John Joseph Merlin Tried His Best
On skating and scars and finding a community
Two Columbus Chefs Recommend Their Favorite Bethel Road Spots to Try
Two service industry insiders—and Bethel Road devotees—share what they love about the area.
Biscuit Boss' Casey Stevens Becomes a Food Truck Believer, Embraces Breakfast
Biscuit Boss is cooking up breakfast any time of the day.
Alexis Nikole Nelson's Very Good Year: The Black Forager Reflects on a Jam-Packed 2021
From a commercial with Martha Stewart to focusing fulltime on content creation, from growing to 3.3 million followers to writing a forthcoming cookbook, Alexis Nikole has been busy.
Crafted Culture Brewing Paves Way for More Minority-Owned Breweries
The owner of the first Black-owned brewery in Columbus wants to help other minorities break into the brewing industry. Here's how he's doing it.
Land Acknowledgements Seek to Honor Native American Ties to Ohio
The practice of recognizing Indigenous people and the territories they once lived on isn’t new, but advocates say there is a right and a wrong way to do it.
Darci Does It
A fiber artist uses her platform to challenge perceptions of the knitting community.
A Year in the Life of the Kilbourne Project
Three longtime friends want to turn a forgotten Delaware County town into the coolest little community you’ve never heard of—yet.
John Landry’s Short Film Honors Casey Goodson’s Life
“Standing in the Blink of a Night” chronicles the protests that came after Goodson’s killing by a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy.
Sitting Down to Sunday Dinner at LaGlory’s Soul Food Café
"Charter members” and newcomers enjoy Southern classics at this welcoming East Side restaurant.
Alexis Nikole Nelson wants you to go outside
The forager is using social media to spread the gospel of wild food — and it’s working.
Laboring for Change
OB-GYN and public health scholar Karen A. Scott ’98 is leading a new research project — the first of its kind — to study obstetric racism.
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
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.
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
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
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
Indigo De Souza is just happy to be here
After years of writing songs for herself, the singer-songwriter is gaining a new, wider audience
Angela Perley strikes out on her own with new album ‘4:30’
The singer/songwriter discovers the joy, labors of going solo
A Change of Scene: If You Don’t Have A Space For Yourself, You Have To Create It
Meet four young people working to create a more inclusive music scene
