Art About Town: Glasgow Reflection

Rachel Post Notley Hawkins says 10 percent of photography is skill and hard work, and the other 90 percent is just showing up. His photo Glasgow Reflection is a perfect example.

Marijuana Legalization

Nick Williams Imagine your high school classmates. There’s the classic Type A personality who has to iron his short-sleeved white oxford before bed at 8 p.m., and his arch nemesis — the shaggy-haired, tie-dye enthusiast who enjoys tucking a wet towel in between his floor and door before lighting up. Bob Stutman, former New York DEA agent, and Steve Hagar, editor of High Times, definitely would have been their respective heroes.

A Horrible Way to Die brings gore and guts

Ettie Berneking Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard are conducting what’s turning out to be a painful experiment: creating a movie with almost no money and only three weeks to finish. Although Barrett, a Columbia native, has made several films in Hollywood, he says he always wanted to make his latest film, A Horrible Way to Die, here. So he’s back in Columbia with director and friend Adam Wingard.

Flashes of innovation

Vox staff, multimedia by Sarah Herrera Eureka. It’s that moment of epiphany, a realization that’s career-defining, that trumps everyday findings and makes countless hours spent leafing through stacks of 90-year-old newspapers or painstakingly piecing together a genome worth it. Innovators as diverse as Albert Einstein, Gloria Steinem and Thomas Edison are permanent fixtures in our history because of their “Aha!” moments, and the people of Columbia are following in their footsteps. These individual breakthrough moments, such as managing populations of endangered forest elephants or creating better-fitting fire gear, affect more than just the researcher. They secure Columbia as a place where initial concepts turn into concrete realities.