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🚲 Hold onto your handlebars

How much of your day can you spend on a bike in Charleston?
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It’s time to put the pedal to the metal. | Photo by @charlestoncuratorial
Charleston scored a 50 out of 100 on Walk Score’s bikeability meter, deeming it a “bikeable” city. Our score is determined by four components: bike lanes, hills, destinations and connectivity, and bicycle mode share. Wondering what all that means? Let’s bike it out.

Bike lanes 🛣️

Walk Score rates this category on the total length of bike paths and lanes. Learn more about bike lanes or plan a bike commute.

Hill score 🏔️

Hilliness is based on the steepest grade within our area, calculated using the National Elevation Data set from the United States Geological Survey (USGC). Play with the USGS’ interactive map to learn more about nearby topography.

Destinations and connectivity 🗺️

This uses our city’s Walk Score, which measures whether or not you need a car to run daily errands.

Bicycle mode share 🤝

This category takes into account the social nature of bicycling. There’s safety in numbers. Even if a city doesn’t have tons of infrastructure for cyclists, more cyclists mean more drivers are aware of bicycles — which makes roadways safer.

How can we boost our score? 🚲

Our city is already taking steps (er, pedals?) towards becoming more bike-friendly with initiatives like bike sharing. The top way to increase the bikeability of our city is — you guessed it — by biking more. We can boost our community score by learning more about biking in our city.

Don’t have a bike yet? Support one of these local bike shops:
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Events
Monday, April 17
  • The Butterfly Project | Monday, Apr. 17-Saturday, Apr. 29 | All day | Hurd/St. Andrews Library, 1735 N. Woodmere Dr., Charleston | Free | Watch as the new caterpillars create chrysalises and guess when they will turn into butterflies.
Tuesday, April 18
  • Inspector NoClue’s Murder Mystery | Tuesday, Apr. 18 | 8 p.m. | Black Fedora Comedy Mystery Theatre, 164 Church St., Charleston | $27 | Come enjoy a whodunit at this comedy mystery theater downtown.
Wednesday, April 19
  • Garden Strolls and Wine Tasting | Wednesday, Apr. 19 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Rd., Charleston | $35 | Spend an evening exploring “America’s Oldest Landscaped Gardens” with a glass of wine in hand.
  • West Ashley Farmers Market | Wednesday, Apr. 19 | 3-7 p.m. | Ackerman Park, 55 Sycamore Ave., Charleston | Free | The market is back with farmers and growers, artisanal food products, rotating food trucks, live music, and free parking.
Thursday, April 20
  • Camden Burials | Thursday, April 20-Saturday, April 22 | Historic Camden Campus, 222 Broad St., Camden | This event honors some of America’s first veterans, fourteen soldiers who lost their lives at the August 1780 battle of Camden are reinterred on the battlefield.*
Saturday, April 22
  • Lights & Love | Saturday, Apr. 22 | 1-3 p.m. | Mount Pleasant Towne Centre, 1218 Belk Dr., Mount Pleasant | Free | Families with neurodivergent children on the spectrum can enjoy an afternoon of live entertainment, arts and crafts, food, and more.*
Calendar events here
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Wellness

🌱 Spring into health this year
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Athletic Greens replaces multiple supplements with one packet. | Photo by Athletic Greens
Spring cleaning? Here’s a storage solution: Replace nine supplement bottles with one product.

AG1 by Athletic Greens contains 75 vitamins, minerals and whole-food sourced nutrients, replacing nine other products like your probiotic, multivitamin, daily supplement and more. Hint: It’s the best thing you could do to improve your gut health.

Bonus: Receive a free one year supply of vitamin D and five free travel packs with your first purchase.*
Snag some AG1 this spring
News Notes
Development
  • A new 22,000-sqft facility is coming to East Cooper. Mount Pleasant Harbor Entrepreneur Center, set to feature co-working space and offices on Ewall Street, has a tentative opening date of May 1. (The Post and Courier)
Civic
Festival
  • Fam’s Brewing Co. is celebrating its sixth anniversary with Chucktown Brewdown this Saturday, April 22. Look forward to samples from 70 local homebrewers, live music, games on the patio, and pizza at this homebrew festival on James Island.
Real Estate
  • The Hutchinson House is in its final phase of restoration by the Edisto Island Open Land Trust. The home was built around 1885 by Henry Hutchinson who operated one of the first Black-owned cotton gins on Edisto. (The Post and Courier)
Featured Deal
  • Want to stock up on local small-batch sauce and salsa for a Cinco de Mayo celebration — or anytime? Sobremesa Mole & Salsas is offering 15% off with code CHS15 now through Friday, May 5. Snag the deal.*
Finance
  • Now may be a good time to transfer your balance. This leading balance transfer card offers 0% intro APR for 21 months and no annual fee. Eliminating interest payments? A no-brainer.*
Tech
  • The next time you travel, don’t get stuck with cheap wired headphones the airline passes out — meet the AirFly wireless audio transmitter. The device connects the plane’s in-flight entertainment to your wireless headphones via Bluetooth. It’s sorta the one thing we never fly without. Shop it now.
Drink
  • Ditch the hangover without having to ditch your favorite cocktail with Ritual Zero Proof Spirits. The award-winning brand makes non-alcoholic rum, tequila, gin, and whiskey so you can enjoy the ritual of having a drink without feeling icky the following day. Psst — check out Ritual’s collection of cocktail recipes.
Answered

Last week we asked which drink you’d order during Cocktail Week, and here’s what you chose:
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The Dreamsicle features vodka, orange juice, simple syrup, coconut milk, and triple sec.

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Screenshot via @charlestoncocktailweek

Most of you picked The Dreamsicle at Uncork, followed by The Pollinator at Bohemian Bull. Cheers, Charleston.
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The Wrap
 
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Today’s edition by:
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From the editor
Hey y’all, it’s Lowcountry Earth Week and you can celebrate with these free programs. Highlights include the Oyster Shell Bagging Event, the Shorebird Walk, and the Earth Day Festival. See you there.
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