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SECRET LIVES! INKS North Carolina dudes sign deal with Victory Records

City Paper’s Foray into online gambling

How advertising on AM radio contributes to political stereotypes

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Two years after Katrina: a New Orleans writer reflects on her city

Collegiate’s Cerebral Curiosity Shop

Second installment dedicated to bad jokes.

“Family Biennial” exhibit at Gallery 80808

War and Superbad

Displacement of merchants continues in Five Points

Feds to cut funding for low-income college bound students

An all-black Google page could save energy

Five Points sunbather picks Carolina to win SEC East

GOVERNOR THANKS TAXPAYER HEROES, CALLS SENATE’S LACK OF DELIBERATIONS “A DERELICTION OF DUTY”

South Carolina Corrections Director Jon Ozmint issued the following statement in response to the Senate sub-committee that met today to discuss its preliminary report about the agency, which was leaked prematurely to select news media:

Columbia police are searching for John Henry Griffin, (d.o.b. 11-17-84), of 710 Columbia College Drive, Columbia.

A former City of Mauldin employee was arrested by SLED agents on Monday, August 27, 2007, at approximately 10:00 a.m. He was charged with Embezzlement of Public Funds with a Value Less than $5,000. The former employee is identified as Robert William Singletary, 65, of 838 Ballenger Road, Gray Court, South Carolina. He was booked at the Greenville County Detention Center. The arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by SLED at the request of the City of Mauldin. The case will be prosecuted by the Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

Karl Rove linked to Alabama corruption case

By Todd Morehead

Big box retailers sneaking into Five Points through the back door

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Lexington, S.C. company charges U.S. government $1 million for two 19-cent washers Read more…

Morgellons disease under the microscope

Rubber pants and time-traveling dwarves

McMaster Gallery presents Dawn Hunter’s “Spectacle Spectacular: Wonder Woman’s Island” through September 13.

Darlington Raceway to lose its abrasive edge

“If history repeats itself,” George Bernard Shaw once said, “and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must (humans) be of learning from experience.” This edition of the Columbia City Paper coincides with our second birthday. It is, also, the second time around for me on a fledgling alternative newspaper under conditions that are less than perfect…

Open Letter to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan

At 2 a.m. outside a wing joint on Harden Street, 50-year-old Sam, a homeless black man and Gulf War veteran with 38 confirmed kills knows he can’t go inside.

The Tarin Kowt battle represented the first major fighting for the Dutch army in decades. And while the Dutch soldiers emerged victorious, the Dutch government nevertheless ordered an eventual retreat from the battlefield.

Stardust: great look, bad sound

AGainst me! in jail

Singer Tom Gabel arrested after coffee shop melee

By Sean Rayford

Charleston Post and Courier goes after Michael Moore

By Will Moredock

Why do discredited Iraq hawks still cash In?

By Ted Rall

By Corey Hutchins

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South Carolina’s state-owned Santee Cooper proposes building another coal plant as other states nationwide turn away from the largest contributor to global warming

Put your skates on and lace up, it’s time to kick some ass.

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama addresses college Democrats at USC the day before Lindsay Lohan’s latest film was released.

How the Vans Warped Tour baffles the sane and insane

Debunking the military debunkers

By Ted Rall

Greene St. businesses continue to fight possible eviction

This week’s crimes in your neighborhood

For a state that takes pride in politeness and manners, South Carolina has done a pretty poor job with its sister state of Queensland, Australia.

By Andy Brack

Everybody loves Jim. Should they?

By Corey Hutchins

S.C. backyard birds in decline

Dean became homeless after his father shot him with a .38-caliber pistol.

By Corey Hutchins

Letters to the Editor

Belt sanders and strawberry Astroglide

I heard the other day that you were being inducted. I guess into some sort of Hall of Fame?

Tyler Blanton to exhibit at Saks Fifth Avenue

A tale of debauchery and bowling in Louisville, Kentucky

It is Friday night and there’s no excuse

Live music fans in the capital city will soon find themselves debating over something more controversial than the Confederate battle flag and gay marriages. Where to go on the night of Friday, Aug. 10?

Democrats hold debate in Republicans’ backyard

Savage Love

This is in response to IPRUDE, the mother who’s worried about her son’s online porn consumption. I’ll never forget the day my mom found my porn magazines. She never confronted me; I simply lifted the mattress one afternoon to find my precious Penthouses gone. In their place: Sunset magazine and Good Housekeeping.