Monday, May 21 2018

Welcome to Monday. It's James.

The new Children's Garden opened at Franklin Park Conservatory over the weekend, and it's a game changer.

The Conservatory is beautiful, but a membership has never felt like a necessary purchase for living in Columbus, (contrast with the Zoo, for example). I think this new Garden will go a long way towards changing that, and I think it's probably going to exceed whatever expectations you have. Check out our first look below.

Navigator full story: Sneak Peak: Scotts Miracle-Gro Children’s Garden At Franklin Park Conservatory 🌸

Monday Weather 🌡80 with a 40% chance of thunderstorms. ⛈

Navigator Originals ✏️A South Campus Apartment Complex Is Offering Free Taco Bell For A Year 🌮This is pretty enticing, and the kids are going to need it given how much this place costs.

Around Town 🏘Not everyone is happy with Franklin Park creating the new Children's Garden. [Columbus Underground]CMH Gourmand says goodbye to Adriatico's 1.0. [CMH Gourmand] 🍕There was a time public restrooms in America charged for access. Some kids from Dayton put a stop to it. [Dayton Daily News] 🚽

Coming Up 📆🎭 5/22-27: The Book of Mormon (Ohio Theatre)🎭 5/24-6/17: Macbeth (Schiller Park)💃 5/26: The Other Prom🐶 5/26: Village Pets Fest🐲 5/26-27: Asian Festival

Weekly Concert Calendar: 👨‍🎤🎸🎹5/24: An Evening With Mat Kearney (Via Vecchia Winery)5/24: Hall & Oates w/ Train (Nationwide Arena)5/24: She Wants Revenge (A&R Music Bar)5/25: Puddle of Mudd (Alrosa Villa)5/25: Cousin Simple, Girlfox, Personal Public, Fuad Farah Trio (The Basement)5/25-27: Dark Star Jubilee (Thornville)5/26: Urban Jazz Coalition (Notes)5/27: Foxing (The Basement)

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Picture of the Day 🌤Congratulations to Navigator writer Chelsea Wiley who was married in a beautiful ceremony Saturday night. She was married at a Columbus Metro Park, something I'm going to badger her to write about. The setting was serene and beautiful. Lovely location for a wedding. Here's the sunset we witnessed (just a couple of hours after the weddingtreated to a double rainbow. Such luck!)

Longread 🎢Action Park, a New Jersey theme park, is so insane I've linked to their fairly dry, just the facts Wikipedia page before. Mental Floss has actually tracked down Action Park key players and interviewed them. Finally, we get the full story on the Cannonball Loop water slide (a water slide that finished with a 360-degree turn) and the Alpine Slide (a sled + concrete slide that injured countless New Jersey residents over the years).Mental Floss: Traumatic License: An Oral History of Action Park

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