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Ready for the next cold Autumn morning.... LAMB ... wool winter plaid coat at Butterfly at King Street.
And, of course we have Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Butterfly on King has every style, and so many brands! Yves Saint Laurent, Theory, Gucci, Prada, Sergio Rossi, Stuart Weitzman, Cole Haan, Tod's, Stubb's & Wootton, Kate Spade, and many others!
Stop in today!
Come to Butterfly today at 482 King Street in the Upper King Design District in historic downtown Charleston.
The winter schedule of classes and workshops at REDUX Contemporary Art Center is now available. They have classes for everyone, whether you are a beginner or more advanced artist looking to broaden and enhance your talents. For Adult Workshops, they have everything from embroidery to graffiti and for Kids Workshops (for ages 7-13), they have classes for bookmaking, Batik making, and more!
For the complete schedule of classes and descriptions, please visit www.reduxstudios.org/learn/.
Don't miss a game! Visit Juanita Greenberg's for Sunday Night Football every week for delicious food and great deals on drinks. For just $5 you can get 2 tacos and a PBR! Or split a pitcher of their famous margaritas between friends for just $16. It's the perfect place to gather and watch all of your favorite team's games.
Juanita Greenbergs | 439 King Street | 843.723.NACHO
Nashville Recording Artist and 4 time Cammy Award Winner from the South Carolina Beach Music Association, Sissy Quinn, will be performing live Friday, October 28th at Osteria la Bottiglia. Accompanied by her keyboardist, Ronnie Williams, they will be playing hits from every genre.
Sissy Quinn and her band Southern Charm are one of Charleston’s hottest party bands playing mostly private and corporate events. Come enjoy this rare opportunity to see her perform from 10:30pm-12am. It will be a great night of music and fun for all!
Late night specials that evening include a reverse happy hour beginning at 10:00 p.m. There will be $4 Well drinks, $1 off all bottled beer, and select wines for just $6 a glass. The late night menu will include choices of artisinal cheeses, traditional italian charcuterie, antipasto, and warm Sicilian Flatbread with smoked mozzarella, speck ham, and arugula.
Osteria la Bottiglia is located at 420 King Street in historic downtown Charleston.
Possibilities Without Borders will be hosting their fourth annual Global Affair Gala and Silent Action on Thursday, November 10th. This year’s event will celebrate Water Mission International's 10 Year Anniversary and will benefit Water for Kenya!
This year PWB, WMI and the College of Charleston have set a minimum fundraising goal of $30,000 to put towards creating accessible water for a community in Kenya. This goal will fund the purchase, delivery, and set up of a water filtration system in Kenya this spring and also educate natives about the health and hygiene factors associated with clean water.
Established in 2009 as a private South Carolina based not-for-profit organization, Possibilities Without Borders, Inc. was setup to guarantee the success of international service-learning based projects by providing participating students, faculty, community members, and other partner organizations the necessary resources, including supplies and travel support, to achieve each project's goals. Come on out Thursday November 10th and support this amazing cause!
We love this "A Peel of a Deal" package from Natural Hideaway Medispa which is individualized to address your skin type, skin condition, and specific needs. It's great for reversing the damage caused by the summer heat & sun, resulting in healthy, glowing skin!
As part of the package you receive One Laser Genesis for wrinkles, large pores, skin texture and redness. Next, choose a peel from their peel menu for a brighter and clearer complexion. Finish with an IPL (intense pulsed light) to eliminate brown spots and even skin tones. $425
Natural Hideaway Medispa is located at 217 Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston. Call (843) 534-0500 to schedule your next appointment.
People Matter, a human resource management software company currently located in North Charleston, Atlanta and San Francisco, will establish their new International Headquarters on Charleston's Upper King Street, bringing with them 265 high-tech jobs over the next two years as the project is completed.The newly developed property, leased and developed by PrimeSouth Group, will be located at 466 and 468 King Street.
Produced for restaurants, convenience stores, hotels, hospitality and retail, People Matter software assists in hiring, training, scheduling and motivating service employees."We transform the workplace with talent management solutions that catalyze the innate human drive to make a difference – because happy, engaged employees and managers lead to exemplary customer service." Nate DaPore, President and CEO.
The project was unveiled yesterday in a Press Conference on a closed portion of Upper King Street. DaPore and other People Matter executives, Mayor Joe Riley, Chris Price, Ernest Endrade and Charleston County officials expressed thanks as they described the broad expanse of the project. A reception was held afterward at The Macintosh and upstairs at The Cocktail Club.
The Children's Museum is excited to offer their annual Fall Fun House event, a safe alternative to trick or treating, on Saturday, October 29th from 4:30pm - 6:30pm. Kids will be able to trick or treat throughout the museum. In addition, there will be games, prizes, crafts, candy, face painting, a hay maze, and more! Join them for this family friendly event. The cost is just $3 for members, $5 for non-members, and free for children under 12 months. You can reserve your space for Fall Fun House event here or the next time you visit the Museum Front Desk.
The Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry is located at 25 Ann Street in Downtown Charleston.
Chefs Matthew Niessner of Halls Chophouse and Steven Lusby of 82 Queen won the Taste: Iron Chef competition on Oct. 7 at the Culinary Institute of Charleston’s Palmer Campus. The pair created a menu of six dishes made from pumpkin and chocolate for the competition, which took place as part of the Charleston Restaurant Association’s Taste of Charleston event.
In the 45-minute allotted time, Lusby and Niessner created a full day’s menu:
· Breakfast: Pumpkin Pancakes with Fall Harvest Syrup, Chocolate-dipped Bacon, Pumpkin Latte, Basted Quail Egg
· Lunch: Chocolate Roasted Duck Salad with Pumpkin Seeds, Pumpkin Aioli and Watercress Served on Jalapeno Cornbread, Roasted Pumpkin Salad with Marshmallow Creme, Bourbon, Pecan, Bacon and Caramelized Onions, Pickled Pumpkin Spear
· Amuse: Cocoa and Pumpkin Seed Dusted Seared Diver Scallop, Pumpkin Risotto
· Cocktail: Pumpkin Martini
· Dinner: Seared Tomahawk Lamb Chop, Chocolate Braised Short Rib-Pumpkin Ravioli, Sage Brown Butter, Chocolate Beurre Rouge
· Dessert: Pumpkin Latte Mousse with Pumpkin Seed Biscotti
The menu beat out the entry by chefs Tomelex Copeland of Red’s Ice House and Victoria Neikirk of Pearlz Oyster Bar. The fundraising event and the Taste of Charleston weekend will benefit local charities including the Ronald McDonald House, Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC and the Charleston County Science Materials Resource Center.
From October 24th-November 4th, Cupcake will be joining forces with WINGS by hosting a Cupcake Challenge at their programs at Chicora, North Charleston, Memminger, and James Simmons Elementary. The WINGS program builds on student’s social and emotional skills added to the building blocks for successful, educated and responsible individuals of our future.
For the Cupcake Challenge, each WINGS school will be challenged to see how the students live up to the WINGS creed. Students will be divided into groups and will be awarded sweet stamps when they demonstrate what they have learned from the program. After two weeks, the group with the most sweet stamps from each school will be awarded the grand prize of a Birthday Party at Cupcake's Belle Hall Shopping Center location. The other students participating in the challenge will be visited by the Cupcake Mobile to enjoy Cupcake's delicious minis.
