Thursday, June 22 2017

Hello Thursday. It's James.

Ranking the best pizza in Columbus is a tough one. Everyone has their own favorite style, and so everyone is going to have their own idea of "best". Zoey takes that conundrum and spins gold giving us Pizza Superlatives, with a best pizza for every taste and every mood. Get out there, step out of your comfort zone, and enjoy some new pizza.

Navigator full story: The Great Columbus Pizza Superlatives: Where Everyone Wins And The Points Don’t Matter

The Rundown:Weather: 87. Partly sunny. To do: Table Top Game Cafe is having a board game meetup. A great opportunity to try new games and meet new friends. Starts at 6:30 PM and starts out with Happy Hour prices. More details here.

Navigator Originals:You’ll Never Believe The Treasures You Can Buy At Trove’s 4-Day SaleTrove is a furniture store with an interesting business model. They're only open a few days a week, and feature a quickly turned over inventory so there's always something new when you go in. Their biggest sales event of the year has started, and includes food trucks and special deep discounts.How A Local Zanesville Couple Lost And Retrieved $100,000I'm sure most Goodwill employees have seen it all when it comes to donations, but this was something new: $100,000 was mixed into a donation at the Zanesville Goodwill.Get A Sneak Peek Inside The New Nationwide Children's Hospital Big Lots Behavioral Health PavilionNationwide Children's Hospital is making an enormous investment into behavioral health, with a gorgeous new building opening in 2020. Madeline has all the concept pictures and details.The Best 7 Places To Get Your Nails Done In ColumbusChelsea takes a look at all the best places to get your nails done in Columbus. Time to get fancy.Soulshine Tavern & Kitchen Just Opened In New Albany. See The Menu Highlights, Including Chicken And Waffles Covered In Maple Bacon SyrupNew Albany has a new restaurant concept, and it looks worth a drive. (Ok, fine, I'll try anywhere that has chicken and waffles.)The Essential Guide For Your Day Trip To AthensAthens is one of the best day trips or weekend destinations from Columbus, and Nora has a look at everything you have to see and do on your next visit.What Is Going On At The Franklin County Dog Shelter?The Franklin County Dog Shelter has been in and out of the news in the last year, and the buzz around the place has been overwhelmingly negative for awhile. Now there's news that suggests they possibly have adversarial relationships with local rescue groups.

The Thursday Conversation:Food has become as proprietary as software code or drug patents, and this has led to concerns over foreign agricultural espionage, and Ohio could feasibly be a target. [Brown/WOSU]Central Ohio home prices hit their highest level ever in May, with an average sale price of $227,783. An unbelievable 98% of central Ohio realtors expect home prices to go up in the next year. All of that spells caution to me going forward, but we'll see. [Newpoff/Business First]Evil, but hilarious: Ohio State fan housesits for Michigan fan neighbor, mows Script Ohio into his yard. [Harrish/11W]

Longread for your lunch break:If you were a big reader as a kid, it's probably a given that you had some well loved book that not many other people know about. Atlas Obscura asked their readers for favorites that not many people remember. A great list for parents who have exhausted the typical "best kids books" recommendations, and it might also hit that nostalgia button for you. Atlas Obscura: We Asked, You Answered: The Kids’ Books You Wish More People Remembered

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