The annual St. Pat’s in Five Points event returned for the first time after two years this weekend to celebrate its 40-year anniversary, bringing with it one of the largest events in Columbia and South Carolina. The March event had a large turnout, with many enjoying the greatly missed musical festival.
The Sierra Student Coalition is a student based organization that promotes advocacy, teaching and involvement in environmental and justice areas. Currently, the coalition is working with a middle school to create a community garden.
Some of the saddest goodbyes when leaving for college aren’t people at all, but our beloved pets. USC’s “Dog Walking Club,” called Give a Dog a Bone was started so students can foster a pet for a day, have a pet back in their life, but also help the community through volunteering at a local shelter.
Fragrant flowers, long transformative views, and edible plants are hallmarks of USC's landscape. The two-person horticulture team behind them cares for these and create the sights and smells that mark springtime on campus.
Whether it's kayaking on the Saluda River or enjoying a nature walk through champion trees at Congaree National Park, Columbia parks have much to offer their guests.
Cocks in the Garden offers students a chance to learn about gardening, with hopes to help the community through donations of food to homeless shelters nearby.
Raymond Davidson, the number one pinball player in the world, maintains his status by playing at Columbia’s Bang Back Pinball Lounge.
A Columbia composer and Wilmington artist collaborated together to make an environmentally focused art exhibit as part of the Peake Colloquium series at the School of Music.
The best pizza in town for every occasion. Find out where to get upscale pies and party pleasers.
Meeting new people and putting on a fun show is what touring is all about for indie-pop band The BRKN as they prepare to bring their show to Columbia later this month.
USC Dance Marathon, a fundraising organization for the Children's Miracle Network, held its annual 5K run as a color run. This year's dedication was for the late 'Miracle Kid' Eli Adams
Honors College thesis sparks collaboration between student and School of Medicine program to bring affordable produce to campus. FoodShare, a food program, provides boxes of fresh produce at affordable prices. The small box — sized for college students costs $15 or $5 with SNAP or EBT benefits.
USC's Humanities Collectives hosted Princeton professor Imani Perry for a talk about her book "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation," which tells the story of the South through Perry's experiences growing up and traveling though the region.
Two new exhibitions opened this month at the Columbia Museum of Art, "Rodin: Contemplation and Dreams" and "Anila Quayyum Agha: Let A Million Flowers Bloom", bringing with them sculptures, metalwork, a study on human forms and illusions. Even 100 years apart, the two exhibitions have a connection and synergy.
Bull Street Garage, a five-piece rock band of USC students, released its debut, self-titled album earlier this year. Since then, the band has traveled to the University of Alabama and the University of Tennessee to preform.
This month, our staff talked about our favorite music and artists of 2021 through our music recaps like Spotify Wrapped. In a segment we are rightfully dubbing "Staff Picks," this week, with the Oscars quickly approaching, we wanted to talk about some of our favorite movies from 2021.
"La belle Hélène" is a comic opera, sung in French, that parodies the story of Hélène’s elopement with Paris, which ignites the Trojan War. The cast consists of undergraduate and graduate students that have been working to open the show on Feb. 25 since last fall.
