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Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan talk about God, Jesus, and play songs that reference these divine entities, from Jesus Christ Superstar to Amazing Grace to God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols.
Listen live at 11pm Fridays, September 12 and 19 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Mondays at 2pm streaming September 15 and 22 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
Friday, September 26, 2025 | 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 27, 2025 | 7:30 p.m.
COSI Planetarium, 333 W Broad St, Columbus, OH 43215
Columbus Gay Men's Chorus starts the season with our exciting VOX show called Queeriverse. This concert features all of your favorite space-themed music and will be performed in the COSI Planetarium. Not only will you hear the amazing sound of VOX while watching the Planetarium show, but your ticket gets access to COSI exhibitions before the concert.
Gunshots bring only bad news in America. This time a young rightwing activist was shot and killed while speaking at a big university south of Salt Lake City, Utah. His name was Charlie Kirk, and he was unfamiliar to me, but he seems to have been a principal at Turning Point USA, an organization which was active in voter turnout among young conservatives in the 2024 presidential election. He seems to have been a well-known figure in conservative circles, sufficient to have commanded a college speaking tour. As of this writing, the shooter has not been comprehended, though videos show someone lying on a roof about 200 yards away and running after the gunshot. A kill shot at that distance is seen as something that a hunter of average, but not exceptional skill, could accomplish, which likely is a reasonably large pool in Utah, though the killer home state is unknown.
Although most Republican still reject Isolationism, a small, but clamorous contingent of the MAGA Coalition has embraced what Rebecca L. Heinrich calls the 1939 Project. Tucker Carlson has emerged as the leader of this endeavor, striving to delegitimize American intervention in World War II and America’s post World War II role in the world it catalyzed. What began as a fringe movement is alas on the threshold of morphing into a mighty threat to U.S. national security now that Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation – Ronald Reagan’s favorite thinktank, has joined the ranks of such “restrainers.”
Latino Heritage Month - September 15-October 15, 2025
The Inaugural Committee was formed out of the office of Columbus City Councilmember Lourdes Barroso de Padilla in Fall 2022 to promote visibility, cultural awareness, and togetherness during LHHM in hopes to create lasting impact in the Greater Columbus community.
Latino Heritage Month Parade and Fetival
Saturday, September 13, 11am-4pm, downtown Columbus
The parade will start at the corner of Civic Center Dr. and E. Rich St and end at City Hall.
Celebrate culture, community, and diversity as we parade through downtown Columbus. Join us after the parade for a vibrant festival with music, food, and fun for everyone.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is hosting will be joining the annual Latino Heritage Parade in downtown Columbus this Saturday. In addition to celebrating the Latino Heritage and culture that has and continues to make Columbus wonderful, they’ll distribute much needed information about workplace and immigrant rights. Materials will be available in English and Spanish to parade goers.
Wednesday, September 10, 2 - 4 PM
Whetstone Library meeting room, 3909 N. High Street
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Central Ohio hosts a number of outdoor farmers’ markets providing freshly-harvested produce. Leading a group of these markets is Abbe Turner, a farmer herself. Abbe is the new Executive Director of Common Greens which runs five local farmers’ markets every week. Be it a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday, Common Greens has one or more markets in action that day. Operating times for downtown’s Pearl Alley, Clintonville, Bexley, Upper Arlington and the innovative OhioHealth’s Riverside farmers’ markets can be found at the Common Greens website. You have until the end of October to catch the action, except for Clintonville’s market where they will tough-it-out through November.
For the 2025 season, Abbe was excited to recruit 30 new vendors. Common Greens now hosts 170 unique vendors including both home- and farm-based specialty food producers. Market volunteers help to count attendance. “This season we are on track to record 140,000 shoppers,” Abbe said in excitement.
Progressives and lefties fully embrace joining and supporting unions, but how do we deal with a union that continuously encourages members to approve contracts they don’t want?
There are roughly 12,500 Kroger United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) 1059 members. Most are in Central Ohio, and during the pandemic they risked their lives to meet the community’s needs. They were never furloughed, didn’t receive a dime of unemployment, and were paid an insulting extra $2-an-hour or given a one-time modest bonus.
Keep in mind Kroger UFCW 1059 members are the adults who work fulltime. They toil day-in-day out stocking fridges and shelves, working the cash register, or unloading trucks in the backend. And every three or four years their contract with Kroger comes up for a vote.
Tuesdays, 4:30 – 5:30pm EDT
Ohio 161 & North High Street, Worthington, OH 43085
Concerned about proposed cuts to Social Security services? Appalled by the abduction and renditioning of legal immigrants? Outraged by the theft of our private information? Generally dumbfounded by the chaotic combination of evil and incompetence coming from the White House? Make up a sign and let people know!
Thousands of cars pass through this intersection during rush hour every weekday. And the intersection is surrounded by the public Village Green Park on all four sides, giving us lots of room to hold signs protesting the ongoing destruction of our democracy by the Trump/DOGE administration.
Organized by the Worthington Area Democratic Club and Westerville Progressive Alliance.
Columbus’ political establishment is being forced to reckon with a new generation. On Sunday afternoon, the nonprofit Columbus Stand Up! hosted its second annual youth-led candidate debate at Fort Hayes Education Center, where students as young as 15 grilled candidates for Columbus City Council District 7 and the Columbus City School Board.
In a city where partisan politics often feel scripted, the event broke the mold: teens and twenty-somethings set the agenda, filled the auditorium, and put candidates on notice that the next generation is watching.
A Race Defined by Nepotism and Party Politics
This year’s contests are already thick with insider maneuvering. District 7’s council race — representing Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods — has been shaped less by policy and more by partisan endorsements.