Articles
Hip-hop and a higher power
He goes by the name of Pastor Flo. As he stood in the pulpit of the Hip-Hop Sanctuary New Generation Church, all eyes were on him. “They say we can’t have hip-hop and church,” said Flo, a lay preacher whose real name is Roosevelt Sargent.
Anticipating funding
Marketta Hayes sat at her dining table in her Columbia home looking at an empty Lipton Iced Tea bottle. “Oh,” she said, sliding the bottle away from her. “I didn’t know there was that many calories in here. That’s a lot.”
Ancient history
As Columbia’s boundary inches closer to the Missouri River, development threatens what remains of Missouri’s past.
At Stephens College, an A+ matters more than a win
Maddie Marshall is so Hollywood. From the glittery wrap that keeps her dark brown hair in place to her academic major — film studies — she seems like the kind of woman who would be at home on the left coast.
Picture of the week
Danielle Morris was watching television as I surveyed her apartment to find the perfect location to photograph a portrait of her.
Life on hold
Many women shudder at the thought that a modern-day female might define her life by the presence or absence of a man.
Rachel Anderson
My guiltiest pleasure is ... lying in bed and watching “Grey’s Anatomy” or reading US Weekly.
A poem of a home
"Every morning I shower with Milton,” says Jenijoy La Belle, referring to tiles she found on eBay and installed on her shower wall. “They show Satan watching with envy as Adam kisses Eve,” a reproduction of William Blake’s drawing for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
Mother Nature in throes of menopause
Here it is the middle of April and I’m writing this column with a blanket thrown across my shoulders. Me! The queen of hot flashes has been freezing for most of the last three months.
New online Missourian sheds light on the city’s darker deeds
The state Sunshine Law forced officials to release documents that they would rather have kept private. The spirit of the law: Good deeds are rarely done in the dark.
