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Theatre Review: The Whipping Man, a powerful story with a provocative premise

Theatre Review: The Whipping Man, a powerful story with a provocative premise

2 Lisa Much / May 6, 2013 10:00 am

Gallery Players and New Players Theater recent collaboration of Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man covers countless ideas in a driving and emotional story. A tense beginning swiftly draws the audience into a dilapidated and half burnt mansion in Richmond, Virginia… [Read More]

Crew Lose to Red Bulls on Home Turf

Crew Lose to Red Bulls on Home Turf

0 Matt Ellis / May 5, 2013 12:00 am

New York forward Tim Cahill’s late sucker-punch goal was enough to take away all the points from Crew Stadium on Saturday night in a game that the Crew controlled for most of the match yet failed to break the Red… [Read More]

Gahanna’s Cinemark Movies 16 Gets a Facelift

Gahanna’s Cinemark Movies 16 Gets a Facelift

3 Nicholas Herum / May 4, 2013 2:55 pm

Gahanna’s Cinemark Movies 16 located in the Stoneridge Shopping Center at the corner of Morse Road and North Hamilton Road is in the final stages of a long overdue makeover. Since opening in the fall of 1995, Movies 16 hasn’t… [Read More]

Theatre Review: Five Guys Named Moe — the Greatest Band Around

Theatre Review: Five Guys Named Moe — the Greatest Band Around

0 Lisa Much / May 4, 2013 12:20 pm

Let me preface all of this by stating that I do not particularly enjoy musicals where plot subordinates the music. I like driving stories and forward momentum. CATCO’s freshly opened Five Guys Named Moe falls into the questionable plot category,… [Read More]

Film Review: Iron Man 3

Film Review: Iron Man 3

0 Nicholas Herum / May 3, 2013 3:25 pm

On top of being a huge hit 2008’s Iron Man solidified Robert Downy Jr.’s comeback by making him a full-fledged superstar again plus got the ball rolling on what would become the Avengers franchise. Since then an underwhelming Iron Man… [Read More]

Clippers Fall to Rochester Despite Late Rally Attempt

Clippers Fall to Rochester Despite Late Rally Attempt

0 Tim Kubick / May 3, 2013 10:45 am

It was a beautiful evening for baseball in Columbus, as the Clippers returned home from an eight-game roadtrip to take on the Rochester Redwings at Huntington Park. Clippers pitcher TJ House got off to a rough start, giving up a… [Read More]

Columbus Mega Weekend – Spring 2013 – Vol. 7

Columbus Mega Weekend – Spring 2013 – Vol. 7

0 Anne / May 2, 2013 2:00 pm

Happy Weekend! It looks like we are going to have nice weather here – hopefully no crazy snow storms for Columbus! Don’t forget to get entered to win tickets to our current concert giveaways courtesy Promowest. Dine Originals’ restaurant dinners… [Read More]

The Buzz: Egyptian Mummy Undergoes CT Scan

The Buzz: Egyptian Mummy Undergoes CT Scan

1 Melanie McIntyre / April 29, 2013 8:00 am

It’s not every day that a mummy undergoes a CT scan, but that’s just what happened recently at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The institution’s new Flash CT scanner is helping archaeologists and Egyptologists learn more about the… [Read More]

Crew Delivers Home Game Win Following Scoreboard Fire

Crew Delivers Home Game Win Following Scoreboard Fire

1 Matt Ellis / April 28, 2013 8:50 am

After failing to win the first two home games of the season and a horrible away day at Chicago last week, the Crew finally gave the home fans the result and performance they’ve been waiting for with a convincing 3-0… [Read More]

Theatre Review: Viva Vagina a nice variance to typical Shadowbox shows

Theatre Review: Viva Vagina a nice variance to typical Shadowbox shows

0 Lisa Much / April 26, 2013 11:00 am

Viva Vagina, Shadowbox Live’s newest Stage 2 production, conjures up thoughts of a musical variation of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues or a cabaret-style, satirical, faux-chauvinistic but ultimately feminist comedy. This production does not really do either. Instead, it presents a… [Read More]

Columbus Mega Weekend – Spring 2013 – Vol. 6

Columbus Mega Weekend – Spring 2013 – Vol. 6

2 Anne / April 25, 2013 2:00 pm

I cannot believe it is already Thursday, but here we are and the weekend is here. fRESHSTREET Yakitori is closing up shop in Double Happiness, so if you’ve always wanted to try that, get there by Saturday. We’ve got a… [Read More]

City of Columbus Anticipating Blue Jackets Playoff Run

City of Columbus Anticipating Blue Jackets Playoff Run

2 Jason Parks / April 25, 2013 1:10 pm

Since their inaugural season in 2000-2001, the Blue Jackets have only made one Stanley Cup Playoffs appearance. The Detroit Red Wings swept them during the 2008-2009 season and the city of Columbus has barely tasted what the NHL playoffs have… [Read More]

Film Review: Mud

Film Review: Mud

0 Hope Madden / April 25, 2013 10:40 am

Jeff Nichols’s criminally underseen Take Shelter was the best film of 2011. Poetic and understated, steeped in the mores of small town Ohio, this story of a man haunted by visions of the apocalypse benefitted from a treatment fully at… [Read More]

Theatre Review: War Horse – a poignant play with cinematic flourish

Theatre Review: War Horse – a poignant play with cinematic flourish

0 Lisa Much / April 24, 2013 11:00 am

Long awaited and highly anticipated, the U.S. tour of Nick Stafford’s War Horse cantered into the Ohio Theatre last night to a full house. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s children’s book of the same name, War Horse tells the tale of… [Read More]

First Look: The Pint House Beer Garden

First Look: The Pint House Beer Garden

15 Walker / April 22, 2013 8:00 am

The Short North officially gets its first Beer Garden this week as The Pint House opens on Thursday at 780 North High Street. The building has been completely gutted, providing a raw, open garage-like space with a long bar lining… [Read More]