Chances are you’ve seen someone sporting a colorful hand-woven bracelet or have bought one yourself from the Pulsera Project. Yes, you know that your purchase is helping some kids somewhere (and looks great with your tan), but now you can learn exactly where your bracelet came from and where your money is going with tonight’s premiere of “Pulsera.”

One of the perceived snags of Conan O’Brien going to cable was that he wouldn’t get the same kind of big paycheck that he’d gotten at NBC and would probably command from Fox.

The South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants is currently accepting applications through June 1 for its 2010-2011 scholarship program. Last year, 18 students representing nine colleges and universities received $19,000 from SCACPA’s Educational Fund.

Two weeks ago Congress passed, and President Barack Obama subsequently signed into law, a bill designed to overhaul the health insurance industry. Most of the coverage of this law has focused on the politics of the passing; some have dealt with real world impacts; almost none have focused on the specific impacts to college students.

The 25th annual Young Contemporaries, a juried student exhibition, and Salon des Refuses opened April 1. The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, located in the new arts building, showcased 90 works of art ranging from paintings, print and photography to sculpture and video art.

When does graffiti surpass common scribblings and scrawlings to become art? Eye Level Art begs the question with its latest installation, Fused: A Showcase of Graffiti in Fine Art.

It’s that time of year again. Each spring, students have the chance to submit their work to the annual College of Charleston Young Contemporaries competition, an exhibition that the College puts on each year to showcase young talent in the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. This will be the 25th Young Contemporaries exhibition.

The Peer Counslers at C of C hosted student performers on Feb. 25 for the “Mental Health Monlogues: Erase the Stigma.” Students got a chance to watch their peers perform monologues and other acts about mental illnesses to create awareness.

A 20-year-old C of C student and an 18-year-old C of C student were arrested the morning of Feb. 27 in connection with  a burglary and armed robbery hours after an incident at an Ashley Crossing Lane apartment in West Ashley, according to a City of Charleston Police Department news release.

In celebration of Black History Month, the Humanities Committee of MUSC hosted its first monthly book club meeting at the Avery Research Center Feb. 24. This month’s book was “The Good Doctors” by Dr. John Dittmer, who is currently a history professor at DePauw University.

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.