Monday, May 7th 2018

Hello Monday. It's James, back and fresh from two weeks in New Zealand.

Ok, to get the obvious out of the way first: New Zealand is incredibly beautiful and you should go, if at all possible, even allowing for the typical 20 hours of travel it'll probably take you to get there.

With ten years or so left of kids in the house, and many places my wife and I want to take them, I've done copious research on how to travel for cheaply from Columbus. Here's what I've learned.

Navigator full story: The Ultimate Guide To Cheap Flights From Columbus ✈️

Monday Weather 🌡76. Cloudy, with a chance of rain after 5pm. ☁️🌧☔️

Navigator Originals ✏️Columbus Craft Beer Week Kicks Off With Six One Pour 🍺The beer week that's such a big celebration it requires 9 days kicks off this week, and here's your rundown.

Around Town 🏘Architectural Digest has gotten heavily into clickbait (weird?) and has a list of the 30 ugliest skyscrapers in the world. The list is full of things that are both not ugly and not skyscrapers, including the Longaberger Basket HQ (RIP).   [Architectural Digest] 🏢A Girl About Columbus has 7 new must-visit shops and restaurants in German Village. [Girl About Columbus] 🇩🇪614 Columbus has unveiled the results of their annual reader surveys for the "Best Of" Columbus. I think crowdsourcing this kind of thing ends up with a lot of mushy middle (I love Chipotle more than just about anyone, but do they really have the best burritos in Columbus?) but it's still fun. [614 Columbus] 🙌

Coming Up 📆🖼 5/7: Near East Art Walk & Landmark Talk📈 5/7-11: Columbus Startup Week🦁 5/7-13: The Throne of Oz (CATCO is Kids)🎭 5/7-13: Annie (Columbus Children's Theatre)📚 5/9: Journalist and Author Elizabeth Vargas⚽️ 5/9: Crew vs. Philadelphia Union🍽 5/10: Taste of Dine Originals🎧 5/10-12: The Flyover Fest🎭 5/10-13: Avenue Q (Imagine Productions)🎧 5/10-14: Columbus Podcast Festival👗 5/11: 2018 CCAD Fashion Show🎭 5/11: PJ Masks Live! Time To Be A Hero (Palace Theater)🍺 5/11-19: Columbus Craft Beer Week⚽️ 5/12: Crew vs. Chicago Fire🎨 5/12: Canal Winchester Art Stroll💀 5/12: Columbus Oddities & Curiosities Expo🌺 5/12: GartenMarkt 2018👩‍🍳 5/12: The Ohio Egg Fest

Weekly Concert Calendar: 👨‍🎤🎸🎹5/7: Justin Timberlake (Nationwide Arena)5/7: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (Express Live!)5/8: Ghostface Killah (Newport Music Hall)5/9: $10.25 Series Featuring Mikky Ekko (A&R Music Bar)5/10: Violinist Joshua Bell Returns (Ohio Theatre)5/11: The Steel Woods (The Basement)5/11: N O A H (A&R Music Bar)5/11: MisterWives (Newport Music Hall)5/12: Company of Thieves (The Basement)5/12: Jukebox The Ghost (A&R Music Bar)5/12: The Beach Boys (Ohio Theatre)5/12: Wish You Were Here: The Sights And Sounds Of Pink Floyd (Newport Music Hall)5/13: Mainland (The Basement)5/13: Ghost (Express Live!)5/13: Flatbush ZOMBiES (Newport Music Hall)

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Picture of the Day 🇳🇿New Zealand was great (see below), but let me tell you, I was still thrilled to be back in Ohio.

Longread 🕶I can't pass up tales of con artistry. This particular story is insane on so many levels."She walked into my life in Gucci sandals and Céline glasses, and showed me a glamorous, frictionless world of hotel living and Le Coucou dinners and infrared saunas and Moroccan vacations. And then she made my $62,000 disappear."Vanity Fair: "As An Added Bonus, She Paid For Everything": My Bright Lights Misadventure With A Magician Of Manhattan

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