AltWeeklies Wire
How to Make a Basic Accordion Booknew
If you're feeling crafty this holiday season, handmade books are a great gift to give. You can fill them with photographs, collages, poems, or leave them blank for others to fill in.
Charleston City Paper |
Anna Kate Lister and Savannah Rusher |
12-22-2011 |
Recreation
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake has same badass heroinenew
Nothing in David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo quite lives up to the menacing, ambiguous, death-metal rapturous credit sequence that opens the director's adaptation of the best-selling Stieg Larsson novel of the same name.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
Winter Solstice Reminds Us Who We Really Arenew
On Dec. 22, 2011, at 5:20 a.m. (UTC), the sun will reach its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. That moment will be the winter solstice, and it will come at the end of the longest night of the year.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
12-21-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Winter Solstice
The Funky Education of Stereo Reformnew
Greenville-based trio Stereo Reform calls their music "dance-a-funk-a-rock-a-tronic," a mix that falls closer to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Average White Band than today's teeny-bopper divas.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
12-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stereo Reform, dance-a-funk
In Young Adult, Charlize Theron Doesn’t Want to Grow Upnew
A toxic spin on all of those cutesy chick flicks where career girls yearn for marriage, the latter film is the convention-busting story of semi-slovenly, semi-slatternly 37-year-old Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), who is hellbent on busting up a marriage.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2011 |
Reviews
The Greyhounds are a Dynamic Duonew
The Greyhounds recently released an EP titled Spring Training. Compared to some of their funky material from the 2000s, the new stuff is more spare and sparse, but the element of soul remains intact.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hanna Nation Seabrook Gives Old-school Stationery a Modern Twistnew
Necessity and luxury. That's the caption Hanna Nation Seabrook assigned to the Instagram photo of the latte she sipped while we talked, but she might as well be referring to Gadabout, her stationery-cum-graphic design business based here in Charleston.
Charleston City Paper |
Katie Abbondanza |
12-15-2011 |
Art
Sadler Vaden Lands Gig with Drivin' N Cryin'new
One year ago, Sadler Vaden was super busy with his longtime rock trio Leslie. These days, when the guitarist and songwriter talks about his band, he's referring to veteran rock group Drivin' N Cryin'.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mother Sues Citadel for Failing to Warn Employers About Predatornew
A mother who says her child was sexually abused by Louis Neal “Skip” ReVille in late 2007 is suing the Citadel for failing to act on accusations of sexual misconduct by ReVille that were made earlier that year. According to the lawsuit, the child, who was under 16 years old in 2007, was sexually abused several times over the course of more than a year while “taking athletic supervision” from ReVille in Mt. Pleasant.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-15-2011 |
Policy Issues
DIY: Skip the wreath and make a monogramnew
The traditional evergreen wreath will always hold a special place in our hearts, but it's fun to mix things up every now and then. Typography is having a major moment in the design world, and a simple letter can make a bold statement, especially when covered in berries and hung on your front door. This project is great because it's affordable — less than $8 for all of the supplies — and it's really versatile.
Charleston City Paper |
Kristen Gastaldo |
12-15-2011 |
Culture
Unbalanced Dietnew
Residents of North Charleston's poorest neighborhoods have easy access to junk food, but not fresh fruit and veggies.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-15-2011 |
Poverty
S.C. Sheriff's Deputy Charged with Stealing Cash During Searchesnew
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested Troy Leo Capps on misconduct and larceny charges.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-13-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Perry wants to bring back Don't Ask Don't Tell, school prayernew
GOP contender waxes hawkish, praises veterans at U.S.S. Yorktown.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-12-2011 |
Elections
In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon Defines Slow-burn Agonynew
Set in a rural Ohio of backyard rubbish piles and church suppers, Take Shelter is a skin-crawling heartland thriller in which visions of disaster haunt family man Curtis (Michael Shannon).
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Delusion and Denial Don't Make Sound Opinionnew
America's greatest economic divide remains the gulf between the wealth of black families and white families. Between 1983 and 2007, that racial wealth gap more than quadrupled, according to a recent study from Brandeis University. At the bottom of the economic pyramid, at least 25 percent of black families in 2007 possessed no financial assets whatsoever to see themselves through the economic storm. And that storm struck in 2008.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: economic divide, racial wealth gap
