Real Estate |
Classifieds |
Get Ahead |
Bites & Sights |
Summer Camps |
FT Parent |
The Side Line |
Annual Manual |
Best of Columbia |
Archives |
Contact |
Advertise
Best of Columbia: It’s Time to Nominate the Best of Columbia!
Cover Story: Nuclear Island
Arts Feature: Meet Mr. Chips, a Nude Art Model in the Midlands
Rant & Rave: As If Your Roaches Weren’t Enough
Music Feature: Recess in Columbia
Events
8 Days a Week
The Maharajah Trio Gives the Southern Guitar Festival Classical Gas
Plus: Gallery 80808/Vista Studios and City Art Open New Exhibitions Thursday
The Southern Guitar Festival and Competition opens Friday at Columbia College, where all its weekend concerts are held, but it hits full swing tonight when The Maharajah Trio takes the stage. Its performance last year was the highlight of the festival, and there’s no reason to expect any different this year. Led by killer flamenco guitarist Silviu Ciulei, the trio rips through traditional flamenco tunes and its own top-flight originals. What's Happening Today: Thursday, June 20
Mad Hot Tango Opening Party,
Painting in Oil and Oil Sticks with Esther Melton,
To Be Determined: Recent Paintings by Zack Underwood and Jaime Misenheimer,
Vista Ballroom Open House,
More …
Blogs
Jeffrey Day Pans Spoleto (Sort Of); New Shows at City Art, Gallery 80808
By Amanda Ladymon | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:46 am
Tales from the Script: Snyder and Nolan Nail the “Man of Steel” Down to a Post 9/11 Earth
By James Scott | Saturday, June 15, 2013 6:50 pm
Tales from the Script: Look! Up in the Sky! It’s not “Man of Steel,” It’s “Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut”
By James Scott | Friday, June 14, 2013 8:44 pm
By Amanda Ladymon | Friday, June 14, 2013 3:56 pm
News + Opinion
New Richland County H-Tax Plan Emerges
By Al Dozier | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Columbia Museum of Art will receive $702,372; the Historic Columbia Foundation, $270,143; and EdVenture Children’s Museum, $108,057. For each, that’s a 2 percent increase over last year. Other funding that was approved included $300,000 for the Township Auditorium, $100,000 for the Renaissance Foundation and $125,000 each year to the next two years for the Nickelodeon Theatre.
Crime Blotter: Screwdriver Suspect
News. Brief.: New Reactors Nuke SCANA’s Credit Rating
Music + Nightlife
Samantha Crain at Hunter-Gatherer
By Kyle Petersen | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
As for the songs themselves, it’s hard to deny their enigmatic power — for instance, opening cut “Never Going Back” tells the tale of a woman escaping a bad relationship with powerful images and a simple, fiddle-led country strum that evokes the songwriter’s Oklahoma upbringing. “For the Miners” is an “ambiguous reply” to the late Jason Molina that is also reminiscent of one of their shared heroes, Neil Young. Club Life: Drew Richard at Pinch
Where It's At: Columbia SC Nightlife Calendar: June 19-26
Sound Bites: Chris Knight; Ahleuchatistas; Hip-Hop is Alive
Photo Galleries
Columbia Style Week Finale Showcase | June 15
Columbia Style Week wrapped up its week of high fashion with this Finale Showcase at the Richland Fashion Mall. Along with the standard runway fair, electro-pop band Death of Paris rocked the crowd and local vendors sold their stylish fashions. Photography by Thomas Hammond.Hammerin’ Hank Aaron returns to Capital City Stadium | June 6
State Street’s West Fest | May 31 - June 1
Columbia Mini Maker Faire
Food + Dining
Shake It: A Quest for the Midlands’ Best Milkshakes
By April Blake | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Downtown Columbia is a veritable milkshake mecca, where people in oppressive business suits clearly need plenty of icy cold liquid refreshment. At a restaurant on Sumter Street that advertised shakes on the door, I was advised to cross the road to Higher Grounds Books & Beans, a cafe in the First Baptist Church — an unlikely spot for shaken milk, but praise Jesus, they have an entire milkshake menu that boasts over 80 flavors including holy good concoctions like Toasted Marshmallow White Mocha. The shakes are made with 80 percent real ice cream and are flavored with frozen concentrate.
Drink of the Week: Tasting Pour at Conquest Brewing
Bites: Restaurants in Columbia SC
Arts + Lifestyle
Boundary-Killing Daniel Tosh
By Rodney Welch | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
“If I offend anyone tonight, I apologize,” he says at the start of a recent comedy special. “I’m not going to guess what your personal line of decency is. I cross my own from time to time. It’s how I know I still have one.” For example, “Spinach is like sex. If you’re forced to have it as a child, you won’t enjoy it as an adult.”
S.C. Authors, S.C. Books: “Primal Cravings: Your Favorite Foods Made Paleo”; “Every Bush is Burning:
Arts Feature: South Carolina Irish Arts Weekend
Get ready for the weekend with things to do and the latest from Free Times delivered early Friday morning.
Artizan: Best Gift Store, Best Jewelry Store
Hampton Inn Columbia Downtown Historic District: Best Hotel, Best Place to Work
Book Dispensary: Best Place for Used Books
Olympia and Granby Mills: Best Apartment Community
The Glo Room: Best Smoke Shop
$2.49 Cleaners: Best Dry Cleaner
Vista Smiles: Best Dentist
Pointe West Apartments: Best Apartment Community
Real Estate |
Classifieds |
Get Ahead |
Bites & Sights |
Summer Camps |
FT Parent |
The Side Line |
Annual Manual |
Best of Columbia |
Archives |
Contact |
Advertise