Happy Weekend! Semi-finalists were announced for The Metropreneur’s ASPIRE event, check them out and then make plans to join us at Studio 35, and enjoy delicious food from Freedom a la Cart! Ticket contests are open for Trapped Columbus with more Promowest shows coming online soon! Don’t forget there’s a winter apparel drive going on with First Service Federal Credit Union branches.
Thursday
Columbus Unscripted kicked off their Columbus Improv Festival yesterday, with events lasting through Monday. The Circleville Pumpkin Show started and remember it only goes through Saturday! Get excited for HighBall during the warm-up party at the Gateway Film Center. CATCO opens The Elephant Man. See the funny show, After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists at the Wexner Center. The Wexner Center also shows The Decline of Western Civilization. Trendsetters and fashion lovers should head to the Diamond Cellar on Sawmill Road for their New World, New Designers event. Enjoy a beer tour of Europe at Dublin Giant Eagle. Tell COTA what you think about the future of transit! Network with entrepreneurs and high-growth companies at VentureNEXT. AAF showcases a few companies with strong relationships and asks if that is the key to better creative work, find out at their event. Get in the mood for the holidays at Glass Axis. See Short North Stage’s splendid production of A Little Night Music. Brewer’s Yard Kroger hosts a giant food truck party, check it out for dinner tonight! Gerald Walker makes a stop at The Creative Plug. Learn how the British diet changed the world. Jazz Arts Group presents Redefining Tradition: Ellington, Basie & Beyond at the Southern Theatre throughout the weekend. Make sure to see Shadowbox Live’s new show The Tenshu – a completely new and different Shadowbox Live experience! Also check out Dragbuki. Popgun plays at notes.
Friday
HighBall begins and has the On the Rocks Tribute Concert. Go on a Haunted Tour of the Statehouse. There’s an Oktoberfest party at Hop Yard 62. There’s a big yard sale happening in Upper Arlington. Chelsea Borough Home in Dublin hosts a Holiday Reveal Party. The Columbus Chrome Divas are raising money at the Quaker Steak and Lube. Enjoy Tales From the Crypt. Restart gets you dancing at The Avalon. Rosie with very special guest Willie Phoenix and the Soul Underground play the LC. WOSU airs a conversation between the mayoral candidates. Catch Craig Ferguson at the Capitol Theater. The Columbus Symphony presents Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev at the Ohio Theatre. See Grassinine at notes. Brothers Drake hosts a HighBall Extravaganza. Church is back at Ruby Tuesdays.
Saturday
HighBall continues and enjoy the costume contest and fashion show! The Kitchen hosts a Harvest Dining Experience. The Drexel begins the Latino Film Festival. Enjoy OctoBEERfest at Four String Brewing Co. Weiland’s Market hosts a Sidewalk Seafood Cookout. Hoover YMCA has their Fall Harvest Days event. Columbus Brewing Company continues their Taps of Terror. See Beetlejuice at COSI. Get your important docs shredded. Join the Columbus Historical Society for their final tour. Lucky’s hosts a pie eating contest and celebrates two years and has a benefit for WCBE! Elizabeth’s Records is having a dollar sale. Raisin Rack invites you to try gluten free holiday foods, and Hills Market Downtown hosts their Pulled Pork Saturdays. Wholly Craft hosts the 3rd annual Alison Rose Monster Mash Halloween Tote event. Sample Mad Moon Cider at Celebrate Local. Join Ohio History Connection for another All Hallow’s Eve. Swank returns to Ethel’s Bar with a Spooky theme. Head to Betty’s Bar and Grill for a Tales of the Ohio Pen Ghost Tour. Witches & Brew returns to Hot Head Salon. MINT presents Kjell Theøry: A Prologue, a new performance by ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality). Go check out The Haunt, and other haunted houses. Skillet Tag continues at Madlab Theatre and Brighton Beach Memoirs continues at the JCC. Damn the Witch Siren hosts an album release party at Skully’s. Check out a burlesque show based on Anne Rice’s vampire novels. Red Club hosts Ascension Saturdays.
Sunday
The Columbus Museum of Art opens its doors to the community to celebrate their new wing. Invasion of the Killer Crafts returns to Skully’s, go find a great holiday gift and get that taken care of already! There are lots of art shows you could take in. Or do an escape room adventure. New Albany High School hosts a 5K. Artisan PopUp Sundays continue at The Roosevelt Coffeehouse. Make jewelry at The Smithery. North Market hosts a Halloween Family Fun Day and they have Market Flea going on as well. CityMusic Columbus welcomes Barbara Furtuna to notes. Go on a walking tour of the Greenlawn Cemetery. Do mom and me yoga. Columbus Crew S.C. takes on D.C. United. Opera Columbus presents Opera on the Edge with the abridged, English version of Verdi’s La Traviata at Shadowbox Live. Nina West’s Heels of Horror continues at Axis. Jesse Cook plays the Lincoln Theater. Kelly Zullo plays at Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza. Watch The Walking Dead on the big screen at Gateway Film Center.
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