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LaShae Boyd reconciles with the past, looks to a brighter future – Matter News The Columbus artist explores issues of childhood trauma, faith, and recovery in ‘A Letter to the Liberated Child,’ which kicks off at Brandt Gallery with an opening reception today (Friday, Oct. 10).

Columbus artist LaShae Boyd explores issues of childhood trauma, faith, and recovery in "A Letter to the Liberated Child," which kicks off at Brandt Gallery with an opening reception today (Friday, Oct. 10).

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Daniel Ferlan works toward joy – Matter News Coming off of a memorial show for his late mother, the Columbus artist landed on ‘Tripping Over the Underneath,’ an exhibition now on display at Sharon Weiss Gallery that he described as a celebration...

“I almost never sit down with an idea. ... And I like that it’s a puzzle. Instead of going to a therapist, I can sit in my studio and start picking things apart, like, ‘This painting is about this, and this is about this.’ … I never know what that next show is going to be until it builds itself.”

“The dinner can still be really good if you didn’t brown the zucchini to the right point. It’s not about technical perfection every step of the way. The world still goes on. Ultimately, what really matters is us being together. And the food is in service of that but rarely the point of it.”

my brief fling with them was definitely big lebowski inspired.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

columbus in a light drizzle

Samin Nosrat gets to the heart of cooking in ‘Good Things’ – Matter News The celebrated chef and author brings her current book tour to the Davidson Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, where she’ll appear in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib.

“But I think watching [my father] die was a real moment of clarity for me, like, oh, I’m going to die one day, too. … And when I’m in this position and I’m dying, I want to look back on love and friendship and nature and beauty and joy.”

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time to start outsourcing essays on the subjects that really matter, like the osu student who feels threatened seeing "free palestine" chalked on a campus sidewalk

let's do the fucking news.

Goon leans on intuition for ‘Dream 3’ – Matter News The Los Angeles psych-pop quartet visits Rumba Cafe for a concert on Tuesday, Oct. 7, playing behind an excellent new album that finds singer and songwriter Kenny Becker spending more time exploring h...

“Those mixed-up vibes of happiness and sadness are somehow truer to life, in a way. We all crave patterns and meaning, but sometimes it all just kind of happens. Everything is chaotic and there’s no rhyme or reason to it. And sometimes it feels good to make music that reflects that.”

my gemut “helles real” t-shirt is killing it here at burial’s burnpile fest.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

The disorienting world of Rob Robbins features in ‘Double Back Around’ – Matter News The artist and former CCAD professor’s new exhibition, which opens at No Place Gallery on Friday, Oct. 3, features dense, large-scale landscapes that simultaneously hold viewers at arm’s length while ...

“Certainly, I’m having these formal shifts in the paintings relative to what seems like the condition of the world. Sometimes the world collapses and you go, ‘Well, I want to give everybody a treat.’ And sometimes the world collapses and you need a painting that feels like that collapse.”

gannett is valued at nearly $600 million c’mon now

couldn't roll my eyes any harder at gannett/the dispatch soliciting donations to pay for its intern program.

"stupid rules of engagement"

The exterior of a square gray building, the Columbus concert venue Ace of Cups, with an overlaying Matter x Two Dollar Radio graphic. The image is accompanied by the text: Matter News Community Conversations, The State of Our Independent Concert Venues. 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16. Join artist manager/talent buyer Lisa Cave and Rumba Cafe owner/concert promoter Timothy Eddings to discuss the state of the Columbus live music scene in the wake of Rambling House and the Athenaeum closing, along with the realities of running an independent venue in a time of deep economic uncertainty.

Mark your calendars for our next Community Conversation.

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"tpusa should stage a competing halftime show with creed"

"real patriots want to see lee greenwood and kid rock at halftime who's with me"

the bad bunny super bowl announcement has triggered the blue check crowd to unleash a flood of the most garbage music takes you will ever see

Mark Lomax revisits the past and comes away with lessons for the future – Matter News The Columbus drummer and composer will join the Urban Art Ensemble at Wexner Center for the Arts this week to perform ‘The Unity Suite’ – a piece he first composed more than two decades ago and recent...

“I wrote something 20 years ago that was not for that time, but it started resonating with me, and now it’s resonating with other people that have heard it now in ways it never did then. … I very literally wrote my way into the future.”

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Guardians 9, Rangers 8: With Detroit losing nearly an hour earlier the Guardians had already clinched the AL Central. But winning this game like they did – with a four-run tenth inning rally capped off by a walkoff three-run homer from Brayan Rocchio – bolstered a theory of mine: that the Guardians are possessed of more Devil Magic that any team since the La Russa-era Cardinals. They had a massive comeback here. They clinched their playoff spot on Saturday night on a walkoff hit-by-pitch. They beat Detroit with 57 dinks-and-doinks last week, with the rally being kicked off by their own dude getting hit in the damn face with a hundred mile-per-hour heater. And, of course, they came back and won the AL Central from 15.5 games down despite ending the season with a negative run differential. There is nothing natural about any of this. And they don't friggin' care, man. That's the most unsettling part. The Cleveland Guardians can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. I don't actually think that means they're World Series favorites or anything, but it does mean that we toy with them at our peril. If they eventually get knocked out of the playoffs it's probably because they just get beat, but it's also possible it will be because they accidentally ran their car over the entire opposing team and were deemed to have forfeited. And now they get the Tigers again after playing them six times in the last two weeks, winning five of those contests in no small part because Detroit seemed utterly spooked and intimidated. It's almost cruel.

Draft of the recap for the Guardians game in tomorrow's newsletter.

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Be bold. Be brave.: Lessons from a visit to the Resistance Museum – Matter News The catalog of harm keeps growing, with new pages added every day. But we are not afraid.

"Do what you can where you are. Look to the institutions around you and participate in them. Be present at local government meetings. Help the vulnerable if you can. And when you are called to do so, protest."

New from @jackshuler.bsky.social.

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The Kyle Sowashes wish the world would finally ‘Start Making Sense’ – Matter News A pair of weekend concerts at Rumba Cafe will find the long-running Columbus rock band celebrating both its 20-year anniversary and the release of a new album on Anyway Records.

“For me, being in a band is just about getting together with my friends and drinking beer. And if we get to make music, yeah, that’s great. But sometimes you just need to eat hot dogs in the backyard.”

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Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

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‘Superspreader’ continues to mutate – Matter News Steyven Curry and Co. will celebrate the third edition of the ever-evolving DIY publication with a release party at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 27.

“I think that’s part of what makes the magazine work,” Wright said. “Steyven and I have both talked about this idea that artists, just as a necessity of focusing on discipline, can become siloed. … And what this does is expose you to a different kinetic energy.”

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Mukiss slows down, emerges with ‘Everything That Shakes Is Changing’ – Matter News Columbus musician Caeleigh Featherstone documents a transformative stretch of years on her new full-length album, which releases on Friday, Sept. 26.

“I was out in the woods on my own ... thinking about how good being alone feels in comparison to being around people who take energy from you. And then I’m just watching these hawks crush it. And it was like, the hawks get it, man. The hawks know what’s going on.”

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Ed Plunkett at Matter in April.

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