A year of STITCH
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »Happy Anniversary! Last summer, graphic designers Courtney Rowson and Amy Pastre opened STITCH, a terrific design firm in downtown Charleston. They recently asked me to write copy for their new, great-looking website. Check it out... the site's professional, beautiful and ...
Jack Thompson’s Myrtle Beach
Friday, March 26th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, People | No Comments »When I stopped in to see photographer Jack Thompson one day this winter, he suggested we go for the buffet at Shoney's in Myrtle Beach. While we ate, he told stories and I wrote up the interview for Grand Strand ...
Oyster note in T+L
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »Oysters make a nice valentine, I think. I had the chance to write up a few South Carolina oyster-eating places in Travel + Leisure's cover-story round-up of romantic destinations. Here's my blurb, on page 9o, titled "A Low-Country Drive." You ...
Serving lump crab and pickled shrimp for almost 50 years
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »For a winter issue of Grand Strand magazine, I had the chance to write a cover story about a restaurant I've known since I was a teenager - the old Sea Captain's House, oceanfront in Myrtle Beach. The story and ...
Life by tides
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »This is so cool. A dozen writers were asked to write odes to the Lowcountry for this month's issue of Charleston Magazine. (The other writers included Josephine Humphreys, William Baldwin, Marjory Wentworth, Roger Pinckney, Jonathan Sanchez and more who I've ...
The art of the letterpress
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »Presses stop me. When I worked at a newspaper, on breaks I used to go down to the press room and watch the huge rolls whir through. My favorite is the sights and sounds of letterpressing - the hands-on ...
Beers with the supper club starter
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Food, In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston | No Comments »I've been back on the underground supper club beat again, and wrote a profile of jimihatt for the new "people" issue of Charleston Magazine, just out. Here's an excerpt: Meeting at James Island’s Zia Taqueria over tacos and beer, “jimihatt” arrives ...
Hot wheels… mybikelaw launches
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Posted in In print/published | No Comments »The new mybikelaw website is now online, and I had a great time being part of this launch. To develop the copy, I worked with Charleston-based lawyer Peter Wilborn, a cycling advocate and founder of mybikelaw. HOOK created the logo, ...
Inshow-o-rama: check it out
Friday, September 11th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »Since mid-summer, I've been collaborating on a project with Stitch Design Co., and the first pieces are now in print and online. The materials are for the 2009 InShow, the AIGA of South Carolina's annual design awards. The website is ...
Carolina drive time
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Travel | No Comments »For the current issue of G Magazine, I wrote about a summer road trip across the upstate of South Carolina. With photographer ...
Singing on St. Helena
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Travel | No Comments »In a white-painted, one-room building on St. Helena Island, Joseph “Rev.” Bryant was singing “Oh Lord, come by here.” His voice filled the spare, shed-sized structure, with its benches of narrow boards nailed together, one bare bulb in the ceiling. ...
“Cypress” is a beauty
Sunday, June 14th, 2009 Posted in Art, Craft, In print/published | No Comments »This is so cool… an article I wrote last year for Garden & Gun was read by a filmmaker who says he was inspired to create a short film. On Friday I had the chance to talk with Tim Sutton, who's ...