Thursday, May 17, 2018

Forget Hogwarts, You Can Experience The Wizarding World In Kent, Ohio ✨🌎

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Happy Thursday, it's Tracie.

I was a little late to the Harry Potter game, by the time I started reading the books, I think the "Goblet Of Fire" was already published. And yes, the

give me life. Once I got started with the series, I was hooked. I've read them all, watched them all, and even struggled my way through "The Cursed Child." 

I did always assume I was a Ravenclaw, but recently have come to the realization that I'm firmly in camp Hufflepuff. If all of this sounds like gibberish to you, don't worry, you haven't been hit with a Confundus Charm, you just aren't down with HJP...or JKR for that matter. But if these terms speak to you like a parselmouth to a snake, you'll definitely want to head to Kent, Ohio, this July. 

Thursday Weather 🌡Mostly cloudy ☁ with a chance of storms ⚡, high of 77. 

Navigator Originals ✏️Get Folky At The 2018 Washboard Festival In LoganOkay, the title of this festival is pretty misleading, yeah? There's no contest for shirtless babes with great abs, despite how the name sounds. Or is that just me? Anyway, this annual festival offers live music, folk art, and kids activities. Plus, fried food. See you there! 🍗FC Barcelona Is Opening Barca Soccer Academy In ColumbusWith all the uncertainty for Columbus Crew SC, it's about time we got some good soccer-related news. FC Barcelona is adding Columbus to its growing soccer academy program. We'll join cities from around the world, including Brisbane, New Delhi, and Rio de Janeiro. ⚽ 

Around Town 🏘A police dog 🐕 in Canton took a bite out of crime...erm, a criminal, after a routine traffic stop. Turns out it's not legal to create homemade license plates 😒. [Dispatch]We could all use a little good news now and then right? I even follow an instagram account that only posts positive, uplifting things to restore my faith in humanity 👼. And, lucky for us, Cbus is home to some regular people, doing extraordinary things.[614Now] 

Coming Up 📆

🎻 5/17: Tool: Music Clinic (Express Live!)🎭 5/17-22: Whiskey Bear Comedy Festival🎭 5/17-6/2: 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 We've all heard about Canada's pioneering universal healthcare initiative 🏥.  And after any major election goes against what we'd hoped, people can be heard talking about moving north to our Canuck neighbors. There are so many wonderful things about Canada, and not just the polite citizens, eh? There's Niagara Falls, hockey, and don't forget poutine 🍟.  Another incentive to our maple leaf loving cousins? Their pilot program providing a guaranteed basic income to Canadian citizens, hoping to decrease poverty and increase productivity. Huffington Post: Ontario's Bold Basic Income Experiment Creates High Expectations

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