Tuesday, August 22 2017

Hello Tuesday. It's James.

Zoey Miller visits the 2017 food truck festival and what happens next will amaze you. (Actually, no it's pretty much what you'd expect, delicious tacos and things to watch, parrots living on people's heads and the like, typical food truck festival situations). A very enjoyable look back at one of our city's best events.Navigator full story: I Took Two Degenerates And A 7 Month Pregnant Woman To The Food Truck Fest. What Happened Next Was Ferris Bueller Level Debauchery [Miller]

The Rundown:Weather: High of 86. Buckle up, severe thunderstorms are incoming. Mostly cloudy, windy (gusts up to 25+ MPH), showers after 1pm that could turn severe, most likely after 4pm. 60% chance of precipitation.To do: Shadowbox Live and Whisky Bear Comedy are teaming up at Backstage Bistro for Roast of the Disney Heroes. Comedians will be portraying Disney heroes as they "roast each other in an all out brawl to see who is the most heroic of them all". Disney characters will include the Genie from Alladin, Mickey Mouse, Hercules and more. Geared towards adults (probably obviously.) Tickets are $7, doors open at 7pm, and more details can be found here.Bonus Thing To Do: Gov't Mule and Blackberry Smoke will be performing at Express Live! Gov't Mule is a southern rock jam band (probably their biggest song, to give you a taste) formed as a side project of The Allman Brothers Band. Doors open at 6pm, and here's all the details.

Navigator Originals:Bernie Sanders To Appear In Southern Ohio This Morning [Arney]Sanders is holding a jobs, economy, and health care rally this morning in Portsmouth. Tickets are free, and the event starts at 10:30 AM.5 Columbus Businesses Honored In Inc. 5000’s Top 500 [Wiley]Columbus small(er) businesses show up all over INC's annual list of the 5000 fastest growing businesses in America. A Columbus business shows up at #6 overall, with 19,352% 3 year growth. #ColumbusNavigatorGoalsWesterville Residents Were Victims Of Hate Over The Weekend. They Responded With Love. [Wiley]More Nazi graffiti and pamphlet drops over the weekend in Westerville. The neighborhood responded in Midwestern fashion, with a candlelit vigil.YouTubeTV Lands In Columbus, Expanding Its Market To Nearly Half Of All U.S. Households [Miller]Cord cutting in Columbus got a little more viable recently with the launch of YouTube TV. The streaming service is similar to others, like Sling and Playstation Vue, but the lineup is a bit more robust, especially when it comes to sports, the normal hang up when attempting to forego cable. Plus it has DVR! Interesting product that I could see making real penetration into the Columbus market. Is this what tv will look like in 10-20 years when the current crop of kids grows up knowing nothing of old fashioned television, preferring instead to exclusively watch Netflix and YouTube?The Cannabis Industry Is Green With Opportunity For Ohio Women [Jaara]Nora takes a dive into the soon to be legal marijuana industry and opportunities that will present for Ohio women.Cobi Proved That He’s An Up-And-Coming Rockstar And Heartthrob At FMMF [Keener]Madeline sat down with one of the up and comers at FMMF. One day Columbus Navigator will be able to say we knew him when.

The Tuesday Conversation:State legislators will be trying to override an Ohio governor's veto for the first time in eleven years today. Some of the veto overrides being considered include giving the legislature more say over Medicaid spending or new laws requiring Medicaid recipients to pay into a health savings account. There have only been two veto overrides in the past 38 years.  [Dispatch/Siegal]Neo-Nazi, Worthington native, and owner/operator of the largest hate site in America Andrew Anglin has lawsuits pending, but there's a problem: nobody can find him to serve him notice. He claims to be in Nigera, and there are rumors of Germany, but some think he is actually here in Central Ohio. Process servers have been unable to located him to date. [New York Times]Curious about the massive new upcoming Columbus metro park, project QT? Here's a 10 minute tour of the grounds. Check out the incredible waterfall at 1:05! [Rick Shears/YouTube]Lex Wexner condemned white supremacists in an address to L Brands employees, saying “The events that happened in Charlottesville and the response of the president just was shocking to me,” he said. “This is terrible behavior from a leader.” [Dispatch/Feran]

Longread for your lunch break:If you're not in a good head space, skip this one today, but I have to include as it's one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've read this year.Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah travels to Charleston to find out what made murderer Dylann Roof. There's horror in this article, but there's also grace, and not necessarily the kind you might be expecting.GQ: A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof

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