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Live Local & Prosper
tion helped countless entrepreneurs find success, and helped thousands of readers save thousands upon thousands of dollars, to say nothing of the philanHowdy Locals, thropic successes of the magaWe’ve come a long way, baby. But zine. We must have liked what he was doing, because when Aaron you’re a hip and clever fellow/lass, so you obviously know decided to retire, we bought it. that in this, the year of our bicenThen one day, the gang here at tennial, it’s been great to reflect upon how Columbus has changed outlook was sitting around and we and evolved over the years. All of thought, “Let’s shake things up a bit.” We loved High Street, but we this hubbub has helped show us wanted to give Aaron’s magazine what we’ve always known to be true: Columbus’ roots are strong, an updated look and feel. We wanted to take the visionary conand because of that fact, 200 years after its founding, our city cept of a purely local, small busiis as interesting, beautiful, and as ness-focused magazine, and expand upon that. We’d been alive as ever. And in so many doing it for years with our other ways, it’s better than it’s ever magazine, outlook: Columbus, and been. Strong roots are so imporour networking organization, Nettant, but we’ll get into Columbus work Columbus; it was only natuand her roots and what makes her so darned cool in the pages to ral that we continue with this come. In the meantime, let’s talk important mission. As we worked to make this happen, something about the roots of this brandtruly wonderful occurred: We met spanking new publication. the gents over at The Small Business Beanstalk. For those of you The magazine you hold in your who don’t know, The SBB is hand, much like the city we live Columbus’ shop local network, in, is a confluence of ideas, efforts, and frankly, laborious love. though that is such a simplification of what they do. These are Let me explain: the guys who are working behind the scenes to help drive the sucIn 2001, a clever and tenacious fellow by the name of Aaron Lev- cess of small business all over enthal started an extremely suc- this city. From funding to furniture, accounting to advertising, cessful magazine called High Street Neighborhoods. For years The SBB is paying it forward, conHigh Street Neighborhoods was a necting like-minded people, and helping to create a sense of comchampion of all things local in Columbus. As an affordable, effec- munity amongst Columbus’ entrepreneurial class. We were natural tive advertising option for local allies, approaching small business and small business, his publica-
growth from opposite ends of the equation. It suffices to say, they had us at “hello.” As this friendship evolved, and we talked more and more, a concept was born. Why not create a magazine that would serve as a grassroots guide to the best of Columbus? We would ask our friends, local tastemakers and familiar faces to write for us about their favorite things to do, see and enjoy in Columbus. We would make the magazine free to our readers, and price our advertising so that it was affordable for any small business. “Whoa, that sounded smart,” we thought. So that’s exactly what we did! And here we are. The magazine in your hand, Live Local! Columbus is designed with the local reader and local business in mind. There are no fancy bells and whistles. There are no tricks or marketing gimmicks. It’s just good local content from local people, and nice ads from local businesses. We have to say, we are pretty proud of it, and excited that it’s in your hand right now. So, read, shop and celebrate Columbus with us. But most of all, we invite you to Live Local and Prosper, because that’s really what it’s all about. Yours in Goofy, Grass-Rootsy Columbusness, Chris Hayes Publisher
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03. Letter from Publisher 04. My Columbus 06. Shop Local 08. Eat Local 10. Drink Local 12. Art Local 14. Craft Local 16. Listen Local 18. Fashion Local 20. Sport Local 22. Inside Local 23. Convene Local 24. Develop Local 26. Bank Local 28. Give Local 30. Travel with a Local 32: Talk Local: Angela Pace 34. sbb Offers
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