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CURRENT ISSUE: Vol. IV, No. 4, Holiday
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Historic Columbia Offers Great Summer Staycations
As those lazy days of summer approach us, Historic Columbia Foundation offers a variety of outdoor and indoor activities for families, couples, and tourists in the city’s historic district.
Michelle Productions – Concept to Form
By William Thrift Photography By Lisa Willson Instead of letting a mid-life crisis bog him down or get him off track, Ray Gaillard spent time soul-searching at home in his self-described man cave. He had reached a point in his life where he felt like he needed a creative outlet. He recalled wanting to make […]
The Gourmet Shop – Columbia’s Moveable Feast
By William Thrift Photography by John Wrightenberry If some higher entity, Bacchus for instance, sat down and wrote out a recipe for a successful purveyor of wines, cheeses, and other things “gourmet” – a place with a decidedly French flair – he could not have come up with a better creation than Five Points’ Gourmet […]
Imperial Splendor: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna
Columbia Museum of Art Royal Renaissance tapestries from one of the premier museums of fine and decorative arts in the world, the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art. Imperial Splendor: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna opens on May 21 and runs through September 19, 2010. The exhibition marks […]
A Chef’s Kitchen
By William Thrift Photography by Lisa Willson Ask anyone to give you their idea of a chef’s kitchen and they will probably describe something they’ve seen on television; think: Emril “bamming” out a dish and sliding it along to lucky audience members while a band cranks out jazz in the corner. The basics of these […]
Columbia Cooks
Photography by John Wrightenberry Rosso Trattoria Italia Wood-fired Italian Cuisine, Columbia-style By William Thrift It was once supposed that when Prometheus lit his torch at the chariot of the sun and brought the fire down to Earth and gave it to man, man then was able to use the fire to dominate the animals, build […]
