After Ohio State’s annual 24-hour dance marathon celebrating a year’s worth of fundraising, concluded at 10 p.m. Saturday, BuckeyeThon revealed a $1,704,184.19 total for the kids. The dance marathon consisted of colorful dancing, team games, the sharing of cancer-impacted testimonies and a red carpet for ...
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NAACP OSU looks to encourage community partnership with Black Wall Street event
Following the success of last year’s Black Wall Street, an event that highlights local black businesses, the Ohio State chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is looking to make a bigger impact on Ohio State and Columbus. “We’ve invited a ...
Read More »Growing up 20 minutes away: The good (and bad) of not commuting from home
I’m a Columbus kid. I was born at the Wexner Medical Center, have lived in Dublin, a suburb of Columbus that’s 20 minutes away from Ohio State, my entire life. Now I live in an off-campus apartment. While I could have commuted from home the ...
Read More »New exhibition uses old forms to tell fresh stories
A new exhibition has opened in the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery called “Duo Trio,” which seeks to breathe new life into an age-old format of storytelling in art. The exhibition, which features the work of 14 Ohio artists, is made up exclusively of diptychs ...
Read More »Clintonville restaurant owner offered free meals to federal workers during shutdown
It was a post on Instagram that put Perrie Wilkof in action. The image was from Cellar Door Provisions, a restaurant in Chicago that was offering free food for federal workers impacted by the government shutdown. The next morning, Wilkof went to her restaurant Dough ...
Read More »Gallery show presents a love letter to Columbus from local artists
Columbus artists have come together to represent the intricacies and unknowns of the city in a gallery show, “From Columbus With Love.” Wild Goose Creative, located on the corner of Summit and E. Hudson streets, will have an opening reception for the gallery on Saturday, ...
Read More »Fishbowl Improv to have its sixth annual Tides Comedy Festival
Fishbowl Improv, one of Ohio State’s student comedy groups, is hosting its sixth annual Tides Comedy Festival on Friday and Saturday. The two-night comedy festival will feature Ohio State groups such as Fishbowl, 8th Floor Improv, Buckeye Standup Comedy Club and Backburner Sketch Comedy Group. ...
Read More »Magnolia Thunderpussy intends to stay a premier vinyl shop in Columbus
When looking for vinyl from artists — past or present — there’s one place in Columbus that’s been an option since 1970: Magnolia Thunderpussy. Located on North High Street, Magnolia is home to a wide variety of musical genres ranging from classical to hip-hop and ...
Read More »Columbus’ Own: Schwab the Autodidact tells life story through songs
“Who’s Schwab the Autodidact?” Jordan Schwab walked into the recording room holding stickers that asked that very question, which was hopefully going to be answered that day. Schwab was only three years old when he started listening to artists like Outkast and Tupac, courtesy of ...
Read More »Columbus Ohio Women’s March 2019 weathers the storm
More than 700 activists came together to fight for their rights Saturday in the third annual Ohio Women’s March at Washington Gladden Social Justice Park. Despite the winter storm warning just an hour before, the march went on with the help of developers like Rhiannon ...
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