Tuesday, May 15 2018

Hope you're having a terrific Tuesday morning. It's James.

Did you know Columbus is home to a nationally renowned comic book store? A

recent book

on the comic book industry's ups and downs in recent decades featured Laughing Ogre, a Columbus institution located on N. High St. The store has endured since it's opening in the 90's (during the comic book bubble burst) by being clever and focusing on the customer in a way that's largely been forgotten.

Navigator full story: One Of The Best Comic Book Shops In America Is Right Here In Columbus 💥

Tuesday Weather 🌡84, with a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. ⛈

Navigator Originals ✏️Hold On To Your Butts – Palace Theatre Is Supersizing Their Seats 🎭Palace Theatre will be shutting down until November for a big time renovation - their first in 35 years.

Around Town 🏘Amazon is coming to Columbus - again (but not HQ2, for now.) West Jefferson will see the construction of a new Amazon warehouse that will employ over 1,500. This will be the third Amazon distribution center in Central Ohio. [Dispatch/Williams] 🛍How brutal is the restaurant industry? It used to be you had to go to a trendy part of a major city to experience high quality concepts, but now even bedroom communities have cute downtowns with lovingly planned and executed restaurants. Witness Harvest Moon Craft Kitchen in Canal Winchester, which looks well worth a trip. [Breakfast With Nick] 🥞A local 15 year old has graduated from Columbus State, becoming the youngest in the college's history to earn an associate's degree. He takes the crown from his older sister, who is 17 and finishing up her first year at Capital University. Kids these days, am I right? [Dispatch/Gilchrist] 🎓

Coming Up 📆📚 5/15: Janet Beard: Evenings With Authors (Thurber House)🎤 5/16: Real Stories, Real Change w/ Geena Davis & Roxane Gay🎸 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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Picture of the Day ☁️Who else saw these crazy mammatus clouds when the storm rolled in yesterday afternoon? Mammatus clouds have been labeled one of the rarest and most beautiful cloud formations.

Longread 👩‍👦‍👦Mother's Day is behind us, but this is too good not to share."Turns out mothers all over the world are telling a lot of the same outrageous fibs."Atlas Obscura: The Ultimate Guide to Bizarre Lies Your Mom Told You

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