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Across America, many of the small-scale farms that once fed the country have been replaced by mega-sized monoculture farms with a single crop growing in all directions, as far as the eye can see.
There’s some guy gene that allows most men to know what all those hoses and metal things do under car hoods and allows most men to take a pile of lumber and turn it into some sort of structure like a deck, cabin or McDonald’s. Whatever gene that is, it skipped me.
It’s a familiar story: Hollywood star takes up a cause, hops on an international flight and gets “do-gooder” attached to her name in gossip magazines.
The Rev. John Dear, S.J., has had two major conversions in his life: the first to Christianity as a college student at Duke University, and the second as an aspiring priest at the Sea of Galilee.
Where is your home?
From drum circles to memories of Hanson, our suggestions will help you fine-tune your schedule.
When choreographer/director Marcia Milgrom Dodge is auditioning actors for Theatreworks USA productions, she finds that most of them are just out of “various conservatories and colleges around the country.”
Krystine Summers, a senior theater performance major, was asked to direct “Boy Gets Girl,” a Mainstage production in the Columbus State University theater season.
In 1997, his second year as a music professor in the Columbus State University Schwob School of Music, Robert Rumbelow began a Conductors Workshop. Rumbelow is the director of wind activities, which includes the CSU Wind Ensemble and the CSU Wind Orchestra.
Consider yourself warned: One accessory has potential to simultaneously destroy both your fashion sense and social standing.
Austin Scott, the culinary arts instructor for the Muscogee County School District, is a big fan of fried turkeys.
There he stands, Renton’s Hometown Hero, tall, broad, handsome.
Columbus State University has been blessed by the Richard R. Hallock Foundation providing the funding for the Political Science Department to host a series of thoughtprovoking lectures on issues important to all of us today.
Until its 2006 revival, “The Pajama Game” hadn’t been on Broadway or toured nationally since the 1950s.
Twas the night before Christmas and the employees of Peachfuzz Mall are celebrating the end of another holiday season with a big party.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a manager. Seriously. I read “The One-Minute Manager” when I was 12. I was a very sick child.
It’s 10 minutes before the formal dinner, and the novelty print tie you’ve resurrected is hanging on your neck with a makeshift Boy Scout survival knot.
Mark Minnick was frantically getting ready for a month-long trip to Macau, China, where he will be mounting an all-Chinese cast for “Fame: The Musical.” Because he was leaving on Nov. 7, he was doing last-minute interviews as well as shopping and packing.
When Joseph had conflicts with his brothers, and interpreted his dreams as signs from God, was he suffering illusions of grandeur, or did he have humble awareness of his greatness?
I was born there, but my earliest memory was when we packed the U-Haul and drove to Atlanta for my dad to go to Candler (Theological Seminary). He’s a Baptist pastor, at Greater Piney Grove in Atlanta. So I grew up in Atlanta.
Lots of things have changed since Fantasy in Lights began at Callaway Gardens in 1992.
The Modern Skirts, a group of Athens, Ga.-based rockers who in the past have attracted standing-room-only crowds at The Loft, are back for another party.
I’ve funneled the money I would have otherwise spent on therapy into one ticket for a seat on a midnight train going anywhere.
Troy Heard was working on his master’s degree in directing at the Savannah College of Art and Design and was a teaching assistant. One of the students in his class was Desireé Samone. Her senior project, “A Love Supreme,” made an impression on Heard.
It’s an exciting time of the year. Most of the arts groups are up and running. And that means I’m very, very busy. People want me to write about all their new plays and exhibits and concerts.
The palm trees and aquatic images that decorate Acapulco’s Mexican Restaurant offer year-round reassurance that summer isn’t too far away.
Jamie Gruber, who is the executive chef of The Market, started working in his first kitchen at age 12. At 14, he was washing dishes in a restaurant and four years later, he was running the kitchen.
Tired of the same old pumpkin pie?
Rangers may lead the way in many things but running off at the mouth isn’t one of them.
David Wannen is a busy fellow. He’s the managing director of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (www.NYGASP. org), where he does the booking and marketing. On top of that, he’s a singer and actor. “It’s a full-time job,” he said during a recent telephone interview.
Last Sunday morning we began the process of adjusting to Daylight Standard Time. Adjusting all the clocks in the bedrooms, TVs, computers, appliances and vehicles can take anywhere from a few minutes to several years.
Honey, I cheated — but the problem isn’t me, it’s you.
Most of the time when Joe Wade goes hiking, he carries a stick. But it’s not just any stick. It’s etched with highlights of his life: jobs, children, accolades.
St. Nicholas Episcopal Church has a new rector. He is the Rev. Jeff Jackson, 30, formerly of Skidaway Island, Ga., where for three years he served as assistant rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Skidaway, just south of Savannah. He is the second priest to serve the eight-year-old congregation. He follows the Rev. Beverley McEachern, who died of cancer in 2007, and the interim priest, the Rev. Tom Jones.
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Paul Pierce, the producing artistic director of the Springer Opera House, had been talking to actor/singer Debbie Anderson for years about writing a play about the volatile relationship between George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
Like many musicians, Philippe Quint has been performing since he was a child. He started violin lessons when he was 4.
The Steeplechase at Callaway Gardens is over for another year. If you didn't make it last Saturday, you missed a really good time. The weather was absolutely glorious.
A DJ spins music in the background, and pickup lines echo left and right, but one sound dominates your attention. Your phone.
It’s a family affair at Carter’s Back Porch Barbecue.
Time to resurrect any black and white face makeup left over from Halloween.
Jamie Gruber, executive chef of The Market, has been cooking since he was 7 years old. At age 12, he was working in his first kitchen during summer vacation.
More than six decades ago, a soldier voted for the first time. "I received my ballot yesterday to vote," Roland Stancil wrote to his family in Raleigh in a letter dated Sept. 5, 1944.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an Army slogan I saw at the Infantry Warfighting Conference at the Columbus Convention & Trade Center. There was another slogan worth mentioning as well. The Infantry was referred to as the “Heart of the Army.” I like that and have to agree…and I was not an Infantryman.
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