🍸 Black Lagoon's Macabre Cocktail Experience to Columbus

Plus: AmeriFlora, The Iconic Horticultural Event Of The 1990s

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Chelsea Wiley
August 04, 2025

Sponsored by Columbus Recreation and Parks 🎶
Your favorite ’90s bands (sort of) are back. Tribute Tuesdays is bringing free live music, food, and drinks to Bicentennial Park all summer long. Catch tribute sets of Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and more. It’s all happening along the Scioto Mile and admission is totally free. Music starts at 6:30, but come early for happy hour vibes at 5. Please click here for more info.

Hello, Monday! Chelsea here.

Spooky cocktails are coming to Columbus — and this pop-up isn’t messing around. Black Lagoon, the internet-famous Halloween bar experience, is taking over Citizens Trust this fall with creepy décor, fog, skulls, and drinks that look straight out of a horror movie. It’s part haunted house, part cocktail bar, and wholly committed to over-the-top spooky-season vibes. Expect cheeky themed drinks, gothy interiors, and a night out worthy of your most dramatic costume.

🎥Take A Look Back At AmeriFlora, The Iconic Horticultural Event Of The 1990s
Back in 1992, Columbus played host to one of the wildest flower shows the world had ever seen — AmeriFlora ’9, a $95 million horticultural spectacle at Franklin Park that drew 5.5 million visitors, a star-studded guest list, and enough blooms to carpet the Statehouse lawn.

Headlines 📰 

🥵 With 3.25 million acres of corn planted across Ohio this year, scientists say “corn sweat” is adding major moisture to our atmosphere. It’s boosting humidity, elevating heat index values, and helping power the intense storms and steamy nights we’ve seen this summer. (NBC4)

🏥 OhioHealth and Anthem have finalized a new multi-year agreement, avoiding a potential disruption for more than 112,000 central Ohio patients. The deal means Anthem-insured members can continue accessing OhioHealth’s hospitals, doctors, and facilities without losing in-network coverage. (WOSU)

🎵 Columbus music journalist Chris DeVille is releasing his debut book Such Great Heights, a smart, nostalgic deep dive into indie rock’s cultural rise. The Stereogum editor will celebrate its launch with a discussion at Used Kids Records on Aug. 27. (Columbus Monthly)

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Sponsored by PromoWest 🎸
No one does live music in Columbus quite like PromoWest. They’ve got some fantastic shows coming up, including Lucy Dacus, Lord Huron, Sierra Ferrell, and more. To see what’s on the calendar, or to grab tickets to a show, head over to promowestlive.com.

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