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Alan Hovorka
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Breaking News and Courts reporter for The Charleston Post and Courier (mostly paywalled). 📷 Insta: alan.hovorka ✉️ Email: ahovorka@postandcourier.com priors: Stevens Point Journal, PolitiFact Wisconsin
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Hi Folks: Firing up this account for the first time to note that today marks one year since the Russian government detained my colleague Evan Gershkovic in an act of supreme cynicism and cowardice. WSJ’s response is this stunning front page. #FreeEvan

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A new PBS travel show follows the routes set by 19th-century explorers. Their first stop: Charleston and western North Carolina. Behind the show is a drive to preserve the country's picturesque vistas. www.postandcourier.com/charleston_s...

New PBS documentary visits Charleston, following a 19th-century travel guide
New PBS documentary visits Charleston, following a 19th-century travel guide

"America: The Land We Live In" is pilot of travel documentary series seeking to rediscover picturesque landscapes that inspired the country's first travel book.

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I’ve been saying this since mid-2022 and it’s why I left journalism. Educating the public on matters of public import was never the core function of journalism. As it shrinks, noncore functions will be eliminated. We need more civil society orgs that can become info-bearing. Eg LWV voter guides.

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Renowned American playwright Carlyle Brown returns to the place of his birth. He has some complicated feelings about Charleston and in this Q+A talks about his winding path to writing for theater.

Q&A: Guggenheim Fellow, Spoleto alumnus Carlyle Brown coming home after 20 years
Q&A: Guggenheim Fellow, Spoleto alumnus Carlyle Brown coming home after 20 years

The Minneapolis playwright is returning to the place of his birth to research his archival papers he donated 20 years ago as he seeks to memorialize his family.

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Don't let the headline fool you: This is a story about blue-collar folks and what it takes to sustain Charleston's love of oysters. It's gross, rewarding and the people who do it wouldn't have it any other way.

Shuck, slurp, recycle: Lowcountry Oyster Festival keeps on giving long after fun ends
Shuck, slurp, recycle: Lowcountry Oyster Festival keeps on giving long after fun ends

The Lowcountry Oyster Festival returns for its 40th year on Feb 4. Meet the people who have taken out the valuable trash for over 20 years after the event ends.

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My latest: A relatively new North Charleston-based food truck offers history and remembrance for culture and the people who make us who we are. Through Bert and T's, Charleston's Praline and other street candies come back to life.

'Lost art': Bert & T's food truck revives Charleston's Gullah street candy past
'Lost art': Bert & T's food truck revives Charleston's Gullah street candy past

Bert and T's looks to honor the culinary legacy of two grandmothers who were best friends, also aims to restore a piece of Charleston's food past.

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Charleston's contemporary art center and gallery space has a new director. His focus: broaden donor support to build on popular programs such as the nonprofit's popular short-term, subsidized artist residency program

New Redux director eyes financials as Charleston nonprofit plans future
New Redux director eyes financials as Charleston nonprofit plans future

For Redux's new director, bringing in more donor dollars will be key to any expansion of programming at the King Street art gallery and community space.

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Police said he shot at them. Brent Conrad's family wants to push back against a law enforcement narrative that's hung over them since Conrad shot himself on the Interstate 526 Bridge. (via Ali Rockett)

'He never shot at police:' Family of man who died on I-526 bridge corrects record
'He never shot at police:' Family of man who died on I-526 bridge corrects record

Brent Conrad shot himself atop the Interstate 526 bridge over the Wando River. His family has had to live with initial reports that he tried to shoot at police. Now they want to set the record straigh...

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Hip-hop in North Charleston, Charleston and beyond doesn't start with the 1973 Brooklyn block party. This week, we published a package looking at the past, present and future of Lowcountry hip-hop. We centered Black voices starting w/ a column from artist and freelance journo Indi'Gxld.

A Charleston hip-hop artist's take on the local scene as we celebrate the genre's 50th
A Charleston hip-hop artist's take on the local scene as we celebrate the genre's 50th

Indi'Gxld is a guest writer for this column in honor of this year's 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The local hip-hop artist, music blogger and event organizer talks about what the

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Alan Hovorka
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Breaking News and Courts reporter for The Charleston Post and Courier (mostly paywalled). 📷 Insta: alan.hovorka ✉️ Email: ahovorka@postandcourier.com priors: Stevens Point Journal, PolitiFact Wisconsin
211 followers320 following259 posts