Columbia, SC
The Side Line: SEC Title Probably the Best USC Baseball Can Hope For
State House Report: Triangulating the Budget
Rant & Rave: That’s How People Get Shot
Growth & Development: Town of Lexington to Spend Millions on Downtown Development
Cover Story: So, You Want to Be a Writer?
Music Feature: This Ain’t No Nostalgia Weekend
Events
8 Days a Week
Who Will Be Crowned Vista Queen?
Plus: Expecting Goodness Short Film Festival Tuesday
Every time Trustus Theatre hosts its annual Vista Queen drag pageant, Eight Days gets Queen’s “Killer Queen” stuck in our head. All that is to say: The 15th installment of the pageant, dubbed The Year of the Crystal, features more high heels, fake nails and hairspray than an episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and begins at 6 p.m. (Eight Days feels compelled to remind you at this time that Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott was the first Vista Queen.) Dynamite with a laser beam, guaranteed to blow your mind, any time: tickets are $40; call 254-9732 or visit trustus.org for more. What's Happening Today: Tuesday, May 21
• Historic Columbia Palladium Society Renovation Rodeo
• Expecting Goodness 2013 Shorts
• Northeast Farmers Market
• More
Blogs
SEC Title Probably the Best USC Baseball Can Hope For
By James Harley | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:56 am
Over the course of USC’s incredible three year run through the college baseball world, the SEC tournament has been a fairly insignificant factor. By this point in the season the team has generally sealed its position in regard to hosting an NCAA regional regardless of the outcome in Hoover
This Just In: ‘SC State House for Sale’; Gas Prices Rise; Meet the Wilsons; ‘Anatomy of an IRS Shakedown’
By Corey Hutchins | Monday, May 20, 2013 8:45 am
By Amanda Ladymon | Friday, May 17, 2013 10:24 pm
By Eva Moore | Friday, May 17, 2013 9:14 am
News + Opinion
Penny Tax Committee to Set Priorities for Transportation Projects
By Al Dozier | Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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.
State House Report: Triangulating the Budget
Business. Brief.: Unemployment Rate Down in S.C. and Columbia Area
Real Estate News: May is Remodeling Month; South Carolina’s Housing Recovery Continues
Music + Nightlife
This Ain’t No Nostalgia Weekend
By Mike Miller | Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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. Music Feature: Ned & the Dirt Get Gritty at New Brookland Tavern
Where It's At: Columbia SC Club Calendar: May 15-22
Sound Bites: Jonathan Byrd, Space Idea Showcase, Bad Veins
Photo Galleries
Rosewood Crawfish Festival 2013
Thousands of people came out to the Rosewood Crawfish Festival on May 11, 2013. Photographer Sean Rayford captured the action.Kenny Chesney | Williams-Brice Stadium | Saturday, May 4
Converge SE 2013
Club Life | The Southern Belly
Food + Dining
USC Student’s Project Promotes Food Equality
By April Blake | Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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.
On Tap: Books and Booze Go Together
Chew on This!: One Fish, Two Fish, Mercury Fish, PCB Fish
Bites: Restaurants in Columbia SC
Arts + Lifestyle
The Bold Geometry of Steven Naifeh
By Rodney Welch | Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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.
8 Days a Week: Who Will Be Crowned Vista Queen?
Opera Review: “Bambino” — A Baseball Opera
S.C. Authors, S.C. Books: Top Author to Help with USC Press Series