Friday May 18, 2018

Happy Friday, Y'all. Chelsea, here.

If you haven't made weekend plans yet, listen up! There is so much going on around Columbus over the next few days. Downtown will be absolutely hopping, with the Columbus Taco Fest and the Race for the Cure both taking place on Saturday. 

Mapfre Stadium and the surrounding area will be bustling for Rock on the Range. Of course, the event I'm most looking forward to has got to be my wedding. That's right, folks. The next time we speak, I'll be a married lady! I don't know what your plans are, but if you hit up the Taco Fest, which I'm so sad to be missing, be sure to have a margarita for me. 

Navigator Weekender:  The 14 Best Things To Do This Weekend Including Brews Over Beats, Columbus Taco Fest, And Rock On The Range 🌮🎸👟

Friday Weather 🌡Don't forget your umbrella today! There will be a chance for showers throughout the morning, followed by thunderstorms in the early afternoon. High of 74. ⛈

Navigator Originals ✏️Hocking Hills Shuttle Will Launch This Summer With $10 Rides 🌳Exploring the Hocking Hills has never been easier. This summer, a $10 shuttle will allow visitors to park in Logan and ride the shuttle to Old Man's Cave. #SaveTheCrew Is Gathering 2019 Season Ticket Pledges To Entice Local Ownership ⚽️The effort to #SaveTheCrew continues through the latest campaign, Project 2019. If local owners purchase the Crew, fans are being asked to pledge to purchase season tickets and Columbus Navigator has done just that. Frontier Airlines Adds Non-Stop Weekly Flights From John Glenn To San Antonio 🌵Starting in August, travelers will be able to fly directly from Columbus to San Antonio twice a week thanks to Frontier Airlines. 

Around Town 🏘More than two months after the city of Columbus removed a “Kangaroo Crossing” sign, the infamous street sign will be making its way back to Clintonville. [WOSU] 🛑Ohio State Athletics has finalized their football schedule for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. They also moved back a home-and-home with Texas from 2022 and 2023 to the completely made up sounding science fiction-y years of 2025 and 2026. [Eleven Warriors] 🏈In more OSU scheduling news (this will tear my family apart): the men's basketball team will be playing Kentucky in December of 2019. [Eleven Warriors] 🏀As human beings, we succeed when we lift each other up. It's in our nature. That's why we love hearing about warm and fuzzy stories like this one, between a Columbus cop and a lonely, 96-year-old woman who just wanted someone to get her a birthday cake. [WBNS10tv] 🎂

Coming Up 📆🎭 5/18-22: Whiskey Bear Comedy Festival🎭 5/18-6/2: An Octoroon (Available Light Theatre)🍺 5/18: Brews Over Beats: Craft Beer And Hip Hop🎭 5/18-5/19: Spider Weaver, The Legend of the Kente Cloth (Lincoln Theatre)🎸 5/18-20: Rock on the Range (Mapfre Stadium)🎭 5/18-6/9: Evil Dead: The Musical (Club Diversity)🎭 5/19: Comedy Get Down feat. Cedric the Entertainer and others (Schottenstein Center)👟 5/19: Race for the Cure🖼 5/19: Art for Franklinton 2018🌸 5/19: Children's Garden Grand Opening🛍 5/19: Village Valuables🌮 5/19: Columbus Taco Fest🍿 5/19: Coming To America: Special Screening (Drexel Theatre)🎭 5/19: Steven Wright👠 5/19-20: Cinderella (New Albany Ballet)🎭 5/20: The Benefit (Davidson Theater)

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Longread Everyone has dreams. Mine is that I can spend every day feeling as happy as I do on vacation, and preferable (one day) wake up to ocean views. So when I heard about Mario Salcedo, I thought to myself, "hey, he's totes living your dream life." Salcedo has been a full-time occupant on a cruise ship for the last two decades. He runs a small business out of his cabin and spends his days doing work on the deck looking over the ocean or participating in onboard activities. It may not be the best way to spend $65k per year, but it does sound incredibly fun. Mental Floss: The Life Aquatic: Meet Mario Salcedo, Full-Time Cruise Ship Passenger

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