arts and culture

Mike Switzer interviews West Hyler, cofounder and executive director of the South Carolina New Play Festival in Greenville, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews West Hyler, cofounder and executive director of the South Carolina New Play Festival in Greenville, SC.

Today, Mike Switzer interviews someone from our state who has been able to break into some work for major movie studios: Ava Cuturic.

Today, Mike Switzer interviews someone from our state who has been able to break into some work for major movie studios: Ava Cuturic.

Mike Switzer interviews Sara Grambach, CEO at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts.

Mike Switzer interviews Sara Grambach, CEO at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts.

This week our guest will be novelist Brian Thiem, from Hilton Head Island, and we'll be talking about his series of novels about the Mudflats Murder Club.Brian draws from his experience as a former detective and cold case investigator, to craft suspenseful stories set on the fictional Spartina Island in the South Carolina Lowcountry. His latest book in the series is A Killer in the Cordgrass (2026, Severn River Publishing/Simon and Schuster).

Entering its 24th season, the Southeastern Piano Festival at the University of South Carolina will once again showcase the versatility and power of the instrument at its center through a range of events in Columbia--including an array of performances from teenage participants, USC faculty, and guest artists.

This week we will be talking with Sara from the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, art historian Frank Martin, and with artist Leo Twiggs about his exhibition at the Gibbes called Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs. At 92 years of age, Leo Twiggs has a perspective on life in South Carolina that covers fundamental changes in our state and our nation. His art is both intensely personal and a commentary of the struggles that both Black and White South Carolinians share.The show ends May 3rd at the Gibbes and opens at the Florence Museum June 1 for an extended run.

One plant, two spellings. Host Amanda McNulty explains what information you'll discover online based on how you type the name of this blooming vine.