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Brian "Clash" Griffin, honored at last year's Free Press Annual Awards Event, will perform with the Coffee House Rebels at the 2018 Free Press Awards ceremony on Monday, October 8 at Woodlands Tavern, 1200 W. Third Avenue. The Coffee House Rebels are an electric, folk-rock blues, acoustic punk, rock band made up of Brian Clash on vocals, guitar, and harmonica, Chuck Oney on bass and vocals and Sarah Noble on drums and vocals. To hear them, come to the event!
Ye’s Asian Vegan Kitchen just opened in Hilliard’s West Point strip mall just south of the Kroger at Roberts and Hilliard Rome on Sept 16, 2018. While vegan options are expanding in many dietary diversity conscious restaurants globally, Ye’s is now the fourth 100% vegan restaurant operating concurrently in the Columbus metro area (Loving Hut, Portia’s, Eden Burger) where one does not have to worry about any animal product cross-contamination. There are a full spectrum of vegan appetizers, main courses rice-based and noodle based dishes, soups, salads, spring rolls, dumplings and more. The only thing they have yet to develop is their dessert menu. The Vegan Columbus community has been raving about their Ye’s Asian Vegan Kitchen experiences, so check it out!
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Columbus’ own anarcho-comedy duo Street Fight Radio will perform alongside Chapo Trap House as part of the Chapo Trap House tour for their book The Chapo Guide to Revolution on October 10. They both represent a revolution in comedy.
Street Fight Radio started as a community radio show on the local WCRS LP (92.7 & 98.3) in 2011 and now has fans around the world. It was a project by two local comedians, Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby, who were disenchanted with the state of comedy in Central Ohio and wanted to do their own thing. The two started performing skits and providing a working-class anarchist critique of politics. In 2016, the show transitioned from a hobby project to a full-blown gig as the duo found success with the crowd funding platform Patreon. I asked Bryan what about their recent success.
GW Pharmaceuticals: Savior of mankind or bane of human existence?
Once upon a time, there was a guy who knew a lot about marijuana. He attended cannabis conferences and participated in presentations. He hobnobbed with a wealthy well-known insurance magnate. Eccentric described him, but he also had a wonky, biochemical side intent on legitimizing marijuana as medicine. He claimed he had “no beef with people who grow, smoke, or provide their own cannabis.” He decried the drug war’s toll on U.S. marijuana policy.
But there was another side. He’s been portrayed as the master mind behind an unfair marijuana monopoly that patents plants, extraction techniques, medicines and extract inhalers – and then sues violators. A Monsanto that resorts to heavy-handed police state scare tactics. A purveyor of prohibition that prevents people from managing personal healthcare or growing personal medicine.
Politics rears its head only toward the end of the National Geographic documentary Science Fair. That’s when various people complain about the current status of science in the U.S., whose officials routinely dismiss research on issues such as climate change and environmental health.
Otherwise, the film is an uplifting celebration of high school students who vie for the chance to win honors at Los Angeles’ Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a huge event that annually attracts 1,700 of the best and brainiest from across the globe.
Sure, the students are competing for a shot at fame and glory—and to impress the colleges and universities they hope to enter. But in the process, they put their intellectual skills to work on complex problems whose solutions could benefit us all.
The implicit message: If given half a chance, nerds could save the world.
Tuesday, Octobr 2, 7-10pm
1021 E. Broad St.
Jill Stein will be here to support Constance Gadell-Newton's race for governor.
Tuesday, October 2, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Show your support for Edith Espinal by joining our neighbors and local communities of faith for a vigil as Edith reaches one year in Sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite Church.
A press conference will be held at 6pm before the vigil begins.
Hosted by Solidarity with Edith Espinal.
The Free Press is happy to announce that the family of Bill Moss is awarding the Bill Moss Award for an Outstanding African American activist posthumously to Columbus photographer Kojo Kamau. His work is on permanent display at the Columbus Museum of Art and exhibited across the U.S. and internationally. He traveled extensively and documented the varieties of cultures in North and South America, Europe, the Caribbean and Africa. He is also known for photos of celebrities. He created an organization to promote and encourage blacka artists in 1979 called Art for Community Expression (ACE). Kojo passed away in December 2016 but his legacy lives on in Columbus.
The Free Press Awards ceremony is Monday, October 8. 6-10pm at Woodlands Tavern, 1200 West Third Avenue in Grandview. There will be food, drink, an awards ceremony and live music by Willie Phoenis, Coffee House Rebels, Something Else and Gilded Sun. All are welcome, $10 at the door or sliding scale.
