Best bets: Jan. 26-29

This week at least, the weekend starts on Thursday, with plenty of activities and events. Here’s the list of our best bets.

Blue Jackets fans to stage protest

Fans fed up with front office.

How Starbucks Saved My Life

Best-selling author to speak at McCoy Center in February. (Frappuccinos not included.)

Today in Columbus history

A look back.

A standing ovation for Josh Radnor

Sundance embraces the Bexley native's new film, Liberal Arts, which was filmed in Central Ohio.

The death of the death sentence

While the rest of Ohio continues to send criminals to Death Row, no one in Franklin County has received the ultimate penalty since 2003. How evolving public opinion, a new law and a prosecutor’s reversal has brought about the change.

Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Movin' it

Meet four charismatic and talented fitness instructors who command a dedicated following of hip-hop habitués, Zumba zealots and other dance-crazed addicts.

Rhonda Koulermos

A tale of two stomachs

Nicole Kraft

Street-level justice

John Petric

Becoming an elder

Jory Farr