Wednesday, February 28 2018

The 23 best things happening in March in Columbus 🎸🎉💃

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Welcome to Wednesday. It's James.

I hope you've made the best of the one chance you'll ever have to experience February 2018, because tomorrow we flip the calendar to March.

On deck for March are a bunch of interesting concerts, St. Patrick's Day, butterflies at Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus Crew opening day, the NCAA women's Final Four, the Arnold Classic, Columbus Brewgrass Festival, and a whole lot more.

Of course you know we have you covered Monday-Friday with our events guide here in the newsletter (especially on Mondays with our expanded concert and events guide), but this is a nice high level look at the month ahead. Get out there, shake off winter, and enjoy yourself.

Wednesday Weather 🌡58 and cloudy. Rain will move in overnight. ☁️

Navigator Originals ✏️A Feathery Suspect Led This Columbus Cop On A Wild Goose Chase Sometimes Columbus spends big $$$ killing geese; sometimes Columbus nurses a goose back to health. It's complicated.This German Village House Is All About The Earth TonesAs I said on Facebook, if you've spent any time at all in Schiller Park, then you will recognize this house. Now you can see the inside and satisfy all your voyeuristic impulses.Chris Bradley’s Health Is Improving And He Is Moving Towards A Bone Marrow TransplantHere is a piece of very welcome good news from Chris Bradley on his battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Around Town 🏘Possibly my favorite fact about Columbus is that in 1940 there existed a horror themed nightclub called Catacombs that was noteworthy enough for Life magazine to send a photographer out to document a typical evening. Skulls. Skulls everywhere. These pictures are tremendous. [Mashable]The rollout of legal medical marijuana has been so bungled that it may have to be pushed back from its September 8th deadline. I have to wonder if this mess will give fully legalized marijuana a boost in November, should the proposal make the ballot. [Dispatch/Schladen]The Washington Post continues the recent grand journalistic tradition of giving fascists and neo-Nazis way too much attention, profiling a 21 year old man living with his mother in what appears to be Hilliard (the place isn't specifically named in the article - it's just said to be a suburb of Columbus - but there are clues.) It's a disturbing read, mostly with the same takeaway I get from all of these articles - radicalization via Facebook and YouTube algorithmic suggestions is a serious issue. [Washington Post]

Longread 🏘Almost everyone has a roommate from hell story. Probably yours isn't this bad. And if it is, I sincerely hope you're ok.“You’ve got your whole life in front of you. You’re pretty, you’ve got this house — well, you don’t have this house anymore. This house is my house.”New York: Worst Roommate Ever

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