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Delightful dozen Our faves: 12 options for the NEW SEASON 1 “Luc Tuymans,” the first U.S. retrospective by the painter, Sept. 17 to Jan. 3, Wexner Center for the Arts
2 George Manahan, conductor of New York City Opera, with the Columbus Symphony, Jan. 8-9, Ohio Theatre
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wans and monsters, poets and pop stars, clowns and comics: With a cast such as this, who can blame us for getting revved up about the new season? It wasn’t easy, but we selected a few shows and events (in no certain order) that you simply shouldn’t miss in the fall, winter and spring. Inside, we offer highlights of the centr al Ohio calendar in music, dance, film, theater and visual arts. — Nancy Gilson, ngilson@dispatch.com
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3 Ben Folds, pop singer and pianist, with the Columbus Symphony, Oct. 28, Veterans Memorial
4 Leonard Cohen, singersongwriter and poet, on a rare North American tour, Oct. 27, Palace Theatre
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David Sedaris, author and humorist, Oct. 17, Palace Theatre
Swan Lake, a BalletMet/ Cincinnati Ballet production, Oct. 16-18, Ohio Theatre
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Young Frankenstein, a Mel Brooks stage adaptation of his film, with the original Broadway co-stars, Oct. 27 to Nov. 1, Ohio Theatre
Pierce to the Soul, a worldpremiere drama about artist Elijah Pierce, Contemporary American Theatre Company, April 7-25, Riffe Center
9 Pagliacci, the great clown tragedy, Opera Columbus, Oct. 23 and 25, Ohio Theatre
10 In the Heights, a rap- and salsa-flavored Broadway touring production, Nov. 24-29, Ohio Theatre
11 “Chihuly Illuminated,” a series of six new glass installations, including neon works, Sept. 25 to July 4, Columbus Museum of Art
12 Miley Cyrus, the pop phenom, Oct. 7, Nationwide Arena
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n the fall, an indie-rock pianist will join forces with a symphony, a Disney starlet will shed her blond wig (and ditch paper tickets, too), and a duo of cr itically acclaimed Buckeye State blues rockers will team up to break some hearts. Audiences in central Ohio will find plenty to like in a range of genres and prices — a lineup sure to produce enough heat to offset the oncoming seasonal chill. kjoy@dispatch.com
Southern royalty. The Tennessee rockers known as Kings of Leon have broken from their Baptist upbringing to create some of the most appealing music about lust and loving (Sept. 23, Value City Arena). A more intimate alternative: blues guitarist — and, at age 28, old
soul — Jonny Lang (Sept. 23, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion). Jazz it up. The Columbus Jazz Orchestra will begin the “Great American Songbook” series with smooth-jazz guitarist Earl Klugh Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon
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(Sept. 25-26, Southern Theatre) — followed by a “Swingin’ at the Southern” tribute to jazz great Duke Ellington (Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, Southern Theatre). Far-out. Avant-garde fare awaits at the Wexner Center for the Arts performance space — as in the Canadian indie rockers the Rural Alberta Advantage (Sept. 27); German industrial pioneers Faust (Oct. 8); British cabaret-rock outfit Tiger Lillies (Oct. 29); and cellist Erik Friedlander, whose performanceart project is titled Block Ice and Propane (Dec. 4). The British are rocking. The overnight sensations Arctic Monkeys, whose 2006 debut album became the fastestSee POP Page E8
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I heard a commentator on National Public Radio describe the life of Sen. Edward Kennedy as Shakespearean. And I thought: Yes, that’s it. And the first good play wr itten about Kennedy will tell us more about him than 100 TV news retrospectives on his life and death. That’s one of the reasons we JOE have the arts: to interpret a BLUNDO maddening world and its big, complex personalities. In a country saturated with — maybe even tormented by — information, it’s a relief to think that every year at this time a new arts season will begin and people who see the universe in unique ways will show us what sense they can make of things . Art is such a compelling human impulse that I think it might even be what keeps us sane. I don’t know whether the problem was too much information or too much noninformation, but at times this summer I felt as if I would lose my mind if I heard one more word about Michael Jackson. I don’t mean that as a comment on his talent: He was immensely talented. I mean there was just too much of him. The man alone was baffling enough. The nonstop reporting about him made it only worse because, the more the media obsessed over him, the more obvious it became that we would never know who he really was. So someone needs to write a great Michael Jackson opera. And someone probably will. And then we might gain more than a glimmer of understanding about him. Art can do that. TMZ.com can’t — although it did r eport on Jackson’s credit score last week. Sheesh. The new season in the ar ts coincides with the new season in football — which I find an interesting parallel. They aren’t really that far apart. The typical football broadcast is a strenuous attempt at transforming a brutal sport into something like art. Every game has to have staging, music, costuming and, most important, a “story line.” It might be about redemption (the ex-felon quarterback returns to the field seeking to regain lost glory), rivalry (“These two teams don’t like each other”) or the rise of the underdog (Cleveland and/or Cincinnati — dare we hope?). If football games came with ingredient labels, “artificial drama” would be second on the list, right behind “shoulder pads.” Why? I think we crave the elevation. A few suspenseful games are great entertainment in themselves, but, really, most of them are just 22 guys wrestling on the lawn. We depend on Al Michaels, laboring mightily up in the booth with back stories, to jack up the lev el to more meaningful heights. Likewise, someone has to make sense of the infor mation torrent that deluges us 24 hours a day. Enter art. I don’t know enough about the history of theater or music or dance to know whether they always had seasons and whether those seasons always began in the fall. But it seems no accident that, as we head into the dark months, we renew our relationship with activities that illuminate our crazy world in ways that the waning sun and nonstop news can’t. Joe Blundo is a Dispatch columnist. jblundo@dispatch.com
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Moving experiences to come in all forms
What’s happening in entertainment and the arts? Throughout the week, our reporters’ blogs offer perspectives you won’t find in print. Read more at Dispatch. com/blogs. Highlights this week include:
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DAILY ALMANAC Today is Sunday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2009. There are 116 days left in the year. HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY On Sept. 6, 1901, President McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. In 1837, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co-educational. In 1909, American explorer Robert Peary sent a telegram from Indian Harbor, Labrador, announcing that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier. In 1966, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by an apparently deranged page. In 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three U.S.-bound jetliners. In 1978, James Wickwire and Louis Reichardt became the first Americans to reach the summit of Pakistan’s K2. Ten years ago: In Detroit, striking teachers and the school board came to a tentative agreement aimed at ending a weeklong walkout. (The teachers later ratified the contract.) Five years ago: Former President Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery. One year ago: In the wake of Russia’s military standoff with Georgia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said it was time for the United States to move on a deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia. More than 100 people died in a rock slide that crashed into a shantytown outside Cairo, Egypt. THOUGHT FOR TODAY “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” — Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish author and philosopher (1919-99) Source: Associated Press
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here are plenty of opportunities for you to move your feet — that is, to the nearest venue to take in the v ariety of classical, contemporary and otherwiseinnovative dance.
CELEBRITIES Lea Delaveris is convinced that celebrities want to be stalked. Why else would they use Twitter so much? Also: divas, Duggars and Daytime Emmys.
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and choreography by company director Tim Veach; and First up for BalletMet Colum- Women’s Dance Project (May 14-15, Fisher Theatre), bus is the always-enchanting spotlighting female choreogSwan Lake (Oct. 16-18, Ohio raphers. The company will also Theatre), a 50-dancer produchost “Columbus Dances X” tion in collaboration with the (Oct. 23-25, Fisher Theatre) and Cincinnati Ballet. Nightmoves “Columbus Dances XI” (Nov. 6-21, BalletMet Performance Space) will offer new works (Feb. 26-28, Fisher Theatre), and Twyla Tharp’s Sinatra Suite. featuring dancers and choreographers from the Columbus Other season highlights: the Movement Movement, and family favorite The Nutcracker “Dancing Alone” (March 26(Dec. 11-23, Ohio Theatre); A 27, Fisher Theatre), featuring Midsummer Night’s Dream central Ohio soloists. (Feb. 5-14, Riffe Center); Carmina Burana, plus a world The Wexner Center for the premiere piece by choreogArts will host the Canadian rapher Jimmy Orrante (March dance company Kidd Pivot in 5-13, Riffe Center); and the the physical, rapid-fire Lost world premiere of “American Action (Sept. 29, Thurber Legends: Johnny, Sammy and Theatre at the Drake Center). Stevie,” paying tribute to Johnny Brazilian choreographer Bruno Cash, Sammy Davis Jr. and Beltrao will bring his all-male Stevie Wonder (April 23 to Grupo de Rua to perform H 3, a May 1, Riffe Center). minimal approach to contem The Columbus Association for porary macho dance (Jan. 10, the Performing Arts will present Thurber Theatre at the Drake Center). Ailey II (Feb. 27, Riffe Center); Diavolo (March 19, Palace Gravity’s Ripple, a new, Theatre); DanceBrazil (April 13, site-specific outdoor contemOhio Theatre); and Pilobolus porary dance by choreographer (May 6, Palace Theatre). Annie Kloppenberg, will be performed at the Dublin Arts Columbus Dance Theatre’s Center in a collaboration with 12th season, “CDT — A to Z,” will include Frankie and Johnny the Ohio State University Dance in the Clair de Lune (Sept. 25- Department and OhioDance (Sept. 18). 27, Fisher Theatre); “A to Z” (Nov. 21, Fisher Theatre), a The King Arts Complex will project in which audience mempresent DanceAfrica Columbus bers will vote on dance seg(Feb. 20) showcasing dance ments to be combined into a ranging from traditional African complete dance; the story ballet to hip-hop. Church-based dance Matchgirl (Dec. 4-5, Otterbein ministries and companies will College’s Fritsche Theatre); Ten be featured in “The Spirit of Cents a Dance (Feb. 12-13, Dance” (March 20). Fisher Theatre), with Chicago The McCoy Community vocalist Kathryn Payne; Hands Center for the Arts will host (April 2-3, Fisher Theatre), featuring art by painter Tony Rio, Dhriti Sooryakumar in an a score by violist Korine Fujiwara Indian classical-dance program
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JOE BLUNDO Joe presents his favorite quotes from Don’t Forget To Sing in the Lifeboats: Uncommon Wisdom for Uncommon Times. MOVIES PAUL KOLNIK
ABOVE: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular LEFT: Kidd Pivot’s Lost Action
Two new film series will make their debuts this month at the Movie Tavern Mill Run theater: Retro Cinema and Classic Cinema. Nick Chordas discusses the programming. ROMANCE LIT Lisa Reuter explores Diana Rowland’s Mark of the Demon. Holly Zachariah reviews Navajo Night, about a Navajo holy man and his love. THEATER
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with live Carnatic music in a benefit for the Mid-Ohio FoodBank (Sept. 27, New Albany).
the “So You Think You Can Dance” tour, including competitors such as Ade, Brandon, Janette and Kupono (Oct. 1).
The Midland Theatre Dance Series in Newark will feature the Central Ohio Youth Ballet’s The Nutcracker (Nov. 27-29); Yu Wei, Chinese dance and multimedia (Feb. 20); and Moscow Festival Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty (April 10).
Artistic Director Jill Becker and students will shape “Orchesis 2010,” Ohio Wesleyan University’s annual contemporary-dance concert (Nov. 13-14, Chappelear Drama Center, Delaware).
An early taste of the holidays will arrive with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, starring the Rockettes (Nov. 24-25, Nationwide Arena). Also at Nationwide: the 2009 edition of
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The Anatomical Scenario Movement Theatre will present solo dances (Sept. 27, Due Amici), and “Trauma 2009” (Oct. 30, Sugar Bar/Park Street Patio), featuring Anna and the Annadroids.
Michael Grossberg admires Actors’ Theatre, which is ending an inventive summer season tonight.
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Shows to strive for new heights By Michael Grossberg | THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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heater companies might have tightened their budgets, but they’re loosening up their imaginations to present a creative array of plays and musicals. Connoisseurs will find mainstream and family fare as well as shows that stretch boundaries. mgrossberg@dispatch.com
HIGHLIGHTS PLAYS
Contemporary American Theatre Company will launch its 26th season with Murderers, Jeffrey Hatcher’s trio of linked monologues by charming killers. (Sept. 30 to Oct. 18, Riffe Center) Anne Bogart and her New York-based SITI Company will return to the Wexner Center for the Arts with the eclectic Who Do You Think You Are, which explores the principles of brain science. (Sept. 30 to Oct. 4) Evolution Theatre Company will launch its first season as a resident arts group with the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts with The Agony and the Agony, Nicky Silver’s dark comedy about life in the theater. (Sept. 30 to Oct. 17, Riffe Center) Available Light Theatre will offer a fresh take on a classic with Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, Daniel Kramer’s deconstruction of the British novel. (Jan. 14-30, Riffe Center) Contemporary American Theatre Company will pay tribute to a hometown hero with the world premiere of Pierce to the Soul, central Ohio playwright Chiquita Mullins Lee’s one-person play about artist Elijah Pierce. (April 7-25, Riffe Center)
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York. (Sept. 20 to Nov. 15, Easton Town Center) Otterbein College’s Theater and Dance Department has booked veteran Broadway performer James Brennan to stage a rare revival of Babes in Arms, Rodgers and Hart’s 1937 musical comedy about young apprentices putting on an original summerstock revue. (Oct. 15-24, Cowan Hall) Broadway Across America — Columbus is counting on laughs from Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks’ stage adaptation of his classic film. Get ready to have fun Puttin’ on the Ritz and experiencing Transylvania Mania. (Oct. 27 to Nov. 1, Ohio Theatre)
Young Frankenstein, to be pr esented during its national tour b y Broadway Across America
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In Broadway Across America’s touring production of In the Heights, Latinos in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood struggle to fulfill their dreams in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rap- and salsa-flavored musical. (Nov. 2429, Ohio Theatre)
FAMILY FARE
Who knew that the renovated Lincoln Theatre had a yellow brick road? Columbus Children’s Theatre will launch its season there with the musical The Wizard of Oz. (Sept. 24 to Oct. 4) Buckeye Youth Theatre, a spinoff of Bread and Circus Theatre Company, will launch its first season in Hilliard with Marmalade Gumdrops, the adventures of a 10-year-old boy. (Oct. 16-25, Harmony Artistic Center)
Shadowbox will present Woodstock: Back to the Garden, a documentary-style musical about the bands and fans who gathered Imaginating Dramatics Comfor three days of peace, love and pany will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a revival of its promusic in 1969 in upstate New
In the Heights, another Broadway show on tour
duction of James Thurber’s Many Moons. (Nov, 8, Thurber Center; and Nov. 15, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3280 Tremont Rd., Upper Arlington) Phoenix Theatre for Children
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will present The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant with actors in full-body costumes portraying the elephants in the adaptation of the Jean de Brunhoff children’s Murderers, to be pr esented by Contemporary American tale. (Jan. 22-31, Riffe Center) Theatre Company
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Return of symphony to be welcome note By Bill Mayr | FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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oist the batons: Classical music — soloists, intimate chamber groups, boisterous orchestras — will fill the air in the coming months. The mix is r icher because of a full season by the Columbus Symphony, missing in action for much of last y ear.
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HIGHLIGHTS The Columbus Symphony will offer three series: classical, pops and CSOvations. The orchestra’s first performance will feature Alondra de la Parra conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 (Oct. 2, Ohio Theatre), but the classical series will officially open in the Ohio Theatre with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”), (Oct. 9-11). Other highlights: George Manahan, music director of the New York City Opera, conducting a pair of concerts featuring the music of Mozart and Sibelius (Jan. 8-9); pianist Andre Watts performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (Jan. 2223) and cellist Amit Peled playing Edouard Lalo’s Concerto in D Minor (Feb. 20-21). The pops series will include “Dianne Reeves Celebrating Sarah Vaughan” (Jan. 16, Veterans Memorial) and the Chieftans (Feb. 27, Veterans Memorial). The informative and innovative CSOvations will feature, among others, Ben Folds (Oct. 28, Veterans Memorial) and “Mozart ’til Midnite” (March 12, Ohio Theatre).
Theater) and Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet on Valentine’s Day weekend (Feb. 12-14, Ohio Theatre) will follow. Early Music in Columbus will open its 30th anniversary season with the female vocal group Anonymous 4 (Oct. 16, Mees Hall, Capital University). Also appearing on the group’s season: the Flanders Recorder Quartet (Feb. 19, Mees Hall). The Ying Quartet (Oct. 17, Southern Theatre) will open the season for Chamber Music Columbus. The Grammy-winning new-music sextet eighth blackbird will also visit (April 17, Southern Theatre).
For CityMusic, the Prima Trio (Feb. 7, Athletic Club of Columbus) will perform works ranging from Mozart to Schickele; also on tap: cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper (March 21, Athletic Club of Columbus).
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Not much is funny about the clown in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, an Italian tale of betrayal and revenge, opening the season for Opera Columbus. (Oct. 23 and 25, Ohio Theatre) A Mario Lanza tribute concert (Dec. 12, Palace
The Columbus Guitar Society season will include international performers Gabriel Bianco of France (Nov. 7), Andriano Sebastiani of Italy (Feb. 20), and the Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet of Brazil (April 24), all at Huntington Recital Hall, Capital University. The Congregational Concerts series at First Congregational Church will include the First Church Choral Society with a string ensemble and James E. Bobb performing the Bach Harpsichord Concerto (Oct. 25), and the early-music group Chatham Baroque (Nov. 8). The Jefferson Academy of Music is moving its Chamber
The New Albany Symphony Orchestra will open its second season with violinist Soovin Kim. (Oct. 18, McCoy Center for the Arts, New Albany) For its fifth season, the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra will start out with “C’est Magnifique!” featuring works by French and Finnish composers (Oct. 18, Reese Center, Ohio State University-Newark/Central Ohio Technical College campus) and finish with “Beethoven’s Ninth — A Crowning Community Achievement,” with guest soloists and the Denison Concert Choir (April 25, Swasey Chapel, Denison University, Granville).
The national tour of George and Ira Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess will be hosted by the Columbus Association for the The Carpe Diem String Quartet will start its season with guest Performing Arts. (Feb. 19-21, Southern Theatre) banjoist Graeme Boone. (Sept. 25-27, Harrison Park) The Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus will offer the 10th year of its “Joy!” holiday concert. (Dec. 4-12, multiple venues)
Among its guest artists, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus will present 12-yearold pianist Tiffany Poon (Oct. 11, Southern Theatre) and baritone Christopheren Nomura (Feb. 6, Pontifical College Josephinum, and Feb. 7, Southern Theatre).
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The national tour of the G ershwin opera Porgy and Bess
Singing Men of Ohio and the Ohio University Singers (Oct. 25, St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Lancaster); the chorale also will perform “Lessons and Carols” with the St. Joseph Cathedral Choir (Nov. 29, St. Mary of the Assumption Church; Dec. 6, St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus).
Anonymous 4, with Ear ly Music in Columbus
Music — Sunday Afternoons series from the Columbus Museum of Art to Ohio State University’s Weigel Hall. The series, with guest artists to be announced, will begin Oct. 18. Composer Augusta Read Thomas will have her works featured during Ohio State University’s Contemporary Music Festival, including performances with the Columbus Symphony. (April 7-11, multiple venues)
(Feb. 28, Huntington Recital Hall, Capital University) The Central Ohio Symphony will feature pianist Mariko Kaneda for its opening concert (Oct. 17, Gray Chapel, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware) and later will host guitarist Robert Gruca (May 1, Gray Chapel). The Greater Columbus Community Orchestra will perform an outdoor Pops Celebration. (Friday, Main Street, downtown Hilliard)
Women in Music Columbus’ season will include “Singing Voices, Strings and Percussion,” The Lancaster Chorale will with the Columbus Cellos. open its season hosting the
The Springfield Symphony Orchestra will be joined by pianist Christopher Durrenberger (Oct. 3, Kuss Auditorium, Clark State Community College, Springfield) and northern Ohio teen violinist Chad Hoopes and composer Cindy McTee (Nov. 7, Kuss Auditorium). The Westerville Symphony at Otterbein College season will include New York pianist and Westerville South High School alumnus Illya Filshtinskiy playing Rachmaninoff’’s Piano Concerto No. 2. (June 5, Fritsche Theatre, Otterbein College) Chanticleer, the male vocal ensemble, will open the Vail Series. (Oct. 4, Swasey Chapel, Denison University, Granville)
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Readers can meet pros behind prose
Alternative fare to charge screens
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ats are notoriously independent. Authors, too. So it makes a cer tain amount of sense that a cat book would become a best-seller . Although Sneaky Pie Brown probably won’t make an appearance during the fall Thurber House series “Evenings With Authors,� the cat’s “Mrs. Murphy� mystery-series co-author, Rita Mae Brown, will. She’ll read from her second memoir, My Life With Creatures Great and Small, and talk about the lessons learned from friends both two- and four-legged. (Oct. 28, Columbus Performing Arts Center) Perhaps in the interest of equal time, an entire suburb will devote itself in the fall to reading the works of author and admitted dog-lover Ann Patchett.
ollywood will continue to pump out product every week through the end of the year — some of it intriguing, some of it Saw VI. But film fans looking for other viewing opportunities can feast on several festivals and series that put the alter native back into alternative programming.
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Sue Miller , author of the Oprah Book Club pick While I Was Gone, will speak about her latest novel, The Senator’s Wife , which explores two flawed marriages, including that of a philandering politician. (Sept. 14, Columbus Museum of Art) Kaylie Jones, scion of author James Jones of From Here to Eternity fame, will read from her memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me. The book explores the life of a girl growing up amid family friends such as Norman Mailer and Thornton Wilder while suffering through the pain of a difficult relationship with her alcoholic mother. (Sept. 24, Columbus Performing Arts Center) Two Ohio State University professors will read from their latest works at a Thurber House event: Erin McGraw (The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard); and Andrew Hudgins (Shut Up You’re Fine: Instructive Poetry for Very, Very Bad Children and American Rendering: New and Selected Poems to be published next year). (Oct. 1, Thurber Center) Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction for Three Junes, Julia Glass will read from her latest novel, I See You Everywhere, which follows the lives of two sisters and is told in their alternating voices. Frequent Dispatch book reviewer Margaret Quamme will moderate. (Oct. 15, Columbus School for Girls)
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COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY Rita Mae Brown, an “Evenings With Authors� guest
America) will kick off the university’s Sagan National Colloquium, with the free lecture and discussion “Renewing America for a Global Century.� (Tuesday, Gray Chapel, University Hall, Delaware)
message of hope and self-redemption at the New Albany venue. Her newest book, Half Broke Horses, will be released in October. (Oct. 15)
BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS
The annual event will feature authors who are Jewish or write on Jewish themes, among them: Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow, talking about his true tale of middle-American sisterhood, A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship; and Charlotte Gordon, exploring the conflict between JudeoChristian and Islamic cultures in The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths. Details are being finalized. (Oct. 30 to Nov. 10, Jewish Community Center)
In the newly released Girl Trouble, Holly Goddard Jones paints a portrait of life in fictional Roma, Ky., through a selection of short stories. (Sept. 23, Lennox Town Center)
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JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: JEWISH BOOKFAIR
A.S. Byatt, winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession, will lecture on “Ghosts and Documents,� examining the writing of historical novels. Her appear Bruce Feiler — a regular comance will be just days after her mentator on NPR, CNN and Fox latest work, The Children’s Book, News and author of Walking the Bible and Where God Was Born — is scheduled for U.S. release. KENYON COLLEGE (Oct. 13, Mees Hall) will read from his America’s Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine) Prophet: Moses and the AmerJEANNE B. MCCOY will give the keynote address ican Story. (Nov. 16, Columbus COMMUNITY CENTER Nov. 7 for the college’s Literary Performing Arts Center) FOR THE ARTS Festival, which also includes Journalist and best-selling readings, writing workshops and OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY memoirist Jeannette Walls (The a book sale. (Nov. 5-7, Peirce Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickled Hall, Gambier) and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in Glass Castle) will share her
Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books) will be the featured speaker at the library’s annual Celebration of Learning event. (Nov. 6, Main Library)
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The club will focus on the works of novelist Ann Patchett (Bel Canto) throughout the 2009-10 school year. On her Web site (www.annpatchett.com), Patchett pays high tribute to her dog Rose. The club’s events will culminate in an appearance by the author. (April 14, Bexley High School)
Arias and divas will return this fall with two series: “Opera in Cinema,� starting Sept. 24 with La Boheme at Polaris 18, and “The Met: Live in HD,� beginning Oct. 10 with Tosca at various area theaters, including Crosswoods, Georgesville Square 16 and Pickerington. The former series will present a new opera every Thursday through Dec. 17, while the latter will have a different offering roughly each month through May 1. To entice viewers who might be reluctant to take in Puccini or Verdi instead of Guy Ritchie, Polaris 18 will host a free screening of Aida at 7 p.m. Thursday. Check out new films in a remodeled venue when the Grandview Theatre presents the Manhattan Short Film Festival (Sept. 25-27). Ten shorts with running times no longer than 18 minutes will be offered. Attendees nationwide and overseas can vote for their favorite, with the winner to be announced Sept. 29. The theater will also host the “Shock Around the Clock� 24-hour horror-movie marathon (Oct. 17-18). The grandopening weekend at the Grandview is slated for Nov. 6-8. The meticulous folks at the University of California, Los Angles, Film & Television Archive will present recently restored films during the appropriately named Festival of Preservation, running
throughout October at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The eclectic lineup of films includes: John Cassavetes’ 1974 drama A Woman Under the Influence (Oct. 2); the 1977 documentary about gay identity Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (Oct. 3); and a double feature of silent films — The Salvation Hunters (1925) and In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) — accompanied by musician Derek DiCenzo (Oct. 14). The Columbus International Film & Video Festival — aka the Chris Awards — will return for its 57th year (Nov. 10-15). Included in the lineup: an early-bird presentation of Strong Coffee (Oct. 13, Studio 35); Scientists Under Attack (Nov. 10, Germania); and “Saturday Morning Cartoons from Around the World� (Nov. 14, Canzani Center at the Columbus College of Art & Design). The full lineup will eventually be posted at www. chrisawards.org. The Zoom: Family Film Festival at the Wexner Center promises children’s programming far different from Kung Fu Panda. Among the films to be screened at the annual fest (Dec. 3-6), will be The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), an early animated movie based on tales from Arabian Nights; the 2009 documentary What’s on Your Plate?, about kids and food politics; and Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, an almost shot-for-shot remake of the adventure film started by three young boys in 1982 and completed seven years later. Don’t miss it.
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augh, and the world laughs with y ou. Be funny onstage, and the audience laughs harder. Here’s a sampling of those who will be seeking yuks from central Ohioans. mgrossberg@dispatch.com
HIGHLIGHTS The touring “Three Jokers and a Queen” will star stand-up performers Sommore, Don D.C. Curry, Michael Colyer and Damon Williams. (Oct. 10, Palace Theatre)
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Humorist David Sedaris — The Santaland Diaries, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — will deliver observations about life. (Oct. 17, Palace Theatre)
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entral Ohio arts councils, colleges, community centers and more offer plenty of cultural experiences, including music, dance, literary events and specialty conventions. Here’s a sampling to whet y our appetite.
launch its season with the national tour of Say Goodnight Gracie, Shaun Booker, the Ark Band, Rupert Holmes’ Tony-nominated Flex Crew and Gene Walker’s solo play about comedians Listen for the Jazz All Star Band George Burns and Gracie Allen. will be among the performers at (Sept. 25, Midland Theatre; the Hot Times Community Arts & www.midlandtheatre.org) Music Festival, which will include China’s Golden Dragon Acroa street fair, arts, crafts, food bats — blending traditional vendors and the Columbus Childance, theater, spectacular dren’s Parade. (Friday through costumes, music and theater — next Sunday, 240 Parsons Ave.; will launch the Midland Theatre’s www.hottimesfestival.com) Family Series. (Nov. 15, Midland The Couchfire Collective, a Theatre, Newark) 3-year-old cooperative of artists, The King Arts Complex will will offer its second annual Inde- present its third annual “Legends pendents’ Day festival, a celeand Legacies” tribute to bration of urban creativity with Johnnetta B. Cole, director of the more than 100 artist booths, 30 Smithsonian Museum of African bands on three stages and dozArt; Samella Lewis, a Los Angeles ens of vendors. (Sept. 19, Down- painter, printmaker and writer; town along Pearl Alley, Lynn Alley and a person to be announced. and Gay Street between N. High (Oct. 7, King Arts Complex; and N. 3rd streets) www.kingartscomplex.com) Newark’s Midland Theatre will After its grand opening in
mid-October, the McConnell Arts Center of Worthington will present its first exhibit, “Generations: Dorothy Gill Barnes” (Oct. 15 to Jan. 3), focusing on the wood sculptor; and its first performance in its 200-seat theater, an audience singalong of Handel’s Messiah (Nov. 28). Presidio Brass, a brass chamber-music group from San Diego, will be part of the Union County Community Concert Series. (Sept. 27, Marysville High School) Heart of Light, the 21st annual Universal Light Expo, will offer 150 workshops, 330 vendor booths, a Tibetan monks’ sand mandala exhibit and about 130 speakers. (Oct. 10-11, Veterans Memorial; www.universe expo.com) Vaughn Wiester’s Famous Jazz Orchestra will perform in the
Community Concert Association of Knox County series. (Jan. 30, Memorial Theatre, Mount Vernon; www.ccaofknoxcounty.com)
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The Zanesville Concert Association will present the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra. (Feb. 4, Zanesville’s Secrest Auditorium; www.zanesville concertassociation.com) Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti will headline the annual Center Stage gala of the McCoy Community Center for the Arts. (May 8, New Albany; www.mccoycenterfor thearts.com) Marcon, the annual convention of science fiction and fantasy, will focus on horror themes with novelist Wen Spencer (Tinker), artist Billy Tackett, actor-artist Tom Savini and other panelists. (May 28-30, Hyatt Regency; www.marcon.org)
Lisa Lampanelli, a Tonight Show regular and the lovable queen of mean, no doubt will build on the raunchy themes in her recent HBO special. (Nov. 6, Palace Theatre) Performing a stand-up act will be Daniel Tosh, star of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0. (Nov. 13, Riffe Center) New York-based Chicago City Limits will present an improv comedy show. (Nov. 20, McCoy Community Center for the Arts, New Albany)
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Brian Posehn (mail clerk Kevin Liotta on the sitcom Just Shoot Me! and a frequent guest on Conan O’Brien’s show) also does clubs. (Nov. 20-22, Columbus Funny Bone) Chicago’s Second City improvcomedy troupe, the launching pad for many film and TV stars, will tour with its 50th-anniversary sketches based on scandals, wars and dalliances. (March 5, Southern Theatre)
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IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR LATE SUMMER, FALL Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival, Monday, Northam Park Via Colori, Sept. 19, North Market, 59 Spruce St. India Festival, Sept. 19, Veterans Memorial, 300 W. Broad St. German Village Oktoberfest, Sept. 25-27, Natural Resources/ Commercial Pavilion at the Ohio Expo Center New Albany Classic Invitational Grand Prix & Family Day, Sept. 27, Wexner residence Taste of Pickerington, Oct. 2, Columbus Street, Pickerington Columbus Italian Festival, Oct. 9-11, St. John the Baptist Church, 720 Hamlet St. Boo at the Zoo, Oct. 16-18, 23-25, 30-31, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, 4850 W. Powell Rd., Delaware County Allhallows Eve, Oct. 17 and 24, Ohio Historical Center and Ohio Village, I-71 and E. 17th Avenue Columbus Marathon, Oct. 18, start and finish lines Downtown Circleville Pumpkin Show, Oct. 21-24, downtown Circleville Santa Maria: The Haunted Ship, Oct. 29-31, Battelle Riverfront Park, 25 Marconi Blvd. Jewish Bookfair, Oct. 30 to Nov. 10, Jewish Community Center, 1125 College Ave. Columbus International Festival, Nov. 7-8, Veterans Memorial Wildlights, Nov. 20 to Jan. 2, except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Columbus Zoo A Christmas Carol, Nov. 27-29, Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St. Columbus Dance Theatre: The Matchgirl, Dec. 4-5, Fritsche Theater, Cowan Hall, 30 S. Grove St., at Otterbein College, Westerville Winterfair, Dec. 4-6, Ohio Expo Center, I-71 and E. 17th Avenue
Pleasure Guild of Nationwide Children’s Hospital: The Music Man, March 12-14, Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St. “Blooms & Butterflies,” March 13 to Sept. 6, Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E. Broad St.
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Columbus Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops, Dec. 4-6, Ohio Theatre, 55 E. State St. Short North Holiday Hop, Dec. 5, Short North Holiday Tour of Homes, Dec. 6, Olde Towne East “A Dickens of a Christmas,” Dec. 11-12, 18-20, Ohio Historical Center and Ohio Village BalletMet Columbus: The Nutcracker, Dec. 11-23, Ohio Theatre Merry TubaChristmas, Dec. 21, Mees Auditorium, College Avenue at E. Main Street, Capital University, Bexley WINTER First Night Columbus, Dec. 31, Capitol Square and other Downtown sites Boat & RV Show, Jan. 9-17, closed Jan. 11-12, Ohio Expo
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gymnastics, Feb. 19-21, Ohio Expo Center Central Ohio Home & Garden Show, Feb. 27 to March 7, Ohio Expo Center
Arnold Sports Festival, March 4-7, Veterans Memorial; Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.; Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd.; Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, 405 Neil Ave., and Dispatch Ice House, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd.
POP FROM PAGE E1 selling in British music history, will promote their third disc, Humbug (Sept. 28, Newport Music Hall). Prefer a less-rapid-fire style? Try the Irish export Snow Patrol (Sept. 27, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion). Wear your dancing pants. A WWCD (101.1 FM) “low-dough” show will feature the irresistible electronic stylings of the Boston band Passion Pit, whose single Sleepyhead is a hit at the clubs. We’ll be there. (Sept. 29, Newport Music Hall) Hey, remember the ’90s? Idaho rockers Built To Spill (Oct. 1, Newport Music Hall) and the fuzzed-out — and recently reunited — Massachusetts band Dinosaur Jr. (Oct. 10) are back with new material and old favorites to help you relive the greatest decade. Need even more nostalgia? Rock out to Stone Temple Pilots (Oct. 11, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion), the venue’s final outdoor show for the season. Rockin’ the Midwest. Indie-rock geek god Ben Folds will join forces with the Columbus Symphony to put a classical spin on his piano-heavy tunes. It’s a collaboration that the symphony is betting will attract younger audiences — we have a feeling they’re right. (Oct. 28, Veterans Memorial) Pop-punk parade. There are plenty of reasons to sport mascara and flat-ironed hair, including Canadian alt-punkers Billy Talent (Oct. 3, the Basement); California rockers AFI (Oct. 4, Newport Music Hall); the Massachusetts metal-core outfit All That Remains (Oct. 6, Newport Music Hall); and the pop stylings of Boys Like Girls (Oct. 15, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion). Brotherly love. OK, it’s been 12 years since MMMBop ruled the charts (and our hearts). But that doesn’t mean the Oklahoma trio Hanson can’t rock the house. See whether the melodic brothers still have the goods. (Oct. 7, Newport Music Hall) Finger-pickin’ good. The old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops (Oct. 7, Lincoln Theatre) is thought to be one of the last such African-American ensembles. Bluesguitar legend B.B. King, 83, is still doing his thing with style (Oct. 8, Palace Theatre). Playing the same night will be Texas country-folk songwriter Tom Russell (Oct. 8, Columbus Maennerchor). Canadian bakin’. The jazzy sounds of Toronto chanteuse Emilie-Claire Barlow, a two-time Juno award nominee (that’s the Grammys of Canada, folks), are delicate and delightful. (Oct. 9, Midland Theatre, Newark) Disney diva. The wig is off: Miley Cyrus (no blonde alter-ego necessary) is striking out on her own, putting a wedge between her maturing persona
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and the Disney Channel franchise. Will the Party in the U.S.A. songstress still attract those fickle tweens? Will her tour’s paperless ticketing be a total disaster? We can’t wait to find out. (Oct. 7, Nationwide Arena) Howlingly good. The jangling, slow-burning strains of Los Angeles alt-rockers Sea Wolf will draw you in like a cliff-dwelling siren. (Oct. 7, Wexner Center performance space) Latin flair. The psychedelic sounds of the Brazilian outfit Os Mutantes (“The Mutants”) will energize audiences (Oct. 10, Riffe Center), and the spiritual, Ladino/Judeo-Spanish stylings of Yasmin Levy (Nov. 12, Lincoln Theatre) will provide a more
thought-provoking angle. Party, people. It will be 1987 all over again when the “Madchester” scene Brits of Happy Mondays (they of our favorite spaz-out joint, 24 Hour Party People) team up with the Psychedelic Furs (The Ghost in You) for a night of dancing and — we assume — substance-free fun. (Oct. 12, Newport Music Hall) Wilco (the concert). The Chicago alt-country rockers of Wilco, touring to promote their latest release — the snarkily titled Wilco (The Album) — will return to Columbus for another presumably marathon-length affair (Oct. 12, Mershon Auditorium, Wexner Center for the Arts)
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SPRING, SUMMER Aladdin Shrine Circus, March 25-28, Ohio Expo Center African-American Heritage Festival, April 24 to May 1, Ohio State University Oval Asian Festival, May 29-30, Franklin Park, 1755 E. Broad St. Memorial Tournament, May 31 to June 6, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin Columbus Arts Festival, June 4-6, Discovery District, east of Downtown Columbus Pride, June 18-20, Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale St. Vaud-Villities: “The Best of Vaud-Villities,” June 24-27, Upper Arlington High School, 1650 Ridgeview Rd. ComFest, June 25-27, Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale St. German Village Haus und Garten Tour, June 27, German Village Red, White & Boom, July 3, Downtown riverfront Franklin County Fair, July 1724, Franklin County Fairgrounds, Hilliard Jazz & Rib Fest, July 23-25, North Bank Park and Arena District Violet Festival, July 28-31, Pickerington Ohio State Fair, July 28Aug. 8, Ohio Expo Center Dublin Irish Festival, Aug. 6-8, Coffman Park, Dublin Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival, August date to be announced, Civic Park Festival Latino, Aug. 14-15, Genoa Park, 303 W. Broad St., Downtown riverfront Greek Festival, Sept. 3-6, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 555 N. High St.
She’s bubbly. And why shouldn’t Colbie Caillat be all smiles? The low-key unknown became an adultcontemporary superstar — and a sales juggernaut — practically overnight. (Oct. 13, Newport Music Hall) Sky-high sounds. The soaring, indie-folk fare of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird will create the perfect soundtrack for a fall evening (Oct. 19, Southern Theatre). Equally appealing: the electro-tinged stylings of the British outfit Broadcast and the Atlanta group Atlas Sound (Oct. 29, Wexner Center performance space). Add it up. Like a little thought with your rock? Don’t miss the smart New Orleans rockers MuteMath (Oct. 22), who mesh fist-pumping chorus riffs with lively stage shows. Or check out the Los Angeles outfit the Airborne Toxic Event (Oct. 21) or — our latest obsession — the New Jersey band the Gaslight Anthem (Oct. 26), which worships at the altar of Bruce Springsteen (all at the Newport Music Hall). Somebody say hallelujah. Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who in 2008 began his first tour in 15 years, will perform his beloved fare from a respectable music career spanning more than three decades. (Oct. 27, Palace Theatre) But we like it, too. The harmonious, powerful sounds of Celtic Woman — four vocalists plus a fiddler — will surely evoke the spirit of the Emerald Isle. (Nov. 1, Palace Theatre) Buckeye State bill. Dan Auerbach, Akron native and frontman for the lauded blues-rock band the Black Keys, will perform on his own. His protegee, soulful 20-year-old Jessica Lea Mayfield, will open. A perfect pairing. (Nov. 5, Newport Music Hall) Monsters of rock. We can’t fight this feeling: Early 1980s mainstay REO Speedwagon, which will play with the prog-rockers of Styx, make us want to sail away. (Nov. 8, Nationwide Arena) Get funky. Need a pick-me-up? Spend an evening with Numero’s Eccentric Soul Revue (Nov. 9, Lincoln Theatre), a monster ensemble that specializes in overlooked R&B and soul tunes. Or check out the jazzfusion ensemble players from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. (Nov. 13, Lincoln Theatre) Primo screamo. Marked by chugging guitars and a frontman whose wails could shatter glass, the Columbus band Attack Attack! will perform for the bouncing, neon-clad masses. (Nov. 28, Newport Music Hall) Joyful noises. It wouldn’t be the holidays without a little music. For the jazz lover, there’s “Dave Koz and Friends: A Smooth Jazz Christmas 2009” (Dec. 6, Palace Theatre). Bluegrass fans will find a footstamping party when “A Skaggs Family Christmas” (Dec. 11, Palace Theatre), with Ricky Skaggs and the Whites, gets going.
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THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS CLASSICAL MUSIC Flautango — featuring flutist Rodolfo Vazquez, guitarist Sean Ferguson, cellist Darleen Barret and vocalist Carrie Jones — will perform a free concert organized by the No Strings Attached Chamber Music Society at 3 p.m. today in Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2070 Ridgecliff Rd., Upper Arlington. Call 614451-6677 or visit www. covenantpcusa.org. The Office of Compline will be chanted by the men of the Cathedral Choir at 9 tonight in St. Joseph Cathedral, 212 E. Broad St. The Office of Compline includes psalms, Scriptural passages, a hymn, a canticle and prayers. Admission is free. Call 614-241-2526 or visit www.cathedralmusic.org. “Pops Celebration� will feature the Greater Columbus Community Orchestra at 7 p.m. Friday on Main Street in downtown Hilliard. Admission is free. Call 614-340-9557 or visit www.oldhilliardfest.org. JAZZ There will be plenty of jazzy sounds at the Hot Times Community Arts & Music Festival, but sultry blues, reggae and hip-hop will be on tap, too. The weekend-long party will begin at 6 p.m. Friday on the lawn of Columbus Public Health, 240 Parsons Ave. Music will begin at noon Saturday and next Sunday.
A fond look back An afternoon of music and nostalgia will be offer ed when John Davidson — a T V, film and B roadway personality (and frequent guest host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) — performs at noon Tuesday in Villa Milano, 1630 Schrock Rd. Tickets cost $46, including lunch; r eservations are required. Call 1-800-482-3531 or visit www.jbpromo.com.
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391 Neil Ave. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $12, or $15 the day of the show. Call 614POPULAR MUSIC 461-5483 or visit www. promowestlive.com. Texas singer-songwriter Guy Forsyth — the theatrical guitarist The Columbus GospelFest, in formerly of the Asylum Street its 25th year, will throw a Spankers — will perform at righteous party from 1 to 8 p.m. 9 p.m. Monday in the Rumba Saturday in Genoa Park, 303 W. Cafe, 2507 Summit St. Tickets Broad St. Entertainment — incost $7, or $9 for ages 18 to 20. cluding performances by gospel, Call 614-268-1841 or visit www. dance and drama groups — will columbusrumbacafe.com. run all day. Admission is free. Call 614-205-7437. Craig Owens, lead singer of the Michigan post-hard-core band Chiodos, will perform on his own Friday in the Basement,
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Author Louise Erdrich focus of literary fest Her novel tells of Georgia Mae Brown, whose husband dies in the arms of a younger woman. Six weeks later, Georgia slides behind the wheel of her husband’s 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood and starts a new life. Hartzler and her husband, Tom, both graduates of Olentangy High School, operate Inn a Cabin guest cabins in the Hocking Hills. Call Beehive Books at 740-363-2337.
Copies of the Louise Erdrich novel Love Medicine will be given away beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday during the farm market on Mount Vernon’s square. The book distribution will set the stage for public events surrounding the Kenyon Review Literary Festival in November in nearby Gambier. Erdrich will appear Nov. 5-7 there. Love Medicine (1984) is an account of the lives of American Indians on a fictional North Dakota reservation. At 10 a.m., Rick Collins, an American Indian storyteller and musician, will perform. Books are limited to one per family. For more information, visit www.kenyon review.org.
Little Theatre off Broadway will present The Importance of Being Earnest, the classic British farce by Oscar Wilde, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. next Sunday — and selected dates and times through Oct. 3 — at 3981 Broadway, Grove City. Tickets cost $10, or $8 for students and senior citizens. Call 614875-3919 or visit www.ltob. org. Curtain Players will present Charley’s Aunt, Brandon Thomas’ mistaken-identity farce, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday — and selected times through Sept. 27 — at 5691 Harlem Rd., Galena. Tickets cost $14, or $12 for members, children and senior citizens. Call 614-360-1000 or visit www.curtainplayers.com.
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GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS A Muse Gallery, 996 W. 3rd Ave: “Mateo Galvano: Paintings and Mixed Media” (Saturday through Oct. 3) Art Access, 540 S. Drexel Ave., Bexley: “All About Materials” by Sharon Dougherty, Julie Abijanac and Melinda Kay Rosenburg (Tuesday through Oct. 3) Fresh A.I.R. Gallery, 131 N. High St.: “Images From the Wrong Side of the Brain: Photographs by Paul D. Wilbur” (through Oct. 30) Hammond Harkins Galleries, 2264 E. Main St., Bexley: “Looking Up: Amanda Hope Cook Paints Columbus,” (Sept. 24 through Oct. 25)
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By Nancy Gilson | THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
entral Ohio will continue its love affair with glass through a series of new and ongoing exhibits at sev eral venues — including shows by an artist whose work is becoming almost ubiquitous in the area: Dale Chihuly. If two-dimensional works are more to your liking, stop in at the Wexner Center for the Arts to see the first U.S. r etrospective of one of Europe’s most significant painters. Prepare your eyes for a variety of mediums — including design, fabric, historical documents, painting, photography and sculpture — in museums, art centers and galleries. ngilson@dispatch.com
Orchid by Luc Tuymans, the subject of a Wexner Center for the Ar ts exhibit
Center” presents a variety of works documenting the black American experience. (through Feb. 28) “The Legend of John Brown: Serigraphs by Jacob Lawrence” includes 22 works that tell the story of the white abolitionist. (through Dec. 6) “Were You There? An Illustrated Spiritual by Allan Rohan Crite” tells the story of Jesus’ Crucifixion with 20th-century black people in major roles. (Dec. 12 through Feb. 28) OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Hopkins Hall Gallery, 128 N. Oval Mall, will host new works by faculty members: photographer Ardine Nelson (Oct. 13-23); painter Ed Valentine and art-and-technology artist Amy Youngs (Oct. 26 through Nov. 6); and photographer Tony Mendoza and glass artist Richard Harned (Nov. 9-19). OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St., will present “Works by Neighborhood Design Center: Proposing New Possibilities,” showcasing projects from the past year. (Nov. 3 through Dec. 18) OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: RICHARD M. ROSS ART MUSEUM 60 S. SANDUSKY ST., DELAWARE (www.owu.edu) Paintings, drawings and painted objects by Marilyn Meek Webster — plus ceramic pieces by various artists — will be on view. (Sept. 30 through Nov. 15)
ABOVE: Grape Arbor, Le Puy by Alice Schille, at C apital University
HIGHLIGHTS CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: SCHUMACHER GALLERY COLLEGE AVENUE AT E. MAIN STREET, BEXLEY (www.capital.edu) “Lee and Grant,” a traveling exhibit, uses documents, photos, paintings and prints to trace the lives and influence of the two Civil War generals. (Wednesday through Oct. 17) “Alice Schille: The Early Years” is the first comprehensive exhibit devoted to the Columbus painter, who built a national reputation early in the 20th century. (Oct. 27 through Dec. 5) “Elliot Erwitt’s Dog Dogs” will feature canine portraits by the early 20th century photographer. (Feb. 12 through March 31) COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: CANZANI CENTER CLEVELAND AVENUE AND E. GAY STREET (www.ccad.edu) “Argentina Remembered” will present watercolors re-created by CCAD professor Walter King after the originals were stolen. (Nov. 26 through Dec. 19) COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART 480 E. BROAD ST. (www.columbusmuseum.org) Although much of the museum will be closed this year for renovation, a crowd-pleaser will be offered in the Ross Wing: “Chihuly Illuminated,” presenting six large installations, including neon works. (Sept. 25 through July 4) CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 139 W. MAIN ST. (www.culturalartscenteronline.org) “Harmonious Diversity” features fiber works by Jeanie Coy Auseon, Jean Weissman, Ele Ruman-Allen and Marlene Hyman. (through Oct. 3) DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO 145 E. MAIN ST., LANCASTER (www.decartsohio.org) “The Shakers: Abiding Inspiration in Faith and Design” will include chests, chairs, cupboards, tables, drawings, glass and even seed packaging — all from the Shaker tradition. (Oct. 3 through Jan. 3) “Artful Paper: Cut, Folded and Fabulous” will deliver a variety of vessels, collages, origami, clothes and books. (Jan. 3 through April 18) DUBLIN ARTS CENTER 7125 RIVERSIDE DR., DUBLIN (www.dublinarts.org) “TitrationIII: Rock, Paper, Sculpture”
OTTERBEIN COLLEGE (www.otterbein.edu) The Miller Gallery, 33 Collegeview Rd., Westerville, will present the exhibits “Photography Is a Record of Your Living” by David Stichweh (Sept. 14 through Oct. 16) and “Perpetual Obsolescence,” sculptural works by Carol Boram-Hayes (Jan. 4 through Feb. 5). Fisher Gallery, 27 S. Grove St., Westerville, will present “Conversations in Fabric,” contemporary quilts. (Jan. 4 through March 12) The Frank Museum of Art, 39 S. Vine St., Westerville, will present “Nam June Paik: The V-Idea and Evolution/Revolution Portfolios,” by the late video artist, who had a profound effect on electronic media. (Sept. 16 through Nov. 20)
ABOVE: A serigraph by Jacob Lawrence depicting John Brown planning a raid on a plantation to free slaves, from “The Legend of John Brown” at the Ohio Historical Center
RIFFE GALLERY 77 S. HIGH ST. (www.oac.state.oh.us) “Quilt National ’09” will present a selection of works from the annual show at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens. (Nov. 12 through Jan. 17) “Sawdust to Spectacle!” will trace the rise and fall of the traveling circus with imagery by Portsmouth native Clarence Carter and other Ohioans, along with posters, toys and photos. (Feb. 4 through April 18)
RIGHT: Silence by Judy Rush, from the “Quilt National ’09” exhibit at the Riffe Gallery
Pat and Mary Allen’s Shaker Seed Box, part of the “S hakers” exhibit at the D ecorative Arts Center of Ohio
is a one-year, outdoor sculpture exhibit by Joseph Wheelwright on the center grounds. (through next September) FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY 1777 E. BROAD ST. (www.fpconservatory.org) “Chihuly Reimagined” presents many of the glass artist’s works owned by the conservatory and displayed there. (through March 28) KENYON COLLEGE: OLIN ART GALLERY OLIN LIBRARY, GAMBIER “I Choose Darkness” presents Karen Yaskinsky’s video installation and drawings — childlike but unsettling animations. (Oct. 1-31) KING ARTS COMPLEX: ELIJAH PIERCE GALLERY 867 MOUNT VERNON AVE. (www.kingartscomplex.org)
The “African Art Tradition and Influence” series will showcase African art on loan from the Keith Neil African Art Gallery (representing Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali and Nigeria in west Africa), along with a focus on glass artist Steve Hazard (Nov. 12 through Jan. 9), sculptor Woodrow Nash (Feb. 11 through March 26) and painter Frank Frazier (April 8 through May 31). OHIO CRAFT MUSEUM 1665 W. 5TH AVE. (www.ohiocraft.org) “Conversations in Fabric” will showcase more than two dozen quilts incorporating color, texture, imagery and the printed word. (Sept. 13 through Nov. 1) “Be Our Guest: A Progressive Invitational” will feature wood-turned forms by 15 artists who were invited to exhibit their work as well as work by emerging artists. (Jan. 31 through March 28) OHIO HISTORICAL CENTER 1-71 AND E. 17TH AVENUE (www.ohiohistory.org) “Soul!: Art From the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural
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FORT HAYES METROPOLITAN EDUCATION CENTER: SHOT TOWER GALLERY 546 JACK GIBBS BLVD. Celebrating its 30-year relationship with the Ohio Art League, the gallery will present the league’s annual fall exhibition (Oct. 5 through Nov. 6) and spring exhibition (March 1 through April 26). WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS 1871 N. HIGH ST. (www.wexarts.org) “Luc Tuymans” will be the first U.S. retrospective of works by the Belgian painter, who often addresses the lingering effects of World War II, the postcolonial situation in the Congo and the aftermath of Sept. 11. The exhibit is organized by the Wexner Center and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Sept. 17 through Jan. 3) “Susan Philipsz: The Shortest Shadow,” at the same time, will include two sound-and-song pieces: Sunset Song, a recording of a 19thcentury American folk ballad, and The Dead, relating to the James Joyce short story.
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Scarlet and Yellow Persian and Feather Chandelier by Dale Chihuly, at Hawk Galleries
Hawk Galleries, 153 E. Main St.: “BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass,” also at the OSU Urban Arts Space, 50 W. Town St. (through Oct. 10); “Chihuly XIV,” new works and chandeliers by Dale Chihuly (Oct. 2 through Jan. 31)
Shocked by Doug Frates, at Hayley Gallery
Hayley Gallery, 45 2nd St., New Albany: “Shocked,” large glass bowls texturized using a water-shocking treatment, by Doug Frates (next Sunday through Oct. 10); “The Sugar Groove,” new paintings by Petersen Thomas (Oct. 11 through Nov. 14) High Road Gallery, 12 E. Stafford Ave., Worthington: “In Plein View,” juried exhibit by the Ohio Plein Air Society, and ceramic works by Sally King (through Sept. 26) Keny Galleries, 300 E. Beck St.: “Eric Barth Landscapes” and “Ed Charney: Land and Sky” (Nov. 6 through Dec. 1); “Ohio Modernism (1905-1955)” and “Edmund Kuehn: The Abstractions” (Dec. 6 through Jan. 22) Marcia Evans Gallery, 8 E. Lincoln St.: “John Donnelly: Whimsical Rhythms,” figurative abstract paintings (through Oct. 31)
Neopolitan Mountain by Micah Daw, at the Mahan Gallery
Mahan Gallery, 717 N. High St.: “Fresh Meat,” works by Micah Daw, Paul Rentler and Aaron Troyer (through Sept. 26) Monarch Gallery, 158-160 W. Wheeling St., Lancaster: “Flights of Fancy,” interpreting butterflies (through Sept. 26) Roy G Biv, 997 N. High St.: works by Andrea M. Keys and Emily Momohara (through Sept. 26); Anniversary Juried Exhibition (Oct. 3-31); works by Matthew Friday and Anjali Srinivasan (Nov. 7-28); “12 x 12 x 12,” small works (Dec. 5-19) Sharon Weiss Gallery, 20 E. Lincoln St.: “Paper and Paint by Viki Blinn” (through Sept. 27) Sherrie Gallerie, 694 N. High St.: “Scott Dooley: The Language of Surface and Form” (through Sept. 30) Thompson Memorial Library Gallery (Ohio State University), 1858 Neil Ave.: “Journeys: Treasures of the Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections” (through Jan. 3)