Our best Charleston features and links

Every day we look for the best stories, links, photos, guides, and more — some of those are more timelessly awesome than others. Below are the best of the bunch going back in time starting 365 days ago.

Photo of the day: Sun shines on the Holy City	Women pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read “If you’d fought like a man you needn’t hang like a dog.” Anne Bonny, 1702-1782When Gordon’s daughters were young, any long trip in the car meant; “Dad tell me a pirate story.”One daughter, Beth, would become a reporter...	Huge business: Tire manufacturing in South Carolina South Carolina has recently become the nation's number one tire exporter and it's likely in the next couple years that it will also become the nation's number one tire manufacturer. As for why South Carolina has...
Eating well in Charleston: A spring 2012 hit list Charleston's food scene is ever evolving.It also seems that the Holy City rarely looses a great place to eat, but only adding — so to help you navigate the latest and greatest, here's a list of a dozen or so places that...	To film kiteboarding documentary, local turns to Kickstarter Remember last year when we linked up that 8 minute video on kiteboarding in Charleston? That filming was done by Charleston videographer Adam Boozer of Jewell and Ginnie, and now he's got some more partners and is...	The 2012 Spoleto Festival poster is here Usually we're chomping at the bit to get the new Spoleto Festival USA poster shared with readers, but, well, a day of server outages has a way of making things slip through the cracks.Still, if you missed it, here's a...
Documenting the emotional and mental tolls of the Civil War on society Binghamton University historian Diane Miller Sommerville has been digging through Civil War history to how a 19th century civilization dealt with 21st century problems of battlefield stresses and economic...	Careful now, Mr Ridiculously Photogenic Guy He came to Charleston looking for a run, now his image doppelganger has traveled the globe. New Yorker Zeddie Little ran the March 31 Cooper River Bridge Run with apparently little more in mind than a...	Video from the 35th Cooper River Bridge Run (Update: More) Update April 1: We were linked up with a much niftier video by Justin Nathanson.Check it out up top, or over here.First reporting: The Post and Courier has put together a solid composite video of yesterday's Cooper...
25 Calhoun: Glass, steel, architecture and historic Charleston Near the Aquarium, 25 Calhoun is one of Charleston's newest constructions — and with large panes of glass and exposed street, it looks the part. The Post and Courier has profiled the building, its reception,...	On the sidelines of fashion week: 'Food trucks are so in right now'	A look inside the closets of local fashionistas/istos In honor of Charleston Fashion Week and the the gift of garb, Charleston City Paper snooped around the closets of five local fashion figures.It's a fun piece featuring photos insides the closets of and profiles on:...
A new publication to meet "The people making this Holy City go 'round" That's the aim of locals Marcus Amaker and Elizabeth Bowers with their new publication, "You. Yes, You."In their words, they saw a need for "non-event based coverage in Charleston. Think Interview Magazine:...	Private health care records, or a convenient reason to keep information hidden? A nice recap from The Post and Courier on how South Carolina state and local officials have improperly hid public records (such as state pension payout amounts, EMS response times, and coroner reports) by saying...	How Democrats and a weekly paper led to the downfall of S.C. Lt. Gov. Ken Ard With a disgraced Republican Lt. Gov. Ken Ard now out of office, the Charleston City Paper has paused to take a look at how the thread of campaign fund misuse came to be. It's no shocker that Democrats were the...