These days, our brains are under attack. We’re constantly swiping and tapping and liking and crowding our minds with visual clutter. This addictive and fractured mental assault has weakened our ability to focus. We aren’t really seeing. Seeing involves...
Neil Ferrier is persistent. After weeks of email exchanges, moved meetings, and delayed dates, we finally connected one afternoon this past spring. At the time, Neil and I worked steps from each other in the Village of West Greenville,...
Summer hangs in the air like a heady magnolia, and we’re ready to break for cold beer, lazy river runs, and long porch nights. We offer ways to explore and unwind via the peaks, trails, and scenic drives of...
A few weeks ago, author and frequent TOWN contributor Scott Gould came to me with an idea. He wanted to honor the South Carolina Governor’s School of the Arts & Humanities’ top graduating students in dance, drama, creative writing,...
Spring, in its delicate, feminine energy, crashing about one day while sweetly whispering the next, tells us that it’s time to shed old skin, connections, habits that just aren’t serving us anymore. In vibrancy and destruction, clouds of pollen,...
Monica Stevenson lives a double life.
I met her last summer when she wanted to show me her portfolio. Many photographers reach out to do the same. Monica, I learned, is different; she has a home in Tryon, North Carolina,...
“Something that used to be something else has evolved into something better than anyone could have possibly imagined,” Scott Gould writes in his feature story on Bertis Downs, manager and advisor for the band R.E.M. Gould is referring to...
Many of us wish away January into warmer days and spring flowers, dismissing it as too bleak, too boring, too sad.
But I sing the song of winter. I want it to last just a bit longer. I crave the...
Sean Brock’s wisdom is like his cooking: deep, with a Southern inflection. “Everything goes back to the dirt,” he says.
Contributing editor M. Linda Lee recently sat with the James Beard Award winner at Husk Greenville, Brock’s Upcountry location of...
November is a fine month. Between October’s football and bonfires and December’s sensorial chaos, we have a glorious four weeks in between to sit back, take in the view, and indulge. In this blessed window, we may reflect on...
In autumn, the bend of the light changes. Nights become longer and cooler, colors shift from green to yellow to auburn. We mirror what we see, donning jackets and boots, layer upon layer, drawing closer and more reflective as the...
In November 7, 1997, Carl Sobocinski hit gold. That day, his eponymous restaurant Soby’s opened in a former shoe store on Main Street. At the time, the Westin Poinsett Hotel was dilapidated and boarded up, and walking in that...
Editor's Letter
In Sight
These days, our brains are under attack. We’re constantly swiping and tapping and liking and crowding our...
Man to Man
Neil Ferrier is persistent. After weeks of email exchanges, moved meetings, and delayed dates, we finally connected...
Ground Up
Summer hangs in the air like a heady magnolia, and we’re ready to break for cold beer,...
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