In the world of jazz, George Benson is perhaps the ultimate guitar hero, a complete-package guitar player whose career spans five decades and 30 recordings, using his jazz roots as the foundation for an engaging mix of pop, soul and R&B for a broad, popular sound. Benson’s concert is 9 p.m. Friday at the Carolina Coliseum. Tickets are $55 to $65, or $150 for VIP seating; call 254-6404 or visit blackexposouth.com for more.

A citizens committee is now in place to determine priorities on the long list of transportation projects being considered for funding by the Richland County transportation penny sales tax.

This weekend, the Five Points bar Jake’s, which occupies the old Rockafellas’ site, will be transformed back into the live-music club of yore, complete with a stage in the original location, and a PA and lights hanging from the ceiling.

Thousands of people came out to the Rosewood Crawfish Festival on May 11, 2013. Photographer Sean Rayford captured the action.

You might think the limits on what food you’re allowed to eat ended when you moved out of your mom’s house, but every day, we are all limited in what we choose to consume by our place in life.

Each of these 26 large, boldly-colored paintings and constructions look perfectly abstract, showing the admitted influence of Naifeh’s own heroes ranging from Abstract Expressionists like Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly and Gene Davis to the Op Art whimsy of Bridget Riley.