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For the past 100 years our next guest’s educational institution has been busy helping disadvantaged students successfully finish school and enter our state’s workforce.Mike Switzer interviews Pat Smith, director of the Wil Lou Gray opportunity school in West Columbia, SC.

Contrary to popular belief, travel agents are still around and in business even after a dramatic decline in their business since the pandemic. So how are they doing now and will the industry survive?Mike Switzer interviews Michael Graham, president of MGA Travel in Myrtle Beach, SC.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 28, 2021, we're joined by Joseph Bustos, state government and politics reporter with The State, to discuss mask mandates, state lawsuits, and his recent reporting from a COVID-19 medical unit. Also in this episode: the latest COVID-19 case numbers; new information about booster shots; and more.

In 1950 a musicologist named Wolfgang Schmieder published an enormous catalogue of J.S. Bach’s works, but Schmieder organized it by category, that is, by…

Goldenrod happens to bloom when some of us have start having hay fever – the real culprit this time of year is ragweed.

I find it fascinating that many of the greatest composers of the 19th century—composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms,…

For Leon Banov, preventive medicine and the health of Charleston’s poor and working-class citizens were the primary mission of his long and distinguished career.

In 1951 when Judge Waring gave a ringing dissent in federal court in the case of Briggs v. Elliott, he declared that segregation was “per se inequality.”

Your strange job as a performing artist—musician, actor, or dancer—is to immerse yourself completely in the work of art you’re performing—to lose yourself, in a sense—and yet at all times to remain aware of precisely what you’re doing and how you’re doing it.

“Program music” is instrumental music that attempts to tell a story, paint a scene or picture, or convey impressions of a character, place, or event. But no matter how sonically descriptive, music is always open to a range of interpretations