Move over, all you mom and pop ice cream shops, CRMD (Creamed) is incoming.…
Buckeye Chili & Smokehouse opened without much fanfare Downtown. It’s a little off the…
Local ice cream shop Dulce Vida is rapidly expanding throughout Columbus. With two locations…
A new clean beauty and wellness store is headed for Grandview. Fine Feather is…
Diamond Cellar has opened a Hermès watch boutique inside its Easton Town Center store.…
It's Pride month! Columbus has several non-profits and companies that are celebrating with limited…
Wild Goose Creative (WGC) has announced the signing of a new space in Franklinton…
Two decades ago, Daric Gill dated a girl over the summer from Urbana, a…
Gateway Film Center projectionist Rachael Barbash brings her
work out of the booth and into…
New updates on the North Market development project last week meant that there was…
Governor Mike DeWine has formed a new task force that will take a big-picture…
The professionals that work in the human services industry, including caseworkers, child welfare workers…
Ohio’s six week abortion ban has been blocked by a federal judge. Planned to…
Rep. Joyce Beatty, who’s represented Ohio’s third congressional district since 2013, faces a challenger…
Columbus Underground is excited to announce that in partnership with the Gateway Film Center,…
“My little Piper weighed less than 4 pounds when I picked her up; she…
Dino Tripodis has mastered the art of blending experience,
bringing his years in standup comedy…
For almost 70 years, Guys and Dolls, with its book by Jo Swerling and…Opinion: What do we Stand for Anymore?
June 24, 2019 11:24 am
Lauren Sega 
Today I cried for the first time since Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony in front of Congress. It was that same bubbling over of empathy I felt, when I placed myself where she was and imagined telling the hardest truth I’d ever tell in front of an indifferent and toxic congregation. I guess some […]
Ohio Immigrant Community Braces for Mass Roundups Rumored for Next Week
June 21, 2019 3:48 pm Lauren Sega 
Update 3:20PM 6/22/19 — President Trump stated that he will delay the ICE raids. If it comes to fruition, President Donald Trump’s tweet warning of the removal of “millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States” has major implications for the local immigrant community. The announcement, later confirmed by Immigration […]
Undocumented | Edith Espinal Fights to Remain With her Family in Ohio
February 19, 2019 12:41 pm Lauren Sega 
Edith Espinal, an undocumented resident of Columbus who’s been in sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite Church, marked her 500th day in sanctuary on Valentine’s Day. Living inside a church, unable to leave for groceries, a date with her husband, or to visit her son when he was in the hospital last year has taken a toll […]
Long-Time Ohio Resident Faces Deportation to Country that Once Enslaved Him
November 16, 2018 3:16 pm Lauren Sega 
Amadou Sow sits in a jail cell at the Morrow County Correctional Facility. He hasn’t committed a crime, not since he came to the United States in 1991, but it’s where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has kept him detained since his routine check-in back in August. His lawyers are fighting for an emergency stay. […]
CRIS 5k for Refugees 2018
September 8, 2018 12:00 pm
Kylie Harwell-Sturgill 
EARLY CHECK-IN for the run will be held at CRIS offices on September 7th. We are located at 1925 E Dublin Granville Road 43229. Please enter our reception office for directions to check-in. Thank you! In solidarity with the Central Ohio’s refugee and immigrant community, we invite you to join the CRIS family at our […]
Protesters Gather Downtown, Call for Abolition of ICE
July 9, 2018 3:15 pm Lauren Sega 
The national movement to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) turned up the heat in Columbus on Monday, with a demonstration that shut down traffic Downtown for two hours and ended in 12 arrests. The event gathered between 150 and 200 protesters, all of whom came with the goal to shut down the local ICE […]
Somali Graduation & Scholarship Program
The SomalCAN Graduation and Scholarship Program is an annual tradition that celebrates the educational excellence of Somali-American youth who graduate from high schools and colleges in Ohio. The event will be held on July 7 at 6pm at Hilton Easton, 3900 Chagrin Drive, Columbus OH 43219. Scholarships will be awarded to a dozen students. Please […]
