Twitter, we now have a review of The Earth Moved, a sexy film about the love affair between S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford and his soulmate Maria.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 07-01-2009 | Commentary

Tags: Mark Sanford, The Earth Moved, South Carolina, satire, scandals

Closet Door Slams Shut on South Carolina Gay Politiciannew

Former Democratic Party candidate Linda Ketner kinda-sort-but-not-really outs three prominent South Carolina Republicans.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 06-10-2009 | LGBT

Tags: South Carolina, Linda Ketner

Guerilla Artist Shepard Fairey Takes a Giant Step into the World of Politicsnew

As he waited behind bars during the Democratic National Convention in August, the two worlds that Shepard Fairey now inhabits -- one where he's a street artist, the other as an impassioned supporter of Sen. Barack Obama -- collided in the strangest of ways.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 10-09-2008 | Art

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, politics, Democratic National Convention, street art, Shepard Fairey, Obey Giant

Nipple? We Don't See No Stinkin' Nipplenew

The most shocking thing about the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl was its brevity. And yet somehow in that split second, an America that was still reeling from the realization that it was not invincible, that it too could be attacked, found a way to fight back. At what exactly we were never quite sure. But, boy oh boy, did it ever cause a bustle in our collective hedgerow.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 07-23-2008 | Media

Tags: media, FCC, Super Bowl, CBS, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, indecency, nipple

The Schizo Metal of UnexpecTnew

The group makes everything-but-the-kitchen-sink, circus-carnival-snuff-film mash-up made famous by merry prankster Mike Patton and his bands Mr. Bungle and Fantomas.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 04-02-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: UnexpecT