Charleston’s only Capoeira group demonstrated and taught the basic techniques of this dancelike Brazilian martial art to the College Feb. 26.

New York has it. Paris has it. Milan has it. Charleston has it: Fashion Week.
Now in its fourth year, Charleston Fashion week is slated for March 16 through 20, when tents filled with models flaunting the latest couture will fill Marion Square.

The New York Times recently published an article about a national cooking trend: tweezers. Normally used for delicate surgeries that grant life to the human body, these tools have come into the avant-garde hands of chefs who use them to delicately craft dishes that grant life back to conventionalized taste buds.

The world's most famous painting? It's the Mona Lisa, of course. The world's most famous photograph? An iconic and ubiquitous portrait of Che Guevara - quite likely the most influential image of the 20th century.

Sherrie, who has been working for eight years at her craft, and the other master barbers and stylists at the men’s-only Old South Barber Spa are completely devoted to making their clients feel comfortable, and, of course, providing an impeccable grooming experience.     

How intense is our new love affair with 3-D movies?
Intense enough that changing the release date of just one 3-D title could set off a chain reaction of panicked rescheduling by distributors desperate that there be enough 3-D screens available for their movies.

Presumably we could sit in our offices or our homes and stream away on the Olympics.
There is a hitch, though.

It is unquestionably the most shocking scene in "A Prophet," the baroque and urgent French gangster movie that was nominated for a foreign language film Oscar last week.

To the average C of C student, the prospect of contracting a sexually transmitted disease or encountering a pregnancy seems improbable in the alcohol-induced haze some call the weekend.

There are few places where the Eurythmics meet Lady Gaga, and Cher and Mary J. Blige perform side by side. Yet in the heart of downtown Charleston is one such place: the Pantheon, Charleston’s premier gay/lesbian bar.

Most C of C students began their college careers with the ink still drying on their high school diplomas, and are planning to complete the next four or so years uninterrupted.

In a tiny studio on Broad Street sits years’ worth of a story. Wandering heroes, blood-red sun-soaked landscapes and beautiful women, seductress or heroine or both, wait. The story hasn’t been written yet.