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Columbia Voice

Work by the multimedia reporting and production class at the University of South Carolina.

Category: People

Stories about interesting people around the Midlands.

Haven’t you heard? This artist’s ‘pirD’ is the word?

Whitney Malson's pirD holds a Drip coffee cup.

Have you heard about the pirD? Meet the puffin-like character that’s made its home at a local coffee shop and the artist behind it, Whitney Malson, who has turned her grief into a passion.

April 24, 2017May 2, 2018 Reporter

Researcher Meredith Blackwell loves fungi so the rest of us don’t have to

Assortment of mushrooms

The fungi Meredith Blackwell studies can kill you. They also are essential to life. That paradox intrigues the world-renowned researcher now at USC. But Blackwell became a mycologist by accident.

April 19, 2017April 19, 2017 Reporter

Pomaria alpaca farmer inspired by TV show, motivated by family

Misty the alpaca

Alicia Holbrook was just trying to pass the time until her daughter went back to sleep with a TV show about alpaca farming. Five years later, her late-night idea has grown into Carolina Pride Pastures, a thriving alpaca farm boasting 20 alpacas and an educational field trip program.

April 14, 2017April 21, 2017 Reporter

DIY recycling: This Cayce greenhouse is really ‘green’

Russell Long and his greenhouse.

Russell Long has taken the “green” in greenhouse to a new level. Look closely, and you’ll see most of the greenhouse Long has built behind his Cayce Avenues home is from repurposed materials. One expert says such DIY recycling is becoming more common.

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 Reporter

Dreams of restoring Historic Waverly still struggle to become reality

Historic Waverly welcome sign

Aspirations have always been part Columbia’s Historic Waverly, a center of South Carolina’s civil rights movement. Two men, James Baker and Frank Houston, now say it’s time to again turn dreams to reality and restore Waverly, but it remains a struggle.

March 29, 2017March 30, 2017 Reporter1 Comment

Important S.C. jazz cafe worries about losing home in redone Finlay Park

Le Cafe Jazz sign

Skipp Pearson’s Le Cafe Jazz stands out not only as the renowned saxophonist’s home base but also for its focus on the music. But look at the preliminary renovation plans for Columbia’s Finlay Park. You won’t find the building it now calls home.

March 22, 2017March 28, 2017 Reporter

Olympia-Granby Museum preserves mill villages’ past in uncertain future

Sherry Jaco hopes the Olympia-Granby Museum she’s building helps capture the culture of the mill villages she knows from decades of living there. But even as she builds it, museums like this are becoming a part of the very past they aimed to preserve.

March 15, 2017September 7, 2017 Reporter6 Comments

Columbia geeks provide glimpse into vibrant local nerd subculture

Sarah El-Khabbaz cosplays as Pinkie Pie from "My Little Pony"

Three “geeks” — avid fans of comic books, anime and other pop culture genres — reveal the nerdy alter-egos they assume after they leave work or school.

December 7, 2016December 7, 2016 Reporter1 Comment

Divided political parties raise questions of polarization

Clinton supporters watch the first debate at the SC Democratic Headquarters

The first presidential debate was the most watched in history, with the following two drawing in equally large audiences. But following the election, many wonder if these debates actually changed any minds. James Piereson, an expert on the topic, weighs in with commentary from voters from both parties.

November 19, 2016December 2, 2016 Reporter

Welcome Table SC addresses attitudes, experiences regarding race

Horseshoe at USC

Welcome Table SC employs candid conversations to help students understand how race affects their lives and the lives of those around them.

November 5, 2016November 7, 2016 Reporter

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