Spartanburg County Gift Guide
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Spartanburg knows good food, great times and authentic experiences. Whether you're planning a visit or making your holiday season gift-giving list (and checking it twice), we've got the gifts that will help you give a true-to-Spartanburg gift this year. Little River Roasting [caption id="attachment_5601" align="alignright" width="300"] Little River Roasting is a great way
Continue Reading >Pride in Spartanburg: Best Spots for LGBTQ Visitors
Wednesday, June 09, 2021
The City of Spartanburg is a surprisingly progressive retreat in Upstate South Carolina. Since welcoming the first Upstate Pride March at Barnet Park in 2009, Spartanburg has flourished with local businesses and community organizations embracing the LGBTQ+ community. Upstate Pride Week is celebrated each November, with additional Pride events hosted during National Pride
Continue Reading >The Sustainability of Coffee with Paul Robbins
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Learn how a small foreign roaster can positively impact coffee growing regions and farmers, as well as the difficulties and benefits in obtaining product labels such as Fair Trade and Organic.
Continue Reading >Reading Between the Wines | John James
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
THE MILK HOURS by John James Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen wo
Continue Reading >Homemaking by Lee Matalone | Book Launch
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Join us at Hub City Bookshop on Saturday, February 22nd to celebrate the book launch of Homemaking by Lee Matalone - a talented, powerful new voice in fiction. This stunning novel is about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home.
Continue Reading >End Animal Homelessness with Cat Warren | What the Dog Knows
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Warren's book, What the Dog Knows, is "a fascinating, deeply reported journey into scent, death, forensics and the amazing things dogs can do with their noses: sniffing out graves, truffles, bedbugs, maybe even cancer." Rebecca Skloot of The New York Times Book Review calls it "a moving story of how one woman transformed her troubled dog into a loving companion and an asse
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