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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Several weeks ago, a dog named Camo, became an internet sensation. He was tethered by a heavy chain that was wrapped around his neck multiple times. The chain was tangled making it significantly shorter and heavier. When help arrived he nearly hung himself when he jumped off a car in his enclosure. Sadly, death by hanging is an all too common occurrence for tethered dogs. In other cases, a rope or chain becomes wrapped around…
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Uptown Columbus in the early 1980s was, in many ways, not an attractive neighborhood. Blighted, dilapidated and almost hopeless, it is easy, 30 years later, to take for granted the area’s transformation into a show-piece historic district full of colorful homes and businesses. But real people, guided by their individual visions and willingness to collaborate, made the remarkable transformation possible. One of those people is Sia Etemadi. After two years at Columbus College, Etemadi moved…
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Begun in 2012, Artbeat brings together artists and art organizations from all over the community for three weeks of events designed to “engage, energize, educate and evoke reaction.” Now in its seventh year, Artbeat is bigger than ever, with more than 50 affiliated events, which highlight the best Columbus has to offer in art, music, theatre and fun. Three weeks of events also make a significant economic impact. Peter Bowden, CEO of VisitColumbus, estimates roughly…
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Sometimes a name says it all. Simple yet profound, Trees Columbus’s mission is to “plant, preserve and protect” the city’s urban tree canopy. Since forming in 2000—in response to city plans to remove 150 trees from Lakebottom Park—the environmental advocacy and awareness organization has planted nearly 15,000 trees and helped enact local legislation critical to making Columbus a sustainable, beautiful community. “There are obvious reasons why it’s important to have an urban tree canopy,” explains…
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The most important thing you need to know about any nonprofit organization is its mission and vision. At PAWS Humane we printed our mission and vision statements on a big sheet of paper. We all signed it and placed it in our lobby for everyone to see. This is what guides everything we do. The mission is what a nonprofit does on a day-to-day basis. The vision is what we hope to achieve. At PAWS…
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His name is Sampson. He is black and tan. If I were going to guess I’d say he could be part German shepherd or blue heeler or Aussie. Only God really knows. Whatever he is, he is a devilishly handsome chap with a charming and playful personality. That is, once you get on the right side of him. He has been my office foster for at least 6 weeks now and it is an honor…
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It was a cold, overcast day recently, when a group of first-timers arrived at Escape This Live, at 1036 1st Avenue, in the heart of Uptown Columbus. They were not entirely certain what was in store for them as they climbed the stairs to the second floor of the building; but as they mounted the stairs, their excitement mounted, too. On the recommendation of a friend, who had fallen in love with escape room games…
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By Frank Etheridge Perhaps the most jarring example in Columbus of how history is told—by whom and for whom— and changes with time lies in the shadow of the Government Center. On that beleaguered tower of bureaucracy’s frontward-facing 10th Street side, a series of three historical markers (erected from 1955-57, during Jim Crow’s last gasp) celebrates the site as connected to: Confederate Hospitals (eight buildings, including the original city court house demolished to make way…
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