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Three Dog Bakery is hosting a reunion party and Design District Trick-or-Treat for a group of over twenty Shih-Tzu's that were rescued from a home in Goose Creek last year. The reunion begins at 5 pm at Three Dog Bakery and the Trick-or-Treat Walk is from 5:30 - 6pm, with treats provided by Three Dog. Other stores participating in this must-see event are The French Hare, Nancy Koltes at Home, Cupcake and B'zar.
"Shih-Tzu wannabee" photo by Susan Lucas .
Upper King Design District's Fall Design Walk promises to be a great event this evening, beginning with a concert between 5:30 and 6:00 by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra at the William Aiken House.
New stores Wonderland, Global Awakening and Nancy Koltes at Home will be open, along with all your favorites and many surprises in this celebration of design and shopping.
Come downtown. See you there!
Whether you're coming to Upper King Street for world class shopping and design, events, lodging or fine dining, here are some parking tips. There are three large parking garages in the Upper King Shopping and Design District:
The Visitors Center has parking lots at 375 Meeting Street and a garage on Ann Street.
Camden Exchange has entrances on Hutson Street and on John street via the Hampton Inn
Marion Square is right next to the Francis Marion Hotel
An increasing number of shops will validate your parking ticket; just ask!
Click here to download a map of all the Charleston peninsula parking garages.
There is metered parking throughout the area.
Come downtown!
The newest addition to The French Hare's "Charleston... with a French accent" Collection is beautiful letterpress cards by Charleston's brand-new Sideshow Press. "Letterpress puts a bite into the paper, there is a three-dimensional quality that no other printing method can equal," said Chuck Cramer, At Large, Boston. For a great YouTube mini-documentary on letterpress, go here.
"We carry our own line of cards, and weren't really interested in anyone else's, but these were too beautiful to resist, and it turns out they're a perfect fit. With beautiful French designs on heavy, textured papers in a rainbow of subtle designer colors, the cards are already flying off the shelf." said Susan Lucas, owner of The French Hare.
It's official! Charleston ranked No. 3 in the Conde Naste Traveler Readers Choice Awards. Not only that, Kiawah Island ranked No. 2 in the top islands category.
And there's more! CNN reports Travel & Leisure Magazine picked Charleston No. 2 in Home Design shopping, Antiques and Architecture. See more results here.
Wonderland children's boutique will celebrate it's grand opening Thursday, October 18th with a kickoff appearance on Lowcountry Live, followed by an all-day celebration leading up to Design Walk at 5:30.
Upper King Street merchants are happy and excited about our newest addition, and welcome the innovative and beautiful array of children's accoutrements offered at Wonderland.
Amelia Handegan, Amelia, was named one of the "Top Designers in the World" by the Robb Report, in their Top 40 Interior Designers List. No stranger to the Robb Report, Amelia's Sha Sha Table Lamp was included in the March '06 Up Front: Sublime Finds in Art and Design column. Congratulations, Amelia!
The Arthritis Foundation is holding their annual Gourmet Food and Wine Fest and Silent Auction from 6:00-9:00 pm at the Visitors Center, 375 Meeting Street. Good food, good wine, good parking and good fun! Join us.
Come downtown.
For more information, contact Brian Dewhirst, MD at 843.367.1287.
It's official; Ellen Degeneres's AOL Living Site picked UK's Cupcakes as among the best in America! But we knew that.
Go here here for the story. And come downtown!
Blue Bicycle Books is proud to welcome renowned Charleston poets Carol Ann Davis and Marjory Wentworth. The two will read from their work and sign copies of their just-released books this Saturday, Oct. 13, from 12 – 2 pm at the store, 420 King Street, downtown Charleston.
Psalm is Carol Ann Davis’s first book, published this fall by Tupelo Press. Davis directs the creative writing program at the College of Charleston, edits the literary magazine Crazyhorse, and is president of the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts (LILA). Poet James Tate says of Psalm: “Carol Ann Davis's poems are so precise they are almost hallucinatory. And in some poems she sets hallucination free.”
Despite Gravity is Mount Pleasant resident Marjory Wentworth’s latest book, published this fall by Ninety-Six Press. The Poet Laureate of South Carolina, she wrote the book’s title poem on the occasion of the dedication of the new Cooper River Bridge. “Marjory Wentworth is a huge talent whose work almost make me cry -- it’s so beautiful. Marjory says in twelve lines what it takes me 500 pages to say.”
– New York Times best-selling best-selling writer Dorothea Benton Frank.
