The Great Gatsby doesn’t connect
May 17, 2013By Kevin Hyde May 16, 2013 The Great Gatsby, director Baz Luhrmann’s $100 million adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel, is surprisingly reverent, at times even worshipful, of…
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Strawberry + Rhubarb + Grandma = Fabulous Pie
May 17, 2013Benoit St. Jacques Chef at Rosewood Market & Deli, Columbia, SC May 17, 2013 Two great local ingredients we’ve covered recently, combined into a classic recipe that not many of…
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TheDailyGrace: Coming and Going
May 17, 2013By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace May 17, 2013 I can’t believe how much time had passed since I saw her last, my sweet friend Catherine, a co-worker from years…
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Pizza Spinach Spiral Sandwiches
May 17, 2013By Jan Pinnington May 9, 2013 Healthy Hands Cooking Pizza Spinach Spiral Sandwiches 1/2 cup whipped cream cheese1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning4 100% Whole Wheat flour tortillas (8)8 Tbsp. prepared pizza…
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Chomp! By Ron Aiken
May 17, 2013By Ron Aiken May 17, 2013 Best Bacon + Best Omelet = Do I Have Your Attention? Saying a place has the crispiest bacon in town is a bold statement.…
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Post Workout Recovery: Do I Need A Protein Shake Following A Workout?
May 17, 2013By Kristen Tice, MS, RD, CSSD, LD May 16, 2013 Sigh, if I had a dollar for every time I was asked this question, I might be a millionaire by…
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Wordless News May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013Maria Fabrizio May 3, 2013 One headline per day, vowel and consonant free. Click here for the post of the week. Click here for the Wordless News. …
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Dating Advice: Dear Debby and Jerry
May 17, 2013May 17, 2013 Q-Dear Debbie and Jerry, I have met a number of intelligent, attractive and wonderful women on a couple of Internet dating sites. With only a few…
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Top 10 Summer Must Haves – Unique and Innovative Products for the Beach
May 17, 2013Ahhhh, summer! The wonderful long hours of daylight, sunny skies, hot weather, sounds of kids playing outside, back yard BBQ’s, and best of all trips to the beach! Here are…
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King’s Grant connects with Golf Coast
May 17, 2013By Temple Ligon May 16, 2013 In the past two weeks there have been two articles on the feasibility of a passenger rail system in South Carolina. First was the…
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The Summer Of ’67
May 10, 2013What Summer Lives In You? Tom Poland May 3, 2013 Something about summer burns its way into our memory, and it’s not the summer sun. Summer just seems to be…
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Strawberry Season is Here
May 10, 2013Jessica Shillato, Executive Chef/Owner Spotted Salamander Catering May 10, 2013 For a time, Spotted Salamander was the only full-service caterer in the state to adhere to the SCDA’s Fresh on…
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Iron Man 3
May 10, 2013By Kevin Hyde May 9, 2013 Richard Pryor’s Superman III (1983) … Director Joel Shumaker’s cheesy Batman Forever (1995) … More recently, the bloated and boring X-Men: The Last Stand…
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Never Let Fear Be Bigger Than Your Faith
May 10, 2013Heart attacks are the number one killer of women in the United States. But, often women are too busy carrying for their families to care for themselves, and they often…
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King’s Grant
May 10, 2013By Temple Ligon May 9, 2013 Amtrak, the American passenger train service, began almost 50 years ago. Amtrak brings one train through Columbia after midnight for Savannah and Florida, and…
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2-Minute Crepes
May 10, 2013By Jan Pinnington May 9, 2013 Healthy Hands Cooking These delicious fruit crepes come together quickly when using a blender to mix the batter. Fast, nutritious, and full of whole…
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Favorite wine memories
May 10, 2013By Robert Sox May 9, 2013 Do you have a favorite wine memory? If you are into wine at all you probably do. Beyond the Tuesday night glass or…
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TheDailyGrace: Taking My Sweet Time
May 10, 2013By Cathy Monetti May 10, 2013 It’s a book I’ve wandered through, a bit here, a bit there, an intentional not rushing. It is a memoir, after all,…
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Wordless News May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013Maria Fabrizio May 3, 2013 One headline per day, vowel and consonant free. Click here for the post of the week. Click here for the Wordless News.…
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Chomp!
May 10, 2013By Ron Aiken May 10, 2013 Rosewood + Crawfish = Cool Kids = You? I love the word cahoots. It’s a fun word to say – cahoots! – and use…
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Dating Advice: Dear Debby and Jerry
May 10, 2013Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World April 27, 2013 Q-Dear Debbie and Jerry: I met a very nice guy on Match about 3 months ago.…
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How I Lost 35 Pounds…While Still Eating Fried Chicken!
May 10, 2013By Mike DuBose with Blake DuBose How many of you also have a pesky ghost who creeps in and shrinks your clothes while you’re sleeping? Many of us start to…
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Mud: The Adventures of Ellis and Neckbone
May 3, 2013By Kevin Hyde May 3, 2013 One part coming-of-age tale, another part fugitive crime story, Mud, the new film from Southern writer and director Jeff Nichols, is a thoroughly enjoyable,…
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A Thai Take on Asparagus
May 3, 2013By Alex Suaudom du Monde Executive Chef and Co-Owner, Baan Sawan Thai Bistro May 3, 2013 Asparagus is so awesome that we are having more than one chef cover this…
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Automobile Accidents – Who Covers What?
May 3, 2013by Meredith Spires May 2, 2013 It’s not too far from the truth to say that most of us have been in at least one automobile accident during our lifetime.…
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Botany Bay, Bird Watching and Magic
May 3, 2013By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace May 3, 2013 How perfect I thought as we made the turn, this most glorious approach to Edisto’s Botany Bay. What a spectacular…
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The Great Depression & Dirty ’30s
May 3, 2013That’ll Learn You Tom Poland May 3, 2013 We were so poor, mama would bleach coffee grounds and serve ’em as grits the next morning. So goes a standing joke…
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D-I-Y: Do It Yourself (the right way, the first time)
May 3, 2013By Becca Bertok Columbia, SC May 2, 2013 Several years ago, I was hooked on HGTV; the designs, the personalities, the products, the ideas, the endless number of home projects…
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Dating Advice: Dear Debby and Jerry
May 3, 2013Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World May 3, 2013 Dear Debbie and Jerry: I met my fiancè on Match 6 months ago and we…
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Wordless News May 3, 2013
May 3, 2013Maria Fabrizio May 3, 2013 One headline per day, vowel and consonant free. Click here for the post of the week. Click here for the Wordless News. About…
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In the loop
May 3, 2013Temple Ligon May 2, 2013 Among American urban transit bus systems, word has come out that downtown circulators can be made to work with federal and state help. Orlando, for…
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Chomp!
May 3, 2013By Ron Aiken May 3, 2013 Service: Sometimes Chains Get it Right It started with a bust, and ended with a bang. While that could refer to all manner of…
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Spring Planting: How to Prep Part 2
May 3, 2013By Ghost Gardener Columbia, SC May 2, 2013 Now that your outdoor spot is all tidy and ready to go, make a list of what you’ll need to spring into…
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Dating Advice: Dear Debby and Jerry
April 27, 2013Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World April 27, 2013 Q-Dear Debby and Jerry, I have been seeking a relationship through on-line dating for…
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Feeling Ducky
April 26, 2013By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace April 25, 2013 It’s a bit of a crazy thing, this fact that we planted three snowball bushes along the fence line, down near…
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‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ is no place to dwell
April 26, 2013By Kevin Hyde April 25, 2013 The great film critic Roger Ebert, who died earlier this month, often pointed out that, It’s not what a movie is about. It’s how…
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Book Review – COOKED: A Natural History of Transformation, By Michael Pollan
April 26, 2013By Joe Yonan Why bother cooking? The reasons to skip it are stacked as high as the microwaveable meals in a Costco freezer case. You don’t have time, of course…
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After Decades of Pain, Knee Replacement Offers Pain-Free Life
April 26, 2013As the Director of Orthopaedic Services for Providence Hospital Northeast, Bruce Giacobbi knows all too well what joint replacement patients go through—before, during and after their procedures. But in January…
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Chomp!
April 26, 2013By Ron Aiken April 26, 2013 Support Our Shrimp! Not that the spark had gone out – how could it? – but a mini-vacation to Edisto Beach last weekend rekindled…
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Wine Knowledge
April 26, 2013Drink Pink! Robert Sox April 26, 2013 You know all about Fifty Shades of Grey. How about Fifty Shades of Pink? I’m talking wine here so if you’re looking for…
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Wordless News April 26, 2013
April 26, 2013Maria Fabrizio April 26, 2013 One headline per day, vowel and consonant free. Click here for the post of the week. Click here for the Wordless News. …
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Anchor the Senate Street median with law and art
April 26, 2013Temple Ligon April 25, 2013 Cities like to remember their pasts through memorials scattered around town. Columbia has a statue of Mayor Kirk Finlay in Finlay Park, for instance. The…
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Carolina Gold Conquered The World – PASS THE RICE PLEASE
April 26, 2013Tom Poland April 25, 2013 The past is never dead. It’s not even past. —William Faulkner Early this spring I spent two days in ricefield country over near Georgetown.…
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How a Pro Does Spring Cleaning
April 25, 2013By Margaret Ely April 25, 2013 (c) 2013, The Washington Post. Even before winter’s departure, Liliane Lilly Lima was ready to welcome brighter skies and warmer weather. The 36-year-old owner…
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City Slickers Roundup: 10 Grand Hotels
April 19, 2013(c) 2013, The Washington Post. April 16, 2013 There’s nothing like a grand hotel in the city when you’re looking for a true escape from the humdrum of daily life.…
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Does Anyone Really Read Those College Applications?
April 19, 2013By R.C. Barajas Special To The Washington Post. It feels like a lifetime ago, but it was New Year’s Eve morning, a few short winter months back. The house was…
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Dating Advice: Dear Debby and Jerry
April 19, 2013Advice from Debby and Jerry on Dating in a New World April 18, 2013 Dear Debby and Jerry, I recently had a date with a man that was…
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Chomp!
April 19, 2013By Ron Aiken April 17, 2013 Shalom, people! This Sunday, April 21, 2013 Shalom is one of my favorite words I never say, along with aloha and namaste. I…
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TheDailyGrace: Let Me Tell You About My Dream
April 19, 2013By Cathy Rigg Monetti TheDailyGrace April 12, 2013 For months, I dreamed about my mother every night. Except that’s not exactly true. The dreams were never about my mother, but…
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42: Robinson’s story is a solid hit up the middle
April 19, 2013By Kevin Hyde April 19, 2013 I like bio-pics. I like period films. And I like movies about baseball. So you could say 42, the new film about Jackie Robinson’s…
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