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Anything to do in Columbus in the fall or should I just stay in my hotel room and catch up on my reading? No football suggestions, please.
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2008, 12:49:09 PM » |
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There's Amish Country and German Village nearby. There's also the Longenberger (sp) basket place.
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2008, 01:47:56 PM » |
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The zoo. COSI ( http://www.cosi.org/ - Center for Science & Industry). A few dozen festivals. Art shows. Concerts. Wine festivals. Food. It's a city. Really. Grab the paper, and look around. |
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2008, 02:05:23 PM » |
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It's a city. Until recently, I've always lived in big cities. I know what's in 'em. I'm sorry if Columbus doesn't register on my radar as a city with tourist/cultural attractions. That's why I asked the question. |
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2008, 08:33:15 AM » |
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Columbus has a reputation as a "cowtown," but it really is a thriving city of considerable size and diversity. In the 1980s, it was growing like a southern city, not declining like a northern one (it was more like Atlanta than Cleveland). Taking in consideration the whole metropolitan statisitical area, it is larger in population the the Cleveland metro, or at least very close.
However, I remember a joke about Columbus: "It's a nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit."
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2008, 02:09:54 PM » |
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If it were me, I'd check out all the gorgeous liberal arts campuses around there. Dennison is somewhat close and so is Kenyon.
There is a really good bookstore in German Village but I forget the name of it now.
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2008, 10:28:39 PM » |
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If it were me, I'd check out all the gorgeous liberal arts campuses around there. Dennison is somewhat close and so is Kenyon.
There is a really good bookstore in German Village but I forget the name of it now.
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2008, 11:15:02 PM » |
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I have not been through Columbus in 10 years, but the Wexner Center on campus is a first-rate art center, one of the best on-campus contemporary museum/galleries in the country (it's more gallery than museum). I recall that the German Village was a lovely part of town just to stroll though, and there's an art-house movie theater in Bexley.
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« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2008, 04:07:53 AM » |
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It's a very binary town. The Wexner, German Village and the Short North district are at the top of the list. If you like libraries, OSU has 33 of them. Once you finish up with those you could do some kind of survey involving fast food joints, as there's plenty of raw source material available.
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« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2008, 06:42:06 AM » |
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It's a very binary town. The Wexner, German Village and the Short North district are at the top of the list. If you like libraries, OSU has 33 of them. Once you finish up with those you could do some kind of survey involving fast food joints, as there's plenty of raw source material available.
Columbus has been something of a market test site for fast food restaurants |
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« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2008, 07:24:18 AM » |
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In addition to the city's main daily paper, the Columbus Dispatch, you could check it's two alternative weeklies for suggestions: Columbus Alive ( http://www.columbusalive.com/) and The Other Paper ( http://www.theotherpaper.com/). Not much new to add, but if you're in town on the first Saturday of the month The Gallery Hop in the Short North is always fun. The neighborhood has some decent small galleries, interesting shops, and good restaurants and on the first Saturday of each month they stay open late. You should know that even though Columbus is Ohio's largest city (and, along with Cincinatti, the only city in Ohio to actually grow in recent years) it is dominated by OSU. While this makes it an interesting and arts-friendly city, there is a downside, especially if you don't like football. Be warned that if you're in town during a home football game there will be no way to avoid crowds, drunk folks, or mindless cries of "Go Bucks!" |
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« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2008, 10:09:27 AM » |
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My favorite places in Columbus are Jeni's Ice Cream (multiple locations, local shop with homemade gourmet flavors), North Market (a farmers market with a food court of all local vendors), and Blue Nile (Ethiopian) for dinner.
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« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2008, 10:17:35 AM » |
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My favorite places in Columbus are Jeni's Ice Cream (multiple locations, local shop with homemade gourmet flavors), North Market (a farmers market with a food court of all local vendors), and Blue Nile (Ethiopian) for dinner.
I lived in Columbus for years. I agree with aristotelian's recs. Jeni's ice cream is amazing and I love the Blue Nile. And the Wexner Center is lovely and has had some first-rate exhibitions lately. If you are lucky and are there during the week, you can go to the Oval (the large grassy area in front of the main library) and hear Brother Jed and Sister Cindy preachspeak to their "congregation." There was a thread on them recently somewhere on the fora. |
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« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2008, 11:29:46 AM » |
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If you are lucky and are there during the week, you can go to the Oval (the large grassy area in front of the main library) and hear Brother Jed and Sister Cindy preachspeak to their "congregation." There was a thread on them recently somewhere on the fora.
Oh, mannn, are they still around?! What a hoot! They used to come through and do their thing when I was an undergrad in the late '80s in Athens, Ga.!!! |
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