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Tuesday, October 17 2017
Ghanian cuisine has come to Columbus in the form of Asempe Kitchen 🍴
Get excited - it's Tuesday. James here.
As Zoey puts it in this article, if you're an adventurous eater in Columbus you have it made. He proves it yet again by taking a visit to Asempe Kitchen, a Ghanian cuisine restaurant that does West African food right. Definitely looks like a place you want to give a shot.
Navigator full story: How One Chef Is Owning Her Cultural Identity And Bringing West African Cuisine To The Capital City [Miller]
Tuesday Weather 🌡64 - Patchy frost early morning. Sunny. ☀️
Navigator Originals ✏️The 5 Best Thai Restaurants In Columbus [Miller]There's a surprising amount of decent Thai places in Columbus - here's Zoey's favorite five.10 Reasons To Visit Boo At The Zoo This October [Wiley]Boo at the Zoo has become a rite of passage for kids in Columbus (not quite Wildlights level yet, but getting there?) and this year's edition looks strong. Chelsea has ten reasons you should check it out one of the next two weekends.Adam Savage’s Brain Candy Live! Is Coming To Columbus [Wiley]Remember Mythbusters? Right?!? That was a big thing. The former co-host is coming to Columbus with a live stage show called "Brain Candy Live!"This Century Old Home In Historic Upper Arlington Has The Modern Kitchen Of Your Dreams [Wiley]If anything, Chelsea is underselling this kitchen. Put a bed in a cabinet and I think I could live there - no need for the rest of the house.There Are No More Dollar Theaters in Central Ohio [Miller]Is Netflix the murderer here? I don't know for sure, but this feels like another end of an era.
Coming Up 📆🏚 10/17: McMansion Hell: LIVE🎃 10/18-21: Circleville Pumpkin Show🎸 10/19: Jason Aldean🎸 10/19: O.A.R.👻 10/19-22: Nightmares Film Festival🎻 10/20: Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony🎸 10/20: The War On Drugs🎭 10/20: Hairspray🎸 10/20: Kings of Leon w/ Dawes👻 10/20: Boogeyman Art Gallery🍴 10/20: Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science🍖 10/20-21: Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival🎃 10/20-21: Highball Halloween🎃 10/20-22: Boo At The Zoo💀 10/21: Day of the Dead at Greenlawn Cemetery🎃 10/21: Gahanna Creepside🍞 10/21: B.R.E.A.D. Festival🌈 10/21: Wish You Were Here - The Sight and Sound of Pink Floyd🐶 10/22: Halloween Pet Parade and Fall Festival
Around Town 🏘The Atlantic looks at the decline of midwestern public universities, and the potential threat that could mean for local economies. Research funding has dropped tremendously since 2008. Ohio State, naturally, comes up a fair amount. [The Atlantic]The New York Times takes notice of our sleepy little town (gah) in a piece called "An Alternate Universe of Shopping." Guys. We're an alternate universe. [New York Times]Clintonville has some awesome rain gardens that have reduced flooding in basements and in general tremendously, but people are mad, because they could lead to mosquitos and might look bad if plants die. This is one of the smarter things I have seen lately locally, and it's a little disheartening that some don't see the benefits. [Dispatch/Ferenchik]
Longread 💵Two quotes from today's Longread:"Already, there are 14,000 one-story cinder block Dollar Generals in the U.S.—outnumbering by a few hundred the coffee chain’s domestic footprint. Fold in the second-biggest dollar chain, Dollar Tree, and the number of stores, 27,465, exceeds the 22,375 outlets of CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens combined. And the little-box player is fully expecting to turn profits where even narrow-margin colossus Walmart failed.""Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America”Bloomberg: Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America