Stand-Up Commuter

When you undertake an unprecedented business strategy, you have to be prepared to deal with any situation that arises. For comedian and guerrilla comedy promoter Dylan Shelton,...

Opening Volley

God, I love football. Between OSU tailgates, my fantasy roster, and my masochistic Cleveland Browns fandom, football has consistently threatened to unseat basketball as the...

Girls! Girls! Girls!

In the waning moments of this year’s ComFest, I shuffled my beery self over to the Offramp stage to catch the last act of the festival. Knowing something of The Girls! as...

They Will Always Party Hard

By Kevin J. Elliott Ask anyone to map out the arbitrary boundaries of the imaginary Washington Beach neighborhood, and you’re likely to get a different answer every...

Honky Tonk Holdout

I got a slow rollin' low Forgot the words to my song Ain't that just like a fool, riding them trains when the trains is all gone Billy Joe Shaver is a country music legend,...

Pipe Dream

By nature, the pipe organ is a keeper of secrets. Beneath the cascading pipes lies an unseen world of mechanics, the sheer magnitude of which can easily go unappreciated by its...1

Brand New Canvas

Columbus’ passionate artistic heritage is well documented and deeply rooted: Colorful murals adorn many of the city’s walls, galleries pack full of patrons every month for...2

Gallery Space: Meta-Mission

“Everything has a function,” says Tyler Bohm, of Metamorph, his multimedia show currently on display at Fresh A.I.R Gallery. “In each piece there are five or six big...

Art Wire

Columbus Public Art: Finding Time Bicentennial Towers, Broad Street Bridge www.columbuspublicart.com Over the years people have bandied about a number of ideas involving the...

The Columbusonian

Parting Shot: Life on the Ropes

Ihave a friend that runs marathons, and he tells me that the first few miles and the last few miles are the most difficult, but that in the middle of the race, there’s a great...

Fashion: Town & Country

There’s no place like the countryside. This fall, city girls are going country chic in relaxed pants, mixed prints and cowboy boots combined with brocade and fluff pieces....

Real Life, Real Live

Lightning flashed through the curtained front window of the loft-like performance space. After days of outages that left thousands without power for up to a week, it was raining...

Opening Volley

The only thing worse than someone who doesn’t care about how they look is someone who truly cares about style … and is going about it horribly wrong. I’m the second...

Teen Spirit

It’s Day Two of ComFest 2011, and Bob Dawson has inadvertently positioned himself as the nucleus of the largest impromptu party of the day. At the center of an atomized mass...2

Rock.0

Everyone likes live music. But getting your friends to slip into that sweet spot in the Venn diagram overlapping live and local has long been a difficult task. For those in...

Organ Grinder

The growling, husky voice that belongs to Tony Monaco carries all the cool and late night wisdom that you would expect from a 53-year-old jazz lifer. He’s been plying his...

Shake, Rattle, & Soul

Time has an interesting effect on cultural trends – add a little and it’s passé and hardly worth more than a disdainful sideways glance. Add a couple decades or so,...22

Tunnel Vision

Ask any kid what they want to be when they grow up, and you can expect the usual battery of responses: fireman, astronaut, teacher – or whatever other generic job title their...

She’s Crafty

Esther Hall is used to finding creative inspiration in the most unlikely of locales. As she puts my thick thumbs to use fashioning cute little hairclips in her Grandview...

Act II

They say that you should write what you know, and that is exactly what singer/actor/cancer survivor Alex Kip is doing. Diagnosed with lymphoma his senior year as a theatre...

Art Wire

Columbus Public Art: Finding Time Performance Drawing by Nikhil Chopra Downtown www.columbuspublicart.com Describing what former OSU student Nikhil Chopra does is difficult....1

Gallery Space: The Voice of Hope

“I always like to be adventurous,” says Ecuadorian artist Jose Bastidas of his decision to move to Columbus more than 10 years ago. Living in New York, a city he “fell in...

The Columbusonian

Here Comes the Sun

I have no way of knowing whether or not the tides will have turned in the heat department by the time this column hits the stands. For all I know, temperatures have skyrocketed...