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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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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Like most Georgia-grown musical geniuses, Lloyd Buchanan’s roots run deep in the church. Raised in a house where secular music was forbidden by strict motherly decree, his first exposure came from watching his grandfather, Ernest Childs, Sr., wow crowds as part of gospel vocal quartets. “I grew up with a bunch of guys in a gospel quartet that was a younger version of what my grandad was doing,” Buchanan explains over coffee. “We would spend…
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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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It was the first truly fine day of the year, an unusually warm 77 degrees on a bright February day, when Tyson Anthony, a representative for Omaha Brewing Company, invited us down for a tour of the brewery. After our tour, we sat at a table in the tap room, a spacious retreat whose garage-style doors were open to the patio, admitting a cooling breeze and the several dogs hanging out with us that day….
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