Friday, June 1 2018

Welcome to June! James here.

Even though the Kale and Ale Festival has

gone belly up

 ($75 for a general admission ticket??), this is still one of the busiest weekends of the year for Columbus.

The Memorial will get the headlines, but there's also a

Chicken and Beer festival

, an intriguing Jeni's event, the Crew, and much more. Save the Netflix and take advantage this weekend.

Navigator full story: Navigator Weekender: The 13 Best Things To Do This Weekend Including Chicken & Beer Fest, Jeni’s Strawberry Jam, And The Memorial

Friday Weather 🌡80, partly sunny, but with a 50% chance of thunderstorms. ⛅️⛈Weekend looks mixed, 80 on Saturday and partly sunny ⛅️, but 82 and a 50% chance of rain on Sunday ⛈.

Navigator Originals ✏️The 10 Best Roller Coasters In OhioIn honor of Cedar Point's ridiculously insane new roller coaster comes this list of the 10 best coasters in Ohio. Which is really a list of some of the best coasters in the world, given we live in the roller coaster capital. 🎢The Chicken & Beer Festival Is Happening Downtown This WeekendI'm really just mad I didn't come up with this idea first. 🍺🍗Village Bookshop In Linworth Is Closing After Decades Of Service60 years of operation is coming to an end, and our list of the best independent bookstores in Columbus loses a member. 📚All The 2018 Summer Outdoor Movies Happening In ColumbusOne of the best recent trends is that on any weekend summer night you're guaranteed to find a high quality movie to watch outdoors somewhere in Columbus, often (usually?) for free. Here's a list of every outdoor movie happening this summer. 🍿

Around Town 🏘Pursuit is bringing the gold medal winning US men's curling team to Columbus this weekend (they outfitted them in men's wear during the 2018 Winter Olympics), and you can actually take the ice with them on Saturday. [Pursuit] 🏅It might come as a surprise, but Canal Winchester is the fastest growing city in Ohio. (This does come with a caveat - adding just 350 people from 2016-2017 was enough to take the crown because the ranking uses percentage of growth.) WOSU looks at the boom and what it's done to local businesses (it sounds like BrewDog has been good for everyone). [WOSU/Evans] 🏙Columbus gets some national love from Bloomberg. We share the spotlight with Seattle, in an article titled "Seattle and Columbus Show How Cities Can Win". [Bloomberg] 🌃

Coming Up 📆🎭 6/1-6/2: Columbus Dance Theater at 20 (Lincoln Theatre)⛳️ 6/1-6/3: The Memorial🎭 6/1-6/17: Aspects of Love (Riffe Center)🎭 6/1-6/24: Stephen Sondheim's Assassins (Short North Stage)🏅 6/2: Go Curling With The Gold Medal Winning US Curling Team🎭 6/2: Don Quixote (Ohio Theatre - Ballet of Ukraine)🎉 6/2: African-American Cultural Festival🍦 6/2: Jeni's Strawberry Jam (Land Grant Brewing)🐶 6/2: Puppy Love (Two Dollar Radio)🍺 6/2: Chicken And Beer Festival (Franklinton)⚽️ 6/2: Crew vs. Toronto FC🖼 6/2: Short North Gallery Hop🛍 6/3: Ohio Explored Summer Maker Mart🏡 6/3: Bexley House And Garden Tour

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Longread 💸A month ago I shared that I can't resist articles about scammers and grifters and shared this Vanity Fair article titled “As An Added Bonus She Paid For Everything: My Bright Lights Misadventure With A Magician Of Manhattan."Now there's another article covering the scam from a different angle, giving the entire thing a Rashomon feel."Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks."The Cut: Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It

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