Columbia, SC
Business. Brief.: Unemployment Rate Down in S.C. and Columbia Area
Real Estate News: South Carolina’s Housing Recovery Continues
Music Feature: This Ain’t No Nostalgia Weekend
Cover Story: So, You Want to Be a Writer?
Growth & Development: Town of Lexington to Spend Millions on Downtown Development
Rant & Rave: That’s How People Get Shot
Events
8 Days a Week
Columbia Black Expo at Colonial Life Arena
Plus: The Literary Vine at Richland Library Saturday
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. What's Happening Today: Sunday, May 19
• Story Squad
• Sip-n-Stroll Garden Tour
• I’m Building a Bridge
• More
Blogs
Arts News Roundup: Libraries Making Headlines
By Amanda Ladymon | Friday, May 17, 2013 10:24 pm
By Eva Moore | Friday, May 17, 2013 9:14 am
Tales from the Script: Abrams Leads Kirk and Spock on a “Star Trek Into Darkness”
By James Scott | Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:59 pm
By Eva Moore | Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:44 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.
Business. Brief.: Unemployment Rate Down in S.C. and Columbia Area
Real Estate News: South Carolina’s Housing Recovery Continues
Local and State News: Lax State Rules Provide Cover for Sponsors of Attack Ads
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: Columbia Black Expo at Colonial Life Arena
Opera Review: “Bambino” — A Baseball Opera
S.C. Authors, S.C. Books: Top Author to Help with USC Press Series