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The List: The definitive ranking of Steven Spielberg movies Staff Question: Where’s the first place you take out-oftown guests?

CoMMUnItY 10 Feature: Local black athletes highlighted in Lady Wrestler film 12 Straight Jackets: Homestretch, don’t forget to breathe 14 The Last Season?: When will the bandwagon circle back around?

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16 Things We Love: Picks from Angela Perley

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Feature: Drift Mouth Preview: Ought Staff Pick: Sleep Staff Pick: First Bite Locals: Field Sleeper Previews: Lorde, Run the Jewels, Mitski

arts 26 Feature: Saturday Morning Art Classes Exhibition 28 Preview: Nina West Presents!

61 Previews: Detour Detour Detour Detour, Neu, Daniel Boccato: You Are Not a Tree 62 Gallery Exhibitions 62 Movie Review: Ready Player One 64 Ready Player One release event at Gateway Film Center 64 Now in theaters

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eat & drInk Feature: Andes Bar and Grill Food News Roundup: Four Columbus tastes to seek out this weekend Party Planner: Silent Trap Party at Skully’s The (updated) Insider’s Guide to Columbus

on the Cover Every year, we turn to you, our loyal readers, and ask you to vote on your favorite places to drink, dine, take in concerts and more. And boy did you ever. Read on to see who topped the polls.

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7. “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) It was inspired to make this a father-son epic, with Sean Connery making Indy seem even more of the imperfect hero he was. “We named the dog Indiana.”

6. “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984) This sequel was less cohesive, but Spielberg really ramped up the “movie as theme park ride” experience in ways that few directors can even imitate.

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When Steven Spielberg introduced “Ready Player One” at its SXSW premiere, he told the audience, “This is not a film that we’ve made, this is — I promise you — a movie.” From “Schindler’s List” to “Lincoln,” Spielberg has made some truly great films, but knows the difference between that and a movie. Here’s a ranking of his movies.

11. “Hook” (1991) Spielberg does “Peter Pan.” What could go wrong? OK, a fair amount, as the sense of wonder wears off as the story plods on (although casting Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell was an inspired choice at the time). I’d say this is the only bad movie Spielberg ever made.

10. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) While the next-gen “Indiana Jones” reboot didn’t take hold, it’s also unfairly maligned as being bad rather than merely unable to live up to expectations. There are some solid thrills, and the ending isn’t much sillier than any of the others.

9. “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997) It was impossible to top the wonder of the original. This sequel had less heart, but it was able to teach some old dinosaurs new tricks.

8. “War of the Worlds” (2005) Spielberg’s take on a true large-scale disaster movie offered great moments that tapped into real paranoia, but I have to reduce the score for the constantly screaming Dakota Fanning.

5. “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) He would later explore alien life through the eyes of a child, but here, augmented by a great performance from Richard Dreyfuss, Spielberg made us stop worrying and learn to love alien contact.

4. “Jurassic Park” (1993) It was a sense of wonder we hadn’t had at the cinema in decades. We didn’t wonder how they made the dinosaurs. We wondered how they trained the dinosaurs to do that.

3. “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) The story of a boy and his alien. It’s funny and thrilling and ultimately heartbreaking, Spielberg’s greatest emotional feat among these. I cried a little inside when “Titanic” passed it on the all-time box-office records.

2. “Jaws” (1975) The shark looks fake. Four decades later, we’re still afraid to go in the water. This is one of the all-time great monster movies.

1. “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) This is obviously a personal pick. I didn’t want to be E.T. or the shark from “Jaws” when I grew up. But I sure did want to be Indy, a hero as memorable for his weaknesses as his strengths.

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Ethel Johnson (left) and sister Babs Wingo in a 1950s wrestling match

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2006, author, journalist and filmmaker Chris Bournea was working at ThisWeek Community News. One of his regular sources introduced him to a local woman who was known for hosting wrestlers, body builders and other unique characters at her house. It was suspected the woman might even be a wrestler herself.

That woman was Ethel Johnson.

She was, in fact, one of several African-

American women from Columbus who worked as professional wrestlers in the 1950s, ’60s and beyond. That year, Bournea penned an article on Johnson for the Columbus Dispatch.

“Ethel told me these amazing stories of going all over the world,” Bournea said in a mid-March interview. “She went to Cuba before the embargo, [and] she went to Puerto Rico, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Montreal and other parts of Canada.”

But while Johnson was accepted overseas, she experienced racism in the

American South. “She’d have to go in the back door of restaurants,” Bournea said.

“She’d have to stay in segregated hotels.

She’d have to drink out of ‘colored’ water fountains and little kids would call her ‘girl.’”

Bournea soon learned of the other women wrestlers and decided to capture their experiences on film. “I just thought their story was so much [grander] than just one newspaper article,” he said.

That documentary, “Lady Wrestler,” has come to fruition, and will premiere at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Thursday,

March 29. Bournea, who worked on the film in residence at the Wex, highlights four women: sisters Babs Wingo, Ethel Johnson and Marva Scott, along with Ramona Isbell.

(Only Johnson and Isbell are still alive.)

“I was just struck how I grew up in the black community in Columbus [but] I never heard about these women,” Bournea said. “There are other people who are like folk heroes, like [wood carver] Elijah Pierce, that you still hear about, but for some reason these women have just kind of faded into obscurity.”

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South with institutionalized racism, but actually institutionalized sexism,” Bournea said, mentioning states such as New York, which banned licenses to women wrestlers until 1972.

Despite learning about those hurdles, Bournea said he was encouraged by the project. “The main takeaway that I got from researching [for] the documentary is that allies come in unlikely packages,” he said, pointing to Wolfe and Columbusbased promoter and National Wrestling Alliance co-founder Al Haft. While they were sexist in many ways, they had progressive attitudes toward race, Bournea said.

Though the wrestling industry has failed to properly acknowledge African-American women wrestlers, many of them avoided the limelight.

“Once their wrestling careers were over, they just shied away from attention, or were like, ‘That was my

old life. I’ve moved on,’” Bournea said. “Some of them had second careers … and they just felt like they didn’t want to talk about it anymore.”

Isbell cited negative feedback, invasive questions and people making assumptions about her sexuality as some reasons she avoids talking about that part of her life.

“Sometimes people are just mean,” she said. “I just like to keep things quiet and stay out of trouble.”

Though people have repeatedly asked her why she wrestled, Isbell said she’s still uncertain of the answer. “Maybe it was a way of retaliation against life,” she said. “But I enjoyed it.”

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The 1930s-1950s represented the golden age of women’s professional wrestling, popularized by pioneer and champion Mildred Burke. Her husband, the infamous promoter Billy Wolfe, managed her and most of the African-American women wrestlers in Columbus. He employed a “sex, muscles and diamonds” formula: sex appeal, athletic training and a glamorous, Hollywood starlet image.

“The main component was ‘muscles,’” Bournea said. “These women went through hours and hours of athletic conditioning. … These women were real athletes.”

“I had to build myself up,” 78-year-old Ramona Isbell said by telephone.

“I had to run up and down the steps to get my legs built up. I had to run around the fields. … I got part of my ankle cracked in the ring. So all that stuff, to me, is no different than the boxer in the ring when he goes out to train.”

At first, Isbell’s training was done in secret as a teenager after her mother forbade her to wrestle. “I would sneak out and train and pretend like I was somewhere else,” Isbell said.

Throughout her 20-plus-year career, Isbell faced myriad challenges.

“Like the women are fighting today to be equal in their pay, we had that real bad in our day,” she said. She also recalled the segregation she faced in states such as Georgia, Florida and parts of Texas.

“Houston was fine because [we met] a black man that owned a restaurant and hotel,” she said.

“They went through not only challenges in the

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By Jim Fischer

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Two things (among many others) have happened since the last installment of Straight Jackets.

First, the CBJ reeled off the final six wins of a 10-game winning streak, making the team only the third in league history to have double-digit winning streaks in back-to-back seasons. And second, I don’t feel any more confident in the Jackets’ chances to make the postseason.

Let me say here that history is what it is, and that was sufficiently covered in the last installment. The numbers are what they are right

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now, too, and they paint a pretty rosy picture of the Jackets’ odds of qualifying for this season’s playoffs.

Moneypuck.com places the CBJ’s odds of making the postseason at 93 percent. That’s down a little after the loss to St. Louis on Monday, but dramatically up compared to where the team was even two weeks back, and well in front of chasers from New Jersey and Florida. Despite only having five games remaining, the Jackets’ schedule is arguably the most favorable of the teams battling for the last two to three playoff spots in the Eastern Conference. And did I mention the Jackets have played well

of late, winning 10 straight games?

So sure, all that is good. And I’m not a pessimistic fan, just an anxious one. Disclaimer: Not everyone’s experience will be the same. This is a fun and nerve-wracking time of year.

Another thing that happened is that, for one game, both Jack Johnson and Brandon Dubinsky were healthy scratches for the same game. These two proud vets helped set the tone for this current crop of Blue Jackets, and it was a little sad to see, even if their recent play warranted it. I can’t help but feel any success — late-season or postseason — the team has will require their services.

(Dubinsky’s for sure, given Nick Foligno’s regular-season-ending injury sustained earlier in March.)

Obviously, the news isn’t all bad, given the winning ways. As former Head Coach Ken Hitchcock used to say, “Your best players have to be your best players.” That’s been the case for the CBJ, provided you are up-to-date with whom the best players are. Players fueling the recent streak include Artemi Panarin, Cam Atkinson, Seth Jones and, of course, Sergei Bobrovsky.

One brief non-Jackets, NHLrelated note: Congrats to former NHL defenseman Andrew Ference, who has been named by the league as its new (and first) NHL Director of Social Impact, Growth and Fan Development. NHL players are, by and large, good dudes. They do good work in their communities, and their foundations support worthy causes. But few take the kinds of stands Ference did as a player, when he spoke out about environmental causes, among other issues, helping to develop the NHL Players’ Association’s Carbon Neutral Challenge and working on the NHL Green initiative.

In his new post, Ference is also tasked with creating and leading inclusiveness initiatives for the league.

It’s an idea whose time has come.

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COMMUNITY // THE LAST SEASON? Crew SC celebrate a goal against d.C. United on March 24.

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When Will the bandWagon circle back around?

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After a spectacular 3-1 victory over OG rivals D.C. United on Saturday, March 24, I couldn’t suppress the smile or the chant. “We are top of the league! I said we are top of the league!”

At 10 points, this is Crew SC’s best-ever start to a season through four games. For the few of us still masochistically watching, that’s made it far easier to repress — thanks, Lamar — any thoughts of You Know Who and You Know Where.

But it’s far more than score lines and standings that have me this unexpectedly giddy. The offensive performances have been damn exhilarating, and even the shakier defensive moments are now imbued with a bend-don’tbreak confidence that previous Gregg Berhalter teams have lacked.

It’s early, yes, but all the signs of a great — maybe even legendary

— Crew SC team are there.

The attack is balanced, and the threats are varied.

Goals have come from set-pieces and penalties, dynamic counterattacks and sustained possession.

Opponents have been punished for mistakes and lulls in attention, but there’s also a strong sense a goal could materialize from anyone, anywhere, at any time.

The defense, despite a few nervy moments versus D.C. United, is also becoming a strength. They’re giving up less than a goal a game, and that’s with human-metronome Wil Trapp and goalkeeper Zack Steffen, the most athletic brick wall you’ll ever see, each missing a game for national team duty.

The team is marching, it appears, toward glory.

But make no mistake, they’re marching mostly alone. Despite all this success, Columbus is, by and large, not seeing any of

it. Saturday’s home game featured an announced crowd of fewer than 8,500 people, and though Crew SC attendance is always depressed by the secondwinter weather of March, it’s not typically this low.

You can blame the league and You Know Who for that — and many, rightly, have. A conspiracy is most certainly afloat; recognizing this fact will only make you angrier. I won’t belabor that point except to add that herein is the single, most gutwrenching irony in this whole sad, completely avoidable affair.

At a time when this Crew SC team deserves to be not only watched, but witnessed and celebrated, You Know Who and his compadres have made attending games as unpalatable as cheering for Chicago or Toronto.

But it’s not too late, friends — it’s never too late! For those estranged and alienated Crew SC fans, of which there are legion, consider this your red sky at night. Because if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s this: A delightful morning awaits us, maybe even sooner than we think.

I’ve seen the signs in the heavens and on the pitch.

And this, too, I know: a rare double awaits. We have the chance to destroy our enemies not only on the pitch, but off as well.

Our voices are needed, and I’ll be damned if anyone, but most especially You Know Who, is going to keep me from proclaiming glory to Columbus.

The time, if ever, is now.

Let’s show the world how truly massive we can be.

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COMMUNITY // THINGS WE LOVE NE Chinese Restaurant Not just any Chinese restaurant (I’ll see myself out), this Old North eatery is among the best places I’ve dined out in recent months. The standout dish might have been the Garlic Green Bean special (I really hope this becomes a mainstay), but the Dried Tofu Salad and the Crisp Pork with Carrot and Pepper were both excellent. Next time around I’m definitely getting the Spicy Pork with Cilantro and/or the Peppercorn Fish.

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Angela Perley is the lead singer and songwriter of local rock ’n’ roll group Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons. Formed in 2009, the band has released four EPs and two full-length albums. The band will be releasing a limited-edition, live-instudio vinyl (Stereogram Sessions Vol. 1) on Friday, March 30, at Thirty One West in Newark. The split-vinyl with Erica Blinn will include live versions of tunes from both bands, recorded at Earthwork Recording Studio, also in Newark.

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Mochi ice cream Mochi is my latest sweet-tooth obsession. They are basically little balls of ice-cream inside a super delish layer of chewy rice dough. A lot of local Japanese and sushi restaurants are starting to serve them, and Whole Foods carries them in many different flavors. Matcha green tea mochi is my main squeeze right now.

Grandview Theatre & Drafthouse I love Studio 35’s takeover of Grandview Theatre & Drafthouse. The theater has a great layout and a killer selection of independent films, along with some bigger blockbuster picks as well. There’s a nice selection of local brews and eats, too. I have a lot of family roots in Grandview, so it’s extra special to me that this 1926, singlescreen theatre is still alive and thriving on Grandview Avenue.

Columbus parks & trails Columbus has so many great parks and trails, and I love to run, bike and kayak. Some of my favorite spots are Battelle Darby Creek Park, Scioto Trail, Olentangy Trail, Alum Creek Trail and the Scioto Mile. Beautiful spaces to unwind, recharge and have some alone time.

Local radio stations WCBE 90.5 and CD102.5 I can’t love WCBE and CD102.5 enough. Traveling to different cities and getting a feel for other stations really makes me realize how cool, rare and unique both of these stations are to Columbus, and how supportive they are to local and national artists.

They are very passionate about music and what they do. They are a crucial part of our community.

Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 7” My iTunes “plays” counter will attest to my fondness for this, in particular the fourth and final movement. The Russian composer wrote this in Leningrad while the city was under siege from the Nazi army. The cataclysm is evident in the music, although the piece ends victoriously. If you don’t have the full hour and 15 minutes, there is a clip on YouTube of the last 3:36 of the finale.

–Jim Fischer “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” Last week I randomly searched for thrillers to watch on Netflix and landed on 2010’s “All Good Things.” The movie is based on real-life real estate heir Robert Durst, who has been suspected of murdering his wife and a neighbor, to name just two accusations. The movie led me to the 2015 HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” which is one of the most captivating pieces of TV I’ve ever seen. The director gathered evidence in real time, and the shocking conclusion gave me nightmares. Word of advice: Don’t Google anything further about Durst. Just go and watch this documentary right now (it’s on YouTube for now).

–Erica Thompson Rivers and Vessels It’s no secret I’m a Joan Shelley fan, and the Louisville songwriter just released a new EP, Rivers and Vessels, featuring six cover tunes, including Dolly Parton’s “The Bridge” (featuring Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and songs by Nick Drake and JJ Cale. Go find it on Bandcamp and give it a listen.

–Joel Oliphint

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everal months after Lou Poster moved to Columbus from Fairmont, West Virginia, in 1995, he rented a two-bedroom apartment at Third Avenue and High Street in the Short North. Back then, the crime-ridden neighborhood barely resembled the hip, pricey enclave of today. Poster paid $245 a month in rent.

On the street in front of the apartment, Poster often ran into a guy he and his friends called “Mr. Everything,” who would ask passersby if they needed anything — drugs, loans, girls.

One night, as Poster was coming home from working the night shift at UDF, he got off the bus and saw flashing lights all over Third Avenue. Mr. Everything had been shot

on the sidewalk right outside the apartment.

Poster walked by his body, briefly locking eyes with the dead man. Then, as he ascended the steps to his apartment, pigeons were roosting at the top of the staircase, and their glowing eyes seemed to mirror what he’d just seen.

Years later, Poster began to process those events in light of a friend he lost to a

heroin overdose, which led to the song “This Part of Town,” the closing track on Little Patch of Sky, the new album from Poster’s band, Drift Mouth. “I don’t care too much, anymore, for this part of town,” Poster sings in a baritone drawl that’s core to Drift Mouth’s dark Americana and unrecognizable from the off-kilter scream he employed for years in previous band Grafton.

“My mom’s father was a big bluegrass, country and Western swing fan.

So I knew all those songs. I loved that stuff as a kid, but then when I became a teenager, I got turned on to punk rock and rock ’n’ roll.�

- Lou PosteR ry of the song’s titular character, a horse trainer who dreamed of being a jockey.

When Frank Hayes finally got his chance, on a horse with 20-1 odds, he managed to win a steeplechase, but he died mid-race.

Somehow his body remained in the saddle until the finish line. “I was listening to sports talk radio one day, and the DJ is telling this story, and they’re laughing like it’s a joke, and I got tears in my eyes. This poor son of a bitch who just wanted to be around the race, and always wanted to be part of the game, and he finally gets his chance and loses all this weight to ride this horse, and then he dies,â€? Poster said. “He gets his shot, and then dies before he can understand that he won. ‌ That story hit me pretty hard.â€?

Poster saw a piece of himself in Frank Hayes. “I’ve been around music my whole life. I’ve been a bar owner. I’ve been in a band. I ran a record label,â€? said Poster, who once owned Cafe Bourbon Street and the Summit and in the early 2000s took over Derailleur Records (now Dead Canary). “With anybody who’s passionate about something, whether music or something else, you’re gonna be around it all the time, and if you get a crack at it, then go for it, but know that that’s not the point. The brass ring will show up if you’re doing it the right way, and the brass ring is not money or success or anything like that. It’s the completion of your task.â€?  Â

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“I was working on my car one day and this Johnny Cash song came on the radio, and I started singing along with it,� said Poster, nursing a hangover at a Downtown bar on a recent afternoon alongside Drift Mouth drummer and longtime friend Brad Swiniarski. “My girlfriend at the time was like, ‘Is that you? You should do that!’ I didn’t know I had that kind of voice.�

Though Drift Mouth has only been around for about four years, the band’s origins can be traced back to a CD of coal-mining songs Poster made as a retirement gift for his father, who worked for Consolidation Coal for 37 years in West Virginia. The exercise brought him back to the music of his youth. “My mom’s father was a big bluegrass, country and Western swing fan. So I knew all those songs. I loved that stuff as a kid, but then when I became a teenager, I got turned on to punk rock and rock ’n’ roll,� he said. “But even Grafton was a punkcountry band. It was in there; it was just buried. There’s no getting away from it.� “[Poster] is exploring his identity and his roots in this music,� Swiniarski said. “He’s digging. He’s looking for something in his songwriting. He’s exploring.�

After putting out a single and an EP, Drift Mouth will celebrate the release of its debut LP on Saturday, March 31, at Rumba Cafe, alongside a trio of exceptionally strong opening acts: Sam Brown, Todd May and Feversmile (featuring Brown, Dan Cochran and Sean Beal). Dead Canary Records is releasing Little Patch of Sky, but the record recently got picked up

by Wild Frontier Recording Company, an imprint of Philadelphia’s Creep Records; Wild Frontier will distribute the vinyl and also press a CD version, due May 25.

Many of the tracks on Little Patch of Sky started out as short stories Poster wrote and then adapted into songs. Others seemed to get beamed directly into his brain, like mournful tune “The Ballad of Frank Hayes,� which tells the true sto-

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Last year, Ought singer and guitarist Tim Darcy released his first solo album, Saturday Night. There’s a sense of freedom in such side projects — temporarily shedding a band name to cast off the trappings, perceived or real, of a main musical project — and Saturday Night is no exception.

Darcy experimented with more intimate, personal songs that provided a counterpoint to the livewire, arty post-punk of Ought’s first two albums, 2014’s More Than Any Other Day and 2015’s Sun Coming Down. Darcy’s vocals, too, changed from a frenetic yowl (think David Byrne) to a more manicured but no less interesting croon.

On Ought’s new album, Room Inside the World (Merge Records), Darcy’s solo experiments carry over to the Montreal band’s sound. “I very conscientiously wanted to bring that into the next Ought record — being a much more melodic vocalist,” Darcy said recently by phone.

Room Inside the World is a sty-

listic departure, too, with smoother tones and more layers (including a 70-piece choir) that developed over time as the bandmates posted ideas to “digital mood boards.”

“We uploaded pictures, digital art — everything from whole albums to YouTube videos, or a particular synth sound. A lot of it was not rock music at all. Some were very specific bands, like the Mekons, or we talked about certain Brian Eno synth sounds, but then also more ambient, spacial sounds,” Darcy said. “We knew we wanted to make the record in a different way. The other two were made very quickly. We wanted to think more about tones, and also having grown as players over three years of touring, we wanted to bring those abilities and those new ideas into the new record.”

Drawing on those influences, Ought wrote most of the songs together in a room while Darcy adlibbed vocals. From there, he took the demos home to work on lyrics and vocal melodies. “There were some songs where I’d have three completely different versions of vocals on the same track, sometimes with different lyrics, which was a very strange experience for me,” Darcy said.

Ought still embraces its reputation as a so-called political band,

though Darcy said he’s usually turned off by preachy, overtly political lyrics. “People have said this record is not political, which I disagree with. I think it’s as political as More Than Any Other Day, it just does it in a different way,” Darcy said. “One thing I’ve been thinking about is trying to create positive space instead of living in negation to other entities, or what you’re opposed to. You can be outspoken and you can be opposed to things, but also we need to create forward momentum in new directions.”

On the elongated, free-flowing outro to “Disgraced in America,” Darcy sings about demarcation (“Demarcation wears me thin/Demarcation does me in”), a concept with political implications, though not an obvious political statement on its face.

“That’s definitely a realm I’m called to — these structures and the way that we’re socialized, and different things that get in the way of the world being better than it is now,” Darcy said.

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By Andy downing

In High on Fire, singer and guitarist Matt Pike channels his aggression into ferocious, riff-splattered metal

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rippers that slice like a broadsword.

With stoner rock trio Sleep, Pike’s songs are slower but no less heavy, built on sludgy, doom-laden riffs that spread and cover the landscape like cooling magma.

The band, which reunited in 2009 following a hiatus, releases music just as gradually. Its most recent studio album, Dopesmoker, first surfaced in bastardized form in

1999, chopped into nine tracks and released under the title Jerusalem.

The record has since achieved near-mythical status, owing to both its ambition (in proper form, the album, composed over four years, is meant to be heard as a single, hourlong track) and its deep slacker roots (it’s about smoking weed and was written and recorded under heavy influence of the herb).

Rumors of long-in-the-works new recordings started circulating in 2014, and in late 2017 the band finally posted an update to its website … in Morse code. Translated, it read that Sleep was “nearing completion of [a] new album,” making the prospect of hearing new material on this current tour all the more likely.

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Local death metal quartet First Bite kicks off its new cassette, Afterlife Obsession, with “Caged,” two-plus minutes of garbage disposal sonic swirl propelled by guttural vocals, tireless drumming and churning, chunky riffs that sound engineered to hack through the barred confines suggested by the song’s title.

Elsewhere, the band delves into multi-part tracks that veer from chaotic, propulsive passages into more measured,

almost melodic turns (see: the title track), and pitch-black cuts such as “Hallow Earth,” where slicing riffs fall with the force of rusted guillotine blades.

Consider this an alternate soundtrack to the nightmarish Upside Down world of “Stranger Things.”

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Alexander Paquet, who records and performs as Field Sleeper, recently took in the “Aerospace Folktales” exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art. As part of the exhibit, photographer Allan Sekula included tape-recorded diaries from his father, an aerospace engineer with Lockheed Martin, and his mother, a homemaker. The father, being more analytical, had a tendency to attempt only deep, profound, deliberate statements, while the mother’s entries were casual and free-flowing, creating a fuller, more impactful picture of life within the family. This reality struck a chord with Paquet, who has largely treated songwriting as though making a capital-s “Statement” is a requirement of the form.

“Yeah, there’s value in being ultra-deliberate, but I think I also rob myself of more fun and worthwhile things by REALLY TRYING TO FIT IT ALL INTO THIS ONE SONG,” said Paquet, who performs a release

show for new Field Sleeper fulllength Better Grid at Ace of Cups on Thursday, March 29. “It can be a good exercise, though, because I feel pretty clean now.”

Paquet wouldn’t have described the creation of his latest in such genial terms previously, labeling the stretch of time that birthed Better Grid as a tense, difficult period. (The album was recorded over two oneweek sessions, the first in February 2017 and the second that June.)

“If I’m being real, it wasn’t a fun record to make,” said the Detroitborn Paquet, 23, who has been playing as Field Sleeper since 2012.

“I started going back to school but wasn’t sure what I was doing; I still don’t . … Then somewhere in that June session I was thinking, you know, I really don’t want to end up in this spot again. After I finished, I said, ‘That felt like the end of a horror movie where someone finally gets out of the haunted house. Wow. That was weird. I never want to go back again.’”

This tension reveals itself in lines where Paquet sings of a tightening

in his chest (the anxiety-driven “The Cliff”) and of a growing, all-consuming uncertainty (“Every Door”). But even where the singer’s words are unsteady, the music remains sure-footed, the hypnotic, measured pacing serving as a blood-pressure-lowering balm.

“I can be a very uptight and tense and overwhelmed person, and so it was liberating to have music that, in order to perform it well, required me to slow down,” said Paquet, whose dreamy compositions walk a line between ambient and experimental acoustic rock — a vibe augmented by his choice of recording engineer, experimental musician Mike Shiflet. “A lot of the heavy lifting of recording the album was making sure nothing really popped out and altered that pace.”

Though a difficult record, Better Grid does end on a more hopeful note with a pair of tunes that find Paquet regaining some footing. “Tunnel’s End” recounts a family car ride and serves as a reminder that music can be a joyous enterprise — “It’s an ode to chasing your musical ghosts, or what first inspired you,” he said — while instrumental closer “Family Forest” traces an escape, of sorts.

“The sounds that you hear [on ‘Family Forest’], all the birds, they were recorded outside my window,” said Paquet, who has adopted a more outward-looking focus in his songwriting in the months since making Better Grid, exploring multiple perspectives and flirting with narrativedriven structures rather than deep, internal dives. “The way that song starts is the same as the rest of the album, with that slow guitar, but then it gradually gives rise to space — first the room that it was recorded in, then to the outside surroundings. … It was pretty much [the sound of] me getting out of my own head.”

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By Joel oliphint

You’d be forgiven for passing Lorde off as a one-hit wonder after “Royals” took over every stop on the radio dial in 2013 (or it would have, if radio dials still existed). But the extent of that song’s crossover appeal speaks to the uncategorizable quality of Lorde’s brand of pop, which is all the more impressive given she found her own voice at 17.

Fast-forward to 2018 and Lorde is headlining arenas on the heels of Melodrama, her critically acclaimed, Jack Antonoff-produced, Grammynominated album from last year. On

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it, Lorde supplants her dark brooding with glossy, neon-bright synthesizers as she navigates a breakup and a house party, both of which provide a narrative framework for the record.

“What will we do when we’re sober?” she sings on “Sober,” acknowledging, even in the midst of a good time, that there’s always a comedown.

It’s not an overstatement to say this is one of the most anticipated concerts of the year, particularly because openers Run the Jewels (see below) and Mitski would be can’t-miss shows all on their own.

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• Hoo Doo Soul Band at Rumba Cafe

• Ought, Flasher, Future Nuns at Ace of Cups

• Derek DiCenzo Trio at Natalie’s Coal-Fired Pizza

• Wolf Alice at Newport Music Hall

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• Kyle Craft at the Basement

• Curtis Harding at A&R Bar

• Empath, Natural Sway, Wheelbarrow at the Summit

• Gary Wrong, DANA, Blood Noize at Cafe Bourbon St.

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• Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes at Rumba Cafe

• Sparrowmilk, Pale Grey Lore, Pistil at Spacebar

• Why Omen EP release, WV White at Spacebar

• Soft Kill, Choir Boy, Pink Reason at the Summit

• Quemado, Sega Genocide, Shane Sweeney at Ace of Cups

• Perennial Rye album release at Rambling House

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• Jesse Cook at Lincoln Theatre

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Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike made headlines this past week for an interview he did with NRATV. The rapper’s appearance on the network prompted outcries from some fans and fellow artists, and Killer Mike later apologized, saying the NRA misused his interview “as a weapon.”

El-P, the other half of Run the Jewels, said he wouldn’t cut ties with the emcee.

All the controversy should fade into the background once RwtJ takes the stage to open for Lorde; the duo’s performance will undoubtedly outlive the rhetoric.

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Molly McMillen and Tanya Pirasteh

By Jim Fischer

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aturday Morning Art Classes at CCAD is a tradition in Columbus that dates back at least 135 years.

More than just an enrichment program, the classes are a leg up for students who attend schools that may not have the resources available to build up their art programs, as well as a kick-start

for young artists who want to explore where their interest and talent might take them.

Or both.

“The overarching idea is that we’re reaching out to the whole community, meaning all of Central Ohio. We have students from every part of [Franklin County] and contiguous counties coming in for an enhanced art experience,” said Christine

Hill, director of community education at CCAD, in a recent phone interview. “Ideally, the benefit is that you’re meeting people from across all sorts of areas and demographics in our city, and coming together and learning something that’s a little more advanced.”

Hill, herself a CCAD alum who was a student assistant for Saturday Morning Art Classes

during her undergraduate studies, said that art is what brings students to the class but that relationship-building, with other students and with the institution, happens right alongside intensive art training.

Saturday Morning Art Classes alum Jeni Britton Bauer recalled taking the bus from her home on the outskirts of Upper Arlington to Downtown every Saturday.

“I would get there early and have time to kill, which was also kind of fun. As a kid, being in the city alone was a little scary but really cool,” said Bauer, a member of CCAD’s Board of Trustees and founder of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams.

“I loved that I got to be with students from all over the city who were devoted … [and] had worked hard for scholarships, or some worked to pay their way in.”

Tanya Pirasteh was dropped off for her Saturday Morning Arts Classes by her dad, a CCAD professor who would then go and teach his own classes. Pirasteh is now a teacher in the program.

“The smell, the drawing horses and easels … some of it is the same,” Pirasteh said. “It’s so great to come full circle. You know what goes into it and know what people can get out of it. I realize the impact that the class had on me and what I took from it, so I try to kind of highlight those things.”

The classes are offered for elementary-age students through adults. Some classes are multigenerational. Early classes focus on fundamentals — drawing, painting, color theory, figures — while classes for middle and high school students offer training in specific mediums, including digital media, animation and more rigorous training in traditional mediums. It was that rigor that stood out in Bauer’s experience.

“For really the first time in my life, I was sort of on my own and being treated like a smart, real human being. The professors that taught these classes

magical. Knowing your whole world is these kinds of moments when you’re that age, and watching them react to their own accomplishments, that’s maybe my favorite part,” Pirasteh said.

“The tiny seeds that we plant with young people grow, and you will not see them for a long time, but they do,” Bauer said.

“Showing up to see their

artwork is doing that. They will never forget that, and it will come back to the community later. It matters.”

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weren’t easy on anyone, expected a lot out of us, and you didn’t show up unless you were ready to show your best self. For me, that was the coolest thing ever,” she said.

Cara Unrue signed her daughter, 10-year-old Molly McMillen, up for the class because McMillen had begun to show heightened interest in art.

“When she started taking these classes, it was the first time we saw an unusually high level of talent. Then she started drawing on her own outside of class. I feel like Tanya and these classes have helped coax her talents,” Unrue said.

“I’ve definitely gotten more comfortable with drawing, and I’m drawing more now — even outside of the class,” McMillen said.

“She’s taken it and run with it. In her regular school, they have to ask her to stop drawing,” Unrue said.

“All of the things that you want to do in class when you’re little at school, you can do in this class,” Pirasteh said, only half-joking.

When the program hosts its annual exhibition on Saturday, March 31, it will be a big deal for the students.

“It feels awesome to think that my art is worth something, that people will notice it and notice me for what I did — and my friends’ artwork, too,” McMillen said.

“It might sound a little cheesy, but it’s kind of

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“I want sing-along movies with Nina West at the Gateway Film Center, and I want them now!” – Columbus movie musical fans, channeling their inner Veruca Salt Have them you shall, as Nina West Presents! returns to the Gateway in 2018 with six films, beginning with “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) on Saturday, March 31.

“It’s just like watching at home, but with a drag queen,” Andrew Levitt said in a recent phone interview.

Levitt-as-West meets with audience members before the movie and sings and dances through multiple costume changes during.

“We encourage people to come in costume. I run up and down the stairs, sing along with the audience and invite people to come down to the front and dance during the movie,” Levitt said. “These are such serious times, so I think it’s important to let ourselves play a little bit, to let our hair down and have some fun.”

Levitt said the communal experience of seeing movies on the big screen with a theater full of people is still capable of creating a special experience, given the many and varied options for consuming film and media online and in isolation. Making the experience fully participatory just enhances

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that experience, he said, and creates an entirely new dynamic.

“Everyone’s singing at the top of their lungs, and you’ll have a hetero man with his wife and two kids sitting next to three gay guys dressed as nuns and watching ‘The Sound of Music,’” Levitt said. (In a past season, anyway — “TSOM” doesn’t feature in this year’s slate of films.)

Levitt said the number of younger audience members has steadily increased, and was especially notable last year.

While perhaps that speaks to the increased success of the series, Levitt said a more important byproduct is the ability to start conversations that lead to awareness, understanding and acceptance.

“It speaks to my drag character and my persona, because I’m just a big kid at heart. … I get to represent a completely different side of life than kids are often exposed to, and do it in a super fun way. I’m almost this Barney-esque

character that allows families to have a dialogue and a conversation that’s really important, but in a fun way,” Levitt said. “I recently did a reading at the Westerville Public Library and I’m really starting to find a completely different calling and to see how my idea of what I’m doing is evolving.”

The 2018 Nina West Presents! season also includes Levitt’s all-time favorite movie, “Mary Poppins,” in May, “The Wizard of Oz” in August and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” in October. Levitt recognizes the need to get that one right, since it’s long been a staple of participatory film experiences.

“People are going to have expectations, and I want to exceed them,” Levitt said.

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As in past years, some votes came down to the wire, while other categories featured runaway winners (you sure love your Thurman Burgers, Columbus). In an effort to shake things up, this year we introduced a handful of critics’ picks, hoping to highlight a few of the individuals working to make the city a more vibrant, interesting place. On the other end of the spectrum, we also invested a few words on our inaugural Worst of Columbus picks.

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CONteNts Page 4 Face of Columbus: Scott Woods

Page 9 Best Humanitarian: Sarah Thompson

Page 5 Best Chef: Josh Dalton

Page 10 Social Justice Warrior: Tammy Fournier Alsaada

Page 6 Best Musician: Joe Camerlengo

Page 11 Best Artist: Mary Jo Bole

Page 7 Best Standup Comedian: Brooke Cartus

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cott Woods rarely walks a linear path.

No matter what role he happens to be adopting — poet, author, cultural critic, event mastermind, etc. — it’s impossible to predict how he’ll come at a given subject, and his takes are generally imbued with rich layers of meaning that demand deeper excavation. This is true whether he’s dissecting the work of horror writer Stephen King in a lecture, performing a solo 24-hour poetry reading or hosting any of a growing number of arts events under his Streetlight Guild umbrella. And it’s entirely purposeful.

“I’m drawn to art that challenges me on multiple levels because, to me, that’s the art that best reflects how we live. No one lives on one level.

The most racist person is still astoundingly complex,” Woods said. “I’m a social scientist. I look at something that’s there, that we can all see, and then I look to the left of it. And that’s what I pursue. That’s where the new information is. That’s where the answers are.”

Woods, who was born on an Air Force base in Barksdale, Louisiana, and grew up in Columbus, can trace this thirst for knowledge to childhood.

Growing up, he’d pilfer from his two older brothers, reading everything he could get his hands on, from encyclopedias to the works of the aforementioned King. Perhaps more influential, though, were the records he borrowed from the pair, whose divergent musical tastes served as an early example of the human dichotomy Woods still finds pleasure in exploring (one brother filled his collection with white folk and rock art-

ists, while the other gravitated toward black soul, R&B and funk acts).

Of these records, none cast a longer shadow than Stevie Wonder’s 1973 album, Innervisions.

“Just the cover of that album ruined my childhood. It was the most frightening album I’d ever seen. But when you put it on, it had the most beautiful, haunting music. And the juxtaposition of those two things completely messed me up as a child, in all the right ways,” Woods said. “I was constantly looking for beauty in ugliness and ugliness in beauty — all that conflict. … It showed me how powerful art can be.”

Early on, Woods experimented with all forms of artistic expression, eventually landing on the written word as his primary means of exploration, because, as he explained, “It was the one thing that when I did it, people responded.” But while Woods grew up in a house filled with books (his mother was a teacher, after all), it wasn’t until he visited the Ohio State University library as a freshman that he started to fully grasp the power words could wield.

“Walking through the stacks and seeing old thesis papers and books that are nowhere else in the country, it completely blew my mind,” said Woods, who attended OSU for two quarters before being expelled for poor grades. (He later took classes at Columbus State Community College but never completed a degree.) The experience also planted a seed that led him to his current career as a librarian, further fueled by that deeper, internal thirst for knowledge. “[The library] was the fastest way for me to learn everything about the world that I needed to know,” said Woods, who recently cut back to part-time to focus

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more of his energy on Streetlight Guild. “Everything I wanted to do was in the library: Learn how to write. Learn about history. Learn about politics. Learn about how cities work. … Learn about racism, activism. All of it.”

Though Woods has been writing for more than 25 years, he said it’s only in the last five that he has started to find his voice, explaining that “everything up to that was figuring out how to write.”

And now? “Anything beyond this point is discovering who I really am.”

Among the biggest revelations from this recent period of self-exploration was the importance of community, which has revealed itself in everything from Holler, a month-long, event-a-night dive into black arts that Woods spearheaded in March 2017, to Streetlight Guild, which recently took another evolutionary step when

Woods took over a Main Street space on the East Side with an eye on hosting events.

“I have more years behind me than in front of me, so I’m at a point where I have to be producing constantly now. I need concrete things to show for what I’m doing,” Woods said. “That’s why I got that building. I’m tired of telling people what to do. From here on out I just have to show people what to do.”

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I don’t buy into a lot of what people say you have to do, or the way things should be done. We’ve always done things a lot differently.”

The self-taught chef wed his outside-the-box thinking with traditions and passions he learned as a kid growing up outside of New Orleans.

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What do we learn from this? That a journalist asking a chef what is his best dish probably isn’t a good question.

Although it is instructive as an indicator of the passion, determination and dedication Dalton applies to running Veritas, the challenges of operating the restaurant at least temporarily compounded by the fact that the new Downtown location is in what Dalton called the “crawling” phase of learning how to walk after having operated the previous several years in Delaware, where Veritas made its name as a top dining destination. (After all, what says “I’ve exhausted all of my energy” more than reverting to punching a couple buttons on the microwave to prepare one’s dinner?)

Our best chef runs not only one of the top restaurants in Columbus but still oversees 1808 American Bistro in Delaware, where he’s in the process of adding an event space. He’s also working to open a new concept in the former Veritas space, also in Delaware.

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arly on, music wasn’t a part of Joe Camerlengo’s life. He didn’t care much about it. In fact, he didn’t even hear the Beatles until his 20s.

Instead, Camerlengo wanted to draw. In grade school, he’d illustrate entire comic books.

Then, in between seventh and eighth grade, lightning struck his Worthington home, destroying the roof right above his bed.

Fortunately he and his family were out of town at the time, but the home was uninhabitable.

When they temporarily moved into a family friend’s house,

Camerlengo and his brother were forced to share a room, and his brother happened to have a huge, purple guitar.

“I attribute this moment to the whole reason I accidentally play music,” Camerlengo said. “I was this shy little weirdo, and I picked up my brother’s guitar.

I was holding it the wrong way, and my dad walked in and was like, ‘Oh, you playing Nick’s guitar?’ And I wasn’t, but I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And he’s like, ‘You look cool with that thing. You wanna get lessons, too?’”

Thinking back on the moment, Camerlengo imagines a little datebook popping up next to eighth grade Joe’s head, and

every page in the book is blank.

“So I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m free,’” he said. “I had literally nothing going on. I didn’t play sports. I had no friends. So sure, I’ll play guitar.”

With only one guitar lesson under his belt, Camerlengo began telling his dad about the band he was going to form. “I didn’t need to know how to play guitar to make a band, and I feel like that’s still my theory today,” Camerlengo said. “My strongest musical asset is being a candystriper and ringleader for the projects I lead or work with, rather than saying, ‘I’m the best guitarist.’ I like my personality and my brain and sense of creativity and artistry and my

belief in people and rock ’n’ roll more than I believe in my musical prowess.”

From middle school on, music has defined Camerlengo’s existence. From his very first show at Midgard Comics opening for Something Corporate, he has stuffed all the motley pieces of his pogo-stick personality into his songs and performances, rolling around on stages and treating his guitar like a wild beast that should never be tamed.

“I don’t know how to read music. I’m not interested in learning it,” he said. “I think there’s two things that would break me. One is taking acid, and the other is learning to read music.”

In 2004, Camerlengo began to turn heads with the outrageous carnival-rock of felinefriendly local act This is My Suitcase, and then a few years later with his solo project, Joseph Anthony Camerlengo.

In the last 10 years, he’s played integral support roles in some of the city’s best bands — Mary Lynn, Counterfeit Madison, Brat Curse — and fronted projects like Van Dale (fuzzpop on Xanax), Blanket Boys (a bedroom-pop collab with Lisa Brokaw of Grunge Dad and Van Dale), Sam Pellegringo (a recording project) and his newest outlet, Classical Baby, which sounds like a comfortably scruffy collage of all those bands.

No matter the project, Camerlengo seems only capable of writing songs that implant themselves deep into your brain folds and remain there, happily, listen after listen. (I, for one, have made a habit of listening to Blanket Boys’ Monday EP every Monday.) And despite a fulltime nursing job, he seems to casually release new songs from one of several projects every few weeks. On Thursday, March 29 (his 33rd birthday), Camerlengo will gift us another ridiculously good Classical Baby EP, Welcome to the Future.

“Most of this, to the populous, is unpopular music,” Camerlengo said. “Not because it’s bad or not worthy, but unless you’re the luckiest band in the world you don’t get anywhere with intentionally wild-ass music performed wildly.

So you either tone it down and try to shapeshift yourself into something else, or you just tone it however you want — you give up on the idea of being a rock star and get a chance to make something good. And I feel like I’m finally making good music.”

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Confessions, on April 11.

And you can catch her at the Funny Bone as part of the Queer Queens Tour on April 22.

“Comedy has helped me discover I can still be queer and unapologetic and have my beliefs, but also meet people where they are,” Cartus said. Her standup covers everything from her experiences in Catholic school to her pet peeves with women’s underwear. “So if I’m doing a VFW in rural Ohio, I don’t want to lose the crowd. And sometimes you do. You lose the crowd because you’re a woman or because you’re queer. … But I don’t want to lose them because of my material.”

“Comedy isn’t about educating,” she continued.

“It’s not a TED Talk.”

That is not to say Cartus is averse to TED Talks.

She participated in TEDxColumbusWomen in 2016, speaking openly about being a survivor of rape,

which she said she regrets not reporting to police. “#MeToo and #TimesUp and all of these movements are important because even if you didn’t report, telling your story … moves the needle,” she said.

Cartus also created a line of T-Shirts that read “Stop Booking Rapists” to bring awareness to the issue in the Columbus arts community, and to raise funds for the Sexual Assault Response Network of Central Ohio and Buckeye RegionAntiViolence Organization.

Following the 2016 election, Cartus said she considered leaving the Swing State, but decided to stay and make a difference. And she’s excited by the growing comedy scene in Columbus.

“We are supportive of one another,” she said.

“And if you care and if you work hard at it and if you lift each other up, then you’ll succeed.”

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any comedians in the making dream of leaving their Midwestern towns behind for a shot at stardom in California or New York. But Brooke Cartus is not like many comedians. She left the East Coast and built a burgeoning comedy career in Ohio.

“I was not funny in New York, though,” said Cartus, who grew up in Buffalo and moved to Columbus in 2011 to attend law school. “I was in the closet when I started doing comedy, [but] I was out as queer on the street. And I would get up onstage and I was like, ‘People are not gonna like me.’”

Cartus credits a fellow Columbus comedian with encouraging her to be herself. “She pulled me aside one night after an open mic in my first couple months and she’s like, ‘We all know. … You mess up your pronouns onstage.

You talk about dating men and then you use “she.”’”

Over the years, Cartus built her confidence and achieved what she considers a series of small breaks, performing throughout Columbus as part of shows such as the Whiskey Bear Comedy Festival, and booking out-of-town gigs at the Limestone Comedy Festival and the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival.

She will release her second album, I Have Straight Friends & Other

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ryan Moss’ decision to live Downtown places him at a cultural and economic nexus, giving him easy access to the South Side, where he grew up as the only boy alongside four sisters, as well as the Short North arts district, Olde Town East, Franklinton and so on.

“It’s one of those things where I’m centralizing myself to where I can jump between those worlds,” said Moss. “I can go to the hood and it’s no problem. I also go to New Albany. I don’t care.”

Moving comfortably between worlds is a skill Moss developed from childhood.

The artist was born to a white mother and a black father, and attended afterschool arts programming at Schiller Park, where he worked alongside the children of wealthy German Village residents who grew up north of the park.

“I remember these two kids, George and Ben, their parents were lawyers, and they lived across the street [in German Village], so I would go over there and hang out,” said Moss, 36. “Being biracial and black never really affected me as much as being poor. … There’s always an insecurity that comes with [growing up poor] because you don’t have access to the same education — that type of thing.

Art was a good bridge in that way, because you were respected as an artist, no questions asked. I knew art would be my way out of that environment early on.”

Moss was also introduced to comics at Schiller Park, first coming across a copy of “Thor” another youngster left sitting on the table at the rec center.

Thumbing through the issue, Moss was hooked. From that point forward he could often be found at the Book Loft, flipping through comics that continued to open new, unexplored worlds.

Sam Kieth (“The Maxx”) introduced Moss to more cerebral, exploratory comics that delved into the subconscious, often placing photorealistic panels alongside more cartoonish drawings. “It was like, ‘Oh, you can do that?’” Moss said. “It really broke things open.”

Further inspiration arrived with

the discovery of Jeff Smith’s “Bone,” heightened by the realization that Smith lived and worked in the same German Village neighborhood where Moss spent his afternoons.

“It was like, ‘Wait, this guy lives near my neighborhood and he’s self-published and making this awesome comic?’” Moss said. “It was surreal.”

Beginning at age 14, Moss started taking the Greyhound bus alone to Chicago, attending comic book conventions and looking for work in the field. Though he never landed a job, the trips served as a reminder that the world was far bigger than the impoverished neighborhood in which he grew up.

“Growing up poor, you start mowing lawns and things like that to make money. I remember I was so elated one day because I made like $60 cutting grass, and I go home and show my mom, like, ‘Isn’t this awesome?’ And she’s like, ‘The water’s about to be cut off. Can I have that?’ ‘Well, yeah,’” said Moss, who, while happy to help, did admit to losing an element of childhood in the transaction. “I felt there was this responsibility. My dad wasn’t doing well at that point, so, being the only guy, you grow up quick. That’s where that survival kicks in, hence going to Chicago trying to find work.”

Starting late in his teenage years, Moss landed his first commercial jobs.

He also launched a now-defunct T-shirt company, which he used as a distribution source for “Strange Things,” an early comic, up-charging shirts $2 and including a comic, allowing him to spread his art worldwide. In the years since, Moss has done album and liner note artwork for musicians such as MF Doom and Kool Keith, and provided spot illustration for Marvel.

More recently, though, Moss has focused his efforts on “Rita’s Dream,” a graphic novel tracing the story of a young girl, Rita, who is able to dream in vivid color while the rest of the world dreams in black and white. Moss, who envisions the finished version topping out at 700 pages, has already drawn more than 200 pages, in addition to engaging in discussions with prominent publishing houses.

Returning to the idea of floating between worlds, Moss has also expanded beyond comics into the fine-arts realm, and he intends to continue to inhabit both arenas moving forward.

“People tend to compartmentalize things. If you draw comics you draw comics. If you paint you’re a painter,” Moss said. “For me it was always like, ‘No, I can do whatever.’ It’s all just expressing.”

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don’t know what to do or where to go. “When people walk alongside each other in this space, that’s when the stigma gets broken down, because you’re with somebody else who’s just like you and experiencing the same things,” she said.

“I can work on policies and help increase access to care, but for me, the solution truly does lie in community. If the community doesn’t support each other, all the stuff we do at the Statehouse isn’t going to matter. That’s what we try to build on a local level.”

That emphasis on community carries over into Thompson’s work with OCAAR. “The first step is sharing stories, but for us, it’s also action,” she said.

“It’s not just sharing that story, but sharing that I also volunteer on the weekends and I give back — I clean up my community. When people can see that people in recovery are doing amazing things, that’s when that mind shift happens.”

Thompson’s line of work also puts her on the front lines of the opiate epidemic, but to Thompson, who has personal experience with recovery, the current crisis is about more than opiates.

“It’s not about the substance. It’s the addiction,” she said. “We can’t just address opiates, because eventually that’s going to go away. If we don’t create comprehensive solutions for addiction, then we’re not going to solve anything.”

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the field of addiction and recovery, some people work at the ground level, interacting directly with people who are struggling with addiction or in the recovery process. Others approach the issue from a policy perspective, working to influence lawmakers.

As the executive director of Ohio Citizen Advocates for Addiction Recovery (OCAAR), Sarah Thompson does both. “I work at the state level and at the local level to advo-

cate for increased access to services, and advocate for whatever it might be that people in recovery need, and to help people to get into recovery,” Thompson said. “But in order to develop comprehensive solutions, people in recovery need to be at the table. So we help to empower people in recovery to share their story for effective change. … We help motivate them to go into the legislature and testify, to meet with politicians in their community and talk about what helped them get sober.”

The 28-year-old Hilliard native took over for the

founder of OCAAR at the end of 2015. If you didn’t previously know her name, she’s OK with that.

“It’s never about Sarah.

It’s always about what’s best for the whole,” said Jessica Gurwin, a friend and colleague who works at Positive Recovery Solutions. “As a leader, that’s rare, and it’s also the best way to go about things.

You have to be a good listener to be a good leader, and that’s exactly what she is. … She doesn’t run a treatment center. She’s not in office. She is at the ground level as an advocate and voice for people who don’t have one.”

In addition to running OCAAR (and coaching lacrosse at Hilliard-Davidson High School), Thompson has been working as a consultant for UNBar, a nonprofit recovery community center on Parsons Avenue that emphasizes four pillars: community, health and fitness, service, and creative expression.

“A lot of the policies we create are geared toward that first step of getting people sober. But we need to keep people sober,” Thompson said.

“We have almost a 70 percent relapse rate in this country, which is insane.

So many people are being cycled back through the system because we can’t keep them well.”

People in recovery are often told to change the people, places and things they interacted with previously, Thompson said, but once they do that, they

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rom the Boston Tea Party of 1773 to the March on Washington in 1963, American social and political protests have defined the nation time and time again. In recent years, there has been an uptick in protest movements, beginning with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. When Columbus residents gathered at the Statehouse to show solidarity with the New York protesters, something shifted in the city.

“When that [movement] fell off, many of those young people that had gotten a taste of ordinary people coming together to address an issue [wondered], ‘What do you do with that energy? Where does it go?” said local activist Tammy Fournier Alsaada.

“And then Trayvon Martin happened.”

In 2013, when George Zimmer-

man was acquitted of all charges after fatally shooting AfricanAmerican teenager Trayvon Martin, Fournier found herself at the Statehouse with the young organizers she had come to know. “I was so angry,” Fournier Alsaada recalled.

“We showed up Downtown and cried together and made some signs. …

And that day folks just said, ‘Let’s keep meeting.’”

Those meetings spawned the Ohio Student Association, which recruited Fournier Alsaada to work on voter registration efforts alongside the late beloved activist MarShawn McCarrel.

From there, Fournier Alsaada helped form criminal justice reform group People’s Justice Project (PJP).

Fournier Alsaada, 56, was no stranger to community organizing.

In the past, she worked on President Obama’s campaigns, and for an OSU

initiative to address gun violence in the city. Prior to that, the Linden native led an eventful life that could fill two books, literally; she wrote two novels inspired by her experiences.

With PJP, she has been on the front lines of the community response to the high-profile Columbus police killings of African-American males, including 23-year-old Henry Green and 13-year-old Ty’re King.

After activists’ repeated meetings with local government officials, Mayor Andrew Ginther announced an end to the Summer Safety Initiative, enacted to reduce crime in targeted areas with plainclothes officers and increased patrols. Some said the initiative made communitypolice relations worse.

“It was a win because for much of my life in this city, people have been harassed, aggressively policed [and] targeted,” Fournier Alsaada said.

She was also encouraged by Ginther’s Comprehensive Neighborhood Safety Strategy, which proposed additional funding for Columbus Public Health staff to address violent crime-related trauma.

“One of our demands was that the city begin to look at violence as a public health issue,” Fournier Alsaada said.

She was also appointed to the mayor’s new Columbus Community Safety Advisory Commission to “review Columbus Division of Police policies, training and procedures.”

Perhaps ill-timed, the announcement of the commission members followed the reinstatement of Officer Zachary Rosen, who killed Green and was fired for stomping a handcuffed suspect. And some community members have questioned the mayor’s appointments.

“Everybody that comes to any table comes with their own self-interest, but we hope that they’re also coming for the collective good,” said Fournier Alsaada. “And so I will sit on that commission for the collective good.”

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tracks married into the families of industrial magnates in the 1800s. Bole has connections in her family tree to the Carnegies, even.

Her recent work wrestles with being one of the final repositories of that personal historical ephemera, a deep, personal need to make sense of who she is and where she comes from.

“I think it always is for everybody,” Bole says in response to a question of whether her art is about herself. “I don’t know, maybe for some people it’s very exterior, but [my art] isn’t. I’m the caretaker of stories. Life is messy, so art can be freeing. …

It feels a little like being dumb, jumping off a cliff thinking, ‘OK, I’m gonna spend 10 years on this piece not knowing if it’s

going to work and just going with my gut.’”

Whether the history is personal or cultural, Bole believes in the role of the caretaker. Anything can be used in making, and few things are tossed aside.

“I’m documenting but I’m also commenting,” Bole said.

Truth be told, I’m no more comfortable picking the Best Artist in Columbus than Bole was being selected. “I’m not going to go home and start telling people I’m the best artist in Columbus now,” Bole said. Not that she isn’t honored, and, in her words, “a little embarrassed.”

Ultimately, Bole’s is a name I have heard on a recurring basis in conversations with those in the Columbus art scene. So in that way, perhaps they are the caretakers of her story.

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ver the ceramicist, Mary Jo Bole checks the bottom of the mug at the Downtown coffee shop where we’re chatting to see where it was made.

She notes it was made in Olympia, Washington, and compliments its shape, adding that the lip could be “sexier.”

Bole gravitated toward ceramics as an art student at the University of Michigan in the 1970s because “that’s … where stuff was happening.” But her years of art practice have led her to employ nearly any medium and material to fulfill her vision — from drawing and painting to film and photography to old family photos to wallpaper to toilets.

Yes, toilets. And other bathroom fixtures, too.

Indeed, she became somewhat of an expert on the subject of indoor plumbing during residencies at, among other spaces, the Kohler Company iron foundry in Wisconsin, and during an installation at the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia, one of the first places in the country to have indoor plumbing.

Bole’s work speaks, perhaps, less to a peculiar fascination with toilets and more to a willingness to engage history through what she called the “underbelly.” This includes her own family history, in which immigrants from the wrong side of the

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Best new restaurant

Best Burrito

First place: Watershed Kitchen and Bar

First place: Northstar Cafe

Second: Trillium Kitchen & Patio

Second: Yabo’s Tacos

Third: Smoked on High

Third: Los Guachos

Best Mexican

Best tacos

First place: Condado Tacos

First place: Condado Tacos

Second: El Vaquero

Second: Local Cantina

Third: Los Guachos

Third: Nada

Best indian/nepalese

First place: Nida’s Thai on High

First place: Aab India

Second: Molly Woo’s Asian Bistro

Second: Namaste

Third: Basil Restaurant

Third: Momo Ghar

Best sushi

Best Mediterranean

First place: Akai Hana Restaurant

First place: Lavash Cafe

Second: Fusian

Second: Brassica

Third: Blue Ginger Asian Fusian Bistro

Third: Aladdin’s Eatery

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Best asian

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Best ItalIan

Best Burger

First place: Marcella’s

First place: The Thurman Cafe

Second: Basi Italia

Second: Northstar Cafe

Third: Carfagna’s Kitchen

Third: Arch City Tavern

Best gourmet pIzza

Best frIes

First place: Natalie’s Coal-Fired Pizza

First place: Five Guys

Second: Harvest Pizzeria

Second: Hadley’s Bar + Kitchen

Third: Yellow Brick Pizza

Third: Brassica

Best tradItIonal pIzza

Best BarBecue

First place: Mikey’s Late Night Slice

First place: City Barbeque

Second: Donatos Pizza

Second: Ray Ray’s Hog Pit

Third: Hounddog’s Pizza

Third: Iron Grill BBQ and Brew

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Best wings

Best steakhouse

First place: Rooster’s

First place: The Top

Second: Winking Lizard Tavern

Second: Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse

Third: Quaker Steak & Lube

Third: Mitchell’s Steakhouse

Best sandwiches

Best vegetarian

First place: Katzinger’s Delicatessen

First place: Brassica

Second: The Brown Bag Deli Restaurant

Second: The Angry Baker

Third: The Old Mohawk

Third: Little Eater

Best seafood

Best puB gruB

First place: Columbus Fish Market

First place: Brazenhead

Second: Mitchell’s Ocean Club

Second: Old Bag of Nails

Third: The Pearl

Third: 101 Beer Kitchen

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Best late-night eats

Best Brunch

First place: Mikey’s Late Night Slice

First place: Northstar Cafe

Second: Buckeye Donuts

Second: Wolf’s Ridge Brewing

Third: Hounddog’s Pizza

Third: Lindey’s

Best hangover Breakfast

Best coffeehouse

First place: Starliner Diner

First place: Fox in the Snow Cafe

Second: SuperChef’s Breakfast & More

Second: Stauf’s Coffee Roasters

Third: Hang Over Easy

Third: Kafe Kerouac

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Best quick lunch

First place: Buckeye Donuts

First place: Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace

Second: Destination Donuts

Second: Hot Chicken Takeover

Third: Duck Donuts

Third: Piada Italian Street Food

Best local treat

Best cheap eats

First place: Fox in the Snow Cafe

First place: Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace

Second: Pattycake Bakery

Second: Mikey’s Late Night Slice

Third: Resch’s Bakery

Third: Tommy’s Diner

Best ice cream

Best fine dining restaurant

First place: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams

First place: The Guild House

Second: Graeter’s Ice Cream

Second: Lindey’s

Third: Johnson’s Real Ice Cream

Third: The Refectory

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Best food truck

Best GermaN villaGe restauraNt

First place: Ray Ray’s Hog Pit

First place: Lindey’s

Second: Paddy Wagon

Second: Schmidt’s Sausage Haus

Third: Mikey’s Late Night Slice

Third: The Thurman Cafe

Best short North restauraNt

Best New Bar

First place: The Pearl

First place: Service Bar

Second: Northstar Cafe

Second: Brew Dog’s DogTap

Third: Condado Tacos

Third: Watershed Kitchen & Bar

Best cliNtoNville restauraNt

Best Bar for live music

First place: The Crest

First place: Woodlands Tavern

Second: Northstar Cafe

Second: Natalie’s Coal-Fired Pizza

Third: Harvest Bar and Kitchen

Third: Ace of Cups

Best GraNdview restauraNt

Best mid-sized music veNue

First place: Third and Hollywood

First place: Skully’s Music-Diner

Second: Cap City Fine Diner & Bar

Second: A&R Music Bar

Third: Sweet Carrot

Third: The Basement

Best campus restauraNt

Best larGe music veNue

First place: Blue Danube

First place: Express Live

Second: Tommy’s Pizza

Second: Newport Music Hall

Third: Adriatico’s New York Style Pizza

Third: The Bluestone

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Best happy hour

Best wine list

First place: The Crest

First place: Cooper’s Hawk

Second: Marcella’s

Second: The Refectory

Third: Lindey’s

Third: Wine Bistro

Best Beer Bar

Best cocktails

First place: 101 Beer Kitchen

First place: Sidebar

Second: Bob’s Bar

Second: Curio

Third: World of Beer

Third: M at Miranova

Best Brewery

Best Bar patio

First place: Seventh Son Brewing Co.

First place: Seventh Son Brewing Co.

Second: Land-Grant Brewing

Second: Lindey’s

Third: Wolf’s Ridge Brewing

Third: Barcelona

Best local distiller

Best place to watch the Buckeyes

First place: Watershed Distillery

First place: Varsity Club

Second: Middle West Spirits

Second: Rooster’s

Third: Mill Street Distillery

Third: Short North Pint House

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Best GrandvIew Bar

Best art GaLLery

First place: Woodlands Tavern

First place: OSU Urban Arts Space

Second: Byrne’s Pub Third: Meister’s Bar

Best Campus Bar First place: Old North Arcade Second: Out-R-Inn Third: Varsity Club

Best German vILLaGe/ Brewery dIstrICt Bar First place: Curio at Harvest Second: Club 185

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First place: Union Cafe

First place: Ten Pin Alley

Second: Axis on High

Second: Columbus Square Bowling Palace

Second: St. James Tavern

Third: Slammers

Best IrIsh puB First place: Brazenhead Second: Byrne’s Pub Third: O’Reilly’s Pub

First place: Seventh Son Brewing Co.

Second: CATCO Third: Short North Stage

Best danCe Company First place: BalletMet Columbus

Third: Columbus Modern Dance Company

Best arCade/GamInG Bar

Best short north/ ItaLIan vILLaGe Bar

First place: Shadowbox Live

Best downtown Bar

Third: Wolf’s Ridge Brewing Tap Room

Best BowLInG aLLey

Best LIve theater

Second: Columbus Dance Theatre

Second: 16-Bit Bar + Arcade

Best LGBtQ Bar

Third: Vanderelli Room

Third: The Old Mohawk

First place: Pins Mechanical Company

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Second: ROy G BIV

Best LoCaL podCast First place: In the Record Store Second: Street Fight Radio Third: Ohio v. the World

First place: 16-Bit Bar + Arcade

Best tattoo studIo

Second: Pins Mechanical Company

Second: Defining Skin Tattoo

First place: Evolved Body Art

Third: Old North Arcade

Third: Short North Tattoo

Best museum

Best farmers market

First place: COSI

First place: Pearl Market

Second: Columbus Museum of Art

Second: Worthington Farmers’ Market

Third: Ohio Historical Society

Third: North Market Farmers’ Market

Third: Star Lanes

Third: Oddfellows Liquor Bar

Best movIe theater

Best CLIntonvILLe Bar

First place: Marcus Crosswoods

First place: Bob’s Bar

Best pLaCe for Geeks and nerds

Best wIne shop

Second: The Crest

First place: 16-Bit Bar + Arcade

First place: Weiland’s Market

Third: Lineage Brewing

Second: Kingmakers

Second: House Wine

Third: Laughing Ogre

Third: Wine on High

Second: Gateway Film Center Third: AMC Easton

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Best liquor store

Best record store

First place: The Hills Market

First place: Magnolia Thunderpussy

Second: Weiland’s Market

Second: Used Kids Records

Third: Arena Wine and Spirits

Third: Spoonful Records

Best growler-fill spot

Best thrift store

First place: The Daily Growler

First place: Rag-O-Rama

Second: The Ohio Taproom

Second: Ohio Thrift

Third: Savor Growl

Third: Out of the Closet

Best Beer shop

Best pet shop

First place: Weiland’s Market

First place: PetPeople

Second: Kenny Road Market

Second: Mutts & Co.

Third: Grandview Carryout

Third: Moochie & Co.

Best Bookstore

Best hair salon

First place: The Book Loft

First place: Charles Penzone

Second: Half-Price Books

Second: Salon Lofts

Third: Village Bookshop

Third: Jekyll & Hyde

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Aerial Yoga at Yoga on High

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Best BarBer shop

Best smoke/paraphernalia shop

First place: Thirty 30 Barber Shop

First place: Waterbeds ‘n’ Stuff

Second: Mug and Brush

Second: The Joint

Third: Blue Star Barbershop

Third: House of Cigar

Best fitness center/gym

Best adult shop

First place: Planet Fitness

First place: Lion’s Den

Second: LA Fitness

Second: The Garden

Third: Lifetime Fitness

Third: Waterbeds ‘n’ Stuff

Best sporting goods store

Best spa

First place: Clintonville Outfitters

First place: Woodhouse Day Spa

Second: Outdoor Source

Second: Charles Penzone

Third: Aspen Ski & Board

Third: Kenneth’s Hair Salon and Day Spa

Best Bicycle shop

Best yoga studio

First place: roll:

First place: Yoga on High

Second: Paradise Garage

Second: Balanced Yoga

Third: Trek Bicycles

Third: Bexley Yoga

Best garden shop/nursery First place: Oakland Nursery Second: Strader’s Garden Centers Third: Dill’s Greenhouse

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Josh Mandel

The WorsT As Best of Columbus can attest, there are plenty of things in this city worth celebrating.

These aren’t those.

PHOTO BY JaY LaPreTe

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“If you’re from Columbus and you’ve lived in the inner city and you’ve been exposed to aggressive policing, then you may not know the [term] ‘Summer Safety Initiative,’ but you definitely know the term ‘jump out boys,’” local activist Tammy Fournier Alsaada told Alive. That’s because the city’s Summer Safety Initiative (officially known as the Community Safety Initiative) ramped up patrols and sent plainclothes officers to targeted communities. Residents reported being startled by police who, they said, would “jump out” from unmarked vehicles.

Some felt the initiative unfairly profiled communities of color and worsened community-police relations.

When Mayor Ginther announced plans in February 2017 to extend the program year-round, cries of anger and bewilderment rang out on social media. This announcement had come after plainclothes officers killed Henry Green in South Linden, and after 13-year-old Ty’re King died at the hands of police. But in November, Mayor Ginther announced the end of the initiative, finally echoing what the community knew all along: It represented the worst of Columbus.

–Erica Thompson

ColumbuS brandIng aTTempTS “This will put Columbus on the map” is a phrase that seems to crop up every year, and it needs to go away. While it’s true that our city doesn’t have

an easy-to-define personality, it’s not because we lack interesting people, places or things. Be proud that this city cannot be defined by or known only as one particular thing. Sure, that makes the city harder to “sell,” but save that task for salespeople. Let Columbus just be Columbus.

Also we are, actually, on maps.

Right in the middle of the state.

And being in the middle is a fine place to be.

–Joel Oliphint

WorST polITICIan: JoSh mandel Earlier this year, Josh Mandel dropped out of the U.S. Senate race, citing his wife’s health.

But even removed from the political spotlight (for now), the Beachwood Republican and Ohio Treasurer had a Secretariat-wide lead in the Worst Politician race, and there was no

making up ground on him. In a June 20 Twitter post, Mandel dismissed the Anti-Defamation League as “a partisan witchhunt group” and wrote, “I stand with @Cernovich & @JackPosobiec,” a sentence that should disqualify anyone from holding public office (Jack Posobiec was a key figure driving the pizzagate conspiracies). He also wasted more than $1.8 million in taxpayer funds on selfpromotional TV ads, forcing Republican legislators to pass a law closing the loophole. Then there was the mind-numbingly stupid video in support of President Trump’s wall that Mandel filmed at the U.S-Mexico border that played like an amateurish audition tape for a White House internship. Dude’s like a real-life Jonah Ryan from “Veep.”

–Andy Downing

lISTS abouT ColumbuS made In oTher CITIeS Another one! No, we’re not quoting DJ Khaled, but we’ve been pumped with just as much self-importance, uttering those two words with every new city ranking we received in 2017. Tripsavvy.com told us we were the most underrated city in America for gay travelers (AFTER the #BlackPride4 protest, mind you); ApartmentList. com ranked us the fifth best metro for millennials; and Realtor.com put us at number eight on the list of best cities for college graduates. If you’re going to pay attention to any list, it should be homegrown, like that time that random dude ranked us the best city in the world. And this list you’re reading now.

–Erica Thompson

The campus area has become unrecognizable from what it was just a few years ago, especially along High Street.

Bernie’s is gone. Used Kids, Evolved and Too’s moved north. Five new upscale apartment complexes will house students in the University District this fall. The squeakyclean look of campus along High Street is likely a plus for OSU parents who want to feel comfortable leaving Caden and Haley on their own in the big city for the first time, but it’s a loss for the quirky, campus-area small businesses and their patrons, who were still trying to get over the loss of Larry’s.

–Joel Oliphint

Dumbest columbus controversy: the clintonville rain garDens

Personal politics and geography aside, what’s to be gained by complaining about any sort of action honoring the death of police officers fallen in the line of duty? But that’s right where Route 62 Barbecue owner Brad Jalovec found himself after a since-deleted Tweet he posted after he was forced to watch a televised golf tournament in split-screen while a local station showed ongoing news coverage about the deaths of Westerville officers Eric Joering and Anthony Morelli. Wait, it wasn’t even personal politics or geography, but an inconvenience in watching golf on TV? I can’t even. And neither can a lot of other folks, especially in Johnstown, where Jalovec does business. Jalovec backtracked and said he planned to contribute to a GoFundMe effort to support the officers’ families, but in the social media age, the damage is done.

–Jim Fischer

music venue closures 2017 was a rough year for the local music scene, in some regards, with beloved local venues Carabar and Double Happiness closing up shop for good. In addition, Park Street Saloon in the Arena District, long a go-to stop for larger touring hip-hop acts such as Ghostface, gave up the, uh, ghost, making way for a longplanned luxury hotel. Then there was the abrupt closure of Scarlet & Grey Cafe, long an incubator for local jam bands.

Columbus has, of course, been through this before — just look at the generations that still mourn the loss of venues such as Stache’s, Little Brother’s and Bernie’s. Regardless, here’s hoping a new venue or two springs up in the near future.

–Andy Downing

local nazis At this point it’s been wellpublicized that Andrew Anglin of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer grew up in Worthington, both in these pages (see our cover story from February 2017) and in the national press (the December 2017 cover of The Atlantic). Most recently, Vice filmed a documentary segment with the local process server trying to serve Anglin papers in the suit brought about by Montana real estate agent Tanya Gersh, who received threats after Anglin published her personal information on his website. Though Anglin is the highest-profile Nazi with local ties, he’s far from the only one. In the last year local tattoo shops have come under fire for flaunting apparent ties to white nationalists, and in February 2018, The Washington Post published a profile of Columbus resident and avowed white nationalist Kam Musser under the headline “I don’t know how you got this way.”

–Andy Downing

Worst Job hunt: the search for the next columbus school boarD superintenDent John Stanford was moments from being appointed as the next superintendent of Columbus schools when the state auditor stepped in and warned school board members they might have violated Ohio’s Open Meeting Act. Less than a month later, board members terminated the search and said they were starting over — this after investing $53,000 combined on a search firm and money paid to Stanford after his hiring was voided, according to the Dispatch.

Will Ferrell’s job interview in “Step Brothers” included fewer comic turns.

–Andy Downing

Informational sign for the Clintonville Rain Gardden

PHOTO BY Mark FerencHik

short north tax abatements Look, we get that tax abatements can be a tool for redeveloping underserved neighborhoods, but when they’re handed out like Halloween candy in a bustling neighborhood that doesn’t need the boost, well, that’s where issues creep in. In October 2016, the city hired HR&A Advisors to study incentives offered by Columbus, and a draft of the report suggested the city is too generous with incentives offered to Short North developers, according to a draft of the report the Dispatch obtained and reported on in July 2017.

“The study found that abatements aren’t needed to lure the mid-rise developers … that have popped up in the areas off High Street in the Short North. Those projects can be profitable for developers even without the incentives,” the paper wrote. Of course, in December City Council approved a 10-year, 75 percent tax abatement for the Pizzuti Company, which is redeveloping a former Short North antique market and a consignment

store into a four-story, mixeduse building. The abatement is worth $3.1 million.

–Andy Downing

Worst sports team oWner: he Who shall not be nameD Well, let’s see. There are two major league professional sports teams in Columbus, and only one has an owner who is dead-set on moving their team from the city.

All that love for the city and the team the new owner expressed when he first acquired Crew SC from the Hunt family … was it just BS from the get-go? Did he have a radical change of heart? Is he just a money-grubbing low-life? (That assumes he would actually make more money in Austin.) Or is he some master manipulator who has always intended to relocate the team to Austin because he wants to have a second home there or he wants to be part of some cool scene he believes exists or whatever? Whether a snake-oil salesman, an opportunist or a rich kid who just wants to do whatever he likes with his toys, the dude whose name I haven’t mentioned is definitely persona non grata. #SavetheCrew –Jim Fischer

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As a Columbus resident, what are some of your top concerns in your neighborhood?

Rising rents and home prices?

Police brutality? Opioid use?

For Clintonville home owners last summer, the answer was rain gardens. As part of the city’s Blueprint Columbus plan to prevent storm water from flooding sewers and polluting rivers, gardens were installed along sidewalks. Nevermind that the project is allowing the city to save $1 billion and meet EPA requirements; they aren’t pretty, the residents said.

From “ditches” to “eyesores” to “unsightly toxic dumps,” people tossed off colorful descriptors to reporters investigating the issue. “There’s so much change going on in Clintonville that it’s making people nervous,” one resident told the Dispatch. There goes the neighborhood.

–Erica Thompson

most tone-Deaf social meDia post: route 62 barbecue

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thursDAY, MArCh 29- sAturDAY, APrIL 7, 2018 Through sATurdAy | April 7

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The at-first unassuming but ultimately gratifying No Place Gallery specializes in presenting adept work by (mostly) out-of-town artists, showcasing some of the best contemporary work for Columbus audiences. Its current exhibition of work by artists from two different New York City boroughs is no exception, as the work of Nicholas Sullivan and Nick Irzyk graces the space through April 12.

144 E. State St., Downtown angelamelecagallery.com

Daniel Boccato's "You Are Not a Tree"

1164 S. Front St., Merion Village facebook.com/NoPlaceGallery

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• Works by Transit Arts closing reception at Upper Cup Coffee

• Columbus Dances Fellowship Concert at Columbus Dance Theatre

• The Madness Machine Tour at Two Dollar Radio HQ

• The Ogún Meji Duo +1 with Hakim Callwood at Art of Republic

• “Opening Skinner’s Box” at Wexner Center for the Arts

• Chamber Brews at Columbus Museum of Art

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• Improbable “Opening Skinner’s Box” at Wexner Center for the Arts

• Quarter Given: New Poetry by Maggie Smith at Art of Republic

• Jonathan Weisman at Gramercy Books

• Music: The Voice for the Oppressed at King Arts Complex

• Carrie Mae Weems at Wexner Center for the Arts

• “The Meeting” at King Arts Complex

• “Hive Mind Holy Shroud: Vol. 4” at Short North Tattoo

• “The Mountaintop” at the Garden Theater

• Daniel Neer at Otterbein University Riley Auditorium

• The Poetry Forum w/ Jennifer Hambrick at Bossy Grrls Pin-Up Joint

• “Waterbedzen” opening at 934 Gallery

• Kyla Zoe Rafert reception at Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative

• Story Club: Annihilation at Rambling House

• CSO Does New Music at Garden Theater

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Columbus artist/curator Ryland Wharton explained that he often doesn’t know what he’s going to be making when he enters his studio. He said that, because he’s not a painter or photographer, for example, he might not even know what form his work could take.

Perhaps this helps explain at least a couple of the ideas at work in his current solo exhibition at Angela Meleca Gallery. Titled “Detour Detour Detour Detour,” the exhibition finds Wharton concerned with both change of direction and alchemy, or how something changes from one thing into another.

That Wharton’s practice is informed by books — both reading them and the idea of them — is obvious. Indeed, there are pieces in the show that are made of books or parts of books. The artist’s literary bent is further evident in the small space he operates in a space adjacent to Meleca’s. The space, Appendix, opened earlier this year and features a mini used-book store and exhibits distinct from those in the gallery.

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GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Angela Meleca Gallery. Ryland Wharton. Through April 7. 144 E. State St., Downtown. 614-340-6997. angelamelecagallery.com.

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: U.S. Immigration in Cartoons and Comics and Cartoon Couture. Both through April 15. Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St., Campus. 614-292-0538. cartoons.osu.edu.

Blockfort. Odds Are. Opens April 5. 162 N. 6th St., Downtown. 614-887-7162. blockfortcolumbus.com.

Brandt-Roberts Galleries. Cody Heichel: Peripheral Roots. Through April 1. 642 N. High St., Short North. 614-223-1655. brandtrobertsgalleries.com.

Columbus Cultural Arts Center.

Thousand People of Genoa. Through April 14. Montage: Sharon Munch Daily. Through March 31. 139 W. Main St., Downtown.

614645-7047. culturalartscenteronline.org.

Columbus Museum of Art. Family Pictures. Through May 20. William Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography.

Through May 20. James R. Hopkins: Faces of the Heartland. Through April 22. 80 E. Broad St., Downtown. 614-221-4848. columbusmuseum.org.

Corrugate Studio Collective & Gallery. Daniel Boccato: You Are Not a Tree. Opens March 30. 1170 Corrugated Way, Milo-Grogan. facebook.com/ corrugatecolumbus.

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Dublin Arts Center Gallery. The Sphere of Magic and other Visionary Objects/ Extraordinary Images: Mark Soppeland.

Through April 20. 7125 Riverside Drive, Dublin. 614-889-7444. dublinarts.org.

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Fresh A.I.R. Gallery. Inland & Upland: Eric Pelka. Through May 4. 131 N. High St., Downtown. 614-744-8110. southeastinc. com/fresh_air.php.

Gallery Denmark. Nelsa Abalo.

Through March 31. 463 N. High St., second floor, Short North. 614- 984-7351. denmarkonhigh.com.

Glass Axis. Mini-Vitro. Through April 28.

610 W. Town St., Franklinton. 614-2914250. glassaxis.org.

Hammond Harkins Galleries. 6Plus1: Featuring Melissa Vogley Woods. Through April 22. 641 N. High St., Short North. 614238-3000. hammondharkins.com.

Hawk Galleries. Inner Vision. Through April 29. 153 E. Main St., Downtown. 614225-9595. hawkgalleries.com.

Hayley Gallery. Painting With Paper: Jane Dippold. Through April 14. 260 Market St., Suite B, New Albany. 614-855-4856. hayleygallery.com.

Highline Coffee Art Space. Ed Phillips paintings. Through April 30. 691 High St, Worthington. 614-992-2899. highlinecoffeeco.com.

Keny Galleries. Alan Gough and the Winter Landscape. Through April 20. 30 E. Beck St., German Village. 614-464-1228. kenygalleries.com.

Lindsay Gallery. William Hawkins Paintings and Drawings. March 31 through May 20.

986 N. High St., Short North. 614-291-1973. lindsaygallery.com.

Marcia Evans Gallery. Kate Morgan solo show. Through March 31. 8 E. Lincoln St., Short North. 614-298-8847. marciaevansgallery.com.

Martin de Porres Center. Diversity is Our Strength. Through May 11. 2330 Airport Dr., Northeast Side. 614-416-1910. martindeporrescenter.net.

No Place Gallery. Nicholas Sullivan and Nick Irzyk. Through April 12. 1164 S. Front St., Merion Village. facebook.com/ NoPlaceGallery.

Ohio Art League X Space. A Place in Time with XYZ: JT Thompson. Through March 31. 400 W. Rich St., Franklinton. 614-2998225. oal.org/xspace.

Ohio Arts Council Riffe Gallery. Quilt National. Through April 14. 77 S. High St., Downtown. 614-644-9624. oac.ohio.gov/ Riffe-Gallery/Exhibitions.

Open Door Art Studio & Gallery.

Horizons. Through May 4. 1050 Goodale Blvd., Grandview. 614-641-2828. opendoorartstudio.org.

OSU Faculty Club. Thinking in Color: Paintings by Paula Rubenstein. Through April 27. 181 S. Oval Dr., Campus. 614-292-2262. ohio-statefacultyclub.com.

OSU Hopkins Hall Gallery.

Undergraduate Art Scholarships Exhibition 2018. Through March 30. 128 N. Oval Mall, Campus. 614-292-8861. hhg.osu.edu.

OSU Urban Arts Space. Department of Design Spring Exhibition. Through April 7. 50

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Otterbein University. Stories from Life: A Sufi-Inspired Journey of Past and Present.

Through May 6 in Fisher Gallery. Roush Hall, 27 S. Grove St., Westerville. Another Place: Images and Stories from a Refugee’s World.

Through April 28 in Frank Museum of Art. 39 S. Vine St., Westerville. otterbein.edu.

Pizzuti Collection. Lines/Edges: Frank Stella on Paper and Pair: Glen Baldridge and Alex Dodge. Both through April 28. 632 N. Park St., Short North. 614-280-4004. pizzuticollection.org.

Sean Christopher Gallery.

Concentration 10: Tenth Annual Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School AP Art Exhibition.

Through March 31. 815 N. High St., Short North. 614-327-1344. facebook.com/ seanchristophergalleryohio.

Sharon Weiss Gallery. Adam Elkins: All Over the Place. Through March 31. 20 E. Lincoln St., Short North. 614-291-5683. sharonweissgallery.com.

Sherrie Gallerie. Sid Chafetz. Through April 8. 694 N. High St., Short North. 614221-8580. sherriegallerie.com.

The Shot Tower Gallery. Theme(s) and Variotion(s): Ardine Nelson and Fredrik Marsh. Through April 27. 546 Jack Gibbs Blvd., Downtown. 614-365-6681. facebook. com/FHMEC. Studios on High Gallery. Jennifer Jolley Brown: Rooted. Through April 5. 686 N. High St., Short North. 614-461-6487. studiosonhigh.com.

Vanderelli Room. Outsiders. Through April 15. 218 McDowell St., Franklinton.

614-403-4689. thevanderelliroom.com.

Wehrle Gallery at Ohio Dominican University. Convergence: New Work by Char Norman and Anita Dawson. Through March 31. 1216 Sunbury Road, Northeast Side.

(614) 251-4612. ohiodominican.edu.

Wexner Center for the Arts. All of Everything: Todd Oldham Fashion and William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time. Both through April 15. 1871 N. High St., Campus. 614292-3535. wexarts.org.

Wild Goose Creative. Begin Again. Through March 30. 2491 Summit St., Campus. 614-859-94534. wildgoosecreative.org.

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‘Ready PlayeR One’

By BRad Keefe Steven Spielberg has been making movies my entire life, and he’s made some of the best of them. Still, it’s been a while since he’s made one like “Ready Player One,” a return to the sort of joyous, eyepopping spectacle that is his signature.

Simply put, Spielberg is one of the big reasons I love movies, so it’s impossible not to recommend his return to this kind of crowd-pleaser.

“Ready Player One” is set in a future dystopia known as “Columbus, Ohio, 2045.” That’s right, it’s set here, and look for a great cameo by a familiar (if upgraded) skyline. Also, you can play a drinking game where you drink each time a character name-drops Columbus. It’s a lot.

People such as young Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) escape from the harsh realities of future-Columbus by way of the OASIS, an immersive virtual reality that allows people to be anything they want. “Except for eating, sleeping and bathroom breaks, we do everything in the OASIS.” The creator of this video game world is the late James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who’s set up a kind of Golden Ticket-contest upon the event of his death. He’s hidden three keys to an “Easter egg” somewhere in the OASIS. And the finder of the egg, Wonka-style, gets complete control of the world.

Wade is already one of the more

gifted players, and soon he teams with another virtual avatar named Artemis (Olivia Cooke) to seek the egg.

But corporate baddie Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) has both virtual and real-world teams trying to stop them.

Because controlling the world where everyone spends their time is worth a lot of money.

Working from the novel by Ernest Cline, Spielberg makes this world his own, and he’s placed more Easter eggs than you could ever spot in one viewing.

“Ready Player One” is a pure nostalgia bath for a generation. The ’80s soundtrack sets the tone for spotting more pop-culture references than you can imagine, and spotting them is a lot of fun.

But it’s also pure Spielberg magic.

Count me among those who thought the trailer indicated a hot CGI mess, but the full experience is so immersive. It’s essentially half animated movie, and it works far better than I expected.

It has actual emotional connection, thanks to Spielberg’s uncanny knack as a storyteller and a fine cast of faces who aren’t huge stars, which allows you to get even more lost in it.

If Spielberg is why I love movies, then this is why I love Spielberg.

“Ready PlayeR One” Opens Thursday

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‘ready pLayer ONe’ reLease eveNT aT gaTeway FiLm CeNTer By aNdy dOwNiNg “Ready Player One,” the Ernest Cline novel brought to big-budget, big-screen life by director Steven Spielberg, is set in a futuristic Columbus, distinguished by its thousands of mixed-used, four-story condos anchored by street-level

Panera Bread shops (I assume). To mark the film’s release, Gateway Film Center is hosting a launch event on Thursday, March 29, starting at 2 p.m. Along with film screenings, the venue will host a tech overload, allowing attendees to explore virtual reality systems, pilot drones and play other electronic games. A full range of exhibitors

and special guests can be viewed at rpomovie.com.

gaTeway FiLm CeNTer

2 p.m., Thursday, March 29 1550 N. High St., Campus gatewayfilmcenter.org rpomovie.com

New iN TheaTers: “tyLer Perry’s acrimoNy” This might come as a surprise from the title, but “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” is a new film from director Tyler Perry, a man who likely signs his autograph “Tyler Perry’s signature by Tyler Perry.”

“God’s Not dead: a LiGht iN darkNess”

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aLsO pLayiNg: “PaciFic rim uPrisiNG” John Boyega (best known as Finn in the latest “Star Wars” update) stars in this cartoonish, sci-fi action thriller, which finds human-operated robots waging war against massive sea monsters.

“the death oF staLiN” Director Armando Iannucci (“Veep”) provides some much-needed laughs in a political satire that hits a little too close to home. Even if it’s not quite as good as his previous film, “In the Loop,” admission is worth it for Steve Buscemi’s Nikita Khrushchev alone.

amc eastoN 30 275 Easton Town Center, Easton 614-428-5716 amctheatres.com amc LeNNox 24 777 Kinnear Rd., Campus 614-429-0100 amctheatres.com ciNemark carriaGe PLace moVies 12 2570 Bethel Rd., Northwest 614-538-0403 cinemark.com ciNemark raVe PoLaris 18 1071 Gemini Pl., Polaris, 614-781-8228 cinemark.com ciNemark stoNeridGe PLaza moVies 16 323 Stoneridge Ln., Gahanna 614-471-7625 cinemark.com cosi 333 W. Broad St., Franklinton 614-228-2674 cosi.org drexeL theatre 2254 E. Main St., Bexley 614-231-1050 drexel.net

marcus crosswoods uLtrascreeN 200 Hutchinson Ave., Worthington 614-841-1600 marcustheatres.com marcus ciNemas PickeriNGtoN 1776 Hill Rd. North, Pickerington 614-759-6500 marcustheatres.com reGaL GeorGesViLLe square 16 1800 Georgesville Sq., South Side 844-462-7342 regmovies.com screeNs at the coNtiNeNt 6360 Busch Blvd., North Side 614-318-0551 screens8.net starPLex ciNemas 10 5275 Westpointe Plaza Dr., Hilliard 614-529-9462 starplexcinemas.com straNd theatre 28 E. Winter St., Delaware 740-815-9266 thestrandtheatre.net studio 35 ciNema 3055 Indianola Ave., Clintonville 614-262-7505 studio35.com

Gateway FiLm ceNter 1550 N. High St., Campus 614-247-4433 gatewayfilmcenter.com

studio moVie GriLL — areNa GraNd 175 Nationwide Blvd., Arena District 614-456-1298 studiomoviegrill.com

GraNdView theatre 1247 Grandview Ave., Grandview 614-670-4102 grandviewtheatre.net

wexNer ceNter For the arts 1871 N. High St., Campus 614-292-3535 wexarts.org

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Chicharrones Criollo

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ANdES bAR ANd GRiLL The accessible flavors prevalent in the often-hearty, wellprepared dishes of several South American nations are showcased in this upbeat Downtown newcomer

By G.A. Benton • PHotoS By RoB HARDIn

I first stepped into Andes Bar and Grill on one of those gusty, mid-March nights when a dusting of snow reminds you that winter isn’t eager to leave. Retreating from the chill and gloom, I was glad to walk into a fanciful room animated by vivid colors and the pulsing beats of cumbia music.

Framed fabrics and mannequins clad in traditional Andean garb, plus ochre, crimson and aqua-blue walls reflecting

through jagged mirrors grabbed my attention. So did a bar brightened by glittering lights and a TV silently screening celebrity chef David Chang’s convention-questioning show, “Ugly Delicious.” On another TV: risque music-and-dance videos that would likely warrant a PG-13 rating.

The Jumbo Margarita ($12), Andes Pisco ($8) and Rompe Corazones cocktail ($10; made with tequila and grapefruit soda) warrant an unremarkable rating.

Falso de Conejo

thin, topped with a fried egg and partnered with white rice, prefab but crisp fries, plus the minced, sweet-and-spicy pickled vegetables that compose the prevalent house pico de gallo. Rather typical for the restaurant, this is soulful and shareable mom-and-pop fare sold at not-so-cheap prices.

The Chicharrones Criollo ($16) teams mostly crisp, fatty, fried pork belly with hominy and a boiled, skinned potato. It’s a hearty if humble Bolivian combo whose bland carbohydrates benefit from the house pico.

Just one of the reasons to like the Falso de Conejo ($14): the Bolivian dish translates to “fake rabbit.” What you’ll actually get is a big, crowdpleasing schnitzel that’s usually made with steak.

Because I’d recently beefed-out on the Silpancho, I opted for the crisp, golden-brown chicken version. Served with rice, it was a pleasant cutlet notably livened by zesty yellow gravy rife with peas and diced potatoes.

Like many entrees here, it’s big enough to be dinner for two if combined

with sides. A few of my favorites are the deceptively simple but excellent kidney beans ($4), the crisp, maderight tostones (plantain chips, $5) and the sweet, banana-like, pan-fried maduros (ripe plantains sliced lengthwise, $5).

All of these accompany the mammoth, highly recommended Colombian-style platter called Bandeja Paisa ($20).

The colossal entree also includes a Colombian empanada; seared and smoky, bratwurst-sized, cumin-scented chorizo sausage; thin-sliced little ribeye steak topped with a fried egg; chicharrones; and rice. Try it with a simple but refreshing, lime-brightened Quinoa Salad ($8), and it’s practically dinner for three.

Trying this restaurant in general is practically like taking a little South American culinary vacation, but in Downtown Columbus.

Andes BAr & Grill

79 S. 4th St., Downtown 614-817-1717 facebook.com/ andesbarandgrill

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One of the several bottled Mexican beers offered, such as a Negra Modelo ($5), is a solid alternative and requires less cash.

Unfortunately, South American beers aren’t available but, as the restaurant’s name implies, the place specializes in food popular near the Andes, a mountain range that spans seven countries in South America.

Many of the Andean states are represented on the menu, but a close inspection reveals a welcome and uncommon emphasis on Bolivian cuisine.

Anyone who converses with owner-chef and occasional server Jorge Nisthauz — this will be nearly everyone in the modest-sized eatery because Nisthauz is all about the meet-and-greet — can quickly learn why Bolivian dishes are featured: The owner and affable restaurant ambassador is a previous longtime New Yorker originally from Bolivia.

If you want to try the Bolivian empanadas called Saltenas ($3 each) — and you do — the wheat-based, scratch-made savory pastries take about a halfhour to make. After the wait, you’ll receive braided, thick and pretty hand pies containing either a soupy, scalding-hot beef filling or a chicken filling similar to that in a pot pie.

Although less rare or impressive, the Colombian Empanadas ($6) are nice: puffy, fried, corn-flourbased pockets bearing a shredded-beef filling.

Silpancho ($16), another Bolivian favorite, stars a delicious, flourdredged steak the approximate width of a catcher’s mitt. The immense piece of tender beef is pounded

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EAT // ROUNDUP

FOUR COlUmbUs tastes tO seek OUt this weekend

Da Levee

by niChOlas dekkeR

With the NCAA Women’s Final Four coming to Columbus, our city is welcoming a big influx of visitors. If you’re here for the weekend, or you’re a new transplant still discovering our fair city, seek out these five signature tastes.

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In a Facebook post this week, Da Levee owner Justin Boehme announced he would be shutting down the Short North location of the Cajun-Creole eatery on Sunday, April 1 — no joke. Boehme plans to open a new concept in the same spot at 765 N. High St. that will feature pop-ups, games, local brews and cocktails. Da Levee’s Gahanna location will remain open.

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La Laguna, the Mexican ice cream spot specializing in raspados, has moved from its location inside a West Side laundromat to 1980 Hard Rd. Early-bird tickets are on sale for Brews Over Beats, a craft beer and hip-hop festival presented by Seventh Son Brewing and the 2x2 Hip-Hop Festival. Tickets to the May 18 event are currently $25; visit facebook.com/2x2hiphopfest for more information.

FoxFire Tacos is now serving out of the Little Rock Bar kitchen on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Little Rock is located at 944 N. Fourth St. in Italian Village.

A new Indonesian food truck hit the Central Ohio streets this week. Hahn Solo’s menu includes Indonesian specialties like beef rending, chicken sate and nasi goreng. Owners Clinton Lawrence Hahn and Suliyati Hahn (who hails from Solo, Indonesia) recently moved to Columbus from Denver.

Clean Juice, a North Carolina-based juice and smoothie bar, is coming to 665 Worthington Rd. in Westerville.

Franchise owner Hailey Crowley is targeting May for a soft opening. The new location will serve cold pressed juices, centrifugal juices, smoothies, acai bowls and more.

Franchisee Helena Abidin is opening a Pickerington location of Teriyaki Madness on Sunday, March 25, at 1510 Cross Creeks Blvd. The menu features a variety of Asian rice and noodle bowls, pot stickers and more.

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Ice Cream We do ice cream really, really well. Some people consider it our chief export, given high-profile ice cream makers like Jeni Britton Bauer of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams.

You’ll find every style covered in the city, from Jeni’s creative concoctions, such as Pistachio Honey or Salty Caramel, to the classics like Buckeye Blitz and Black Raspberry Chip at Graeter’s. You’ll also find shops picking up on the trend of rolled ice creams, where the treat is poured out on a chilling plate, mixed with toppings and then scraped into rolls before serving.

Where to find it: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Graeter’s, Simply Rolled inside Oats & Barley Market Dumplings Every culture features some form of dumplings, whether it’s Eastern European pierogi, traditional American chicken and dumplings, Nepali varia-

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tions or more — and every type is represented in Columbus. The relatively new Momo Ghar, for instance, just enjoyed exposure on “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” for its handmade Nepali and Tibetan momos. A number of Chinese eateries have earned followings for their dumplings as well.

Where to find them: Momo Ghar in North Market, Chinese Beef Noodle Soup, Ying’s Tea House & YumYum, Pierogi Mountain Doughnuts Given our variety of long-running, old-school doughnut joints — as well as the newcomers who get creative with the classics — Columbus would be a serious contender for the title of Doughnut City, USA (if there were such a title). Every neighborhood features a bakery that’s served the fried delicacies to generations of customers, such as Resch’s on the East Side, the Goodie Shop in Upper Arlington, Buckeye Donuts on campus or Schneider’s in Westerville. Balance

those with the creative takes on doughnuts from Destination Donuts or Tupelo Doughnuts, and you’ve got your work cut out for you.

Where to find them: Buckeye Donuts, DK Diner, Destination Donuts Fried Chicken Much of the country is on a fried chicken kick right now, and Columbus has made it a community rallying point. Our current fried chicken darling is Hot Chicken Takeover, which features the zesty, Nashville-style birds and has pioneered HR practices that help formerly incarcerated employees build positive work records. But you’ll find fried chicken all over town served up in many different ways, from classic Southern style at The Eagle to the chicken and biscuits at G. Michael’s to a stellar fried chicken sandwich at Preston’s burger shack inside Three Sheets bar in the Brewery District.

Where to find it: Hot Chicken Takeover, The Eagle, Preston’s Burgers

EAT // PARTY PLANNER A Silent Party

by Millennium Age

phoTo courTEsy of millEnnium agE

silEnT Trap parTy aT skully’s

By Erica Thompson

skully’s music-DinEr

9 p.m. Friday, March 30 1151 N. High St., Short North millenniumage.com

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The Silent Trap Party is making its way back to Skully’s Music-Diner on Friday, March 30, and Chance the Rapper is partially responsible.

Before Jahmal Walker founded the Millennium Age event production company and talent agency, he managed Chicago rapper Alex Wiley. Chance invited Wiley to open for him at his sold-out show at Skully’s. A few years later, when Walker was scouting locations for the Silent Parties, he remembered the venue.

“We were welcomed and everything went very well,” Walker said from Los Angeles, where Millennium Age is based. The event debuted in Columbus on Feb. 23 and sold out, drawing about 450 people.

“We love the energy [in Columbus],” Walker said. “Everyone is upbeat, well-spirited.”

The event works like this: You walk in and present your ticket, which guarantees a headset. Each headset has three channels, distinguished by color. Each channel corresponds to one of three live DJs, who are spinning separate genres of music.

“It really makes the experience heightened because you are actually seeing the DJ change different records and engage with the crowd as the crowd is responding,” Walker said. “It’s really similar to you dancing in the shower [when] no one’s around.”

Walker discovered the concept overseas and first executed it in the States more than two years ago. Since then, the

company has done more than 400 Silent events, which are not relegated to the club.

“We produce panels [and] we actually just did a church service with the silent headphones,” Walker said. “We’ve done bar mitzvahs. We’ve done weddings. …

We are moving the culture with a new platform of technology.”

Because people are curating their own, personal experiences, one might think they’d be isolated from their group of friends. But Silent Trap Party attendees can expect the opposite effect.

“Because the headsets are colorcoordinated … you’re able to hang out with your friends knowing what they’re listening to,” Walker said. “So it turns into a sing-along. If your favorite Drake song is on and you’re jamming out … but your friends all turn to a different channel, and their level of excitement grows … you want to change that channel.”

And it’s that shared experience among the crowd that creates a comfortable setting.

“This isn’t your normal club outing or your normal, ‘I need to show that we’re better than you because we have a VIP section,’” Walker said. “No one is judged. …

Everyone is the same for those four hours.”

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InsIder’s GuIde to Columbus The Guild houSe

624 N. High St., Short North theguildhousecolumbus.com

Start your day with a latte at Cafe Brioso Enter either Downtown location of this hip shop bleary-eyed and exit awake, hopped up on caffeine and rearing to tackle the day. The local institution pours a great cup of coffee, but if you want something richer, spring for one of its ridiculously creamy lattes, which range from traditional to the Ohio Maple Latte, which comes with just a hint of syrupy sweetness. One small heads-up: the store is closed on Sundays. Hit up other hotspots on Columbus’ official coffee trail, like the Short North’s One Line and Mission. phoTo by barbara J. perenIC

The (updaTed) InsIder’s GuIde To Columbus Here’s a go-to guide for those in town to catch the 2018 Women’s Final Four by alIve sTaff

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irst things first, 2018 Women’s Final Four visitors: You’re going to love us. We’re not braggarts or anything, but we feel safe in saying you’ll be surprised at how much you enjoy your time in Columbus. That’s just what happens when people visit us.

To lead you on your path to enlightenment, we’ve updated a (fairly) comprehensive visitor’s guide that we first published in 2015, highlighting dozens of our favorite things to drink, eat, buy, look at, and so on. Most of those activities reside in the Downtown, Arena District and Short North neighborhoods, because, well, that’s where you’ll most likely be, but some outings might require a quick bus or cab ride. Even if you only get to a few, we bet you’ll walk away impressed.

All the tastes under one roof The North Market, Columbus’ most popular home for unique, independent merchants, is a bounty of tastes, scents and experiences. Everything from experimental pop-ups to handcrafted coffee, ethnic food to artisanal doughnuts, microbrews to primo wine to highly addictive (and wildly popular) spots such as Momo Ghar and Hot Chicken Takeover.

The NorTh MArkeT

59 Spruce St., Arena District northmarket.com

eat your way through the Short North The eating options in the Short North

are copious to the point of paralysis. So here’s a start: For breakfast or brunch, head to Tasi for coffee and cinnamonchallah french toast or huevos rancheros. For lunch, don’t miss Brassica, a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant unlike any you’ve ever visited (from the folks behind Northstar Cafe, another good option). And for some unfussy fine dining at dinner, check out the eclectic American cuisine at the Guild House.

TASi CAfe

680 N. Pearl St., Short North tasicafe.net

BrASSiCA

680 N. High St., Short North brassicashortnorth.com

CAfe BrioSo

14 E. Gay St., Downtown cafebrioso.com

oNe liNe Coffee

745 N. High St., Short North onelinecoffee.com

MiSSioN Coffee

11 Price Ave., Short North missioncoffeeco.com

drinking is a drag at Southbend Tavern Dubbed “the best little show bar in Columbus,” Southbend Tavern is the drag bar off the beaten path. Most nights of the week you can find the city’s top performers and up-and-comers alike decked out in their best tiaras on the Southbend stage. Add in cheap booze and a friendly wait staff for a “Cheers” experience with a queer twist.

SouThBeNd TAverN

126 E. Moler St., Merion Village facebook.com/SouthBendTavern

Sample interesting beers (and eats!) at Yellow Brick Pizza This artsy Olde Towne East pizza shop sports one of the city’s best and most diverse beer lists. Taps change often, but you’ll always find selections from

a handful of local breweries and plenty of beer-geek faves (Mikkeller! Off Color!). Also take some time to browse the local art hanging on the walls, including the latest special board chalk drawing from artist/musician/co-owner Bobby Silver. Plus, upstairs is Arcade Super Awesome, featuring the best video games and pinball machines from the ’80s and ’90s.

Yellow Brick Pizza

892 Oak St., Olde Towne East yellowbrickpizza.com

eat, drink and play video games downtown The block rebirth that started with a hot dog restaurant (Dirty Frank’s) got a cherry on top with the opening of the wildly popular 16-Bit Bar + Arcade, but do not miss Little Palace for one of the best little pub grub menus in the city. Get the fried cheese curds. Seriously.

16-Bit Bar + arcade

254 S. Fourth St., Downtown 16-bitbar.com

dirtY Frank’s Hot dog Palace 248 S. Fourth St., Downtown dirtyfrankscolumbus.com

little Palace

240 S. Fourth St., Downtown littlepalacerestaurant.com

el camino inn

238 S. Fourth St., Downtown facebook.com/elcaminoinn

get down at the dives Every city has its indelible dive bars and juke joints. Mike’s Bar and Grill is one of the area’s most beloved hole-inthe-walls, and is frequented by longtime regulars and late night revelers alike.

Dick’s Den is the best place for a cheap drink, not to mention live jazz (usually only a small cover) and a pool table that only requires three quarters. Rehab Tavern in Franklinton is the newest of this group. Its titular renovations make it look more like a hip artist studio, but the drink prices and laid-back atmosphere fulfill the dive quotient.

dick’s den

2417 N. High St., Old North dicksdencolumbus.com

mike’s Bar and grill

724 N. High St., Short North

reHaB tavern

456 W. Town St., Franklinton rehabtavern.com

eat one of the best burger/fry combos in the city Other burgers get more publicity, but for our money nobody in Columbus serves up the American classic better than the team at Preston’s: A Burger Joint. The newish spot from chefs Matthew Heaggans and Catie Randazzo (the team behind the forthcoming eatery Ambrose & Eve) is housed

on the second floor of Brewery District bar Three Sheets and offers updated, chef-ed up takes on junk-food classics such as Funyuns (served with Green Goddess dressing) and crisp, vinegary french fries. Pair either with the killer Ambrose & Eve Burger.

Preston’s: a BUrger Joint at tHree sHeets

560 S. High St., Brewery District prestonsburgers.com

Find out what all the fuss is about ray ray’s One of the city’s most beloved food trucks, Ray Ray’s Hog Pit now slings its superlative barbecue from a trio of locales, including the parking lot of Ace of Cups, weekends at Land-Grant Brewing Company in Franklinton (which also sports a great outdoor patio, if weather cooperates) and at a standalone outpost in Westerville. If dining at Ace, make sure you pop inside for a drink to check out the onetime-bank-turnedkiller-music-bar.

raY raY’s Hog Pit

Various locations rayrayshogpit.com

Pattycake Bakery Vegan baked goods so mouth-wateringly soft, decadent and pleasure-inducing, you’ll question your omnivore-ism. Or at least curtail your vegan jokes for a bit.

PattYcake BakerY

3009 N. High St., Clintonville pattycakebakery.com

explore Franklinton The Atlantic profiled Franklinton in a series about cities transforming onceforgotten-and-blighted neighborhoods.

Franklinton’s still on the come-up, but what’s there now is definitely legit. Get a flight of locally made craft beers at Land-Grant Brewing Company.

Check out the sprawling artists enclave at 400 West Rich. Sip a hot-pepperinfused bourbon at the atmosphere-laden Strongwater Food & Spirits. Take a lock-picking or welding class at the nation’s largest makers space, Columbus Idea Foundry.

land-grant Brewing

424 W. Town St., Franklinton landgrantbrewing.com

strongwater Food & sPirits 401 W. Town St., Franklinton strongwatercolumbus.com

400 west ricH

400 W. Rich St., Franklinton 400westrich.com

colUmBUs idea FoUndrY

421 W. State St., Franklinton columbusideafoundry.com Read the full list at columbusalive.com

Little Palace and Dirty Frank’s Hotdog Palace

Be proud at Union cafe

Union caFe

782 N. High St., Short North columbusnightlife.com

Photo by AlysiA burton

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No matter what night of the week, Union Café should always be your pregame clubhouse. An inviting atmosphere, killer patio and specials every night of the week has made Union the unofficial flagship LGBTQ bar of the Short North.

Sip on martinis or margaritas while you watch your favorite music videos (always playing on the TVs), check out a drag show, or just tip back a delicious Long (read strong) Island Iced Tea and settle in on the patio for optimal people watching.

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THURSDAY, 3/29 The U.S. And China: Prospects for Trade and Security Relations, The Columbus Council on World Affairs invites you to join us for a dialogue on

these and related issues with the following distinguished speaker: David M. Lampton, Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Boathouse at Confluence Park, 679 W.

Spring St., Downtown.

Cocktails & Charcuterie for a Cause, Please join us for a delectable evening of

Columbus cause, Pets for Vets. $30. 6-8 p.m. Camelot Cellars Winery, 901 Oak St., Olde Towne East.

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tions: Women’s Voices #HERStory event, “Women in Business: Addressing Pay Equity.” First elected to Columbus City Council in November 2015, Brown focuses on building broadbased economic prosperity and initiatives to strengthen women and families.

She led the adoption of a paid family leave policy for city employees – the first of its kind in the Midwest and the third nationally.

Brown has also served as an economic development manager to the City of Columbus, worked with middle school students to

improve literacy as a City Year Americorps member, and has been published in New York Magazine and NPR affiliate WOSU. 6-8 p.m. Columbus State Community College, Nestor Hall West Lounge, 550 E. Spring St., Downtown.

Fireside Collective, Award Winning Bluegrass from NCWinners of the 2016 Merlefest Band Competition, finalists in the legendary Telluride Bluegrass Band competition, and now featuring the Rockygrass Banjo Champion, Fireside Collective from Asheville, N.C. is quickly blazing a name for themselves as a mustsee progressive acoustic ensemble. All ages. 6 p.m.

Woodlands Tavern, 1200 W. 3rd Ave., Grandview.

Legend of the Five Rings, 6-10 p.m. Comic Town, 94 Dillmont, Far North Side.

Women + Beer: From Enthusiast to Brewster, Columbus Distributing is proud to host, alongside a proud female owned business, the Daily Growler, Women + Beer. Women + Beer will celebrate Women’s History Month with a women’s only event featuring women’s involvement in the beer industry.

Whether you are a beer enthusiast or are just curious and want to learn more about beer, all women are welcome. 21+. 7-8:30 p.m.

The Daily Growler, 702 S. High St., German Village.

“Which One’s Pink?,” Shadowbox Live pays tribute to the legendary band Pink Floyd. 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Shadowbox Live, 503 S. Front St., Brewery District.

Blues Brews & BBQ, 8-11 p.m. Copious Notes, 520 S. High St., Brewery District.

Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes, All ages. $12, under 21 pays additional $2 at door. 8 p.m. Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit St., North Campus.

Datsik, Opening Artist: Space Jesus, Riot Ten, Wooli. $20. 7 p.m. Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St., Campus.

Fisher Cast, The Candescents, All ages. Free. Doors at 8 p.m. Big Room Bar, , 1036 S. Front St., Brewery District.

“Lady Wrestler,” Local author and filmmaker Chris Bournea’s Lady Wrestler uncovers the forgotten stories of Babs Wingo, Marva Scott, Ethel Johnson, and Ramona Isbell — African American women from Columbus who blazed a trail in the world of professional wrestling in the 1950s and 60s. 7-9 p.m. Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St., Campus.

Anne E. DeChant, Olivia Millerschin, Sarah Peacock, Songwriter Showcase at Natalie’s presents Anne E. DeChant, Olivia Millerschin, and Sarah Peacock in concert. Hosted by Eric Gnezda, this series, held the last Thursday of each month, features the finest regional and national singer-songwriters performing “in-the-round” in a wide range of styles, from Grammy and Kerrville winners to the best up-and-

Bloodthirsty Virgins & Sleepy Gaucho, Expect lush vocals, insane electric guitar antics on a tight rope with fuzz pedal infusion - percussion that drives you down dark roads, and bass that resonates through every cell.

Sleepy Gaucho is an experimental folk project that sprinkles songs with soothing and eclectic soundscapes. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Brothers Drake Meadery, 26 E. 5th Ave., Short North.

Excesss Karaoke, Join Moss Rabbit every Thursday for the best karaoke party around! With stellar sound, massive songbooks, and new songs regularly added, this is where to let your inner star shine. Free.

9 p.m. Callahan’s Bar, 520 N. Park St., Arena District.

Tooth Lures a Fang/ Tioga/Mystic Mamba/ The Crashlanders, 18+. $5, $8 for under 21. 9 p.m.midnight. Spacebar, 2590 N. High St., Old North.

Excesss Karaoke, Join Karaoke Won Kenobi every Thursday for the best karaoke party around! With stellar sound, massive songbooks, and new songs regularly added, this is where to let your inner star shine. Free. 10 p.m. Oldfield’s North Fourth Tavern, 1571 N. 4th St., Campus.

FRIDAY, 3/30 Friday Happy Hour, 3-7 p.m. Union Cafe, 782 N. High St., Short North.

“Montage” Closing Reception, Join us for the closing reception for “Montage” featuring work by artist Sharon Munch Daily. Montage is a collage of paintings each separate and unique yet held together loosely like a box of old photographs. Most families have a box brimming with snapshots and formal photos, spanning generations. Some have names scrawled on the back.

Other subjects we don’t recognize. Being gathered together in one box seems to be the only thing that joins them. 6-8 p.m. Cultural Arts Center, 139 W. Main St., Downtown.

33rd Annual Lord’s Supper Pageant, This stirring spirit-filled musical drama portrays the biblical stories of Jesus and reveals the true passion of Christ’s death and resurrection.

Presented by The Tabernacle Baptist Church Drama Ministry in the Pythian Theatre. $20. 7 p.m. King Arts Complex, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave., King-Lincoln District.

Daniel Boccato: “You Are Not a Tree,” Daniel Boccato lives and works in New York Cooper Union School of Art. 7:30-10 p.m. Corrugate Studios and Residency Program, 1170 Corrugated Way, Milo-Grogan.

“Down and Dirty,” This Spring Shadowbox Live gets Down and Dirty with their newest show that celebrates America’s favorite topic: sex! “Down and Dirty” promises to flirt with audiences with hilarious sketches filled with double entendre and titillating rock ‘n’ roll that will leave them screaming for more. 7:30 p.m. Shadowbox Live, 503 S. Front St., Brewery District.

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Matt Munhall, Every Thursday – it’s our own piano man, Matt Munhall.

5-8 p.m. The Walrus, 143 E. Main St., Downtown.

coming songwriters. 9-11 p.m. Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza and Live Music, 5601 N. High St., Worthington.

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Drag Queen Game Night, Mikayla Denise and friends will be joining us for an exciting game night. The night will be full of competitive fun. Bring friends, family, co-workers. Our host is the sensational and graceful Mikayla Denise. The former Miss Ohio Valley Regional Queen and winner of Nina West’s “So You Think You Can Drag” will make sure you have a great time. $5.

8-10 p.m. Camelot Cellars Winery, 901 Oak St., Olde Towne East.

Sparrowmilk, Pale Grey Lore & Pistil, 18+. $5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Spacebar, 2590 N. High St., Old North.

Eric Ransom Band, Rock & blues, folk & funk. No cover. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. The Walrus, 143 E. Main St., Downtown.

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Excesss Trivia, Test your knowledge and speed by fast paced live buzzer trivia, every rounds winner receives a prize. 9 p.m.midnight. Three-Legged Mare, 401 N. Front St., Arena District.

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Liberated Soul Project, $10. 9 p.m.-midnight. The Savoy Club, 1904 Lake Club Dr., Far East Side.

Silent Trap Party, Here at the Millennium Ages’ Silent Parties our attendees control their own vibe. You choose your music with just one click. Pick from any of the three DJs rocking the crowd. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Skully’s Music-Diner, 1151 N. High St., Short North.

Sailin’, Every Friday, a Columbus DJ takes control of the Little Rock PA for the evening; showcasing their favorite music. This week: Charles Erickson brings you an evening of yacht rock to remember.

No cover. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Little Rock Bar, 944 N. 4th St., Italian Village.

Throttle, Not every 19-year-old can add providing soundtrack for Hillary Clinton’s rally to his resume. Melbourne native Robbie Bergin aka Throttle can. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Trism, 1636 N. High St., South Campus.

Weaves, All ages. $10/$12, under 21 pays additional $2 at door. Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit St., North Campus.

Dave Night with David Z. Price, David Z. Price is the host of Dave Night.

Audience interaction, videos, jokes, special guests.

9:30-10:30 p.m. The Nest Theatre, 894 W. Broad St., Franklinton.

Kennedy Davenport, Axis presents Kennedy Davenport from RuPaul Drag Race All Stars 3. Nina West and Virginia West will host the Drag Race event as DJ Alan Saunders spins the music. 18+. 10 p.m. Axis Nightclub, 775 N. High St., Short North.

SATURDAY, 3/31 Worthington Farmers Market, The Worthington Farmers Market brings together more than 75 highquality artisans, farmers, food producers, gardeners and musicians. Its mission is simple: Encourage, support, and promote the entrepreneurial efforts of

local, independent, and small-scale farmers and food artisans seeking to sell their products directly to consumers. As a result, each Saturday Worthington residents and visitors gain access to locally grown and/or produced fruits and vegetables; cheeses, jams, jellies, honey and maple syrup; various cuts of meats and eggs; as well as flowers, herbs, plants and homemade soaps, among other items. Free. 9 a.m.noon. Shops at Worthington Place, 7227 N. High St., Worthington.

Can Tasting Room Release: Where the Sky Ends, We release our latest barrel aged varietal in 16 oz. cans. “Where The Sky Ends” is a traditional dry stout aged in American Bourbon and Jamaican rum barrels displaying large smoke, sticky caramel, and cocoa powder aromas. 10 a.m.midnight. Platform Brewery Columbus, 406 N. 6th St., Downtown.

HOOT 85: The Moon, Join us for the most unique family event in the city!

HOOT programming is G-rated and intended for children ages 1-8, featuring lobby activities, kid-friendly shorts from around the world, live music from popular local kids’ band The Shazzbots, and our own Dance Cam, where kids and their families can watch themselves bust a move on the big screen.

HOOT is always free with a canned good donation to The Open Shelter. 10 a.m.-noon. Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., South Campus.

Saturday Morning Art Classes Exhibition, The show features work created by students in CCAD’s Saturday Morning Art Classes, ranging from paintings, drawings, and ceramics to animation and other digital art. The exhibition, which includes work by both youth and adults, is curated by volunteers, instructors, and community education staff members. The event is free and open to the public. Noon-2 p.m. Canzani Center Screening Room, 60 Cleveland Ave., Downtown.

“Earth Seasoned,” Diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, and short-term memory problems, Tori finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a “gap year” living semiprimitively with four other young women in the Oregon Cascade Mountains.

Q&A to follow with Director Molly Kreuzman and special guests. $8. 1 p.m. Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse, 3055 Indianola Ave., Clintonville.

League Super Awesome Monthly Tournament Series, Continuing our monthly pinball tournament series. This month will again be a 3 strikes, group knockout format and will benefit Project Pinball. Players will be placed in groups of 3 or 4 players and play on a randomly selected machine. 1-7 p.m. Arcade Super Awesome, 892 Oak St., Olde Towne East.

Chamber Brews + Platform Beer Company, Join us for American styles of classical music and local beer with a Chamber Brews performance paired with a beer tasting from Platform Beer Company. Musicians and brewers will share perspectives in an interactive concert experience. Tickets are $30. 2-4 p.m. Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St., Downtown.

Nina West Presents!

“Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” Join Nina West, national sensation and Columbus’ premier entertainer, as she pairs her favorite musicals with her bawdy, hilarious and beloved comedy. It’s the sassiest sing-along program in the country. 4:30-8 p.m.

Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., South Campus.

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Lorde: Melodrama World Tour, 7 p.m. Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr., Campus.

“Down and Dirty,” See Friday listing for information.

7:30 p.m. Shadowbox Live, 503 S. Front St., Brewery District.

Drift Mouth, 18+. $8, under 21 pays additional $2 at door. 8 p.m. Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit St., North Campus.

Twiddle with Chris Houser, 18+. 8 p.m. Skully’s Music-Diner, 1151 N. High St., Short North.

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Last Dance, A Saturday night party w/DJ Scotty Boombox & friends. No cover. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Little Rock Bar, 944 N. 4th St., Italian Village.

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Perennial Rye Vinyl Release Party, Perennial Rye is releasing our first Album of all original music.

9 p.m.-midnight. Rambling House, 310 E. Hudson St., North Campus.

Temple Monkey’s Rockin’ for Rox Fundraiser, Roxanne, affectionately known to her friends and co-workers just as “Rox” faced a huge tragedy: her home caught fire and she and her family lost nearly everything including two vehicles. Since then, the family of five have been staying with friends while trying to get back on their feet. Rallied by friends, this show featuring Temple Monkey will benefit Rox and her family: One hundred-percent of the money from the cover charge will go directly to Rox and her

family so they can rebuild their lives. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Copious Notes, 520 S. High St., Brewery District.

Why Omen EP Release Show, Why Omen is releasing its debut EP Gaia Hypothesis with a little help from Such Fuss and WVWhite. 18+. $5. 9 p.m.midnight. Spacebar, 2590 N. High St., Old North

SUNDAY, 4/1 Sunday Brunch, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Union Cafe, 782 N. High St., Short North.

Soul Sunday: Derek DiCenzo Trio, Soul Sunday continues at Natalie’s with the Derek DiCenzo Trio. . A gifted jazz guitarist, DiCenzo can be heard play-

ing piano, bass, steel drum, organ and the accordion as well. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza and Live Music, 5601 N. High St., Worthington.

Singo, Music Bingo during brunch and fun for everyone. Win gift cards, enjoy food and drink specials and have a good time. Noon-2 p.m. The Three-Legged Mare, 401 N. Front St. “The Dream,” Shadowbox Live celebrates the struggles and the victories of the modern Civil Rights Era with its newest original meta-media production.

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, “The Dream” is an anthology of stories, dance, and music that illuminates one of the most turbulent and uplifting times in American

history. $10. 2 and 7 p.m.

Shadowbox Live, 503 S. Front St., Brewery District.

The Flex Crew, 21+. $10.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Skully’s Music-Diner, 1151 N. High St., Short North.

um, 32 N. 4th St., Downtown.

Open Jam hosted by Matt Jones, Every Monday night, bring your gear and your friends and come out to the Open Jam. Drummers need only bring sticks, drum kit is provided for

MONDAY, 4/2

your use. Acoustic or elec-

Ought, $13. 4 p.m. Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St., Old North.

p.m. Eldorado’s Food &

A Fabulous 50th for Mama Chris with Great Northern String Band & Brian A, All ages. 5-10 p.m. Woodlands Tavern, 1200 W. 3rd Ave., Grandview.

Late Night Karaoke, 10

Wolf Alice, $20. 7 p.m. Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St., Campus.

TUESDAY, 4/3

Sleep w/Subrosa, $25/$30.

8 p.m. Columbus Athenae-

2 a.m. Union Cafe, 782 N.

tric, solo acts or duets. 9 Spirits, 4968 N. High St., Clintonville.

p.m.-2 a.m. Union Cafe, 782 N. High St., Short North.

Tequila Tuesday, 11 a.m.High St., Short North.

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Inclusive: The Open Mic for Everyone, No matter your craft or skill level, show up and show off your talents. Art will be for sale in the studio store and all handmade by local artists with disabilities. Live DJ, coloring activities and play-dough will be on deck to keep you happy throughout the night. 7-9 p.m.

Art Outside the Lines, 485 E. Livingston Ave., Downtown.

Kyle Craft, Opening Artist: Carriers. Kyle Craft is a Louisiana-bred, Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter with a robust, fullthroated wail and knack for pairing Stones-ian hooks and Dylan-esque wordplay with glam-kissed pop swag-

ger. $10/$12. 7 p.m. The Basement, 391 Neil Ave., Arena District.

Trivia at The Walrus, Play alone or with friends, either way we are not here to judge. 7-9 p.m. The Walrus, 143 E. Main St., Downtown.

Reelin’ & Rockin’: “Stop Making Sense,” The late Jonathan Demme may be best remembered for directing The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, but he also captured the frantic energy and artsy groove of Talking Heads in the landmark concert movie, “Stop Making Sense.”

The film documents the

surrealistic live show of Talking Heads in the band’s prime, punctuated with frontman David Byrne in an unforgettable oversized cream suit. 7:30 p.m. Big Room Bar, , 1036 S. Front St., Brewery District.

MLK: 50 Years Later – “The Mountaintop,” Short North Stage and the King Arts Complex will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination with playwright Katori Hall’s gripping re-imagination of the last night of Dr. King’s life. $32. 8 p.m. Green Room, Garden Theater, 1187 N. High St., Short North.

WEDNESDAY, 4/4 50-Year Legacy: An MLK Memorial Event, To memorialize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his tragic death, the Ohio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission invites the public to attend 50-Year Legacy: an MLK Memorial Event.

Speakers will include the Rev. Joel L. King, Jr., a first cousin to Dr. King who is a Gahanna resident, and David Jehnsen, who lead a Chicago delegation to the 1963 March on Washington.

Noon-1 p.m. Ohio Statehouse, Atrium, 1 Capitol Square, Downtown.

Get Sauced for SOUP, Join Columbus SOUP at LandGrant Brewing Company with our friends from CaJohns Fiery Foods, Surprise Modern Party + Cocktail Goods, and Columbus Gives Back and help us raise the first-ever Land-Grant Grant to be given at our Spring SOUP, supporting initiatives on the south end of Columbus. 4-10 p.m. Land Grant Brewing Company, 424 E. Town St., Franklinton.

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Columbus Reggae Alliance Presents: The Expanders, Sensamotion, Dubbest, The Quasi Kings, $12. 6

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p.m.-midnight. Woodlands Tavern, 1200 E. 3rd Ave., Grandview.

Italian Village Tavern Tour, Italian Village is not only one of the hottest neighborhoods in Columbus but also the first suburb annexed to the city.

This area began as a mix of industrial and residential when people lived close to where they worked by necessity. The neighborhood has evolved to become home to a diverse population including second and third generation Italians, young professionals desiring walkability and easy access to downtown, and empty nesters escaping the suburbs. We begin at 6 p.m. at City Tavern, 697 N. Fourth St., Italian Village.

MLK: 50 Years Later - Music: The Voice for the Oppressed, Throughout our history, social movements have relied on music to share their stories and to unite their members. Civil rights – from slavery days to Jim

Crow segregation to “I have a dream” to Black Lives Matter.

Women’s rights – from the suffragettes to birth control and reproductive rights to equal pay for equal work.

The event includes a narrative portion, in pictures and words, of the music and the movements over history.

6:45-8:45 p.m. King Arts Complex, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave., King-Lincoln District.

Curtis Harding, Versatile vocalist Curtis Harding fuses the passion and intensity of classic soul and R&B with the uncompromising attitude of indie rock and the nervy swagger of garage punk, and has made a name for himself in both rock and R&B circles. $10/$12. 7 p.m. A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave., Arena Excesss Karaoke, Join Frankie Brown every Wednesday for the best karaoke party around! With stellar sound, massive songbooks, and new songs regularly added, this is where to let your inner star shine. 7 p.m. The Walrus, 143 E. Main St., Downtown.

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Rent $425.00 Call 614-519-0628 880 E Broad & 17th St. Luxury Apts. Hdwd Flrs, tall ceilings, A/C , $550-$800, 614-477-5559 Alpine Village - Large 1 & 2 BR, SW School Dist. From $475-$525, 614-878-6615 Broad Meadows Blvd - Lg 1 & 2BRS just N. of Graceland. A/C, cptd, off st pkg. $499-$549, 614-477-5559 Clintonville Area, Spacious 1 BR, 35 W. Duncan off st pkg, A/C. $589-$649, 614-477-5559 Crosscreek Apts- Lg 1&2 BR, twhse w/bsmt. A/C, patio. Corner of Noe-Bixby $539-$815, 614-477-5559

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Accenture LLP seeks App Dvlpmnt Ld [mult opngs] in Columbus, OH to oversee req anlys, wrk est, app arch, sftw dvlpmnt/dlvry, cdng, cstmztns, cnfgrtns, & qlty ctrl apps/projs. Clbrt proj launches & dlvry to crdnt proj schds, bdgts, rqst mngmnt & wrk athrztns; ld projct/rls plng, rsrc plng, & maint cpcty/dmnd blnc; maint accntblty to cntrcts of app outsrcng, tme & expns, & cntrctl SLAs; instll & cnfgr PeopleSoft FSCM App & PeopleTools tech; instl intgrtns btwn PeopleSoft & 3rd prty sys; perf doc of cnfgrtn dsgns, funct dsgns, tech dsgns, bld & unt tstng of tech archs utlzng PeopleSoft & PeopleTools tech; pln & implmnt mgrtn ctrl & prcs to sprt bld & tstng (sys, intgrtn, perf, & usr acptnc) actvts; & mng app dvlpmnt dplymnt tsks. Pos based out of Accenture’s office in Columbus, OH but reqs trvl to clnt sites up to 80% of avg wrk wk.

Pos reqs at least bach dgre, or frgn equiv, in Comp Sci, Info Sys/Tech, Biz Admin, or Engrg (any) is req, + 5 yrs of post-bacc exp in IT, incl following pro exp: 5 yrs dlvrng sftw app implmntns, enhncmnts & upgrds in ars of Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft Tools tech, PeopleCode, App Engine, Oracle SQR, nVision, PS Query, & Spply Chn Mngmnt (FSCM), & HCM; 5 yrs of exp in full sys lfcycl fcsng on Rprts, Extnsns, Wrkflw, Intrfcs, & Cnvrsns; 5 yrs clbrtng w/ onshr/offshr tms in sftw dvlpmnt/sftw app dlvry, qlty asrnc & spprt w/in glbl dlvry mdl. Apply online at www.accenture.com [Select Careers; Job #00563748].

Associate, Software Engineering – Columbus, OH. Provide high quality tech. solutions that address bus. needs by developing apps. within mature tech. environments. For reqs. & to apply, visit http://careers.jpmorganchase.com & apply to job #: 180028050. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. www.jpmorganchase.com.

"Cynexis Media, LLC is looking for Delivery/Engagement Manager in Columbus, Ohio and various locations throughout the U.S. Requires a Master’s degree* or equiv. in IT, Eng., or related field and exp. in: (1) Software Delivery models; (2) managing deliveries of large projects in multiple SDLC models; (3) transforming business needs into technical req’ts; (4) preparing reports on project performance using MS Excel and forecasting profitability using Earned Value method; and (5) using MS Project to generate project schedules. * In lieu of a Master’s degree, Bachelor’s degree or equiv. plus 5 yrs of related exp. is acceptable. Send resumes, REF. 5354.001 to hello@cynexis.com."

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3-DAY HILLIARD ESTATE TAG SALE 3499 RIDGEWOOD HILLIARD, OHIO 43026 Thurs. March 29, 12pm noon-5pm Fri. March 30, 10am-5pm Sat. March 31, 10am-3pm High Quality whole house indoor Estate Tag Sale., fine contemporary furnishings, 4 pc. powder blue BRS, 3- quality sofa, decorator prints & lamps, piano, Fenton, lee Borten figurines, 2- oak dinette, tea pots, quickly written ad.

100’s of items not listed, 3 Day Sale !! Early sign in for orderly Thursday 12pm noon entrance. Full Price Thurs. , 25% off Friday, 50% off final day Saturday. Terms: cash or check no credit cards . Become a Facebook friend & see 100+ photos on 2 -Facebook pages at “ Select Sales by Michael” or Facebook " Estate sales tag sales Columbus Ohio " Craigslist keyword search “SSBM” or www.EstateSales.net

ANNOUNCE⁄THAT SPECIAL CELEBRATION The Celebrations! Page runs every Sunday in the Arts/Life Section. There are three packages to choose from, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Laminations are $5.00 each. Call 614-888-8888, Mon.-Fri., 8am5pm to request a packet or visit our web page at dispatch.com/celebrations to download the forms and view the packages and requirements. Ads must be received by NOON the Monday preceeding publication.

Huge Sale! 7 AM - 8 PM Fri-Sun 3/30, 3/31, and 4/1 865 Ellsworth Ave. Columbus 43206 614-984-0807 2 water water fountains, exercise equipment, lots of baby stuff, plush animals, 2 cameras, toys, household items

CASH TODAY BUY OUT, CLEAN OUT REMOVEABLES ÊSTAMPSÊANTIQUES ÊCOINS ÊTOYS ÊJEWELRY, ETC. TO A FULL HOARDING NIGHTMARE. SEE HOW EASY IT IS TO BE FREE OF CLUTTER

CROWN AND EAGLE û 614-436-2042 û Dining Set- French Provisional China Cabinet, table with 6 chairs, Matching Tea Cart, Table extends to 82 inches Call 614-891-2128

Elegant Place Settings For Rent-each set includes bone china, tea cup, plate, linen napkin, champagne flute, water goblet & silverware $6/per set.

Call or text Clara at 614-406-5464 Freon R12 WANTED. Certified buyers will pick up and pay CASH for cylinders and cases of cans.

312-291-9169 sell@refrigerantfinders.com

Equal Housing Opportunity

Vic. Vill, 1 bedrm, Victorian Bldg, on bus line, no dogs $655-$755. 614-477-5559

NW Apt- $810 2BR, 1.5BA, fin bsmt, patio, WBFP, parking. Call Tom, agent. 614-457-3034

WEEKLY RENT $175 & UP!

RENT or LEASE/PURCH.

Continent Inn N. û 614-848-3819

3 & 4 BR Homes, 7 avail, starting at $889/month.

NO Sect 8. Low down, Bad credit OK, 614-434-8406, www.HomesByAW.com

Room/Board available, private room, Hilltop area, in exchange for care of elderly man.

Would prefer someone with experience.

Those interested should call Lee at 614-279-6295 South-308 Stanaford Pl. 2 br Rent $595.00 Call 614 519-0628 Selling Your Home? Why not advertise in Alive?

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Baseball cards, Old toys, Comic books, Trains, Coins, Gold, Silver, Diamonds, Watches, Antiques, and Large collections. Call Scott (513) 295-5634

0.817 ACRE RETAIL/COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY

Real Estate

Trouville Neighborhood, Columbus, OH

STATE OF OHIO SURPLUS INVENTORY Saturday, March 31, 2018 Doors Open at 8 am - Auction Starts at 9 am 4200 Surface Rd, Columbus, Ohio 43228 (West side of Columbus, go north on Phillipi Rd. off W. Broad St., turn left on Surface Rd.) For More info contact Tom Lowery (614) 466-7636 Sale Conducted By:

CASSEL & ASSOCIATES (614) 433-SELL (7355) Robert S. Cassel-Auctioneer www.casselauctions.com

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UNDER RENOVATION , 2BR, LR/DR/eat-in-KIT, full bsmt., lots of stor., trees, prvt prkg., huge yard. 598 Riverview Dr . $850 mo.

Cranbrook Schls. 614-421-7293

MOVE IN SPECIAL ½ Off Sec. Deposit & 1st Full Months Rent Free with 13 mo. lease Call Today 614-224-6374

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Moving Art and Tool Sale Fri. 3/30 and Sat. 3/31 9 Am-4 Pm 6342 Crystal Valley Dr. Galena 43021

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2BR, 1.5BA, FINISHED REC ROOM, $875/MO. + DEPOSIT. CRED. CHECK REQ’D. NO PETS! CALL 614-390-7880. AVAILABLE NOW!!

Grove City Rd. Meadow Park Apts, 2BR, fully carpeted, A/C, Laundromat.. $650.

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10+ acres mostly mature pine trees, 1 acre stocked pond & weekend cabin, excellent building site, secluded. $170,000 call 740-501-8011 Ross Co. 12 acres $27,900, Athens Co. 41 acres $69,900 or Jackson Co. 25 acres $45,900 – many more @ www.brunerland.com or 740-441-1492, we finance!

Rental Living 1928 Agler Rd 2BR flats, convenient to shopping, busline, etc. $450-$515. 614-578-3340 2 BR, 1 BA, condo in Foxfire Village Whitehall, full basement, 1300 sq. ft., hard wood floors, a/c, includes all kit appliance, W/D hookup, available $675/mo. Call Judith 614-626-3845

$300 OFF YOUR FIRST MONTHS RENT At Sutton Square Apartments!

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2 & 3 Bedroom Townhomes Available! (614)236-0518 or www.liveatsuttonsquare.com

N. Hamilton Rd. between Menery Ln. & Ruston Ave. Columbus, OH 43230

Includes heat, phone, laundry, full cable and FREE WiFi. No pets.

WEST " COTTAGES Furnished " Utilities Paid. $250/week plus deposit. Call 614-879-6617.

WEST - Efficiency & 1 BR. All utilities paid.

Good Location. CITY BUSLINE (614) 274-7610 West! Valleyview! Ranch! 2BR, 1 ba, appls, LR, fin bsmt, fenced, 1 car gar. $895/mo. RTO possible.

John Hellwege, Myers Real Estate 614-272-5330

Leisure Vac Prop-CA CANDLEWOOD LAKE " LOTS & HOMES 419-571-0786 or 419-946-1377 Website/Open Houses; mylakehomesrealty.com

Escorts-Etc. Absolutely Exotic Dream Girl Yalonda Extra Busty 727-492-1339.

Male Escort, Men to Men Very Discreet, Very Open. Call Marcus 614-774-1250 NEW IN TOWN CLEAN & DISCREET. UPSCALE LOCATION. CALL 614-670-6702.

Skilled Trades Accepting resumes for Industrial Piping Foremen.

Must have a minimum of 5 years experience running a crew of 5-15 Pipefitters and Welders. Qualified candidates must be able to read mechanical drawings, understand P&ID’s, be able to do material takeoffs, schedule personnel, layout piping runs, interface with other trades, follow site specific safety rules, generate job hazard reports, follow proper line break procedures and work directly with the customer. We work in a fast paced environment in running industrial plants. Many of our jobs are associated with plant shutdowns, so overtime can be required to meet customer expectations. We offer competitive salary, Health Insurance, Dental, Eyeglass, bonuses and 401K with company match.

Our work is year round, with very minimal travel.

Send resumes to sales@defabco.com

Apt. Maintenance Tech

OFFERED WITH A PUBLISHED RESERVE PRICE OF ONLY $145,000

Prop. Mgmt. Co. ISO Maint Tech Exp w/HVAC, plumb, elec, basic carpentry.

Great Emp. Pkg. & Co. Van. Please email resume to kelleym@ebnerproperties.com or fax 614-231-3645

Excellent retail/commercial location zoned LC4-Commercial. Located adjacent to Drug Mart Plaza, anchored by Drug Mart & shadow-anchored by Aldi. Great demographics. Close to SR 161 and I-270, with shopping, restaurants, schools, & entertainment. Incredible opportunity for the astute user/builder/developer.

Sunbury company in need of Mig Welders. Please fax resume to 740-965-2898 or call 740-965-2888.

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Apartment Management Co. Seeking Experienced Painter.

Please email resume to Kelleym@ebnerproperties.com or Fax to 614-231-3645

UPHOLSTER NEEDED

Mon.-Fri. 7:30 am - 4pm Please call Bob 614-565-4821

Populus Group seeks a Developer in Columbus, Ohio.

Must have a Master’s or equiv plus exp. Send resumes to Sarah Larson/Ref#240494 at: slarson@populusgroup.com or Populus Group, 3001 W. Big Beaver Rd, Ste 400, Troy, MI 48084.

SAP SD Analyst - MS CS, IT or rel. + 2 yrs exp. or BS + 5 yrs exp or any suitable combo. SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP PP, SAP FI, EDI. Travel req. Mail res: Javelin Systems Inc., 5890 Sawmill Rd, Ste. 100, Dublin, OH 43017 Software Engineer – Columbus, OH. Provide quality tech. solutions that address LOB needs by contributing to writing Pega apps., dev. stored procedures & general SQL progs., task mgmt., & dev. and documenting tech rqmts. For reqs. & to apply, visit http://careers.jpmorganchase.com & apply to job #:180028444. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. www.jpmorganchase.com.

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The OSU Veterinary Medical Center is hiring Registered Veterinary Technicians at our Columbus and Dublin locations! Openings are available in the following departments: SA Emergency, Community Practice, Anesthesia, and Orthopedic Surgery. Hourly rates start at $13.50 up to $18.00. Benefits include: comprehensive benefits package, retirement programs, shift differential pay, scrubs, and more! To view and apply for current openings visit www.jobsatosu. com. For additional information regarding positions contact Lauren Parkins at 614- 2920656. Ohio State is an EEO/AA employer.

Laborer, One Source Lawncare, LLC (dan.moran92@yahoo.com), Plain City, OH and surrounding counties. Responsible for mowing, lawn maintenance, landscaping, and tree trimming. 3 mo exp as lawn care worker req. Random drug screening post emp. Extensive push/pull, extensive walking, exposure to extreme temps, freq stooping, & repetitive movements. 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., Mon-Fri, 4/1/18 to 12/1/18. Temporary, full-time. 6 positions avail. $13.39/hr. Transportation (incl meals and, to the extent necessary, lodging) to the place of emp will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if worker completes half the emp period. Return transportation will be provided if worker completes the emp period or is dismissed early by the employer. Employer will provide all tools, supplies, and equip req to perform job at no charge. Employer guarantees emp for total number of work hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays in each 12-week period. Apply for job by contacting nearest OhioMeansJobs Center at work-now@jfs.ohio.gov, job order 01809.

Memorial Health is recruiting for a Director of Imaging. Memorial Health is a thriving healthcare system in Marysville, Ohio. The Director will manage operational activities and recommend strategic initiatives for the Imaging Department, which includes four separate locations. This will include implementation and maintenance of policy and procedures, employee selection, evaluation, discipline, etc., administration of customer service and quality initiatives, coordination of Radiology Information System and conducts project/service line research. This is an excellent opportunity with an excellent healthcare system. We are looking for candidates with solid management skills who also have excellent interpersonal communication skills and work very well in a team environment. Five years of management experience within Imaging Services required.

Memorial Health is a short 20 minute drive from northwest Columbus. Excellent salary and benefit package including Ohio Public Employee Retirement System (OPERS). Please apply online at www.memorialohio.com Immediate full time opening for a Medical Office Receptionist in a growing, multi-physician retina practice. Candidates must be able to multi-task in a fast paced, busy, patient focused environment while delivering exceptional service with checkin/out; collecting/posting money; answering multi-line phone system.

JOB REQUIREMENTS 1 Year MEDICAL OFFICE experience req’d Keyboard speed 45+ wpm Working knowledge of various medical insurance plans Occasional travel between 3 Columbus offices Weekly/bi-weekly travel to satellite office Must be able to solo front office, as needed NextGen exp preferred; not required Excellent benefits package. Mail cover letter with salary requirements and resume to: Front Office Manager Midwest Retina 6655 Post Road Dublin OH 43016 NO PHONE CALLS www.midwestretina.com

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Pataskala Medical center seeking full time Medical Assistant or MA/GXMO for family practice office.

Hours M-F. Front and Back office positions available.

Must have MA diploma from accredited school.

Benefits offered-medical, vision, 401K. Email resume to Pataskalamedcenter@gmail.com or fax to 740-964-0205

Financial-Banking Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH. Consultant, PC Actuarial Research Analytics to conduct predictive modeling & build statistical models supporting Commercial Lines R&D dept. Consult with customers & create project plans based on customer input, data availability & best practices.

Perform complex statistical analysis to determine pricing & market segmentation strategies for pricing & underwriting. Use existing data warehouse or create databases by sourcing additional data to complete analyses & coordinate model implementation, monitor model inputs & outputs, & update models. Reqs Master’s in Actuarial Sci, Maths, Stats, or related field & 3 yrs exp in statistical modeling & analysis, inclg application of statistical methodologies incg generalized linear model, nonlinear model, multivariate analysis, principal component analysis, time series analysis, & machine learning methods. Exp may be gained before, during, or after completion of degree and must incl: 1. 1 yr exp performing quantitative analysis & modeling in property and casualty insurance industry; 2. 1 yr exp performing data manipulation & analysis of database systems using statistical software such as SAS, SQL, & R; 3. 1 yr exp developing reports & monitoring product performance; & 4. 1 yr exp communicating analytical findings & methodology to business partners & department leadership & making business recommendations as needed.

Alternatively, Bachelor’s and 5 yrs statistical modeling & analysis exp, inclg at least 1 yr exp performing duties 1-4 above, acceptable. Mail resume to Kathi Repka (CPC/FY), 1 Nationwide Plaza, 1-01-13, Columbus, OH 43215. #LI-DNI & #LIDNP

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Vice President, Operations, Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation, Columbus, OH. Lead, develop, and coach employees. Teach employees process of polymer manufacturing.

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German Shepherd - German Imports at stud. Training, Obed., home protection, sch. classes, imports, young dogs, pups for sale. Learn to train dogs w/us.

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Food Service-Hosplty Columbus Country Club has 1 temporary full-time Line Cook openings in Columbus, Ohio from May 1, 2018 - October 31, 2018. Prepare, season and cook soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foodstuffs in restaurants. Chop and cut fresh vegetables and fruits. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu. Observe recipe guidelines and sanitation procedures. 40 hrs./wk.; O/T as needed; Shifts may vary: variable shifts; Friday-Tuesday: 11am-7pm; $13.34/hr.; O/T at $20.01/hr. A single workweek is used to compute wages due. Any deductions required by law made from weekly paycheck.

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Employer will arrange the workers transportation and subsistence directly in advance at a minimum, the most economical and reasonable common carrier cost of the transportation and subsistence to the worker before the worker’s start date of employment. H-2B workers will be reimbursed in the first work week for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (excluding passport fees). Offer to US workers same as H2B workers. Mail resume to Jay Frank at 4831 East Broad Street, Columbus OH 43213 or visit your nearest OhioMeansJobsCenter or contact the Ohio Means Job Workforce Specialist referenced in this job order. Please reference job order #3597757 Nazareth Restaurant, LLC d/b/a Nazareth Restaurant seeks an Assistant Manager – Operations in the Columbus, OH area to contribute to short and long-term organizational planning and strategy as a member of the management team. Must have relevant education & experience. Send 2 resumes & cover letter to 5239 N. Hamilton Rd., Columbus, OH 43230 REF# 8910.001

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Akc Golden retriever Puppies 9 weeks old, first shots, wormed, $500 for females and $425 for males 740-427-2255 or 740-427-2593 friendlymeadows@plainemails.com

PUG PUPPIES AKC registered, beautiful fawn, M/F, wrinkly, short & stocky, playful, great with kids, healthy, happy, vet checked, $1300. Call 614-746-7848.

STAND POODLE PUPPIES 8 wks M/F, adorable, cream, purebred, healthy, noshed, hypoallergenic, great with kids 614-804-5088

LAB - AKC, blk, ready 4/7. Dep. being taken. In-home raised, well social., all shts/wrmg, & heart guard.

All trng. begun. Hlth. gtd., $750.

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YORKIE PUPPIES FOR EASTER Registered. Call 740-877-3051 or Visit: amandasadorableyorkies.com

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AKC registered Blue Tick Beagles pocket Beagles 8-10 inches in height, excellent hunting stock, 3-F, UTD shots/worming, POP, ready now $500 call 740-501-8011

LAB PUPS AKC, M’s & F’s, 4-5 weeks, POP, dewclaws done.

Taking deposits, will hold. 4 older M’s, DOB 11/20.

Great companions & smart. Call/text 614-832-5081.

LABRADOR RETRIEVER PUPS AKC male & female, yellow & black, OFA hips/elbows. master hunter/pointer stock, DOB 2/19/18. $100 deposit. 614-890-0652 after noon.

AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD/LABRAHEELER PUPS DOB 1-15-18, not kennel raised, farm raised w/kids, UTD on shots/dewormer, 1 red & blk/wht. F, 1M rusty, 1M blk., 2M blk/wht., 1M blk/wht/rusty $450.

Call 330-243-2022 BOUVIER DES FLANDRES AKC Pups Blk., DOB 1/29/18, ready for new homes on 4/1. Sired by Dutch male, can compete at nat’l level & show, obedience rally & herding. Loving disp. 304-927-4915 after 7pm BRITTANY pups – AKC, org/wht, 7 mths, shots, parents on site, $300 each, 740-506-0527

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German Shepherd - German Imports at stud. Training, Obed., home protection, sch. classes, imports, young dogs, pups for sale. Learn to train dogs w/us.

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Mini Bernadoodle Puppies Cute, Playful, House Raised, Happy, Healthy, Adorable, Sweet & Friendly 330-600-9383 www.BuckeyePuppies.com OH Boerboels presents a litter of pups of King of the Cages Deuce x King of the Cages Patches.

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2003 Air Stream Travel TRailer 23 foot safari, Excellent condition, new tires, awning, floor, and apolstrey. All but one year spent in arizona, currently located in Senecaville, Ohio. $ 29,000 702-526-4853 CHROME PLATING BUMPERS, POT METAL, MOTORCYCLES. 30 YRS.+ EXP. 3 WEEKS. TURN AROUND. PICK UPS AVAIL. INFO. CALL 330-456-5400.

1991 Class C Motorhome 460 Ford engine, automatic overdrive, 52,000 miles, no rust, clean, nice interior, sleeps 6, microwave oven, 4 burner stove, awning, 27’ long, drive anywhere, excellent tires, new batteries, generator does not run. $5,000 Firm Roof leaks quick sale Call 614-471-8540

2008 Chevrolet Silverado Work Truck, V6 Auto, Full Sized Bed, Standard Cab, 1 Owner, CD, Hitch, 76K miles, Runs Good, $6500 OBO Call 614-301-8954 2016 Chevy Silverado 1500 4 WD, LT, Dble Cab, All star edition, Color is red hot with black interior, V8 engine, auto trans.

Factory warranty, 10,000 miles, $29, 900 740-919-5600 2009 Chevy Equinox LT AWD Low miles, moon roof, leather, chrome alloys, leather interior, drives super, EC, clean $7995 614-846-7826 2011 Chevy Impala LT silver w/black leather heated seats, power sunroof, fac whls, remote start, keyless entry V6, automatic, runs & looks great 124k mi SOLD 1969 Chevy C-10 Long Bed, 350 V8/350 Auto, Super Solid Project, Does Run, $8,500 OBO Call 740-630-8499 2012 CHEVY EXPRESS 3/4 TON Extended cargo, power windows, power locks, very clean, runs exc., high mi., storage shelves, EC $9,690. SOLD SOLD 1999 Chevy S10 Work Truck, 218 K miles, High Cap, Well Maintained, Maintenance Documents available, $1,495 614-403-3467 1964 Chevy 4x4 283-V8, Long bed/ fleet side 4-speed, $21,500 or open to trade, Call 740-630-8499 1998 Chevy Extended Cab 4x4 5 Speed Manual, Posi-Diff, $2,900 Firm Call 740-630-8499 2004 Crystler Town & Country 238k miles, Front wheel Drive, fully loaded, leather interior, 1 owner very good condition, $2,500 Call 614-506-8905 Don’t buy CARS at RETAIL prices, Buy Cars at WHOLESALE prices and SAVE thousands!! Any make and model GUARANTEED within 6-8 weeks!

Contact Kris for a quote and STOP losing money TODAY. 740 222 8649

1983 EL CAMINO

Fisher Aluminum 16 foot bass boat & trailer, 15 HP 2014 coleman motor only 6 hrs. 2 trolling motors, live well, $2,900 Call 740-513-0466

Show room clean, 53k miles. A must see!

Owner bought new. Call 740-286-0458

37 Foot 1990 Pace Arrow 55,000 miles, garaged kept, sleeps 6, fully equiped, 454 V8 motor, great for tailgating $7,000 Call 614-562-1171

2004 F350 4WD V10 14,000 miles, White, $28,000 Call 419-929-8336

Harley 2014 Ultra Classic One of a kind color. Extra lights. Special foot rest.

Hauling package. Sirius XM radio. Travel bag.

Helmets. Other chrome. High Top Windshield.

Cab lighting. A MUST SEE $19,499 7,300 miles.

2004 FORD F150 4WD extended cab pick up, completely serviced with all recs., V8 auto, full pwr., 160,000 miles w/new replacment eng., new brakes, tires & batt., body perfect! $7895. SOLD 1940 Ford 2 door Deluxe Excellent shape, everything on car is new has been replaced, $32,000 or best offer 614-837-5875 2012 Ford Fusion SEL Pearl white ext/tan int, front wl drive, leather/power heated seats, one owner 89k miles, $7000 Call Eric 740-513-5646 1998 Ford F150 Lariat, Excellent cond., extended cab, loaded w/options & leather int., new tires/brakes, maintenance records, 4.6 motor, $5700 614-975-2477 2014 Ford Escape Titanium 4 wheel drive, Ecoboost, heated leather seats, back up camera, panorama sun roof, $16,500 New Brakes, EC, Call 614-619-3459 2004 Gran Marquis 113,000 miles, newer tires, belts, and A/C system Runs Great and good condition SOLD SOLD SOLD 2007 Honda Accord Exl 4 Door 4 Cylinder Automatic, full power option, freshly serviced, grey with black leather interior, excellent condition, 137,000 miles, a must see, $6,995 740-507-4213 2015 Honda Civic EX. Original owner, excellent condition, 25k miles, recently serviced, sun roofed, alloy wheels, rear and sideview cameras, non smoker, no accidents and clean title $14,200 614-499-3573

Wheels A-Z AUTO BODY REPAIR/RESTOR. û614-597-7487û Free Ests/Towing Restore old cars, bring them back to life! Qual., affordable prices. Rust/paint jobs. Trouble finding parts, we can loc. them for you!

2008 Buick Lucerne CXL One Owner, only 25,000 actual miles, like new, 3800 V6 engine, moonroof, leather interior, dual power seats, chrome wheels, beautiful color SOLD SOLD SOLD 2002 Buick Century 136k miles, Gold with Tan interior, Gold/clean condition, inside & out, new battery, new tires, $2,550 NP Call 614-307-4402 2001 BUICK LASABRE LIMITED Beige ext. w/tan lthr. int., 82K mi., runs perfect, all pwr. Good tires, no rust/dents, always gar’d. Nice family car. Owned by mechanic, $3,850.

Call 614-817-7039.

1991 Cadillac 2 Door Deville Black, only 119k miles, very clean, no rust, never seen snow, kept in garage, everything works $3000 Call 614-725-1522 2014 Cadillac ATS S.0L I4 Turbo Low mi., 40,427, handsome drk charcoal ext. w/black leather int. All of our vehicles are submitted or a rigorous multi-point inspection by an ASE Certified Mechanic.

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2013 HYUNDAI SONATA

42,000 miles, heated seats, midnight blue, clean, new tires, runs perfect! $9795.

SOLD SOLD SOLD. 2012 Hyundai Veloster Silver/Black interior, 6 speed, new tires, 36 MPG 120,000 miles, clean and runs great, $6,200 740-816-1494 1998 Infinity Q45 V8, runs very well, 109k miles, eveything works, dvd player, grey int & ext, leather seats $2500 Call 614-725-1522 2011 Jeep Gran Cherokee Limited edition options, Leather, Nav, Back up Camera, Heated Seats, Moonroof, V6, Very Clean, 96 K miles, Runs Super v$14,375 614-846-STAN 2006 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series, Black/Tan Leather, Runs Great, 123 K miles, EC, $5,975 614-738-5759 1992 Lincoln Town Car Excecutive series, white, CC, leather, like new, 84k miles, $3500, cash 614-451-6839 2017 Mazda Miata Convertible Sport addition, six speed manual, only 4,500 miles, Like New Condition, $20,000 Call 614-619-3459 MERCEDES BENZ GLE 350 Excellent condition. Black with black leather interior.

One owner. Title in hand. Includes the next pre paid dealership maintenance and will transfer over to you. Always garaged. Heated steering. Apple Car Play/ Satellite Radio/ GPS. No accidents. Nonsmoker. Very clean regularly maintained interior, added all weather plastic mats including the back cargo area. 33,000 miles $39,000.

Contact 310-770-2502 2013 Mercedes Benz GLK 350 New Tires, New Brakes, AWD, 49k miles, Only $22,000 Call 614-723-9977 1990 Mercury Marquis 1 owner, low mileage 44k, very clean, Burgandy, V8, runs very well, kept in garage $3000 Call 614-725-1522 2007 Mustang Shelby 500 6 speed, 24k miles, new tires, black inside and out Carhas been tweaked, call for details, price is $27,000 614-4027581

2009 NISSAN ROGUE SL

AWD, only 72k, new tires, runs super, loaded, clean, $7,995.

614-846-7826 2012 NISSAN ROGUE SPECIAL EDITION Black w/black interior, chrome package, all wheel drive, new tires and new brakes, $11,200 OBO 614-296-5690 2015 Nissian Altima 4 door automatic, tilt, cruise, powerlocks & windows exellecent condition 59k miles, 10,500 Call 614-619-3459 2011 Nissian Altima SE Light Blue, Special Edition Package, fog lights, alloy wheels, one owner, excellent condition, 41k miles, $11,200 Call 614-890-5156

2002 Toyota Camry SE, 203k miles, sun roof, voice GPS, 6 cyl, fully loaded, heated leather seats, new timing belt/water pump/ shocks/tires, very clean $3550 OBO Call 614-506-5829

’03 VOLVO S60

Black, graphite leather, moonroof, CD, garaged, serviced locally w/records, 121,000 miles, $4200.

Call 614-459-7276.

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Here are upcoming tours streaming live at facebook.com/ ThisWeekFoodandWine:

Join ThisWeek reporter Andrew King every Thursday afternoon on Facebook Live when he stops by a local craft brewery to chat with brewmasters, sample new creations and experience the Columbus beer-culture boom.

Today at 3:30 Uptown Deli and Brew Meet the Editors Event at 5-7 p.m.

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TELL US ABOUT YOUR EVERYDAY HERO In these divisive times, the Dispatch Media Group again looks to honor those who perform extraordinary selfless acts to improve, heal and unite our community.

The Dispatch Media Group wants your help to recognize the heroes among us. Consider the social activist righting a wrong or the volunteer quietly aiding those in need.

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