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The grand opening of Beeple Studios was last Saturday in Charleston. Towards the end of the show, Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, created 51 digital artworks over the course of an hour. Here's a video of the experience, and you can read the story here: https://t.co/e5wLgO2wKz https://t.co/7YdUGm84aj

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Following its 2021 Broadway debut, 'Clyde's' makes it Southeastern regional premiere at Charleston’s Pure Theatre. Playwright Lynn Nottage skillfully blends humor and hardship, bitter and sweet, and sacred and mundane into something wholly satisfying. https://t.co/Fd7rUvQs1w

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Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90. https://t.co/pBefDmAqmR

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Mount Pleasant native and a professor at Holi University, Raena Shirali's recent poetry book "summonings" won the 2021 Hudson Prize. The collection searches for sisterhood while investigating the ongoing practice of witch hunting in rural India. https://t.co/NgGc1bB9vZ

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Daryl Ferguson is the author of “American Conquistador,” a telling of the history of the Spanish colonial settlement Santa Elena on Parris Island. He calls it “an action-adventure that is more Robin Hood than Robin Hood. And the story is true!” https://t.co/PjDIXwzNoH

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“Pageboy,” the highly anticipated debut memoir from trans actor, director and producer Elliot Page, begins by warning that the book follows a nonlinear narrative “because queerness is intrinsically nonlinear.” https://t.co/iyyYdZM1Ov

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11:16 a.m. update: Waters asked Wilson how he found out Maggie and Paul were dead. Wilson immediately began to cry as he told jurors he’d been asleep in his Columbia home when his wife woke him around 11 p.m. She was “kind of hysterical,” Wilson testified. https://t.co/GfaDHkwmcQ

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Choreographer Dada Masilo, along with her dynamic company of dancers and musicians, have come to the Sottile stage for a performance of “The Sacrifice,” inspired by the seminal 1913 work of Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” https://t.co/kNMvMc5csJ

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The festival presents acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín to talk about Thomas Mann, the subject of his latest novel, "The Magician." Here, the author discusses embracing complex characters, tackling poetry and superior buns from across the pond. http://bit.ly/3C08UUm

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5:27 p.m. update: Loving said he spoke with Paul a few times the day of the murders. He received a Snapchat video from Paul showing him and Alex at Moselle, looking at trees they'd planted.https://t.co/b32nRz8srh