This is a collection of musings, reviews, and commentary on Columbia, SC events, eateries, places I like, style, and politics. Hey, if I can't live in a big city, then I'll try to be cultured in my medium-sized one.
What's not to like about that combination? There are plenty of amazing local restaurants in Columbia that make this combination even more amazing by making it cheap!
In case you want an amazing pizza and wine deal more than once in a week, here's where you should go and when:
Thursday nights: Cellar on Greene offers 2 individual pizzas and a bottle of wine for $25. Plus, Tuesdays are Champagne Tuesdays...half-priced bubblys!
And, just a quick run-down of my other favorite Columbia pizzas...Labrasca's (they have the best cheese salad too, and they'll let you buy uncooked pizzas to "take and bake" later); Pizza Man; and The Whig- $1 slices on Monday nights. Also, the Village Idiot on Forest Drive has a Monday deal where you buy one pizza, get one free!
Can you tell I'm craving pizza and wine today?
What are your favorite pizza joints and dinner specials in Columbia?
As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, I went to see A Serious Man on Tuesday at The Nickelodeon. It is a film by the Coen brothers about a man named Larry Gopnik trying to find balance in a personal world that seems to be crumbling all around him. His wife announces she's leaving him for a pompous-ass friend of theirs, one of his college students is trying to bribe him for a better grade or will sue him for defamation, his live-in brother has a nasty sebaceous-cyst problem and is not only malingering but also has a gambling problem, and his children are whiny little adolescent brats. He seeks out the help of 3 very different rabbis to try to help him sort out his problems.
I thought the film was quite entertaining and clever. Although, I appreciate the brothers' comedies like The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona a bit more than this one.
My favorite scene of the movie comes when Larry is on the phone with the Columbia Record Club--(you remember the one, where you sign up to receive some free albums, but then end up getting sent a lot of crap you don't want and have to send back or get charged for it)--trying to resolve a dispute over a membership his son set up unbeknownst to him. Larry keeps repeating the line, "But I did nothing," over and over...symbolic of how he has done nothing to "deserve" what is happening in his life, but conversely has done nothing to change it. A very clever scene indeed.
The movie is worth watching. It also reminds me of American Beauty--same basic plot--man gets screwed in his personal life; learns life has to be actively participated in to be enjoyed...
While at The Nickelodeon, I picked up Volume 1, Issue 1 of Columbia's Super Budget newsletter. For those who may not know, Super Budget Columbia has a website and Facebook page as well, which give us poor Columbians lists of places to eat, drink and be entertained for cheap. I for one appreciate a deal, especially a sweet deal like eating good food or drinking alcoholic beverages on the cheap, so I decided I'd share some of my favorite most recent Super Budget finds with you:
Food First:
Mondays are Pizza Nights! Free pizza at Kelly's Pub during Monday Night Football $1 large slices at The Whig until midnight $1 large slices and $.40 wings at Village Idiot* until 10 pm (The Whig and Village Idiot pizza are 2 of my absolute favorites in Columbia)
Tuesdays are Taco Nights! $.50 tacos at The Whig-see my precious post about this $1 tacos at Utopia or, if you want more pizza, $1.25 large slices at Pizza Man, (my 3rd favorite pizza in Columbia!)
Wednesdays $1 large slices during Happy Hour only at The Whig
Saturdays $1 Mean Bean Burritos after 6 pm at El Burrito
Sundays $2 import bottles all day and night at Village Idiot* Entertainment: FREE admission for Richland and Lexington county residents to the Riverbanks Zoo every Friday through February 26, 2010!
*Offers good at the Village Idiot in 5 Points ONLY
Know of any other cheap or free food/drink/entertainment in Columbia? Please share!
I am a 30-something social worker, teacher, and momma to Jones and Birdie; surprised daily by how amazing motherhood really is. I love to cook and eat. I also blog for Fig Columbia here: www.figcolumbia.com.
