Capital Crossroads Business Membership: Office Evolution
Thank you to the Capital Crossroads Business Members for their continued support of Capital Crossroads SID. To learn more about the Business Membership program, contact Michelle Chippas at MLChippas@sidservices.com. 

A Q&A with Ted Fireman of Office Evolution

How long has your business been downtown?
We had our soft opening around the holidays last year, but really got started first of the year.

A Pearl Market Welcome
Pearl Market welcomes a new Market Manager, Dustin Speakman, who took the "tomato" from outgoing manager, Adam Scroeder. Stop by the market to introduce yourself. Click here to read more.

Pearl Market 
Downtown's favorite farmer and merchant market has returned to Pearl and Lynn alleys for another summer of deliciousness and fun. Come see what's new from a rich mix of merchants offering locally grown produce, hand-crafted merchandise and delicious food. The market runs each Tuesday and Friday, 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. through October 13.

Thanks to a new state law, vineyards and wineries are now able to sell wine by the bottle at farmer's markets.  They are also able to offer two ounce samples of their wines.  Pearl Market is one of the first markets to obtain the necessary permit to include wineries in its market.  There are currently two wineries at Pearl Market: Blue Barn Winery and Vineyards and Camelot Cellars.  Come out to taste and buy some great Ohio wines.

Also, customers who use the Ohio Direction Card can Double their spending power in Pearl Market thanks to Veggie Snaps. If you use the Ohio Direction Card, stop by the market tent, and they will show you how to double your spending power on fresh fruits and veggies. 

Panhandling Survey
Capital Crossroads and Discovery SIDs want to know what you think about panhandling downtown. Please take a couple minutes to complete this survey. http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07ee6agyyzj2q8ww43/start

Summer Movie Series
The From Book to Film outdoor summer movie series has returned to Topiary Park for the From Book to Film series. The next showing will be Curious George on July 15. A food truck will be on hand, and there's free popcorn while supplies last. Click here to learn more about the series.

Columbus Jazz Arts Group's PB&J Jazz returns to the Topiary Park this summer on July 8, August 12 and September 9. The series starts with a storytime inside the Main Library at 11:30 am and moves outside for the concert at noon followed by an art activity at 1pm. Click here to learn more about the series. 

Columbus City Council passed legislation requiring that road race promoters apply for a permit at least 30 days prior to an event and to reach out to affected neighborhoods along the race course. This section will post updates about race applications that have been filed for downtown to allow for comment. You can request a copy of the route or send comments to Stephen Paullin at SBPaullin@columbus.gov.

Event: Color Run
Date: July 22
Location: W. Spring St.
Feedback Due: June 26

MORPC Commuter Challenge
Just how much does that car in the garage cost you each year? Even if you own an old beater, there's insurance and maintenance, and gas adds up. None of this takes in to account the headache of driving in rush hour or the cost on the environment. But giving up a car? Man, that can be scary. What about just testing the waters (okay, roads and sidewalks) for just a month by using other forms of transportation? And what if we told you, it's a game and you get the chance to win weekly and monthly prizes? Click here to learn more about MakeYourMilesMatter.com. 

Starting June 13, the over 25,000 car2go Columbus members can go farther with the announcement of a Home Area expansion. More members can access the convenience of one-way carsharing. Also this year, car2go Columbus upgraded its fleet of over 200 vehicle with the next-gen smart, the newest model smart. Now car2go can better accommodate more members, take more cars of the road, and provide a convenient way to get around the city. Through July 15, new members can sign up using the promo code GOFAR for free registration and $5 of drive credit. https://www.car2go.com/US/en/columbus/ 

Peregrine Falcon Fledglings
This is the time of year when the Peregrine falcon chicks who make their home on the Rhodes Office Tower are learning to fly. The chicks can sometimes get disoriented or land a bit hard on the concrete. If you see a Peregrine falcon in distress, you can call the Division of Wildlife at 614.644.3925 during business hours. And if you want to see the birds in action, check out the Ohio Department of Natural Resources blog which contains video. http://ohioperegrinefalcons.blogspot.com/

Internet Safety
GoogleUSBUS has released a new web-based game designed to teach the fundamentals of internet safety to children. The game, called "Interland," teaches the five core internet principles around being internet smart, alert, strong, kind and brave. "Interland" represents part of a broader program called "Be Internet Awesome," developed in conjunction with online safety bodies ConnectSafely, the Internet Keep Safe Coalition, and the Family Online Safety Institute. The game includes resources for teachers and a video series for parents which is designed to make talking about online safety fun and accessible. For more, click here.

Ohio Statehouse Garage Elevators Scheduled for Rotating Closures
The five elevators that service the Ohio Statehouse parking garage will be closed on a rotating basis for scheduled maintenance. Each elevator will be offline three to five days. The project began with the south penthouse elevator (corner of State St. and High St.), followed in order by the north penthouse elevator (corner of Broad St. and High St.), Huntington Center elevator (green level of the Statehouse garage), Ohio Statehouse south garage elevator (green level next to the south sliding-glass doors), and number two Statehouse elevator (ground floor of the Statehouse). The start date of the project was June 6. If you have any questions, contact Luke Stedke at 614.728.2130.

Columbus Metropolitan Library Summer Reading Club
The CML annual Summer Reading Club kicked off on Saturday, June 3 with a brand new online program. Participants can sign up and track their reading progress from home, as well as earn badges and prizes, play fun games and learn valuable tips to help early readers. Visit http://columbuslibrary.org/summerreadingclub for more information. 

Yoga@CMA
Thursday nights, 6 - 7 p.m. (Yoga), 7 - 7:30 p.m. (Meditation)
Columbus Museum of Art
Join CMA and Replenish: the Spa Co-Op for Thursday night yoga and meditation in the galleries. Gallery location rotates weekly. Cost of yoga is donation-based and supports efforts by Replenish to ensure that all people have a space to do yoga. All are welcome and no registration requested. 

Discounted Zoo Admission from COTA and Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Central Transit Authority (COTA) are offering COTA's Zoo Bus riders special savings on Zoo admission this summer. Riders will receive Columbus Zoo admission for $3 and Zoombezi Bay admission for $10 per person. Zoo Bus fares are only $2 each way. Weekend and Holiday Zoo Bus service runs Saturday, May 6-Monday, September 4. The Zoo Bus operates Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. Weekday service runs Tuesday, May 30-Friday, September 1. Click here for more information. 

Zoo Bus riders should ask the bus operator for a transfer/coupon. Discounted admission will be provided when Zoo Bus riders present the transfer/coupon at the Zoo's admission windows. The discount is not valid with other offers. Zoo Bus riders can board at the Statehouse Downtown stop (located on High Street between State Street and Broad Street) or leave their cars at the Griggs Dam Park & Ride (located at Riverside Drive & Nottingham Road). 

Weekly Art Talks: Conversations & Coffee
Columbus Cultural Arts Center
June 22, Bruce Robinson, Oil, Plywood and Mixed Media Assemblages, "Configurations"
June 29, Special Evening Artist Talk featuring Visiting Workshop Artists Fred Zweig, Susan Mahan and Curtis Benzle (held from 5 - 7 p.m.)
http://www.culturalartscenteronline.org/

Exhibit: Configurations
Now through June 24
Columbus Cultural Arts Center
Artist Bruce Robinson, Professor Emeritus at Columbus College of Art & Design, has created an exhibition, Configurations, which includes plywood paintings and mixed-media assemblages, which arise from the artist's curiosity about materials, process and perception. His figures dance across the walls--some referring to African-American themes and several reflecting contemporary social issues. All of the works emphasize transformation in some way, and invite viewers to respond to them through the lens of their own experiences. http://www.culturalartscenteronline.org/

Exhibit: Shades of Transfixion
Now through June 30
Toast to Summer Cocktail Party, June 16, 6 - 9 p.m.
Mac Worthington Gallery
http://macworthington.com

Exhibit: Engineering Utopia
Now through July 15
Urban Arts Space
Featuring work by John Cage, Charles Csuri, Lutz Dammbeck, Isla Hansen, Ken Rinaldo, Lillian Schwartz, Stan VanDerBeek, and Amy Youngs, along with research into the restoration of works by Chris Burden and Ken Goldberg. http://uas.osu.edu

Exhibit: Melancholia
Now through July 22
Angela Meleca Gallery
Angela Meleca Gallery will present Melancholia, Sean Foley's first solo exhibition in the gallery. This is the first time in twenty years Foley has had a solo show Columbus. His new body of work explores concepts of melancholy that arose while Foley was researching wonder, and began to see the two as related and opposite. http://www.angelamelecagallery.com/melancholia

Lord Dunmore's War and the Fort Gower Resolves
Now through September 25
Ohio Statehouse Map Room
Lord Dunmore's War is a designation that is applied to a series of bloody hostilities between the frontier population of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the Native Americans living in the Ohio Country, especially the Shawnee and Ohio Seneca-Cayuga in the year 1774. http://ohiostatehouse.org

Exhibit: Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960-2010
Now through September 24
Columbus Museum of Art
Coinciding with the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Columbus Museum of Art presents Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960-2010. This timely exhibition is drawn from two facets of Neil K. Rector's world-class art collection: Soviet and Russian photography from the 1970s to the early 1990s, and the work of Moscow-based unofficial artists who came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Combining more than 300 works from these two aspects of the collection, Red Horizon offers fresh perspective on the art and life of this period, and suggests how creativity and critical thinking manifest themselves under the most difficult social and ideological circumstances. https://www.columbusmuseum.org/ 

Food Truck Food Court
Thursdays through October 26, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Columbus Commons
Come enjoy 10 of the best food trucks in town. Enjoy eight staple trucks who will be there every single week: Giant Eagle Market District, Cupzilla, Angry Weiner, Mikey's Late Night Slice, Kinetic, Paddy Wagon, Pitabilities and Mya's Fried Chicken, plus two special guest trucks, which rotate monthly. This month's special
food trucks are MOJO TAGO and MIXING BOWL. http://columbuscommons.org/happenings/food-truck-food-court/

Art Book Club
June 22, 7 p.m.
Columbus Museum of Art
Join Executive Director Nannette Maciejunes for a discussion of Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny by A. S. Byatt. From the winner of the Booker Prize, a ravishing book that opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passions of the writer. Cost of ABC is $5 for nonmembers, and free for members. To register, please call 614.629.0359 or click here to register online at columbusmuseum.org.

June 23, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Columbus Commons

June 23, 7:30 p.m.

Bicentennial Park

For more than 30 years, The Fabulous Thunderbirds have been the quintessential American band. Led by Kim Wilson, songwriter, lead vocalist and commander of the harmonica, the Grammy-nominated band's distinctive and powerful sound mixes Texas blues and southern rock with harmonica laced swamp blues. http://www.sciotomile.com/event-listing/rotr_6-23-2017/ 

 
Picnic with the Pops: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
June 23, 8 p.m.
Columbus Commons
Columbus Symphony Music Director Rossen Milanov leads the full orchestra, the 120-member Columbus Symphony Chorus, and a brilliant quartet of guest soloists in Beethoven's uplifting Ninth Symphony, which culminates with Ode to Joy, a heartening message of universal love and hope. Experience the most important and inspiring classical music in this new and groundbreaking way on the open stage this summer. http://columbussymphony.com/events/calendar/profile.dT/beethovens-ninth-symphony

Picnic with the Pops: Beethoven V. Coldplay
June 24, 8 p.m.
Columbus Commons
Conductor, composer, arranger, producer, and songwriter Steve Hackman conducts his Beethoven V. Coldplay creation, a symphonic mash-up of Beethoven's 3rd Symphony ("Eroica") with songs from the British rock band Coldplay including "Paradise," "The Scientist," "Clocks," "Fix You," and "Viva la Vida. http://columbussymphony.com/events/calendar/profile.dT/beethoven-v-coldplay

Exhibit: The Waiting Room: Reenactments from a Life
June 29 - July 25
Reception: June 29, 5 - 8 p.m.
City Center Gallery at Urban Arts Space
Artist Jim Rubino has created more than 150 moving mechanical pieces in his installation, with each object mimicking how it typically moved-once per hour in a repeating one-hour performance that reflects the cyclical nature and transience of life. http://uas.osu.edu

Exhibit: ...of space and blood
June 30 - July 29
Columbus Cultural Arts Center
Painter Amandda Tirey is intrigued by space and the vast biological existence inside and around us. Her large format works in oil appear to freeze the motion of active forms floating in an ambiguous space devoid of gravity, or capture slices of an anonymous aura delicately placed in a Petri dish. She creates her own visual science by bringing to life these fictional Liquidscapes and grand nebulous worlds. http://www.culturalartscenteronline.org/

July 8, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Hills Market Downtown

Want more Event info?
For a comprehensive listing of events, visit Experience Columbus at
http://www.experiencecolumbus.com/events/

For a complete listing of downtown restaurants, visit the DowntownColumbus.com website. 

Ampersand Emporium
The Columbus arts scene is finally getting the recognition it deserves, and the students, staff and alumni of the Columbus College of Art & Design are definitely a big part of the hoopla. Earlier this year, CCAD opened a new school store, Ampersand Emporium, to offer enthusiastic art- and CCAD-lovers a place to stock up school swag. Named for the ampersand in CCAD's name, the emporium is located in the Design Square Apartments building at 91 Cleveland Avenue. Click here to learn more or visit https://www.ccad.edu/ampersand-emporium 

Stack'd
88 E. Broad St.
614.869.5051
Stop by to try the newest downtown lunch spot offering a wide ranging menu with sandwiches, salads, pizza and pasta, plus vegetarian options and smoothies. https://www.yelp.com/biz/stackd-columbus

Elia Athenian Grill Adds Breakfast Service
20 N. High St.
614.706.4273
This downtown newcomer offering authentic Greek street food has now added a delicious breakfast menu offered daily from 7:30 - 10:30 a.m. The menu has a number of options including a breakfast pita, breakfast burrito, yogurt parfait and loukoumadas (Greek street food donuts). https://www.facebook.com/eliaatheniangrill/

Sweet Treats Pop Up Series on the Patio
Throughout the summer
The Patio at Ohio Statehouse (Broad and Third streets)
Graze will team up with local vendors this summer to offer up unique seasonal treats on their full-service patio. This collaboration will feature some of Columbus' most popular up-and-coming cool treat concepts. Graze operates the patio Monday-Friday beginning at 11:30 a.m. http://ohiostatehouse.org

Pure Pressed Announces New Grab-n-Go Menu Items
194 S. High St.
Pure Pressed now offers new menu items including salads, sandwiches, smoothies and more. They encourage everyone to stop in and give them a try, and feel free to ask for a sample. http://purepressedjuicery.com

#Thirstythursday Happy Hour
Every Thursday, 5 - 7 p.m.
Hills Market Downtown
Stop by their growler station and grab a pint of local draft beer (or glass of wine) and all you can eat from the hot bar feature of the week for just $10. Additional pints are just $4. http://hillsmarket.com/downtown

$15 Fridays June
June 2, 6 - 8 p.m.
Hills Market Downtown
Celebrate summer with picnic fare, light and fresh white wines, summery reds and summer beers. Fifteen dollars gets you 10 samples of beer and wine and plenty of snacks. Make sure you get your tickets ahead of time, because the ticket prices will go up to $20 per person at the door. You can get tickets here. http://hillsmarket.com/downtown

Poke Bros.
100 E. Gay St.
This new fast casual concept offers build-your-own poke bowls with fresh, wholesome ingredients. Bowls feature cubed-cut raw fish mixed in a bowl with rice, vegetables and flavorful toppings. It's like sushi in a bowl. Vegetarian options are also available. Read more about the concept here. https://pokebrostogo.com/ 

Buckeye Bourbon House
36 E. Gay St.
614.456.2020
The new Buckeye Bourbon House is now open on Gay St. Stop in for your choice of more than 40 bourbon choices, bourbon cocktails, bourbon beer and more. You can also find a variety of craft beers and wines, plus small plates. https://www.facebook.com/BuckeyeBourbonHouse/

Sip & Shop
Every Saturday, 1 - 3 p.m.
Hills Market Downtown
Head to Hills for the best deal in town. Enjoy four samples of wines chosen by Hills' wine director for just $1. http://hillsmarket.com/downtown