Columbia's Greek Festival — Local services in Columbia

I have attended this festival for over 30 years. This year may have been the last. The drive thru was disappointing. The line was expected; however, the food was the disappointment. The gyros was small, wrapped so tightly and taste was sorry. Once we moved to the point of getting our food, it appeared disorganized. Children were running up and down the car lines with bagged food as if they were looking for whoever ordered the food. Don't waste your time or money going to this festival. I will NEVER go to the drive thru again. Hopefully this terrible experience will not keep me from coming back ONLY IF IT RETURNS TO PRE- COVID-19 STATUS. Very disappointing after over 30 years of supporting and enjoying...

I am an international student at USC and attended it for a class assignment to take photos of the event layout details and write a paper. At booth 14 (Kosmima LLC), I faced a shocking discriminatory incident. After I took one photo, a middle-aged man in a plaid shirt from booth 14 grabbed my phone without permission and told me to delete it , in a very rude way saying: “Chinese? Copy guy, Delete it.” I don't know why，then I realized just because I am Chinese—think of stealing jewelry designs.When I said, “You are racist,” he became even more aggressive and continued to insult me. This behavior was openly racist and made me feel humiliated and unsafe. By the way，food is...

Super crowded and people from the stands constantly looking angry. But the tip of it all was a lady selling Russian dolls, me and my daughter got close since we saw other kids picking up the dolls too. So we decided to do it too, then lady tells me I should look at cheaper and tell me to stop playing with them. This lady had 3 (white) kids opening dolls and not buying. But because we are brown, she picked on me and my daughter for looking at one. Tell me to look at the cheap dolls. 1. You sell Russian dolls 🪆 I have to see the center and 2. I wasn’t the first to do it. Never going back...