The Columbus institution Ladies 80's at Skully's is saying goodbye.
The final goodbye event will take place on Thursday, September 7th. You can RSVP and find all the details here.
But the weekly event will return September 14th as "Nuthin’ But 90's".
614Now notes that Ladies 80's started in 2002, a 13 year gap between the end of…
After the events in Charlottesville, a standard alt-right talking point concerning removing Confederate statues has been of the slippery slope variety, asking when will it all end?
Conservative dipshit: if we remove confederate statues next we'll have to remo-- Me: yes. however you end that sentence is likely dope. — Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) August 17, 2017
The…
The state of Ohio, a proud Union state, a northern state, is home to four Confederate monuments:
Camp Chase, Columbus
A monument here in Columbus at Camp Chase marks the site where 2,260 Confederate soldiers are buried.
William C. Quantrill's Grave, Dover
Via DoverOhio.com
Confederate Capt. William C. Quantrill's grave is marked with a memorial in Dover in…
With the weekend's events in Charlottesville, it feels important to note the organized hate that exists in the world. Recently, a white supremacist group dropped literature in Clintonville, further confirming that there's no benefit in ignoring or assuming this hatred hasn't spread everywhere.
The Southern Poverty Law Center publishes a Hate Map, noting which organizations are…
Many people probably remember the Franklin County Dog Shelter being in the news last September when they had an outbreak of distemper (according to this, three dogs were found to have distemper), causing them to make the decision to euthanize 70+Â dogs.
Criticism of the mass kill was abundant. A sampling:
So if dogs at the shelter were exposed…
Four Seasons Golf Center, the only indoor golf driving range in Columbus, closes today, following a lengthy process that ensued after Whitehall chose not to renew their lease.
Whitehall made the decision in March of 2016, after leasing 37 acres to the center for the past 15 years. The city collected $65,000 a year from the lease, but…
In my formative years, the internet wasn't ubiquitous yet. It wasn't yet possible to spend hours upon hours online, so as an information obsessed kid I had to find other avenues.
I read anything and everything in those days, but I was always newspaper crazy. The local paper (thin and only published Tuesdays and Thursdays -…