Skip to main content

Columbus Freepress Local News & Events

Image
Guys playing instruments

Can a blue man play the whites?

Do Italian musicians feel things differently?


Only one of these questions popped into my head at a very recent Friday Woodlands Tavern happy hour when the monstrously good guitarist Rick Collura and his Blue Cats played like the muddy…

// Opinion
Image
Poster about walk against toy guns

No peace until justice

This past September many America citizens were hit back-to-back with the realization that Black boys and men are “moving targets” for some police officers in America. In Columbus a thirteen-year old was shot and killed. Why? According to the…

// Opinion
Image
Black Lives Matter rally

Cops, racism and cover-ups in Columbus

On the tragic evening of September 14, 2016, Tyre King, aged 13, was shot and killed by Columbus Police Department (CPD) officer Bryan Mason. Around the city, people are mourning the death of this child. The scars are still new, and will never…

// News
Image
Heidi Detty in front of No DAPL banner

Journey to Standing Rock

Standing Rock is the focal point of a struggle between the indigenous people of the United States and the big oil industry. Energy Transfer Partnership is building the Dakota Access Pipeline that will transport Bakken fracked oil to the Gulf of…

// News
Sign up for the Columbus Free Press email updates

Subscribe

Support The Columbus Free Press and help to sustain local independent journalism

Support OUR WORK

This Weeks Events

Event Type Icon
Community
Thu Apr30 6:00 pm
Palestinian Poetry

Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio

Event Type Icon
Community
Fri May1 8:00 am
May Day - No Work, School, Shopping