This second part of our interview series with acclaimed artist Bo Bartlett comes from an interview we conducted while he showed us around the Bo Bartlett Center, 921 Front Avenue, in May of this year. Our first installment found Bo discussing how the Center came to be and some of his feelings on art, particularly the way art can unite communities. In this part of the interview, we visit a specific painting currently hanging in…
Read MoreVince has been detailing cars in the Columbus area since 1997. In 2013 he transformed his mobile car detailing business into a brick-and-mortar location, in order to provide the highest quality service under any conditions. Now, with a new location, at 3885 Miller Road, Vince offers his years of expertise to those who truly care about their cars. Carnoisseur lives up to it’s neologism name, and might go beyond. For those who want an expert…
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The Springer Film Institute is excited to announce the wide variety of workshops in their Fall Sessions. If you are just starting out, have some experience, or are just curious about the film industry in general, then there is a workshop for you. Go to www.springerfilm.org to register. Questions? Call 706-324-5714 x 270 or email director@springerfilm.org Fall Session I: Voiceover: Audiobooks and Animation – $375 Tuition ($150 deposit) 5 Week Workshop Series. Thursdays 6p-8p Aug….
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When most of us think of rum, we think of sipping something tropical, fruity, exotic, and usually garnished with a paper umbrella. But there is more to rum than just a beachy, fruity frozen sipper. Because Aug. 16 is designated as National Rum Day, I felt it was time to revisit my rum shelf on the bar and see what I could come up with besides the standards—daiquiris, pina coladas, or cuba libre. If you like scotch…
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After more than six years in the field I’ve come to the conclusion that there is nothing more controversial in companion animal welfare than the problem of unowned cats. These guys are everywhere and from what I can tell there are two distinct, and diametrically opposed, human responses to them. One camp goes to great lengths to provide clean water, food, and shelter for an adopted colony. If this individual has enough money and access…
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We conclude our World Cup of Cinema with a rematch of the final game from the 2014 soccer World Cup: Germany and Argentina. As with soccer, both nations are formidable forces in international film. Argentina is home to the current best soccer player in the world, Leonel Messi, and, in my opinion, the world’s top film director, Lucrecia Martel. Her movies are like great works of literature, dense allegories about her nation and its perpetual…
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“I don’t sound like I look—people say that to me all the time,” Emily Stilwell explains when asked how such a big-volume, bluesy vocal delivery can arrive from such a diminutive stature. Talking over a noon-hour coffee and pastry last month at Fountain City Coffee, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter discusses both her musical inspirations and inhibitors in an unassuming, full-disclosure fashion—a refreshing blend of humility, honesty and artistic purity—shortly before her shift at Whitewater Express…
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“Absolutely I love my job,” Chattahoochee River Conservancy Executive Director Henry Jackson says during a 15-minute interview on the front porch of the marina at Rotary Park. “Some days I’d rather be changing oil in an open pit in 90-degree weather but, yes, I love my job.” Having just pulled the CRC’s boat out of the water following a 90-minute excursion—an educational and insightful experience due to his keen observations and scholarly knowledge of the…
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Hippocrates of Kos, the classical Greek physician and “Father of Medicine,” is often credited with the famous refrain, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” but scholars do not know who actually first set down the words in writing. Hippocrates was not a lone figure in the wilderness of early medicine; instead, he was the progenitor of an entire school of medical thinking and practice, an extensive and systematic approach to health…
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Juliana Cowart was working in the service industry when she learned she needed surgery. What she could not predict was how the doctors, when they went in for exploratory surgery, would need to correct a hernia and remove her appendix. Abdominal surgery is complicated and often dangerous. Juliana’s situation, unfortunately, is not uncommon. Her full recovery time was supposed to be six weeks, but there were complications. The complications were not medical. First, to prepare…
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