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Shockingly True Tales From the World of Pinball Fanaticismnew
Most people don't know this, but pinball used to be illegal. From the early 1940s until the mid-1970s, the game was banned almost everywhere in this country; South Carolina law still forbids anyone under 18 from playing it.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
11-18-2014 |
Features
Newly Independent, Lyle Lovett Grabs the Reinsnew
When it comes to Lyle Lovett, it may be a case of, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." If so, that fork's been a long time coming. After a 25-year long recording career, Lovett has parted company with Curb Records and become a free agent.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
03-13-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lyle Lovett
How I Walked 500 Miles and Got My Soul Cleansednew
Right now, I could murder that little old lady in the confessional.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
07-07-2011 |
Religion
Tags: Spain, Pilgrimage
ZZ Packer's New Short Fiction Challenges Old Notions of Identitynew
It’s a tangle Packer addresses when she marks the border between the “Southerners” and “southerners.”
“Southerners, in full possession of that capital ‘S,’ stroll through life with an unassailable sense of right and wrong,” she writes. “Right: chicken-fried steak, Jesus, zero taxation; wrong: vegetarianism, psychiatry, Birkenstocks. The ‘southerner,’ lowercase, does not stroll so much as simper.”
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
09-04-2008 |
Fiction
Starch in the Collar, But Not in the Spine: 'Gentleman's Guide' Lacks Ballsnew
For all its mannerly reserve, its upper-crusty starch, A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living is a thing so wispily fabricated — more eiderdown fluff than sailcloth — that any critical gust aimed at it is likely to scatter the whole works all over the floor.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
08-06-2008 |
Fiction
Fraser's 'The Reavers' Might be as Good as They Saynew
"This book is nonsense," the late George MacDonald Fraser writes in the introduction of his last book, The Reavers. "It's meant to be."
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
07-30-2008 |
Fiction
David Sedaris Continues with Un-Fiction in 'Flames'new
Sedaris, in addition to the previous charge of not being a journalist, is now also found guilty of being entertaining.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
07-23-2008 |
Nonfiction
Will Hoge: The Man Behind the Curtainsnew
For a guy who's spent two-thirds of each year for the last 10 on the road as a working musician, Will Hoge maintains a refreshing sense of humor about it all.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
12-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Draw the Curtains, Will Hoge
Cowby Jack Clement's Pre-YouTube Clipsnew
Like your crazy uncle with the Super-8 camera, Cowboy Jack Clement's "home movies" capture decades of himself and his crew in all their goofy glory that the undocumented life is just not worth living.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
09-27-2007 |
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