July 2010
35 Visionaries
To commemorate Charleston magazine’s 35th anniversary, we honor 35 visionary, passionate, progressive, focused, effective people from all realms of influence who have helped shape the city we love since 1975.
Taking Off
Here’s a look at our current position, the new map for success, and the roadblocks that could impede progress
Berry Bliss
If you frequent Halls Chophouse, you may have heard the name Enlightened Grain recently
Isle of Palms
It’s a place that both Rawles describe as magical. “We are living on an island oasis,” says David. “There’s peace and joy in being together here.”
Rhett Thurman
Once, while Rhett Thurman was painting downtown (a pastime that will make you as tough as nails, she says), a man who’d been watching over her shoulder for a little while boldly asked, “Who told you that you could use colors like that?”
Trade Secret
Part of me wants to keep secret spaces secret, but my grandmother always says to give away what I love, so I’m entrusting fellow ramblers with one of my best-kept.
Milestone Del Mar
New exhibits of animals like the albino alligator and Magellanic penguins have helped the South Carolina Aquarium swim into the fiscal black, attracting more visitors in 2009 than it has averaged over the last five years.
On a Mission
Arguably one of the most eccentric, conceptual acts to appear in Charleston this year, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Taking the Stage
It was quite a heavy load for a goat cart: love for a fallen woman, a belief in impossible odds, and a song to the city of Charleston.
Tommy Heinemann
The 23-year-old Charleston Battery forward kicks around thoughts on music, relationships, and the sport he’s played since age fourand the value of silence
Making History
The oldest Junior League cookbook still in print, Charleston Receipts celebrates 60
In Praise of Okra
By July, okra pods are showing their fuzzy faces at farmers markets around town, but how many of us do anything other than slice them up and fry them as a supper side?
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