AltWeeklies Wire
Glee is the Product of a Dead Culturenew
Glee is the worst thing to happen to music since Kids Incorporated, and Glee creator Ryan Murphy is a musical mother bird who consumes pop's best, spits it back up, and then tries to feed all of those regurgitated bits and pieces back to his starving chicks.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-29-2011 |
TV
David Gray Renews His Soul With a Renovated Soundnew
There's hardly a musician who wouldn't love to have the success David Gray enjoyed with his 1998 multiplatinum album White Ladder and its breakthrough hit, "Babylon." After languishing in obscurity for his first three albums, the self-financed release became an international sensation characterized by a mix of acoustic folk and electronic elements.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
06-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Gray
Getting Serious with Stephen Colbertnew
The Colbert Report host talks about the sad state of politics and the even sadder state of cable news.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-29-2011 |
TV
It's the Summer of Rieslingnew
Sommeliers love riesling. The white grape is grown mostly in Germany and Austria as well as Australia and Oregon and might be one of the most misunderstood. Yes, riesling can be sweet, but it can also be complex, dry, and racy, a perfect wine for a hot summer, one that goes well with spicy, fatty foods.
Charleston City Paper |
Stephanie Barna |
06-29-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Riesling, Wines for Summer
Shonuff Puts a Funky Spin on Rock and Reggaenew
Madison Ruckel can hardly control his giddiness about this week's Shonuff shows. "I don't know which one I'm more excited about," he says. "Between the Marley and the Pour House, they're both just going to be great."
Charleston City Paper |
Jared Booth |
06-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Shonuff
S.C. Evangelical Activist Group to Launch News Hubnew
The Family Research Council has decided that they want to enter into the world of online news. "There is so much out there," says Orin Smith, president of the Palmetto Family Council. "I think maybe what our goal might be is to provide some type of Google Reader site for our people who donate to us and follow us so they don't have to follow everything."
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-24-2011 |
Religion
Tags: Family Research Council
Ron Paul Won the Debatenew
The entire GOP moves closer to Paul's politics and away from Bush.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
06-23-2011 |
Commentary
Is a Reasonable Health Insurance Exchange Possible for S.C.?new
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed last year by Congress requires all states to set up a health insurance exchange program. While South Carolina is one of 26 states to sue the federal government over this law, it does not prevent these states from working toward such an insurance exchange program. All states are required to have a health insurance exchange program by the end of 2012. If states fail to do this, the federal government will control their exchange programs.
Charleston City Paper |
Clay N. Middleton |
06-23-2011 |
Policy Issues
Charleston Mothers Sell, Share, and Bank Their Breast Milknew
What to do with a freezer full of breast milk?
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
06-22-2011 |
Children & Families
AFL-CIO, Local Labor Leader Blast Boeing Hearingnew
Inside those chambers, Congressional Democrats and Republicans delivered a series of dramatic, Royal Shakespeare Company-caliber soliloquies. Some protested the NLRB suit against Boeing while others sneered at the jet manufacturer's decision to open its new 787 Dreamliner plant in anti-union South Carolina instead of pro-union Washington state.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-21-2011 |
Business & Labor
Boeing Hearing Amounts to Little More Than Political Theaternew
On June 17, Lafe Solomon, chief acting legal counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, was summoned to North Charleston under the threat of a subpoena. The reason: To sit before a U.S. House panel and be attacked by mob of angry Republicans, including three Congressmen from South Carolina and the state's high-profile governor and possible 2012 GOP VP candidate, Nikki Haley.
Charleston City Paper |
Corey Hutchins |
06-21-2011 |
Business & Labor
Boeing's Decision to Move Has Turned Into a Legal Nightmarenew
Last week, South Carolina's top politicians gathered together to celebrate the official opening of Boeing's Dreamliner plant in North Charleston. But this week, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will conduct hearings in the city on a lawsuit filed by the National Labor Relations Board against the airline manufacturer. At issue is whether Boeing illegally retaliated against its unionized workforce in Washington state by building a second Dreamliner plant in North Charleston, a move that will create an estimated 3,800 new jobs in South Carolina.
Charleston City Paper |
Corey Hutchins |
06-17-2011 |
Business & Labor
Chris Mills Celebrates a Decade of Musicnew
Americana-pop artist Chris Mills is keeping busy these days, touring in support of his greatest hits disc Heavy Years: 2000-2010.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
06-16-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chris Mills
Meek’s Cutoff is a Historic Horror Filmnew
A haunting meditation on existence set in the Pioneer West of 1845 Oregon, Meek's Cutoff plunges you into a reality not your own but so tactile and vivid you begin to feel its sensations.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
06-15-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Meek's Cutoff
The Patriot Act is Not Conservativenew
Giving the government unprecedented power is the antithesis of conservatism.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
06-09-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Patriot Act, Harry Reid
