Local News in Charleston County

Gifted vocalist Hathaway to perform here Oct. 2

Grammy-winning vocalist Lalah Hathaway isn’t just a talented singer. Hathaway, who performs at the Charleston Music Hall on Oct. 2, possesses a gift that few performers have.

Rising S.C. star returns to Charleston in ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’

It seems Mrs. Doubtfire has legs, if of the gartered variety. And the coming stage adaptation also boasts some South Carolina talent.

Symphony launches 2026-27 season with classics, collaborations

Classical music can sometimes seem like the most immovable of art forms. The composers are long dead, the scores have been played thousands of times and the expectation is that the musicians will show up, read the notes and reproduce something that already exists.

Hogan: The Halsey’s elegant, evocative exhibition mines Southern memory

Almost any Southerner can tell you that there’s not a plot of dirt or stretch of water in these parts that doesn’t carry with it a layered past. Every tossed off oyster shell or scattered blade of sweetgrass is a conduit to memories well before we landed here.

Sack’s Charleston church history wins peace nonfiction award

MORNING HEADLINES | Former New York Times reporter Kevin Sack’s history of the Charleston church where nine worshippers died -- “Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church” -- has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction.

Big accolades go to Colbert, Stiff, more

MORNING HEADLINES | A couple of Charlestonians took home Emmy Awards this week, including local celebrity Stephen Colbert, whose “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” won “Outstanding Variety Series” – despite this year’s controversial cancellation of the program by CBS.

CP Video: Photographer Cecil Williams; 9/11/26 issue

Famed photographer showcases South Carolina’s civil rights history

Legendary photojournalist Cecil Williams has witnessed seven decades of South Carolina civil rights history through his camera’s lens. His photos fill the South Carolina Civil Rights Museum, the only museum of its kind in the state.

Swimming Pool Qs return with new wave at IOP Sept. 13

The Swimming Pool Qs emerged from a late-1970s and early-’80s scene that spawned some of the South’s strangest and most enduring bands, from the B-52s and Pylon to R.E.M.

Ariail: Remembrance

Stegelin: Don’t call it WAR

MOJA to celebrate arts, music, food, more Sept. 24-Oct. 1

Charleston’s streets will fill with bright smiles, beating drums, soulful songs, delectable tastes and more during the city’s annual MOJA Arts Festival, which kicks off for eight days starting Sept. 24.