Michael Ian Black gives risque stand-up act in Russell House
About 600 students packed the Russell House Ballroom to see Michael Ian Black’s stand-up Tuesday evening. And where was the performer to be found?
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About 600 students packed the Russell House Ballroom to see Michael Ian Black’s stand-up Tuesday evening. And where was the performer to be found?
For College of Social Work professors Darcy Freedman and Ron Pitner, Tuesday evening’s kickoff celebration for the Community Empowerment Center (CEC) in Columbia’s Gonzales Gardens and Lyon Street neighborhoods was the first step in bringing months of planning into fruition.
About five students gathered in the Gambrell Hall auditorium Wednesday night for a documentary viewing and discussion to reflect on and remember the 9/11 attacks, their aftermath and their effects on students and the United States as a whole.
Students arrived at the Russell House Ballroom in short spurts to donate blood as a part of the Carolina Coquettes’ blood drive Tuesday afternoon, which represented part of the group’s focus on community service and outreach.
Columbia was awash in color Saturday as the city celebrated South Carolina’s 22nd annual Pride Parade and Festival with banners that hung from lampposts, rainbow-colored ribbons that rolled down the Statehouse steps, flags that adorned Finlay Park and even some of the hairstyles of thousands who gathered in the park.
Like so much else of this state's culture, barbecue is steeped in history and tradition. It's become a well-known cultural export, it's a signifier of Southern hospitality and cuisine and it's even divided the state into sauce-based and regional factions.
As close to 50 students filtered into the West (Green) Quad Learning Center Wednesday evening for the Muslim Student Association’s Eid Festival, they heard a variety of music including Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram’s “Fi Hagat,” Lebanese-Swedish Maher Zain’s “Palestine Will Be Free” and even pop star Miley Cyrus’s “Wake Up America.”
To passers-by, the scene may have seemed confusing.
These days, Columbia’s shaping up to be a pretty cool city. In the last few years it’s seen the opening of a number of restaurants and venues like Cellar on Greene, Cantina 76, the White Mule and the Conundrum Music Hall.
USC now plans to hold its annual fraternity bid day Friday and allow the 11 fraternities without pending alcohol sanctions to bring in new members.
Documentary inspires cycling trip to raise funds for Big City Mountaineers
Colin Beavan, an environmental activist and author of “No Impact Man,” spoke about the need for strong community to solve the world’s problems at the Carolina Coliseum Monday.
Columbia and its neighboring cities this fall are host to a number of music and cultural festivals, spotlighting music from everywhere between the local scene and the international electronic community and foods from the State Fair’s fried candy bars to the Greek Festival’s cuisine. Here are a selection of five local and regional festivals taking place this semester.
A native Kansan and a 1995 graduate of USC, Tonya Tyner, who now resides in Austin, Texas, has moved fairly widely across the United States, living, at times, in Virginia and California as well. It seems somewhat appropriate, then, that the singer-songwriter croons a soft and twangy Americana. Her music is largely dominated by her lyrics and vocals with strong themes of love, heartbreak and God. Though her debut album "Beautiful Light" won't see its nationwide release until Sept. 12, copies will be available at a discounted price of $10 at The White Mule this Thursday, where she will be performing at 7 p.m. The Daily Gamecock spoke with Tyner while she was visiting Columbia for her 20th high school reunion.
As chillwave was making its way into the fore of the indie music scene in 2009 and early 2010, it was met with a degree of controversy and skepticism. As the genre began in earnest with debut releases by Neon Indian and Toro y Moi and a pair of EPs by Washed Out, fans praised its ’80s nostalgia and laid-back, hazy sound tailor-made for summer. For others, it sounded too repetitive and homogenous to maintain much staying power; it was less a genre than a one-trick pony.
Aaron Jerome, better known by his stage name SBTRKT (pronounced “subtract”), thrives on mystery. In addition to the pseudonym that masks his identity, Jerome performs live wearing a mask modeled on heavy tribal influences, a part of his stage persona that is featured prominently on the cover of his self-titled debut, released on June 28.
A 2009 graduate of the School of Library and Information Science at USC, Ernest Greene — better known by his stage name Washed Out — has gone on to make waves in the indie music scene with his 2009 EPs "Life of Leisure" and "High Times," which garnered considerable attention and acclaim.
By the time Breaking Laces, a Brooklyn-based indie rock and power-pop trio, took the stage at New Brookland Tavern, the crowd was ready to jam — and so was the band.