Your weekend has arrived! Hope you are staying safe with slippery roads and sidewalks out there! Our contests for the following Promowest shows are still live: Joshua Radin, Gaelic Storm, and Railroad Earth? Plus, we’ve added a chance for you to win tickets to CU Best Bites Sweet Treats. Have you checked out The Alley Bar yet?Black History Month has begun.
Thursday
COSI explores the science of love and attraction during After Dark, an event just for adults! Enjoy 100 Years of Frank Sinatra with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra at the Southern Theatre. Anything Goes sailed in to the Ohio Theatre and is here through Sunday. Stan’s Cafe’s The Cardinals presents a zany, irreverent religious satire at the Wexner Center’s Mershon Auditorium. A Century of Watercolor continues viewing at the Riffe Gallery. Businesses in Clintonville are running a pet food drive. The art of money exhibit continues at the Columbus Museum of Art. St James Tavern has a Four String Winter Rescue party. Homeport Gallery features Beauty of the Black Man, a collection of photographs. Learn archery at the Indian Village Outdoor Education Center. Corey Smith plays at the Newport. Discuss Sectarianism in the Middle East at Giant Eagle Market District Grandview Yard Upstairs dining area. Comedian Jake Johannsen has performances at the FunnyBone. Love Letters begins at Studio Three in the Riffe Center. Attend a fundraiser for Jess Mathews who is traveling to Denmark for The Master Class in Bicycle Urbanism. Romance Romance begins.
Friday
BalletMet’s performances of The Great Gatsby begin at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets for CD102.5 Day go on sale at 10am. The Columbus Museum of Art begins #MobilePhotoNow, the largest mobile photography exhibition ever organized by a museum. Beautiful orchids remain on view at the Franklin Park Conservatory. Gallery 831 hosts an opening reception for their new exhibit, Abundant Life. The Pizzuti Collection hosts an Artist Talk with Tomory Dodge. Chef Ty Richmond presents The Experience: a Dinner and Comedy Showcase at The Commissary. OSU Dept of Dance comes to the Urban Arts Space to perform new contemporary choreography by Master of Fine Arts candidates Ani Javian and Megan Davis. Blue Jackets battle the Blues. It’s the WCOL Birthday Bash starring Randy Houser at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion. Sex at the Box continues at Shadowbox Live. It Looks Like Its Open has a full night of music. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf continues. Bad Movie Nite has a Double Creature Feature at Studio 35.
Saturday
It’s time again for Gallery Hop and the Short North celebrates 30 years of the Short North Arts District with a special contest, Start With Art – share how art has inspired you and your life on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram through February 28, 2015, using the hashtag, #startwithart. On Paper is having a charity event for The Children’s Heart Foundation. Pop into Roy G. Biv to see Strip Malls Are the Plains/Lonely Like a Highway. See the work of Helen Yee at the Center on High. The Rad Trads are at Brothers Drake. Tree Bar hosts The Magnumb Opus with Paper Waves and I Mustache You a Question. The Columbus Winter Farmers Market returns to the Whetstone Community Center. Get help with your taxes if you are a household making up to $65,000. There’s a special student priced showing of Selma at the AMC Lennox. Enjoy Winter Hike No. 7 at Blendon Woods. Go to the Chilly Open, a fundraising event at the Zoo. Ganthers Place neighborhood presents the 5th Annual House Sweet It Is at Shane’s Gourmet Catering. Head to The Smithery for a Trunk Show with Sasha Newkirk Jewelry. Studio 35’s Cinema Classics presents Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Wexner Center hosts The Magic of the Children’s Book, a free event. St James Tavern presents New Belgium Sour Ale Event & Release of 2015 La Folie. The Grandview High Gravity Hullabaloo is happening. The Refectory hosts a jazz dinner club featuring Tony Monaco. Wholly Craft hosts a Pinterest Party Make and Take Valentine’s Day cards. Bar 23 hosts the 3rd Annual Winter Charity Event for Young Professionals. Get Right returns to Skully’s. Rocky Horror is at Studio 35.
Sunday
Rock opera EVO has its final performances at Shadowbox Live. Make your winter a bit brighter by making some recipes with winter citrus. See how artists can manipulate baskets at the Ohio Craft Museum. ImageOHIO 15 continues at the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery. Check out Brunch & Bowl at the Bosco Center. Smidge and Pinch in Powell hosts a Kids Valentine Cookie Decorating Class. Lucky’s Market shows kids how to arrange flowers. The Calidore String Quartet performs at the Columbus Museum of Art. Fairy Goodmothers are back with Party for Prom at Park Street Saloon. Too Many Cooks: Cajun Cooking with Doc of Cajohns comes to Wild Goose Creative. De-NOVO hosts a special cocktail party for BalletMet’s The Great Gatsby. Gateway Film Center’s TV on the Big Screen continues Downton Abbey and begins Better Call Saul, rumored to be even better than Breaking Bad!
Check out the Events Calendar for even more things to do, and if you have something you want to highlight, post it in the comments!
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