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Why should somebody else—anybody else, whether it’s a program annotator or a radio announcer—tell me that a piece of music is “sad,” or happy, or light, or charming, or profound, when no two people ever have precisely the same reaction to the same piece? One person’s “sad” may be another’s “noble,” and one person’s intense and penetrating may be another’s pretentious and annoying.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John talks about Clemson University exploring the possibility of establishing a small business incubator in the Anderson, SC Research Park.

Clathrus columnatus, commonly known as the column stinkhorn, is a saprobic species of basidiomycete fungus in the family Phallaceae. It has a widespread distribution, and has been found in Africa, Australasia, and the Americas.

Rudy shares some words about autumn, and identifies a tree species.

Most people by now have heard of a CSA, community supported agriculture, where you commit to purchase local farm produce on a regular basis, assuring the farmer of a stable source of income and the consumer of a regular source of fresh, local produce. But have you heard of a CSF? That’s a community supported fishery and operates on the same concept. In 2010, our next guest and her husband actually started one of the first CSFs in the nation in our Lowcountry. Mike Switzer interviews Kerry Marhefka, co-owner of Abundant Seafood in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

It’s often easier to say what classical music is not, than to say what it is.

Most of what brass players do is done with the lips, and it’s invisible to us.

Like it or not, performers can’t help evaluating performance, especially in the cases of pieces we know or instruments we play.

October 15, 2022 — A recap of this week's lieutenant governor debate; comments from US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on Palmetto State infrastructure projects; the latest inflation numbers; and more.

Anglepod milkvine, also called anglepod, anglepod milkweed or angular-fruit milkvine, occurs throughout the southeastern U.S. from Texas to southeastern Kansas to southern Illinois and Indiana to Maryland and southward.