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The List: Nine greatest John Cusack characters

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COVER: This is the top-rated tourist attraction in Columbus, Ohio

10 Feature: Ohioana Library celebrates unsung Harlem Renaissance writer 12 Straight Jackets: Deadline Dilemma 13 Reply All 14 Things We Love: Picks from Tango Moms

musiC 16 Feature: Krate Digga 18 Locals: The Candescents 18 Staff Pick: Milo 19 Previews: Ruston Kelly, Joshua Powell, Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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Arts 20 Feature: Three Women 22 Preview: Lizzie 22 Preview: Kyle Swenson 23 Previews: Parallel, Kent Grosswiler, Nothing But the Truth Comedy Showcase 24 Movies: 2019 Oscar nominees actually worth watching

28 Behind Bars: Marlin’s pop-up bar at the Drexel Theatre 29 On Tap: Nostalgia Brewing Company 29 Food News

on the Cover: For months, Steve Wagner’s South Side car museum has held the No. 1 spot in Columbus on TripAdvisor.

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No American actor is as responsible for my distorted view of romantic love as John Cusack.

Cusack will be attending a screening of “High Fidelity” at the Palace Theatre on Friday, Feb. 15, followed by a moderated discussion with Alive’s Erica Thompson. In his honor, I ranked my favorite Cusack characters.

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1. Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity” “Hi, Rob … you fucking asshole!” This quote, delivered by Rob’s sister, Liz (played by actual sister Joan Cusack), really gets to the heart of the character. Gordon’s journey through his romantic past is supremely narcissistic (he’s quite begrudging in admitting any of it was his fault).

So why is Gordon the best Cusack character?

Because by the end of the movie he finally shows signs of growing up. Take notes, guys.

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2. Lloyd Dobler in “Say Anything” “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.” Let’s not blame Lloyd Dobler for the rise of the Toxic Nice Guy, because he was the real deal — prone to puppy dog love and awash in teenage emotions, but a genuinely good guy. Take more notes, guys.

“High Fidelity” 3. Craig Schwartz in “Being John Malkovich” Playing the nebbish puppeteer in Spike Jonze’s wonderfully weird dramedy, Cusack perhaps showed off his acting talent more here than in his most signature roles. Craig is the kind of neurotic character that so often comes from the mind of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.

4. Martin Q. Blank in “Grosse Pointe Blank” A paid assassin on a job that coincides with his 10th high school reunion, Blank is a rare chance for Cusack’s nice-guy stereotype to take on some dark edges.

5. Lane Meyer in “Better Off Dead” Hey, have we mentioned yet that a lot of characters and plots from movies of our past seem problematic

today? It’s not likely we’d see a comedy about a suicidal teen these days, but there’s something about Lane’s down-on-his-luck charm and the slapstick nature of the whole affair that works.

6. Mike Enslin in “1408” Here’s one more unexpected turn for Cusack.

It’s another Stephen King adaptation with a tortured author as a central character. This isn’t Jack Nicholson in “The Shining,” but this movie and character deserve more love.

7. Walter “Gib” Gibson in “The Sure Thing” Another example of this being a different time in teen comedies was this tale of Walter, a horny teenager making a crosscountry trip to meet a beautiful young woman, only to fall in love with

another beautiful young woman along the way.

(Yes, men wrote all of these movies.)

8. Adam in “Hot Tub Time Machine” Cusack played the straight man in this comedy, but there’s also this winking sense that he was just a grown-up version of the characters he played in his teen comedies, so the casting couldn’t have been better.

9. U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin in “Con Air” OK, so this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced trash didn’t really have an artistic impact beyond that enduring gif of Nicolas Cage’s blowing hair, but you have to admit that it’s kind of hilarious that the person charged with controlling a plane full of psychopath prisoners was … John Cusack.

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For months, Steve Wagner’s South Side car museum has held the No. 1 spot in Columbus on TripAdvisor

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here’s a long, narrow building at the corner of East Kossuth Street and South Washington Avenue, a couple of blocks west of Parsons Avenue on the South Side of Columbus. If you’ve ever driven by it, you probably didn’t notice it.

The concrete block on the building’s exterior is a dull gray-brown, stained black in spots, and the boarded windows are painted white. There’s no business sign, but next to a garage door there’s a small placard with a phone number and three words: “Open

by Appointment.”

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n the early afternoon of the first Friday in January, a young couple from Cincinnati is finishing a tour of the car museum. The two are heading to Canal Winchester for a weekend stay at the Doghouse, BrewDog’s new craft beer hotel. But this is their first stop.

“Thank you so much. That was a wonderful tour,” the man says to tour guide Steve Wagner. “Next time we’re up here I’m bringing my dad.”

Museum owner and curator Steve Wagner

As the couple is leaving, I ask how they found out about this place. “I looked up things to do in Columbus, and this was the first thing that popped up on Google,” the woman says.

“We never get people from Columbus. People in Columbus don’t look up things to do in Columbus,” says Wagner, who recommends the couple stop by Schmidt’s Sausage Haus for a cream puff and then gives them a short history of German Village.

Walking into Wagner’s museum feels a bit like Dorothy waking up in Oz. The exterior grays and whites give way to vibrant reds, blues and greens. Thirteen vintage cars create a corridor of chrome, while gas station paraphernalia, road signs and hundreds of colorful license plates from all over the world wallpaper the white cinder block.

Wagner loves cars, of course. His collection boasts a baby blue 1956 Chrysler Imperial, a navy blue 1956 Cadillac, an ember red 1958 Edsel Ranger and a white 1956 Lincoln Mark II, the most expensive American-built produc-

tion car that year. But the license plates get just as much attention on these one-hour tours.

Wagner collects single-digit plates from around the world, and he owns the rights to two such plates from Ohio — “U” and “E.” “To actually have the ownership rights to the plate is really, really, really hard to do,” Wagner said. “I had ‘J,’ but my buddy John really wanted it bad, so I let him have it. I’m a nice guy.”

Wagner displays plates from all over the globe (organized by continent), mistake plates (blanks, wrong colors) and Ohio plates from every year, plus license plates from the days when cities, not states, issued them; a 1906 brass Cincinnati plate would likely go for thousands on eBay. “When you collect license plates, you’re supposed to collect them from every state in the union and Canada the year you were born. This one was really hard to get,” Wagner said, pointing to a Louisiana plate. “Louisiana makes you turn in your old plates before they’ll give you new plates, and they’re literally

not out there. That was very expensive, unfortunately. But you can’t have all but one! What would people say?”

Wagner grew up poor in Southeast Ohio and loved cars as a kid. His parents insisted he and his siblings go to college, so he found his way to Bliss College, a former business school in Downtown Columbus, and got his first job with Huntington Bank. Over time, he found he could afford to buy more than one car. “Before you know it, I’m out of control on cars,” he said. “Your garage is full, so you buy a small warehouse. And then that’s not big enough, so you buy a bigger warehouse. I’m not married, you see. I do as I please. So I just buy what I want. But you get to the point that you got to stop because there’s no place to put them.”

Back in 1988, Wagner closed a mortgage for Mark Hagans. The two hit it off and became friends, and in 2008 they bought the 4,100-square-foot, 1930 former auto body shop on East Kossuth Street for $130,000; Hagans said they spent about $20,000 rehabbing the

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Since last summer, that nondescript building has been the No. 1 attraction in Columbus on TripAdvisor, beating out the travel website’s 120 other listings, including destinations like Ohio Stadium, Franklin Park Conservatory and Easton Town Center. “This is a must do for everyone in Columbus or visiting,” raved a visitor last month, awarding another 5 out of 5 rating to this secretly popular spot: the WagnerHagans Auto Museum.

Technically, the TripAdvisor listing is out of date. For the past year and a half, the museum’s official name has been the Wagner-Jaybird Auto Collection (more on that later). But you won’t find either name on the Experience Columbus website. In fact, until a recent phone call, reps from the city’s tourism bureau didn’t know the place existed.

For the past couple of years, Columbus has landed on a new list seemingly every week. Recently The New York Times named Columbus among 52 places to go in 2019, touting the city’s trendy restaurants, a driverless shuttle along the Scioto Mile and a “booming downtown.” Food and Wine called Columbus a place to go and eat in 2019.

TripAdvisor also recently listed Columbus as one of the top 20 places to visit in the United States in 2019, which means a former Schumacher Place auto body shop has somehow become one of the website’s don’t-miss attractions nationwide. So how, exactly, did this car collection rise to the top?

There was no secret marketing blitz.

No one gamed the TripAdvisor system or mounted a prank-vote campaign a la “Boaty McBoatface.” It’s merely the result of free tours given by a friendly 69-year-old mortgage lender named Steve Wagner.

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space that would become the WagnerHagans Auto Museum.

“I’d always wanted to open a museum since I was practically a teenager.

It was kind of a pipe dream. This was my chance,” said Hagans, a used car dealer, auctioneer and vehicle appraiser.

“I thought, ‘Well, this would be a nice place, and I can bring my friends down here.’ I just never thought it would go any further than that.”

From the start, Hagans said Wagner was more focused on visitors than he was, so Wagner handled most of the occasional tour duties. Then, about five years ago, a couple from Boston toured the collection and asked Wagner if they could put the museum on TripAdvisor.

“I said, ‘Go ahead!’” Wagner said. “Well, my God. The phone just rings.”

The TripAdvisor listing provides the museum’s address and Wagner’s cellphone number (no email) and indicates the tours are by appointment only. A photo gallery gives the flavor of the place, which has earned a “Certificate of Excellence” from TripAdvisor — a designation given to spots that “consistently earn great reviews from travelers.” In May of last year the museum was in the No. 2 spot, and sometime over the summer it hit No. 1. According to TripAdvisor’s Molly Burke, the ranking is based on “an algorithm which factors in traveler reviews — including quality, quantity and recency of reviews — and the consistency of those reviews over time.” (The museum had 137 reviews as of early February.)

Wagner has hosted visitors from 31 countries, and he said he gives around 300 tours a year — all free, though there’s a donation box. As the tours picked up, Hagans felt ready to break out on his own. He owns 28 cars, 18 of them Packards, which were made between 1899 and 1956. It’s an older, historybased collection, and he wanted more room for his cars. He also had a different vision for the museum than Wagner.

“I wanted it to look more like an old dealership. He just wanted to wallpaper everything,” Hagans said. “He wanted something to look at everywhere.”

And the tours. There were just so many of them. “It went crazy, and I was kind of like, ‘Maybe we should put the brakes on this a little bit,’” Hagans aid.

“He just went to town with it.”

Clockwise from top left: Cadillac hood ornament, a collection of license plates from around the world, turn signal light on the hood of a Chrysler Imperial

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bout four years ago, Jay Borman and his wife were interested in purchasing a house near the museum. “When we first looked at the house I was like, ‘Oh, God. What’s that dingy warehouse building next door?’” Borman said. But after noticing the door open and then touring the space, his fears were assuaged. He and his wife moved in and got to know Wagner and Hagans.

About a year and a half ago, when Hagans was itching to move his collection to a new, larger space about 20 miles north of Polaris (Packard Columbus: The Hagans Auto Museum), the partners approached Borman about becoming Wagner’s new partner. He enthusiastically agreed, so the museum became the Wagner-Jaybird Auto Collection. But there was a hiccup: Nobody could figure out how to change the TripAdvisor listing without losing years of reviews. So the old name remains, and nobody seems to mind.

Borman’s military-influenced collection takes up the back end of the museum. After finding out his grandfather drove a jeep in World War II, Borman, his dad and his brother bought and

restored a 1943 Ford GPW jeep, and the collection grew from there to include other jeeps, motorcycles, a weapons carrier and more.

“Steve has a lot of veterans who’ve come through, and they’re not really expecting to see some of that stuff,” said Borman, who works for Express in the marketing department.

Borman happily plays a behind-thescenes role. Wagner, who looks every bit the part of a 60-something mortgage lender in loafers, dark pants and a button-down, remains the face of the museum, giving visitors pretty much the same tour filled with stories behind the cars and pieces of memorabilia, some of which are personal to Wagner, like his speeding ticket from the Autobahn in Germany.

During the tour, a gutted 1948 TV plays eight hours’ worth of vintage car commercials as Wagner moves from item to item, segueing between stories with “Anyway, so…” or “So, anyway…” and wrapping up the tour with, “So, that’s all I know.”

He doesn’t quite know how to explain the sky-high online ratings. “They seem to like my personality, my enthusiasm,” said Wagner, who often posts on

Facebook about new, interesting visitors to the museum.

“It’s not just the tour,” Borman said.

“It’s also this collection of people that have come to visit over the years. He collects cars, and he collects visitors.”

Hagans can’t account for the popularity of the museum aside from the “over-the-top friendly” nature of his friend. “It’s a great little place,” Hagans said, “but I think the difference is Steve.

They like him.”

The experience Wagner has created is as DIY and personal as it gets. Even at No. 1, it’s still a secret. It feels like a surprise. And it’s not a commercial venture.

“If you look at the other things on TripAdvisor in the top 10, it’s the Arena District or Easton or whatever. They’re all bigger, institutional destinations.

This is Steve talking to people and telling them stories,” Borman said. “In many ways, he’s like a shaman back from 200 years ago who’s going to verbally tell stories, and that one-on-one connection, people really respond to that. … To just focus on this one person telling these stories like they would have back in the day, I think it hits this human communication thing that resonates with people.”

There’s something quaint and small-town about an amiable mortgage lender talking about his cars landing at the No. 1 spot above Columbus’ titans of tourism. It’s not exactly the image the city is trying to project. But in a call with Experience Columbus staffers Amy Tillinghast and Megumi Robinson, they suggested the collection could be a microcosm of Columbus itself — a hidden gem within a hidden gem.

Perhaps that’s giving the city too much credit, perhaps it’s not. Columbus has long been cursed by its generic name, but that lack of name recognition also allows it to hide in plain sight, not unlike a roomful of shiny cars gift-wrapped in stained concrete. And inside that unassuming structure, with fluorescent lights hanging from a polystyrene foam ceiling, visitors don’t get glossy brochures or promotional USB sticks. The place isn’t part of a marketing campaign that’s trying to put Columbus “on the map.” It’s just some cool cars and an affable guy with some extra time and money and an encyclopedic knowledge of license plates, and he wants to tell you some stories.

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There is perhaps no one more synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance than Langston Hughes, who burst onto the scene of the African-American social and artistic movement in 1921 with his signature poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” going on to publish more poetry, short stories, essays, plays and novels.

Hughes received numerous literary awards and honorary degrees throughout his storied career. His former home in Harlem has also been designated a historic landmark.

Can you imagine if such a renowned figure co-signed your writing?

For the late Ohio writer Chester Himes, it was a reality.

On Nov. 24, 1945, Hughes wrote a letter to the Ohioana Library Association in Columbus about Himes’ work. Established in 1929, the library collects literature solely about or by Ohioans.

(While Hughes lived much of his life in Harlem, he attended high school in Cleveland and is featured in the library.)

“Our corresponding secretary wanted to know of other noted African-American writers, and [Hughes] said, ‘Chester is one of them,’” said Ohioana Executive Director David Weaver.

Despite the endorsement from Hughes, Himes, who started writing as an inmate at the Ohio Penitentiary, did not gain widespread recognition in his lifetime. In recent years, however, people have been highlighting his work. (A new biography of Himes by Lawrence P. Jackson was released in 2017.)

To contribute to that momentum of discovery, the Ohioana Library Association will

present “From Prison to Prominence: Life & Literary Work of Chester Himes” on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the new Martin Luther King branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.

It is part of Columbus’ celebration, “I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100.”

“Even though it was [called] the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem was not the only place where it took place,” Weaver said. “There were writers, musicians, artists and entertainers who were performing all over the country.”

For the Ohioana program on Himes, Columbus author and teacher Yolonda Tonette Sanders will share a presentation that includes a Q&A with Himes, as portrayed by local actor Tony Roseboro.

“I was not familiar with the name Chester Himes whatsoever,” Tonette Sanders said. “The Ohioana Library has a huge file on [him], and so I started going through their material. … He was an awesome writer.”

Himes was born in Missouri and later relocated to Cleveland with his family. He attended Ohio State, but was expelled.

Afterwards, he was charged with armed robbery and sentenced to prison for 20 years.

At the Ohio Penitentiary, Himes published stories in black publications before landing a piece on the tragic prison fire of 1930 (“To What Red Hell”) in Esquire. His reputation grew, and he was released from prison after serving less than eight years.

Garnering more attention from European readers, Himes moved to Paris in the 1950s.

“He talks about that rejection [in his autobiography, The Quality of Hurt],” Tonette Sanders said. “It seemed like America thought that they could only

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have room for two AfricanAmerican male authors: Richard Wright and James Baldwin.”

When he was abroad, Himes created his popular Harlem Detective series of nine novels, including A Rage in Harlem and Cotton Comes to Harlem, which

tive Detective. “I was reading [Cotton Comes to Harlem], and I can picture the scenes, how the characters look. It was so vivid, and when people can create that kind of realism, I’m hooked.”

She hopes the program will expand attendees’ knowledge of African-American artists.

“A lot of times during Black History Month, at least when I was growing up, you heard about Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, but [not] Chester Himes, and he has so many works,” she said. “[Our artistry] is powerful and I would dare to say not as prominent as it should be. We’re still in a corner of the bookstore.” were later made into films.

Tonette Sanders plans to show clips from at least one of his films during the presentation.

“I’m a visual person,” said Tonette Sanders, who has published her own books in a mystery series called The Protec-

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The central storyline of this Blue Jackets season has been the futures of forward Artemi Panarin and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky.

In the latest development, the two stories may have become one, as Panarin announced he was bailing on agent Dan Milstein and hiring Paul Theofanous, who also represents Bobrovsky. A case of friends sharing business advice, or is this creating a package deal situation for the two Russian-born players? Rumors had the players separately interested in Florida (Panarin already owns a condo in Miami).

As the Feb. 25 NHL trade deadline approaches, General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen has basically three scenarios: Trade both players. This option comes with two subheadings, whether to trade them as a package or in separate deals. Trading the players together presents significant pitfalls. How many teams want to add both a scoring winger and top goalie who are going to be looking to sign high-priced, long-term contracts this offseason? Florida, again, has been rumored as a package destination, but that’s a young team that may just want to take its chances on signing both players as free agents without sending the Jackets players or draft picks. But boy, would Jonathan Huberdeau help ease the sting in Columbus.

The other option would be trading both players but to different teams.

Contenders that might see Panarin as a player who could put them over the top and, thus, be worth losing something in trade for, include Nashville, Toronto and Boston. The Predators, in particular, have two young wingers in Kevin Fiala and Eeli Tolvanen, either of who would look nice in Union Blue.

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look at this route. The market for Bob might be smaller than for Panarin, given that he’s having a shaky season in net.

But he’s won his last several starts, and is a two-time Vezina winner. He’d be an upgrade in net for several teams looking to make a playoff run. Joonas Korpisalo has essentially matched Bob in results this season, and the team might decide it is willing to try to withstand his loss and still make a run.

Hold both players. This might seem counterintuitive, given that both players are pending free agents who have intimated they’re moving on. But neither has come right out and said it, so, maybe there’s a chance? Would Jarmo have the stones to keep both players, hoping for a bit of a playoff run (for a franchise that’s never won a playoff series, not that you needed the reminder — sorry to pick the scab), and then just lose both in the offseason with potentially nothing to show for it? (I mean, a series win isn’t guaranteed even with both players, and trading neither means no players or picks added in return.)

As crazy as it sounds, I’d hold both players unless absolutely blown away by a trade offer, and see if you can make some hay in the postseason. That might be the long-suffering, no-playoff-winning fan in me speaking, and losing both players with no assets in return this offseason would hurt, even if the Jackets win a series (or two?). But I’d be willing to take the chance. Who knows? Maybe the Breadman decides that Columbus is the place for him after all.

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By Tango MoMs Tango Moms is a power pop band from Columbus issuing its debut album, Temper, on Saturday, Feb. 16, at a release show at the Shrunken Head with supporting acts Something Else, Courtney from Work and Discount Nostalgia.

James Harker (Spirit of the Bear/Ghost Soul Trio) produced the new album, which follows a relationship through love, lust and (eventually) murder. Here are some things the guys in Tango Moms love.

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Vinyl Austin Crist: There is nothing quite like setting out time in your day to make a nice pot of Maxwell House and selecting a fine record. I enjoy the time it takes, sifting through the different genres and finally choosing your choice of a masterpiece. Then sitting on your bed, opening a good book about murder, sipping some joe and listening to tunes.

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The diverse representation of groups of people in local art Ben Gordon: Columbus does well in fashion and in local music to represent POC, women and the LGBTQIA community. I see it at every show. I see it every time I’m out with friends or meeting new people, many of whom are part of the aforementioned groups. Their influence is growing rapidly in Columbus.

Classics Victory’s Live Preston Budd: Columbus has a massive amount of music venues all varying in size. Victory’s would easily be our favorite thus far. Jeff Straw is the venue’s lead sound engineer and he makes us

sound great every time we have played there. It is such a warm, inviting and safe environment for shows. The stage is a perfect size for our band to get rowdy and not topple over onto each other.

There’s no place better in Columbus.

Music Go Round Jon Coon: I love looking at gear, and I’m not sure if it’s a hobby or an obsession at this point. Regardless, my bank account can’t always support my desire to go out and buy a brand new pedal all the time. Fortunately, there’s Music Go Round. I almost always go to the used pedals to check out what deals I can find, and there always seems to be a steady flow of equipment going in and out that I’ve been eyeing, so I often walk out with a “new” toy without feeling too bad about how much I spent. Musicians on a budget can get a good deal on equipment, plus the equipment not being played gets back into the hands of players. If I’m going to go to a music shop just to browse, I always seem to find myself at Music Go Round.

The Main library Whetstone Library is the branch closest to me, so it’s the one I usually frequent. And it’s great.

But on a recent visit to the Main library to hear Deb and James Fallows speak, I was reminded of how much I love the revamped Downtown location. I could spend all day roaming the aisles in the beautiful, inviting space.

—Joel Oliphint Carried By Six This newborn hip-hop collective includes producers Soop and Snow, along with rappers Dom Deshawn, Sarob, Trek Manifest and Joey Aich. Individually, each of these artists has shined in the last 12 months or so, but healthy competition brought out the best in everyone on the group’s debut EP, which should be out any moment (if it’s not already).

Carried By Six makes its live debut at Ace of Cups on Thursday, Feb. 28, and you should look for a feature in next week’s Alive.

—Andy Downing Jack Black I think Jack Black is in my top 10 favorite celebrities of all time. I recently re-watched “High Fidelity,” and his breakout performance still holds up. You really can’t beat the combo of impressive comedic timing and exceptional talent as a singer and songwriter. Seeing Tenacious D live last year was truly a dream come true. I have to catch up on his latest films, and I can’t wait to see what he does next.

—Erica Thompson

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or Krate Digga, rhythm is the propulsive, central force in music, sure, but it’s also so much more than that.

As Digga explained his concept of rhythm in an engaging, 10-minute interview monologue, one could envision a camera locked onto a fetus’ heartbeat in utero and then slowly pulling back to capture the cadence of the delivery room and then the city, country and planet, until the entire cosmos could be viewed swirling in broadly repetitive motions. And still it’s more than that, Digga

said, moving forward and backward through time, echoed in the parts of his ancestors that he still carries with him, and which will be passed on to future generations, receding and moving to the fore in unpredictable but noticeable patterns over millennia.

“A lot of people don’t think in that context of rhythm being something that’s non-musical, or having such a stretchedout timeframe that there’s a wide arc before it comes back around,” Digga said during a mid-February interview at his studio space on the fourth floor of the Lincoln

Theatre. “A lot of people want to be able to hear or feel the turn, or comeback, of the rhythm in a space, so rhythm is often thought about in short increments as opposed to seeing life as a rhythm from the start to the end of it, and even after that. … Even after you’re gone from Earth, you have a spirit that reaches back in touch, whether it’s cycling through people you were here with, or through your children and your children’s children. It’s not a linear concept, at all.”

This admittedly complex view of a concept developed in infancy forms the

basis of the longtime Columbus DJ’s new stage show, “Let the Rhythm Hit’em,” a multidisciplinary production that will feature a video component and dual DJs spinning alongside a live drummer and myriad singers, dancers, actors and poets.

The show, curated by musician, activist and educator Mark Lomax, runs for three nights at the Wexner Center for the Arts beginning on Thursday, Feb. 21.

“Let the Rhythm Hit’em” also doubles as the most complete portrait of Digga as an artist that he’s crafted to date, allowing aspects of his personal-

ity that normally don’t surface onstage to bubble to the fore.

“Generally speaking, I’m an outwardly stern person. I’m not one who wears my emotions on my sleeve, and when I’m DJing, I’m very focused, very intense. It’s a cerebral process for me,” Digga said.

“But people who really know me know that I joke all the time. … There are parts of this show where people will be like, ‘That’s Krate being Krate,’ and they’ll get it, and they’ll make fun of me later. It’s allowing some of those other parts of my personality to come through and touch people.”

The multidisciplinary aspect of the production is true to his upbringing, too. Growing up, Digga said he was pushed by his parents to try new things, often whether he wanted to or not. (“Mom was like, ‘I signed you up and you’re going to do it,’” he said.) In elementary school, for instance, his parents enrolled him in weekend classes of West African drum and dance taught by Tony West, where Digga was exposed to rhythms that would

continually resurface as he got deeper into hiphop during his middle and high school years.

While Digga experimented with DJing as a child, scratching cheap 45s from Disney productions like “Mary Poppins,” “Davy Crockett” and “The Swamp Fox,” it wasn’t until he attended college at Kentucky State University on a track scholarship that he started to approach the art form with a degree of seriousness.

“I started to get more intentional about learning [the turntables], so I’d get up at 6 o’clock in the morning and go to track practice, and then I would have class, then another practice in the afternoon. … After dinner, I would go to the dorm room and put a 90-minute tape in the recorder, and then I would record myself practicing, going on even after the tape stopped, sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning,” he said. “I invested a lot of time learning it, and it’s just kind of become a part of who I am.”

Even now, Digga said he’s still developing his skillset, continuing to build on a repertoire

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developed over more than two decades spent making music. In late 2011, for example, he started learning to play guitar on an old acoustic inherited from his late grandfather, and the skills he has developed strumming the six-string have surfaced in unexpected ways when he DJs. “The creation of different guitar notes and runs, even just in those fingerings, has changed how I now do different fader control movements on the mixer,” he said. “Something I used to do with three fingers, I can now do with four fingers because I’m now used to plucking or strumming with all of them.”

It also, in a way, allows the spirit of his grandfather to carry on through him, reaffirming Digga’s concept of rhythm as a complex pattern that echoes across generations as loudly as it does in any of the random songs scattered across the radio dial.

“I wholeheartedly believe that I come from a lineage of ancestors who all have a finger on me, so to speak, and they all push influences and spiritual knowledge into me, and that helps dictate my rhythm,” he said. “The production really speaks to that, to how rhythm is something that’s in creation even before we can hear, speak, feel. It’s in our heartbeat, and in that primal rhythm of humanity.”

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the CandesCents

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When it comes to songwriting, the Candescents’ Alex Harris is a perfectionist. The singer/guitarist will take a first draft of a song and refine it until it’s exactly right.

“A very important thing with pop melodies is that it sounds right to your ears. Every song gets the sleep-on-it test, and if I listen to it … the next day and it isn’t where I want it, then it’s not right,” Harris said. “Melody is my most important thing. … I’m trying to walk this line between rock and pop — an older genre but in the modern age. I feel like that is the heart of the Candescents, trying to walk that line.”

It’s a tightrope the quartet — Harris, Miguel Alfredo Acero III (drums) and brothers Cody (bass) and Alex von Lehmden (guitar) — ably walks on 2018 EP Riverside Dr. and the forthcoming Grass EP, which

the Candescents will celebrate with a release a show at Rumba Cafe on Friday, Feb. 15. Each infectious song beckons listeners to sing along, and they’re all loaded with enough guitars to please rock radio and enough polish to appease the iHeartMedia gatekeepers.

It’s fitting, then, that the two EPs are being released by Dirty Hit, a UK label that’s home to the 1975 and Pale Waves.

The band spent about a month in Los Angeles recording the two EP’s eight songs with producer John Gilmore, which followed a month spent living and practicing in Ventura, California. Prior to that, the four friends, who met at Ohio State about five years ago, were holed up in rural Fort Jennings, Ohio, the hometown of the von Lehmdens. “[The label and management] wanted us to hide out and write a lot and practice a lot and just try to

get really good,” Harris said. “The joy of creating new music is one of my favorite things, so that part was fun.

But it could be very isolating.”

Because of that early label interest, the Candescents didn’t cut its teeth in the local scene in quite the same way bands typically do. The four-piece had more of a national emphasis from the get-go, so for the past few years, local Candescents shows have been few and far between. But Harris hopes to change that.

“We really wanna start playing more Columbus and Ohio shows to make up for that a little bit,” Harris said, adding that the band has a new album written and plans to record it themselves. “Also I really miss playing house shows. House shows are so fun. And alcohol is cheaper when you just bring it yourself.”

In 2018, off the heels of releasing the excellent Budding Ornithologists Are Weary of Tired Analogies, Maine rapper Milo, born Rory Ferreira, announced on Twitter that it would be the last Milo album, with a final tour or two to follow in 2019 before “milo is officially over.”

Considering this current Midwest swing doubles as a parting shot, it shouldn’t surprise that the rapper/ producer is approaching promotion with about as much effort as a senior on the last day of high school. Reached via email about the possibility of a phone

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interview with Alive, Milo wrote, “yeah i’m down. but you got to be smokin a doobie on yr end.”

Responding to a second email trying to establish a day and time for the phone call, the rapper wrote, “can you confirm you’ll be burning down a fattie?” (The interview never took place.)

Expect far more engagement onstage from the sharp, lyrically inventive, probing MC, who veers effortlessly between gauzy, laid-back cuts and dense lyrical explorations where torrents of syllables flash like white-hot shrapnel.

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ruston Kelly

On “Blackout,” Kelly doesn’t fare much better: “I black out in a bar/I get high in my car/I drive ’round in circles/Till I’m seeing stars.”

With a voice somewhere between A.A. Bondy and Ryan Adams, Kelly doesn’t wallow in his failures, nor does he celebrate them. Instead he coats his open-wound songs with a thin film of melancholy that’s just translucent enough to let in some healing light.

Like his Grammy-winning wife, Kacey Musgraves, Kelly has no qualms about stretching country music outside

By Joel oliphint

Nashville singer and songwriter Ruston Kelly’s 2018 album, Dying Star, charts the musician’s rebirth after a period of substance abuse that led to a life-altering overdose. Often, Kelly doesn’t hide the hard truths about his former self behind veiled metaphor. “I took too many pills again,” he sings on the opening line of “Faceplant,” then repeats it again just to make sure you heard him right.

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• The Talbott Brothers at Rumba Cafe

• Dr. Dog at Newport Music Hall

• Brother Bird, Field Sleeper at Big Room Bar

• Donna Missal, Samia at A&R Bar

• El Ten Eleven, Brujas del Sol at A&R Bar

• Hey Monea! at Rumba Cafe

THURSDAY 14

FRIDAY 15

SATURDAY 16

• Steven King, Natural Sway at Rumba Cafe

• Orchards, Roof Dogs, Snarls at the Summit

• Angela Perley at Natalie’s Coal-Fired Pizza

• Weeknight at Big Room Bar

• Lost Weekend Records 16th Anniversary Show at Ace of Cups

• BAS at A&R Bar

20 • G Jones at Skully’s • Joe Pug at Rumba Cafe • Balms at Fairy Garden

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• Coin at Newport Music Hall

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• Anderson East at Newport Music Hall

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• Peter Murphy at Columbus Athenaeum

• Luke Combs at Schottenstein Center

• The Kooks at Newport Music Hall

• Luke Combs at Schottenstein Center

• The Cowboys, Connections at Cafe Bourbon St.

• Great Lake Swimmers, Native Harrow at Rumba Cafe

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Back in January of 2018, Joshua Powell spoke to Alive about shedding the latter half of his band name, Joshua Powell and the Great Train Robbery, partially as a way to slough off the folk-music trappings of such a moniker. Now, with brand-new album Psycho/Tropic released under his birth name, the transformation is complete, and the bracing, psychedelic sound is all the better for it as Powell uses surrealism to interrogate his former reality. (Safe bet)

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of its comfort zone, making use of a vocoder on “Son of a Highway Daughter” while also highlighting his father’s pedalsteel playing. And along with his willingness to experiment, there’s a refreshing honesty about what he’s learned and what he hasn’t during recovery. “You don’t have to understand everything all of the time,” he sings on closing track “Brightly Burst into the Air.” (Don’t miss it)

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ate Morgan, Robie Benve and Veena Bansal are all

Columbus-based artists, having arrived here from different parts of the world, at different times in their lives. Each also incorporates a mixed-media approach in her work, to dramatically different

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Kate Morgan

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yet rewarding effect.

Veena Bansal

medical research.

When the family moved to Columbus in 2010, Benve spent a year as a stay-at-home mom and began painting every day. “I found my bliss,” Benve said.

While her adeptness with form and figure drew her initially to landscape work (which she still practices; witness her “Short North Arches” in this exhibition), she became interested in the freedom of abstract art. Her latest series combines these approaches, with her interpretations of parts of the human body as viewed through a microscope giving off a distinctly abstract vibe.

“People don’t recognize … that this one is a liver, or this one is inside the ear,” Benve said. “But I find it fascinating. If it’s healthy, it’s a perfect machine, everything in the right place and with a reason.”

The assurance that Veena Bansal’s work evokes is the result of a life welllived. A blend of figurative and floral painting with abstract influences, her mixed-media work is the result of past experience — she was an avid art student growing up in India and, when she had a young family in the U.S., she did decorative work in people’s homes — and the challenges that come with trying to make a life in a new place.

“My husband worked and was going to school. I was in a foreign country. My art was my savior,” Bansal said.

Bansal’s expression, her fulfillment through art, was slow but steady in coming. Even as she was doing work for others, employing the ultra-traditional technique she learned in India, she was pushing, exploring. In her words, maturing.

“The eyes I have now are so different than the eyes I had when I was 19 or 20,” Bansal said. “Now I see a lot more.

It does play a part in the art.”

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Since the three had not all met each other prior to this exhibition of their work at Marcia Evans Gallery in the Short North, here’s an Alive story that can also serve as an introduction.

How long do you have to have been doing good, recognized work before you’re no longer an “emerging” artist?

I think it’s safe to call Kate Morgan emerged.

Her trademark figurative collages — women with unnaturally elongated features and hair made of old paper — were not arrived at overnight. Because of that journey, it’s a style in which she still feels like she has something to say.

“I made all of my bad decisions early [in life] so I could get my shit straight,” Morgan said. After dropping out of college due to depression, she left Columbus at age 18 for Florida with a boyfriend “who validated me, I guess,” she said. A few years later and in staggering debt, she moved to upstate New York where her parents were living and got herself together. A partial scholarship to CCAD brought her back to Columbus, where her art emerged while she was working in commercial photography.

“All those things build character, and, for me, have brought me to a place where I’m comfortable doing this,” Morgan said.

She began collage work because she had come into possession of an 1800s Bible. “Everybody has all of this old paper (Morgan also uses maps, sheet music and other antique paper), and it’s cool and has value, and what are you going to do with it?” she said. “You put it in a drawer and the next generation is going to throw it out, so here I’m honoring the past.”

Robie Benve grew up in a family in which everyone could draw, so she didn’t think much of it as a talent.

Raised near Venice, Italy, surrounded by the work of historic masters, she fought the comparison, first by gravitating toward abstract work, and later by entering business school, getting married and moving to the U.S., where her new husband would embark on a career in

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Here’s that rock musical you’ve been waiting for in which there’s ax-wielding happening both in the pit and onstage.

“Lizzie” is a four-woman rock retelling of the story of Lizzie Borden, who, you’ll recall, is infamous for possibly murdering her parents. Lizzie was acquitted of the crime in court, and no one was ever subsequently charged with the murders. Drama, intrigue, murder, Victorian dresses… what more could you want in a rock musical?

Cassie Gress, who plays Lizzie Borden friend and confidant Alice Russell in Bloody Good Productions’ presentation of “Lizzie,” which takes place at Park Street Theatre Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15-16, said she knew from the first time she happened onto the Bikini Kill/Runaways-esque songs from “Lizzie” that she wanted to perform the show.

Gress said she and castmate Dakota Thorn (who plays Borden housekeeper Bridget Sullivan, called Maggie by the Bordens) were on a road trip to the annual United Professional Theatre Auditions in Memphis and had pulled up a musical theater channel on a mobile music streaming service when the then-unfamiliar songs started playing.

“We were like, ‘What is this? It’s amazing,’” Gress said. “We listened to it like six times straight. We said right then we were going to do this.” In the past year or so, they have assembled a

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team of friends and contacts inside and out of the theater community to address funding, rights, direction and other production needs (costuming, finding a theater, hiring a band, etc.).

“Somehow we’ve gotten everything we need,” Gress said. “But even now we’re still wondering, ‘Are we really doing this?’ ” The production concerns the infamous events of Fall River, Mass., in the summer of 1892. (For those not familiar, Lizzie and Emma Borden’s parents were murdered with an ax in their home. Lizzie and Bridget/Maggie were home at the time but claimed to not have been aware of anything unusual. Lizzie was arrested, tried and acquitted, although she remains the prime suspect in history.)

But while there is some concern with telling the gruesome tale — excerpts from the courtroom transcript are used as dialogue in “Lizzie” — the musical is primarily concerned with the relationship among the four women.

“There are lots of theories about what happened, and ‘Lizzie’ addresses those, but from the perspective of these important women

in Lizzie’s life,” Managing Artistic Director Andrew Protopapas said.

Lizzie and Emma get on as sisters do, in both positive and negative ways. Bridget/Maggie is a significant figure in the lives of both young women — perhaps maternal in many respects, if given rumors about the girls’ father’s abuse and mother’s ineffectuality are valid.

Alice’s character is a blend of the family’s neighbor and actress Nance O’Neil, with whom Lizzie had an undefined relationship later in her life.

“It’s empowering to have the story told in the voices of women, especially since these are women who might not have been able to live their lives the way they wanted at this time in history,” Gress said.

Proceeds will benefit Gracehaven, an organization providing care to survivors of sex trafficking.

Park street theatre 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 512 Park St., Short North facebook.com/ BloodyGoodProds

kyLe swenson By erica thomPson Alt-weekly newspapers can tell you about the best burgers in town. They can give you a schedule of upcoming concerts and exhibit openings. They can tell you whether the latest blockbuster movie is any good.

They can also expose white nationalists and alleged sexual assaulters. And they can lead to the exoneration of the wrongfully imprisoned.

The latter applies to Kyle Swenson’s experience at his previous job writing for Cleveland Scene. He wrote a feature in 2011 about Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu and Rickey Jackson — three AfricanAmerican men convicted of murder in the 1970s.

The prosecution relied on the testimony of a white youth, Ed Vernon.

“The reporting showed clearly that three innocent men had been shipped to death row based on the improbable and inconsistent testimony of the then12-year-old,” Swenson wrote in a follow-up piece for Cleveland Scene. (The

men were later commuted to life imprisonment.)

Two years after the story ran, Vernon — then in his 50s and plagued by illness — recanted his testimony.

In 2014, Bridgeman, Ajamu and Jackson were exonerated. Ajamu had been paroled in 2003; the others were released after nearly 40 years of imprisonment.

“It was amazing to see them walk free,” said Swenson, now a reporter at The Washington Post.

“It was this media circus.

And I remember getting a little ticked off because I felt like a lot of questions people in the media were asking were like, ‘What’s your first meal going to be?’ … We weren’t using the opportunity to look back at what happened and how this happened.”

Swenson delves into those questions in his book, Good Kids, Bad City, released Feb. 12. He will visit the King Arts Complex to discuss the book with U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley on Thursday, Feb. 21.

“I wanted to look at this case, and then I also

wanted to look at what were the kind of social and political pressures that would create an environment where something like this could happen,” Swenson said. “It was a lot of reading [and] a lot of history, followed up by a lot of interviews.”

One of his subjects was Vernon, who shared compelling, introspective details about his experience. “I learned so much about the way that he had, as a child, internalized the fear and anxiety attached to this case,” Swenson said. “He later developed an addiction problem, and he was very clear that thinking about this case is one of those triggers of his addiction.”

Coincidentally, season three of the Serial investigative journalism podcast explores the problems within the Cleveland justice system. It was released after Swenson completed his book, and he even conversed with one of the reporters.

“I think they complement each other really well,” he said.

Even after grappling with the way the system failed Bridgeman, Ajamu and Jackson, Swenson said he has hope.

“I think now people are more willing to understand that the criminal justice system screws up,” he said.

“And I think the more that people accept that reality is a great sign for us changing it in the future.”

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Halle Augenstein and Alexandra Dyer in “Fractured Fervor” from Oyo Dance Company’s “Parallel”

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‘Parallel’

nard’s piece, “Rat Race,” focuses on economic and social inequality and how various classes interact, or don’t, with one another. A piece choreographed by Abdiel Jacobsen titled “Fractured Fervor” is inspired by “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Maynard said the choreography is both literal and metaphorical and is intended to be appropriate for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Oyo will be joined by Goree Drum and Dance for a West African dance piece about AfricanAmerican womanhood. A panel discussion featuring community leaders from Ohio State University, Stonewall Columbus and other organizations will follow each performance.

by Jim FiScher

At once addressing realities and desired common goals, that the Oyo Dance Company’s upcoming program title includes (and combines) the words equality and inequality is deliberate.

“Parallel: A Show About (In)equality” will be presented twice on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Columbus Performing Arts Center.

“The arts can educate and start conversations, especially in these polarized times,” Oyo Artistic Director Rachel Nace Maynard said. “Sometimes just talking isn’t enough.

You need to see or feel something to think about it in a new way.”

The program speaks to issues of equality as it concerns gender, race and class. May-

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• Otterbein University String Orchestra and Choirs at Peace Lutheran Church

nothing but the truth comedy ShowcaSe with amber Falter

writer/artist/musician Kent Grosswiler as he reads from (and signs) his collection of haiku, Beauty Found in Darkness, and other, newer work.

at two truthS Photo by tim JohnSon

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• Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam at Mikey’s Late Night Slice

• The Hashtag Comedy Improv Show at Up Front at Shadowbox Live

• Roast of the Disney Sidekicks at Up Front at Shadowbox Live

• Writers’ Block Poetry Night at Kafe Kerouac

THURSDAY 14

FRIDAY 15

• Short North Stage “Hand to God” at Garden Theater

• Roots presents Keith Neal at Upper Cup Coffee Gahanna

• Stadium Virginium at Axis Nightclub

• Ohio State University Theatre “The Wolves” at Roy Bowen Theatre

• Bloody Good Productions Theatre Co. “Lizzie” at Park Street Theatre

• Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet at the Southern Theatre

21 • Kyle Swenson at King Arts Complex • “Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future” at CCAD

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• Short North Stage “Hand to God” at Garden Theater

• Jon Batiste with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra at the Southern Theatre

• Stadium Virginium at Axis Nightclub

• Red Herring Productions “Dirt” at Franklinton Playhouse

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What could be more romantic than Valentine’s Day with one of Columbus’ foremost wordsmiths? I suppose it depends on your definition of “romantic,” but presuming your definition is not the trifling kind, you should take your partner, or a group of your closest friends, or yourself, to the Wexner Center and hang out with

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1:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 549 Franklin Ave., Downtown oyodancecompany.org

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• “Hamilton” at the Ohio Theatre

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2019 Oscar nOminees actually wOrth watching

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“The Favourite” directors. And it’s streaming, so no excuses here.

While the Academy Awards are generally abjectly awful, one of the best side effects of the Oscar nominations is that they generally drive more attention toward some underseen films.

Oscar completists view the nominee sheet as a checklist, and I’m always all for more people going to see movies that have any artistic merit.

That said, this year is pretty bad on that front.

Many nominees have already had a degree of boxoffice success, and a lot of great films that deserved the bump were snubbed.

So rather than making sure you’ve seen all seven Best Picture nominees, here are my recommendations for the films you should seek out before the Oscars air on Sunday, Feb. 24.

“Cold War” Poland’s nominee for Best Foreign Language Film joins “Roma” and “Shoplifters” (see that, too) to make the top three in this category stronger than the top three Best Picture nominees.

Pawel Pawlikowski also got a Best Director nod for this love story, which uses the Cold War as a metaphor.

“Roma” OK, Alfonso Cuaron’s interweaving tale is in black and white. And it’s subtitled.

And it’s emotionally challenging. I get that it’s not necessarily the escapist fare you’re looking for on Netflix & chill night, but it is one of the best films from one of the best living

“BlacKkKlansman” Spike Lee’s latest was plenty successful, but in case you missed it, don’t. Based on a wild true story, it’s one of the best films of Lee’s career. There are layers and layers of racial commentary that resonate today, but it’s all housed in a wildly entertaining throwback.

“The Favourite” Big caveat here (since a friend jokingly threatened to hit me after seeing this): This bawdy period piece is not for everyone, but I love, love, love this movie. It’s got three fantastic nominated acting peformances (Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz), and nothing would make me happier than seeing a comedy win Best Picture.

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” Yeah, I’m complaining about the Oscars and underseen movies, and here I am recommending an actual blockbuster.

I didn’t get a chance to properly review this in the year-end rush. It’s just about perfect, and could have gotten an Original Screenplay nod, as well.

“If Beale Street Could Talk” Barry Jenkins’ love story, set in ’70s Harlem, didn’t garner as much buzz as I’d expected for his followup to “Moonlight,” and was largely snubbed by the Academy. But “Beale Street” was named Best Picture by the Columbus Film Critics Association (COFCA), and, frankly, we’re always better than the Academy.

“First Reformed” OK, you can technically watch this because of the nomination for Paul Schrader’s screenplay, but I really want you to watch it so you can be as angry and baffled as I am by Ethan Hawke’s snub in the Best Actor category, one of the worst omissions in recent memory.

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Stone Fruit Sour cocktail and Roasted Veggie Bowl

Brekkie shack

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t recently occurred to me that brunch-focused Columbus restaurants might be conducting a secret competition to see who can come up with the silliest name. This thought emerged while I was enjoying a meal in Brekkie Shack and realized that during the past 18 months I’ve eaten at other places vying for a similar customer base: Blunch and Drunch Eatery + Bar. Can this really be coincidental?

Located in the Grandview Yard development and outfitted with a concrete floor beneath a high ceiling, Brekkie Shack is a bright and spacious restaurant that’s rife with white paint and depictions of pineapples — a fruit associated with hospitality. Add a large bar, outgoing service, ocean-blue and sunrise-orange accents, glass garage doors, plus plenty of windows and a soundtrack that could accompany an aerobics class, and you have a decidedly upbeat operation. The vibe is generally reinforced with lively food and drinks, a good amount of which are fashioned with locally sourced ingredients.

Snowville Creamery whole milk is on hand to lighten the flavorful house coffee brewed with Crimson Cup-roast-

ed beans ($3). You can convert this into a near-instant breakfast by adding a sturdy, whole-wheat Cinnamon Roll ($4) that’s well-made and displayed in a bakery case near the counter where orders are placed.

If you’d rather relax with a solid brunch-time cocktail ($8), try the Stone Fruit Sour (think a souped-up screwdriver) spiked with Middle West Spirits vodka, or the Spicy Bloody Mary rimmed with cracked black pepper and textured salt.

If you’d like a bite with your libation, the Smashed Avocado Toast ($9) — two slabs of hearty, oat-flecked Lucky Cat multigrain bread topped with fresh avocado livened by not-quite-enough lemon zest and chili flakes — is nice but relatively pricey.

The highly recommended All the Feels Egg Sandwich is a better deal, as you get considerably more bang for your nine bucks, including: a glossy and terrific toasted Lucky Cat multigrain gluten-free roll packed with a soft-and-fluffy omelet; crisp bacon from the Butcher & Grocer; avocado; tangy mayo; melted white cheddar; and a spilling-over load of pleasurably lacy and crinkly, if oily, fragments of dark-cooked Brussels sprouts.

Delving deeper into the eminently manageable small menu, some repetition of ingredients becomes apparent.

Fortunately, this doesn’t result in overly same-tasting dishes.

Two properly fried sunny-side up eggs cap a bowl of healthful vegetables in the hefty Plant-Based Hash ($12). Although I’d like more variation — my “hash” was mostly roasted sweet potato and butternut squash cubes — this assembly with

shaved Brussels sprouts, onions and radish slivers is a pleasant meal.

Some items are only available after 11 a.m. Among these, the moderately dry wild rice in my herb-enhanced Roasted Veggie Bowl ($12) benefited greatly from a thorough mixing with the other components: warm pulled chicken breast, sweet potato and squash cubes, shaved Brussels sprouts, radishes and the all-important “nut butter,” a de facto sauce that also contributes an appealing flavor and underlying richness.

Wild rice, chicken and herbs — especially parsley — join melted cheese, red cabbage and jalapeno slaw in a toasted flour tortilla to construct the comforting and good-tasting, if rather salty, Winter Chimichurri Burrito ($12). The big and filling creation comes with warm and crisp blue tortilla chips, plus zippy house salsa.

As I added high-quality warm Ohiosourced maple syrup to one of Brekkie Shack’s big, floppy and irresistible pancakes with a nicely crisped exterior — they’re available by the stack ($10) or single flapjack ($5) — I spied a neon sign I hadn’t previously noticed on a nearby wall. I smiled as the premonition of a potential new brunch place I’d someday review formed in my head when I mouthed aloud the glowing pink-and-orange words I was looking at: “pancakes and dreams.”

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1060 Yard St., Grandview 614-525-0190 thebrekkieshack.com Spicy Bloody Mary and All the Feels sandwich

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marlin’s pop-Up Bar aT ThE DrExEl ThEaTrE

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The movie bug first bit Marlin Hambrick when he was a child, visiting the theater inside Eastland Mall, where his older brother worked.

“There was an old projectionist there that used to sit me on a chair between the two projectors,” Hambrick said. “And I’d watch the same movie over and over.”

Those movies ranged from the PG-rated “Airport 1975” to the more violent “The Godfather.” After high school, Hambrick managed the Super Saver Cinema at Scarborough Mall. One day, the Dispatch’s then-restaurant reviewer, Doral Chenoweth, aka the Grumpy Gourmet, interviewed him about the movie theater popcorn.

Hambrick said the owner of the Drexel saw the article as he was considering candidates for a new manager. “I think that might’ve given me a leg up,” said Hambrick, who got the job. He’s been with the theater off and on in different capacities for 25 years.

About five years ago, he asked to set up a pop-up bar in the lobby. “They let me set up a folding table,” Hambrick said. “It started building up, and before you know it, they let me keep doing it every week. And they bought me a bar.”

Drexel patrons can find Hambrick at the roughly five-foot setup, which he jokingly calls a “Playskool

Marlin Hambrick at his pop up bar in the Drexel Theatre

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My First Bar,” on Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. to close.

“I can’t carry a lot of variety, but I carry one of everything it takes to make 90 percent of all cocktails,” he said. That doesn’t mean he can’t get fancy, offering specialties like hot buttered rum during the holidays, and a new drink for the forthcoming Oscar Party on Feb. 24: tequila, Blue Curacao and blueberry syrup.

“I’m just going to call it Blue,” he said.

Hambrick’s margarita has earned high praise, which he modestly shrugs off. “Honestly, I don’t do anything out of the ordinary other than I went to

bartending school,” he said.

“I use fresh ingredients. … I just do it right, I guess.”

Hambrick tried to work in a standard bar — “I lasted a week,” he said — but prefers the movie theater environment. Asked if it was the appeal of the shared social experience of laughing, crying or getting scared with other patrons, Hambrick elaborated.

“It’s more than that,” he said. “[It’s] the smells.

You smell that fresh popcorn. Most of our customers know the staff. And I have regular bar customers. We’re a neighborhood theater. So I think that’s why we have so many loyal customers, because they like being here.”

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name and identity of Nostalgia Brewing took shape. Its beers tie back to childhood memories, like the No Wrong Way peanut butter porter, which recalls the old Reese’s campaign, or the Koosh hazy pale ale, which harks back to memories of throwing a koosh ball around. The 7734 helles lager nods to every kid who typed “7734” into their calculator in order to spell “hell” when turned upside down.

“Having a name like Nostalgia would hopefully elicit a discussion about a time in the past that was fun and exciting,” White said. “We want people to have a conversation, to interact with each other. It’s not just about drinking beer and having comfort food.”

Nostalgia retained head brewer Rob Moore from Pigskin Brewing, owing to his familiarity with the 3.5-barrel system.

He’s brewing recipes that the Warrens developed at Multiple Brewing, as well

as new creations. White added that the brew system offers a further bit of nostalgia: The equipment once belonged to the now-defunct Neil House Brewing, while the two 15-barrel fermenters were original to Seventh Son Brewing.

Currently, the food menu tends toward lighter fare like sliders, pretzels, hummus, grilled cheese and tomato soup. White says an expansion to the kitchen and the menu are both in the works.

Nostalgia also offers a full bar with cocktails, cider, mead and seltzers. The new owners have outfitted the taproom with new tables and chairs, and plan to re-open the patio next month.

Nostalgia Brewing is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and until 1 a.m.

Fridays and Saturdays.

Nostalgia BrewiNg 81 Mill St., Gahanna nostalgiabrewing.com

portia’s Next Door aND a commoN taBle opeN iN cliNtoNville By eriN eDwarDs Owners Josh and Kristen Taylor hold the grand opening of their new deli, A Common Table, on Friday, Feb. 15, at 3496 N. High St. in Clintonville. The new spot, which replaces Pocket Produce, will be open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16 and 17. Its permanent winter hours will be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Portia’s Next Door, a new coffee shop and deli, opened this week next door to Portia’s Cafe (4428 Indianola Ave.) in Clintonville.

Portia Yiamouyiannis’ new spot offers coffee, pastries, snacks, juices, smoothies and light breakfasts.

Portia’s Next Door will open daily at 8 a.m. Yiamouyiannis also recently announced plans to open a new diner later this year in the former Whole World Natural Restaurant & Bakery space at 3269 N. High St.

True Food Kitchen has signed on as part of Easton Town Center’s $500 million expansion.

Phoenix-based True Food offers a health-conscious, seasonal menu, and currently operates 26 locations throughout the U.S. The Easton location, which will be the brand’s first location in Ohio, is expected to open in 2020.

Los Angeles-based Kitchen United announced this week that it plans to open a virtual restaurant in Grandview this spring. Kitchen United is one of a growing number of deliver-only “ghost kitchens” that sell food via pick-up or third-party delivery services such as Uber Eats or Postmates.

Last October, the company won a $10 million investment from GV, formerly Google Ventures (the capital venture arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.). Kitchen United is still recruiting up

to 14 restaurant partners, both national and local, for the Grandview facility at 1471-1481 W. Goodale Blvd.

Hot Mikey’s Takeover, the annual pizza collaboration between Mikey’s Late Night Slice and Hot Chicken Takeover, continues through Sunday, Feb. 17. Through this weekend, you can order Nashville-style hot chicken pizza at all Mikey’s locations and via select online delivery services.

CoreLife Eatery opens at 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, near the Ohio State campus at 17 E. Lane Ave. in the Wilson Place development. The national chain offers a variety of salads, grain bowls and broth-based dishes.

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This month, the city welcomes yet another new brewery. Nostalgia Brewing Company made its debut the first weekend in February in Gahanna’s Creekside development, taking the place of Pigskin Brewing Company, which closed at the end of 2018.

Nostalgia Brewing is owned by Jason and Michelle Warren, who owned Multiple Brewing, a nanobrewery in Nelsonville opened in 2016. The Warrens connected with Shawn White, who runs a beer-centric website, Points on Pints.

“We started talking, [and] I started checking out their space,” White said. “I noticed one of the things that was missing was a unique brand, something to tie it all together.”

White, who has a day job in marketing, approached them several weeks later and offered his services pro bono.

As White became involved in the business, Multiple Brewing was offered the chance to take over Pigskin Brewing’s space.

“The idea was not that Multiple Brewing would come and take its place,” White said, “but that it would be a new brewery. Jason asked if I was interested and offered an ownership stake. That’s how Nostalgia came to be.”

Multiple Brewing officially closed on Dec. 1, 2018.

After brainstorming and design work, the

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EVENTS CALENDAR THURSDAY

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Beauty Found in Darkness on Valentine’s Day, Columbus-based visual artist, author and musician Kent Grosswiler reads a selection of haiku from his book “Beauty Found in Darkness” (Nix Comics) in addition to other more recent works.

Make it a date night at the Wex with a Valentine’s Day–themed Wex Hour with champagne and chocolates (5–7:30 p.m.), a guided tour of the exhibitions (5 p.m.), and a screening of the quirky romance “Asako I & II” (7 p.m.) Free. 6–7 p.m.

Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St., Campus.

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Dining in the Dark Valentine’s Day Event, Come along on a journey of the senses... Except one! It’s an out-of-sight, progressive pop-up experience for the adventure-laden, foodies of Columbus. What to expect... You will be gently guided through an extraordinary fourcourse, blindfolded, dining experience. Savor the sensuous flavors, smells, sounds and textures as you challenge your palate to discover the mysteries of the menu. An event emcee will be your audiogalactic tour guide that will orient you viscerally and orate the evenings events as you experience them together. $60. 6–9 p.m. 1400 Food Lab, 1400 Dublin Rd., Northwest Side.

DJ Trivia Columbus, DJ Trivia is a Fun, Live, Interactive Trivia Game involving you, your team, other teams & a Live DJ host. Free. 7–8:30 p.m. Red

Door Tavern, 1736 W. 5th Ave., Grandview.

Ohio State Buckeyes Men’s Basketball vs.

University of Illinois Fighting Illini Men’s Basketball, Tickets start at $10. 7 p.m. Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr., Campus.

BAS - Milky Way Tour, With Rexx Life Raj, K. Roosevelt, Innanet James, Correy C. $22. 7 p.m. A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave., Arena District.

Columbus Blue Jackets vs. New York Islanders, Tickets start at $23. 7 p.m.

Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd., Arena District.

romantic soundtrack to the Valentine’s Day weekend with Unforgettable: Love Songs of Nat King Cole & Others, celebrating the centenary of jazz legend Nat King Cole, and featuring two freshfaced rising stars on the jazz scene, trumpetervocalist Benny Benack III, and vocalist Lena Seikaly.

Tickets start at $18. 7:30 p.m. Southern Theatre, 21 E. Main St., Downtown.

DJ Trivia Columbus, DJ Trivia is a Fun, Live, Interactive Trivia Game involving you, your team, other teams & a Live DJ host. Free. 8–9:30 p.m. Donericks, 1137 Worthington Woods Blvd., Worthington.

Excesss Trivia, Join the Quiz Whiz Father every Thursday for four rounds of fast-paced, multimedia, buzzer trivia. It’s free to play, with no team size requirements and awesome prizes for each round’s winning team. Free.

7–9 p.m. Elevator Brewing 13th Floor Taproom, 165 N. 4th St., Downtown.

Excesss Trivia, Join the Mad Mentalist every Thursday for four rounds of fast-paced buzzer trivia!

It’s free to play, with no team size requirements and awesome prizes for each round’s winning team. Free. 8–10 p.m.

Hounddog’s Pizza, 2657 N. High St., Old North.

Excesss Trivia, Join Chloe Cat every Thursday for four rounds of fast-paced, multimedia, buzzer trivia.

It’s free to play, with no team size requirements and awesome prizes for each round’s winning team. Free. 7–9 p.m. Flavor 91 Gourmet Burger Bistro, 5186 E. Main St., Whitehall.

Excesss Karaoke, Join Moss Rabbit every Thursday for the best karaoke party around!

With stellar sound and huge, regularly-updated songbooks, Excesss Karaoke is where to let loose with song and dance.

Free. 9 p.m. Park Street Cantina, 491 Park St., Arena District.

“Hamilton,” Touring production. Tickets start at $180. 7:30 p.m. Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St., Downtown.

Unforgettable: Love Songs Of Nat King Cole Columbus Jazz Orchestra, The CJO provides the

FRIDAY COMPAS Conference: The Pleasures and Perils of Personal Technology, How many times have we heard someone in the tech industry proclaim

ThursDAY, Feb. 14 – monDAY, Feb. 18, 2019 that their new product is “revolutionary” or “disruptive”? Radical upheaval in the ways we live and communicate is now so frequent that it doesn’t even strike us as unusual.

Yet the original iPhone came out only a decade ago, in the same year that Netflix started streaming. On the timeline of human history, this was mere moments ago, and as technology becomes more and more rapidly integrated into our everyday lives, we would do well to take a step back and contemplate exactly what is happening. Free. RSVP requested. Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St., Campus.

Color Your Way to Calm, Coloring can be a form of escapism where one can shed stress and worries of the day and just focus on simple, creative task.

Adult coloring can be just the outlet we need to unplug and reset our brains from work, social media and electronic entertainment. $5. 2–3 p.m. National Church Residences Avondale, 5215 Avery Rd., Dublin.

BOTU: Ekkohawk/Truss/ Sound of A Smirk/ Forever Unknown, Three hometown bands and one out-of-town rock act will perform half-hour sets for a special “early show” from the multipurpose art space WGC, located in northeast of the OSU campus. All ages are welcome with $5 cash paid at the door.

The building is BYOB and no persons under 21 are allowed to consume alcohol. 5:30–8:45 p.m.

Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit St., North Campus.

Ryan Smith, Ryan Smith is a singer/acoustic guitarist

who performs a wide mix of covers and originals spanning the past six decades, all filtered through his interesting take on Americana. Free. 6–10 p.m.

Soul at the Joseph, 620 N. High St., Short North.

Sleeper Agent), establishing them as a unique band that was here to stay. 2019 will see the release of their third studio album via Columbia Records. $41. 7 p.m.

Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St., Campus.

Ohio State Buckeyes Men’s Hockey vs.

University of Minnesota Golden Gophers Men’s Hockey, Tickets start at $10.

6 p.m. Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr., Campus.

Dillon Francis X Alison Wonderland: Lost My Mind Tour, Averaging over 4 million monthly Spotify streams, platinum-selling DJ and producer, Dillon Francis achieved a string of smashes, including the #1 Dance Radio Airplay hit “Anywhere” [feat. Will Heard], “Candy” [feat.

Snappy Jit], #1 Billboard Dance Club Songs charttopper “Coming Over” with Kygo [feat. James Hersey], and the RIAA platinumcertified “Get Low” with DJ Snake -- which surpassed 500 million worldwide streams. Francis initially made history in 2012 as “the first moombahton artist to achieve the number-one spot on Beatport” with the Something, Something Awesome EP. In 2014, his major label debut album, Money Sucks, Friends Rule [Mad Decent/Columbia Records], landed on Rolling Stone’s “Top Electronic Albums of 2014” list and boasted a myriad of diverse collaborators such as Twista, Brendon Urie of Panic! At the Disco, Major Lazer, and more. Alison Wonderland architects a world of her own design as its chief author, creator, and voice. The Sydney-born and Los Angeles-based singer, producer, songwriter, and DJ realizes this vision at the intersection of future-facing pop, explosive beat-craft, and eternal dance rhythms. $84. 7 p.m. Express Live, 405 Neil Ave., Arena District.

“The Gospel of Eureka,” A rare contemporary documentary that has audiences leaving the theater with a ray of hope about the state of America, “The Gospel of Eureka” takes place in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. With two very different types of performance happening in the town on the same night—an evangelical Christian Passion Play and a drag karaoke night—you might expect polarization and taking-of-sides. One of the great delights of the film is discovering how the town’s residents defy stereotypes, forge an unexpected sense of community, and put on one hell of a show! As Amy Taubin of Artforum noted of the film, “when the disco ball and the Star of Bethlehem are both signs of the divine...it’s hard not to respond with hope.”

Narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond. $8. 7 p.m.

Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St., Campus.

COIN, Never over-confident, COIN’s contagious exuberance braces every track. Their acclaimed selftitled debut album was released in the summer of 2015, produced by Grammynominated producer Jay Joyce (Cage The Elephant,

John Cusack plus “High Fidelity,” For fans of John

Cusack and “High Fidelity,” a visit to Championship Vinyl definitely would make a top five list. The hit comedy “High Fidelity” is the story of record shop owner Rob Gordon (John Cusack) on a search for love (and the reasons behind his failed relationships) against a backdrop of over 70 songs spanning multiple decades and genres of music. With or without, the help of his record store buddies Dick (Todd Luiso) and Barry (Jack Blacks breakout role), Rob revisits past relationships in hopes of figuring out where he has gone wrong.

Released in 2000, The New York Times praised John Cusack as, a master at easygoing camaraderie.

Rotten Tomatoes has “High Fidelity” ranked #14 on the list of Best Romantic Comedies. Now, join John Cusack for a screening of “High Fidelity” on the big screen followed by a LIVE conversation regarding his

career and the making of the film. Fans will get the opportunity to experience a moderated discussion, with John answering questions as well. Tickets start at $53.

7:30 p.m. Palace Theatre, 34 W. Broad St., Downtown.

The Knocks, With Young & Sick, Blu DeTiger. $20/$25.

8 p.m. A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave., Arena District.

“Hamilton,” Touring production. Tickets start at $180. 8 p.m. Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St., Downtown.

Unforgettable: Love Songs Of Nat King Cole Columbus Jazz Orchestra, The CJO provides the romantic soundtrack to the Valentine’s Day weekend with Unforgettable: Love Songs of Nat King Cole & Others, celebrating the centenary of jazz legend Nat King Cole, and featuring two fresh-faced rising stars on the jazz scene,

trumpeter-vocalist Benny Benack III, and vocalist Lena Seikaly. Tickets start at $18.

8 p.m. Southern Theatre, 21 E. Main St., Downtown.

SATURDAY Building Heartfelt Connections: NonViolent Communication for Couples, For All Couples: This engaging workshop is for both new and long-term couples, who want to deepen and strengthen their bond. A basic understanding of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process is helpful, however all couples with an intention to grow in their relationship are welcome to participate. Rekindle Your Love & Connection: Discover how to renew the love and intimacy that initially brought you together, and revive the spark in your relationship! Improve

Communication: Learn new ways to talk and listen, and how to become fully present in your relationship.

Expand Your Relationship Toolbox: Develop the skills to eliminate negativity and successfully navigate frustration and conflict.

All Participating Couples Receive: · Workshop folder, with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) information materials, and practice exercises. Lunch and parking included. $225.

Indianola Presbyterian Church, 1970 Waldeck Ave., North Campus.

Free heart health/Blood pressure clinic Presented by: James Walter Mitchell CDC, Please register to attend a free heart health education and blood pressure check clinic sponsored by Columbus Public Health. You can speak to healthcare professionals and receive information on maintaining a healthy

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heart. Your blood pressure will be check by a registered healthcare professional and your results will be given to you for any further follow-up necessary. If you are unable to access our webpage, please contact Natalie Donnally at 614940-7996 or jwmitchellcdc@ yahoo.com. Free. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. The City of Zion Church, 527 Wilson Ave., South of Main.

outstanding guest artists you saw in the Southern Theatre in a fun, casual, and open environment.

Free. 2–3 p.m. Jazz Academy, 769 E. Long St., Fourth Floor, King-Lincoln.

Parallel, By Oyo Dance Company. A show about (in)equality. Performance and discussion about gender, race and class. $20.

1:30 and 7 p.m. Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave., East Side.

Chamber Music Columbus Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet astonishes audiences worldwide with their range of expression, their tonal spectrum, and their conceptual unity, virtually redefining the sound of the classic wind quintet. Tickets start at $15.

4 p.m. Southern Theatre, 21 E. Main St., Downtown.

“Hamilton,” Touring production. Tickets start at $180. 2 and 8 p.m. Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St., Downtown.

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Offstage at the Academy: Benny Benack III and Lena Seikaly, Join us and be a part of our discussion with the guest artists from Unforgettable Love Songs of Nat King Cole and Others. Offstage at the Jazz Academy this February will feature phenomenal jazz artists, Benny Benack III and Lena Seikaly. Offstage is a chance to engage the

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Ohio State Buckeyes Women’s Gymnastics vs.

Nebraska Cornhuskers Gymnastics, Tickets start at $5. 4 p.m. St. John Arena, 410 Woody Hayes Dr., Campus.

Ohio State Buckeyes Men’s Hockey vs.

University of Minnesota Golden Gophers Men’s Hockey, Tickets start at $10.

6 p.m. Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr., Campus.

Hamilton–How the Musical Remixes American History, In this talk, historian Richard Bell explores the musical phenomenon of Hamilton

to reveal what its success tells us about the marriage of history and showbusiness. Aimed at people who are familiar with the musical or have seen the show, we’ll examine some of the choices “Hamilton’s creators made to simplify, dramatize, and humanize the complicated events and stories that frame the birth of the United States of America. We’ll also discuss “Hamilton’s cultural impact and what its success reveals about the stories we tell each other of who we are and the nation we made.

Program recommended for ages 14 and up due to strong themes and language. Cash bar will be available. $17. 7–8:30 p.m.

Ohio History Connection, 800 E. 17th Ave., North Side.

Anderson East, With Lucie Silvas. $20/$23. 7 p.m.

Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St., Campus.

Welles, $10/$12. 7 p.m.

The Basement, 391 Neil Ave., Arena District.

WCBE presents Andrew Combs & Erin Rae, $15.

7 p.m. Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit St., North Campus.

99.7 The Blitz Throwback Show feat. Zoso &

Pandora’s Box, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith tribute bands. $15/$20. 7 p.m. Express Live, 405 Neil Ave., Arena District.

Featuring choice of the following complimentary drinks, while supplies last. $40. Trism, 1636 N. High St., South Campus.

World’s Toughest Rodeo, Tickets start at $13. 7:30 p.m. Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd., Arena District.

Unforgettable: Love Songs Of Nat King Cole Columbus Jazz Orchestra, The CJO provides the romantic soundtrack to the Valentine’s Day weekend with Unforgettable: Love Songs of Nat King Cole & Others, celebrating the centenary of jazz legend Nat King Cole, and featuring two fresh-faced rising stars on the jazz scene, trumpeter-vocalist Benny Benack III, and vocalist Lena Seikaly. Tickets start at $18.

8 p.m. Southern Theatre, 21 E. Main St., Downtown.

CD102.5 presents Magic Giant w/Castlecomer, $17.50. 8 p.m. The Athenaeum Theatre, 32 N. 4th St., Downtown.

Love Is Love, Join us Valentine’s Day weekend for what we plan on being a unique black tie affair at Trism featuring magic, comedy, burlesque, fire eating, and more special performances. We will not only be celebrating love but benefiting Equitas Health, a nonprofit organization providing health services to the LGBTQIA community.

A percentage of the ticket sales will be donated to Equitas Health. Guests will have the opportunity to capture memories in a photo booth, enjoy ambient performances and mingle during a cocktail hour while vibing to the smooth, rhythmic sounds curated by a live DJ before the night’s entertainment starts.

Ladies and Their Love Songs - Singer Songwriter Round, Four wonderful singer songwriters from around Ohio playing their original songs in a round format. Set in the Room above the Market at Flint Station. A renovated brick market built in 1890. This is a seated event. Food and drink available. $10.

8:30–10:30 p.m. The Market at Flint Station, 225 Park Rd., Far North Side.

“Titanic” at the Grandview Theater and

Drafthouse, Come all Valentine’s and Galentine’s for a very special screening of “Titanic.” We’ll have tons of drink specials, a specialty cocktail menu, the sappiest preshow we can muster and “Titanic” on the big screen. Tickets only $8.

Party starts at 9pm with the movie starting at 10:30. $8. Grandview Theater and Drafthouse, 1247 Grandview Ave., Grandview.

CD102.5 Presents the Cordial Sins, With Joshua Powell, Lowlights. $8. 10 p.m. Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit St., North Campus.

SUNDAY Dewey’s Pizza - Pizza School, Dewey’s Pizza has partnered with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio to host a Pizza School at our Grandview location on Sunday, February 17th.

More than 70 guests will have the opportunity to take a class behind our kitchen glass and learn how to toss and top their own pizzas from Dewey’s highly trained experts. Pizza School is open to the general public.

The cost to sign up is $25 per person (children 4 & under are free). This fee

entitles all guests to access free pizza, salads and soft drinks. Any alcohol or desserts must be purchased separately, but proceeds from these sales will be donated back to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio. Guests will also have the opportunity to interact with staff members and learn more about Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio. C all 614-487-8282. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Dewey’s Pizza, 1327 W. 5th Ave., Grandview.

“Hamilton,” Touring production. Tickets start at $180. 1 and 6:30 p.m. Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St., Downtown.

Jessica Strawser - Forget You Know Me, Jessica Strawser’s Forget You Know Me is a “twisty, emotionally complex, powder keg of a tale” (bestselling author Emily Carpenter) about the wounds of people

who’ve grown apart. Best, friends, separated by miles.

Spouses, hardened by neglect. A mother, isolated by pain. One moment will change things for them all. Jessica Strawser is editor-at-large at Writer’s Digest, where she served as editorial director for nearly a decade and became known for her in-depth cover interviews with literary luminaries. She’s the author of the book club favorites Almost Missed You and Not That I Could Tell, a Book of the Month selection and Barnes & Noble Best New Fiction pick for March 2018 (both St. Martin’s Press).

She has written for The New York Times Modern Love column, Publishers Weekly, and other fine venues, and is a popular speaker at writing conferences and book festivals. She lives with her husband and two children in Cincinnati. Free.

1–3 p.m. The Book Loft of

German Village, 631 S. 3rd St., German Village.

PBA Players Championship, Tickets start at $40. 1–3 p.m. Wayne Webb’s Columbus Bowl, 3224 S. High St., South Side.

Ohio State Buckeyes Wrestling vs. University of Nebraska Cornhuskers Wrestling, Tickets start at $5. 2 p.m. St. John Arena, 410 Woody Hayes Dr., Campus.

Ohio State Buckeyes Women’s Basketball vs.

University of Wisconsin Badgers Women’s Basketball, Tickets start at $10. 2 p.m. Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr., Campus.

Jewelry Swap at Global Gifts Short North, Join us for the third annual Jewelry & Accessories Swap at Global Gifts! This free event is a great way to de-clutter your jewelry box, closet, & drawers of gently used

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Every purchase at Goodwill transforms lives!

Ten stores in Franklin County.

jewelry, bags, scarves, and other accessories that no longer bring you joy. Bring as much as you want to the swap and we’ll take turns picking new items brought by other swappers to take home! Best of all, leftover jewelry and accessories will be donated to Dress for Success Columbus which provides attire and tools women in the community need to thrive. Please call 614-621-1744 to RSVP so that we know how much space we’ll need. 3–5 p.m.

Global Gifts, 682 N. High St., Short North.

Unforgettable: Love Songs Of Nat King Cole Columbus Jazz Orchestra, The CJO provides the romantic soundtrack to the Valentine’s Day weekend with Unforgettable: Love Songs of Nat King Cole & Others, celebrating the centenary of jazz legend Nat King Cole, and featuring two fresh-faced rising stars on the jazz scene, trumpeter-vocalist Benny Benack III, and vocalist Lena Seikaly. Tickets start at $18.

3 p.m. Southern Theatre, 21 E. Main St., Downtown.

Ryan Smith, Ryan Smith is a singer/acoustic guitarist who performs a wide mix of covers and originals spanning the past six decades, all filtered through his interesting take on Americana. 4–6 p.m.

BrewDog Franklinton, 463 W. Town St., Franklinton.

Donna Missal: This Time, With Samia. $12/$15. A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave., Arena District.

MONDAY David Shields: Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump, Acclaimed and bestselling writer David Shields enthralls international audiences with introspective, genre-

bending essays, short stories, and novels. In this talk, he’ll read from his new book Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention, which is at once a psychological investigation, a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, a satirical compilation of wit and wisdom, and above all a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discourse—a dissection of the politesse that gave rise to and sustains Trump.

Shields argues that we have met the enemy and he is us. Free. 4–5 p.m.

Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St., Campus.

Excesss Trivia Multiple Choice, Join the Quiz Whiz Father every Monday for four rounds of fast-paced, multimedia, multiple choice buzzer trivia. It’s free to play, with no team size requirements and awesome prizes for each round’s winning team. Free.

6–8 p.m. India Oak Bar and Grill, 590-A Oakland Park Ave., Clintonville.

DJ Trivia Columbus, DJ Trivia is a Fun, Live, Interactive Trivia Game involving you, your team, other teams & a Live DJ host.

Free. 6:30–8 p.m. The Crazee Mule Pub & Grill, 6188 Cleveland Ave., Northland.

Monday Night Trivia, Join us for a fun night of trivia with your host Cristy. Six rounds, bonus questions, anagrams, pictures, music, and more.

7–9 p.m. Three Sheets, 560 S. High St., Short North.

EveryDay Inspired MeetUp: February Ebb N Float, We’re teaming up with the awesome Ebb n Float for our February EveryDay Inspired! Here’s what to expect: *45 minute vinyasa yoga flow *10 minute seated guided meditation *Grab mini chair massages *Sip hot tea + adult coloring in the relax lounge *Meet other amazing women. $10.

6:30–7:30 p.m. Ebb & Float, 231 N. 5th St., Downtown.

El Ten Eleven, With Brujas Del Sol. $15/$17. 7 p.m., A&R Music Bar, 391 Neil Ave., Arena District.

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Hearthstone Condo for Rent Kenney/Henderson Rd, 2 BR Upper flat, Cathedral Ceiling, Available March 1st $920 mo 614-893-4347

A Exciting Busty Knockout. Looking for a fun & good time? Call TS Maria at 419-984-7101 All American Busty Dream Girl Yolanda 217-852-5524.

Port Columbus’s Finest in Lingerie Modeling & Fetish Fantasies Call 614-589-5171

Dedicated route out/back plus home weekends. No touch freight, excellent equipment, benefits. 877-687-0809

ANNOUNCE⁄THAT SPECIAL CELEBRATION The Celebrations! Page runs every Sunday in the Arts/Life Section. There are three packages to choose from, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Laminations are $5.00 each. Call 614-888-8888, Mon.-Fri., 8am5pm to request a packet or visit our web page at dispatch.com/celebrations to download the forms and view the packages and requirements. Ads must be received by NOON the Monday preceeding publication.

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Real Estate

Lauffer Ravines - Westerville Schools Lg 2 bdrs, just E of Cleveland Ave, just S of Schrock Rd A/C, $675-$705, 614-423-8251

NEW CONSTRUCTION 42 WALNUT ST. ASHVILLE, OH .

Ideal retirement home. “No Step” entry from garage to living area. 4 pc. stainless appliances. Hard surface plank flooring with three carpeted bedrooms. 2 bathrooms with comfort height toilets. Attached, finished garage, partially heated. $209,900

Call 419-305-1842.

Olde Town Westerville

Beautiful 1300 s.f. 2BR, 2BA ranch, attached garage, also 2.5 det. garage. lrg. fen’d in yrd. $269,500.

No agents. By appt. only. Call 740-965-8615.

Real Estate Auctions

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Two Vintage Ladies looking to buy vintage costume jewelry, old watches, cufflinks, lighters and small antiques. Call 614-826-3128

Real Estate BRUNER LAND COMPANY, INC. (614) 565-5666 www.brunerland.com "Financing Available" LICKING CO: 20 acres, nice hilltop building site in LVSD, $99,900. Minutes to Zanesville or Newark

BRUNER LAND COMPANY, INC. (614) 565-5666 www.brunerland.com "Financing Available" FAIRFIELD CO: Super 5 acres, $79,900. Buckeye Lake.

MORROW CO: 5 acres with stream through the woods, $65,900. Near Ashley BRUNER LAND COMPANY, INC. (614) 565-5666 www.brunerland.com "Financing Available" FAIRFIELD CO: Super 5 acres, $79,900. Buckeye Lake.

MORROW CO: 5 acres with stream through the woods, $65,900. Near Ashley

$15,000 Minimum Bid Auction Fixer Upper House & Garage 1096 25th Ave, Cols, 43211 ************************** $25,000 Minimum Bid Auction Commercial / Residential 472 Barcher Rd, Cols, 43207 *************************** $150,000 Minimum Bid Auction Pizza Restaurant Adv Billboards 3761 Cleveland Ave, Cols 43224 *************************** $150,000 Minimum Bid Auction Retail Building, House, Garages 4315 East Main St. Cols, 43213

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Rental Living 1928 Agler Rd 2BR flats, convenient to shopping, busline, etc. $450-$515. 614-456-7934 880 E Broad & 17th St. Luxury Apts. Hdwd Flrs, tall ceilings, A/C , $550-$750, 614-477-5559 Alpine Village - Large 1 & 2 BR, SW School Dist. From $475-$525, 614-878-6615 Broad Meadows Blvd - Lg 1 & 2BRs just N. of Graceland. A/C, cptd, off st pkg. $499-$549, 614-477-5559 Clintonville Area, Spacious 1 BR, 35 W. Duncan off st pkg, A/C. $589-$649, 614-477-5559 Crosscreek Apts- Lg 1&2 BR, twhse w/bsmt. A/C, patio. Corner of Noe-Bixby $539-$815, 614-477-5559 û GAHANNA û 1BR, Utilities Included.

Call (740)965-1799 after 4 pm.

Grove City Rd. Meadow Park Apts, 2BR, fully carpeted, A/C, Laundromat.. $675.

614-878-6615 Grove City Spacious 1 & 2 BR Lofted ceilings, appls, C/A, patios, & carports, on Parkmead Dr $750-$850, 614-878-6615

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AUCTION 247

LICKING COUNTY ACRE 190 ACRES TILLABLE 36 ACRES WOODED SELLING IN 5 TRACTS

GRAIN FARM

Auction Location: The Hartford Fairgrounds (Babcock Building) at 14028 Fairgrounds Rd, Hartford, OH (enter Gate B).

Farm Location: 2 miles north of Johnstown, OH at 8868 Croton Road.

Farm also fronts on Woodhaven Road.

(Watch for signs.)

THURS., MARCH 7, 6 PM

PEWAMO-CENTERBURG SOILS TRACT #1: 76.6 Acres w/75.5 tillable.

TRACT #2: 75.8 Acres w/homestead, 67 tillable.

TRACT #3: 57.9 Acres w/48.2 tillable.

WOODED RECREATIONAL LAND TRACTS #4 AND #5: 24.1 & 12.7 wooded w/pond & creek.

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PERRY CO: 5.8 acres, open & wooded, county water and electric available, $63,900. Buckeye Valley Rd, Somerset.

Vic. Vill, 1 bedrm, Victorian Bldg, on bus line, no dogs $655-$755. 614-477-5559

GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR FARMLAND INVESTOR AND RECREATIONAL LAND BUYER - EXCELLENT LOCATION!

Kathleen Meyer etal FOR FULL DETAILED INFO CALL FOR BROCHURE

800-450-3440 www.wilnat.com

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Assistant Controller For a full description of this position and how to apply, visit: http://careers.kenyon.edu/cw/enus/job/492566/assistant-controller

Skilled Trades CT Concrete LLC, Hilliard, OH. Daily transp provided from a central location to and from worksites in the following counties: Franklin, Union, Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, Pickaway & Madison, Clark, Greene, Champaign. 16 TEMP, FT Concrete Laborer pos. 4/1/19-12/31/19, 7:30a-5p, 40 hrs/wk, OT varies, M-F, Sched. Varies, Some Saturdays may be req’d. $22.75- $23.50/hr, $34.13-$35.25/hr OT, Raises at employer’s discretion. Set forms, prep concrete pouring area, finish concrete, remove and haul forms & old concrete. Able to lift 50lbs. No experience req’d, will train. Employer may make payroll deductions at employee’s request. Employer provides workers at no charge all tools, supplies, equip req’d to perform job. Initial transp (including meals &, to extent necessary, lodging) to place of employment provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if worker completes half the employment period. Return transp provided if worker completes employment period or is dismissed early by employer. Inquire about job opportunity or send applications, indications of availability, &/or resumes directly to (614) 402-2012, terry@ctconcretellc.com or the nearest OH SWA, OhioMeansJobs Columbus – Franklin County, 1111 E. Broad St., Ste. 201, Columbus, OH, 43205, (614) 5595052.

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Extremely Clean Central Ohio Tool & Die Shop Live on Site with Bidspotter Webcast Sale Location: 3238 N. Section Line Rd., Radnor, Ohio Tuesday, February 19, 9:00 am Inspection: Monday, February 18, 9-5 FEATURING: Hurco VMX-50 CNC VMC, New 2006 Hurco VM-1 CNC VMC, New 2003 (2) Hurco BMC-4020 CNC VMC’S Clausing Colchester Storm 80 CNC Lathe (3) Prototrak CNC Vertical Mills*Forklifts Kent 12" X 24" Surface Grinder*Lathes Saws*Drills*Welders Renegade 33" Automatic Parts Washer Large Quantity Tooling & Inspection Steel Inventory and Steel Racks 100’s of Additional Items!!

THOMPSON AUCTIONEERS, INC. Steve Thompson, Auctioneer 937-426-8446 • www.thompsonauctioneers.com Ohio License 63199566109

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Assistant Prison Program Coordinator (PART-TIME) Ohio Reformatory for Women, Marysville & Pickaway Correctional Institute in Orient, Ohio - Job Number: 03640 The primary function of this position is to assist the Program Coordinator of Advanced Job Programs for the identified correctional facility by maintaining a smooth and efficient operation of the off-site programs.

Please apply to https://jobs.sinclair.edu/.

Sinclair is an equal opportunity employer and encourages veterans, minorities, and those with disabilities to apply.

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MORGAN CO: 23 acres, small livable cabin, well, septic & electric $120,900. Also 5 acres, some woods, great to build on, $19,900. S.R. 555, near McConnelsville

We can get u approved, we have all redone homes, East, North, etc. We give you a D/P, pay closing, pymts in the $500’s. Call now, 614-470-0395

Worthington 2BR., fully carpeted, appl. W/D hook-ups Worthington Schools, $725, 614-888-6331

Stamps, Antiques, Coins, Toys, Jewelry, Etc. to a full hoarding nightmare. See how easy it is to be free of clutter. CROWN AND EAGLE û 614-436-2042

Baseball cards, Old toys, Comic books, Trains, Coins, Gold, Silver, Diamonds, Watches, Antiques, and Large collections. Call Scott (513) 295-5634

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WEST " COTTAGES Furnished " Utilities Paid. $250/week plus deposit. Call 614-879-6617.

Buy Out, Clean Out Removeables

Freon R12 WANTED. Certified professional pays CASH for R12. Call 312-291-9169 or www.refrigerantfinders.com

Roommate Wanted in Reynoldsburg, OH! Fully Furnished, Very Nice Appliances, New Furniture, Gets own bedroom with new bed, $200 per month Call 678-360-2130 for more info

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BI Developer. Work on developing, architecting, standardizing and supporting Microstrategy and tableau Bl Reporting solutions; Gather data from stake holders and prepare Bl requirements and specifications, prepare flow charts; Work from specs, develop Reports, report service documents and dashboards; Provide design, test, debug Intelligent cubes in Microstrategy and Tableau.

Travel and relocation possible to unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. Work loc: Columbus, OH. Mail res, salary reqmt, position applied for to: Telligen Tech Inc., 2740 Airport Dr., Suite 190, Columbus, OH 43219.

Sunny Meadows Flower Farm, Columbus, OH needs 4 temp farmworkers 4/1/19-11/15/19 Must have 3 mo exp in commercial cut flower farm & willing to take drug test paid for by employer post hire Constant bending & lifting up to 50lbs $13.26hr 7am2pm M-F 5hrs on Sat Erect farm fence using post hole digger Lift & pull irrigation pipe Manually spread manure/mulch Cultivate plants Hand harvest Provide appropriate post-harvest care Pack & load containers into trucks No overtime promised but if worked will be a regular hourly wage Will work in cold & hot weather No cost for tools, supplies & equip. Free housing provided if outside commuting area 3/4 average of 35hr/wk guaranteed Transportation & subsistence expense to job paid to eligible worker when 50% of work period completed or earlier if appropriate No ed req’d Report/fax resume to nearest OH SWA office 614644-7102 re JO#3823927

Membership and Communications Director

Cardinal Health seeks Engineer, Software/Info Platforms in Dublin, OH configure, design, administrate, develop, implement, and support application and information frameworks. Facilitate the customer understanding of the product/solutions through presentations, demonstrations, proof of concepts, deployments, troubleshooting, and support. Must have BS in Comp Sci, Eng, or rltd field, 5 yrs of exp in IT systems development and SharePoint, and the demonstrated ability with: Microsoft Collaboration Technologies; SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013, 2010; SharePoint administration; Net 3.0 through 4.6.1+ framework; C#; HTML5; CSS3; JavaScript libraries such as JQuery and Bootstrap; JavaScript design patterns; AJAX; JSON; Angular.Js; Node.Js; Database applications using SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 and agile software methodologies. Resumes: T. Wills; 7000 Cardinal Place, Dublin, OH 43017.

D365 CE Senior Associate for RSM US (Columbus, OHIO). Analyze client user reqs & develop software app solutions to support Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice. Reqs: Masters* degree in Info Sci, Comp Sci, or MIS. Must have 3 yrs exp as Programmer Analyst, Software Developer or rel’d IT position, & exp must incl: Dynamics CRM business rule configuration & dvlp’ment using InRule (irAuthor, irVerify, irServer, Rule Execution Services, Catalog Services, irSDK etc.); Dynamics CRM business rule configuration & dvlp’ment using InRule (irAuthor, irVerify, irServer, Rule Execution Services, Catalog Services, irSDK etc.); Development of dynamics CRM Integration packages & custom job scheduling using Scribe Data integration tool; Dynamics CRM custom report dvlp’ment & config using SQL Server Reporting Services; PowerShell Script dvlp’ment for Dynamics CRM deployment automation; & Dynamics CRM Custom web developments incl Plugins, CWAs using ASP.NET,C#, AngularJS, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery, Sql Server. Travel req’d 50% of time. Mail resumes to: Lisa McGinty, One S. Wacker Drive, Suite 800, Chicago, IL, 60606 and reference req#7878

General ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Martin Data is a data company is looking for a motivated and experienced Account Exec to sell our services. We are looking for a top-notch performer, willing to learn. Ideal candidates are those with experience in selling software or technology, not afraid of making calls. We provide training. Send resume to hr@usinfosearch.com BrightView Landscapes, LLC (Columbus, OH) 40 F/T temp. Landscape Laborers. 4/1/19-11/9/19.

40 hrs/wk, 7am-3:30pm (M-Sat). $13.83 /hr (OT$20.75). Mow, cut, water, edge lawns; rake/blow leaves; weed; haul topsoil/mulch. Drive crew vehicle. Obtain driver’s license w/30 days/hire. Lift 50lbs. Emplr paid drug testing/backgrnd check posthire. Free tools/equip, lodging & daily trans to/from worksites w/i MSA. Bonuses/raises paid at emplr. discretion based on performance, skill, tenure.

Inbnd/outbnd transp./subsistence expense reimburs’d by 50% of work contrct. Guarant’d to wrk ¾ of total work days. Apply at SWA office: 1111 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 43205. Tel: 614-559-5052 or email lisa.hess@brightview.com. Ref#: BVL3841

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Database Management – Columbus, OH. Design & construct relational DBs in order to implement tech. controls reporting & BI solutions. For reqs. & to apply, visit http://careers.jpmorganchase.com & apply to job #:190010910. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. www.jpmorganchase.com.

The Dayhuff Group, LLC seeks an IT Specialist in Worthington, OH & other unanticipated locations to consult with business users to gather information about specific needs, objectives, functions, features, input & deliverables. Must have relevant education & experience. Send 2 resumes & cover letter to 740 Lakeview Plaza Blvd, Suite 300, Worthington, OH 43085. REF#8560.014

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Chief Nursing Officer Opportunity for a Chief Nursing Officer leading a health system in West Central Ohio. Must have 3 or more years of Chief Nursing Officer experience. Must have Master’s degree.

Experience must include proven record of growing service lines, reducing expenses and with PI and quality recognition. Interested? Go to: https://www.grandlakehealth.org and apply on line.

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The Country Club at Muirfield Village is looking for an energetic Membership and Communications Director. The ideal candidate would continue a strategic membership program that will increase the total membership count and dues revenue.

This position will be responsible for promoting club services, amenities, facilities, and benefits of Club membership, with projects and activities designed to increase and retain membership in the club. The ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing is a key requirement for this job.

He/She will be responsible for maintaining the club’s website, phone app, newsletters, bulletins, social media, event marketing and printed materials. The candidate must be a detail oriented self-starter with a proven record of website and phone app maintenance, be able to work in a team environment and possess the ability to effectively network and represent the Club in the local community.

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary based on experience and job knowledge, a comprehensive employee benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance, vacation and 401k plan.

Please send resume with salary expectations to: dmancini@tccmv.com or by mail to Domenick Mancini, The Country Club at Muirfield Village, 8715 Muirfield Drive, Dublin, Ohio 43017

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Prof and Management McGraw-Hill School Education LLC seeks Senior Automation Engineer – (job location: Columbus, OH) – Design & develop quality assurance automation tests for web based applications & platform services. Lead strategic design & application of software quality assurance test automation in all phases of software development life cycle & software deployment processes. Design testing solutions & strategies in collaboration w/ application teams to ensure they deliver production ready software as req’d. Providing automated Continuous Integration (CI) support for multiple deployment environments using Jenkins Server, Bash, Java, & Groovy scripting. Design & set up automation frameworks in Ruby Cucumber, Java Selenium, & SoapUI. Measure & monitor application performance using New Relic APM. Review & analyze software & new testing technology, & implement testing solutions. Identify, develop & execute strategic improvements to quality assurance processes. Develop test plans & test scenarios/cases based on business req’s. Contribute to automation infrastructure improvements. Req’s: Master’s degree in Software Engineering & one yr of exp in position offered or as QA Engineer. All req’d exp must have included designing & developing quality assurance automation tests for web based applications & platform services; providing automated CI support for multiple deployment environments using Jenkins Server, Bash, Java, & Groovy scripting; designing & setting up automation frameworks in Ruby Cucumber, Java Selenium, & SoapUI; & measuring & monitoring application performance using New Relic APM. Mail resume to Mandy Franceschina, McGraw-Hill School Education LLC, 860 Taylor Station Rd, Blacklick, OH 43004.

Openings in management at nationwide auto parts distributor. Annual salary $85,000., with opportunities to earn commissions. Bachelor’s degree required, all majors considered. Must be willing to locate where needed. Please email Resume to apply@careersubmissions.com R&D Manager needed at Coalescence, LLC in Columbus, OH. Must have Master’s in Food Science, Culinary Arts, Chemistry or related & 3 yrs exp. in: Sourcing, analyzing & interpreting gov’t regs, technical procedures & other prof. journals & literature; Presenting products & responding to questions from technical & non-technical groups & customers; Dealing w/ C-suite decision makers; Food formulation & processing across multiple food & beverage platforms (nutritional premix, seasonings, beverage, etc.); MS Office & Genesis; Working w/ int’l vendors & customers; Managing, training & developing junior technical team members; Must have Ability & willingness to travel domestically up to 20%. Fax resumes to Ian Blount at 614-861-1379. EOE M/F/D/V.

Pets

Cavapoo Pups 8 wks Tan & White & Ruby’s, M & F Raised with love, Shots, $1000-$1200 330-617-6789 www.cavachons-cavapoos.com

COCKAPOOS

VALENTINE PUPPIES! 3 males, 2 females. Tails docked, dew claws removed, first set of shots, first worming, eating hard puppy food. Raised around children. Great personalities. Minimal shedding.

Mother & father on premises, $800 each.

Call/text 740-525-3508.

French Bulldog Puppies 10 weeks old, AKC registered, 2 M 1 F, Health guarantee, $800 each. 614-267-4994 davidwhite8865@gmail.com

REPTILE SALE & SHOW Franklin Co. Fairgrounds, 5035 Northwest Prkwy, Hilliard 43026.

Biggest Show in Central OH. February 16, 9:00-3:00.

614-459-4261 or 614-457-4433 allohioreptileshows.webs.com

German Shepherd - German Imports at stud. Training, Obed., home protection, sch. classes, imports, young dogs, pups for sale. Learn to train dogs w/us.

740-756-7387 www.estatedogs.com

Yorkie Puppies Ready to be Adopted 2 Males $600 & 2 Females $700 Call 419-523-4462

Recreation

ALL MOTORCYCLE PRE 1980 IN ANY CONDITION Cash paid, running or not, pre-appraisals, will come to you!

Call: 845-389-3239 Email cyclesndmore10@gmail.com

Wheels 1948 8N Tractor Good Condition Call 740-243-8490 2005 Volkswagen Passat Silver with Black Leather Interior, Wood Grain Console, Cruise, Tilt, Air, Sunroof, Heated Seats, Premium Sound System, Always garaged, 190K highway miles, Timing Belt changed at 150K, Runs great, $2500 Call 614-264-5064

AKC, Papers, 6 1/2 month Old Bichon Male, Shots, Rabies, Tags and Neutered, Adorable $500 740-862-6468

1995 Buick Century Front Wheel Drive, 6 Cylinder Engine, Good motor and transmission, $800 AS IS, Driveable Call 614-208-1297

2005 Buick Park Avenue

Gold, 138k miles, No rust, Can test drive, $3,900. SOLD SOLD SOLD 2005 Buick La Crosse CXS Only 98K, Very clean, Runs perfect, Leather, Heated seats, Chrome wheels, Clean in and out $4850 614-846-7826 CAVALIER AKC PUPPIES 1 Blenheim male, 2 Blenheim females, 1 tri color fem. UTD on shots & deworm, vet checked & healthy & well socialized. Comes with health gtd. $1,200. Call 937-292-7822.

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1992 Cadillac Brougham D’Elegance

Goldendoodle F1B Puppies Born 12/28/18, UTD on Vaccinations, Adorable, Family Raised, More pics available, $995 Call or text 330-275-5302

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Wheels

Wheels

2004 DODGE RAM 4DR., 4X4, 4.7 V8 AUTOMATIC, FULL PWR., NEW TIRES, RUST FREE. GOLD W/BLK INT., LOOKS/RUNS LIKE NEW. A MUST SEE! 142,000 MILES, $8995.

CALL 740-507-4213.

1983 El Camino 1 Owner, show room clean, 53k miles, A must see!

Owner bought new.

Call 740-286-0458

2008 Honda Accord EX-L V6 Sliver/black leather, Auto, PS, PB, NAV, Sat Radio, PWR Sun Roof, MAG wheels, Dealer Maint., Original owner, 155K miles, EC, $6,000 Call 614-855-0536

$4500, 109,000 miles, light blue exterior, cute, fun to drive, well maint., records available. Call/text 614-395-3373.

2002 FORD F150

115,800 miles, V-6 automatic, manual windows, A/C, descent condition, tires minimum tread, $1,500. Call 614-891-9220.

2004 Ford Ranger 5 Speed 104k miles Reliable transportation $4,000 Call 614-397-1963 2009 FORD E350 XLT 15 PASSENGER VAN NO RUST, EXC. FACTORY UNDERCOATED BODY, METICUALLY MAINTAINED, PWR. TRAIN & INT., BLK., 203K MI., LOOKS/RUNS PERFECT, MUST SEE & DRIVE TO APPRECIATE, $7500 FIRM. CALL 614-226-4221.

2003 Honda Element

4 cylinder auto, front whl. dr., full pwr, looks/runs great, rust free, new tires & recent full svc., 150K miles, $5495. SOLD SOLD SOLD

2000 HONDA CIVIC EX

2 door, red with black clothe int., 4 cylinder auto, sunroof, looks/runs great, 180,000 miles, $2795. sold sold sold

REPLACING YOUR PLACE?

$7,500, 62,100 miles, 5.0 motor, services records, NO RUST, very good condition, call 614-440-7515.

2003 Chevy Silverado 1500 Work Truck 121K miles, New Tires & Battery, Good A/C, Runs great $3300 obo. SOLD SOLD 2011 Chrysler Town & Country Loaded! excellent condition, 97,500 mi., heated leather, 2 video screens, 3 headphones, remote start, blind spot, htd driver mirror, programmable seat/mirror $12,500. Call 614-568-8567

2009 Toyota Scion TC

2001 Toyota Solara SLE Convertible V6 engine, Only 115k miles, Leather, New top, Clean, Runs Great $4450 Call 614-738-5759

2005 HONDA CRV EX

4 w/d, 4 cylinder auto, full pwr. incl. lthr. & mnrf., new tires, looks/runs great! 164,000 miles, $5995.

SOLD SOLD SOLD 2012 Jeep Liberty Latitude edition 4WD, Leather, heated seats, 58,000 actual miles, 2 owners, very clean, $13,275 Call 614-738-5759 2006 Kia Rio 5 spd manual. Clean, dependable, and runs great. $2499. Great first, second, or college car.

614.581.7726 2010 Lexus RX 350 Good condition, 134K miles, White with Tan interior, $13,000 or make an offer 614-271-5124

2015 Lexus RX350 SUV

Fully equip. with leather & heated seats, in excellent condition, great buy at $27,495.

614-723-9977.

2009 VOLVO S60 2.4 T, AUTOMATIC, SUNROOF, ADVANCED PACKAGE, SILVER, BLK. LTHR., A/C, LOADED, NEW MICHELIN TIRES, WELL MAINT., LOW MI. $8350.

CALL 614-891-1928 2008 Volvo S60 2.5T Silver with Silver trim, Sunroof/Moonroof, Black leather seats, Premium wheels, New tires, 1 owner, Very good condition, 139,850 miles, $5300 or OBO Call Steve 614-264-1755 WINTER CLASSIC MOTORSPORTS EXPO & Swap Meet. Feb. 23, 8am-4pm, Ohio Expo Center, Lausche Bldg., 717 E. 17th Ave. 43211. 614-268-1181, Facebook or www.jeffjohnsonmotorsports.com

DO YOU NEED TO BUY, SELL, TRADE, FIND, HIRE OR RENT? GO TO THE CLASSIFIED SECTION.

2002 MERCEDES BENZ S430-Slvr, 4Matic. 1 owner, blk. w/lthr. int., after mkt. Pioneer/Bose sd. syst., Aux. & Bluetooth compat., 275 h/p, gasoline tank w/ 23.2 gal. cap., 24 mpg, 4.3 L V8, 270K mi., 4,133 lbs, 5 spd. auto. w/OD, mnrf., 5 pass.cap., C/C, ht’d sts, steer whl. adj., A/C, MSRP-$71,850. Asking $3800.

Call 740-222-8649.

2015 NISSAN VERSA

4DR, AUTO, PL, PW, TILT, CRUISE, A/C, CD, EC, 32,000 MILES, VERY CLEAN, $9300.

CALL 614-619-3459.

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INCOME TAX PREPARATION REGISTERED TAX RETURN PREPARER. OVER 30 YEARS EXP. - REASONABLE. CALL (614)396-9066.

Whatever You Need, We Can Do It Remodeling, painting, cleaning, decorating, pwashing, decks, clear clutter & more. Prof., courteous & reasonable. Scott 614-975-0004

JOB WELL DONE AGAIN Interior Work Wanted Painting, Kitchen, Bathrooms Basements, Dry Wall. Need Something Done Just Ask! Call 614-619-2173

911 HANDYMAN-Plumbing, Electric, Hardwood & Tile Floors. Specialized in Bathrm & Kit. Remodeling.Lic. & Bonded. 614-949-8362 No Job To Small

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Drywall Drywall & Plaster Repair Textured Ceilings Affordable Prices!

Call Randy 614-551-6963

Electrical Services AFFORDABLE ELECTRIC SERVICE-Quit paying contractors’ overhead! Ceiling fans, switches, lighting & many more home maint. needs. 20 Yrs. Exp. 614-614-325-8905

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Hauling/Dumpster Rent A-1 Dumpsters & Hauling Estate clean outs, demolition, hauling, and dumpster rentals for all of your home project needs.

Call us today for a free estimate! 614-989-0396 A+ 291-3867 WEE-HAUL SENIOR DISCOUNT. INSURED. ATTICS, BASEMENTS, GARAGES, WHOLE HOUSES. WE LOAD!!

PICK A CAR, ANY CAR

Alive has hundreds-even thousands-of autos for sale.

Look through ads from dealers and private sellers that are categorized by makes and models, simplifying your search.

C AND C THE DIFFERENCE - "Your one stop Shop" Specializing in all Res. Prop. Needs. All Plumb/Elec., Kit., BA Remod. 18 yrs. Exp. M/C/Visa 614-377-6562.

Plumbing

Home Improvement

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BIG SKY Enterprises Home Maintenance Specialist µ Remodeling Services John Fischer, 879-9850

D&D PLUMBING FOR ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDS! 10% senior discount µ 30 yrs + experience!

BBB Approved! 614-354-8412

CHUCK VAGT Remodeling, Kitchens, Baths,Bsmts. & Flooring - Ext. work.45 Yrs. Exp. Free Estimates 614-525-0173

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Free est. 614-315-5962

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Masonry-Bricks-Stone

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Moving and Storage

Wallpaper Hang-Clean

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2001 Blue GMC 4WD Extended Cab Short Bed, Tires good, Taneau Cover, Bed liner, 157K miles, $3500 Call 614-423-7516 German Shepherd Puppies AKC, White Males, POP, 1st shots and Wormings, 7 weeks $600 Call 740-398-1461 Mount Vernon.

Wheels

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WANTED:

AKC Great Dane Pups 6 blk 6 blu ready 2-14. Shots, $800-1200 4 Pics Txt 740-707-2336 or lj_johnson_29@yahoo.com

Australian Shepherd puppies!

Born 12/24. Vet ckd, shots, All color varieties. Family raised. Well socialized. Call Barb @ 740-550-6220

HYBRID TIMBERWOLF PUPS 4 Months old, One white, One black, $195 740-438-4984 we also have 4 FREE older ones.

2011 Eclipse Horse Trailer Excellent Condition Call 740-243-8490

Administrative Assistant for the Science Department Ohio Wesleyan University

Pets

HAVANESE PUPS - Beautiful, choc. & wht., ready to go! HAVACHON- adorable, will be ready Feb. 24th.

Had shots, wormed, vet chk’d, microchip. $650 ea.

Pix avail. upon request. Call 330-473-9758.

Mini Bernadoodles. Raised in loving Ohio home where puppies are well socialized. Vet Checked first shots, ready to go for Valentine’s Day! $1200 330-473-2383

Clerical-Secretarial

For a complete job description and application instructions, please visit our website at https://owu.edu/jobs

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REAR VIEWS

SUDOKU

BY NOah VaN SciVEr

WEEK OF 2-14-19 Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes.

The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle! ANSWER ON PAGE 34

POEt’S cOrNEr |

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‘When Friends Find My Doppelgänger’

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he never has my mother’s nose, nor my father’s skin, nor did he learn Spanish

My grandmother would never call him Mi Lindo.

The brown boy is safer when he looks like their sons

from his own last name.

He often looks the way other people see me when they aren’t afraid,

but not his own.

This is not passing; this is assimilation.

When their sons

when my shoes and belt are still on and I don’t have to be across the country.

His hair is curly,

start to look like you, even when they don’t.

he wears glasses, jeans, a beard.

I would never wake up wondering if his name was mine.

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Arnold Sports Festival February 28-March 3 Downtown Columbus

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