The perfect date night awaits at FYR Short North! Join us for our Dinner for Two special, available Monday through Wednesday beginning April 6. Three courses are available for $75.

Wear your best witch or warlock outfit and bring your own stand-up paddle board at the 8th annual witches paddle! Event will begin at the Scioto Mile Main Street launch. 

9:30 am: Group photo

10 am: Launch

The National Veterans Memorial and Museum (NVMM) will host Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, a collection of original paintings by former President George W. Bush. The exhibition opens to the public on August 8, 2026.

The exhibition features more than 60 portraits of post-9/11 service members and Veterans, each one hand painted by President Bush and paired with a personal story of service, sacrifice, and resilience written by the former president.

The NVMM is open Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

More steps. More dogs saved! Gigi’s second annual Walkin’ the Dog, presented by BuckeyePaws, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, returns to Columbus Commons on Saturday, October 24, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a full day of dogs, family fun and a walk that helps save more dogs.

The free dog festival is open to everyone, with a market of local rescues, makers and dog-focused businesses, plus adoptable dogs looking for homes. Visitors can watch impressive dog demos, learn from local trainers and bring their own dogs to try enrichment courses. For the littlest dog lovers, the Kids Zone features a carousel, face painting, games and hands-on activities. Fully vaccinated dogs on non-retractable leashes are welcome!

At 1 p.m., participants can make their steps count with a one or two-mile fundraising walk in celebration of Jess Ross Sheehan. Registration is $15 for ages 3 and up and includes an event t-shirt. Kids under 3 walk free, and dogs are welcome but not required.

Thanks to event sponsors, 100% of walk registrations and donations support the Jess Ross Sheehan Fund for Dogs at Gigi’s, providing critical medical and behavioral care for shelter dogs across Ohio.

One walk. A whole lot of fun. More dogs saved.

“Death is a Dialogue between / The Spirit and the Dust,” writes poet Emily Dickinson. Living is a daily conversation with death, and through art, we continue that dialogue with mortality, loss, and our own humanity. In Spirit & Dust, artists working across various disciplines—from photography and sculpture to poetry and dance—seek to create space for care and connection in confronting questions of death and dying. What do we gather from our grief? How is this knowledge embodied, and what can art provide for this relationship? What can death teach us about what it means to be alive?

The process of creating art serves as a mirror for thinking about dying as a verb, where time is experienced as cyclical rather than linear. Each artist’s medium of choice in Spirit & Dust experiments with how we can deepen our relationship with the process of dying, such as through abstraction in photography, blank space in poetry, the ephemerality of dance, and the fallibility of materials in sculpture.

Spirit & Dust is on view concurrently with Experiencing Veterans and Artists Collaborations (EVAC) in the corridor space, which pairs veterans’ stories with original printmaking.

Curated by Diane Callahan and Michelle Burdine

Participating Artists: Kristina Arnold, Mary Jo Bole, Michelle Burdine, Diane Callahan, Elvira Clayton, Barbara Fant, Ton’nea Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dana Lynn Harper, Ian Hersko, Gee Horton, Laura Larson, Tracy Longley-Cook, Michael J. Morris, Christian O’Keeffe, Paul O’Keeffe, Chantal Wnuk, Melissa Vogley Woods

Support for this project comes from the Mellon Foundation through The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs.

Promo Image Art by Michelle Burdine. Promo Design by Nancy Hohl.

Do some grab a drink at Slammers and do some fall shopping at this fall market! Entry is free!

Applications for vendors are open on Slammers Instagram and Facebook, with a $50 holding fee that is refunded on market day.

Cheer on the Crew at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field!

America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Columbus, OH!

At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a challenging crime while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The criminal is lurking somewhere in the room, and you may find yourself as a Prime Suspect before you know it!

Each admission includes our fantastic dinner, mystery entertainment, wait staff gratuity, prize package for Top Sleuth, and much more!

America’s premiere interactive comedy true-crime mystery experience is now playing! Solve a hilarious mystery while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The culprit is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the room, and you may find yourself as a Prime Suspect before you know it! Each ticket includes our signature award-winning true-crime mystery dinner theatre show (based on actual cold cases), along with a full plated dinner, waitstaff gratuity, and plenty of surprises during the show!

Cheer on the Columbus Blue Jackets in this regular season game at Nationwide Arena!

Get tickets here!