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Queef headlines "Bohemian Rhapsody" celebration
November 06, 2018 - In the upstairs Pastor’s Study at Lula Drake on Sunday night, Queef headlined a live musical celebration of the new film...
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Soda Citizen: Sean Thomson loves satanic crabs
August 07, 2018 - Sean Rayford: If you participated in organized crime, what would your role and nickname be?
Sean Thomson: Something bor...
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Photos: Mardi Gras Festival Columbia, SC
February 11, 2018 - A show at the Elbow Room was my alibi on two occasions in 1998. The first instance occurred when my neighbors in Preston...
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13 Practical and Affordable Holiday Gifts for Photographers [$10-$250]
November 23, 2017 - One of the best things about photography - and most creative endeavors - is the unending process of learning. In celebra...
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Photos: First Week at Catitude Cat Cafe
November 16, 2017 - PHOTOS AND WORDS BY SEAN RAYFORD
University of South Carolina grad Andres Ortega had a nice job in corporate America.
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Photos: Jam Room Fest with Guided by Voices
October 15, 2017 - You know something’s afoot when a dude walks past you on Main Street in Columbia wearing a Merge Records t-shirt and you...
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Capitalist at house show convinces photojournalist to change career goals
August 08, 2016 - When I ran into Summer Ruisseaux on Friday night at New Brookland Tavern she was a bit apprehensive about hosting a hous...
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Soda Citizen: Brian Timmons of fk mt.
November 21, 2014 - Sean: Draw me something in this space in five minutes or less.
Brian: Anything?
Yea.
Goddamnit.
Anything as long...
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South Carolina State Fair Gracefully Kicks Off 2014 Season
October 09, 2014 - Fascinated by the organization of shapes and colors and avid observer of human behavior - the fair for me is heaven. The...
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Dear Traveler: Rachel Kate talks Rambo Brite
August 27, 2014 - I've been meaning to do this photo column (which will be a sibling to " Soda Citizen ") for several years and I am pleas...
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Cute Kids Kill it at Columbia Fashion Week - Photos
June 20, 2014 - Some of the younger ones made a few wrong turns like tee-ballers exploring the baseball diamond for the first time in ga...
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Soda City Stand Up Prepares for the Road - Comedy Portraits
June 17, 2014 - John Gibson, a harbinger of humor with the fledgling Soda City Stand Up and Columbia's new home for comedy - The Red Doo...
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"Bizarre Celebrations" - Soda City Gets Weird with Of Montreal
April 20, 2014 - For a few minutes on Thursday night, patrons at the Columbia Museum of Art were teleported to Antarctica with a large he...
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Street Rat in a Ball - SC at SXSW Part Two - Photos
March 25, 2014 - "Street rat in a ball," said the young man wearing a knit cap on Sixth St. in downtown Austin on a Wednesday night durin...
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Someone's Mom Rips Beer Bong at St. Pat's Festival - Photos
March 17, 2014 - "MOM! MOM! MOM!"
I could hear the chant behind me funneling through the chaos of St. Patrick's Day in Five Points, Colu...
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Mardi Gras at City Roots - Soda City Style 2014
March 04, 2014 - As the sun crashed across the City Roots Farm near Owens Field Airport on Saturday, groups of children played on piles o...
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Can't Remember the Weekend - Ep. 4 - Rainbow Pooping Unicorns
March 03, 2014 - The premise of this photoblog is a pursuit of rainbow pooping unicorns. Saturday morning I came pretty close, when I sho...
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Henderson Bros. Burlesque Show at Trustus Theatre in the Vista
February 21, 2014 - Last weekend, Trustus Theatre in the Vista hosted the Henderson Bros. Burlesque Show in celebration of Valentine's Day....
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Can't Remember the Weekend - Ep. 2 - Hump Mountain Roller Derby
February 10, 2014 - On four Friday nights each year Soda citizens gather downtown at the Columbia Museum of Art to listen to live music, dri...
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No Unicorns at SC Pride Fest - Photos
October 01, 2013 - If you regularly read this photoblog, then you already know that I'm a professional unicorn hunter (See "When Rainbows P...
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West Columbia Apartment Fire Claims One Life
September 13, 2013 - We could hear the firetrucks screaming past New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia about 30 minutes before doors were to...
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"Two Star Hotel" A Book of Photography by Sean Rayford
August 09, 2013 - My favorite photography medium to work in is now "book" - followed closely by buttons.
I'm happy to announce that...
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Weird Al Yankovic Ruins Birthday Party
June 21, 2013 - "Was it dark or light beer?"
"That's awesome if that is your first question - and it was a PBR."
So begins my phone co...
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Soda City Salutes Legendary Rockafellas' Music Club
May 20, 2013 - I saw three notable bands at Rockafellas' during my freshman year at USC before the music venue shut it's doors: Machine...
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Unicorn sighted at Kenny Chesney Concert - Photo
May 13, 2013 - I spent the Saturday before last hanging out at Williams Brice Stadium photographing the Kenny Chesney concert. Most of...
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Guitarist John Vail Suffers from Bangover - Photos
April 29, 2013 - "The Bangover lasts about three days. The first show, you lose your mind [onstage]. And then the next two you are in ago...
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Drunk Guy at the Festival & Hula Hoops - Photos
April 23, 2013 - The drunk guy at the festival has always been a side attraction for me, orchestrating a ballet of intoxication that is o...
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Clowney Catches TD Pass - South Carolina Spring Game Photos
April 14, 2013 - Jadeveon "Hammer of the Gods" Clowney was standing next to me on the sideline in sneakers and shorts when the quarterbac...
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How the Soda City Rocked in 2012 - Part 3 of 3 - Concert Photography
January 02, 2013 - "Could you take my picture - cause I won't remember."
-'Take a Picture' by Filter (1999)
Can you blame me? Here's th...
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The Final Days of the Soda City - Columbia, South Carolina - Photos
December 21, 2012 - I spent the final week before the end of the world wandering around Columbia observing how my fellow citizens of the Sod...
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How the Soda City Rocked in 2012 - Concert Photography by Sean Rayford - Part 1 of 3
December 17, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina
By my rough estimate - come New Year's Eve - I will have seen over 600 bands play this year an...
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Aiken County Slurtoth vs. Serbian Zastava M70 AK47 - Photos
December 04, 2012 - After the recent acquisition of another AK-47 by a co-worker at the music club, it seemed like an opportune time to revi...
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Almost Halloween in the Soda City - Photos
October 27, 2012 - It's not quite Halloween in Columbia, South Carolina but it's Friday night and we're living in Zombie Town Soda City sty...
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Scared Shitless: The Diving Pig at the South Carolina State Fair
October 23, 2012 - Friday - October 19, 2012 - Columbia, SC
"Awe come on pig. Just jump in the darn water," pleaded the former strip club...
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Ghostface Killah Headlines First Night of Cola Con 2012 - Photos
October 06, 2012 - Columbia Museum of Art - Friday, October 5, 2012 - Cola Con
I spent most of the evening at the Rock 93.5 Fall Out Festi...
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Photos - The Sheepdogs at New Brookland in West Columbia, South Carolina
September 26, 2012 - I didn't expect to see anybody at New Brookland Tavern when I dropped by mid-afternoon on Tuesday to double check my wor...
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South Carolina Gamecocks Defeat Clemson Tigers - Soccer - Sept. 19, 2012
September 18, 2012 - College sports rivalries are so much fun, especially when your alma mater comes out victorious over those nasty orange h...
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Photos - Famously Hot Music Festival - Day Three - Columbia SC
August 27, 2012 - August 26, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina
Sunday was the final day of the Famously Hot Music Festival at Finlay...
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Photos - Famously Hot Music Festival - Day Two - Columbia SC
August 26, 2012 - August 25, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina
I have come to the conclusion that some of the happiest people on earth ar...
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Photos - Famously Hot Music Festival - Day One - Columbia SC
August 25, 2012 - August 24, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina
As I walked across the perpetually soaked concert lawn of Finlay Park yest...
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Welcome to the Soda City: Columbia, South Carolina - Part 2
August 16, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina: July 31 - August 11, 2012
A few months back I moved over to the west side of town, a mere 9...
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"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
July 25, 2012 - From here on out I will be naming my cameras after Hall of Fame baseball players. I'm thinking that if I can give the tw...
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Click. Click. Clunk. It's Dead... 10 Ways to Cope With the Death of Your Camera
July 18, 2012 - Monday, July 16, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina
I stood at the top of the South Carolina state house steps and looke...
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Cult Classic Punks - The Hottest Day Ever in South Carolina
July 05, 2012 - June 30, 2012: Columbia, South Carolina
It was the hottest day known to history in the state of South Carolina. Here in...
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Guns & Ammo: Hunting the Slurtoth in rural South Carolina
June 25, 2012 - June 22, 2012
My co-workers from the New Brookland Tavern like shooting guns and one of them just got an AK. It's also...
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La Dispute, Balance and Composure, All Get Out and Sainthood Reps
May 01, 2012 - Dudes in vans. Sunday, April 22, 2012 - New Brookland Tavern
I have been bartending at New Brookland Tavern for too lon...
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"I lost my job today and that's worth celebrating" -Tim Barry
April 23, 2012 - April 17, 2012: New Brookland Tavern
On a hobbled picnic bench in a parking lot next to an abandoned motorcycle co-op g...
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When Unicorns Poop Rainbows - An introduction to the Angry Whale
February 27, 2012 - I've heard people talk about unicorns dropping out of the sky and then pooping rainbows. You might say those people are...
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