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A love seat at High Street Furnishings.
Tim Johnson
FURNITURE FINDS High Street Furnishings in the Short North is in its first year of selling new and consigned finer home goods. The company is owned and operated by Tony and Christy Clagg. Tony is in the flooring business, and Christy is a certified interior designer whose services are available to the shop’s customers.
You’ll find furniture, antiques, framed art, mirrors, accessories and lighting. Consigned designer pieces include Habersham, Lexington, Michael Thomas and Mitchell Gold. Accessory lines include Comptoir de Famille. As a new business, plans are still changing—Christy now is bringing in newer furniture to pull together different looks. In August, the company began offering custom-made furniture that gives buyers a choice of finishes and styles.
High Street Furnishings, 1201 N. High St. (south of Fifth Avenue), 725-5573; highstreetfurnishings.com. Public parking is south of the store. Open Tue-Thu 11 am-8 pm, Fri-Sat till 9 pm, Sun noon-6 pm; Mon by appointment.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Before or after an OSU sports or cultural event, you might want to stop for a snack at Sloopy’s, which opened last spring in the new Ohio Union. This 180-seat, full-service restaurant decorated in scarlet and gray is open to the public as well as students. In addition to tables and booths, there’s a full-service bar with wine starting at $2.50 a glass and bottles as low as $10, along with beer and mixed drinks. There’s also a coffee bar, ice cream counter and breakfast served all day. You can sit at the counter and watch the cooks work in the open kitchen, or opt for the patio in good weather. Food is reasonably priced, and there’s no tipping—all the waitstaff are OSU students and paid a regular wage.
Sloopy’s in the Ohio Union, North High Street and 12th Avenue, 292-7000. There’s a parking garage next door. Open 6 am-2 am daily during the school year.
LOCALICIOUS Local Foods Week is Oct. 1 through 8 this year, featuring special food-related events, contests, cooking and tastings. According to Local Matters development and marketing director Todd Mills, there’s something for everyone as part of the effort to provide access to local, healthy and sustainably grown food.
The week kicks off with a Harvest Festival at the North Market and the start of the Eat Local Challenge, and it ends Oct. 8 with a Harvest Ball. In between, you can watch the Chef Cook-Off at the Ohio Union, participate in the Market to Market bike ride, enjoy a Grilled Cheese Cook-Off and Wine Pairing at MoJoe Lounge, taste wines at Whole Foods, try Belgian waffles and local sausage in Old Worthington, tour the Brookside Elementary School gardens and attend a picnic. Prices vary: Some events are free or cost as little as $5, and others are more.
For a complete list of events, times, places and registration, go to local-matters.org or call 263-5662.
DESIGNING WOMEN Katie Blake Vincent and Sarah Jones Nusken opened donovandesigns about 11 years ago as a stationery business for their designs. They deliver to 2,000 retailers across the country and have one retail outlet, Pinney Kelly, at 1991 Guilford Rd. in Upper Arlington. They describe the stock as “simple, classic and colorful.” Items include all sizes and colors of notepads, sorority merchandise and lots of stationery.
For the fourth year, the company is having a sale at its warehouse. Sale merchandise will include discontinued items, notepads, memos, tags and more. For as little as $1, you can buy small gifts such as recipe cards and babysitter notes that would be ideal for teachers and friends. Packages of extra paper are $2 and 100 holiday cards or notecards are $5. You’ll also find bride and groom bag tags, thank you cards and Tutti-Frutti alphabetized notepads.
The sale is at the donovandesigns warehouse, 2899-B Johnstown Rd. (east of Stelzer Road, across the street from Happy Hostess House in the Airport Commerce Park), 337-0944; donovandesignsinc.com. Open Oct. 13 and 14 from 10 am-7 pm, Oct. 15 till 3 pm.
