Weekly open mics around Columbus give poets an outlet

Poetry open mics give opportunity for poets searching for an underground outlet, or someone just interested in being part of a small, artistic comm…

Music organizations team up to put on a Halloween show

Kanye West, Modest Mouse, Sufjan Stevens and The Cure will be performing together in concert. Well, kind of. On Saturday night, local artists w…

Student’s guide to sanctuary, coffee shops

  Coffee. For many people, it’s a daily part of a routine. But for some, coffee is an art form. It is a ritual that should be treated with …

Student creates music compilation for charity

Columbus resident and Ohio State student Sandeep Sehbi is raising money for refugees in France in the best way he knows — through his love of music…

Student pens bittersweet pop tart comic

In middle school, Kate Isaacs, a fifth-year in English, and her friends would pass around notebooks. They would draw themselves facing various adve…

Math professor gets radical with band

Auxiliary assistant professor Bart Snapp has 17 different geometry books scattered around his office. He wears a tweed blazer and sits in front of ad…

Writers’ Block open mic keeps the poems flowing at Kafe Kerouac

At the front of the line of people waiting to pay $5 to get into Kafe Kerouac’s intimate and book-filled performance space, a man asked, “Will I be a…