You’ve heard it a hundred times.  Charlestonians are like the Chinese: they eat rice and worship their ancestors. Still, I imagine it’s an odd site, a Chinese dragon boat gliding out from the salt marshes, historic Charleston just behind ...

That’s what Francie Markham wishes for her friends in Zimbabwe. Francie, a retired Dreher High English teacher, has been making mission trips to Zimbabwe for the past few years.  She says recent events make her “heartsick and angry,” a...

The Indie Grits Film Festival recognizes the best work by a female filmmaker with the Helen Hill Award.  I caught up with this year’s winner, Axel Forrester, who lives in Greenville. ...