Content about Chris Marchewka

04.09.10

Color everywhere

The Charleston Farmers’ market returned to Marion Square April 3, and there was color everywhere. Between the fresh vegetables, new spring flowers and local arts and crafts there was a lot take in.

04.01.10

FUSED opens at Eye Level 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.

04.01.10

New spring music is sprung

Brooklyn’s MGMT began streaming their sophomore album “Congratulations” on whoismgmt.com a couple weeks ago after it leaked online. There was a lot of speculation as to what their new sound would be following the release of the album’s artwork, a cartoon cat surfing a wave, by Anthony Ausgang.

03.25.10

The Bogarden

The city best known for its floral masterpieces on sweeping plantation grounds and prize-winning gardens hidden behind Battery mansions might be missing the point. It’s time to rethink the Charleston garden and The Bogarden wants your help.

02.24.10

Meet your new friends

It wasn’t fate, it wasn’t destiny, it wasn’t the will of some electro god (though sometimes it sounds like it); it’s all in the name: Electric Friends.

02.03.10

‘The Day the Peacemaker Made Peace’

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.

01.22.10

It’s going to be “A Naughty New Year”

Scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at the South of Broadway Theater in North Charleston, the show highlights the sultry talents of the ensemble, as well as some adventurous students from the downtown Dancefx studio and performers from the Charleston Dance Project.

01.14.10

The 2010 Charleston Comedy Festival

The Charleston Comedy Festival returns in its seventh year next Wednesday through Saturday, when comedians from across the southeast and beyond pour into the city for four nights with one purpose - to make you laugh.
The inaugural event is a double header of improv featuring Charleston’s own Shattering Pearls and Moral Fixation for only $5 at Theatre 99.

11.01.09

Ghostland Observatory: Like nothing you've ever heard

Ghostland Observatory fills an important niche for fans of electronic music: they’re American, and their music is distinctly American electronic. Far too many chart toppers of the genre are Swedish, British, or at the very least, heavily influenced by the juggernaut of French electronic music. Ghostland, in their melodic fits of electro orgasm or just as commonly in their swagger of pure rock n’ roll, are a welcome alternative to DJs of Europe, frozen behind their tables.