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Arts feature: Art at 2x2 Hip-Hop Festival
Columbus Alive
As the 2x2 Hip-Hop Festival moves from Weinland Park to the Hilltop for this year's fourth annual event celebrating all things hip-hop, the things that have made it the city's freshest, most entertaining festival will remain. That includes, despite the ...

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The Columbus Dispatch
Golden Tavern opens on Northwest Side
The Columbus Dispatch
A fall opening is expected for central Ohio's second Elia Athenian Grill, which will join four other tenants in a 14,000-square-foot addition a Gateway in the University District. Elia, whose original location opened in February 2017, is known for its ...

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ArtPop Puts Columbus Artists' Works on Billboards
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'Free Hugs' by Alissa Ohashi. John Grosvenor's piece, Rise Above, centers on the themes of rebirth and the perseverance of spirit. “Ironically, this piece was intended as a secondary mural in the Weinland Park neighborhood, but that didn't pan out,” he ...

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Columbus Artists' Works Popping Up on Billboards
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You've probably been seeing some special billboards around town. When Maria Bamford performed at the FunnyBone Comedy Club in April, she noted that Columbus was a town that must be full of artists. It was probably the best shout-out to a city that I've ...

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Stars Wars “Force of July” Art Show
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Get ready, Star Wars fans! The Force of July art show will be a collection of various Star Wars paintings and fine art from Star Wars influenced tattoo artists and painters from across the galaxy. The art gallery opening for the “Force of July” art ...

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The Columbus Dispatch
Paint-by-pets
The Columbus Dispatch
And they're vital to a growing trend at area studios and galleries, which are inviting people to paint or sculpt their pets. On this recent weeknight at Studio 614, in the University District, nine people gathered to depict their favorite four-legged ...

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Businesses reconsider using straws
The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus-area restaurants and bars are participating in the movement to find recyclable alternatives. A&R Creative group, which owns 10 restaurants and bars in central Ohio, uses compostable straws, made of renewable corn, upon request, and offers a ...

AFTN (blog)
Groundhopping to Columbus: A dart to the heart
AFTN (blog)
To get there from downtown you drive through uptown, through the artistic neighbourhood of the Short North, and then through the projects and working class neighbourhood of Weinland Park. Before hitting the river of traffic on I-75, you drive into the ...

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The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus teens operate summer day camp for other girls
The Columbus Dispatch
Edee Malley, 16, has been planning and administering summer camps addressing different themes and age groups at her house on East Maynard Avenue in Old North Columbus since she was 10. Marisa Tayal, 14, of Clintonville, came onboard at age 9.

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1 dead after shooting in north Columbus
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COLUMBUS – A man is dead after a shooting in north Columbus. According to police, it happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of West Hudson Street and North High Street. Police told 10TV the victim, 33-year-old Shaun Hinebaugh, ...

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OSU - The Lantern
Gallery: 2018 Columbus Arts Festival
OSU - The Lantern
Gallery: 2018 Columbus Arts Festival. By Amal Saeed: Saeed.40@osu.edu June 11, 2018 0. Family and friends came from around Ohio to see Columbus' annual Arts Festival held on the Scioto Mile. Credit: Amal Saeed | Assistant Photo Editor. 2018-06-11.

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Mad Mex Closes to Make Way for New Gateway Businesses
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Mad Mex, a Gateway University District original, closed this week after more than a decade in business. Owned by Big Burrito Restaurant Group, the Pittsburgh-based bar and restaurant was the only Mad Mex in Ohio, making the next closest location in ...

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Mad Mex is the latest Gateway business to shut down
OSU - The Lantern
Mad Mex's closure is another loss for the University District after popular bar, Ugly Tuna Saloona closed early last month and with The O Patio and Pub scheduled to close later this summer. closing columbus dispatch gateway mad mex margaritas mexican ...

Columbus CEO
Carla Williams-Scott is Saving the Neighborhood
Columbus CEO
The city doesn't seem to have a private anchor for its Linden turnaround plan, as it had with Nationwide Children's Hospital on the South Side or JPMorgan Chase with Weinland Park. But city officials are pleased with the backing they've received from ...

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CityLab
Revisiting the New Urban Crisis
CityLab
In Columbus, the Weinland Park Collaborative enlisted the help of local anchor institutions to offer $3,000 in down-payment assistance to Ohio State University employees who purchase homes in the University District. In West Philadelphia, the ...

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Revisiting the New Urban Crisis
CityLab
In Columbus, the Weinland Park Collaborative enlisted the help of local anchor institutions to offer $3,000 in down-payment assistance to Ohio State University employees who purchase homes in the University District. In West Philadelphia, the ...

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The Columbus Dispatch
Man stomped by officer gets apology from judge sentencing him
The Columbus Dispatch
Anderson also pleaded guilty Thursday to harassment with a bodily substance for spitting in a Columbus police officer's face after he was arrested for allegedly causing a disturbance at a University District bar while free on bond in the gun case.

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Matters of Taste: Science, senses reveal nuances of coffee
The Columbus Dispatch
Sittipod, a fourth-year doctoral student in food science at Ohio State University, uses the chemical makeup of green coffee beans to predict their flavor when brewed into coffee. It's possible, she said, to read a bean's composition like a book and ...

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Top 10 Things to do in Clintonville
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The Columbus neighborhood of Clintonville is located just south of Worthington and north of Ohio State's University District, situated on the north-central side of Columbus. Historically, Clintonville has been the home of Columbus' first zoo (in ...

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Columbus Business First
One Community: Health experts prescribe safe, affordable housing
Columbus Business First
In Weinland Park, Moms2B achieved a fivefold reduction in the infant mortality rate. CelebrateOne's widespread safe-sleep publicity helped achieve a dramatic reduction in sleep-related infant deaths in 2017, Roberts said. The programs are effective ...