Monday, November 20 2017

The best Christmas tree farms around Columbus for feeling like you're in a Hallmark Christmas movie 🎄

Michigan Week, the Crew at home in the playoffs, Thanksgiving, Black Friday - welcome to a busy week in Columbus.

This weekend, once Ohio State has put Michigan in their place (again), you're going to want to go somewhere and buy the tree that's going to live with you until New Year's Day. We've put together some of your best local options for that stereotypical Hallmark style Christmas tree experience (/looks at weather .... minus the snow probably) and there are some great places to try.

I have to admit I've been guilty of getting our tree at Costco (gah, so cheap and easy) but that's not really building holiday memories, is it?

Monday Weather 🌡45 - Sunny ☀️

Navigator Originals ✏️Ohio Supreme Court Justice Would Like You To Know He’s Had SexBill O'Neill took a torch to his gubernatorial ambitions on Friday, writing a bizarre Facebook post that will go down in Ohio political history as a cautionary tale of the dangers of TMI.The Most Famous Reindeer Of All Is Bringing His Musical To ColumbusColumbus will be getting the touring production of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer next month. Dates will be December 16th and 17th at Palace Theater and tickets are on sale now. Curious what Rudolph on stage looks like? Thing the tv show aesthetic and you'll have the right idea.

Around Town 🏘Ohio high schools might start allowing students to take a class on computer science instead of Algebra II to satisfy graduation requirements. Makes sense right? The problem is that many universities require Algebra II for matriculation. [Dispatch/Siegel]Breakfast with Nick visits The Half Pint, a new burger bar in the Arena District. Nice space with a sweet patio, and the food looks great. [Breakfast With Nick]It's a big week for the Columbus Crew, with the first leg of the conference championships taking place at home Tuesday night (it's a sell out.) Michael Arace let's owner Anthony Precourt have it with both barrels in this column for the Dispatch, suggesting Precourt watch from Austin. [Dispatch/Arace]And the relocation of the Crew continues to get a great deal of national attention from soccer media, with this Yahoo article: The Crew belong in Columbus, with an owner who realizes that [Yahoo/Schaerlaekens]

Weekly Concert Calendar: 👨‍🎤🎸🎹11/25: Dead & Company11/26: Sheppard

Picture of the DayJust keep this warning in mind if you bring the pup to cut down your tree at Country Cabin Tree farm. (📷: hunters_adventures)

Longread 🍗Timely news from NPR with Thanksgiving this week. There's some evidence that most of us probably stress over diet too much.In his new book, Dr. Aaron Carroll explains that there might be less evidence against some notoriously bad foods than we think. In fact, maybe we should be eating some of them more often.NPR: 'The Bad Food Bible' Says Your Eating Might Not Be So Sinful After All

Something to say? Hit reply - we read it all.Have a wonderful Monday.- James