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Rosewood Crawfish Festival plans to proceed with its annual celebration of live music and freshwater crustaceans, returning after canceling its 2020 outing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

If KK's donuts get any smaller they won't be able to get holes out of them.

William Starrett has never been bound by the constraints of what ballet is supposed to be.

Jarritos come in a variety of fruity flavors, from the pedestrian lemon, lime and strawberry, to the more tropical tamarind, guava and pineapple.

The former employees of the Nickelodeon Theatre that comprise the Frame x Frame Film Club continue their efforts to, per their website, “amplify voices that have historically been oppressed and marginalized in the Midlands of South Carolina, and beyond."

The thick noodles come topped with a heap of pungent sauce consisting of ground pork with aromatic red chilis and green onions, alongside finely cut red bell peppers, and serves as ample coating for the entire dish.

Social media influencers arrived as fast as social media came online, attracting attention to restaurants, businesses and products with pretty pictures and pithy phrases.

Bethel Christian Camp

Brussel’s Gymnastics Camp

The Family Fresh Mex food truck was in operation for more than six years before its owners were ready to open a brick-and-mortar location.

701 Center for Contemporary Art

Columbia Museum of Art — It’s Only Natural

Cola Concerts will get back to business next month with its biggest booking yet.

If you’re a fan of live music, you’ve probably watched a lot of live-streamed shows during the last year. As venues everywhere have remained closed or at least operating at drastically reduced capacity, streaming shows on social media pages or…

Columbia restaurant and bar owners were largely pleased with the news that Gov. Henry McMaster’s 11 p.m. alcohol curfew will be waved starting March 1.

Could there be anything more heartwarmingly Columbia than a talented local child performing a musical number called “Vanilla Ice cream” in front of a dipped cone painted on Angelos Zestos on North Main?

Pretty much every prominent event has canceled plans, adjusted plans, and then canceled them again during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. So St. Pat’s in Five Points can find some solace in the fact that they are not alone.

Post Malone, Hootie & the Blowfish and Pokemon are three pop culture icons you would never expect to be in the same headline, and yet here we are.

At 38, Richard Pellerano left his business career for a vocational baking and pastry program at the Robert Morgan Educational Center in Miami. The plan was to open a dessert cookie shop with his wife, Krystina.

No one person deserves more credit for the division we are seeing in this country than Rush Limbaugh.

Four Columbia acts will see how they measure up to the Man in Black, covering Cash on the occasion of his birthday at Indah Coffee.

Cocos and Beer's El Molcajete is a titanic feast that can fill an entire serving plate with plenty left over.

The leafy, tannic flavors from the double-steeped Orange Pekoe black tea layer in perfectly, keeping the sweetened condensed milk from overwhelming the beverage, and leaving behind a smooth aftertaste that will keep you going back for frequent quick sips.

In neighboring Cayce and West Columbia, the latter of which is home to the almost finished Savage Craft Ale Works, the promise of something big is in place.

“It was something I could do cheaply and would entertain people,” Columbia filmmaker Christopher Bickel told Free Times while discussing his new movie, “Bad Girls.”

In less than a year, a convenience store owner became a budding restaurateur.

David Grillo wouldn't be opening his own restaurant without Eddie Van Halen.

The graphics that One Columbia has provided for free use are strewn with pithy reminders of good pandemic behavior — “Wash your hands,” “Stand six feet apart,” and “Stay at home if you can.”

Cayce’s Piecewise Coffee is expanding into an adjacent space that will almost double its indoor seating.

$2.75. 2701-B Rosewood Dr. facebook.com/CrustBakehouse.

The Midlands' beer scene continues to soldier on through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Minutes after 5:30 a.m. on the first Wednesday of February, Shaun Piggott was brewing.

The gin-based drink is served neatly in a coupe glass and has a strong complexity, pairing its base spirit with two liqueurs, mole bitters, lemon and a saline solution.

With innovative recordings and performances praised for their exuberance, virtuosity and nonchalance, the 20-member Alarm Will Sound orchestra has set the bar for risk-taking approaches to contemporary classical music.

Your favorite brewery will release new beers this spring. We have the details.

“Judas and the Black Messiah” is directed by Shaka King and produced by Ryan Coogler, the director of “Black Panther” — fitting, as the film depicts the dismantling of the Illinois Black Panther Party with assistance from an FBI informant.

Hillmouse excels at probing creeping doubts, the interpersonal kind and the spiritual kind and the many varied kinds that exist in between, embodying them with an earnest twang.

Food has long played a role in Western art.

This week, Historic Columbia allows people to watch director Wes Craven’s meta-murder mystery “Scream” in socially distanced pods.

Have you noticed how politicians only get "mild" cases of COVID-19?

The Grand Strand West Coast IPA is one of those simple solid beers that hints that there’s likely other great things going on in the brewery's tanks.

Sometimes ground beef is not enough in a burger. The leaner meat of the majestic, thick coated, bearded beasts who once roamed the Great Plains and grunt rather than moo is simply far tastier.

When Bill White decided to close the Vista dive bar Uncle Louie’s in April of last year, it was obvious he made the right decision.

The department's annual Spring Concert is being staged live in Drayton Hall amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s been roughly two weeks since Andy Shlon died. But his iconic Andy's Deli in Five Points is still running with his son in charge.

Ashley Wright's performance with her husband, Travis, is elevated by tender intimacy, the sense of closeness between the two musicians making as much of an impact as their graceful sound.

Javon Johnson and the late Chadwick Boseman share a career and a hometown.