Spent a few hours yesterday running some errands, including a few stops at thrift shops looking for a typewriter (long story for another time). In the course of entering/exiting and walking through a selection of Columbus’ thrift shops encountered a variety of individuals from cross sections of Columbus I don’t always see. For the most [...]
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January 7th in Ohio doesn’t usually bring with it 50 degree weather – but this year it did and that meant the bike path was full of bikers and walkers, the tennis courts even had people in shorts. We took advantage of it and headed off on a nice long walk with the dogs in [...]
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Northstar is officially a Columbus institituion, having grown from a location in the Short North to having locations in Beechwald and Easton as well as opening Third & Hollywood in Grandview. Northstar does a great job of mixing genres, combining simple with upscale, quality with casual, and mixing healthy with not so much. One of [...]
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Food carts. They seem to be all the rage these days with taco trucks taking over the scene in Columbus and with all kinds of crazy carts getting attention in the ‘hipper’ cities. Despite that Columbus still had not yet got in on the crazier concepts or some really upscale food in a cart. That [...]
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Barrio gets the benefit of the doubt from me on many fronts. One being that they opened up shop in what is not a thriving part of downtown, on the previously fairly desolate stretch of High Street between Nationwide and Broad (the Elevator Brewery is of course there but stood quite alone). The other reasons [...]
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I heard about this show (and identically named campaign of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution) on ABC a long time back and kind of forgot about it. Recently I heard it already aired, but thanks to the magic of Hulu I was able to watch all six episodes of the show. I gotta say I enjoyed the [...]
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It could be just a coincidence, but I doubt it. Somehow Arnold, that is Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California can control the weather in Columbus. This weekend is the annual Arnold Sports Festival here in Columbus, OH. It began as a body building event but has grown into a huge fitness event that while still [...]
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Stadia magazine is a pretty intense industry magazine from what I can tell on just what its says, Stadia. It had ads for grass companies, seating and in-depth articles on the newest of those as well. They recently in their 2010 showcase issue celebrating their 10 years as a magazine had a list of ”Ten from [...]
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Hadn’t really heard anything about the place, but had seen it walking past with my dog a few weeks back so when given a chance to go jumped on it. If you don’t know Clever Crow Pizza is inside the Circus bar on High St. just north of 5th Ave in Columbus. The pizza seems [...]
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My favorite spot in Schiller park (German Village in Columbus, OH)- Dressed for cold weather.
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