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Celebrate local music! CCC has Columbus covered

The inaugural Columbus Covers Columbus (CCC) festival, held in January of 2018, was based on a unique idea. The two-day festival would feature Columbus musicians playing cover sets comprised entirely of the music of other local acts.


The…

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Socially Just Dining: Village Taco

Village Taco just launched their new restaurant, spicing up the sprouting vegan scene in the sleepy Alexandria community east of Columbus near Granville. And WOW, they also teamed up with Doughasis and Whit’s (Clintonville) to deliver seriously…

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Trump Defies War Hawks -- Peace, it’s time has come

President Donald Trump’s move to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan last month certainly sent the Washington establishment into a tizzy. However, the action will show, as journalist Matt Taibbi wrote, the real divide in our nation’s…

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ColumbusMediaInsider: Meyer, Kasich Bound For Iowa

A fantasy...


January 15, 2019.


Urban Meyer is tooling west on I-70 in Indiana in his Audi S7, tires barely touching the pavement, on his way to an interview at the University of Iowa.


He notices a solitary hitchhiker in a…

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