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April 2025

Where is your favorite piece of art in Columbia or who is your favorite COMO artist? 

April 2025, Community, In This Issue, The Last Word

The Columbia Art League and the Museum of Art and Archaeology. Favorite artist is Kate Gray.   – Jerry Price   Any of Michael Wolf’s paintings at Logboat!   – Gary Michael Lee   Martin Pope.   – Diana Ratliff   The bronze “Jamboree” sculpture of animal instrumentalists on the Boone County Courthouse Square. My all-time fave!   – Liz Burks   Shannon […]

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(Re)Discover COMO: First Fridays, Finger Lakes State Park, Rocheport Day Trip

(Re)Discover COMO, April 2025, Community, In This Issue

First Fridays    Food, art, music, more art, more food, a family- and kid-friendly atmosphere. And did we already say food and art?   First Fridays is the monthly event in Columbia’s North Village Arts District that showcases that area’s diverse and vibrant art and culture center.  A free art crawl on the first Friday of each

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Cookin’ with Hoss: Market Harvest Salad with Hoss’s Creamy Sweet Onion Dressing

April 2025, Community, Gourmet, In This Issue, Living, Voices

Ahh, spring! The season of renewal, crocuses, daffodils, and Easter. It was a brutal winter, but the sub-zero temperatures are history (at least until next year!). Mother Nature is stirring, grass is growing, birds are singing, and a variety of tasty morsels are sprouting.    Culinary gems, both cultivated and wild, are emerging, if not now,

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Featured Physical Paper Book Turning Into Digital Computer Files

Pages to Pixels

April 2025, Features, In This Issue

For more than two centuries, Columbia’s history has been documented in photographs, newspapers, and legal records. But paper and film don’t last forever. Across Boone County, organizations are working to ensure that the past is not only preserved, but also made more accessible than ever through digitization.   It’s a painstaking process, requiring careful scanning, entering

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Featured Columbia College Painting

The COMO Mojo: A Canvas Called Columbia

April 2025, Community, In This Issue, Voices

In my head, there’s an associative imagery that accompanies the phrase “Art & Culture.” I picture it as this giant, flowy watercolor sensation — vivid, fluid, and difficult to contain. “Art” feels more concrete, bringing to mind murals, statues, and tangible expressions. “Culture,” on the other hand, is abstract and all-encompassing, like the air around

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How Bird-Safe Films Can Prevent Collisions

April 2025, Curb Appeal, In This Issue, Living, What the Home Pros Know

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that between 600 million and 1 billion birds die each year in the United States due to collisions with windows. These collisions often happen because birds mistake reflections of the sky or surrounding greenery in glass for the real thing. This problem is especially common in urban areas,

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