My Atomic Paradise
March 7, 2014By Tom Poland March 7, 2014 I was stocking shelves with canned soup at Mr. Clifford’s country store earning 25 cents an hour when a man said, Yeah, he got…
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How Smoking a Pork Butt is Like Writing
March 7, 2014By Reba Hull CampbellMarch 7, 2014 My husband got a Green Egg grill for Christmas and smoked his first pork butt to make BBQ on it that weekend. As he…
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Healthy Hands Cooking
March 7, 2014By Jan Pinnington March 7, 2014 Healthy Hands Cooking Easy Veggie Stir Fry Stir Fry your favorite veggies to make a delicious side dish or add lean protein and whole…
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Question of the Week: What’s something you are willing to do without right now?
March 7, 2014By JoAnn Turnquist President and CEO, Central Carolina Community Foundation March 7, 2014 With the beginning of Lent many people are considering things that they can temporarily live without,…
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From Geisha To Gatsby – Carry The Inspiration Throughout The Season
March 7, 2014By Brian MaynorMarch 7, 2014 This weekend the Columbia Museum of Art is hosting their 2014 Gala entitled From Geisha to Gatsby honoring their current exhibit Japan and the Jazz…
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Around the World in 80 Days, Part VII
March 7, 2014By Temple Ligon March 5, 2014 Once in a great while it’s OK to blow it out in Paris In the summer of 1996 when my travel companion…
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Chomp!
March 7, 2014By Ron AikenMarch 7, 2014 On the joy of coffee,and the wickedness of its absence There’s a thing that happens in my brain when I have coffee,and there’s a…
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Ten Ways to Die Gardening
March 7, 2014By Joel Gillespie March 7, 2014 Arterial Bleed I was very safely up on the ladder cutting a large limb off of a dying dogwood. Since the whole tree was…
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Columbia Museum of Art Offers Citizens the Chance to Be the Curator
March 7, 2014By Emily Brady March 7, 2014 Citizens Can Vote to Bring Masterpieces like Matisse’s Teté Out of the Museum’s Vault and Display on the Gallery Wall A few floors below…
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Activewear – It’s Not Just For The Gym Anymore
February 28, 2014By Brian Maynor February 28, 2014 Sports influenced casual wear has been a prominent trend on runways over the past several seasons, but this year even the high-end designers known…
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Florida’s First Theme Park
February 28, 2014By Tom Poland February 28, 2014 Gave Southerners A Case Of Ski Envy In the 1960s a lot of cool guys were into water skiing. I got into it too.…
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By Maria Fabrizio February 28, 2014
February 28, 2014By Maria Fabrizio February 28, 2014 Click here for the story. California Couple Finds $10M in Gold Coins Buried in Yard About Maria Fabrizio Wordless News is a project…
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Healthy Hands Cooking
February 28, 2014By Jan Pinnington February 28, 2014 Healthy Hands Cooking Healthy Granola Bars Forget the boxed granola bars that are filled with sugar, GMO’s and preservatives. Your child can help make…
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You Won’t Like Me When I’m Hangry
February 28, 2014By Jillian OwensFebruary 28, 2014 Note: My editor has informed me that the MidlandsBiz site is having a few technical difficulties and that this article can’t have any photos in…
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Doing Good From Your Kitchen Table
February 28, 2014By JoAnn TurnquistPresident and CEO, Central Carolina Community FoundationFebruary 28, 2014 This month, we’ve all experienced some seasonal cabin fever. How do you cope when TV is not a great option…
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March Gardening
February 28, 2014By Joel GillespieFebruary 28, 2014 (Dear March – Come in)Emily Dickenson DEAR March, come in! How glad I am! I looked for you before. Put down your hat— You must…
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Around the World in 80 Days, Part VI
February 28, 2014By Temple LigonFebruary 28, 2014 Leaving the Morgan motorcar factory in the Cotswolds late Monday afternoon, March 26, I stayed on the train until it pulled into London. I was…
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A Conversation with George Poveromo
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Look What’s Hiding in the Museum’s Art Storage
February 28, 2014Paul MathenyChief art curator, South Carolina State MuseumFebruary 28, 2014 This Saturday we’re bringing back the 2nd Annual Art Day at the South Carolina State Museum. It’s an opportunity for…
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Edventure Presents Twelfth Annual Girls Night Out
February 28, 2014Signature Fundraiser Brings Designer Yigal Azrouël to the Midlands COLUMBIA, SC – March 20, 2014 – EdVenture Children’s Museum and Coplon’s presents Girls Night Out on March 20, 2014. This…
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Chomp!
February 28, 2014By Leesa Benggio February 22, 2014 Snow Ice Cream and the Mommy Wars As a full-time working mom of three, I always want more time with my children. Hot baths…
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Chomp!
February 22, 2014By Ron Aiken February 22, 2014 Snowpocalypse, Vol. II!!! Return of the…Sandwich? Does snow make people want sandwiches or what? It’s always puzzled Chomp! that when inclement weather strikes, suddenly…
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Spaghetti Squash Lasagna
February 21, 2014By Jan Pinnington February 21, 2014 Healthy Hands Cooking Ingredients: 1 Tbsp. olive oil 1 lb. organic ground beef, chicken, OR turkey 1 onion, chopped 6 cups organic pasta sauce…
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My Favorite Tree
February 21, 2014By Joel Gillespie February 21, 2014 In the yard where I grew up in Columbia, out near the street, was an area we would call a natural area these…
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The Daily Grace: The Best Advice on Love
February 21, 2014By Cathy Monetti February 21, 2014 Does he make your world bigger? It was a question she’d asked her daughter, a passing comment in the midst of a story about…
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Famously What?!? Facing the Chill in South Carolina
February 21, 2014By Jillian Owens February 21, 2014 At this moment, I’m not happy. I’m peeved. I’ve been lied to. I feel hurt. Why have you done this to me, South…
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Giving Kids A Better Life
February 21, 2014By Tom PolandFebruary 21, 2014 Unfinished Business Led To A Wonderful Charity Over in Georgetown, South Carolina you’ll find the headquarters of a kind and supportive organization for children.…
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Around the World in 80 Days – Part V
February 21, 2014By Temple LigonFebruary 21, 2014 Before Passepartout #3 and I parted ways on Saturday afternoon, March 24, we took our letter of introduction to the Reform Club on Pall Mall,…
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A Great Opportunity for Local Nonprofits
February 21, 2014By JoAnn Turnquist President and CEO, Central Carolina Community Foundation February 20, 2014 Working together. Every day we work with others; collaborating with a colleague at work, completing chores…
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Spring Preview – Make a Statement With Bold Neckwear
February 21, 2014By Brian Maynor February 22, 2014 Spring Preview – Make A Statement With Bold Neckwear By Brian Maynor February 21, 2014 Now that the last winter holiday has past…
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Athletes and Low Carb Diets: A Recipe for Disaster?
February 21, 2014By Kristen Tice-Ziesmer, MS, RD, CSSD, LD February 21, 2014 What are low-carb diets? They generally include the limitation of foods high in carbohydrates such as grains, rice and…
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The Daily Grace: on the edge
February 7, 2014By Cathy Monetti February 7, 2014 on the edge at Bickley’s Pond This one is not so surprising, I have to say. Our little pond seems to be the…
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Donations of Every Size Count — Really!
February 7, 2014By JoAnn Turnquist President and CEO, Central Carolina Community Foundation February 7, 2014 You may not think so, but chances are you are a philanthropist. Personal wealth is certainly…
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Whipped Cream & Other Delights: remake/remodel
February 7, 2014By Jillian Owens February 7, 2014 Thrift Store aficionados everywhere have probably stumbled upon at least one of the 6 million copies of this iconic album: Once you see…
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Color Therapy – Brighten Up Winter Blues With a Shot of Color
February 7, 2014By Brian MaynorFebruary 7, 2014 February is here, which means we are in the home stretch of winter. If you’re like me, craving every second of sunlight, then you have…
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
February 7, 2014By Tom Poland February 7, 2014 Sees It All—Botox, Implants, White Teeth, & Tattooed Eyebrows Gena, we’ll call her, is in love with herself. She can’t walk past a mirror…
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Stuffed Baked Potatoes
February 7, 2014By Jan Pinnington January 31, 2014 Healthy Hands Cooking Ingredients: 4 Russet Potatoes, scrubbed 1 Tbsp. Butter 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt 1 tsp. onion powder 1 tsp. garlic…
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Chomp!
February 7, 2014By Ron Aiken February 7, 2014 Let’s go to Villa Tronco! It’s funny the things we forget. Places, especially. How often have you heard someone say, such-and-such a place is…
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Around the World in 80 Days Part IV – London for a day
February 7, 2014By Temple Ligon February 6, 2014 After eight days crossing the North Atlantic from New York City to Southampton, after eight nights of wretched excess and disregarded decadence,…
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February Gardening
February 7, 2014By Joel Gillespie February 7, 2014 February, over the years, has become just about my favorite month. I can’t actually think of a month I like better here in South…
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The Colonel’s Camellias
January 31, 2014By Tom Poland January 31, 2014 Though a veneer of snow covers the ground as I write you’ll best appreciate this column about winter flowers over iced tea. So…
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The Daily Grace
January 31, 2014By Cathy Monetti January 31, 2014 Feathers It was an unexpected gift to begin with, this pretty little Christmas package handed to me by my sweet sister/friend, Cindy. Shall I?…
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Around the World in 80 Days Part III: Depart New York City
January 31, 2014By Temple LigonJanuary 31, 2014 After drinks for three the day before at Bemelmans Bar next to the lobby of the Carlyle Hotel, what the Wall Street Journal recently called the…
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Josh Streetman: Raising the Bar for Columbia’s Bar Scene
January 31, 2014By Jillian Owens January 31, 2014 Anyone who knows me knows I have a pretty active social life, and I love going out and about in our fair city. I…
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Your Junk. My Treasure. #DIY Done Right with the Junior League of Columbia’s Clean Sweep
January 31, 2014By Nicole Curtis January 30, 2014 They say one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Well in this case, the donated goods of Junior League of Columbia are my…
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Baked Cabbage Head
January 31, 2014By Jan Pinnington January 31, 2014 Healthy Hands Cooking No clowning around with this cute and tasty cabbage head that your kids will love to make and eat. Ingredients: 1…
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Snow Day Essentials – How to Look Good & Feel Productive When You Stay In
January 31, 2014By Brian MaynorJanuary 31, 2014 We don’t have very many snow days here in the South, so when they happen they are extra special. Wednesday was one of those days.…
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Chomp!
January 31, 2014By Ron Aiken January 31, 2014 Let’s Make Guacamole! To say I love guacamole is like saying I love chocolate. The relationship goes so far past anything love can describe…
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Three For The Road
January 24, 2014Tom Poland January 23, 2014 Abbeville, Campbell’s Covered Bridge, & Harbison State Forest A fellow and I were talking the other evening about the trips people take just to…
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Chomp!
January 24, 2014By Ron Aiken January 24, 2014 Love in the Time of Chocolate So we’re not there yet but we almost are, and it’s time to face some facts. How is…
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