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

Old School Freight Train’s Jesse Harper hops a new rail

Everything you need to know about the current plans and plots of Old School Freight Train—where they’re performing, what sounds to expect from Six Years, the band’s latest album, to be released during a pair of gigs at Gravity Lounge—you can gather from frontman Jesse Harper’s newest toy: a vintage Fender Telecaster, not too different […]