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(09/02/15 3:59am)
Anybody who's spent more than a day in Columbia knows that it would take months or more to cover all of the city's great restaurants. While Panera, Outback and Moe's are all well and good, the city's independent restaurants have spent years becoming a part of Columbia, and Gamecock, culture. Here are a few to get you started and to save you hours of sifting through Yelp reviews.
(08/31/15 3:00am)
Comedian and actor T.J. Miller brought his distinct, non-sequitur brand of comedy to the Koger Center last Thursday. No topic was sacred for the 34-year-old star of HBO’s "Silicon Valley."
(08/25/15 12:15am)
At first listen, Columbia radio station 92.1 FM The Palm might sound like just another soft rock station. But after spending some time listening to the station, it’s easy to hear The Palm’s defining feature: the culture of Columbia and the surrounding area is deeply embedded in the station, right down to the song choice.
(04/23/15 3:39am)
On Friday, Nashville singer-songwriter Will Hoge will bring his country stylings to Music Farm. It'll be the first time he’s been to Columbia in a while, but twenty years ago the city played a major role in his career.
(04/17/15 12:00am)
Matt Tenenbaum, an intern at the Nickelodeon Theatre and USC alumnus, was getting increasingly frustrated with Columbia’s public transportation.
(04/16/15 12:10am)
For such an emotionally effective film, Jason O. Silva’s “C’est Jane” might not sound like much at first.
(04/09/15 1:40am)
It won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards, but this generation of college students kind of missed Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel, “Middlesex,” since it came out in 2002. Seven or eight years old at the time, students were still learning about what was acceptable behavior for their own genders, not reading novels about gender identity.
(04/09/15 12:05am)
It’s easy to let the phrase “computer music” evoke an image of cold, mechanical sounds generated by computer programs. The School of Music’s Computer Music concert Wednesday proved that computer music can be just the opposite: a complement to human expression.
(04/06/15 3:06am)
This past Saturday, USC’s Indian Cultural Exchange (ICE) hosted the ninth annual Aag Ki Raat, a fusion dance competition in which collegiate dance teams from schools around the country competed for a $1,000 prize.
(03/29/15 10:43pm)
The America Loves Bacon festival left no doubt: South Carolina loves bacon.
(03/26/15 2:46am)
Audiences might expect Evie Ladin and Keith Terry to be exhausted after one of their performances, since a lot of their show involves simultaneously singing, dance, playing instruments and body drumming. But they say it has the opposite effect.
(03/24/15 3:34am)
SNAPS Music Appreciation Club is equal parts social and
music club, and students aren’t likely to find a more laid-back student
organization than this one. In fact, the club used to meet in the Capstone room
of second-year history major Andy Ferguson, the club’s founder.
(03/24/15 12:53am)
Over the course of his fifteen-year career, Sufjan Stevens has written folk music, electronic music, two film soundtracks, a ballet score and two albums dedicated to U.S. states.
(03/19/15 1:24am)
“Godspell,” directed by Dewey Scott-Wiley and coming to Trustus Theater this Friday, is a peppy, disorienting musical about Jesus Christ. Most of the show consists of Jesus teaching his enthusiastic disciples through acted-out parables, games like Pictionary , charades and songs of every genre.
(03/17/15 3:24am)
It’s not unusual for the USC School of Music to bring in impressive, visiting artists to work with students, but this week's arrival of the Parker Quartet, the University’s quartet-in-residence, is rousing an exceptional level of excitement among music students.
(03/05/15 12:18am)
When most people think of American painters, impressionism isn't what comes to mind. The Columbia Museum of Art is working to change that with “Charles Courtney Curran: Seeking the Ideal,” the first retrospective of the American impressionist painter's works.
(03/03/15 3:37am)
Students who saw Sonya Renee Taylor’s presentation "The Body
Is Not An Apology" last Wednesday might remember her aversion toward “the
binary.” Usually this refers to the gender binary, or the categorization of
gender into just male and female, but Taylor spoke about how other binary
systems, such as gay/straight, rich/poor or black/white, can be just as discriminating by excluding everything that falls in the in-between categories.