The Scene

  Over the course of a perfect weekend at the end of April, the first chapter of Columbia’s newest arts festival, the Unbound Book Festival, unfolded. Like all...

  Jill Orr talks about going through “the middle.” I’ve been writing the “Mommy Chronicles” column in this magazine for over six years. In that time, I’ve reflected...

  Every year, the columns of magazines and newspapers and the airwaves of NPR stations across the country are filled with suggestions for “Summer Reading”. There’s an inherent...

  Columbia Business Times congratulated this year’s class of the “20 Under 40” winners.

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  I’ve lived in Columbia for a long time. Long enough to remember when “way out South” meant the corner of Providence and Nifong, The District was just...

Regular readers of this column know that I have a pretty desperate problem with inventory management when it comes to books. Right now I have enough unread novels...

I owned an e-reader once. Two, actually. One was a Christmas present. I sent it back before New Year’s Day. The other one I kept a little longer,...

If I had a dollar for every coffee mug I own that says “Go Away I’m Reading,” well, I suppose I would have two dollars. But, my point...

They might be new to town, but they’re not new to style. Amy and Noelle Rhoades came to Columbia from Houston. With Fall in full swing, layering pieces...