Hitchhiker's guide to wine

Wine is a wholly remarkable substance and one of its primary wonders is its ability to transport you, via taste, to far off lands. I am, I admit, a chronic hitchhiker on the wine trail, never content to stay in one place. But it’s a great time to be traveling, as wine is cropping up […]

Darius Rucker’s got game

It’s good to be back in the tournament now,” Darius Rucker told me during a phone interview last week, and he wasn’t talking about his music career, risen like a phoenix in a Stetson from the ashes of another animal. Specifically, a Blowfish. Rather, Rucker’s talking about the University of South Carolina hoops squad, back […]

Exhibits in town this week

Galleries Art Upstairs Gallery 112 W. Main St., Suite 3 (in York Place). Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday, noon-5pm; Friday, 1-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 923-3900. www.artupstairsgallery.com. Through March 29: “Real and Faux,” oils and pastels by Anne de LaTour Hopper. Bozart Gallery 211 W. Main St., Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon- 9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. Through March 29: […]

Waiting for Gendrot

The wine world is small, the local wine world doubly so. On February 20, in response to a recent column, I received several e-mails from “a group of wine enthusiasts” chastising me for ignoring the talents of Charles Gendrot