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The Statue of Liberty being strangled from behind by a cop in a riot helmet with a baton
02 November 2017

 

  • DAMNING QUOTE: Columbus City Council member and former Safety Director Mitchell Brown proclaimed at a candidate’s night that Columbus doesn’t need a civilian review board to monitor...

Paintings hanging on a white wall that are very large one on top of the other and of very colorful scenes
02 November 2017

Upon entering the OSU Urban Art Space, you are greeted with a biography of Dr. Frank Hale and other culturally relevant icons.


Frank Hale worked at OSU from 1971-98. He was a...

Light blue colored background black and white cartoony houses at top left and clouds and the words the Salty Caramels over a bike and white puddles and the words in white Baby Blue
02 November 2017

I first saw the Salty Caramels seven or eight years ago when the Columbus music scene was locked in the death grip of the Americana movement. There were three ladies in matching dresses, and (if memory serves) they sang a song...

A colorful image of Columbus skyline in green, yellow and blue with white words in front at the bottom Yes We Can
31 October 2017

In a primary race chock full of corporate-sponsored “establishment” candidates this past May, 5 candidates of the grassroots organization Yes We Can Columbuswon enough votes to...

Words in black Bob Bites Back
31 October 2017

Just prior to Hitler-inspired neo-Nazis and their white supremacist allies descending on Charlottesville, Virginia in August, the FBI began characterizing the Black Lives Matter movement as “Black-identity extremists.” As best...

Round circle with mostly black background words Columbus Crew SC around the edges and in the middle a yellow checkered and striped symbol with a 96 on it
31 October 2017

My family moved to Columbus in 1994 so my mom could pursue her doctorate, carried to Ohio in a swarm of uncertainty. I was five. I knew nothing of the city that would come to shape my identity in fundamental ways, and up until...

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