Get ready to mark your calendars because the third annual Paws Humane Society Barks & Blues Festival is happening on Saturday, May 19. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the event, we are moving the concert venue to Woodruff Park this year so music lovers and their dogs can “get down” to the tunes of some of the most sought out bands in Columbus. The 2018 Barks & Blues Festival will be a slightly…
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I was nervous. I’m not typically claustrophobic. I get antsy toward the end of trans-Atlantic flights, but otherwise do well in enclosed spaces. A sensory deprivation tank, though, is very different from a crowded airplane. You’re alone, in total darkness. The water temperature is set so that within a few minutes, you no longer feel it against your skin. Suspended and in repose for an hour, you are left to yourself. I was nervous, but,…
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As I sit at my laptop and begin to write this article, it is still early April and the weather is seesawing daily between the 40s and 80s. Hopefully by the time you are reading this the weather will have settled down a bit, and warmer weather will be here to stay, at least for a while. As we transition from winter to spring, cocktails change from the dark cocktails of winter to a light,…
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Orphic: CSU Senior Art Exhibition Featuring artists John Styron, Jose Rosario, Jessica Kennedy and J. Allen Vanderford, Jr.. Work will be on display in the Ilges Gallery. May 5, 6 p.m., Corn Center for the Visual Arts, 921 Front Avenue, Columbus American Women in History Please join the National Infantry Museum Kids program to explore the role women have played through the history of the United States. $10 per youth student. May 5, 10 a.m….
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Crown and Comedy at The Loft every Thursday, 7 – 8:30 p.m., The Loft, 1032 Broadway, Columbus Casting Call for adult actors, male and female Participants will recite or read a monologue for an audition. Please call (706) 505-1411 for more information. May 1 through 10, call for times, Columbus Public Library, 3000 Macon Road, Columbus Last of the Red Hot Lovers A delirious comedy starring popular Hollywood and Broadway Guest Artist Brian Reddy. Barney…
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Selwyn Birchwood @ The Loft May 5, 9:30 p.m., The Loft, 1032 Broadway, Columbus Odd Alice @ Legends May 5, 9:30 p.m., Legends, 5762 Milgen Road, Columbus GP38 @ The Outskirts May 5, 9 p.m., Ouskirts Sports Bar & Grill, 5736 Veterans Parkway, Columbus Almost Kings @ Outlaws May 5, 9 p.m. – midnight, Outlaws Saloon, 6499 Veterans Parkway, Columbus John Bonamassa @ RiverCenter for the Performing Arts May 6, 8 – 11 p.m., RiverCenter…
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Free Comic Book Day 2018 The 16th annual celebration of the joy of reading comic books. In cooperation with Columbus Comics, a free comic book will be offered to everyone who attends. Columbus Comics will also have their annual sale, and all attendees get an additional free comic for every $5 they spend. May 5, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Columbus Comics, 6440 W. Hamilton Park Drive, Columbus Revenge of the 5th: a Star Wars…
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Launch Fitness Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. and every Saturday at 9 a.m.. $8 per class. Launch Trampoline Park, 7607 Veterans Parkway, Columbus Saturday Morning Pancake Group Run Need motivation to get that Saturday run out of the way early? Meet up with members of the Big Dog crew for this no-fee morning run every Saturday morning. Run begins at 6 a.m. sharp, follows a route chosen by the group, and concludes…
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Columbus Craft Beer Bash #2 Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at the second annual Craft Beer Bash with Chattahoochee Harley-Davidson. Tickets are $35 on the day of the event. More than 100 beers from 28 Georgia craft breweries. May 5, noon – 5 p.m., Chattahoochee Harley-Davidson, 3230 Williams Road, Columbus Books & Brews Book Club Hosted by the Mildred L. Terry Public Library, part of the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries system. May 5, 2 – 4 p.m.,…
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Julianne David works out of her dining room. The space is intended to be a dining room, anyway, but is given over entirely to canvas and paint. Not that David has much time to work. “I squeeze in [art] during nap times, after bed, before they wake,” she says of finding time for art while raising three sons. “They like to help me paint.” Painting was not her first path, or even her second. She…
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