In the city’s own shipyard, five seized German boats were converted to vessels for the US fleet, and construction began on 18 new ships and the area’s first destroyer, the USS Tillman. It was only ...

Blazing studio lights compounded the late summer heat as a tangle of wires and a film crew transformed the sanctuary of Circular Congregational Church into a TV studio. A diverse crowd squeezed into ...

Circle Square Triangle Turtle Fish (gum tempera, graphite, and ink on paper, 11.6 x 8.1 inches, 2023) by Amina Ahmed In a peaceful room of a former kitchen house constructed of old Charleston bricks, ...

Saute onion over low fire in half of the butter until soft but not brown. Add the crab meat and heat. Heat the milk in the top of a double boiler, but do not boil. Add the crab meat mixture and the ...

St. James-Santee Episcopal Church at Wambaw today; (inset) in April 1923, Charleston Museum director Laura Bragg arranged a tour of the historic site for participants in the American Association of ...

“I have a one meeting rule,” Steve Palmer says. “I’ll always take a meeting, because you just never know.” One meeting is how the founder of the Charleston-based Indigo Road Hospitality Group ended up ...

In 1977, Michael Bennett was working his way through the College of Charleston as a carpenter’s assistant, helping to renovate buildings the school had acquired nearby. The buildings were cheap and ...

Vestiges of the American Revolution are everywhere in Charleston, from the grand residences of avid patriots such as Miles Brewton and Thomas Heyward Jr. to sites like Fort Johnson, Fort Moultrie, and ...

When storied New York auction house Doyle opened its doors on King Street in 2023, the move felt less like an expansion and more like a homecoming. “There’s a deeply rooted appreciation here for ...

The bar upstairs at The Peacock on East Bay was packed. It was the week after Labor Day, and Charlestonians, fresh back from summer travels, were eagerly catching up with friends and comparing notes ...

Editor’s Note: This feature was at the printer before Charleston and its islands and beaches were closed to any nonessential business. Although now, from the very uncertain and sometimes frightening ...

2. Henry’s Cheese Spread Many decades ago, long before Charleston’s restaurant scene exploded, a big night out involved Henry’s on Market Street, where white-jacketed waiters swooped in with trays of ...