Holy City Sinner

Christian Senger, a resident of Charleston, is the founder of Holy City Sinner, which has become the leading local blog in the area. For the past seven years, Charleston residents have consistently recognized the website and its Twitter account as the best in the city. Launched in August 2011, Holy City Sinner highlights the diverse aspects of Charleston's rich history and vibrant culture. The blog offers a wealth of content, including local news updates, valuable resources, political discussions, interviews, event schedules, celebrity sightings, and previews of upcoming parties, making it an essential source for everything happening in the city.

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Letter to the Editor from Steven Hawkins

1 week ago | holycitysinner.com | Steven Hawkins

I want to wish my first cousin Geneva 'Cookie' Hawkins a happy 69th birthday, which would be September 2nd, 2025. My dear cousin Geneva is named after my father's big sister, Aunt Geneva Hawkins, who died back in 1989. Cousin Geneva has one daughter and is a doting aunt to her five nieces, Julie, Tanika, Toni, Takira, and Kim Hawkins. And I look forward to our annual 2025 Hawkins family reunion that will actually be down in the City of Charleston during November 2025 this year.
Letter to the Editor - A Love Letter to Charleston: History, Hospitality, and Heritage

2 weeks ago | holycitysinner.com | Steven Hawkins

The city of Charleston has always been a beautiful city to visit through the years. And being from the Upstate of South Carolina, I have always thought it was a coastal, old, colonial city and a home away from home. The restaurants, tourist venues, museums, and hotels of the Holy City are top-notch and headline as a world-class city.
Letter to the Editor - Exploring Folly Beach: Charleston’s Quirky Coastal Retreat

2 weeks ago | holycitysinner.com | Steven Hawkins

The City of Folly Beach, located in the Lowcountry Charleston, SC area, is a great, quaint little place. When my family and friends always visit around the Interstate 26 area when they are visiting from Upstate South Carolina, we always drive to Folly Beach. You could find this beach area location going down Interstate 26 east, which merges with South Carolina Highway 30 west, when you continue straight on State Highway 171.
Letter to the Editor: Congratulations to Carl Ritchie

3 weeks ago | holycitysinner.com | Steven Hawkins

Congratulations to former Mount Pleasant Police Chief Carl Ritchie for winning election recently to be Charleston County Sheriff in the 2024 election. Sheriff Carl Ritchie has been involved with law enforcement and police work for 33 years in the Charleston area. And all of his family was there at his swearing-in at the Charleston County Council chamber back on January 7th, 2025. And the five-point plan that Ritchie campaigned for is the right move to end crime in the Charleston area.
Letter to the Editor: Upcoming Events at the North Charleston Coliseum

3 weeks ago | holycitysinner.com | Steven Hawkins

Coming to the North Charleston Coliseum in the upcoming month of April 2025 will be phenomenal concerts by internationally known Grammy award-winning performers Fantasia Barrino and Anthony Hamilton, the 1980s group Chicago, and the 1960s famous soul singer Gladys Knight. The setting of these exciting spring concerts will be the North Charleston Coliseum, which is in a beautiful area of the Lowcountry and Charleston metro area.
Letter to the Editor: Charleston Gears Up for the 47th Annual Spoleto Festival USA

4 weeks ago | holycitysinner.com | Steven Hawkins

The legendary annual event Charleston Spoleto Festival 2025 is kicking off on May 23rd, 2025, and is lasting until June 8th, 2025, down in the Lowcountry. The Spoleto Festival down in the Holy City has been around for 47 years, since 1977, and it is an arts extravaganza showcase of the visual arts, spoken word, orchestra and jazz band performances, and opera. Performers from around the world come to have their work showcased at this international arts festival.
Charleston Welcomes Designer Goods with Bal Harbour Shops Pop-Up in Mount Pleasant

1 month ago | holycitysinner.com | Emily Shiffer

Charleston is getting a fresh taste of designer and luxury goods with the opening of the Bal Harbour Shops Access Pop-Up in Mount Pleasant. The open-air experience is a collection of 30 individual shipping containers, including one Latin-inspired restaurant, The Whitman. The Bal Harbour Shops Access Pop-Up opened Feb. 12, 2025. It features 11 stores: Tiffany & Co., Assouline, Balmain, Cremieux, Dolce & Gabbana, Etro, Golden Goose, Johanna Ortiz, Lanvin, Scanlan Theodore, and Valentino.
From Passion to Pop-Ups: How Frankie Ramen is Becoming a Charleston Staple

1 month ago | holycitysinner.com | Emily Shiffer

There’s a reason most people don’t make ramen at home – countless ingredients. And Frankie T. Ferreira, founder of Frankie Ramen, is proud to say that his signature ramen bowl contains 30 of them. “The broth we make is a 12-hour broth. It’s whole chickens, chicken feet, then a bunch of aromatics. We get all those crazy flavors together,” he says, before quipping, “That’s why I don’t get sick.” His introduction to ramen came from growing up in New Jersey.
Hot in Charleston: Kerri Devine’s Mission to Redefine Midlife

1 month ago | holycitysinner.com | Emily Shiffer

Kerri Devine is on a mission to make midlife hot. She created the perimenopause and menopause community Hot in Charleston after the pandemic to help women in the Lowcountry feel supported through midlife rebirth and change. “I started hosting events and fostering conversations about the midlife journey,” she tells Holy City Sinner. After a career as a marketing executive and time on Wall Street in New York City, she moved to Charleston in 2014 and shifted to a creative career.
Inked on the Edge: Local Tattoo Artist Brings Hometown Passion to James Island’s Only Studio

Jan 23, 2025 | holycitysinner.com | Emily Shiffer

Ricky Miller, 41, is proud to be born in the 80s –the metal band posters, MTV, and skateboard decks of the decade all inspired him to become a tattoo artist and open his shop, The Edge Tattoo Studio, located at 796 Folly Road on James Island. Born and raised there, his first exposure to ink was on his uncle from Florida, “a bit of a hell raiser,” that he admired for his tough-guy persona. At the time, tattooing was illegal in the state of South Carolina–so seeing tattoos on skin intrigued him.