Mega Weekend – Record Store Day, Earth Day Celebrations, and More!

Start your weekend with Columbus’s biggest brunch event! With over 20 of your favorite brunch restaurants on the menu, you definitely DO NOT want to miss this year’s All Things Brunch Festival this Friday. Tickets are selling out fast! Join us for the upcoming Urban Living Tour. Plus, don’t miss out your chance to win […]
Theatre Review: Retro Comedy in CATCO’s Educating Rita

CATCO’s season continues with a well-executed revival of Willy Russell’s ‘80s British comedy Educating Rita directed by Steven Anderson. Educating Rita follows the title character’s trying to change her life and outlook through education. Rita’s (Jenny Case) thirst for transformation starts with her name, a Bob Dylan-esque change inspired by Rita Mae Brown, right before […]
Behind the Scenes of Cirque Du Soleil’s Corteo

The entertainment company Cirque Du Soleil has been traveling the world and wowing audiences with their acrobatics, juggling, dancing, and stunts for decades. The troupe originally formed in the early 1980s in Canada as a group of 20 street performers. Their fire breathing, juggling, and dancing drew audiences, and in the late 1980s the troupe […]
Concert Preview & Interview: Echosmith

The Sierotas will bring their 'Inside A Dream' Tour to Columbus Thursday Night to build momentum for their forthcoming studio album and latest single "Over My Head"
It’s been nearly five years since California indies Echosmith launched their debut album, Talking Dreams, anchored by the Top 20 sleeper hit, “Cool Kids.” Buoyed by the four Sierota siblings: Sydney (lead vocals, piano, keyboards), Graham (drums, percussion), Noah (bass, background vocals), and Jamie (lead guitar and vocals), the band found its commercial footing rather quickly […]
Record Store Day Honored with City-Wide Holiday, Vinyl of Columbus Bands

April 21 marks Record Store Day in the U.S. and countries worldwide, and now it will mark a special day for residents of Columbus. The Columbus City Council has declared April 21 as Columbus Music Day, in recognition of local music, musicians and artists. Vince Tornero, founder of the In The Record Store podcast and […]
The Confluence Cast: Opera Columbus

How does one lead the rebirth of a performing arts organization? I sat down with Peggy Kriha Dye, General and Artistic Director of Opera Columbus, to talk about this weekend’s production of Orphée Et Eurydice (running April 20-22 at the Southern Theatre), her beginnings as a singer, how she came to call Central Ohio home, and the […]