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.

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.

If there is one channel on TV that I cannot seem to skip over fast enough, it is MTV. This disgrace of a television network used to represent, in my opinion, one of the greatest ideas of the late 20th century.

The second annual Hilton Head Art Festival will be held May 29-30 at the Shelter Cove Harbor. This year’s festival will include a mix of today’s top artists in paintings, life-size sculptures, photography, glass, wood, jewelry, collage and ceramics.

As the March release of "Final Fantasy XIII" draws nearer, it seems appropriate to look back on what the popular Japanese RPG series was up to a decade ago in "Final Fantasy VIII," recently released on PSN for download to the PS3 and PSP.

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.

Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried and local autistic 7-year-old Braeden Reed charmed audiences in “Dear John,” but Charleston proved to steal the show.