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Get ready for yet another huge weekend in Columbus! Hopefully the predicted rain and thunderstorms won’t keep the fun from happening.
First up is Comfest, the annual weekend-long party in Goodale Park. Always plenty of music, booths, booze, and food to be had there. We’ve also got Columbus Pride Weekend with a whole slew of events all over town including a huge parade on Saturday. The Origins Game Fair is also continuing through the weekend at the Convention Center, for your dose of gaming goodness.
On Sunday, Bat N Rouge takes place at the Africentric High School Field just south of Downtown, while the German Village Society’s 49th Annual Haus und Garten Tour takes place nearby. And if all of that’s not enough for you, and you’ve still got some leftover energy on Monday, there’s a Bourbon Tasting event going on at Morton’s Steakhouse Downtown.
Enjoy your weekend, Columbus!
Not trying to oppose the two, but I believe Pride is bigger in terms of numbers.
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Fixed.
Or maybe a better way to put it – ComFest is a local event. Pride Festival is a regional one.
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Another alternative… people can just enjoy their weekend without sweating the semantics. :P
Sorry for the inarticulacy. Hanging out @ TipTop w/ Elena and Merc last night killed off too many little grey cells.
I just meant to make a (single) comment about how big Pride is and that it has a regional attraction vis-a-vis ComFest which is a local event and still draws tons of people. Both are a credit to Columbus. And fun.
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Didn’t you already do that?
Didn’t you already do that?
I told you my brain was not in gear. I thought I posted, walked away, couldn’t find the post, posted again, meant to edit which created new post by which time you had posted …
And how is your morning going?
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Isn’t the pride thing a national thing? I mean they have parades all over the country this weekend for it, right?
Not that it really matters.
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You won’t find more pride in Columbus this weekend than Comfest! lets just be real about this folks.
Been doing the “Comfest is here!” dance all day. About once an hour I pop up at my desk and shake my groove thang with a big smile on my face for about 30 seconds in anticipation of the festivities. It helps the time fly and a couple coworkers have even joined in, highly recommended. :D
As a quick note, Pride is typically seen as a month-long event (, June being Gay Pride month). Pride parades and activities are usually structured from the smaller cities earlier in the month to the larger cities at the end. The bigger the city the more likely the Parade, if they have one, will be occurring towards the last full weekend in June.
Ohio has followed this pattern for many years :
Dayton, Toledo (1st weekend)
Cincinnati (2nd weekend)
Cleveland (3rd weekend)
and Columbus (4th weekend).
There are some other cities in there as well, however alas I do not have the information for them in front of me.
It is, at times, a ‘close call’ as to whether Cleveland or Columbus is, technically, the ‘larger’ city. I know there are several studies, semantics of where the “city borders” end planning-wise and other factors which can result in similar numbers. Columbus in many of these cases has shown mostly positive growth. In any case, just some random info.
Take care!
* Geoff
Thanks for taking the time to share that info! :D
Very interesting Geoff, thanks!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Tens of thousands of people flooded to the Short North, Downtown and the Ohio State University campus today for the Pride Parade, Community Festival and Special Olympics Ohio’s 2008 State Summer Games.
Despite the threat of rain, the gay-rights parade began at 1 p.m. and traveled from the Goodale Park in the Short North to Bicentennial Park Downtown, where a festival will continue until 7 p.m. The start of the parade was crowded with people in for Pride weekend as well as ComFest, the volunteer-run festival of local music, artists and food that began its second day in Goodale Park. And on the OSU campus, some 2,700 athletes with intellectual disabilities competed in 10 sports for the 37th state Special Olympics.
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You’re welcome all :)
ahhh… What a good weekend.
Yyyeeargh. Day #3 of drunkenness!!
Tomorrow needs to be 1/7 of hydration.
Alcohol– a cellular poison I verily enjoy.
Don’t like 300,000 people filter through Comfest throughout the weekend?
Or vice versa.