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My initial exposure to Columbus punk band Putrid Cause was a few weeks ago at a weeknight Bourbon Street Show. Putrid Causes’s front man Chuck F*ck took all of his clothes off during the bands blistering set.

The Messr’s had played earlier in the evening and set it off well. Bo Davis of the Messr’s was wearing a Deathly Fighter T-Shirt that had appropriated a 70’s punk Malcolm McLaren/Vivienne Westwood’s design which has has two cowboys exposing their male reproductive organs.

So when Chuck of Putrid Cause decided to be the human embodiment  of that t-shirt; it was somewhat of a powerful moment.

I met up with Chuck and the rest of Putrid Cause at their North Campus punk bunker that is located adjacent to a Halfway House that had police cruisers sitting outside. The point of sitting on their porch was learn about Chuck’s antics, Putrid Cause in general and their upcoming performance at the upcoming Pet Without Parent’s Hardcore/Punk Benefit on September 13th at the Bobo/Summit complex.

Ah, owning a record store on High Street--as if daily life isn't tough enough. You've got your one-legged drunken wheel-chair assailant enraged to the point of swinging because you don't want them interrupting a phone call (true story). You've got the infantile college boys who can't form a coherent question but just want you to be their motherly personal shopper--when they're not trying to shoplift. You've got your angry men from the 'hood who are absolutely sure you're a racist because you won't buy their decrepit Bing Crosby 78s found in a dumpster. Oh, I could go on. Strangers can be so strange.
  And then there are the people you know. Specifically, our High Street celebrity slob-gods. They can be a lot worse.

A recent college graduate complains that she’s still struggling to find a good job despite her shiny new degree. Meanwhile, she faces the even bigger challenge of paying off $140,000 worth of student loans.

“It’s syphoning off my future,” she says of the massive debt.

The woman’s all-too-common predicament is explained in Ivory Tower, a thoughtful documentary that examines just how college came to be such an overwhelming expense. Directed by Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside The New York Times), the film goes so far as to suggest that America’s ever-rising cost of higher education is unsustainable.

It wasn’t always this way, the film recalls. As recently as the 1960s, education at a state university was so cheap that just about anyone could afford it. But then came the 1970s, and conservative politicians such as Ronald Reagan started pushing government to stop subsidizing students’ education.

If you were on a computer during the past 2 months yon probably are aware of the backlash from members of the Columbus music community that led to R. Kelly dropping off this weekend’s Fashion Meets Music Festival. Some people weren’t feeling past sexual misconduct allegations made against R. Kelly. While this online outrage was transpiring, a group of people began organizing another festival called Femme Fest which will have 11 show 3 day benefit/festival that will also take place this weekend.

Laddan Shoar, a Femme Fest organizer explained to me how the online protest turned into a festival.:”There was the Facebook onslaught of trolling that kind of occurred with out outrage. It definitely helped to get our message out. But where it came from for us; Our concern was a little from that. Ryan and Raeghan had talked. Once they read the Village Voice article basically about R. Kelly’s sorted past. I’ve been following the story for year. They got together. They said they want to have this festival.”

How often have we, as discerning readers found that the reported norm does not fit what is true for ourselves? I had a few women contact me, asking me to write about menopause. I asked them to answer one question, “Have you noticed any changes in your sexual response in relation with menopause?”
Simply stated, menopause means a pause in menstrual cycles. Once cycles cease, a woman is said to be peri-menopausal. Pre-menopause can be classified when a woman first begins to experience changes to her cycles. It can take several years. The entire experience can be called Menopause, and it's not nicknamed, “The Change” for nothing. No woman can predict her symptoms, the severity, how many years it will last or if hormone replacement therapy is a worthwhile solution. Women can experience menopause in their 40s, 50s and into their 60s. Diet, stress, smoking, medication, surgeries, and especially cancer treatments can bring on menopause.

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Josh Roberts was a fairly ordinary guy, living a fairly ordinary life. The one day in June it was all taken away from him. He went to visit his girlfriend, Andrea Ferguson age 37, in the nursing home where she was temporarily under care and found she had been moved. He was not permitted to know where she had been taken. He returned home to their two children, Anna and Noah, ages 2 and 1. Two days later Andrea's adoptive mother arrived with five Worthington police officers and took his children. There was no police report and the police showed him no paperwork. He was given a choice of losing his children or going to jail and losing his children.

According to Christian doctrine, Calvary is where Jesus died for our sins.

By naming his new film Calvary, writer-director John Michael McDonagh is suggesting a dark metaphor: Father James (Brendan Gleeson), an Irish Catholic priest, is being called on to die for the sins of others.

Specifically, for the sins of the Catholic Church.

The first scene finds James in the confessional booth opposite a man who tells him that as a boy he spent five years being raped by a priest. James asks if he’s sought counseling to deal with his trauma, but the man isn’t interested in healing. He wants vengeance.

On the following Sunday, the man vows, he will meet Father James on the beach and kill him. Why take his anger out on James? The man explains that his attacker has long since died, and anyway, killing a bad priest would accomplish nothing. The only way to send a message about the horror he endured is to kill a good priest like James.

Organizers from Columbus and the OSU campus communities brought hundreds of protesters to the Ohio Statehouse on Sunday August 18 to show solidarity with the people of Gaza currently under siege by the Israeli Defense Force. The rally brought people from around the state and as far away as Pittsburgh and Kentucky.

Some protesters expressed a general support for the people of Palestine while for others the rally was more personal. Reema Al-Waritat, an organizer with family still in Palestine, spoke about what they have been through: “I stand in front of you today on behalf of my family who resides in Hebron, Palestine. On behalf of my mother, my brothers and my siblings, all of them. I stand in front of you on behalf of my husband who was kidnapped by the Israeli police, excuse me soldiers, brutally beaten and imprisoned for months at a time and starved.”

In 1990, in the Badlands of South Dakota, a team of paleontologists found the biggest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that had ever been discovered.

Then, about two years later, all hell broke loose.

It sounds like the plot of a new Jurassic Park sequel, but it’s actually the description of Dinosaur 13, a documentary by Columbus native Todd Douglas Miller. If you think big government poses more of a potential threat than a big, extinct carnivore, you’ll find it scarier than anything Steven Spielberg could have dreamed up.

The team was led by brothers Peter and Neal Larson and included Susan Hendrickson, the first person to stumble upon the fossil. According to the participants’ accounts of that fateful August day, they instantly realized the momentousness of their discovery.

Over the next couple of weeks, they carefully unearthed the giant fossil and began carting it back to their headquarters at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in Hill City. There they began the painstaking task of separating the pieces from each other and the surrounding rock.

Tatoheads public house is the latest bar to open up on the South Side of Columbus. It's located east of Hungarian village at 1297 Parsons Ave. The bar was previously known as Hal and Al's, but has adopted the Tatoheads moniker after it was purchased by Dan McCarthy, owner of the popular Tatoheads food truck. Tatoheads public house takes the style of a restaurant pub, going a different direction from Hal and Al's, which boasted a huge selection of draft beers and entirely vegan food.

I managed to stop by during the premier of their new dining menu for a quick afternoon meal with my family. Tatoheads is in the process of transforming itself into the vision of its new owner but at this point still has a dimly lit indy rock bar. The music playing was a nice selection of alternative rock from the 90s on. They have a half-off draft happy hour from 4-8pm. We tasted the Bodhi brew from Columbus Brewing Company and a Dragon Milk for under $10.