Features
54 Yearning for Yesterday, Transforming Today
The Greatest Generation reminisces about Columbia's Past
By Chuck Walsh
58 Toys Topping Santa's List
The hottest Christmas toys
By Vicki Patterson Cannon
60 Homegrown in SC
A new crop of companies incubates and emerges
By Vicki Patterson Cannon
63 Columbia's Top Chefs
Getting to know the chefs from the March of Dimes
Signature Chefs Auction
By Beverly Yates Wilson
Special Sections
Local Seen
14 Cooking to Win
Candy McMenamin taps into her culinary competitiveness
By Susan Fuller Slack, CCP
Palmetto Business
21 Midlife Progress
Three women begin businesses after 50
By Mary Ellen Cheatham
Home Style
32 Santa? Is That You?
Rose Harrison creates not-so-traditional Santa Clauses
By Glenna B. Kinard
36 TV Troubles
Solutions for hiding your flat screen
By Katie McElveen
40 A Stage of Her Own
KimCarsonDesign helps clients sell their homes
By Ashley Sherry
45 Happy Birthday at Home
Bringing back home birthday parties
By Beverly Yates Wilson
Arts
73 Painting New Opportunities
The Art of Recovery Gallery
By Rosanne McDowell
Let's Go Shopping!
70 Holiday Gift Guide
79 Shops of Devine Street
83 Shops of Lexington
85 Shops of the Vista
86 Shops of Forest Acres
In Every Issue
8 From the Editor
10 City Scoop
26 Spread the Word
48 New to the Neighborhood?
89 Good Eats
94 Picture This
95 Just Married
96 Out and About
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