With Party Conventions in Full Swing, SC-Based Start-Up Social Network Aims To Change Politics As Usual

  Polls show that many voters are tired of the polarizing political partisanship, negative campaign ads and government gridlock.  To compound the frustration is a perceived voter inability to learn more about elected officials or to find other voters to have a real discussion or debate with about policy.  Five Greenville natives decided to do […]

MADE IN SC: Birth of a Bow Tie

Remember the tie in the photo of this feature’s first segment? There’s a story behind that. When we interviewed Randy Hanauer, it was only days before the Carolina Cup in Camden, and our photojournalist was without a new bow tie for the state’s annual kickoff to spring. He told Randy about the sport coat he […]

MADE IN SC: Randy Hanauer’s Thoughts on Bow Ties — “Women Love ‘Em.”

Do you trust the guy in the bow tie? Ask Randy Hanauer if you should. Not only will he answer with an emphatic, “Yes,” he’ll give you a host of other good reasons why. While his ties can be fun and add more than a hint of personality to an otherwise nondescript outfit, they’re also […]

MADE IN SC: A Tie is a Win for R. Hanauer

Food Network’s Alton Brown took to Twitter last year with a perfectly good question. “The question isn’t why do I wear bow ties, the question is how can you be so uncool as to not wear bow ties?” Randy and Jayma Hanauer who started R. Hanauer in the mid-1980s, ask the same question on a regular basis. […]

CRESCENT Products: SARGE Knives — One of the Shortest Mission Statements to Read

This feature started as a profile of a South Carolina-based knife company, but as is so often the case, things don’t always turn out the way we plan. This feature evolved on its own from SARGE Knives to the entrepreneurial spirit and philosophy of a son of Greenville County’s Dunean Mill Village. That’s part of […]

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