The city of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents its newest exhibition, Creek by Creek, which will be on view March 18 through May 8, 2022 at the City Gallery, located at 34 Prioleau Street.
Creek by Creek is a collaborative effort by artists Mary Edna Fraser and Jeff Kopish, underscoring the perils of plastic pollution and the importance of protecting the Lowcountry’s unique waterways.
Charleston International Airport adds nonstop flights to San Francisco, Vegas, Syracuse, Fort Meyers, and Tampa on Breeze Airways™.
Breeze’s new air service “reinforces the strength of our regional economy and the Charleston area’s national relevance,” said Helen Hill, Explore Charleston CEO.
In all, Breeze is adding 35 routes between May and August, nearly doubling its flight lineup. The airline will offer 77 routes in 28 cities in 18 states when all the new flights are in place by early August. By the end of the year, the airline’s fleet will more than double, from 13 planes to 30.
WalletHub has released the findings on the Happiest Cities in the United States for 2022. Below is a list of the top cities and the methodology behind the research findings.
This year, Charleston, South Carolina came in as the 26th Happiest City in the U.S. The only other South Carolina city to make the list was Columbia, SC at #77.
Check out below to find out why.
Methodology
In order to determine the happiest cities in America, WalletHub compared 182 of the largest cities — including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state — across three key dimensions: 1) Emotional & Physical Well-Being, 2) Income & Employment and 3) Community & Environment.
We evaluated these categories using 30 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing maximum happiness. Data for metrics marked with an asterisk (*) were available only at the state level.
We then determined each city’s weighted average across all metrics to calculate its overall score and used the resulting scores to rank-order our sample.
Our analysis draws upon the findings of the following research, each
of which has indicated a correlation between our data and happiness:
Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well-Being Contributes to Health and Longevity (Chan and Diener, 2010)
Happiness from Ordinary and Extraordinary Experiences (Bhattacharjee and Mogilner, 2014)
Sports Participation and Happiness: Evidence from U.S. Micro Data (Huang and Humphreys, 2010)
Unhappy Cities (Glaeser, et al., 2014)
Emotional & Physical Well-Being – Total Points: 50
Life-Satisfaction Index: Full Weight (~2.82 Points)
Depression Rate: Double Weight (~5.63 Points)
Suicide Rate: Full Weight (~2.82 Points)
Adequate-Sleep Rate: Double Weight (~5.63 Points)
Physical-Health Index: Double Weight (~5.63 Points)
Note: This metric measures the percentage of adults reporting good or better health.
Share of Adults with Mental Health Not Good: Double Weight (~5.63 Points)
Note: This metric measures the percentage of adults with 14 or more mentally unhealthy days reported in the past month.
Percentage of Residents Who Are Fully Vaccinated: Double Weight (~5.63 Points)
Income & Employment – Total Points: 25
Income-Growth Rate: Double Weight (~3.13 Points)
Share of Households Earning Annual Incomes Above $75,000: Full Weight (~1.56 Points)
Poverty Rate: Full Weight (~1.56 Points)
Job Satisfaction: Full Weight (~1.56 Points)
4+ Star Job Opportunities per Total People in the Labor Force: Full Weight (~1.56 Points) Note: This metric measures the number of job opportunities at 4+ star rated companies on Glasssdoor.com per the total people in the labor force.
Job Security: Full Weight (~1.56 Points) Note This metric measures the probability of unemployment.
Acres of Parkland per 1,000 Residents: Half Weight (~1.79 Points)
Average Leisure Time Spent per Day*: Double Weight (~7.14 Points)
Well-Being “Community” Index Score: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)
Note: This metric refers to
the “Community” section of the Sharecare Well-Being Index, which refers
to “liking where you live, feeling safe and having pride in your
community.”
Sources: Data used to create this ranking were collected from the
U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Sharecare-Boston University School of Public Health, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, Feeding America, Chmura
Economics & Analytics, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts,
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, The Trust for
Public Land, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Glassdoor.com,
Indeed and WalletHub research.
At the public execution, Lavinia screamed her infamous last words: “If you have a message you want to send to Hell, give it to me; I’ll carry it,” then, before the executioner could hang her, she jumped– taking her final moments into her own hands. And that is the tale of America’s first murderess.
Learn more about her story in this new video by Lamont at Large
The City of Goose Creek invites graphic artists to submit applications for their design(s) to be utilized to wrap existing traffic signal cabinets at selected signalized intersections throughout the City.
The metal cabinets are located on visible corners of certain intersections and are similar in size and shape, (template provided upon request, but we can recreate just about any art piece for the wrap).
The graphic design will be printed on a vinyl wrap and applied to the box.
Selected artists will receive a $250 stipend paid by the City of Goose Creek upon installation of the wrap.
“Rhythm Of Charleston” is a customized record-length song from the TM Productions “Rhythm of the City” jingle package. The song was recorded for 1390 WCSC Radio in Charleston, SC in the late 1970s. “Rhythm Of Charleston” was pressed on 45s (“Carolina Lady” by Jim Kirk was the flip side) and distributed throughout the Charleston area by WCSC Radio.
The audio on this video came from the original WCSC master tape. It’s accompanied by stock video footage of Charleston. For more on WCSC radio, go to www.WCSCRadio.com.
In this video, we’ll be sea kayaking from Shem Creek located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina to Castle Pickney, which is a Civil War Fort located in the Charleston Harbor on Shuttes Folly Island.
Shem Creek is a wonderful place to put in a kayak or paddleboard and go explore the salt marsh and shrimp boats.
Built in 1810, Castle Pickney was once used briefly by the Confederate military as a jail as well as an artillery outpost in the Civil War. Join me as we explore Shem Creek and Castle Pickney!
“From one of the South’s most acclaimed pitmasters comes this must-have guide to open-fire cooking, from grilling over wild, young flames, to low-and-slow barbecue over mature coals and cold smoking bacon and hams with dying embers.”
We’re thrilled to share that Pat’s first book, Life of Fire (Clarkson Potter), will hit bookstores nationwide on March 15, 2022.
Here, he reveals all he knows about the art of barbecue and open-flame cooking, in all the stages of a fire’s life. Life of Fire is available for pre-sale now!
Pat Martin is one of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole hog barbecue, and he’s spent a lifetime studying, honing, and teaching the craft.
Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire–what wood to use, how to build a pit or a grill, how to position it to account for the weather—then move into cooking through all the stages of that fire’s life. You’ll grill tomatoes for sandwiches and infuse creamed corn with the flavor of char from temperamental, adolescent flames. You’ll grill chicken with Alabama white sauce over the grown-up fire, and of course you’ll master pit-cooked whole hog, barbecue ribs, turkey, pork belly, and pork shoulder over the smoldering heat of mature coals. You’ll roast vegetables buried in white ash, and you’ll smoke bacon and country hams with the dying embers of the winter fire.
For Pat Martin, barbecue, smoking, and grilling is a whole lifetime’s worth of practice and pleasure—a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.
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