Nancy O’Dell. A Celebrity’s Celebrity with Her Roots Still Firmly Ground in SC

Today’s installment in CRESCENT and on CRESCENT Radio almost didn’t happen…at least in the way you’ll hear it in the audio. After more than five months of going over calendars, we were finally to schedule Nancy O’Dell, but after we finished our interview, the entire recording disappeared from the servers. We scrambled to write an […]

SC Venues Rank Among “Top Stadium Experiences”

  Releasing its second annual list, Stadium Journey magazine named two South Carolina venues among “The Top 101 Stadium Experiences of 2012,” with Clemson’s Death Valley at number 46, and Myrtle Beach Pelicans’ Ticket Return.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark edging in to the top 20 at number 19. According to Stadium Journey, the publication “utilizes […]

CRESCENT People: Congressman Jeff Duncan – Introducing One of South Carolina’s Congressional “Fab Four” to a New Constituency.

South Carolina’s congressional delegation got four new faces last year. They’ve become famous on Capital Hill for working together as a unit – consulting each other as they work to make decisions and listen to other points of view. Media outlets have gone so far as to refer to them as “The Fab Four” or […]

CRESCENT Places: Dark Corner Distillery — Bringing Moonshine to the Sunshine (Part 3)

ESTIMATING THE COST OF STARTING A BUSINESS The total cost is higher to date.  The cost to manufacture is higher than we thought.  Everything else is in line.  We were pretty close.  I’d say we were 90% on with our guess.  One of our worst places we didn’t really expect to spend the money we […]

FROM THE DESK OF: The Corso Curse — An Explanation and a Request

BY: Taft Matney Unless you’re a fan at some level of either Clemson or USC (The real one. The one founded in South Carolina in 1801. Not the one founded in Southern California in 1880.), this will have no meaning for you. If, however, you spend your fall Saturdays clad in some combination of Garnet […]