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Thursday Iration 7 p.m. @ The Basement Lettuce 7:30 p.m. @ Newport Music Hall
Friday Black Joe Lewis 7 p.m. @ Newport Music Hall Traitors Return to Earth 9 p.m. @ Cafe Bourbon St.
Saturday ZOSO 7:30 p.m. @ Newport Music Hall Psychic Wheels 9 p.m. @ Ace of Cups SHELBY LUM / Photo editor
film releases for Feb. 21 “Pompeii” “3 Days to Kill” “The Wind Rises” “Omar” “In Secret”
itunes top 10 as of Feb. 19 1. “Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J)” Katy Perry 2. “All of Me” John Legend 3. “Talk Dirty (feat. 2 Chainz)” Jason Derulo 4. “Pompeii” Bastille 5. “The Man” Aloe Blacc 6. “Say Something” A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera 7. “Team” Lorde 8. “Timber (feat. Ke$ha)” Pitbull 9. “Let Her Go” Passenger 10. “Drunk in Love (feat. Jay Z)” Beyoncé
arts desk picks Concert: Black Joe Lewis Film: “Pompeii” Song: “Oodles of O’s” De La Soul
Barista John Justice prepares coffee at Café Brioso. Columbus was mentioned as one of ‘5 Underrated Coffee Cities’ in an article on coffee website Sprudge.com.
but they’re all friends. They visit each other’s shops and go to each other’s events,” Stiffler-Dean said. Mick Evans, managing partner for retail operations at One Line Coffee, located at 745 N. High St., said this collaboration and competition is making the coffee industry stronger in Columbus. “We’re on the precipice of even greater collaboration, as the coffee culture has really honed and developed. But it’s also at the point where style is becoming very important, and shops are becoming more specialized. There’s been an evolution of quality that just wasn’t here a couple years ago, and the competition between different shops has helped make everyone better,” Evans said. One of the ways Columbus’ coffee community gathers is through the North Market Coffee Roast — a public event held at the North Market where roasters and shops get together to educate, celebrate and show off what they know about coffee for the public. North Market Executive Director Rick Harrison Wolfe said the event is growing. “In past years, it was a collection of local coffee roasters that gathered for a day at the market and provided samples of their wares. This year we are moving the event a month later and outside due to the popularity — last year we had thousands show up and it was inside,” Wolfe said in an email. Wolfe further explained Columbus’ local coffee growth by comparing it to his experiences on the West Coast. “Columbus is at the forefront of local coffee for sure. I moved from L.A. three years ago and there were not nearly the amount of local roasters as we have here, there are 10 million folks there and most of them drink Starbucks,” Wolfe said. McIntyre said the North Market Coffee Roast was one of the reasons Columbus made her list. “I loved the North Market Coffee Roast, it was just so cool. You have all these people coming together from all aspects of the industry, and people are really enthusiastic about it, which was exciting to see,” McIntyre said. Erik Fenstermacher, manager of campus’ Boston Stoker, located at 1660 Neil Ave., said it is the customers who are making the local coffee industry grow. “Each year, increasingly higher standards are being set from customers, which is a great thing for the industry,” Fenstermacher said.
NICK ROLL Lantern reporter roll.66@osu.edu
Columbus might have been off the grid for coffee aficionados in the past, but not for much longer. Emily McIntyre, writer for coffee website Sprudge.com, gave Columbus and four other cities — Houston, Oklahoma City, Sacramento, Calif., and San Diego — attention for their well-developed, yet under the radar, coffee communities in her article “5 Underrated Coffee Cities” on the coffee website. McIntyre said that the criteria for her list — which mentioned local businesses such as Café Brioso, One Line Coffee and Boston Stoker — required a different number of things. “First of all, there have to be a certain number of independent shops and a certain number of roasters. Then there’s the quality aspect, which varies a lot and makes cities unique. The people involved in the coffee culture have to people (who are) enthusiastic and knowledgeable as well,” McIntyre said. McIntyre also added that the “maturity of the coffee scene” is what usually separates the underground cities from the coffee giants — New York, Portland and Seattle — along with a lack of press coverage. Some members of Columbus’ coffee industry shared similar sentiments. “The coffee culture in Columbus is under the radar even here, but the national recognition it’s been getting has legitimized it for the people in Columbus,” said Jeff Davis, president of Café Brioso, a coffee house and roaster located downtown at 14 E. Gay St. Tim Stiffler-Dean, CEO of Guddina Coffee, a website that helps people purchase micro-roasted coffee and find shops in their area, said the community as a whole is what makes Columbus’ coffee stand out. “With the guys in Columbus, it’s a healthy but friendly competition. They’re all doing their own thing, all trying to make better experiences for people, MATTHEW LOVETT / Asst. arts editor
Mobile food truck aims to keep customers moving with healthy food
Courtesy of Andrew Tuchow
Kinetic, a mobile kitchen aiming to offer healthy options, is set to serve smoothies.
AMANDA ETCHISON Lantern reporter etchison.4@osu.edu
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Owner Jess Davis prepares coffee at Café Brioso. Columbus was mentioned as one of ‘5 Underrated Coffee Cities’ in an article on coffee website Sprudge.com.
From a mobile kitchen in the back of a renovated Hostess truck, local business partners Andrew Tuchow and Andy O’Brien plan to bring healthy cuisine to the streets of Columbus. Tuchow, who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University last May with a degree in neuroscience and psychology, and O’Brien, a recent Ohio State graduate with a degree in food business and a minor in agricultural business, are set to open Kinetic, a food truck devoted to the principles of healthy eating and athleticism, April 1. Tuchow and O’Brien said the premise
Courtesy of Andrew Tuchow
Courtesy of Andrew Tuchow
Andrew Tuchow (left) and Andy O’Brien are set to open Kinetic, a mobile kitchen aiming to offer healthy options.
Customers can create their own combination bowls at Kinetic, a mobile kitchen aiming to offer healthy options.
behind Kinetic is to offer visitors a menu based on an athlete’s ideal diet, geared toward the health-conscious. “(We originally wanted to create) a restaurant designed for athletes,” Tuchow said. “So like fueling your body before a workout, after a workout and really getting the maximum potential you can get from work and practices and everything that you do.” Tuchow and O’Brien came together as business partners after “a decade plus” of friendship. O’Brien said the two went to the same elementary school and have been friends ever since. “We’ve known each other for half of our lives,” Tuchow added. The concept for Kinetic emerged after a lunch meeting between the two friends last March, Tuchow said.
“At the time, I (had) neat ideas for products and entrepreneurial ventures,” he said. “And one of Andy’s projects that he was working on at school was really related to one of the ideas that I had. They were both basically healthier eating, fast-casual dining restaurants or something (similar).” O’Brien said the pair ultimately decided to invest in a food truck because of the lower overhead costs of owning a mobile kitchen compared to a traditional restaurant. “Starting a restaurant (often) costs upwards of a million dollars, whereas the startup cost of a food truck is much lower,” he said. “It’s more obtainable for our circumstances, being recent college graduates.” O’Brien also said owning and operating a food
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