Columbus CEO • 23rd November 2020

Making the most of available resources drives Green Office Furniture Solutions

“I’ve always been the type of person that did not want to be wasteful, that always wanted to consider the impact on the environment for anything that I was doing personally in my life.”—Haleema shafeek, owner, GOFS

Columbus Alive • 3rd November 2020

Snarls makes the best of it

A virtual event with the Wex is just another way the up-and-coming band is adapting to its new reality

Columbus Monthly • 8th October 2020

Seven Questions with Lalese Stamps of Lolly Lolly Ceramics

What started as a collegiate side hustle for the CCAD grad is now a burgeoning small business.

Columbus Monthly • 28th September 2020

Notes from Columbus’ Black Chefs

In the wake of this summer’s racial justice protests, businesses are reevaluating their commitment to diversity and inclusion. But for some Black chefs in Columbus, the inequitable landscape looks much the same as it always has.

Columbus Monthly • 27th August 2020

Seven Questions with April Rhodes of The Little Light Collective

The new Clintonville store is a treasure trove of antiques and locally made goods.

Columbus Alive • 25th August 2020

Roller skating never went away

Thanks to social media, good weather and, yes, COVID-19, more people are discovering the joy of life on eight wheels

Columbus Alive • 17th August 2020

Tiffany McDaniel’s second novel, ‘Betty,’ was a lifetime in the making

Seventeen years after writing it, the Ohio author’s book, inspired by her own family, is finally reaching a wider audience.

Columbus CEO • 10th August 2020

Olde Towne East vegan restaurant surviving on solid planning

Covid-19 could have been the end of Shanna Dean and Dawn Dickson’s new business, Lifestyle Cafe. Instead, it let them refocus.

ZORA • 24th July 2020

I Learned to Date in the Middle of a Pandemic

After a life spent avoiding dating and intimacy, I started to figure it out while the rest of the world was falling apart

Columbus Monthly • 22nd July 2020

Seven Questions with Quincy General Store Owner Kate Block

The plant-loving entrepreneur recently left her corporate gig to start her own business.

Columbus Alive • 22nd June 2020

What it means when police join the protest

On the surface, cops marching and kneeling with protesters looks like progress, but local activists want people to see the larger problems beyond the photo-op

Columbus Monthly • 10th June 2020

Seven Questions with Connie Schultz

The longtime journalist makes her first foray into fiction with “The Daughters of Erietown.”

Columbus Alive • 28th May 2020

Local designers collaborate to ‘Save a Hero’

A group of Granville women mobilized their community to make PPE for healthcare professionals

Columbus Monthly • 13th May 2020

Seven Questions with Anita Gastaldo of Sew to Speak

For this Worthington sewing store, business is booming in the age of coronavirus.

Columbus CEO • 1st May 2020

Mmelo navigates finding its sweet spot during pandemic

“I spent the first few days in shock as all our corporate business, catering events, retail and wholesale business went away in the span of 48 hours,” says Mmelo Boutique Confections founder Michelle Allen.

Columbus Monthly • 1st April 2020

Seven Questions: How Comedian Amber Falter is Adapting to the Quarantine Age

The up-and-coming entertainer on isolation, virtual shows, curing hams and her three “very weird dogs”

Columbus Alive • 26th March 2020

Best Transplant: Saeed Jones

After 10 years in New York, the writer needed a change. He found that and more in Columbus.

Columbus Alive • 24th March 2020

Best Artist: Richard Duarte Brown

The mixed-media artist reflects on three decades spent empowering kids through art

Columbus Alive • 5th March 2020

‘Art After Stonewall’ honors 50th anniversary of 1969 uprising

Following stops in New York and Miami, the art exhibit comes home to the Columbus Museum of Art

Columbus Alive • 24th February 2020

Janice Kaplan wants to change how you think of geniuses

In her new book, the longtime writer goes searching for women geniuses