Sniffing Their Way to a Win
Columbia Canine Sports Center offers scent-based competitions.
Sports Contenders
Five invigorating reads to energize your summer.
Adventures in Dining
Tempt your taste buds with these local exotic flavors. There’s a time for comfort food, for classic fare that takes you home, wraps you in a blanket, and sings you to sleep. And then there’s a time for adventure, for a meal that transports you to another place filled with flavors you might not recognize […]
Giving Back: A Sweet Partnership
The Salvation Army honors veterans with dough-nated doughnuts. Almost nothing is sweeter than getting to thank those who serve our country. Our local officers at The Salvation Army get to do just this. June 7 is National Doughnut Day, and to celebrate, The Salvation Army will deliver hot, fresh doughnuts to the veterans at the […]
Pool Party
Todd and Beth Whitaker partner with Rost Landscaping to create an outdoor oasis. Moving to Columbia was something of a homecoming for Missouri natives Todd and Beth Whitaker. After 22 years as professors at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, the Whitakers wanted to be closer to family and found that Columbia offered the most […]
Shelf Life: The Perfect American Novel
Set at MU, “Stoner” gains acclaim 20 years after the author’s death. It’s hard as a Midwesterner to not be a bit envious of the great Southern writing tradition in the United States. William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and so many others beautifully animate the region and its people. We delight to […]
Cultivating Self-Awareness
An introduction to the Enneagram personality profile. In the span of just a few years, I found myself fully thrust into adulthood. I was in my late 20s, happily married, raising our wonderful young children, and serving in a leadership role at work. But I began to notice that my most consistent stresses and challenges […]
Hanging With the Boss
Tenth Street’s newest taco bar features rum-focused tiki drinks and more. The anticipated brick-and-mortar location of Lindsey Spratt’s creation, Boss Taco, opened its doors in downtown Columbia only a few months ago. While tacos and avocado fries may bring the people in, the bar will compel them to stay. Boss Taco sets its tone as […]
Unleashed: Gentle Giants
At Warm Springs Ranch, guests experience the Budweiser Clydesdales up close. In 1933, to celebrate the end of prohibition, August Busch Jr. gave his father six Clydesdales. Overcome with happiness and gratitude, August Busch Sr. cried into his beer. This event gave us the cheeky phrase, “Don’t cry in your beer,” and the gesture prompted […]
Meet Me by the Riverfront
Washington surprises and delights with true Missouri flair. When I was young, my brother and I would complain to our parents that we were bored. (As if it was their problem, right?) My father would look down to his sandy blonde-haired children and say, “Only boring people get bored.” As a 5-year-old, I had never […]
Healthy and Beautiful
Brighten up your crudités platter with gorgeous eye candy and flavorful dip. Healthy appetizers can seem like an oxymoron, and “healthifying” popular fried, cheesy, and rich apps can be quite the killjoy. As a registered dietitian, you might expect me to convince you to switch to low-fat cream cheese in your next buffalo dip, but […]
Shades of Spring
Brighten up your eyes with these easy tutorials created by local makeup artists. Smoke & Mirrors modeled by Ashley Hoops. Just Peachy modeled by Elly Valvo. Ashley and Elly’s looks created by Haley Callaway, Aveda artist, Green Meadows Hair Co. & Spa. All That Glitters modeled by Anne Tuckley. Gloss Over It modeled by Eryn […]