The Columbia Heart Beat

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/18/18 (Beet Bite) -- Horrors!

Columbia City Hall fighting power outages and basement sewer backups, just like people all over Columbia? 

Aging central city infrastructure and shoddy construction city officials compare to "the stuff you see in student apartments" waylaying that tower of power? 

The same problems plaguing that $35 million behemoth so many other Columbia residents put up with? 

What if?   What would a story about that look like?  A horror story, just in time for Halloween, complete with a new demon:  "pop up" floods -- the interior version of flash floods near leaking ceilings and faulty sprinkler systems.

"I hate to admit it, but poor-quality construct...

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/23/18 (Preview) -- Elizabeth Moen is one of those rare vocal artists -- male or female -- whose voice leaps so far in front of the music that every other instrument fades. NPR called her voice "jaw-dropping."

Moen brings her front-and-center vocals to Columbia on Thursday at Cafe Berlin .

 

Her songs are like searchlights, seeking resolute pathways through matters of the heart shrouded in uncertainty, longing, and misbegotten circumstance.

"I wish I could swoop you into my wings," she coos in Songbird , from her 2016 self-titled CD. "But I’m just a songbird outside your window." 

I wish I could come inside, sit at your table, spend the morning "talking and laughi...

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/17/18 (PSA) -- The idea of a next Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart may seem strange in a world of pop music that rarely gets closer to its classical counterparts than Rock Me Amadeus or the occasional sampling job .