Capital Crossroads SID Notes

Bold Booths

Bold Booths is a collaboration between The Ohio State University, Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District and leading professional designers. Originally, the project was part of Finding Time: Columbus Public Art 2012, a program to install multiple public art displays across the downtown cityscape during Columbus' bicentennial. Five Columbus architects were commissioned to design parking attendant booths or stations for self-pay parking in downtown. Time and money constraints meant that only the designs were developed that year, but Malcolm Cochran, Finding Time project director and professor emeritus of Art, and Cleve Ricksecker, executive director of Capital Crossroads SID, pushed forward with the project, and the first booth will be completed this fall. Designed by Beth Blostein, Associate Professor of Architecture, and her partner Bart Overly, the booth will be located in the parking lot of the Westin Columbus - Great Southern Hotel. http://outreach.osu.edu/newslist-items/boldbooths.html

Capital Crossroads and Discovery Special Improvement Districts 2014 Annual Meeting and Downtown Awards

November 19, 4 - 5:30 p.m.

Columbus State Community College Center for Workforce Development, 315 Cleveland Ave.

4 p.m., Entertainment; 4:15 p.m., Program Begins; 5 p.m. Cocktails and Conversation

How do we change the conversation when naysayers talk about old-school ways of doing business of long car commutes and hours isolated in front of glowing computer screens? Join Capital Crossroads and Discovery SIDs in welcoming Lee Fisher, President and CEO or CEOs for Cities, who will talk about what is necessary to achieve great Downtown Dividends. National trends show talented up-and-comers demand access, connectivity and flexibility, which bring good things Downtown. Lee will talk about the huge economic shifts, which occur with some surprisingly small changes. For questions and to RSVP, please contact Kathryn Hille at 614.645.5005 or kahille@sidservices.com.

Buy Fresh, Buy Local

Friday, October 31 is the last day of the 2014 Pearl Market. Stop by and support local business when you shop at Pearl Market.

Thanks to a $10,000.00 grant from the Puffin Foundation West, Pearl Market offers an EBT-matching program that doubles EBT benefits spent in the Pearl Market.

Here are the anticipated vendors for October 31:

ABUNDANT ANTIQUES, Bergefurd's Farm Market, Challah! Food Truck, Christian Science Reading Room, Cindy's Handmade Originals, Columbus Athenaeum, Elder Forest Soaps, Eunica Jewelry Co., Everdry Waterproofing, Farmer Bill's Produce & Honey, Fornof Markt, Great Harvest Bread Co., Green Handle Designs, Hinton Apiaries, Jerry's Garden, Leather or Knot Leather, Mary's Catering, Mycutejewels.com, Paddy Wagon, Pitabilities, Ritu Garg, Sadie Baby Sweets, Shady Grove Farms, Simply Sweet, Spiral Touch, Stand by Faith, SWACO Green Booth, Taylor Made Hott Pepper Sauce, The Columbus Dispatch, The Sweater Lady, Two Roasting Joes

As Pearl Market winds down, thanks to our Pearl Market sponsors: The Columbus Dispatch, Puffin Foundation West, Ohio Custodial Management & Ohio Support Services, 90.5 WCBE FM, Franklin County Farm Bureau, Preferred Wireless, The City of Columbus and The Greater Columbus Arts Council.

And thank you to Pearl Market's customers, farmers and merchants for your continued support.

Discover Happiness

Pearl Market makes us happy...how about you? Thanks to a partnership with Dispatch Media Group, you might just win 50 bucks of Pearl Market cash when you show us what makes you happy. The Pearl Market tokens don't expire so if you don't get around to spending them before the end of the season this year, you'll be ready to go next May. Get contest details at www.dispatch.com/happy

News and Notes

Lion King Family Ticket Pricing

Families wanting to take in Broadway in Columbus' presentation of The Lion King can take advantage of special pricing. Using the password "Family" when checking out, tickets will be priced at $55 (before additional booking fees). A minimum of three tickets must be purchased at once. Tickets are available for shows on: October 30, November 2, 4 - 6. You can purchase tickets here.

Columbus Aquatics Center

1160 Hunter Avenue

614.645.3129

The Columbus Aquatics Center offers wide variety of program for all ages, and is convenient for use by downtown residents and workers. The cost for recreational and lap swimming is only 50 cents. Consider taking on the CBUS and heading over for lunchtime or after-work exercise. For more information, click here.

Special Events

Cultural Arts Center Conversations and Coffee

Thursdays, noon - 1 p.m.

October 30, Rebecca Burdock (Fine Artist and Graphic Designer)

http://www.culturalartscenteronline.org

Exhibit: Pass the Brush

Now through October 31

Loft Gallery artist Duarte Brown is a noted arts educator, especially of under-privileged and at-risk children. He says that he paints from the spirit, not the ego, which is how he instinctively observes and navigates through life. http://www.ccad.edu

Exhibit: Theresa Pfarr, Second Skin

Now through November 1

Angela Meleca Gallery

This exhibition marks the one-year anniversary of Angela Meleca Gallery and is the first solo show of Pfarr's work in Central Ohio. Primarily larger works of oil on canvas, Pfarr's work has evolved through studying and researching the female image used in advertising, particularly within the fashion industry. Elements within her paintings coexist to describe the anxiety associated with inhabiting a self-consciousness. http://www.angelamelecagallery.com

Jim Arter: A Life Within Art

Now through November 8

Columbus College of Art & Design

James Arter is well known in Central Ohio for arts programming for children, training sessions for artists, and working with a variety of organizations in the community. This exhibit focuses on aspects of the inner life that moved and supported him in these public efforts. http://www.ccad.edu

Scary Plants

Now through November 9

Franklin Park Conservatory

Celebrating the oddities of nature, Scary Plants provides an up-close view at strange, frightening and even dangerous species. Discover bizarre, exotic botanicals, explore the appetite of carnivorous plants, and find out what might be lurking in your own backyard. Four larger-than-life sculptures, customer designed and built by Columbus-based TORK, Inc. give bugs-eye perspective of carnivorous plants like the Venus fly trap and pitcher plant. http://fpconservatory.org

Exhibit: Speaking in Tongues by Chase Bowman

Now through November 14

Artist Talk: November 14, 4 - 5:30 p.m.

Fresh A.I.R. Gallery

Chase Bowman is a recent MFA graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design and a current Gabr Fellow traveling around the world. Originally from West Virginia, Bowman "turned to comic books, adventure stories and other forms of entertainment to navigate the complex ways that people engage one another. What started out as a crutch became a primary way of viewing the world: normally sad, boring, frightening or confusing situations could be turned into a grand adventure with a very definite sense of good and evil, morals to be upheld and injustices to be thwarted." http://www.southeastinc.com

Exhibit: Tom Burkhardt: FULL STOP

Now through November 20

ROOM, CCAD Canzani Center

FULL STOP is a full-scale, highly-detailed replica of an artist's studio made entirely of cardboard and black paint. But at the center is a blank canvas sitting on an easel. http://www.ccad.edu

DRIVEbys: An exhibition of unconventional architecture for the most conventional thing

The Columbus Idea Foundry

Five Columbus architects developed designs for Bold Booths, an original and innovative proposal for attendant booths at downtown surface parking lots, as part of Finding Time: ColumbusPublicArt2012. Designs and models for the micro-buildings will be unveiled in the exhibition. DRIVEbys will document projects by Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design, BAWorkshop, Blostein/Overly Architects, Neal Clements, and Design Group. The exhibition is curated and designed by Beth Blostein, Associate Professor, Knowlton School of Architecture, and Bart Overly, Blostein/Overly Architects. The exhibition and reception are hosted by the Downtown Residents Association of Columbus and are open to the public. An Engagement/Impact Grant from The Ohio State University Office of Outreach and Engagement is providing primary support for this initiative and the DRIVEbys exhibition. Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District is the community partner for the program.

The curatorial team for Finding Time: ColumbusPublicArt 2012 identified a series of standard parking attendant booths as locations for fantastic riffs on these banal and re-occurring elements. Originally planned as temporary installations, the project has evolved to make these installations permanent design fixtures. Independent and spread out across the downtown core, each project will operate within site, function and economic constraints to produce transformative urban experiences. Work is now underway to construct five booths by the end of 2015. The first installation, designed by Blostein/Overly Architects, will take place at the Westin Great Southern Hotel. The second, designed by BAWorkshop, will be constructed at the Eckl Parking Company lot on the southwest corner of High and Long streets. http://www.boldbooths.org/drivebys/

Exhibit: threeASFOUR TOPOGRAPHIC

Now through January 8

CCAD Canzani Center Gallery

The avant-garde fashion label threeASFOUR (made up of designers Adi Gil, Angela Donhauser and Gabriel Asfour) has worked with Bjork, Yoko Ono, Kate Spade and the Gap. TOPOGRAPHIC will feature their new collection, which reveals the varied visual aspects of nature and its inherent geometries through a topographic approach rendered in shades of white. The exhibition will also include threeASFOUR's recent experimentation in new technologies that provide an immersive virtual fashion show experience. This program is free and open to the public. http://www.ccad.edu

Exhibit: Everything That's Empty

Now through January 8

Artist Talk: November 6, 6:30 p.m.

CCAD Canzani Center Gallery

Influenced by fashion, textile design and astronomy, the sculptor and installation artist Heather McGill deploys intensive patterning and strong, space-activating color across all her work. As a resident of suburban Detroit, she has absorbed the city's spirit of Fordist innovation and technological promise and channels that influence as she applies the media of industry to the mantras of modernity. http://www.ccad.edu

Exhibit: Almond Zigmund

Now through January 8

CCAD Canzani Center Gallery

Almond Zigmund's work sharpens out perceptions of space while exploring the nature of opposition. Combining crisp geometry, vivid color and intricate patterns, her drawings, sculptures and installations engage the eye and the body at once, offering generous amounts of visual stimulation while also inducing visceral reactions to the virtual and actual spaces she creates. http://www.ccad.edu

MadLab: Memory Fragments

October 31 - November 1, 8 p.m.

MadLab Theatre and Gallery

This is the world premiere of Sam Wallin's futuristic murder mystery about Detective Cloud sifting through other's memories, including his own, to solve a murder in a corporate virtual world where nothing is ever as it appears. Tickets are 12.00, 10.00 for students and seniors, and 8.00 for MadLab members. http://www.madlab.net

Spirits of Olde: A Halloween Soiree

October 30, 5:30 - 10 p.m.

Franklin Park Conservatory

Stroll the eerie halls of the Conservatory after dark or have a close encounter with dangerous and unusual members of the botanical world with the Scary Plants exhibit. Enjoy entertainment, music, full bar offerings, hand-crafted cocktails, small plates and appetizers. Costumes are optional. Tickets are $15, which includes one drink ticket. Additional beverages and food are available for purchase. http://www.fpconservatory.org

Art of Recovery

November 7, 5:30 - 10 p.m.

Hilton Columbus Downtown

Art of Recovery benefits Southeast Inc.'s Fresh A.I.R. Gallery and will feature live and silent art auctions or original artwork from over 100 artists, a unique menu created especially for the event by Hilton Columbus Downtown's Gallerie Bar & Bistro, live art demonstrations, and entertainment by The Conspiracy Band. Tickets are $75 for individuals, $125 for couples and $600 for groups of 10. Tickets can be purchased here.

One Night Only: Jazz Art's Group's Annual Celebration

November 7, 6 p.m. (food, drink, silent auction and great music), 8 p.m. (One Night Only concert on the Lincoln's main stage), 9:30 p.m. (dancing and desserts at the after-party)

Lincoln Theatre

Enjoy the remarkable Tony Monaco Trio in the ballroom and Columbus Youth Jazz members led by Mark Donovan in the Jazz Academy. The main stage spotlight shines on a star-studded group led by trumpet virtuoso Byron Stripling, featuring a return appearance by Los Angeles soul singer Chris Pierce. Finally, One Night Only dances into the night with a soulful after-party featuring MojoFlo in the ballroom, as the Jazz Academy transforms into an intimate jazz club starring Anna & the Consequences. Cost is $150 per person, which includes all of the evening's events or $50 per person for the concert and after-party only. Click here to purchase tickets.

A Short History of Camp Chase, 1861 - 1865

November 9, 2 p.m.

Kelton House Museum & Garden

Today all that remains of Camp Chase is a Confederate Cemetery holding the graves of 2,260 Confederate soldiers and civilians. Hidden behind a stone wall on Sullivant Avenue on the west side are Georgia marble headstones representing those Southern boys and men who could not go home. During the Civil War, over 20,000 Confederate soldiers were imprisoned here and over 100,000 Ohio soldiers walked the grounds. Richard Hoffman, a longtime members of the Hilltop Historical Society, will tell the Camp Chase story. Reservations are recommended; call 614.464.2022. http://www.keltonhouse.com

Studio Art Sale

November 14, 5 - 8 p.m.; November 15, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Cultural Arts Cemter

Enjoy shopping for art and fantastic gifts at their annual Studio Art Sale. It's a great place to find affordable art and gift items. http://www.culturalartscenteronline.org

Restaurant Reminders

39 Below FroYo

39 Below has reached out to its customers for loyalty and support. Last year, they opened a Hot Cocoa Bar and a full breakfast menu to help the shop get through the winter months. They are asking for input from customers and downtown folks for ideas of what they can offer to guarantee customer loyalty through the cold months. Are there menu items you would like to see? Would you like delivery of FroYo, hot cocoa and/or breakfast? You can respond on their Facebook page here.

Rishi Sushi

114 N. Third St.

614.914.5124

Rishi Sushi has new happy hour specials: Monday - Tuesday, 1/2 off sushi; Monday - Thursday, half off all beer, half off appetizers, $6 signature cocktails, and sake specials. Happy hours run from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, stop by for Hump Day Oyster Day and on Thursdays from 7 - 10 p.m. for live music. On Saturdays enjoy the 3rd and Long Buckeye special of a $10 burger and fries and $3 Sapporo pints, hot sake and fireball shots. Rishi Sushi is taking bookings for holiday parties in their private mezzanine. http://rishiskb.com

Dempsey's Food & Spirits

346 S. High St.

614.586.0511

On November 8, Dempsey's is hosting the Notre Dame Club at 3:30 p.m. as Notre Dame takes on Arizona State. Enjoy $10 domestic buckets and $5 flatbreads. Then on November 9, Join Dempsey's for their monthly Wine/Paint Party. Enjoy half-price bottles of wine and complete a painting of "Space to Breathe." http://www.dempseysdowntown.com

Capitol Cafe by Milo

The Ohio Statehouse

614.224.0272

If you are planning your holiday party, consider The Capitol Cafe at The Ohio Statehouse. If you book your event by November 1, enjoy 10 percent off your catering (discount is not good toward the facility rental, equipment, staffing or beverages). Contact them by phone or by email at info@cateringbymilos.com.

Rathskeller Vapor Bar at The Ringside Cafe

19 N. Pearl St.

The Rathskeller Vapor Bar is now open in the basement of The Ringside Cafe. Ringside owners, Adrian and Kim Rosu, were able to quit smoking thanks to switching to e-cigarettes and hope that the vapor lounge will help others make the same choice. The Rathskeller features a "taste bar" where customers can try different e-cigarette flavors before purchasing the liquids. There will also be staff available to make recommendations for wine and liquor pairings. Guests can also order food from The Ringside menu. http://www.facebook.com/rathskellervapes

Business Notes

HeadshotsColumbus

Do you have a hard-to-buy-for person on your holiday shopping list? Maybe a recent graduate who is conducting a job search? Consider a gift certificate for a great business headshot for just $79 (includes portrait session, proofs and one retouched digital headshot. http://www.headshotscolumbus.com

The Peanut Shoppe

21 E. State St., Suite 1-P

614.221.8837

The Peanut Shoppe is now open in their new location. Stop by for delicious nuts and candy.

Arts Calendar

October 30; A Matter of Dollars & Sense: Climate Change, Carbon Standards and Public Health; Columbus Public Health; http://bprc.osu.edu

October 30; Masters of Photography; OSU Urban Arts Space; http://www.uas.osu.edu

October 31 - November 2; Wizard World Ohio Comic Con; Greater Columbus Convention Center; http://www.wizardworld.com/ohio

November 1 - 30; The Art of Giving: Small Treasures for Holiday Gifting; Studios on High Gallery

November 2; Autism Activities Day; COSI; http://www.cosi.org

November 4 - December 30; Caroling Catastrophe presented by Mayhem & Mystery; The Columbus Spaghetti Warehouse; http://www.mayhemmystery.com

November 6; COSI After Dark: A 21+ Event; COSI Columbus; http://www.cosi.org

November 6; Eric Paslay; The Bluestone; http://www.liveatthebluestone.com

November 6 - 8; Glass Axis Grand Reopening; Glass Asix; http://www.glassaxis.org

November 7; Matt the Electrician with Daniel Champagne; Columbus Performing Arts Center; http://www.sixstring.org

November 7; The Urban Landscape Curator Tour; The Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery; http://www.riffegallery.org

November 7 - 16; Xclaim Dance Company 2014 - 2015 Season Premier: Blue; Columbus Dance Theatre's Fisher Theatre; http://www.columbusdancetheatre.com

November 7 - 30; Curt Butler: Echoes of Place Artist's Reception; Brandt-Roberts Galleries; http://www.brandtrobertsgalleries.com

November 8; Moonlight Market; Gay Street Corridor; http://www.moonlightmarketcolumbus.com

November 8 - 9; The Trumpet Sounds; Southern Theatre; http://www.promusicacolumbus.org

November 9; Curt Butler: Echoes of Place Artist's Reception; Brandt-Roberts Galleries; http://www.brandtrobertsgalleries.com

November 11; Visiting Artist: Kenneth Goldsmith; CCAD Canzani Center; http://www.ccad.edu

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