It's wear-your-hoodie-with-the-hood-up-inside cold this morning.

2025’s best album (to set the vibe while sipping good whiskey).

I just genuinely don't understand how, regardless of whether you understand what he's saying, you could not have an absolute blast listening to Bad Bunny.

Year-end listening thought: Why were we tepid on Lucy Dacus' Forever Is a Feeling again? lucydacus.bandcamp.com/album/foreve...

If anybody's curious, this was No. 1 on my Best of SC Music ballot. comacinema.bandcamp.com/album/grand-...

Good on Notre Dame for declining bowl invitations, I also refuse to show up to pointless meetings

The Bojangles bologna biscuit hits.

Catching up to Greenville. Sydney Dunlap has Free Times' inside look. www.postandcourier.com/free-times/f...

Conducting meetings today from the Dean Dome, a building that has yet to see a loss this year, unlike Rupp Arena. #GoHeels

Big Thief’s Double Infinity is the best Kurt Vile album.

Extremely proud of the work the team at Post and Courier Columbia has put out in my first month here. All of it.

Your soup can be 10% less satisfying than I'm counting on if you load me down with oyster crackers.

Album of the year? bellwitch.bandcamp.com/album/stygia...

A team needs a leader, Bill. And a public servant (that’s you, mister high-paid COLLEGE coach) owes the people answers. apnews.com/article/nort...

The Tar Heel vibe tonight.

Happy leftovers day from this banging lentil Wellington

Increasingly convinced Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan is the best Mountain Goats album since The Life of the World to Come (2009). themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/throug...

Columbia nonprofit Homeless No More has dozens of housing units under construction or in development across the Midlands, a decade after endeavoring to build affordable housing to meet the region’s shortage. Read more: www.postandcourier.com/columbia/bus...

My first Free Times live review in a long time reflects on a weekend when Columbia felt like it took a step forward. www.postandcourier.com/free-times/l...

Legends never die.

So many variations of the same very correct sentiment here, all of them so good to read right now: Lisa Willis WAS Free Times. She was the best, and I'll miss her. www.postandcourier.com/free-times/n...

Time for the personal news. Feeling incredibly lucky to keep doing the work I love in a city I love. Columbi-YEAH. www.postandcourier.com/columbia/new...

Today was my last day with The State newspaper. Next stop to be announced soon (I’m not going far). Working for The State, as a reporter and then an editor, was one of my most fulfilling experiences in journalism.

So here it is, my old-man-est tweet to date: I maybe think Sloan put out the best album of the year. sloanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/based-...

Columbia says paying the verdict would impact “its ability to provide essential public services.”

Join The State reporters at The Tent Coffee Shop in Lexington, SC, on Oct. 10 to discuss local news coverage, growth and other issues. https://bit.ly/4pJLBrO?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=b1249635-cbcc-4e27-a25c-3c2e73f27210&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Hey Lexington, we want to hear what you want from your local news. Come on out to talk to @thestate.com reporters covering your community next Friday, Oct. 10! www.thestate.com/news/local/a...

The city of Cayce paid a communications firm more than $26,000 for a campaign to promote its police department after a reporter’s public records request ignited concerns from city officials about a negative news story from those documents. Read the full story: bit.ly/46Avns8

SC Republicans who called for Clemson University employees to be fired have previously championed free speech.

Always nice when your buds have a genuinely ripping band. @doomsdayprofit.bsky.social have a new album, and it's the sludgy end times soundtrack you've been looking for. doomsdayprofit.bandcamp.com/album/doomsd...

More SC church breakup news. This time it's a 140-year-old Columbia Lutheran church looking to break away from the national denomination. www.thestate.com/living/relig...

Why are the children of a public school board chair going to a private school? And is that a problem? www.thestate.com/news/local/e...

I moved to Columbia in December 2013. Tonight, I go to my first Gamecock home football game.

The company, which has promised to bring 4,000 new jobs to the area, will be giving out free cups of coffee around the Midlands Friday.

The Irmo Little League recognizes several teams for their accomplishments in 2025.

Join @bristowmarchant.bsky.social, @hannahwade2000.bsky.social and I in Chapin at The Daily Grind tomorrow from 12-2 to tell us your thoughts about @thestate.com’s local news coverage! www.thestate.com/news/local/a...

Y'all still have time to join @hannahwade2000.bsky.social, @jorlaw.bsky.social and I for coffee this Friday in Chapin. Sign up using the link so we'll know we'll see you there. www.thestate.com/news/local/a...

For only the 2nd time (really the 1st with the festival being fully back in post-pandemic action), I won't be going to the Hopscotch Music Festival this year. But I still have thoughts on what you might see if you're going. I shared them for @indyweek.bsky.social. indyweek.com/music/hopsco...

One week from today, @hannahwade2000.bsky.social, @bristowmarchant.bsky.social and I will be at The Daily Grind Cafe in Chapin to talk with you about our local news coverage. Come on by! www.thestate.com/news/local/a...

How a Midlands school district stood up to hackers that stole students' data. www.thestate.com/news/local/e...

I hope y'all weren't wanting to report any non-celebrity-engagement news today.

New Vibez near the river.

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall interviewed USC great Marcus Lattimore whose book is out ahead of a season of high hopes for the Gamecocks. This is part one.

Join me, @hannahwade2000.bsky.social & @jorlaw.bsky.social for some journalism office hours at the Daily Grind in Chapin next Friday, Sept. 5, from 12 to 2 p.m. www.eventbrite.com/e/coffeehous...

An Upstate Methodist church sought to have the state’s highest court settle its fight to get out of the United Methodist denomination. But the justices found another solution.

Mays Park in Columbia, SC reopens after $1M renovation. Improvements include a splash pad and pickleball court, but the loss of trees sparked community debate.

Checked in with Trustus about how the foundational Columbia theater company ditched talks to move from its longtime home and focus on funding upgrades. www.thestate.com/news/local/a...

The proposed subdivision would outstrip capacity at a Lexington County school, local officials say.

Check out the newest sight coming to Riverbanks Zoo. www.thestate.com/news/local/a...

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