By Jan Walker Pinnington, C.N.C. Founder, Certified Cooking Instructor   Make your own “fresh from the pizzeria” taste using these simple and fresh ingredients 1 Gluten-Free Brown Rice Tortilla (I…

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By Ron Aiken     Make the Best Steak with Mushroom Sauce at Home Ever! It started with the memory of a solitary can of cream of mushroom soup sitting…

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By Brian Maynor From ‘The Limited’s Scandal Collection’ to ‘The New Look of Banana Republic’ if your email is like mine it’s being inundated with notices of Fall’s new looks,…

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By Jillian Owens   [row] [col col=8] It’s finally here.  It’s finally happening.  Columbia, SC finally has a legitimately largish (but not too large) music venue that actually looks like it…

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By Temple Ligon [row] [col col=8] When visiting the Capital of the World, New York City, tickets to a Broadway show justify the hassle and the expense of getting into town.…

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By Ron Aiken   [row] [col col=8] Cake? For lunch? Yazooo! I will not, in this column, use the phrase “It was love at first bite.” Not gonna do it.…

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By Maria Fabrizio     Robot Bartenders: Why Isaac From ‘The Love Boat’ Isn’t Worried See the related story here. . . Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria Fabrizio.…

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By Amy Coward [row] [col col=8] I finally know what I want to be when I grow up. An aerobics instructor. Or maybe they’re called fitness instructors now. Whatever they…

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By Joel Gillespie      [row] [col col=8] When I was a kid, maybe 10 or 11 years old, a friend of mine from school lived in a house with…

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By Brian Maynor   Can you tell Fall is in the air?  If not, just wait until this weekend.  Columbia is going to be hopping with several major festivals embracing…

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[row] [col col=8] By JoAnn Turnquist . . Simplicity. Even the sound of the word makes me smile. It is a characteristic many of us strive for but, with the…

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By Jillian Owens   I love weddings more than just about anything.  The time spent with loved ones, the food, the booze, the dancing, and getting to see your dear…

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By Ron Aiken   Chomp!’s an honest-enough chap to admit things that aren’t flattering about himself. One of those things is that … I’ve … done it. You know, that…

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By Brian Maynor     Football season is off and running and so is one of our favorite pre-game rituals, tailgating.  Whether it’s early morning or early evening nothing really…

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[row] [col col=8] By Temple Ligon South Carolina’s Jasper Johns, the world’s most famous artist, gets invited to just about everything, and he really doesn’t care to attend any of them,…

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By Maria Fabrizio         Old Ship Logs Reveal Adventure, Tragedy And Hints About Climate See the related story here. . . Wordless News is a project by illustrator +…

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By Ron Aiken     Fried Okra Edition!!!!!!   There is nothing better than fried okra in all the whole wide world. Not foie gras, not salted caramel, not crème…

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By Brian Maynor   Labor Day has come and gone and with it the traditional rule that white must now be packed away until Memorial Day. With social media fashionistas…

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  By Tom Poland    About five years ago a lovely phenomenon took hold in Europe. Couples wrote, etched, painted, and scratched their names onto padlocks and latched them to…

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  By Amy Coward   I got new running shoes today. I had completely worn through my old ones and I’m training for a marathon. I know you’re thinking I…

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  By Kaitlin Ohlinger     Virginia? It has wineries? Like, good ones? These were my thoughts about three years ago. Perhaps I’d lived in the Southeast bubble too long,…

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  By Temple Ligon   The Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues is home for one last weekend to the most recent run of paintings by…

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By Maria Fabrizio Life After Ice Buckets: ALS Group Faces $94 Million Challenge See the related story here.     . . Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria Fabrizio.…

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  Yields 4 servings (2 cups each)   INGREDIENTS: 8 Cups lettuce 2 cups steamed beet wedges, or slices 1/2 -1” thick (see tip) 1 T. extra virgin olive oil
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  By Jillian Owens   Is it just me, or is Champagne (among all the other sparkling wines) insanely popular this summer?  There’s just something about a bit of bubbly…

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By Temple Ligon   Columbia began in 1786 when the South Carolina legislature voted on both the name and the location of their new capital city. Columbia’s city hall as…

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[row] [col col=8] Seasons.   By Cathy Monetti We live our lives in seasons, moving gently from one to the next, so quiet it’s hardly worth a notice most days. And then…

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By Jillian Owens   Trustus Theatre is embracing the new this month!  Last week, Columbia was the home of the World Premiere of the Trustus Playwrights’ Festival-winning comedy, The Velvet…

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By Jan Pinnington Healthy Hands Cooking     Say Olé with this fresh “Turkey Taco Salad” for a fast and easy weeknight meal 1 lb. ground turkey 1 packet taco…

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By Tom Poland   Would Turn Columbia into the Paris of the South Many years ago I read that two cities share a common geography. Both sit on a plateau of…

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By Maria Fabrizio   B. K. S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West, Dies at 95 See the related story here.     . . Wordless News is a project…

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[row] [col col=8] JoAnn Turnquist President and CEO, Central Carolina Community Foundation   There are many reasons a person chooses to be philanthropic. But, it is often surprisingly difficult to…

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By Ron Aiken     Family Night is Jazzy!   Those of you with families know that family night is jazzy – you don’t need MY headline to tell you…

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  By Amy Coward   I am sitting at my desk looking at a piece of chocolate cake. We had an office birthday party this morning and chocolate ganache cake…

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By Maria Fabrizio   For A More Ordered Life, Organize Like A Chef See the related story here. . . Wordless News is a project by illustrator + designer Maria Fabrizio. Wordless News…

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By Jillian Owens       A few weeks ago, I attended a screening of Dolemite.  It was campy and fun.  Lots of folks came out to bask in the…

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By Kristen Tice-Ziesmer Sports Dietitian, ACE-Certified Personal Trainer   Over the years I have worked with many athletes, particularly runners, who all have the same complaint: fatigue. Now we all know…

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[row] [col col=8] By Cathy Monetti   the smell of you     It was completely unexpected since we’d spent nearly two weeks together on the tail-end of her study…

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By Ron Aiken   The two secrets to grilling success! There’s a line in one of my favorite movies of all time, The Shawshank Redemption, that says geology is the…

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