All of us want to look and feel great, to be our best inside and out. Why do we so often feel guilty taking time for ourselves, finding it nearly impossible to take the time needed to make it happen? We hear it all the time: self-care isn’t selfish, but we don’t know where to […]
COCO RECAP: Pegula Claims First Charleston Title; Navarro Fades In Quarterfinals
Any hopes of Emma Navarro winning her hometown tournament will have to wait until next year as fellow American Amanda Anisimova ousted her in the quarterfinals of the Credit One Charleston Open on April 4. The tightly-contested match opened with eight straight holds as the servers hit their spots early. That was followed by three […]
Equal Pay For Play: Charleston Open To Offer Equal Prize Money Moving Forward
Next year will mark another historic milestone for the Credit One Charleston Open as the tournament will provide equal prize money to players starting in 2026. Getting out far ahead of the curve, COCO, North America’s largest women’s-only professional tennis tournament, becomes the first standalone WTA 500 tournament to voluntarily increase prize money prior to […]
Social Media Butterfly: Emma Navarro Embraces New Off-Court Personality
Charleston tennis phenom Emma Navarro is known for her stone-cold seriousness and stoic demeanor on the court. But off the court she has recently begun displaying a more jovial side to her personality on social media. At the Credit One Charleston Open Media Day on March 31, the WTA 2024 Player of the Year talked […]
Eras of Extraordinary Lowcountry Women: Well-behaved women rarely make history
ELIZABETH MATTHEWS HEYWARD AND LOIS HALL During the British occupation of Charleston from May 12, 1780, until Dec. 14, 1782, Charleston’s population was divided in half between loyalists and patriots, many of whom were arrested and sent to St. Augustine for imprisonment. One such nationalist was Thomas Heyward, Jr., a signer of the Declaration of […]
Pioneers for Women: Charleston’s Grimke Sisters
Where would American politics be without women? This doesn’t just apply to those intrepid souls of all parties who run for public office but references the voice of every woman who is an integral part of the political process. Women comprise the largest voting bloc in the country. That wasn’t always the case, of course, […]
Nightmare on Wolfe Street
This spooky season, the Meddin building, located at 34 Woolfe Street, plays host to its inaugural Holy City Halloween, the first haunted attraction to come to downtown Charleston in 26 years. What could be a creepier set than the 17,000-square-foot warehouse? It was originally built in 1914 as an ice house before it was converted […]
Do it for you: Me Time Botanicals Skincare and Day Spa
If you’re looking for effortlessly gorgeous, brighter and firmer skin while trying to juggle life as a hardworking woman, look no further. Me Time Botanicals was created to give women who do it all a moment of “me time” through a simplified multitasking skincare ritual that delivers results. Kara Reich struggled with balancing life and […]
A Big Production: Women-owned Company Showcases Charleston on PBS
It feels like the things of urban legends. A 19th century book compiled by a group of adventurers looking for “the picturesque” in America resurfaced among an art-lover, a photojournalist and cultural anthropologist and a women-owned production company, prompting a much-anticipated show — complete with a cast of vivid Charleston personalities — now airing on […]
A Spectacular Showcase at The Charleston Bridal Show
This past weekend, Charleston Women Magazine had the honor of attending the Charleston Bridal Show, as it took center stage at Omar Shrine Auditorium in Mt. Pleasant, SC. From noon until 4 PM on Sunday, July 28th, 2024, the event brought together around 70 wedding vendors under one roof, offering an amazing experience for brides-to-be, […]
