It starts young. It includes a lecture. You probably even remember the day. You make your way to the breakfast table and boldly pronounce, “I don’t feel like going to school today!” What was the response? “I don’t care how you feel; you are going to school anyway.” And that is where it started. The […]
There’s nothing of any architectural significance about 225 S. Ninth St.: a squat, single-story, 1920s-era structure its owner wants to tear down and replace. There’s absolutely nothing about this pile of bricks that can compare with contemporaneous Columbia architectural achievements that include the Missouri Methodist Church, Central Dairy Building, Tiger Hotel, Missouri Theatre and Missouri
Attracting tourists is a year-round project for the Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau–but it pays!
Every year a Art in the Park, 12,000 people wind through aisles of tents and thousands of pieces of art in Stephens Lake Park. The majority of Art in the Park attendees have a college degree and a household income of $55,000 or more, and one-third of the event’s crowd includes people visiting from outside
