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The Best Damn Tailgate Guide in the Land
In Columbus Monthly's definitive breakdown of the game before the game, you'll learn how to dominate at cornhole, whip up gourmet grub, avoid the campus booze police and much, much more.
The crowd pleasers
It’s hard to imagine an A-list party in Columbus without Conspiracy, Mayor Mike Coleman’s favorite band.
Furious momentum
Colin Martin: "To me, music is love and love is music."
Video exclusive: A little night music
Bad medicine
The web turned struggling Caringwell Pharmacy in Dublin into
a moneymaking machine. But as the prescriptions flowed in from around the country, so did the questions.
Unmasking Steve Mason
The Blue Jackets star is only 21 years old, yet has emerged as one of the top goalies in the NHL. So what is it really like to make a living trying to stop a puck traveling at about 100 mph? And can he avoid a sophomore slump?
The talented Mr. Whiteside
After 24 years behind bars, Norman Whiteside—brilliant musician, forgery kingpin, key player in one of Columbus’s most notorious crimes of the past three decades—is getting a second chance.
Yvette McGee Brown, the early days
With Gov. Ted Strickland naming McGee Brown as his running mate, here's a profile of her when she began to make her name as a provocative juvy judge.
Talking points: 2009
We know you can't wait to read our "Talking points for 2010" in the January issue. In the meantime, check out our 2009 edition to see which hot topics really turned out to be big news.
Kevin Boyce's big break
No, it’s not the fact he recently was named treasurer of Ohio at age 37. Instead, it was a decision by a judge years ago that gave him a second chance.
Fishing for stories
When writer Wil Haygood was growing up in Columbus, he spent plenty of time casting his line in the Olentangy River. Now, he’s reeling in lots of praise for his work.
Vanishing history
Once a national model, the Ohio Historical Society has suffered from drastic budget cuts, questionable decisions and a lack of Statehouse clout. What went wrong?
Keeping the faith
Bill Faith is a bleeding heart who’s also politically savvy, earning the respect (and votes) of Democrats and Republicans. And he needs that Statehouse support during his never-ending battle against the payday lending industry.
The Derris Lewis case
Inside the jury room
The author, a juror in the high-profile trial of the 19-year-old accused of killing his twin brother, writes, “We might well have perpetrated an enormous miscarriage of justice.”
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February 5th, 2010
The talented Mr. Whiteside
At last, Norman Whiteside felt welcome. The other kids were talking to him, treating him as an equal. It was October, around Halloween, and the children in the fifth-grade class at Siebert Elementary School in German Village were all wearing costumes. Whiteside was dressed as a monster, complete with a mask and gloves. He was anonymous, no longer the despised outcast.
February 2nd, 2010
Bad medicine
The Internet transformed Caringwell Pharmacy. After years of financial struggle, founder Jae-Seung Lee was filling hundreds of prescriptions a day that poured into his one-room Dublin office suite from across the country in early 2007. He hired three technicians to help with the increased workload and flooded his wholesaler, Cardinal Health, with up to three large orders a day.
Unmasking Steve Mason
Consider this: Your job is to block a hard object traveling at about the speed of a CC Sabathia fastball while standing on a pair of thin blades on ice. And just inches from you are a bunch of mean guys flailing around big sticks like weapons. Sure, you’re wearing plenty of padding, but still. . . . Isn’t there an easier, albeit less lucrative, way to make a living than as a professional goalie?
The talented Mr. Whiteside
At last, Norman Whiteside felt welcome. The other kids were talking to him, treating him as an equal. It was October, around Halloween, and the children in the fifth-grade class at Siebert Elementary School in German Village were all wearing costumes. Whiteside was dressed as a monster, complete with a mask and gloves. He was anonymous, no longer the despised outcast.
January 31st, 2010
Best docs
On the front lines
January 6th, 2010
Best docs: the list (continued)
Pain Medicine
January 4th, 2010
Best docs: the list (continued)
Pain Medicine
Best docs: the list
If you’re a sick kid, Central Ohio appears to be a good place to live. More than 150 physicians working in the 29 specialties dealing with pediatrics have been named a top doc, according to Best Doctors Inc.
December 22nd, 2009
Nada’s world
On a Wednesday evening in early September, teens head past a police officer sitting behind a sliding glass window at a drug-treatment center on 11th Avenue. Nada Naiyer, a 17-year-old girl from Hilliard Davidson High School, arrives with a few friends for this meeting of Youth to Youth, an anti-drug group threatened by drastic budget cuts.
December 21st, 2009
Man in motion
This past June in Turkey, photographer Rainer Ziehm got tear-gassed in a riot, documented gypsies getting chased out of their villages by the government, played dominos with old Muslim men, chronicled the Whirling Dervishes, met with the imam of the Blue Mosque (who promptly attempted to convert him to Islam) and had knives pulled on him on two occasions.
Reporter's notebook: The botched execution
As I drove south on Rt. 23, I had a nagging feeling that something big would happen that morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. I shared my premonition with Lisa Preston, an intern with the Enquirer who rode to Lucasville with me to cover the execution of convicted Cleveland killer Romell Broom.
The bare facts
It’s been a year since a 16-year-old girl was sitting in the office of Licking Valley High School principal Wes Weaver trying to explain why and how she had used a friend’s phone to send a nude photo of herself to a boy she wanted to date. The school took disciplinary action, and the Licking County prosecutor filed charges against her. In the end, she was convicted of a felony.
November 23rd, 2009
The Derris Lewis case
Inside the jury room
As most everyone now knows, all charges against Derris Lewis for the murder of his twin brother, Dennis, were dropped on Aug. 6, and he was freed after 18 months of incarceration. Things might have turned out very differently, if not for a strange twist of fate.
Keeping the faith
Bill Faith went to Ohio House minority leader Bill Batchelder last year to gain the conservative Republican’s support for limits on payday lenders. A believer in research and the power of facts, the lobbyist who advocates for low-income Ohioans was armed with carefully crafted arguments about the number of borrowers who got trapped in a cycle of spiraling debt at interest rates he calculated to be about 391 percent. But he also was prepared for a different kind of conversation.
Kevin Boyce's big break
Kevin Boyce drives his Lincoln SUV north on I-71 from downtown through a steady rain. He’s headed to the old neighborhood. Or, one of the old neighborhoods—he attended at least 10 schools in Columbus before graduation. These days, he’s been on the road a lot, trying to get around the state since becoming the state treasurer in early January. The election is only a little more than a year away, after all. On Saturday, he was in Pike County. Tonight, it’s Gallia County. That’s 30 counties in the past 45 days, chatting with the locals who know little about a 37-year-old former Columbus City Council member.
Fishing for stories
On Oct. 9, Columbus’s own Wil Haygood will take the stage at the Lincoln Theatre to read from his new book, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. It’s his fifth book and, in many ways, his most ambitious. A staff writer for the Washington Post, the award-winning journalist truly has gone far since growing up on North Fifth Street. Now 55, Haygood is lanky and trim with an easy smile, a relaxed manner and a stutter that never has completely left him. His journalistic assignments have taken him around the world. But, as Mayor Michael Coleman, who has gotten to know Haygood, points out, “He has never forgotten his roots. His soul is with this city.”
Vanishing history
Carolyn Mackey loves First Congregational Church. Her great-great-great-grandfather, Elizur Wright, helped build the church in Tallmadge, just east of Akron, in 1825. Seven generations of Mackey’s family have been baptized, married or memorialized here. “This is sacred ground,” Mackey, 77, says, looking with loving eyes at the church balcony, where she attended Sunday school as a child.
November 22nd, 2009
Top designs
The following information was supplied by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. At right are photos of two of the five award winners.
November 20th, 2009
Top designs
The following information was supplied by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. At right are photos of two of the five award winners.
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