Tuesday, June 19 2018

Welcome to Taco Tuesday - it's James.

It seems like just yesterday we were going over plans for ComFest 2017, and yet it's already time again for Columbus' best festival.

This year's ComFest is the 46th edition, and we've got your schedule, things to consider, and tips for maximizing your ComFest enjoyment. Fingers crossed the weather calms down and isn't quite as hot as last weekend.

Navigator full story: Your Guide To ComFest 2018 🎊

Tuesday Weather 🌡87 with 60% chance of thunderstorms, mainly after early afternoon. Otherwise, partly sunny. ⛈🌥

Navigator Originals ✏️Smart Columbus Experience Center To Host Grand Opening June 30 ⚡️Sign up to test drive just about every electric car in existence, enjoy events for kids, and take in COSI for free at Smart Columbus Experience Center's grand opening on Saturday, June 30th.The Best Places To Watch The World Cup In Columbus ⚽️The World Cup is well under way, and even though US didn't make the tournament, it's still a good time to soak up the atmosphere and catch some of the games. Even with no rooting interest, it's still possible to get caught up in some of these games - how about Iceland so far? Chelsea has your best places in Columbus to watch.

Around Town 🏘Columbus Neighborhoods has an episode out this week which touches on the history of jazz in Columbus. You can see the video here, along with a Columbus jazz Spotify playlist. [Columbus Neighborhoods] 🎷Vice News aired an Ohio segment last week. They visited Sandusky following the ICE raid that imprisoned 114 landscaping workers - the largest workplace raid under Trump to date. Vice says that in many situations, loved ones were unable to reach family members for days, and "an uncounted number of children" are now without one or both parents. [Vice]Only In Your State: Ohio names the Book Loft the #1 book store in the state of Ohio, which is hard to argue. [Only In Your State] 📚

Coming Up 📆🎵 6/19: WNCI's Summer in The City featuring 5 Seconds of Summer (Express Live!)🎵 6/20: The Glitch Mob (Express Live!)🎵 6/21: Chromeo (Newport Music Hall)👸 6/22 & 24: Cinderella: Opera Project Columbus🎶 6/22-24: Comfest🤖 6/22-24: Drexel Summer Kids Film Series: The Iron Giant🖼 6/22-24: 19th Annual Easton Art Affair🛍 6/23: WoCO (Women of Color Owned) Summer Market🎉 6/23: The Kelton House Gala🚘 6/23: Exotics On Scioto Mile🎤 6/23: Sam Smith (Nationwide Arena)🎺 6/23: Miles Davis Tribute feat: Mike Wade (Copious + Notes)🎸 6/23: Rick Springfield - Picnic With The Pops (Columbus Commons)🏡 6/24: German Village Haus Und Garten Tour

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Longread 👕This feels like the kind of article that will define these Trump years. You have all the ingredients: obsession over trivialities, neighborhood Facebook wars, and lives ruined online, all while nationally we continue sliding into darkness."Outside a cookie shop in one of Houston’s most idyllic neighborhoods, a West University Place council member spied Trump’s name on a teenager’s shirt and yelled a few of the president’s worst words at her. Then the internet found out. It’s springtime in the age of hysteria."Texas Monthly: How Houston Lost Its Mind Over a Trump Shirt

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