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(03/01/17 9:00pm)
Nikky Finney is a South Carolina-born poet and educator who returned to teach at USC after spending many years teaching at the University of Kentucky. Here, she holds a joint position in the African-American Studies and English departments. Although we recently met in person for the first time, I have known Nikky Finney for years through her poetry. Finney’s “Head Off & Split” won the National Book Award in 2011. It is a collection that challenges the personal and the historical. It invites us into a world where famous politicians and family members interact like old, stubborn friends. As a teenager, I dreamed about leaving South Carolina for some utopia in the North that never struggled with racism, poverty or ignorance. Finney was the first South Carolinian I knew to marry acceptance with resistance, to instill beauty in all of our state’s flaws. Her poetry, in all its honest, messy, humble splendor, showed me a better way to love South Carolina.
(03/01/17 7:00pm)
Lauren Chapman is a senior in USC’s BFA painting program. She’s an artist who conveys in a painting what cannot be conveyed through words. She understands what it is to be a woman and translates that directly onto a canvas for all to see. And she knows without a doubt that being an artist is exactly what she is supposed to do.
(01/26/17 5:27pm)
As I looked into the crowd of people at Music Farm just 24 hours after the inauguration of President Trump, I saw a sea of bright pink pussyhats. The rally in Columbia was one of over 600 sister marches around the world that accompanied the Women’s March on Washington. The brightly colored knit caps acted as a support symbol for those marching. The mission of the pussyhat project was to serve as a collective visual and political statement, but also served a practical purpose for those who would be enduring the freezing temperatures at the march in Washington, D.C.
(11/16/16 2:00pm)
I've got to admit that I chuckled to myself as I checked the word count for my article on meme culture. I wrote almost 1500 words on the origins and evolution of images brewed in the bowels of the internet. For all I know the trend could be over tomorrow, replaced by something more cryptic and unseemingly humorous. This got me thinking about the evolution of images and presentation of identity. We’re done with our second issue of G&B now and I feel as though we’ve really begun to find our identity.
(11/16/16 2:00pm)
In the digital age, it's easy to erase or obscure place of origin.
(11/16/16 2:00pm)
The late Edward Sapir once said that language is “the most massive and inclusive art we know.” You’ve probably never heard of Sapir, but the German-born Columbia University graduate was best known for his theory which, simply put, states that language and culture are inseparably linked. Sapir died in 1939, but his theories were revolutionary for their time, as they placed language and culture into a comparative dialogue, something that had never been considered before, especially in regard to more primitive languages.
(11/16/16 2:00pm)
A man in a feathered brown wig emerges from a hole in the ground and asks me if I remember the seventies. I don’t, of course, but hands shoot up all around me in the massive Historic Columbia tour group. We are gathered in the portico of the Equitable Arcade Mall on Main Street. Passersby give our guide strange looks and our group a wide berth. The property owner mills around the atrium. A woman in a fluorescent pink and yellow dress holding an electric lantern, disappears below the surface of the earth. Below us, a catacomb-like space still hums with the spirit of 1971.
(11/16/16 3:11pm)
Photo taken by Cole Lowery
(11/16/16 3:18pm)
Main Street ICE
(11/16/16 3:19pm)
Brittany Sparks is a fifth-year ceramics student working on
building her portfolio for grad school, but in a way, she’s been sculpting her
whole life.
(11/16/16 3:21pm)
Growing up in her aunt's record shop, Clair Delune always loved the blues. Her show, "Blues Moon: with Clair Delune," has been playing rare blues and roots for 27 years. In that time, she's shepherded countless students to graduation, researched and recovered rare records and has a few furry co-hosts to help her along the way.
(11/16/16 3:23pm)
On an all-carb
diet? Can’t eat Taco Bell? Luckily for you, the greater Columbia area has
noodles galore with unique, national and international influence — and all for
under $15. The options are endless, so grab your forks and
dig in.
(11/16/16 3:34pm)
"It’s about power. It’s about precision." — these are the words Shannon Rike Henry teaches her Self Defense for Women class. It’s not just about physical practice. It’s about the mental practice — being aware of your surroundings.
(11/16/16 3:36pm)
Fans of The Rocky Horror Show: You can stop here. Trustus Theatre has tickets for students at $25 apiece, showing through Nov. 5. Dig your black corsets and fishnet tights out of your closet and get ready to give yourself over to absolute pleasure.
(11/16/16 3:32pm)
Let’s be honest: The winters in Carolina don’t often get too severe, so as far as winter dishes go, you’ll get more mileage out of a hearty recipe that you can still enjoy in the spring or summer. Tom kha gai (chicken coconut soup) fits this description to a T. A traditional Thai soup made with coconut milk and chicken, paired with salapao (Thai steamed buns) it makes a satisfyingly filling winter meal you can still eat when you feel the sun on your face.
(10/11/16 10:32pm)
Surreal is the only word I can think of to describe what I’m feeling as I sit in the G&B office and write this letter. I spent my sophomore year contributing to G&B, and it helped me find my direction as a writer. I poured myself into the magazine my junior year as the articles editor, and it instilled me with skills and knowledge that I never would have gotten from the classroom. Now, more than one month into my senior year and my tenure as editor-in-chief, I’m wondering what the remaining months will bring me.
(10/11/16 10:33pm)
Soft purple kisses
(10/11/16 11:21pm)
Among the neon lights and appropriately
loud radio remixes filling The Capital Club, there’s a familiar feeling. Patrons sip
drinks and quiet conversations spread from the bar to the backroom. It’s a
feeling I’ve felt in every gay bar in Columbia, whether it’s PT’s 1109 or The L
Word. However, there is something different about the air in each as of late.
The same sociability is there, but the attack on the queer community that
occurred on June 12 has left a slight tension in the atmosphere.
(10/11/16 10:30pm)
A loaded pistol. A
condom wrapper. Two-hundred years’ worth of bottle caps. Skin lightener. Three
pet burials. The intact base of an incandescent lightbulb. Children’s toys.
Bones. The relics of past lives don’t just remove themselves from the ground. That’s Jakob Crockett’s job.
(10/11/16 10:29pm)
The problem was, Debbie didn’t want to be a skank.