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Single in the City

These 10 singles own businesses, raise funds for charities and make music and sweet treats. We ask them to spill on love and life.

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Adam Friedman

WHEN HE’S NOT BUSY as a city prosecutor during the day, Friedman enjoys recording music at his home studio with two friends. Friedman, who started playing guitar when he was 12 years old, says he and his friends don’t have too many gigs, although they have played at the Newport Music Hall...

Courtney Banks

BANKS ISN'T SHY about being single. In fact, she says she might even start blogging about it. “I’m always tweeting about my crazy dates and horror stories,” she says, laughing. So, when asked to be a Columbus Monthly single, Banks said yes, because...

Tom Van Cleef

BEING A “SOLAR ENTREPRENEUR,” as Van Cleef calls himself, is consuming. But he also discovered another lifelong passion: training search and rescue dogs...

Sarah Bryant

WHEN BRYANT GRADUATED from Shawnee State University with a degree in international relations, she didn’t think she’d be working for a bakery one day. After moving to Clintonville a few years ago...

Joel Diaz

DIAZ STAYS BUSY with his day job, raising money and awareness for a nonprofit that serves people whose lives have been touched by HIV or AIDS. Recently, he found a hobby to keep him even busier: starting a dating service for the gay and lesbian communities in Columbus...

Hayley Savage

SAVAGE LIVED IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, where she worked in corporate America for 25 years, before settling in New Albany. But then she says she “decided to strike out on my own” by opening an art gallery and eventually a restaurant...

Matt Miller

Matt Miller

DURING THE DAY, Miller hosts webcasts, but off the clock, he’s pursuing a lifelong passion: music production. Two years ago, he went to the Electric Zoo, an electronic music festival in New York City, and was hooked...

Erin Henry

Erin Henry

HENRY, WHO WORKS PART TIME for a local nonprofit and just started nursing school full time, says a close friend from work nominated her for this feature. “Anything she can do to find me someone to date is her life goal,” she says, laughing. But if her friend hadn’t nominated her, Henry seems to think her mother might have done so instead. In fact, when last year’s singles issue was published, “My mom called me and said, ‘I found your husband in Columbus Monthly!’ ”
Karlie Sites

Karlie Sites

SITES MEETS AND RECRUITS some of the best physicians in the country for OhioHealth by day, but in her free time, she’s a dedicated dancer and choreographer. “I started tapping when I was 2 years old,” she says. Dancing has taken her many places, including performing for President Bill Clinton...

Todd Colquitt

COLQUITT, a graduate of Princeton and Georgetown, says his work for Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor keeps him busy, but when asked if he’s ready to add a wife and kids to the mix someday, he says, “Definitely yes, although ‘someday’ is much, much closer than it was 15 years ago...

 

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