The University of South Carolina’s Symphony Orchestra's concert Hope, Solidarity and The New World on Sept. 28. It features USC professor and acclaimed musician JD Shaw on horn.

The University of South Carolina’s Symphony Orchestra's concert Hope, Solidarity and The New World on Sept. 28. It features USC professor and acclaimed musician JD Shaw on horn.

The University of South Carolina’s Southern Exposure New Music Series kicks off its 2021-22 Season tonight with “Night Music.”

Arts & Draughts' return to the Columbia Museum of Art is among the things to do this week.

Columbia event picks for the week of Sept. 1.

Columbia events picks for the week of Aug. 26.

The two things many non-opera fans can agree upon about the genre is that opera singers sound impressive as hell, and operas themselves are usually pretty boring and inscrutable.

The debut full-length from Aim High is infectiously audacious.

Those perennial basketball tricksters, the Harlem Globetrotters, return on Aug. 5

Although they rode the ’90s grunge wave to a handful of major label deals, New Orleans-based Cowboy Mouth cut a swath distinctly different from their flannel-wearing peers.

In what annually proves to be among the most affirming live music experiences you’ll ever have, the Girls Rock Camper Showcase finds a new home on the Boyd Plaza stage this year.

Community theater is one of the many cultural institutions that was dealt a harsh blow due to COVID-19, so it’s nice to see Town Theatre continue to launch productions.

Craft and Draft, which has two locations for you to explore a huge range of beer from South Carolina and elsewhere, celebrates its seventh anniversary in largely the same fashion it has its other non-COVID-impacted milestones.

If you’re looking for the most quintessential Independence Day experience that’s not actually on July 4, you would be hard-pressed to do better than to take in the South Carolina Philharmonic concert at Segra Park on July 3.

“To rewrite history”? No. “To right history.” That’s the mission set out by the trailer for “Summer of Soul,” the new documentary directed by Questlove.

The Nickelodeon Theatre is back open for in-person audiences. And for those not yet ready to return to the theater, it continues its Virtual Screening room.

At what might be New Brookland Tavern’s biggest show since COVID-19, three groups showcase the power of their female singers.

In conjunction with John Sims’ “AfroDixia” exhibition, which features arresting recolorations of Confederate flags, the 701 Center for Contemporary Art hosts the premiere screening of “Meltdown in Dixie.”

This week, Stormwater Studios opens its first exhibition since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

This week, Stormwater Studios opens its first exhibition since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

With the warming weather comes a bevvy of opportunities to engage with Columbia’s preeminent orchestra. 

Columbia’s Brandy and the Butcher band put out one of last year’s best hard rock releases, and then, well, couldn’t do too much about it due to COVID-19.

The former employees of the Nickelodeon Theatre that comprise the Frame x Frame Film Club continue their efforts to, per their website, “amplify voices that have historically been oppressed and marginalized in the Midlands of South Carolina, and beyond."

Four Columbia acts will see how they measure up to the Man in Black, covering Cash on the occasion of his birthday at Indah Coffee.

With innovative recordings and performances praised for their exuberance, virtuosity and nonchalance, the 20-member Alarm Will Sound orchestra has set the bar for risk-taking approaches to contemporary classical music.

This week, Historic Columbia allows people to watch director Wes Craven’s meta-murder mystery “Scream” in socially distanced pods.

The screenings that Columbia scored as a satellite host for this year’s Sundance Film Festival are done, and now it’s time for the people who helped bring it here to take a deserved bow.

The hunters are being hunted in Agnieszka Holland’s “Spoor,” a mystical whodunnit set in the mist-shrouded forests near the Polish-Czech border.

Mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway and violinist Ari Streisfeld are husband-and-wife team Duo Cortona. The ensemble’s virtual concert, recorded in the Columbia Museum of Art’s collection galleries, is centered on the work of lyric poet Sappho.

The Nickelodeon Theatre shut back down last week after trying 25 percent capacity screenings for less than a month. But the city’s lone arthouse cinema continues with its Virtual Screening Room.

If you’re looking to toast the new year and want to do so outside in the more temperate daytime due to the ongoing pandemic, the Columbia area provides more than a few options.

Columbia artist Roger Reed pushes against tedium in his new show.

The documentary "76 Days" tells the human stories at the heart of the pandemic.

The Luminal Theater, a nomadic cinema organization that splits time between New York and Columbia, made noise last week.

"Elf" screens this week at Segra Park.

The second volume in the compilation series from local podcast crew Comfort Monk illustrates the valuable connections it’s bringing to our music community.

The University of South Carolina’s Sport and Entertainment program has put together Coolaroo at The Senate, an indoor/outdoor concert with seven different acts playing on two stages.

With last week's video featuring folk-pop duo Prettier Than Matt, the socially distanced video performance series “1 or 2” hit 30 episodes.

In a rarity for local groups, the chamber-bluegrass Boomtown Trio meticulously prepared the release of its debut LP, waiting months after recording to make sure every detail was considered and prepared for an April release. Then, 2020 happened.

Jolted by the rise of the far-right National Front and racial slurs from rock royalty like Eric Clapton, British music photographer Red Saunders and like-minded creatives formed Rock Against Racism, the subject of the 2019 documentary "White Riot," in the late-'70s.

"Dear White People" screens on Oct. 24 at the University of South Carolina's Davis Field.