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SWELL PEOPLE in HERE: • Michael S. Brown • Tom Butler • Brian Cheek • Johnny DiLoretto • Jami Goldstein • Cheryl Harrison • Chris Hayes • Ryan Kovalaske • Elizabeth Lessner • Aaron Leventhal • Erin McCalla • Mary Martineau • Thomas McClure • Pete Olsen • Amanda L. Thomas • Josh Weiker

The Independents are coming!

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NORTH BY NORTHWEST September 28 - October 4 Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay After Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for a government agent, he is kidnapped and interrogated by foreign spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). After an unsuccessful attempt to eliminate Thornhill, Vandamm frames him for murder. Now a hunted man, Thornhill tries to escape on a train, where he meets the beautiful Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). Eve helps him hide from the police--but is she as innocent as she seems?

VERTIGO October 5 - 11 Nominated for two Academy Awards This adaptation of the French novel D’entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as 6FRWWLH )HUJXVRQ -DPHV 6WHZDUW UHDOL]HV KH KDV YHUWLJR D FRQGLWLRQ UHVXOWLQJ LQ D IHDU RI KHLJKWV ZKHQ D SROLFH RIÀFHU is killed trying to rescue him from falling off a building. Scottie then retires from his position as a private investigator, only to be lured into another case by his old college friend, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore).

THE BIRDS October 12 - 18 Nominated for an Academy Award in Special Visual Effects Based on the 1952 novella THE BIRDS by Daphne du Maurier. The story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at a house in Bodega Bay, where the characters’ sense of security is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of the birds in the area. Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children’s party. Once the onslaught begins, there’s virtually no letup.

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PSYCHO October 26 - November 1 Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography and Best Director Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job and frustrated in her romance with hardware store manager Sam Loomis (John Gavin). One afternoon, Marion is given $40,000 in cash to be deposited in the bank. Minutes later, impulse has taken over and Marion takes off with the cash, hoping to leave Phoenix for good and start a new life. Thirty-six hours later, paranoia and exhaustion have started to set in, and Marion decides to stop for the night at the %DWHV 0RWHO 7KH QHUYRXV EXW SHUVRQDEOH LQQNHHSHU 1RUPDQ %DWHV $QWKRQ\ 3HUNLQV FKHHUIXOO\ PHQWLRQV WKDW VKH¡V WKH ÀUVW JXHVW LQ ZHHNV

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Columbus thing again. And you know what? We’ll keep doing it until everyone gets the point that to Live Local is just, simply put, the bee’s knees.

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Consider that if everyone

over the age of 18 in the Columbus community were to shift just $20 of their existing monthly spending (less Walmart, more Hills Market) to independent, locally owned businesses, it would generate at least 239 million dollars in new revenue for the people you work with, know and love.

By pledging to shift at least $20 of your existing monthly spending to locally owned businesses, you will be supporting your community by keeping more money in the local economy where it is needed to support your civic, social and cultural infrastructures. It will also fuel new economic growth through local job creation and business investments. That sounds a little dry and bland on paper, but the reality is that all of that business-speak means more parks, more restaurants, more retails, more buses, more, more, more of everything!

We love our city, but we are moving onward and upward, and in order to do that, we need your local dollars spent with the people you live, work, and play with. OK, enough preaching.

In this issue you will find great pieces from Columbus’ familiar faces, lots of info on the best brunch spots in town, a really cool event map, a modest 12page increase (who said the economy is bad?), and obviously plenty of interesting surprises. So enjoy this loverly magazine, mateys.

Oh, and go to the Independent’s Day Festival Sept 15th - they bought our back cover, and plus, it’s just the localist thing around town.

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COLUMBUS CLIPPERS BASEBALL

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ROSA, IBBY AND PHIL PROUD CREW FANS!

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though you can be sure anyone wearing lederhosen is seriously committed to their German lineage. You know the type – the Scotch/Irish equivalent proudly foregoes underwear for kilts at the Irish Festival, which fortunately is held a few months before Oktoberfest. Imagine a really conflicted halfIrish, half-German guy frantically hopping between the two festivals in both lederhosen and a kilt…

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My Columbus I always hate when I ask someone what their ethnic makeup is and they brush it off with an air of American ignorance – “I’m a mutt.” “I’m a mutt” translates to “I don’t know” and it’s usually the answer of someone too lazy to find out, or who grew up mistaking The Olive Garden for an Italian restaurant when it’s clearly the nightmarish version of an Italian restaurant dreamt up by evil, corporate WASPs. Conversely, the number of people who claim to be part Cherokee matches the number of people who don’t know their ethnicity. Now, I don’t begrudge anyone their Native American heritage, but I suspect a good deal of these people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. I also imagine it irritates the crap out of real Cherokees.

On a slightly reassuring note, the astonishing number of (mostly white) people who insist they’re part Cherokee is outnumbered by people who think they’ll die if they get stung by a bee. Less than 3% of the population is actually that allergic to bee stings yet

you’d think, gauging by the widespread alarm, that we’re just an angry swarm away from a population collapse. Bees, I know, have nothing to do with ethnicity, but my point is whether they think they’re part Cherokee, or believe they’ll die from a bee sting, a lot of boring white people are too crazy not to be ethnic.

We are, despite these non-descript, bee-sting fearing, Olive Garden bread-stick-eating entho-typicals (just coined that) a vibrant, ethnic city. And the distinct flavor fostered by the celebration of ethnicity is evident in our community’s four largest heritage festivities: the Festival Latino, the Dublin Irish Festival, Oktoberfest, and the Italian Festival. The first two, held in August, augur the latter two, both just around the corner.

Obviously, Oktoberfest, held the last weekend of September, is Columbus’ hearty celebration of the customs and food of the Germanic people. Columbus has thrived under the influence of the Germans and, interestingly, survived their desire to replace the letter ‘c’ with a ‘k’ whenever possible. We might have been “Kolumbus.”

Oktoberfest can’t be fully enjoyed unless you’re wearing a Tyrolean hat and hoisting a cartoonishly, sloshing stein of beer. Of course, the beauty part is you don’t really have to be German to get in on the fun,

You have to hand it to the legendary Schmidt family for rescuing Oktoberfest from possible obscurity.

It’s made a stunning comeback since they moved the event from Schiller Park to the fairgrounds a couple years ago. Ironic that the German Village elders were willing to give up their festival to the culturally generic fairgrounds… Under the Schmidt’s loving guidance, Oktoberfest has again ascended to its rightful place as the quintessential Columbus fall experience.

Fast on its heels in terms of popularity is the Italian Festival. Now this event, being halfItalian, I can speak to with more authority.

I’m also half-Irish but, growing up in Steubenville, the larger, Italian half of my family was more demonstrative in terms of tradition, food and culture; and so I gravitated toward the Mediterranean half of my identity.

Being half-Irish and half-Italian has its benefits. For one, I have an equal appreciation for both beer and wine. There are also complications: I often drink too much of both and then start breaking the furniture.

I love the Italian Festival, though; tucked away in that corner of Italian Village where 670 meets 4th Ave. The crowds pouring into the neighborhood reminds me of Scorsese’s shots of Little Italy’s San Gennaro festival in Mean Streets, the 1973 classic in which Robert DeNiro (also half-Irish, half Italian) first wowed audiences.

All I know is I can feel the Italian half of me

come alive at the festival. The smell of the Sicilian pizza rising from the church’s ovens; the crowd speckled with the golden amber of Peroni in plastic cups; young and old gathered round the bocce courts entranced by the thud and roll of the balls over the crunched cinder; and the big, emotional enthusiasm of Italian people and people who just love being around Italian people. For me, it’s one of the city’s last vestiges of old fashioned ethnic flavor. Small, crowded, and boisterous, it’s definitively Italian, and Columbus lights up there every October.

Fall is the time in Columbus to embrace your ethnicity or, at the very least, glom on to one wholeheartedly so you can justify drinking in vast, operatic quantities.

Johnny DiLoretto is an event host, emcee and personality for hire, and is also the co-host of WCBE’s Foodcast and Cinema Classics.

Events: • Greek Festival, The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Aug 31-S ept 3 • India Festival, Veterans Memoria l, September 8 • Oktoberfest, The Ohio Expo Center, September 28-30 • Italian Festival, St. John the Bap tist Parish, October 5-7 • International Festival, Veterans Memorial, November 3-4 • Columbus Jewish Film Festival, November 4-15

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Sourcing Local The word ‘local’ continues to show up on more menus and supermarkets throughout Central Ohio, delighting locavores as well as the folks just now discovering the bounty known as Ohio Proud. The state of Ohio designates any product that is 51 percent grown, raised or processed in Ohio as an Ohio Proud partner and the sunny Ohio symbol can be seen dotting bottles, cans and packaging all over the supermarket. The Ohio Proud label is nearly 20 years old, but it is just now enjoying a renewed status as a symbol of good taste and sustainability.

For many years, it was mainly fine dining chefs that embraced local foods. Chef Alana Shock of Alana’s has been a well-known and pioneering supporter of local food systems and sustainability.

Shock utilizes local farms, farmers markets and the North Market to supply the ingredients for her innovative daily menus. Johnny Dornback, chef and owner of Basi Italia restaurant, can be seen most weekends browsing the aisles of the North Market, picking up local ingredients for the evening’s menu. Jeni Britton Bauer is long known for finding just about anything local and somehow turning it into a delicious ice cream flavor. These pioneering chefs have served as inspirations to both professional and at-home cooks here in Central Ohio.

About five years ago, Local Matters, a Columbusbased nonprofit committed to promoting local food systems, challenged local restaurateurs and chefs to add at least two locally sourced ingredients to their menus. As a result of this effort, we soon saw that it wasn’t just fine dining or specialty establishments embracing local goods. Fast food restaurants, coffeehouses, pizza shops, dive bars, delis, food trucks, bakeries and ice cream shops all began boasting locally produced menu items, embracing the best of what Ohio has to offer.

Produce, jams, meats, sausages, cheeses, fish, honey, and breads are all produced in and around Central Ohio. Ohio’s spirits industry is booming with new wineries, distilleries and brewery openings. Columbus is even home to a meadery, Brothers Drake, which uses local honey for their locally produced mead.

Local companies are working together by partnering to create delicious combinations. Columbusbased Jeni’s Ice Cream and Stauf’s Coffee have teamed up to make the delectable Black Coffee Ice Cream flavor. Columbus-based Middle West Spirits

provided their used whiskey barrels to Lancaster, Ohio-based Rockmill Brewery to make a delicious barrel-aged beer. Our local food community continues to embrace and support each other, working collaboratively to further the neighborhood spirit.

Brady Konya and Ryan Lange from Columbusbased Middle West Spirits blew open the doors for locally distilled spirits produced here in Ohio. The two determined entrepreneurs worked tirelessly to change archaic liquor laws to benefit the burgeoning spirits market here in Ohio. As a result of Konya and Lang’s pioneering work, the number of spirits distilleries continues to grow here in Ohio with no stop in sight as spirits sales state-wide have continued to soar.

by Elizabeth Lessner

2012 has been named the Year of the Beer by the folks at the hyper-local ColumbusUnderground.com due to the four new breweries that have opened or are opening in 2012: Hoof Hearted Beer, Zauber Beer, Four Strings Brewery and Born Brewing.

Thanks to the award-winning Barley’s Brewery, Columbus has always had a good beer reputation as we return to our beer-brewing roots so common in downtown Columbus in the 1800s.

An explosion of expanded farmer’s markets and community gardens have helped fuel Columbus’ appetite for more local produce. In 2009, Columbus Public Health identified food deserts in Columbus and set up farmer’s markets that accepted food stamps giving more neighborhoods access to more fresh produce. Columbus is home to hundreds of community gardens, with more being added each year. Canning, once thought to be a lost art from a forgotten era, has made a huge comeback among gardeners looking to extend their summer bounty all year. Community Supported Agriculture programs are gaining greater popularity each year as more people commit to eating local.

There’s never been a better time to eat and drink in Central Ohio!

Cheers!

Elizabeth Lessner is the founder and co-owner of Columbus Food League, a restaurant group that includes Betty’s Fine Food & Spirits, The Surly Girl Saloon, Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails, Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace, the Jury Room and coming soon, Grass Skirt Tiki Lounge.

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We’re Cookin’ Profiling four of Columbus’ Best Gregory C. Matthews, Chef The Columbus Funny Bone Easton Town Center

Greg was born and raised in Cleveland and completed a degree in Food Service Management at the University of Akron. He moved to Columbus to assume the position of chef for the newly opened Boulevard Grille in the Columbus City Center. For the past 14 years at the Funny Bone, he has brought his creativity, sensitivity to diverse people and cultures and enthusiasm for preparing dishes using only fresh, sustainable meats, poultry and produce to the club on a nightly basis.

His professional goal is to keep adding new dishes to a growing list of signature favorites.

Hobbies: Exercising, weight lifting, bicycling and cooking for the family Favorite Place to Dine: “Any Cameron Mitchell’s restaurant is great, but my favorite is Cap City Diner on Olentangy River Road. We also enjoy the ambience and food at the Bone Fish Grill on Polaris Parkway.”

Craig Burke, Owner/Cook

German Village Coffee Shop Aladdin’s, Granville Favorite Place to Dine: Basi Italia in On a whim, Craig and his wife Christa purchased the German Village Coffee Shop in 2003.

With a degree in business administration from Youngstown State, he had no previous restaurant experience, but envisioned outstanding possibilities for nthal e v the neighborhood diner. e L on

by Aar And today it is one of Village’s most popular hangouts.

Specialty Dish: Tuscan Pasta, serves 4 Ingredients: 2 oz olive oil, 1 tbsp minced garlic, 3 oz julienned sundried tomatoes, 8 oz cooked penne, 2 oz white wine, 1 oz julienned basil, 2 oz shredded Parmesan

Place olive oil in sauté pan and heat. Add garlic, sundried tomatoes. Cook approximately 3 minutes. Add pasta and cook with ingredients for 3 minutes.

Deglaze with white wine.

Toss with basil and top with shredded Parmesan.

Craig says he “learned to cook by trial and error” and credits his staff for his recently acquired culinary talents. Last year he added Aladdin’s, a landmark restaurant on East Broadway in Granville, to his portfolio.

Cornerstone Deli-Café Clintonville As a young boy of 7, Hadi learned to cook and helped his family operate a small restaurant in his hometown of Lombok, Indonesia. When opportunity knocked in 2002, he came to Columbus, first owning Saigon Palace and then purchasing the flourishing Cornerstone Deli-Café.

In addition to the popular salad bar, sandwiches and wraps, he added sushi, rice

bowls and seafood dishes.

Hadi is proud that his restaurant is a “neighborhood center where Clintonville residents feel comfortable relaxing and meeting nice people from all over town.”

Hobbies: Basketball, TV and travel Favorite Place to Dine: “Sillais Korean Restaurant on Henderson Road! I love their kalbi (BBQ short ribs).”

Specialty Dish: Thai Curry Shrimp, serves 4 Ingredients: 32 pieces shrimp, 1 piece white onion, 2 pieces carrot, 1 piece zucchini, 2 brocolli crowns, 1 head cauliflower Curry Sauce: 8 oz red curry paste, 1 can coconut milk, 6 pieces basil leaf, 2 oz. galagal Boil water and cook all ingredients for 2 minutes at a high heat. Heat the curry sauce in a large pan until it boils. Combine and enjoy.

Victorian Village. “It is a hidden gem, tucked away in Victorian Village. with great food, and a great patio.”

Specialty Dish: Cinnamon French Toast, serves 4 Ingredients: 5 eggs, cinnamon, 8 slices wheat bread Scramble eggs and stir in cinnamon to achieve a nice tan color. Dip bread in egg mix and place on generously buttered griddle. Grill bread on each side, until browned. Top with powdered sugar and maple syrup.

Hobbies: When not navigating between Columbus, Granville and his country home in Carrol, Ohio, he enjoys playing games in the backyard with his two sons Rennick and Jude

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with activities ranging from hunting for zombies to catching dinosaurs.

Joe knew he was destined for the restaurant business since age 11, when he began bussing tables in his Grandpa Gattozzi’s East Cleveland café. He learned sitting on bar stools that combining good food with genuine hospitality was a formula for success. After gigs at McDonalds in high school, a social work degree from Capital University and several years operating a bagel franchise, he and his business partner Bill Ward, opened Spinelli’s Deli in 2000.

Today, Spinelli’s Deli is a thriving

neighborhood delicatessen with a loyal and diverse clientele. Everyone appreciates the affordable fresh food, Joe’s community activism and, of course, his homemade soup, sandwiches and fresh baked cookies.

Catering special events and a new food cart round out the business.

Hobbies: Exercise, swimming, camping and Happy Hours all over town.

Favorite Place to Dine: “I’m an active member of Dine Originals so I have dozens of favorites, but if I had to choose one, it’s Barcelona’s patio.”

Specialty Dish: Aaron’s Big and Juicy, serves 1 Joe honored writer and friend Aaron Leventhal with an opportunity to create a new sandwich.

Place ½ lb. each of corn beef and pastrami on deli rye. Add cole slaw, Swiss cheese and Thousand Island dressing.

“It’s simple to make and heavenly to eat,” says Joe.

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THE GREAT BRUNCH ROUNDUP Depending on the night before, it can be difficult to remember that place you wanted to try for brunch come Saturday and Sunday mornings.

For our own sake, we put together this quick reference for a variety of good weekend eats. It’s not a complete list by any means, but we promise to get there eventually.

ARENA DISTRICT Sunny Street Café Arena District, Avery Rd, Sawmill Rd, Westerville, New Albany, Grove City Open: 6:30a-2:30p Friendly service and tasty food for breakfast and lunch. www.sunnystreetcafe.com

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Sunday Brunch Clintonville Sage American Bistro Saturday Brunch: 7:30a5p – Sunday Brunch Sunday Brunch: 8-5p Clintonville $5-12 Brunch: 10a-2p In case you want break$10-20 fast a bit late in the day, Extensive, upscale menu Mozart’s serving it until for Sunday Brunch. www.sageamericanbistro.co 5p on weekends. mozartscafe.com m restaurant.com

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CLINTONVILLE Beechwold Diner Clintonville Open: Mon-Sat: 6a-3p & Sun: 7a-3p $5-10 At Beechwold Diner, you can find an extensive menu of breakfast and lunch foods, so you can mix and match to create your perfect brunch. www.beechwolddiner.com Whole World Natural Bakery & Restaurant – Sunday Brunch Clintonville Brunch: 10a-2p $5-10 Vegetarian and Vegan friendly bakery and restaurant. www.wholeworldnatural-

Daybreak Diner Clintonville Open: Mon-Fri: 7:30a-2p & Sat/Sun: 8a-2p 50s style diner, complete with memorabilia and great service. Serves breakfast and lunch all day. www.daybreakdiner.net Nancy’s Home Cooking Clintonville Brunch: Fri/Sat 6a-3p & Sun: 8a-3p $4-8 265-9012 Mozart’s Bakery and Piano Café – Saturday &

DOWNTOWN De NOVO – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Downtown Brunch: 8a-3p $5-15 Stop by for an upscale brunch, as well as a brunch cocktail selection that goes beyond the traditional Mimosa and Bloody Mary. www.denovobistro.com Due Amici – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Downtown Brunch: 11a-4p $10-25 A brunch for the classy

Italian in all of us. www.due-amici.com DUBLIN Salvi’s Bistro – Sunday Brunch Buffet Dublin 10a-3p Adults and children 12 and over: $18.99 without beverage In case you’re craving Italian food in the morning. salvisbistro.com Anna’s Greek Restaurant Dublin 11a-3:30p Full Buffet: $16.95 Kids under 10: $5.00 Kids under 5: free Extensive Greek brunch buffet. annasgreekfood.com

baked Ham Co., you know it’s gonna be good. www.sweetclove.com EAST SIDE 94th Aero Squadron – Sunday Brunch Buffet East Side (near airport) 10a-2:30p $19.99 / adult Bread, salad, breakfast, carving, pasta & fajita, dessert, seafood.

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GERMAN VILLAGE Skillet – Saturday & Sunday Brunch German Village Brunch: 8a-2p $10-15 Rated as the best spot for brunch by Yelp members and Columbus UnderSweet Clove Sunshine ground readers, Skillet Café takes pride in their alterDublin native takes on classic Open: 8a-3p comfort foods. Come see $5-10 what all the fuss is about.

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Lindey’s – Saturday & Sunday Brunch German Village Open Sun-Thurs: 11a-10p & Fri/Sat: 11a-11p $10-20 Inside one of the historical structures of German Village is Lindey’s. Known for their fine dining, Lindey’s offers up brunch classics with an edge of sophistication. www.lindeys.com German Village Coffee Shop German Village Open: Mon-Fri: 6:30a-2p Sat: 6:30a-3p & Sun: 8a-3p $2-10 Serving breakfast and lunch every day of the week www.gvcoffeeshop.com Katzinger’s Deli – Sunday Brunch German Village Brunch: 9a-2p $1.25-11.75 Specializing in traditional Jewish food, Katzinger’s serves food from their breakfast menu until 2pm on Sunday. katzingers.com First Watch Breakfast and Lunch German Village, Mill Run Plaza, New Albany, Upper Arlington, Dublin, Reynoldsburg, Polaris Open: 7a-2:30p $5-10 First Watch serves up the finest and freshest ingredients with a focus on healthy foods. www.firstwatch.com

GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS Cap City Fine Diner – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Grandview Heights & Gahanna Brunch: 11a-3p $5-20 Described as “artsy and cool,” Cap City serves an upscale weekend brunch to start your day in style. www.capcityfinediner.com

HILLIARD Starliner Diner – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Hilliard Brunch: 9a-3p $5-10 For a traditional American or Southwestern breakfast, Starliner Diner is the place to be. Vegetarian option available. starlinerdiner.com

Grand Day Café Grandview Heights Open: 6:30a-3p $5-10 Free coffee before 8a with any $5 purchase. www.granddaycafe.com

MERION VILLAGE Explorers Club – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Merion Village Saturday Brunch: 9a-2p & Sunday: 9a-3p $3-10 As one of the participants of Columbus’ Restaurant Week, Explorers Club sports an extensive brunch menu for those weekends when you wake up craving “simple pioneering flavor.” www.explorersclubmv.com

DK Diner Grandview Heights Brunch: Mon-Fri: 6a-2p & Sat/Sun: 7:30a-2p $5-10 Carry out orders available www.thedkdiner.com Marshall’s Bar and Restaurant Grandview Heights Brunch: Tues-Sat: 7a-2p & Sun: 9a-1p $2-10 Description www.marshallsgrandview.com

GROVE CITY Lilly’s Kitchen Grove City Open: 7a-2p all week $7-8 lillyskitchentable.com “A warm, friendly atmosphere.”

Fitzy’s Old Fashioned Diner Grove City Open: 24/7 $5-10 For fans of old-fashioned, home cooked breakfast, Fitzy’s is the place for you. www.eatatfitzys.com

POLARIS Polaris Grill Polaris 10a-2:30p Continental Breakfast: $6.25/person Morning Sunrise Breakfast Buffet: $9.25/person Country Harvest Breakfast Buffet: $11.25/person Polaris Grill Grande Breakfast Buffet: $13.25/person Pick a buffet and go at it! www.polarisgrill.com Scrambler Marie’s Breakfast Bistro Polaris, N Hamilton, Cleveland Ave, Hilliard, Reynoldsburg, E Livingston Open: 6:30a-3p $5-10 Serves breakfast and lunch foods. www.scramblermaries.com

OLDE TOWN EAST The Angry Baker Olde Town East Open: Sun-Thurs: 7a-5p & Fri/Sat: 7a-8p $5-10 The Angry Baker is actually a pretty nice guy, with the desire to serve you fresh, local, delicious food. theangrybakerote.com SHORT NORTH Northstar Café Short North, Easton, Clintonville Open: 9a-10p $5-15 Stylish, healthy and local, Northstar Café serves breakfast and lunch all day.

Northstar Café has also been rated as the #1 brunch spot in Columbus by Urbanspoon.com. www.thenorthstarcafe.com Level – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Short North Brunch: 11a-3p $5-10 Enter the “Morning Level” to experience a brunch with an upscale menu, as well as breakfast favorites served a la carte. levelcolumbus.com Tasi Café Short North Open: Mon-Sat: 7a-5p & Sun: 8a-5p $5-10 Breakfast is served all day at this quaint, local café. www.tasicafe.com Knead – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Short North Brunch: 10a-3p $5-15 Knead serves brunch food with a twist, and was voted the best new restaurant by Columbus Weekly and

Columbus Underground. www.kneadonhigh.com Surly Girl Saloon – Saturday & Sunday Brunch Short North Brunch: 11a-4p $8-12 Brunch foods with a spicy twist, in the heart of the Short North. www.surlygirlsaloon.com

as 23 different types of omelets to choose from, you’re guaranteed to find something you love at this old-fashioned campus diner. jackandbennys.com

WESTERVILLE Bel Lago - Sunday Brunch Buffet Westerville 11a-3p Adults: $24.95 VICTORIAN VILLAGE Children: $14.95 Katalina’s Café Corner – Kids 5 and under: free Saturday & Sunday Brunch “Boundlessly good, endlessly authentic, bountifully Victorian Village homemade.” May make Brunch: 8a-3p reservations. $5-10 www.bellagorestaurant.com Katalina’s is known for their organic free trade cofThe Best Restaurant & fee, and the ingredients used in their foods are from Sandwiches local farmers whenever pos- Westerville Open: Mon-Fri: 6a-3p sible. Fans of local food, & Sat/Sun: 8a-3p unite! www.cafecornercolumbus.com $5-10 Come see why it’s called “The Best,” and indulge in UNIVERSITY DISTRICT their famous breakfast, Till – Saturday & Sunday burgers, and sandwiches.

Brunch (614) 776-5788 University District Brunch: 9a-3p WORTHINGTON $5-10 Worthington Inn – Sunday For the folks who want something a bit more indie, Brunch Buffet Worthington Till is for you.

11a-2p tillfare.com Adults: $23.95 Children 6-12: $13.95 Hang Over Easy Children 5 and under: free University District Come to the historical WorOpen: Mon-Fri: 7a-7p thington Inn and taste the Sat: 9a-7p food that’s earned them & Sun: 9a-3p such a stellar reputation. $5-10 Reservations strongly recThe perfect mixture of ommended. hearty foods to help cure the mistakes from the night www.worthingtoninn.com before. www.hangovereasy.com Jack & Benny’s University District Open: Tues-Fri: 7a-3p & Sat/Sun: 8a-3p $5-10 With all the classics, as well

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Ryan led our tour group to the kitchen, where we learned the ins and outs of the brewing process and even got to peek inside the mash cooker to watch the yeast eating the grain.

We then headed back to our seats in front of the still to learn about how that mash is turned into vodka or whiskey through careful temperature control and repetition – OYO vodka is distilled 34 times, so it must be run twice through the 17x still.

The tour concluded with a tasting. We were given a sample of Grey Goose to compare to Middle West’s OYO’s vodka, and the 30 or so of us who were taking the tour unanimously chose a favorite (spoiler alert: it was OYO.) We also got to sample the rest of Middle West’s current offerings, including OYO Honey Vanilla Bean vodka, OYO Stone Fruit vodka and OYO whiskey.

Middle West Spirits offers 90minute distillery tours every Friday at 6p and cost $10. Email tours@middlewestspirits.com to sign up.

Distilling Local Many people are familiar with at least some of the great micro-breweries in Central Ohio. But Columbus is also home to two amazing micro-distilleries: Middle West Spirits and Watershed Distillery.

Both businesses make products that every at-home mixologist and Live Local! devotee should add to their liquor cabinet ASAP. And both distilleries offer fun tours that let you learn more about the people, the products and the processes by which liquor is crafted. Relatively recent changes in state legislation now allow you to try a sample and buy a bottle to take home at both distilleries, making this the perfect time to take a tour!

Middle West Spirits Located just off of High Street in the Short North, Middle West Spirits is in the heart of what some are calling Columbus’ “Spirits District,” with Brothers Drake Meadery situated next door and Bru, a brew-on-

Watershed Distillery Watershed Distillery used to start its tours with a game called Hammerschlagen. premises brewery n o s Basically, you take a hami r r that opens soon, just ryl Ha mer and try to hit a nail

by Che around the corner. into a log in one swing. Most people bend the nail, making it impossible to We started the tour seated in front of the drive into the log. Hammerschlagen was a still, or what owner Ryan Lang accurately fun signature element of Watershed’s disdescribed as “this Willie Wonka looking tillery tour, until someone smashed their thing.” Ryan is a fourth-generation dishand with the hammer. Now they start tiller and even showed his grandfather’s with a game of trivia. old still to prove it (though Ryan is the first generation in the family to Watershed is located off Northwest Blvd distill legally.) and King Ave amidst a bunch of wareHe shared some information about the recent trend of microdistilling, including that the number of microdistilleries in the United States has jumped from just 57 in 2007 to 378 in 2012. We learned that Middle West’s main focuses for their business is to use locally made ingredients (including soft red Ohio winter wheat) and to produce world-class products (and they have the medals to back it.)

houses (including Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams). You wouldn’t know it was there unless you knew it was there, and now that you do, you should head over and take a tour.

Watershed owner Greg Lehman’s aunt and uncle led the tour that I attended. They started off by explaining why Greg decided to open a distillery - he had been playing professional volleyball in Switzerland and

was inspired by the many locally produced liquors found in the area.

We then learned about, and passed around, the very fragrant ingredients behind Watershed’s signature products.

After that we were led to the back of the distillery to learn about the mash and still that produce the alcohol and the bottling and labeling areas where it is packaged by hand. We also got a glance of the barrels that are currently aging Watershed’s first bourbon, scheduled to release in November. It will be the first bourbon (legally) crafted in Central Ohio since prohibition.

Watershed is also working on a bourbonaged gin set to release in September.

Watershed’s tour ended with a taste of the two products in Watershed’s current liquor lineup: gin and vodka. (I may be sipping on a Watershed gin and tonic as I write this.)

Watershed offers 60-minute distillery tours every Thursday at 6p and cost $10 – though they seem to be running discounts on Groupon-esque sites pretty consistently, so keep an eye out for a deal.

To register visit: http://watersheddistillery.com/tours/ Cheryl Harrison is the editor of DrinkUpColumbus.com, a site dedicated to the latest news and reviews about breweries, bars, spirits, wines and events in Columbus. You can follow her on Twitter @CherylHarrison.

EVENTS: •Columbus Microbrew Festival at North Market - Sept 14-15 •Independents’ Day at Gay St and Pearl Alley – Sept 15 •Columbus Food & Wine Affair at Franklin Park Conservatory - Sept 21 •Columbus Oktoberfest at the Ohio Expo Center - Sept 28-30 •Via Vecchia Winery’s Annual Grape Crush - around the first weekend in Oct, depending on the harvest (check their website closer to the date)

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netic sculptures and installations that invite viewers to let the mind wander and the soul wonder. The exhibition will be on display at the Franklin County Government Complex pavilion from October 24 to November 16, 2012. The opening reception will be October 24, from 5-7:30pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Poetry in Motion — Ride any COTA buses and look up at the signs along the top. Among the instructions for riders, you will see artwork by Art in the House and TRANSIT ARTS young people, paired with the words of famous poets. Youth,

New Home for Columbus Community Arts Education Programs Since 1976, the Greater Columbus Arts Council has nurtured a portfolio of programs that support arts education efforts in Franklin County. This summer, these programs became part of the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education (OAAE), a statewide education service organization.

The Community Arts Education programs include the Artists-in-Schools program, the Franklin County Neighborhood Arts grant program, the out-of-school-time Art in the House program (in partnership with TRANSIT ARTS and the Columbus Federation of Settlements) and Professional Development in Arts Integration for K-12 teachers.

Artists-in-Schools, Art in the House and Transit Arts serve nearly 60,000 young people each year. The opportunity for these programs to be strengthened as a component of an education focused organization

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OAAE, founded in 1974, is a statewide service organization whose mission is to ensure the arts are an integral part of the education of every Ohioan. OAAE maintains a network for communication, cooperation and advocacy for arts education and has more than 8,000 members including students, parents, educators, administrators, citizens, artists and arts advocates. TRANSIT ARTS and the Community Arts Education programs are supported by the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, American Electric Power Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio, Ohio Arts Council and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

For more information visit: www.oaae.net

A young person’s perspective of how the Community Arts Education Program has affected their life: “TRANSIT ARTS has helped me gain confidence in myself. I’ve developed better communication skills and conquered my fear of people. I’ve also learned work ethics since I’ve been employed here. If it wasn’t for TRANSIT ARTS being part of my life, the positive directions, my life as it is wouldn’t exist.

Thank you!”

Fun Community Arts Education Inspired Things to See and Do: IMAGINE — An exhibition of work by young people ages 5-21 who use recycled, upcycled or repurposed materials in a display of three-dimensional and ki-

ages 5 – 21, created artwork using poems from the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion project as inspiration and the guiding theme of Power of One and civil rights. Reproductions of several of the creations, paired with the poems that inspired them, are installed in the entire fleet of 300 COTA buses.

TRANSIT ARTS — Check out work by TRANSIT ARTS artists at Black Creek Bistro on Oak and Parsons in Olde Town East through September, and at the Columbus Airport through February 2013. For ongoing workshops and other events visit: www.transitarts.com.

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lenge that will engage more than 20,000 volunteers in hundreds of projects throughout the community from August 25 through September 11. I give my thanks to EVERYONE who has contributed to these amazing efforts on behalf of our community.

While the Bicentennial may be winding down, the effort has generated some new ideas that are just amping up. We’ve got CCAD, the Idea Foundry, Wexner Center, Gateway Film Center, Vital Film Works, TEDx Columbus, OSU, the Center for Architecture and Design and AIA Columbus (just to name a few!) coming together on idUS, a celebration, collaboration and incubation of ideas, design and innovation.

There is too much great stuff for the words I have here, so go to idus.us to get the full scoop.

The Bicentennial has also generated amazing artist collaborations. The Celebrate Columbus in Song CD has 13 songs by Columbus musicians who were inspired by Columbus.

No matter what your musical style, each one of these songs will make you feel good about our city. Then there’s the incredible Crazy, Cool, Collaborative Columbus, year-long Public Art 2012 n i (columbuspublicart.com). e Complete with Carillon t s d i Gol You may have seen bits

by Jam We are open and Most of my friends know that as a writer, and pieces here and there - little smart, we are diI’m a huge fan of alliteration. I think my plein air paintings on the sides of downverse and tolerant, headline, particularly this year, says it all town buildings, the Broad Street bridge about this amazing place we live in. and most importantly we work, live, and spires or the “Columbus never…” (finish play in a city we love. We are proud of this sentence) project taking shape on the The “crazy” part is, of course, crazy FUN, Columbus with a passion, now more than side of the KeyBank building downtown. not crazy CRAZY (ok, well maybe someever, and with a nod to Mayor Coleman, Or perhaps you were on a COTA bus while times…). From all of our amazing local fes- have a “swagger” I’ve never seen in the the German art collaborative, Reinigungstivals, including the upcoming 20+ years I’ve lived here…until now. gesellschaft was in town, or you heard Independents’ Day on September 15th, to about the piece planned for the Scioto that community-based projects like Urban And coming out of that kind of cool vibe, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has to Scrawl and the Short North murals, to there’s this whole collaboration thing review because the river is deemed a “navgreat local music nearly every single we’ve been growing the past couple years. igable waterway.” (As a good friend said, night, to nationally recognized restaurants The 200Columbus Bicentennial planning “Navigable for what? Ducks?”) and cuisine - how can anyone NOT love effort has seen this community come tothis city? gether in remarkable and wonderful ways: While these projects may not fit into one from all of the events created and prostandard description, all of them are public And we’re cool - not in that über-hip, stuck- moted for the 200Columbus Bicentennial, art. And it is all intended to stretch our up, like-some-other-cities-I-won’t-mention to the unprecedented BIG GIVE led by The perception of art, ourselves, and our place Columbus Foundation which raised more sort of cool way - but FRIENDLY cool. One in the community. The Chime Composithan $8.5 million in 24 hours, to the thing our visitors consistently say about tions playing every day kicked off Public United Way’s Columbus Volunteer ChalColumbus is how welcome they feel here.

Art 2012 since the first of the year, ringing at Trinity Episcopal Church at Third and Broad. They are played on a carillon bells that are programmed to play music.

(For those of you who haven’t looked it up already and were still wondering, “What the hell is a carillon?!”) I believe they are an important symbol of what we hope to accomplish this year.

Who are we? Where did we come from?

What have we learned along the way?

Most importantly, where do we go from here? We start by listening. So every day I listen to the carillon play the amazing and unique compositions created by artists… for us! Every day the music makes my life richer, more enjoyable, helps me appreciate all that our incredibly creative city has to offer…and it helps me strengthen my commitment to make sure the city stays that way - Crazy, Cool, Collaborative Columbus. Creative is a given. And I hope the chime compositions on the Carillon stay around.

Jami Goldstein is the Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Events at the Greater Columbus Arts Council. For more information about this awesome city of ours and the ongoing bicentennial celebrations, visit 200columbus.com.

EVENTS: Columbus Invitations: Visual Arts Competition Exhibit: Carnegie Gallery Columbus Metropolitan Library September 6 - October 26 Annie Leibovitz Exhibit: Wexner Center for the Arts, September 22 - December 30 Riverfront Arts Festival, Along the downtown riverfront, September 28-30 FFOCOL, Film Festival of Columbus, Gateway Film Center, October 2-5 Highball Halloween: Masqerade on High, Short North, October 27

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Crafting Wars

tant) to Los Angeles to film the segment.

Here’s the program: three contestants, and their helpers, are given a “Pop Craft Challenge” using a featured element that they must complete within one hour. The projects are then Columbus’ own Esther rated by three esteemed judges: Myong Erica Domesek, the C.E.O. of Chung P.S. – I made this; Jo Pearson, Hall was a creative expert for Michaels recently a for 25 years, and Stephen crafty comBrown, the founder of multibatant in million dollar giftware comTLC’s new pany Glitterville Studios. show Craft Wars (original One contestant is sent air date July packing and the two re17). Hosted by maining crafters move on Tori Spelling, to the “Master Craft Chalu a tine y Mar this reality TV lenge” where they have 5 r a M by contest pits three hours and four additional crafty contestants helpers to prove their craft worthiness. against one another in a duel to the In the end, somebody’s walking away most creative finish. Glitter might be inwith $10,000. volved.

Since the episode already aired, there Esther, our homegrown craft warrior are no spoiler alerts needed here. Our inwas raised in Upper Arlington, and then dustrious Esther and the capable Claire attended the Art Institute of Chicago made great work of the pop challenge: where she studied fashion and sculpcreating a keepsake box using locks and ture. She currently works at a library by keys. With their prettily lined castleday and teaches continuing education themed creation they fended off Califorfashion classes at CCAD. In her spare nia challengers Andrea, from San Diego, time she is an avid crafter, an active who made a “gnome house” and Kathy, member of the Columbus Crafty Cotillion from Calabasas, who made a “tooth fairy and a community organizer for events box”. There was so much unintended like Independents’ Day and the artisan “box” innuendo flying around that the arm of the Columbus Food Truck & Cart laugh-out-loud moments are priceless.

Fest. But how did all of this lead to local “Right now I’m just trying to get my box notoriety as a contestant on Craft done ASAP” and “I feel really good about Wars? my box!” are two gems courtesy of cheer mom Kathy from Calabasas. Alas, her Esther is on the Craft Magazine email Pepto-Bismol pink box was not up to list; one day a call-out for crafters to snuff and she was eliminated. compete in a new television show was published. She fatefully applied and got a Onward went Esther versus Andrea to call back to submit a video. She did. the Master Craft Challenge. The wedThen they wanted another video. She ding-themed mission required them to complied. Four video submissions in make use of old baby blankets (purportthey realized she really was that cool edly Tori’s cast-offs and the “something (and she really is a badass with power old”), wedding invitations (something tools) and invited her to be a competitor new), candlesticks (something boron the show. rowed) and denim jeans (something blue) to create an interactive item for In March, they flew Esther and her use on a couple’s “big day.” Our confiskilled sidekick Claire Jennings (each dent Esther (a recent bride herself) exchallenger is permitted a creative assisclaimed, “I’ve got this!” and set out to

construct a photo booth, an element she wishes she’d incorporated into her own nuptials.

Her worthy opponent Andrea decided upon a life-sized wishing tree as her undertaking. Power tools were involved in the framework creation of both structures. Andrea’s tree utilized blue jean strips and baby blankets as bark (which was then liberally covered in glitter), invitations hole-punched into circles to create garland and leaves for the tree, and candlesticks as sign holders. Esther’s photo booth integrated handcut and sewn blue jean garland as background, the baby blankets were cut up and sewn into more ruffled garland elements, invitations were used as signs with wishes for the couple scripted out in yarn, and inverted candlesticks were transformed into lighting features for the booth.

When it came time for the assessment, the judges were inexplicably (in my humble opinion) in awe of Andrea’s use of a hole-punch and over-use of glitter. Esther made points for her candlestick lights and her cute yarn signs. But as they pronounced in dramatic reality-television fashion, “One of you will be left at the altar”…and in this instance it was our girl Esther. I think she was robbed.

If she woulda drowned that booth in glitter she’d have been a shoo-in.

Although our ladies did not prevail, but

they represented our fair city well! You can check out the crafters-in- action yourself as TLC’s Craft Wars airs Tuesdays at 8p.

Top 5 list: •Festiville: Saturday, Sept 8 •Independents’ Day: Saturday, Sept 15 •Art and Craft Marketplatz at Oktoberfest: Sept 28 & 29

•Fall Flea: Sunday, Oct 7 •Craftin’ Outlaws: Nov 17

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Indie Local Indigo Wild Tired of the same old indie bands?

Yeah, me too.

music is incredibly versatile and fits a variety of scenarios: studying, thinking, and yes, even partying.

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by J osh big speakers, but I was particuWeik I’d say it’s time er larly impressed by the instrumenfor indie to go wild – Indie tal collaborations of these four go wild. Indigo Wild. (see what I did gents. They seem to have a knack for there?) creating dreamy arpeggios that hide just underneath the more apparent lead-melodies.

Sure, at first sight, they might just look like While the guitars and bass lines fancifully another group of young, hip kids: two guilinger at the forefront, the drumming is intars, a bassist and a drummer, all in wrinkly tense, yet subtle, and always emits an inbutton-ups. But once they start playing, it credibly encompassing presence. won’t take long to realize that maybe you Additionally, in a day where very few bands shouldn’t write them off as ‘just another hip- incorporate the synth/drum machine sound ster band’ so quickly. Within those first few while maintaining musical integrity; this introductory measures, you’ll discover that band manages just that, all while floating in Indigo Wild has a very unique, modern and out of transitions with smooth harsound and oodles of songwriting skills; that monies and über-catchy rhythms. Perhaps is never a bad combination. the fiercest weapon in their arsenal is their three-part vocals, which they are not afraid Indigo Wild has a very refined and clean to unleash at any moment. Their voices indie style that contains sprinkles of groovy, echo around and consume you within sechead-bobbing moments of happiness. If onds, it’s incredibly hard not to close your someone forced me to compare them to aneyes and just get lost in a daydream. Each other band, I’d have to say it’s kind of like song is full of so many layers and moving Built to Spill meets Way Yes, but that’s just parts at every moment; it truly is a pleasure to get you in the vicinity - each song really diving into their music. has its own character and modulated feeling, so it’s especially hard to define them.

Currently, the guys are gearing up to write While some bands rely on power chords or their first full debut album. They plan on basic song structures, Indigo Wild steps it playing a few shows this summer, but are up with complex bridges and hooks that planning to primarily focus on their songkeep their songs fresh and colorful. Their writing. For now, you can check out their

EP, “If by Sea,” which has five songs for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

Indigo Wild (pictured above, left to right) Jason Winner// Drums/Percussion Garet Camella// Guitar/Vocals Chris Carter// Bass/Vocals Michael Norris// Guitar/Vocals Independent’s Day 2012 Independent’s Day is quickly becoming one of the premiere annual festivals in Columbus. While it may sound confusing in any simple conversation, let me assure you this extravaganza is completely unrelated to the 4th of July. So, what is Independent’s Day? In short, it is an approximately 12-hour, non-stop, live demonstration that aims to show off the immense awesomeness of independent business, arts, and music that the city has to offer.

Each year, in the middle of September, the city shuts down one of its usually hustling and bustling streets right in the heart of downtown, to host this amazing festival. On Gay Street, between High and 3rd Street, (and the adjacent alleys of Pearl and Lynn Street) you can find eclectic local merchants selling a wide variety of goods, eccentric artists sprawled about like Easter eggs, food carts, beer carts, and of course, music. The multiple music stages at Independent’s Day all but assure that there is always something worth checking out. Even if you aren’t that into the music, there is amazing art, ac-

tivities and all kinds of local vendors to help sweeten the pot of fun and entertainment.

Over the past few years, the festival has featured sidewalk chalk artists, billboard-sized interactive paint murals and last year’s highlight – an interactive dancefloor mural (you dipped your feet in paint, then danced on a giant canvas – it was way too fun).

If you’ve never been to Independent’s Day, I implore you to go. Get out and enjoy this quickly growing festival before it attracts the super-huge crowds like ComFest (don’t worry ComFest, I still love you). Come find some amazing art, and meet the incredible people behind it; grab a drink and some munchies, then check out some of the great bands. Spend the day downtown surrounded by skyscrapers – you can even have a picnic in the middle of the road! Basically, get off your butt and out of that mindset that ‘nothing ever happens in Columbus,’ because the truth is: It is happening, you’re just missing it.

For more information and the lineup, check out http://www.thisisindependent.com/

Top 5 Music Events this Fall: Greek Festival (Aug 31 – Sept 3) Independent’s Day (Sept 15) Hot Times Community & Music Festival (Sept 7-9) Italian Festival (Oct 5 – 7) Trauma (late Oct)

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OCTOBER 5-7 HEY MAMBO, MAMBO ITALIANO! The Columbus Italian Festival @ St. John Baptist Church, 720 Hamlet St, 614.294.5319, www.columbusitalianfestival.com: $5.

SEPT 14-15 BREWS AND BOOZE Columbus Microbrew Festival @ North Market, 59 Spruce St, 614.463.

9664,northmarket.com: 5p-9p; $20.

SEPT 28-30 HOLY SCHMIDT! Columbus Oktoberfest @ the Ohio Expo Center, 717 E 17th Ave, 614.444.5908, www.columbusoktoberfest.com: free.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 FOOD TRUUUUUUUUUCKS....

ASSEMBLE! Columbus’s Autumn Food Truck & Cart Fest @ Columbus Commons, 160 S High St, www.columbusfoodtruckfest.com: 12p-10p; free.

MONDAY, OCT 1 AGAINST THE GLASS Columbus Blue Jackets vs.

Washington Capitals @ Nationwide Arena, 200 W Nationwide Blvd, 800.NHL.COLS, www.BlueJackets.com: 7p; $26-200.

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SEPT 28-30 ANOTHER FESTIVAL? I’M IN. Riverfront Arts Festival @ Genoa Park, 303 W Broad St, 614.299.9221, www.dispatchevents.com:Fri: 5p-9p, Sat: 12p-9p, Sun:12p-5p; free.

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“WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU” The Scare-A-Torium @ 6765 Dublin Center Dr, Dublin, 614.761.FEAR, www.columbushauntedhouse.com: Through Oct 28; $7-$30.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 THE RETURN OF THE GREAT PUMPKIN Circleville Pumpkin Show @ Circleville, OH, 159 East Franklin St, pumpkinshow.com: 8:30a-9p; free.

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Sat: 10a-9p, Sun: 10a-7p; $5.

SUN SEPT 2 IT’S A PARK PARTY Westgate’s Arts in the Park @ 3271 Wicklow Road, near shelter house, 614.915.4023: 2p-4p; free.

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11a-12a; $5 Adults, $4 Seniors, 2 yrs and under free.

SEPT 1-2 Soul Food Music Festival @ Scioto Mile, Civic Center Drive, www.soulfoodmusicfestival.com: 12p-12a; $20.

SATURDAY, SEPT 8 CURRY EXTRAVAGANZA India Festival @ Veterans Memorial, 300 W Broad St, 877.342.6412, www.indiafestival.org: 10a-10p; $6.

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OCTOBER 5-7 HEY MAMBO, MAMBO ITALIANO! The Columbus Italian Festival @ St. John Baptist Church, 720 Hamlet St, 614.294.5319, www.columbusitalianfestival.com: $5.

SEPT 14-15 BREWS AND BOOZE Columbus Microbrew Festival @ North Market, 59 Spruce St, 614.463.

9664,northmarket.com: 5p-9p; $20.

SEPT 28-30 HOLY SCHMIDT! Columbus Oktoberfest @ the Ohio Expo Center, 717 E 17th Ave, 614.444.5908, www.columbusoktoberfest.com: free.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 FOOD TRUUUUUUUUUCKS....

ASSEMBLE! Columbus’s Autumn Food Truck & Cart Fest @ Columbus Commons, 160 S High St, www.columbusfoodtruckfest.com: 12p-10p; free.

MONDAY, OCT 1 AGAINST THE GLASS Columbus Blue Jackets vs.

Washington Capitals @ Nationwide Arena, 200 W Nationwide Blvd, 800.NHL.COLS, www.BlueJackets.com: 7p; $26-200.

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SEPT 28-30 ANOTHER FESTIVAL? I’M IN. Riverfront Arts Festival @ Genoa Park, 303 W Broad St, 614.299.9221, www.dispatchevents.com:Fri: 5p-9p, Sat: 12p-9p, Sun:12p-5p; free.

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“WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU” The Scare-A-Torium @ 6765 Dublin Center Dr, Dublin, 614.761.FEAR, www.columbushauntedhouse.com: Through Oct 28; $7-$30.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 THE RETURN OF THE GREAT PUMPKIN Circleville Pumpkin Show @ Circleville, OH, 159 East Franklin St, pumpkinshow.com: 8:30a-9p; free.

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Sat: 10a-9p, Sun: 10a-7p; $5.

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11a-12a; $5 Adults, $4 Seniors, 2 yrs and under free.

SEPT 1-2 Soul Food Music Festival @ Scioto Mile, Civic Center Drive, www.soulfoodmusicfestival.com: 12p-12a; $20.

SATURDAY, SEPT 8 CURRY EXTRAVAGANZA India Festival @ Veterans Memorial, 300 W Broad St, 877.342.6412, www.indiafestival.org: 10a-10p; $6.

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Listen Local:

Enter ColumbusLocalMusic.com.

This website was made to promote and

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three, right off the bat, and the site just kept the tunes coming; that’s pretty impressive. The only complaint I have is that I can’t go back and “heart” the song after it’s finished, but that’s a mild critiThe first song that was suggested for my cism. If you aren’t into a song that discerning music taste was, “Smoke Be- comes up in rotation (it’s bound to hapfore My Eyes” by Moon High, and it was pen), you can click the “Meh…No exactly the type of song that I would lis- Thanks” trashcan button to indicate ten to if I were listening to my own when you want the song to “Play less iTunes library. I was pleasantly suroften,” if you’re “Not in the mood right prised. After clicking on the orange now,” or if you really don’t like it, to “Play It More” heart button, I tagged “Never play this one again.” And you them, a feature that let’s you compare cannot be blocked from moving onto the them to a national act, as Band of next song selection by clicking the Horses. The second song that they sug“next” or trashcan buttons one too many gested was, “Rhythm vs The Eternal Soul times.

(Purple)” by The Olde Souls & The Makeshift Band, which, coincidentally, is You guys, this site is so slick; I’m really pumped about it. It’s easy the band of the guys who started the to navigate, there are a Columbus Local Music. Their third suglot of features, the Radio Most of us have listened to some version gestion was “We All Belong” by Andy of online streaming, whether it was Pan- Shaw Band. CLM.com was three for continued

endear listeners to music made in Columbus by Columbians… Columbusites?... Citizens of the Capital City.

(There we go.) When you visit the site for the first time, you will create an acAs a young girl attending her first rock count and enter all the pertinent sign-up ‘n’ roll concert at Cooper Stadium, (The info. Then, you select all the types of Beach Boys when Carl Wilson was still music you like. I chose: Acoustic, Amerialive), I decided that I wanted to try to cana, Bluegrass, Celtic, Classic Rock, attend 200 concerts in my lifetime. To Folk, Funk, Jam Band, Pop, Reggae, date, I’ve seen 107 live shows, and I Rock, Singer/Songwriter and Soul, in obknow this exact number because I revious alphabetical order. They have a cently compiled a detailed list using an litany of categories that even include excel spreadsheet… yeah, I’m a nerd. For Broadway, Standards, Novelty and New as much as I love music and going to Age/Ambient. After that step, I was inshows, I haven’t immersed myself in the structed to list my favorite bands. I enColumbus music scene as much as I tered my usual suspects: Otis Redding, should. Simply, I didn’t know what bands Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, to check out, or what venues would Avett Brothers, The Decemberists, The showcase the kind of music I want to Crystals, and Talking Heads, to name a hear. mere few. Now I was ready for the radio.

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dora or Spotify, but unlike those platforms, ColumbusLocalMusic.com is strictly for local bands. I was interested in hearing what they thought I would like from the information I gave.

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settings are far more intuitive and interactive than that of Pandora, and with each new song selection, there is a “See Them Live” section that lists the band’s upcoming shows. You even have the option to “Follow This Band,” and in doing so, you are adding them to your favorites. You will then receive updates when the band has added new songs to the site, or have an upcoming show. After spending an inordinate amount of time on this site, I have heard a couple new bands that I’m looking forward to catching live: MojoFlo, Buckles and Boots, Billy Two Shoes, and Jackie and The Stabbs.

I was lucky to speak with Shawn Price of CLM.com and he answered my lingering questions.

volved?

SP: There are five members of the ColumbusLocalMusic.com team. We were all playing in a band together and I looked around at band practice one day and saw that we had three programmers, a sales guy and an accountant all in the same band. I figured there had to be something good we could do with that team so we put our heads together and came up with the idea for ColumbusLocalMusic.com. I’m the idea guy (CEO), Mike Nelson is the bean counter (CFO), Dave Walters is the talker (director of sales), Mike Yotive is the database guy and computer nerd (COO) and Andrew Pickett is the solution mastermind and computer nerd 2 (CTO).

Whether that’s a live show or some music to set the mood while they work or drive home.

EM: What has been your biggest roadblock thus far?

SP: So far our primary focus has been on developing a product that will keep people coming back for more. Our first challenge was in getting content. It’s taken a lot of hard work to get our music catalog to where it is today. There’s a long way to go still, but I’m proud to say that we have over 1100 songs and over 400 bands in our catalog spanning a large range of genres.

Erin McCalla: First can you tell me about Columbus Local Music? When did you launch?

Shawn Price: We started signing bands up last fall. I believe we actually started talking to bands at Independents’ day 2011. We opened the site up publicly in January of this year and we launched our personalized radio feature in March after we felt like we had enough music to create a great listening experience.

EM: Why do you think Columbus music is so special to make an entire website devoted to it?

SP: We’ve been playing around the local scene for years now. During that time we’ve seen a lot of bands come and go. A lot of really good bands have worked extremely hard and have failed to gain a following, not because they’re bad, but because the right people have never heard of them. We see shows sell out at the Newport, the Schott, the LC and Nationwide arena all the time. That tells us that people in this town really do love music. We want to show them that they don’t have to spend $100 to see a night of incredible music. Most of the time they could just wander down to a bar no more than a few miles away and find bands every bit as talented and pay no more than $5. And at local shows, they can even walk up and talk to the band after a set.

EM: SP: How big is your staff? Who is in-

that are playing, find food and beverages, and see what artists and vendors are going to be there. Independents’ Day really is one of the best festivals in Columbus and the people that put it on are absolutely top notch and great to work with. Hopefully our app can contribute to the free spirit that Independents’ Day brings to Columbus.

EM: Who is your favorite local artist?

SP: I’ve always been a big fan of Matt Monta. We’ve played a few shows with him and I just love the way he pours his heart and soul into every performance. But the great thing about this site is that because it’s open to everyone, we’ve been able to discover new music we had never heard of before they signed up and added their music. Even though we’ve been around the scene for years and we know most of your usual suspects there are a ton of talented bands that we had never heard of before we launched the site. By using our radio I’ve discovered bands like Deadwood Floats, Daniel Dye and the Miller Road Band, and The End of the Ocean and now I’m a huge fan of all of them.

To tune into the local music scene: ColumbusLocalMusic.com. Erin McCalla is an avid music fan, a master at dancing “big” and the Managing Editor of Live Local!

Columbus.

EM: I know that Travis from 614 Magazine just wrote about CLM, and he compared you to cannon.fm. How accurate is his comparison?

SP: I thought Travis’ write up was pretty accurate. From a technical perspective, we’ve actually already fixed Travis’ complaint about the songs taking a long time to load when using the radio. There are a lot of different factors we take into account when we decide what song to play next, so we needed to do some optimization to speed things up.

One thing to keep in mind is that Travis’ write up focused only on the apps. The app is a part of what we’re doing, but our goal is to create an entire online ecosystem focused on turning music fans into Local Music fans. We want people to think of us first when they’re looking for music.

We’ve been spending a lot of time improving our radio feature and trying to be really innovative in our approach. We feel like we’ve developed a really innovative product so now we’re shifting our focus to more of a marketing effort. We’re not done adding features and innovating but getting the word out is our next big challenge.

EM: Are you involved with Independent’s Day 2012? How so?

SP: We got involved in the planning stages of Independents’ Day this year and we were looking for a way where we could really bring our strengths to the table to help out. We thought building a mobile app for them would allow us to contribute in a really meaningful way and help Independents’ Day stand out that much more. So we’ve built an app for both iPhone and Android that will allow you to view the schedule of events, listen to clips of the bands

Events: • Hot Times Community Arts and Music Festival - September 7-9 on Parson Ave. • Festville - September 8 at Whetstone Park • Independents’ Day - September 15 @ Gay & Pearl Streets •MojoFlo - September 28 @ Park St. Tavern •The Drowsy Lads - October 6 @ Byrne’s Pub

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Columbus music Columbus has had a long history of producing great local bands.

There’s something in the water here that makes people want to strap on a dusty Fender, guzzle down some PBRs, and rock out with their friends. I’m convinced this has to do with being in the Midwest. Folks here start bands for fun, not to get famous or make loads of money. That seems to make for a diverse set of local bands. The main reason to start a band is simply to do it. There have been tons that have done things on national, regional, and local levels and we get it all: scrappy indie rock, noisy hardcore punk, hip hop, metal, singer songwriters; there are bands of every sort here. My experience with Columbus music started in the early 90s, and while the prime breeding ground for bands

Events September 19: CD102.5 Presents AWOLNATION @ The Newport Music Hall September 27: CD102.5 Presents Santigold @ The Newport Music Hall

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has moved away from its Campus roots of the 80s and 90s, local music is still going strong. We are fortunate to have a city that supports music through any number of venues, record stores, and local media. We even have multiple active local music message boards. There’s something for everyone here and always room for more!

October 24: CD102.5 Presents Morrissey @ LC Pavilion November 6: CD102.5 Presents GROUPLOVE @ The Newport Music Hall

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The 2012 Fashion Week runs October 14-20, and will open with The Mayor’s High Fashion High Tea, a concept I brought from The Berkeley in London.

This is a very exclusive event reserved for about 100 attendees including Mayor Coleman, our sponsors and board members and other notable public figures.

The Mayor’s High Fashion High Tea is one of my favorite events of the year!

During the week, our sponsors, boutiques and retailers are encouraged to put on their own fashion events while CMH Fashion Week helps coordinate, conceptualize and promote those events.

Last year, Wine on High held an amazing hat fashion show, Charles Penzone Salons had a grand reopening of one of their larger salon and spas, Timeless Skin Solutions had a skin care event and Muse Gallery had a diamonds-models-art event.

The week culminates in the Grand Finale Runway Show on Friday, October 19th. This is truly the fashion event of the year for Columbus. Ten to 13 selected designers showcase their new lines back to back on the runway, which are worn by tall, beautiful male and female models that you would have thought we shipped in from New York. CMH Fashion Week takes Fashion Week very seriously, and we have strict standards that we follow when selecting the designers and models. A few designers that are in our 2012 line up are Josie Wills Fashion Week… in Columbus? (her design studio and showby Tom Yes, it’s true! It’s the third annual Fash- idences, room are on the second level of my M cClu ion Week in Columbus. CMH Fashion friends and family.

Substance in the Short North), re Week (a non-profit organization) has My reply was, “Why not ColumGary Jones (custom suit designer taken over the reigns of putting on bus?” We have some of the most well with a studio and showroom in Fashion Week in Columbus, and the known fashion retail hubs right here in downtown Columbus), Genoveva 2012 season is one that you do not want our capital city: Limited Brands, A&F, Christoff (2011 designer, and NYC Fashto miss!

Victoria’s Secret, Express, Lane Bryant, ion Week designer) and Olivia & DSW, along with some of the best bouMakayla (2011 designer team whose In 2010, when putting on the first full tiques in the nation. We have a lot of tal- Dirty Laser line is being carried at Milk week of fashion events, I was often ented fashion designers making their Bar). We’re truly amazed at the level of asked, “Why a Fashion Week in Columstart, and some even make a living here designers we keep discovering in Columbus?” This question wasn’t just limited with their talent. Columbus deserves a bus. If you can only attend one Fashion to interviews with news stations and Fashion Week!

Week event, make it this one! publications, but asked by Columbus resThis year CMH Fashion Week has part-

nered with SWAGG Revolution (Branden Givand) to incorporate an amazing fashion marketplace, called “Swaggertown,” which will take place on Saturday, October 20th. Branden’s vision is to utilize some empty downtown space to allow designers, boutiques and retailers to have a pop-up shop for the day. I’ve always felt like this was a missing component to Columbus’ Fashion Week, but now we’ll have this event to complete the week and to further showcase our designers.

So now that you have the details, mark your calendars for a fun week of fashion in Columbus! The third week in October will give you a great excuse to show off your best looks, although, one of CMH Fashion Week’s goals is to encourage Columbus to be fashionable all year long.

To learn more about CMH Fashion Week, visit www.CMHFashionWeek.com and follow us on our Facebook and Twitter.

CMH Fashion Week’s mission is to showcase local talent and businesses while providing scholarship and programming to benefit the community. Our sponsors for 2012 include: Timeless Skin Solutions, The Charles Penzone Salons, and Dr. Kvitko, Metnes, and Associates.

Sept 1 - Third Annual Peep Show by CMH Fashion Week - models become mannequins through out the Short North boutique windows Sept 6 - SAKS at Polaris Fashion Place and Easton Town Center celebrate Fashion's Night Out! Oct 13 - Pre CMH Fashion Week Style Your Smile Event by Dr. Kvitko and hosted by Top Model Dominique Reighard Oct 14 through 20th - Fashion Week in Columbus. visit www.CMHFashionWeek.com for schedule of events Oct 27 - Highball Halloween in the Short North

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Local Adventures There have been countless films and books dedicated to packing up the car, and hitting the road. In the end, most of the characters find out that it was more about journey than the destination.

I have made many drives to and from Columbus to various cities and states, and once I even traveled across the country to San Diego with Elena, my best friend from college. We packed her entire life into a four-door Honda Civic, burned a few CDs and made our way west via Route 66. Not surprisingly, there is a lot to see in this great country of ours, and guess what? There is a lot to see in Central Ohio too, and Robert Denhard wants to be your tour guide.

Miada, and immediately caught the travel bug.

On July 9, Denhard a He hopped in l l a launched his site: Loopn McC i r E his red cony b Backroads, where you can vertible and hit the download different routes, bricks. “It was an opportunity to get out called Loops, each one takand get away, to decompress,” explains ing you on the scenic route for a day-trip Denhard. “There is so much to explore in adventure. The Loops range from five to smaller towns and we don’t even realize nine pages and give you turn-by-turn diit.” rections to ensure that you can enjoy the drive, and most importantly, ensure that After enjoying himself on the beautiful you don’t get lost. For those who travel by back roads, he decided to share his expetime, rather than mile count, the Loops rience with others. Inspired by AAA’s features a route listing the towns and the ap- “triptik” he set out to coordinate a relaxproximate minutes between them and for the ing, enjoyable and easy road trip for those overall loop. The first number is the approxithat need to get away, but don’t need or mate time distance to that town from the pre- want to travel too far. And like all those vious one, and the second number is the total films and books mentioned before, Denapproximate minutes at that point in the loop. hard wants your adventure to be about There is also a general map with town names the journey. and the time distance summaries on each page to assist only as a simple visual referUnlike the no-nonsense triptik, the aesence. thetically pleasing pages are designed by Each Loop is unique in their own right, therefore Denhard can’t pick a favorite much like a father can’t pick a favorite among his children.

The idea for LoopBackRoads came when Denhard purchased a friend’s old Mazda

artist Drew Miller, who includes graphics and photos to give it a rustic, vintage feel.

Together, they map out various points of interest that can include nature preserves, town squares and war monuments. The Loops generally take between three to five hours to complete, without stopping, but what would be the point in that?

Make a day of it!

It also gives you “Top Picks” in every town along the Loop, which are usually comprised of “mom and pop” eateries, taverns and farmers markets. “You can find pizza and ice cream pretty much wherever you go,” says Denhard.

And it’s his “buy independent” spirit that makes LoopBackroads a perfect fit to feature in Live Local! Columbus. No matter where you travel, we encourage you to forgo the national chains and to purchase goods from local retailers and restaurants - especially when exploring Buckeye Country.

Currently, the 10 different Loops encompass only the Central Ohio region, but Denhard hopes that he will expand across the state, maybe starting first with the breathtaking Hocking Hills area. He is open to suggestions and feedback, because he believes in his product. “I’m coming from a position of passion and hope. I have my work cut out for me, and that’s okay.”

The incredibly affordably cost to download a Loop is $2.99, and you can download the PDF onto your computer, tablet or smart phone, and then print it out.

Denhard hopes to have an iPhone app up and running in the near future that would incorporate coupons for establishments he recommends.

I already downloaded Loop #1 which starts out in Westerville, my hometown. I think I might hire a Designated Driver and patron all the different dive bars along my Loop. I bet all those hole-in-thewalls and taverns have pretty good jukeboxes too.

Anyone up for a road trip?

For more information, to read their blog or to purchase your back roads adventure, visit loopbackroads.com

Top 5 Things Needed for a proper road trip: 5. Paper towels, wet wipes 4. Full tank of gas 3. Mad Libs & Pirate Hats 2. Snacks (jolly ranchers, cheese nips, Diet Coke) 1. Solid mix of driving tunes

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Local Fall Sports Having lived in two of the more extreme weather climates in the United States winters in Fairbanks, Alaska, where you regularly see -50 degrees and summers in Texas where it’s 100+ degrees for weeks I have a special appreciation for the changing seasons in Columbus. You may have never thought of it or even cared to consider it, particularly if you have lived in this region your whole life, but Columbus has the perfect balance of the seasons. We get to experience the distinct offerings of each, and they all last long enough to appreciate the next. After bundling up for what seems like too many days of winter (but really, come on, Columbus has it easy), spring is invigorating.

And after the hottest days of summer, the city welcomes the cooler days of fall.

ton of running plays. (These teams don’t throw the ball n e ete Ols P y much.) If you b For sports fans, fall has a have no interest in the very unique scent. Leaves high school nearest you, check out two of start to change color, the the top-notch programs in the city: Dublin air gets crisp and you can just smell it: Coffman and Pickerington North. football season. Since you live in Columbus, you already have an opinion about the Buckeyes, so, in the interest of sparing those that hate all things scarlet and gray, High Street traffic, bros and the like, I’ll quickly dispense of the matter. The home opener is September 1 against the Miami Redhawks of Oxford, Ohio. Certainly not a tremendous rivalry, but games against in-state teams are always fun. The first real test for the Buckeyes will be a home game on September 15 against the California Bears. While there will be no bowl game at the end of this season, all of Buckeye Nation is ready to find out what the team will be like under Urban Meyer.

Beyond Buckeye football on Saturdays, Columbus also is home to some great Friday night high school football. Some of my friends have a blast going to Grandview Heights games. The tickets are cheap and you get to experience a unique form of passion and tradition. Just be ready for a

If football is not your sport of choice, then I don’t think we can be friends. But I do have some more ideas for other sport-loving spectators. The Crew concludes its regular season on October 28 versus Toronto FC. The Crew recently signed forward Federico Higuain from Argentina, an addition that should spark the Crew offense that has been somewhat lacking this season. (The team defense and goaltending has been phenomenal.)

Then there are the Blue Jackets. After a disappointing season, nothing is better for a franchise than the start of the next. The Jackets certainly were a letdown last year, and so made major changes in the offseason to shake things up. The big move was the trade of face-of-the-franchise Rick Nash to the New York Rangers for Brandon Dubinsky, Artem Anisimov, Tim Erixon and a future draft pick. The Jackets also added veteran defenseman

Adrian Aucion, promising winger Nick Foligno and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky.

What does all this mean? The defense will continue to be the strongest link of the team while goaltending and scoring will depend on how well these pieces fit together. Key dates: preseason home opener on September 24 versus the Pittsburgh Penguins, regular season home opener on October 19 versus the Vancouver Canucks, and a home game against the Detroit Red Wings on October 23.

The last big spectator sport activity I’d recommend is checking out our Triple-A Columbus Clippers. The Clippers home finale is September 1, and then the team will head to the International League playoffs from September 7-17 to defend its back-to-back Triple-A league championship. (The winner of the International League plays the winner of the Pacific Coast league for the title.)

Another phenomenal Capital City event is the Columbus Marathon on October 21. If you’re running the race, you should already be in serious training mode. The event is also great for non-runners. Set up a chair with your friends along the course and cheer on the runners. Or, if you really want to help the event be a success and have Columbus represent itself well to

many out-of-state runners, lend your hand as a volunteer. Find out how at you can help at columbusmarathon.com/volunteer.

One last recommendation for you: sand volleyball. Go play it! Two great places to do so are Flannagans in Dublin and the Loose Goose Tavern & Grill in Grandview.

Each has organized leagues, or you can go during non-league times to play with friends. There you go, Columbus. Enjoy the cooler weather of fall and all it has to offer.

Pete Olsen is a recent graduate of the Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. Olsen created the blog, “Wide Rights,” providing information and commentary on gay rights and the sports industry. Read more at www.WideRights.com.

Key dates: • Clippers home finale: Sept 1 • OSU football home opener: Sept 1 • Blue Jackets regular season home opener: Oct 19 • Columbus Marathon: Oct 21 • Crew home finale: Oct 28

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Be a Tourist in Your Own Town “You’ll find your happiness lies, right under your eyes, back in your own backyard.”

That’s from a tune sung by the late, great Billie Holiday who, admittedly, didn’t have a reputation as a particularly happy person. Nevertheless, that sentiment rings true during Experience Columbus Days, October 5th-8th.

This annual promotion is geared toward making Columbus THE place to be over Columbus Day weekend, when attractions offer discounts of 50 percent or more off admission and Dine Originals Columbus restaurants take 25 percent off the check.

Why? Because there are too many people who mostly stay in their “bubble,” and they tend to hang out in the area where they live. Experience Columbus Days was created to encourage those people to venture out and try more of the great places we have in our city to shop, dine and play.

Here are a few places where you probably won’t find me during Experience Columbus Days, because they are among my favorites. I plan to use these discounted days to explore outside my own “bubble.” Check them out if they’re currently not in your orbit.

Begin your EC days at Mozart’s, and find out why this restaurant has been a neighborhood favorite for more than 17 years. I highly recommend the Spring Allegro omelet with fresh baby spinach, tomato,

sautéed portabella and feta. Or go the pastry route with a raspberry croissant or mini key lime pie. The possibilities for deliciousness are endless.

And now for something completely different – how about a safari? Leave urban life behind and visit the Wilds. It’s amazing that this sprawling 10,000 acres located just an hour and a half to the southeast is still one of Ohio’s best kept secrets. Enjoy a Safari tour while learning about the Wilds’ incredik ble conservation efforts e Che n a i r - or zip line across trees

by B and observe wildlife from the observation platforms.

I often take tour group leaders through Franklin Park Conservatory, and I am amazed over and over by all that it offers - exotic plants displayed in different global climate zones, the beautiful 1895 Victorian Palm House, special exhibits, a signature collection of works by renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly and tons more.

Schedule your visit to watch one of the daily live glassblowing demonstrations at the Hot Shop.

If you haven’t tried the mead at Brothers Drake or the wines at the stunningly remodeled Camelot Cellars, take a mid-day break in the Short North and do it. In case you’re wondering, mead is an ancient fermented beverage that is made with honey.

And Brothers Drake uses only the most pure, local, organic and fresh ingredients.

At Camelot, you have options that include a wine bar, wine tastings and flights and even handcrafting your own wine. Experience Columbus Days is your opportunity to sail some uncharted adult beverage waters, at a discount.

You have probably seen them around Columbus by now. Maybe you’ve even made fun of people as they glide by on two wheels. But for an ultimate “tourist” experience, participate in a SegAway tour. I’ve lived in Columbus 17 years and on my first tour I still learned some things I didn’t know. For instance, did you know that one company in Columbus played a part in Marilyn Monroe’s funeral? Put on your helmet and headphones to learn more.

End your evening at Alana’s, one of my favorite restaurants (and patios) in Columbus. See what the season’s local produce has inspired her to create, and understand why it is consistently recognized as one of Columbus’ best restaurants. If you’ve already tried Alana’s, you can choose from more than 50 other fine Columbus Dine Originals restaurants.

For more information and to get your discount flyer, go to experiencecolumbusdays.com.

“The bird with feathers of blue, is waiting for you, back in your own backyard. You’ll see your castles in Spain, through your window pane, back in your own backyard.”

Ah, sing it, Billie.

For more information on participating events, restaurants and attractions, www.experiencecolumbusdays.com. For general events information, www.experiencecolumbus.com

Experience Columbus Days Events: Annie Leibovitz Wexner Center for the Arts Beginners Glass Making Classes Glass Axis Chicago Shadowbox Live Columbus Italian Festival Italian Village LEGO Castle Adventure COSI Sacrifice + Bliss: Aurora Robson Franklin Park Conservatory Songs for the New Millenium, 1812-2012: Works by Aminah Robinson Celebrating 200Columbus Columbus Museum of Art New! Stingray Bay Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

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Micha Develop Local Heat waves and windstorms couldn’t slow the eclectic development during the city’s 200th summer. From a new vision for a funky, artistic East Franklinton to new apartments with a salt-water pool, it’s a good time to push ideas for urban living.

As Jim Sweeney of the Franklinton Development Association says, “The ‘Bottoms’ is on its way up.” Franklinton’s reality is now tracking quickly past what many said was a dream. Advocacy from neighborhood leaders across several generations, artists and Mayor Mike Coleman are leveraging the finished floodwall and two new bridges, significant improvements to Dodge Park, including a new pool and demolition of the public housing at Riverside Bradley, to pave the way for major redevelopment.

The newly released East Franklinton Creative Community District Plan calls for dense districts throughout the area between COSI and State Route 315, including hundreds of artist live-work units, the expansion of existing arts centers and a performance space in a vacant church. They also envision new restaurants, bars and commercial space along Broad Street. According to market studies, the area can support thousands of new apartments, along with new and rehabbed houses, commercial space and arts facilities. More info at http://development.columbus.gov/ef_final-

draft.aspx Heading to the north, there’s an interesting apartment building under construction inspired by boutique hotels across the country. “The Benchmark” on Henderson Road will be eco-friendly and include 108 newly constructed units designed with young professionals in mind. Opening in the fall of 2012, units will start in the $800 range for one bedroom. In addition to basics like a wifi lounge, bike racks, fitness studio, grilling patio and green space, the complex will also offer a saltwater pool(!) and a dog park.

The Benchmark is at the Northeast corner of Henderson & Kenny with access to 315 and the commercial corridor between Upper Arlington and Clintonville. The team behind the project includes: Zettler Properties, Ruscilli Construction, Jonathan Barnes Architecture & Design, and EMH&T. More info at www.thebenchmark.com One of the most important projects of the coming decade is about to get underway between OSU and the downtown riverfront.

On July 23, City Council approved the Scioto Greenways Project and hired the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation to lead the removal of the Main Street Dam and begin rebuilding the river into a swath of new parks. Officially the project extends north to the confluence of the Olentangy and Scioto Rivers, but it will reach

far north to Fifth Avenue where the Ohio State University is working to remove the dam near campus. Many urban development watchers may remember this as one of the biggest new ideas of the Downtown Plan put together a few years ago by the City, CDDC, MSI and others.

The effect of removing these two “low-head” dams will be significant, allowing the river to return to a natural course with narrow, faster channels, exposing acres of new parkland that currently exists as shallow muck and silt ponds. This narrowing will also mean cleaner water for recreational use.

The City is investing $18 million from its capital and utilities budgets as part of the estimated $35 million project. The goal is to have the dam removal finished, fix various elements along the river and have the new green space developed in 2015.

For those of you who get out and about a lot, here’s an update on Columbus’ cab culture. The Columbus Vehicle for Hire Board oversees a fleet of 500+ cabs and a diverse universe of drivers. They are working to address the gap in the quality of cabs and service. To help make sure customers get a better ride and a safer trip, there are a lot of policy issues being considered.

One way to clean up the fleet will go into ef-

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fect in 2013 under a new rule that takes the oldest cabs off the road. Some cabs in the fleet today have rolled hundreds of thousands of miles and survived too many party runs.

Under the new rule, drivers renewing their license must register a cab newer than 11years-old in 2013 and phases in one additional model year over each of the next three years. By 2016 there should be no cabs left on the street older than eight.

If you have neighborhood developments you want to learn more about, great ideas or comments, please contact me at mbrown@experiencecolumbus.com.

Michael S. Brown is the Director of Development and Public Affairs at Experience Columbus.

Development Highlights: • Columbus Commons Apartments • Public Parking Garage, office building, boutique hotel that will also house art gallery by Pizzuti Companies at 632 N Park St. • The Benchmark, a boutique hotel, on Henderson Road • Scioto Greenways Project • Convention Center Sky Bridge

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The New Trend in Banking: Credit Unions

In talking to people about credit unions for over 10 years, I’ve heard many incorrect stereotypes: that credit unions don’t offer the same services as banks, that they aren’t sophisticated, or only serve old people (yes, someone said that), and that they aren’t federally insured. All of these statements are false!

Grassroots, locally-owned, financial cooperatives, Credit unions have many definitions, yet a majority of the population (like 70%!) doesn’t really know about credit unions or that they can join (bank with) a credit union.

Many people who have heard about credit unions believe that they still only serve employees of certain companies, certain age groups of people or people who live in certain area. This is not true anymore.

Credit unions were founded in the United States in 1909. As consumers’ financial needs grew through the decades, credit unions began offering checking accounts, credit cards, home mortgages and even investment products to continue to be competitive and relevant to their members. Along with these service expansions, their membership qualifications also began expanding.

With as many credit unions there are in our area, everyone can bank with a credit union.

Most credit unions in Central Ohio, including

mine – Pathways Financial Credit Union (www.pathwayscu.com) – are open to anyone who lives, works, worships, or attends school in Franklin County. Pathways FCU is open to anyone who lives or works in surrounding counties as well – Delaware, Madison and Union counties. In addition, I can access my credit union accounts at over 4,000 branches nationwide through the credit union cooperative Shared Branching network. That’s right – credit unions are bigger than Wachovia! Check out www.sharedbranching.com to learn more.

By the way, did you know credit unions consistently offer the best rates on auto loans?

New and used auto loans are one of the things credit unions do best. They are able to offer the most competitive rates on savings and loans because credit unions are not-forprofit. So, instead of paying stockholders on their investment in the bank, credit unions cut their margins razor thin in order to offer you the best rates available on the market for your new or used vehicle loans, home mortgage loans, credit cards and more.

Auto buying continues to be one of the biggest hassles people have to go through.

Credit unions strive to make this process as easy as they can for their members by offering them the best rate up front every time. If you have a car purchase coming up, contact your local credit union first before going to the dealer.

Ready to switch your money to a government-insured, sophisticated, full-service, local institution that knows your name, supports your local community, and strives to save you money on all of your banking needs? Visit www.asmarterchoice.org to find a credit union and learn more.

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Tips for an easy car-buying process: Determine your budget! Knowing how much car you can afford before you go to the dealership will keep you from making impulsive choices.

Narrow your search. For what purpose will you be using your vehicle? Do you want new or used? Even narrowing down color choices and features will save you time at the dealer.

Once you have chosen a vehicle, shop around to see what deals are available right now. Some good resources: www.edmunds.com, www.consumerreports.com, www.kbb.com, and www.jdpower.com.

Know the local market value for your car of choice. One source for this information is Edmund’s True Market Value pricing page at www.edmunds.com/products.tmv.

Trading up? If you are planning to trade in another vehicle, find out from a knowledgeable professional what your car is worth so you don’t accept an excessively low offer.

If you aren’t a member of a credit union, visit www.asmarterchoice.org to find one near you.

Call or visit the credit union and tell them you want to get a pre-approval for your upcoming car purchase. This will be a big bargaining chip for you at the dealership. You’ll need to provide your personal identifying information, job time, employer information, income and price range of your desired vehicle.

Once approved, take your preapproval letter to the car dealer with you when you go to shop for your new wheels.

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Fall is here which means a few things for us all: traffic lanes filled with yellow buses and the ringing of bells as students heading back to school. Cascades of reds, oranges and yellows as leaves descend from trees to announce the arrival of cooler temperatures.

For charities ranging from food pantries to animal shelters to children services, it means gearing up for fundraising season.

Autumn, until the end of the year, is when many charities are fundraising as people look to donate money before the tax year closes. One popular type of fundraising happening every fall is workplace-giving campaigns. Employers across Columbus and central Ohio give employees the opportunity to contribute via their paychecks to nonprofits doing vital work in the community.

What’s in it for me?

You already give to charities directly so why should you bother with workplace giving campaigns? Great question. First, to thank you for your support and the work of the charities you support and being involved in your community. Your donations workplace-giving and direct donations - do not have to be an either or option. You can do one, the other or both.

There are some advantages to making paycheck contributions through your workplace giving campaign: First, you can make a larger contribution because it is spread out over the course of a year. Instead of making just a $20 or $50 donation to your favorite charity, you could donate $100 or more. Because it is con-

tributed automatically from each paycheck over an entire year you’re looking at $2 per paycheck. The system is that easy.

Plus filling out the form makes it easy to keep track of all of your donations in one place, which is perfect for tax season. And the form makes it easy to budget your donations for an entire year so you don’t have to remember to send separate checks to each charity throughout the year.

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Reach Out and Touch There are plenty of perks for employees wanting to donate, but what’s in it for the charities you ask? We’ll start with the obvious which are the donations. Since the money is collected over the course of a year from the employees, the charities receive the money over the course of a year as well.

This process creates a steady stream of income for the charities to rely on.

Another great element for charities is reaching out to a new audience. Workplacegiving campaigns are opportunities for charities to get their names in front of people who may be unfamiliar with their work and cause. It also benefits employees because they can learn of additional resources available in the community to help them, family and friends.

Umbrella (Ella ella) Organizations In an effort to make workplace-giving campaigns easier to manage, companies work with umbrella organizations who represent several charities on their behalf. Each umbrella organization represents different types of causes and charities. Community Shares of Mid Ohio represents social change charities.

EarthShare represents environmental charities. Community Health Charities represents local, state and national health charities.

United Way represents health and human services charities. Companies will send the donations on to the umbrella organizations that handle distributing the money to their member charities instead of

the company having to cut individual checks throughout the year to each charity.

Another great advantage of umbrella organizations is an additional level of oversight and vetting they do of their member charities. They confirm that all their members are fulfilling the regulations set forth by the IRS, federal, state and local government.

This oversight ensures your donations are going to charities recognized by government entities and in good standing.

Strike a Pose So it sounds all well and good right? But why would a business want to pursue workplace-giving campaigns for their employees?

One word: image. Businesses want to show they are contributing back to the community in a positive manner. This is why they encourage employees to volunteer, contribute to food drives and more.

Due to the recession though, corporate giving to charities hasn’t recovered yet. A recent study from the Chronicle of Philanthropy is projecting corporate giving to be flat this year. Workplace-giving campaigns are an easy way for corporations to increase the support to charities in their surrounding community.

People All Over Central Ohio, Join Hands If you have an opportunity to participate in a workplace-giving campaign this fall, I encourage you to give it a thought. And even if you choose not to contribute, you should at least promote to your co-workers the charities you support who are participating. A

positive word-of-mouth recommendation can go a long way and I’m sure your favorite charity will support it too.

If your company doesn’t currently offer a workplace giving campaign and you’d be interested in participating, I encourage you to express your interest to your company.

Charities around Columbus and central Ohio are still facing elevated demand due to the recession and would appreciate the support you could provide them.

Do you have a workplace giving campaign at your company? If so, which charities are your favorites to support? Let me know on Twitter: @rkovo715

Charity 5k Walks/Runs: • September 21 - March of Dimes Night Moves @ The Brewery District • September 29 - American Lung Association’s Fight for Air Walk/Run @ Bicentennial Park •October 6 - Dr Robert J. Fass Memorial AIDS Walk Central Ohio @ Bicentennial Park •October 7 - Out of the Darkness Community walk for Suicide Prevention and Awareness, @ Fred Beekman Park •October 28 - Step Up for Stefanie for Breast Cancer Research, Ohio Stadium

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I am also involved with a lot of groups with aligned missions like Independents’ Day, the Food Truck and Carts Festivals, ECDI, CloudHaus, the Create Columbus Commission and many more.

If you drink beer, go to festivals, enjoy food or have any contact with small businesses, there’s just no way you don’t know this guy. He’s Wolf Starr, and he’s been

by Ch ris H blazing a trail ayes through Columbus, the likes of which we’ve never seen. His involvement CH: How many memin his community is broad, but if you know bers are currently signed about Independents’ Day, the Food Truck on. Anything new coming up? and Carts Festivals, ECDI, CloudHaus, or the WS: We have just over 500 members and Create Columbus Commission, you’ve been soon we will be able to sell gift cards to many touched by the efforts of this local walking of them at a reduced rate so that you can idea factory. Then, of course, there’s his help them grow and support our organizacrowning achievement, The Small Business tional projects. We also have the second anBeanstalk. The SBB is a local-first company nual SBB awards gala on October 17th at the that leverages connections of all types to Bluestone, which will be a most excellent support business and community growth. party.

The SBB also connects local retail businesses to our neighbors, and makes this easier with the free SBB card, which provides CH: Why is shopping local important? discounts at independent retailers, restauWS: Because when we shop local, it supports rants and bars in central Ohio. Whew. Yea, our neighbors and helps our friends reach this guy is busy. their dreams. It also keeps our money, talent Chris Hayes: What is the SBB? What services do you offer? What other projects are you involved with?

Wolf Starr: The SBB is a local-first company that leverages connections of all types to support business and community growth.

The SBB also connects local retail businesses to our neighbors, and makes this easier with the free SBB card, which provides discounts at independent retailers, restaurants and bars in central Ohio.

and energy here.

CH: You’re pretty involved with Independents’ day. What’s the deal with that?

WS: Almost five years ago today, Adam Brouilette and “Downtown” Mike Brown decided to create a small festival to showcase what Adam called the “Indie Capital of the world” to our own neighbors. Since that point, it has become a vibrant display of what this city has to offer from Independent groups like artist, crafters, restaurants,

bands and merchants. Two years ago, I was the captain in charge of the whole ship.

Every year the leader changes. This year, the captain is Erin Corrigan and she is making this event better than ever.

CH: What’s your sign?

WS: Are you hitting on me? Virgo CH: If I were hitting on you, would you take me to your favorite restaurant? And if so, where would that be and what would you order me?

WS: My favorite restaurant changes weekly, but right now, I would take you to the Burrito Bus. The Burrito Bus is one of the amazing food trucks that calls Columbus, and the Food Fort, home. I would order you tofu tacos, because they are the gateway drug to tofu. Previous to my vegetarian friends telling me that it is the best taco they ever had, I never considered choosing it as my protein option, but now I make a point of testing it at restaurants around town a couple times a week.

CH: If you were Ken, would you rather take out Barbie or Skipper? Where would you take her in Cbus?

WS: Skipper. Barbie would be too busy with her pink things, and I think skipper would be more adventurous. I would take her all over central Ohio; I would start downtown in the heart of it all, but make sure to make time to show her cool small areas like Olde Gahanna and Historic Dublin. (Ed. note: Wolf had to ask Chris who they both were and he feels confident in his decision.)

CH: Your name is Wolf, but what is your favorite animal? And are you a carnivore?

WS: My favorite animals are turtles and not just the teenage mutant ninja kinds. I like

them because they keep home close but can still move on with their lives. I am an omnivore; I now eat tofu.

CH: Most embarrassing “drunk whoops” while drinking local?

WS: I do not remember.

CH: Montey Python or Bennie Hill?

WS: I am the knight who says ni CH: Which other local celeb would you like to challenge to a Celebrity Death Match?

WS: I do not believe in the concept of local celebrities, but I would love to out flip cup Jack Hannah CH: As the man with a finger on the pulse of the city, give us your current favorites to the following, rapid fire style: Watering Hole: House Beer Eats: Whatever Freshsteet is doing Arts: Bustown Music Music: Forest and the Evergreens Brew: Spruce Campbells Brewery Grapefruit Beer Bazaar: Craftin’ Outlaws Fashion Choice: Whatever Nate from PurSuit dresses me in Outside Activity: Music in the park Sport: Bad Mitten New Development: Olentangy river reconstruction Charity: Project Zero Ohio Banking option: Credit Unions Festival: Of the ones I am not directly involved with Hot Times! and Urban Scrawl What’s the most awesomest thing about Columbus? The People

Chris Hayes is Publisher of Live Local!

Columbus and wants to be a dentist.

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Bexley • Children’s Art Studio (Buy 5 sessions get 1 FREE!) • Costume Specialties (20% off all costume purchases or rentals) • Cup O’ Joe (free size upgrade when you show your SBB card!)

• Massagology (15% off any treatment)

team website w/ list of partic- any entree for $9.00+ and get Clintonville / Beechwold / (Jeni’s will donate 50 cents a free 16oz. fountain drink) toward the new Local Matters ipating members’ online Old North Columbus • Aspire Women’s Weight Loss & Fitness (33% off for the first 6 months of membership) • Baer Wheels (free tube or tire lever & patch kit set [$5.99 value] w/ any $20+ service purchase) • The Boomerang Room (10% off) • Capital City Scooters (5% off all scooters; 10% off all apparel & gear) • Clintonville Outfitters (5% off everything - excluding kayaks) • Clintonville Community Market (free coffee or tea, when you spend $20 or more) • Colonial Candy Shoppe (spend $25 and get a free featured item!)

• Columbus Handyman ($50 off any product or service of $250 or more) • Columbus Sports Connection (1-year membership: $35/per month w/ no initiation fee) • Crimson Cup (10% off a purchase of $5 or more menu items only) • Crosby’s Drugs (free pill case or hand sanitizer) • Cup O’ Joe (free size upgrade when you show your SBB card!)

• EcoFlora (Get a $50 gift card for $25) • Elizabeth’s Records (10% off all new & used vinyl) • Embassy Boardshop (10% off any apparel purchase of $50 or more) • Eurowerks Garage (Free diagnostics test and $70 shop rate) • Firefly Play Cafe (free juice box or snack with any $5 admission; 5% off party rentals) • Global Gallery (10% off all clothing and apparel) • HO-I Kung Fu & Tai-Chi ($25 off uniforms and gear when you join) • Hot Head Salon ($2 off any haircut) • Hounddogs Pizza (20% off all food before 4:00 p.m., dine-in only M-F) • Imperial Cleaning ($10 off coupon to The Shop by Traxler Tees w/ purchase of $50+) • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams

shops & deals) • K & L Design (10% off online orders - use coupon code: SBB) • Little Critters (15% off entire purchase and free local shipping use coupon code SBBCRITTERS) • Print Julep (10% off Wedding and Stationery print orders) • Red Giraffe Designs (10% off online purchases - use coupon code: SBB) • Stinky Bomb Soap (15% off online purchases - use coupon code: SBB) • That Guy’s Art (10% off all ties, photographs & paintings - both at events & online orders)

• J. Gumbo’s (buy any entrée and get a free drink) • The Jury Room (“All Hours Happy Hour”-$4 Truffle Fries, Fried Zucchini, or Fried Gnocchi) • Knead Urban Diner (10% off all food - excluding alcohol & other offers) • Market 65 (bring in two friends & get 50% off your salad or wrap 5:00-7:00 PM) • OSU Urban Arts Space (15% off t-shirts & one free “design-your-own” button) • Park Street Cantina ($1 margaritas and $10 Steak, beans and rice special - Tuesdays only) • Park Street Complex (25% off all food and free admission before midnight on Fri Downtown / Franklinton and Sat) • Phillip’s Original Coney Is• B1 Bicycles (15% off of Knog, Bern, Seagull & Chrome land (10% off all food & drink) items) • Barrio Tapas (10% off any • ProMusica Chamber Orpurchase - excluding alcohol) chestra (buy one, get one • Beyond Limits Training Gym ticket free for any season performance) - 24 Hour Fitness (1st month • Seagull Bags (10% off cusfree and no maintenance tom order bags) fees, 25% off first training • SegAway Tours Of Columbus package) • Café Brioso (buy a pound of ($10 off M-Th, $5 off F-Su) beans or more and get a free • Telhio Credit Union (Free box of checks when a check12 oz drip coffee) • Columbus Museum Of Art (2 ing account is opened) for 1 admission with your SBB • The Social Room (one FREE month of membership - must Community Card) email to activate) • Columbus Museum Of Art • Sugardaddy’s Sumptuous Museum Store (10% off Sweeties (10% off any everything - excludes all Brownie Gift) other offers) • Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails • Cup O’ Joe (free size up(10% off all food after 8 pm) grade when you show your • Wall St. Night Club (no SBB card!)

• Custom Chef (buy one cus- cover charge Thursday or Friday nights) tom salad or sandwich get • Yun Fitness Bootcamps one 1/2 off) • DeepWood (buy any dinner ($20 for first month & 10% off entrée & get a gift certificate all services) • Zettler Hardware (10% off for a free lunch sandwich any purchase) dine-in only) • Dirty Frank’s Hotdog Palace Dublin ($1 off any CFL Namesake • Audacious Boutique (Free Dogs) pair of sunglasses with pur• Due Amici (10% off any Columbus Crafters purchase - excluding alcohol) chase) • Amy D (10% off online pur- • Graham Office Supply ($10 • Bella Moda (15% off all chases - use coupon code: haircare products) off online orders over $75 SBB) • Biddies Coach House ($1 use coupon code: SBB10) • Beaniestalk (20% off upcy- • The Florentine (spend $50 off lunch menu) cled accessories) • Blankets and Booties (10% and get a $10 gift card) • Etsy Team Columbus (see off) • El Arepazo Latin Grill (buy

community garden every time you show your SBB card) • KEMBA Financial CU (Move your money local!)

• Lávash Café (10% off) • Lost Weekend Records (10% off all used LP’s & CD’s) • Lottie Da ($5 off any purchase of $25 or more) • mix:HOME ($10 gift card with every $100 purchase) • Moxie’s (10% off any purchase of $25 or more - excluding sales tax) • Mozart’s Bakery (10% of any purchase) • Pattycake Bakery (bring in a mug.....get a free coffee!)

• Pennington Custom Art Service (10% off) • Pita Hut -N- Grille ($1 off any combo; buy 2 sandwiches get 1 free) • Professional Hearing Care Services (10% off all products) • Ravari Room (12” one-topping pizza & pitcher of domestic beer for $8.99) • Sprout Soup (5% off – excluding cloth diapers) • Synergy Chiropractic Wellness Clinic (free initial exam, $5 off regular visits) • Clintonville/Beechwold/Old North Columbus (...continued) • Vienna Ice Cafe (get a large scoop of ice cream for the price of a small scoop) • Village Auto Care (10% off all services) • The Village Jewel (get 25% off any gold or silver chains w/ purchase of $100+) • Weiland’s Gourmet Market (10% off w/ purchase of $100+ - excludes alcohol, milk, gift cards) • Whole World Restaurant (buy any 2 sandwiches, get a free cup of legendary & healthy soup!)

• Wholly Craft (10% off any purchase over $50; 10% off any craft class/workshop)

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(free Value Menu item with any purchase of $6 or more) • Hot Pita!

Mediter• Bridge St. Pizza ($8 Lg. ranean Street Food (free bag Pizza) of pita chips w/ any sandwich • Dublin Village Tavern (50% order) off dessert M-W) • Junior’s Tacos (save $1 for • Generation Green (Free gift every $10 spent) with any purchase) • Kolache Republic (buy 3, • Ha’penny Bridge Imports Of get one free) Ireland (17% off) • Leslie’s Creperie ($1 off • Hilyard Photography (50% any crepe) off photo session) • Mojo Tago ($1 off the pur• Java Jan (20% off any size chase of any quesadilla) regular coffee by the cup) • Munch Box (free bottle of • Jax Treehouse (10% off en- water with any purchase of tire footwear purchase - not $10 or more) to be combined with other of- • Pitabilities (free drink or fers) fries with any Pita purchase) • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams • Rad Dog (free gourmet top(Jeni’s will donate 50 cents pings up to a $1.00 value) toward the new Local Matters • Short North Bagel Deli ($1 community garden every time off any sandwich) you show your SBB card) • Tatoheads (free spuds with • Jewelers Of Dublin (25% off purchase of any sandwich) all inventory & repairs - ex• 3 Babes and a Baker (buy 2 cluding watches) cupcakes get 1 free) • Mary Kelley’s Restaurant & • Veggielicious ($1 off a purPub ($5 off $25, $10 off $50 chase of $6 or more) dine-in purchase - excluding • Yankee Cajun (buy 2 Po alcohol) Boys get one free or buy one • Matt the Miller’s Tavern ($5 and get a free side) OFF purchase of $20+, does • Yellow Boy’s Polish Boy’s not include tax or gratuity or (free pastry or $1.00 off of a carryout) sandwich) • MJs Candy Bar (10% off all • Yerba Buena Latin Grill retail) (buy any entree for $9.00+ • Our Cupcakery (10% off a and get a free 16oz. fountain dozen yummy cupcakes) drink) • Premier At Sawmill Athletic Club (no enrollment & 4th Gahanna month membership free • Bicycle One (free flat fix or $200 value) 15% off apparel, parts & ac• Schade Photography (50% cessories) off a sitting fee) • Burn - cycle, yoga, sweat • TehKu Tea Company (Free (Ask for details!) tea of the day with purchase • Casabella Accent & Design of $5+) (15% off accessories 10% off • Trek Bicycle Store (10% off furniture) all parts, garments & acces- • Creekside Conference & sories) Event Center (10% off room • Z Bearla’s (10% off) rental M-Th) • Delicious By Design (10% off all food) • Gahanna Vision Center (20% off eyewear; free ad• The Cheesy Truck (free justments; free LASIK consulbeverage with the purchase tation) of any sandwich) • J. Gumbo’s (buy any entrée • Earth’s Crust Pizza & the Krazy Monkey Juicebar ($1 off and get a free drink) any purchase of $6 or more) • Los Jalapenos Mexican Grill (20% off all food before 4pm, • Families Mobile Kitchen

Food Carts & Trucks / Mobile Vendors

10% off all food after 4pm) • Mezzo Italian Kitchen And Wine (10% off all food - excluding alcohol) • Ohio Krav Maga & Fitness (Half price intros ($10) plus $10 off monthly memberships) • Ohio Herb Education Center (10% off) • Skye Closings ($1.50 notaries - travel costs may apply) • Telhio Credit Union (Free box of checks when a checking account is opned ($25)) • Trek Bicycle Store (10% off all parts, garments & accessories)

group exercise class. Limit to one per month) • Fresco Furnishings ($5 off any purchase of $25 or more) • Gina’s Salon ($5 off haircuts on Wednesdays; 10% off haircuts for new clients anytime) • Goodale Pro Hardware ($2 off a gallon of Majestic paint) • Grandview Chiropractic Center (50% off initial exam & x-rays; 20% off all physical therapy) • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams (Jeni’s will donate 50 cents toward the new Local Matters community garden every time you show your SBB card) • Julia Larson Massage ($10 German Village / Brewery off a 30 min. massage or $15 District / Parsons Avenue off a full hour) • The Laura Gregory Salon • Bakery Gingham (FREE cookie with purchase of $5 or ($5 off any salon or spa service) more) • Luck Bros’ Coffee House • Cup O’ Joe (free size up(bring a friend, buy a round, grade when you show your get 10% off total purchase) SBB card!)

• Matt the Miller’s Tavern ($5 • German Village Veterinary Hospital (free pet treats with OFF purchase of $20+, does not include tax, gratuity or visit) carryout) • The Graphic Touch (10% off any order of $50 or more) • Mazah Mediterranean • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Eatery (10% off) • Members First Credit Union (Jeni’s will donate 50 cents toward the new Local Matters (open a new account & recommunity garden every time ceive a free Grandview gift pack) you show your SBB card) • Jolie Laide Salon ($5 off all • My Own Room (5% off all nursery & children’s furniture full-size Eufora and Kevin items) Murphy hair products) • Open Door Studios ($5 off T• Katzinger’s Delicatessen (10% off deli trays 1-5, up to Shirts) • Open Sky Day Spa (10% off $200 - excludes delivery & all services & products) other discounts) • Rife’s Market (free slice of • Pistacia Vera (10% off a pie when you spend $25 or macaroon gift pack) • Studio Fovero (15% off any more) • Spagio (free dessert with salon or spa service, Monentrée purchase; 5% off 1st Wed 10am-4pm) catering order - $100 max value) Grandview / 5xNW • Spagio Cellars (free • Accent On Nature (20% off dessert with pizza purchase) one item per visit - excluding • Stauf’s (free size upgrade consignment) when you show your SBB • Bello Giardino Landscaping card!)

(10% off construction, plan • Studio Posh (free deep coninstalls, weeding & pruning) ditioning treatment w/ haircut • The Candle Lab (spend $20 - mention SBB card when or more and get a $5 gift booking) card) • Super Game Team (10% off • Clay Café (10% off) everything; $2 off controllers; • The Defining Edge (10% off buy 3 DVDs get 1 FREE M-Th) custom framing & photo • Thread (5% off when you restoration) show your card!!)

• EquiVita (A free pass to any

• Trader Tots ($5 off any purchase of $25 or more) • Trattoria Roma ($5 off lunch & carryout orders) • Watershed Distillery ($5 off a distillery tour & t-shirt package) • WattWorks (10% off all in store merchandise) • Yoga-Well-Being ($5 for first class) • Z Cucina (free dessert with the purchase of any 2 entrees M-Th - limit 2 per table) • Zoot Scoots (free helmet with the purchase of any scooter)

Grove City • KEMBA Financial CU (Move your money local!)

• Los Jalapenos Mexican Grill (20% off all food before 4pm, 10% off all food after 4pm) • Telhio Credit Union (Free box of checks when a checking account is opned ($25))

Hilliard • KEMBA Financial CU (Move your money local!)

• Kitamu Coffee (buy any specialty coffee drink and get a second for 1/2 off) • Ohio Krav Maga & Fitness (Half price intros ($10) plus $10 off monthly memberships) • Powell Prints (10% off any custom embroidery order) • Power Shack Fitness Center (3 month membership for $99 or $29.99 per month, EFT req.)

• Telhio Credit Union (Free box of checks when a checking account is opned ($25)) • Yello Rose Cloggers ($20 off a 7-week beginner clogging session - regularly $85) • Yun Fitness Bootcamps ($20 for first month & 10% off all services)

North Market • A Touch Of Earth (free cup of daily brew w/ purchase of 1 pound of locally roasted coffee beans) • The Barrel And Bottle (10% off growler fills (64oz jug of draft beer)) • Bubbles Tea & Juice Company (10% off on all smoothies!)

• Clever Crow Pizza (10% off

slices or whole pizza orders) • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams (Jeni’s will donate 50 cents toward the new Local Matters community garden every time you show your SBB card) • North Market ($1.50 off reusable yellow collectors bag - purchase at business office) • North Market Spices (10% off T-Th) • Taste Of Belgium (free topping of choice with the purchase of any waffle

Olde Towne East • CORE Fitness Studios (1st month membership & initial 2 training sessions free)

Northland • Telhio Credit Union (free box of checks when a checking account is opned ($25))

OSU Campus • Buckeye Books (free notebook with $50 textbook purchase) • Commonwealth Sandwich Bar (free order of fresh cut fries w/ purchase of any sandwich) • Evolved Body Art (20% off of piercings, jewelry & aftercare; 10% off of tattoos) • Frosh Tees (FREE shipping for Oval Beach tank/shirt at GetFrosh.com/SBB) • Gateway Film Center ($6 admission price - limit 2 tickets per cardholder, $3 upcharge for 3D) • Hangover Easy (10% off after 3:30pm M-F, excluding alcohol) • Kafe Kerouac (all you can drink house coffee for $2) • KOBO (free bar snacks and free admission to special events TBA) • LaundryU ($5 off your first order) • Martini Shot Bistro @ Gateway Film Center (buy 1 small personal pizza, get 1 free) • The Mug & Brush ($10 off a straight razor shave w/ the purchase of a basic haircut) • Nina Baked ($1 off the purchase of a refillable jar of cookies) • Oldfield’s On 4th (half off pizza!)

• Pursuit (Buy a suit and get a free tie) • Rendezvous Hair Salon (20% off any service for new clients; 10% off for repeat clients) • Studio Posh (free deep conditioning treatment w/ haircut - mention SBB card when booking) • UBX Book Exchange (free notebook with $50 textbook purchase) • Used Kids Records (10% off all used CDs, DVDs, tapes & vinyl) • Wexner Center Book Store (5% off everything)

Pickerington / Reynoldsburg • Bicycle One (free flat fix or 15% off apparel, parts & accessories) • Fort Rapids Indoor Water Park (10% off water-park passes, rooms, food, and gift shop) • KEMBA Financial CU (Move your money local!)

• Los Jalapenos Mexican Grill (20% off all food before 4pm, 10% off all food after 4pm) • Neil House Brewery (10% off all home brewing supplies) • Power Shack Fitness Center (3 month membership for $99 or $29.99 per month, EFT req.)

• Telhio Credit Union (Free box of checks when a checking account is opned ($25)) • TJRide (10% off your total purchase)

Polaris • Petit Green (free gift w/ purchase of $50 or more; 10% off a purchase of $100+) • Sugardaddy’s Sumptuous Sweeties (10% off any Brownie Gift)

Powell • B/Rose Beauty Bar (first rehab treatment free & every 6th treatment free thereafter) • The Candle Lab (spend $20 or more and get a $5 gift card) • Cute As A Button (free ribbon key chain with purchase of $15 or more) • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams

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(Jeni’s will donate 50 cents toward the new Local Matters community garden every time you show your SBB card) • Mean Bean (buy 1 coffee, smoothie or specialty non-alcoholic drink & receive 2nd at 50% off) • The Market At Serendip (free gift with the purchase of $25 or more!)

• The Powell Village Winery (buy one “signature” wine flight paddle and get the 2nd for $5.00 off) • Shyne (15% off purchase not valid with any other offer)

items) • Camelot Cellars ($1 glass pour 5pm-9pm, 10% off wine accessories) • The Candle Lab (spend $20 or more and get a $5 gift card) • Clever Crow Pizza (10% off a whole pizza, 5% off a half order) • Columbus Eyeworks (20% off all frames) • Cookie Cravings Bakery (Buy 3 cookies, get a free coffee!)

• Cup O’ Joe (free size upgrade when you show your SBB card!)

• Da Levee (Bring a friend for Short North / Harrison their first visit and get your West entire meal for $4.50) • Babybird Children’s Fash• Elite Celebrations By Davin ions ($10 gift card with pur(discounts offered for SBB chase of $40 or more) • Basi Italia (10% off all food cardholders, inquire for details) items M-Th. Not in combina• Fitness Resources (24/7 fittion with other discounts) ness center access with no • Betty’s Fine Food & Spirits (Spend $25 get a $5 gift card membership fees or long term contract) to Jury Room) • Fringe Outfitters ($3.00 off • Bink Davies (10% off) any t-shirt; 10% off online • Black Olive (15% off any purchase - excluding alcohol) purchases - use coupon code: SBB3) • Bodega (10% off all food M-Th before 4pm - excluding • Global Gallery (10% off all clothing and apparel) alcohol & other discounts) • Haiku Poetic Food & Art • Brigade (10% off clothing (10% off M-Sa before 4pm, & accessories) dine-in only - excluding alco• Brothers Drake (10% off hol) case sales; $8 tasting of 4 • Homage Clothing (15% off meads) • The Chamber / Garden (15% in-store purchases) off - excluding printed materi- • Impero Coffee Roasters als, VCR cleaner & clearance (free drink upsize w/ any food purchase; $1.00 off a pound

of coffee) • Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams (Jeni’s will donate 50 cents toward the new Local Matters community garden every time you show your SBB card) • Katalina’s Café Corner (10% off any purchase of $10 or more, dine-in only - or free delivery) • Ladybird (10% off all women’s clothing and accessories) • Late Night Slice (Free drink with purchase of 2 pizza slices or more) • Lemongrass Fusion (15% off dine-in food M-Th 3pmclose - excluding alcohol) • Magnolia Thunderpussy (10% off all new & used music and apparel - excludes sale items) • {milk bar} (15% off clothing and accessories) • Mukha Custom Cosmetics & Medi-Spa (15% off all services and products) • Old Son Studios (20% off normal rates and free project consultation!)

• Old World New Home (10% off any purchase of $10 or more) • Oxygen Health & Fitness ($10 off monthly membership) • Paradise Garage Bicycles (10% off bike parts, accessories and clothing) • Phia Salon (10% off haircuts M-F before 4:00 p.m) • Piece Of Cake (FREE cookie with any sandwich purchase)

• Posh Pets (10% off - excluding food) • Revolution Cycles (15% off bike parts, accessories and gear) • Rigsby’s Kitchen (50% off bar menu during happy hour and 10pm-1am) • Rivet (free pinback button OR Japanses eraser with $10 purchase or more) • Rose Bredl Flowers (15% off) • Segway Of Ohio (5% off - a discount of $75-$300 from most items) • Sherrie Gallerie (10% off all jewelry) • Short North Fitness (20% off standard rate for initial signup) • Sole Classics (10% off) • Spinelli’s Deli (free coffee with the purchase of any breakfast sandwich or platter) • Substance For Fashion Conscious People (10% off) • Suite Q (Show your SBB card and receive a FREE music CD when you spend $20!)

• Surly Girl Saloon ($2 off pepperoni pizza or tomato & cheese pizza) • Tasi (10% off total bill - excluding alcohol) • Tigertree (Ask for details!)

• Trident Design (10% off all invention services for SBB members) • Waldo’s On High (10% off all services T-F before 5:00 p.m., 20% off all products

matic Card for their wine vending machine) • Igloo Letterpress (10% off purchases; buy 1 class get 2nd 50% off) • lilylimes (10% off purchase of $50 or more) • Little Tree Studios (30% off sitting fee) • Monkworks (free Leanin’ Tree Card with $15+ purchase) • Relaxation Station (50% off first visit) Upper Arlington • Print Julep (10% off Wed• Backroom Coffee Roasters ding and Stationery print or(10% off a bag of beans ders) available at any Trek Bicycle • ProCare Vision Center (20% Store) off frames and sunglasses; • CORE Fitness Studios (1st free LASIK consultaions) month membership & initial 2 • Studio Posh (free deep contraining sessions free) ditioning treatment w/ haircut Worthington • Greentree Dental Group (free whitening for life w/ new • The Candle Lab (spend $20 - mention SBB card when booking) patient appointment - call for or more and get a $5 gift • Sweet Pea’s Pet Boutique card) details) (10% off) • Computer Lab ($5 off any • Nurtur the Salon (compliservice - cannot be combined • Telhio Credit Union (Free mentary deep conditioning box of checks when a checkwith other discounts) treatment w/ any haircut • Cut Color Style ($10 off first ing account is opned ($25)) service) • Trek Bicycle Store (10% off time clients or Free Eyebrow • Urban Coffee (10% off) all parts, garments & acces- Arch w/ purchase of any hair • Video Game & Music Exchange (15% off used service) sories) • Elli Nail Spa (10% off your games, CDs, DVDs, & equip• Ursus (free gift with any ment) first visit!) purchase) • The Worthington Inn (15% • Flowers On High (15% off off all food - excluding alcoall local orders) Westerville hol & holidays) • The Hills Market (10% off • A Gal Named Cinda Lou • Worthington Gardens (Free any purchase of $50 or more (10% off total sale) - excluding alcohol & tobacco online estimate and seed • Déja Vu (10% off any purpacket) products) chase) • Home Source Interiors (5% • Worthington Jewelers (25% • Gallery 202 (come for a off jewelry repair, 50% off off) visit, get a free gift) • House Wine (15% off Eno- watch batteries) • KEMBA Financial CU (Move anytime) • What The Rock?! (15% off any purchase of $30+ - excluding sale & consignment items) • Yoga On High (10% off all bookstore/ boutique items; buy 1 class pass & get the 2nd 10% off) • Z Pizza ($1 off lunch special; free delivery; $3.00 off any L or XL pizza on M-Th)

your money local!)

• Massagebee Sports And Wellness Therapy ($15 off a 1hr massage!)

• Meza Wine Shop (spend $40 & get a free wedge of cheese; 20% off Friday night wine tastings) • Morgan’s Treasure Custom Jewelry (come for a visit & receive a free watch battery) • Power Shack Fitness Center (3 month membership for $99 or $29.99 per month, EFT req.)

• Thrill Vulture Tattooing (15% off all services) • Trek Bicycle Store of Columbus (10% off all parts, garments & accessories)

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