• Black Food Truck Festival celebrates Black-owned businesses

    Now in its third year (and fifth event), the Black Food Truck Festival (BFTF) has grown into an impressive showing of not only Black food trucks, but of a community hungry for more opportunities to celebrate Black-owned businesses.  The festival takes place April 26 through April 28, with an opening night event held on Friday […]

  • Beach water quality testing program begins May 1

    As temperatures rise and the summer brings yet another Shark Week to thrill  TV viewers, scientists with South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) are focused on a less storied kind of ocean predator — the microscopic kind. Starting May 1, DHEC will resume its annual water-quality monitoring program at 122 “hotspots” along […]

  • S.C. Aquarium sees influx of sea turtle patients

    MORNING NEWSBREAK  | The South Carolina Aquarium is seeing an uptick in sea turtle admissions in its Turtle Care Center over the past two weeks. As the annual stranding season is beginning, having seven turtles already at the center is a higher-than-usual number as it generally gets 30 to 40 sea turtles on average each […]

  • Local advocacy group launches pilot nutritional program for perinatal families

    The Beloved Early Education (BEE) Care Collective, an advocacy group that has been making headlines lately for its work with educators and parents, recently launched a pilot nutritional program to extend its early care to include offering fresh meals to Black, Latina and Indigenous pregnant women and new mothers. Director of Reproductive Justice, Simone Lee, […]

  • Charleston Anime Fest celebrates international art and local community

    Animated Japanese film and TV, also called anime, combines rich, diverse storylines with gorgeous artwork, and it’s really grown in popularity in North America over the past several years. In fact, it’s more mainstream than ever: The dystopian anime Attack on Titan was one the most viewed TV shows in the United States in 2023, […]

  • PHOTO ESSAY: High Water Festival

    This past weekend, April 20-21, High Water Festival took place at North Charleston’s Riverfront Park. Despite a hot first day and a rainy second, droves of people came to see acts like Hozier, Fleet Foxes and Noah Kahan — while many came specifically to support the local acts on the lineup, Shovels & Rope and […]

  • Letters: Making a difference on Earth Day, more

    Letter: Each April, people across the world join together to advocate for our planet. This Earth Day (April 22), the American Red Cross of South Carolina is joining the celebration and reaffirming our commitment to sustainability.

  • Haley’s husband returns from year-long deployment

    MORNING NEWSBREAK | S.C. National Guard Maj. Michael Haley, husband to former presidential candidate and governor Nikki Haley of Kiawah Island, returned to the U.S. Saturday after a year-long deployment in Africa.

  • ‘Don’t Risk It’ campaign highlights risks of drinking while pregnant

    Two state agencies are highlighting the risks of drinking alcohol while pregnant in a new public service announcement. The announcement by the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) and the S.C. Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (DAODAS) is part of the “Don’t Risk It” campaign, an ongoing initiative on how abstaining from […]

  • Week in Review: State Senate to take up $13B budget

    The S.C. Senate’s version of the state’s $13 billion budget for 2024-25 calls for an income tax cut as well as pay raises for teachers and state employees. Senators will start debating the budget this week in Columbia.

  • The Moth’s “Mainstage Show” comes to Charleston April 25

    The Moth, a national podcast with more than 1 million listeners per week, will offer its “mainstage show” April 25 for the first time in Charleston. You will be able to watch the curated storytelling showcase in front of a live audience as a storyteller stands alone in the spotlight, with no notes, to tell […]

  • Antisemitism audit shows spike in incidents in S.C.

    City Paper Staff | Antisemitic incidents nearly doubled in South Carolina from 2022 to 2023, according to a new audit by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The numbers jumped 93% in incidents year over year, the report said “While these numbers are staggering, they are not surprising,” said Natanya Miller, the Charleston Jewish Federation’s director of […]