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“I mean, all 20 of our fans get so pissed,” Mays cracked, making reference to the disorientation experienced by those who see the Scrawl name and immediately anticipate a concert from the legends. “Every year, people start texting me, ‘You guys are playing?’ No.” matternews.org/culture/art/...
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Scrawl meets Scrawl – Matter News
Marcy Mays and Sue Harshe recently joined pioneering Urban Scrawl artist Dan Gerdeman for a conversation ahead of the band’s performance at the Franklinton art event that has been a longtime source of...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 3h
checked out on the browns/the nfl after this trade and signing and can’t imagine having to go through this series of events as a fan.
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Jennifer Wray @10bagspacking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m delighted to see @matternews.bsky.social on here!
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
talked to dan davis from ryan davis’ band a bit yesterday and he said he’d heard of matter news which was very cool.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, back when Into It. Over It. was doing a lot more, I think I got hung up on what the fans would want. And that’s a prison, and it doesn’t make for good anything.” caught up with @intoitoverit.bsky.social ahead of his solo show at secret studio on saturday.
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Evan Weiss learns to loosen up – Matter News
The Into It. Over It. frontman will perform solo at Secret Studio on Saturday, Oct. 3, supported by openers JG Shadid and Lydia Loveless.
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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, back when Into It. Over It. was doing a lot more, I think I got hung up on what the fans would want. And that’s a prison, and it doesn’t make for good anything.” Into It. Over It's Evan Weiss plays solo at Secret Studio on Saturday.
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Evan Weiss learns to loosen up – Matter News
The Into It. Over It. frontman will perform solo at Secret Studio on Saturday, Oct. 3, supported by openers JG Shadid and Lydia Loveless.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, back when Into It. Over It. was doing a lot more, I think I got hung up on what the fans would want. And that’s a prison, and it doesn’t make for good anything.” caught up with @intoitoverit.bsky.social ahead of his solo show at secret studio on saturday.
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Evan Weiss learns to loosen up – Matter News
The Into It. Over It. frontman will perform solo at Secret Studio on Saturday, Oct. 3, supported by openers JG Shadid and Lydia Loveless.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How a factory for AI-powered weapons, a data center, and a needy public school collided in rural Ohio. New at Matter from Taylor Barnes at Inkstick Media. matternews.org/community/de...
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An Ohio school needs funds. It voted to cut Anduril’s tax bill, anyway – Matter News
How a factory for AI-powered weapons, a data center, and a needy public school collided in rural Ohio.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“We’re all touched by immigration in some way, and I just want people to think critically about that instead of just seeing it as a black and white issue, because it’s not.” The new group exhibition at the Losinski Gallery at the Main Library will host a reception from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3.
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‘Immigration: A Journey of Belonging’ seeks deeper understanding – Matter News
The new group exhibition, open now at the Losinski Gallery at the Main Library, will host a reception from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sharing this in light of a hate group’s local flyering campaign getting so much coverage that the mayor issued a statement condemning the group. www.propublica.org/article/a-2-...
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A 2-for-1 for Racists: Post Hateful Fliers, and Revel in the News Coverage
White supremacists have targeted college campuses, causing upset and gaining attention.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bugger.
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Jules Eileen Roscoe Fitzgerald @julesaroscoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After prolific outcry against Flock this summer, Columbus has paused its contract. But...what about all that other surveillance tech we use? Like Shotspotter? I dive in here for @matternews.bsky.social . matternews.org/community/po...
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Flock is on pause. What about all that other surveillance tech we use? – Matter News
Columbus has had a contract with Shotspotter, an AI-powered gunshot detection microphone system, since 2018.
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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flock has cost the city of Columbus $228,000 since 2024, according to city council records. The sum of the cost for all approved Shotspotter contract renewals and expansions sits at $7,020,384.56. In a June hearing, the council unanimously authorized an expenditure of $661,500 for Shotspotter.
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Flock is on pause. What about all that other surveillance tech we use? – Matter News
Columbus has had a contract with Shotspotter, an AI-powered gunshot detection microphone system, since 2018.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flock has cost the city of Columbus $228,000 since 2024, according to city council records. The sum of the cost for all approved Shotspotter contract renewals and expansions sits at $7,020,384.56. In a June hearing, the council unanimously authorized an expenditure of $661,500 for Shotspotter.
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Flock is on pause. What about all that other surveillance tech we use? – Matter News
Columbus has had a contract with Shotspotter, an AI-powered gunshot detection microphone system, since 2018.
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dfilipi @flip1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great ink by @andydowning33.bsky.social in @matternews.bsky.social about the new restoration of #Riverbend screening Fri, Oct 2 at the Wex with restoration producer Michael Dennis and actor Julius Tennon in person! #filmrestoration #independentfilm matternews.org/culture/scre...
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A newly restored ‘Riverbend’ finds fresh resonance in the modern era – Matter News
A series of unlikely events collided to give new life to the 1989 film, which will screen at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Friday, Oct. 2.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“We were helping these African American people get the boot off their neck, as it were,” said Tennon, who now believes that the film’s lack of a “white savior” in part helped to doom its early release. “This was Black people saving themselves, which was totally against the status quo.”
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A newly restored ‘Riverbend’ finds fresh resonance in the modern era – Matter News
A series of unlikely events collided to give new life to the 1989 film, which will screen at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Friday, Oct. 2.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
❤️
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Much of new Kill Gosling album Super Plume recalls these internally tumultuous months when this musical future remained an open question, Maguire grappling with his place both in the band and within the larger Columbus scene. “It’s a very meta, self-referential album in hindsight,” said Maguire.
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Kill Gosling rediscovers its joy on the way to ‘Super Plume’ – Matter News
The Columbus rock band will celebrate the release of its excellent new album in concert at Cafe Bourbon Street on Saturday, Sept. 26.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read the Matter News report on this from 10 days ago matternews.org/community/th...
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Thousands of missed trips leave Columbus COTA riders stranded – Matter News
New records obtained by Matter News show that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 the number of missed COTA trips totaled 32,056, an average of almost 132 missed trips per day. The agency placed the majority o...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this beer bar could stand to retire some glassware
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
hey quick question why do you think missed trips were discussed at the cota board meeting
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read the Matter News report on this from 10 days ago matternews.org/community/th...
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Thousands of missed trips leave Columbus COTA riders stranded – Matter News
New records obtained by Matter News show that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 the number of missed COTA trips totaled 32,056, an average of almost 132 missed trips per day. The agency placed the majority o...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It’s what happens after the death of parents, after middle age, and also the aftertime for maybe our democracy, for our planet. And it’s [asking] what do we do with that? And I don’t want it to be a downer. ... It’s looking at how we go forward, because if we’re breathing, we must.”
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Kathy Fagan takes stock with ‘The Unbecoming’ – Matter News
The poet will celebrate the release of her new collection with a reading at Gramercy Books on Thursday, Sept. 24.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
v. chuffed to go from paying more than $4 a gallon for gas to paying just a bit over $4 a gallon if ohio republicans move to suspend the state gas tax
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“When I started on this, I originally thought, well, this will be a warning. Well, too late. And I worked as fast as I could, but it’s a big book,” said Backderf, who sees myriad echoes between the Wilson administration that persecuted the cartoonists of The Masses and the one being led by Trump.
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Derf Backderf delves into the past, finds lessons for the present with ‘The Dissidents’ – Matter News
The Cleveland cartoonist will celebrate the release of his sprawling, deeply engaging new book with an appearance at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Wednesday, Sept. 27.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Evolved Body Art wrestles with accountability – Matter News
In interviews with Matter News, former staff members described what they termed a history of inappropriate behavior within the shop enabled and perpetrated by owner Nick Wolak, who said the business i...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can always tell when someone posts about Evolved/Trauma on Columbus Reddit because there's a corresponding spike to the Matter feature.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Faced with a rent increase of more than 30 percent, the Hess family opted to move on from the artist’s creative home of the last eight years. And while the next steps remain uncertain, they stressed that Henry would maintain a presence in Franklinton. ‘We’re not going anywhere,’ Sophia Hess said.
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Henry Hess says goodbye to his longtime Chromedge studio – Matter News
Faced with a rent increase of more than 30 percent, the Hess family opted to move on from the artist’s creative home of the last eight years. And while the next steps remain uncertain, they stressed t...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ed sheeran alone onstage at gilette field with "I am not complicit" scrawled across his guitar in the same handwriting as woody guthrie's "this machine kills fascists"
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Had I not been writing through my 15-, 16-, 17-year-old life, I don’t know who I would have been, because I was an angry kid, an angry teenager. But once I got onstage, there was this sense of release, and I could feel it moving through my body.” matternews.org/culture/word...
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Barbara Fant returns to Columbus ready to leave her mark on Thurber House – Matter News
The poet and newly minted executive director of the literary nonprofit will take part in a community reception welcoming her to the role on Thursday, Sept. 17.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the dispatch running a story from the usa today network about a business insider article picking ohio's "most famous band"
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More than two decades in the works, the new documentary from artist David Denniston lovingly traces the life and experiences of Ricky ‘Ice Cream’ Jackson, who will be on hand when the film premieres at the Lincoln Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 17. matternews.org/culture/scre...
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‘Ice Cream Land’ balances fantasy, reality in making its way to the big screen – Matter News
More than two decades in the works, the new documentary from artist David Denniston lovingly traces the life and experiences of Ricky ‘Ice Cream’ Jackson, who will be on hand when the film premieres a...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
tbf ed sheeran's music sounds like the work of someone who completely lacks conviction
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The songs on Thomas Dollbaum’s lovely sophomore album, Birds of Paradise, are more intimately shaped by his adolescent memories of Florida, and more specifically the ways its wilderness existed amid the expanding reach of humans. Did you miss Dollbaum at Nelsonville? Catch him at Rumba tonight.
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Thomas Dollbaum takes his time getting to ‘Birds of Paradise’ – Matter News
The Florida-born, New Orleans-based singer and songwriter performs at Nelsonville Music Festival this weekend.
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Ben Ferree @benferree.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What’s an appropriate number of routes for COTA to miss a day, start to finish? Three? Five to ten, as the Dispatch quoted in July? How about the actual number, 132? Must-read reporting from @matternews.bsky.social matternews.org/community/th...
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Thousands of missed trips leave Columbus COTA riders stranded – Matter News
New records obtained by Matter News show that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 the number of missed COTA trips totaled 32,056, an average of almost 132 missed trips per day. The agency placed the majority o...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
you can read more here: matternews.org/community/ba...
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Baladna: Palestine Society of Columbus calls for a boycott of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants – Matter News
'So, for us as a board, given that this was happening with a business right here in our backyard, we felt it was our responsibility to take action and make the public aware.'
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Over the weekend, @rooster.info obtained a memo from CMR President & CEO David Miller to staff addressing the "negative posts on social media" related to the restaurant group's sponsorship of a Friends of the IDF fundraiser that sparked a boycott call from Baladna: Palestine Society of Columbus.
A white page labelled "memo" set on a yellow background below text that reads "Cameron Mitchell Restaurants doubles down on support of Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces, calls it a 'humanitarian organization'"
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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New records obtained by Matter News show that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 the number of missed COTA trips totaled 32,056, an average of almost 132 missed trips per day. The agency placed the majority of the blame on fleet maintenance issue and said it is taking steps to correct the problem.
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Thousands of missed trips leave Columbus COTA riders stranded – Matter News
New records obtained by Matter News show that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 the number of missed COTA trips totaled 32,056, an average of almost 132 missed trips per day. The agency placed the majority o...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New records obtained by Matter News show that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 the number of missed COTA trips totaled 32,056, an average of almost 132 missed trips per day. The agency placed the majority of the blame on fleet maintenance issue and said it is taking steps to correct the problem.
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Thousands of missed trips leave Columbus COTA riders stranded – Matter News
New records obtained by Matter News show that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 the number of missed COTA trips totaled 32,056, an average of almost 132 missed trips per day. The agency placed the majority o...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(she’s not wrong)
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kids are great for self confidence.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
lydia showed me a family picture she drew and said “you’re the one with the specks of hair”
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ai companies: you need to embrace us this is the future also ai companies: oh and heads up there's a *slight* chance we could end humanity
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Cringe live events calendar at Matter News has been updated with shows through Sunday, Sept. 27. matternews.org/calendar/
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Calendar – Matter News
The Cringe live events calendar at Matter News was updated on Sunday, Sept. 13, and includes listings through Sunday, Sept. 27. Visit Cringe.com here for four full weeks of listings and send your Colu...
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
me if I ever catch a minion
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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The White Nationalist from Worthington
The rise of Andrew Anglin's neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nearly 10 years ago somehow.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
actually very aware thanks reddit
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Doing so much mural work, a lot of it is contracted, and you’re less in control,” the artist said. “So, when you do have the time, you start to ask, where do I want to focus my attention? And it’s the world around you.” matternews.org/culture/art/...
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Nick Stull adopts a quieter approach – Matter News
With his latest collection, on view at Sarah Gormley Gallery beginning today (Friday, Sept. 11), the Columbus artist hopes to entice viewers to linger a little longer in his world.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“And it was interesting to me to show this aspect of community and street family that I think a lot of housed people have no concept of,” Creighton said. “Often, housed people don’t even have a real deep sense of community for themselves. So, it felt important to me to show those connections.”
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‘Wood Street’ was filmed in Oakland but it could have been made in Columbus – Matter News
The new documentary from California journalist and filmmaker Caron Creighton screens at the Drexel Theatre this weekend as part of Cinema Columbus.
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