Editor's picks: 20 things to do this weekend
This weekend is all about local music, from the Andyman-a-thon to Saintseneca's largest local show to date, to countless other smaller, but equally worthwhile concerts. If you've been looking for an opportunity to explore the local scene a little more, here's your chance. Dive in. As always, here's what I'd do this weekend if I could be everywhere all the time.
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Friday
Saintseneca at Newport Music Hall
It's Saintseneca. It's a Low Dough Show. It's the Newport. Need I say more?
Gateway Film Center's Columbus Documentary Week
Free Book Friday at Delaware County District Library
Connections, Counter Intuits, Mike Rep and the Last Call at Spacebar
Dane Terry, Lonesome Leash and Jordan O'Jordan at The Garden Theater
Saturday
Flea Bash at Strongwater Food + Spirits
Celebrate five years of flea with this bash at Strongwater featuring DJs George Brazil and Nathan Snell. Entrance is free, bar is not.
Holiday Hop in the Short North
"Women As____" at Tacocat Cooperative
Before They're Famous: The CCAD Fall Art Sale at Loann Crane Center for Design
OSU Men's Basketball vs. Colgate at Schottenstein Center
Get Right with DJ Giovanny at Skully's Music-Diner
Sunday
Marcus Alan Ward at Double Happiness
This Cleveland musician's put out two of my favorite R&B releases of the last year (or so) in Last Night I Grew Tentacles and Eskimo. If you know my tastes, that's hardly surprising. Ward's music is left-of-center, low-key R&B. It's heady in the sense that it feels of a likeness to cloud rap, and is inspired as much by sci-fi as psychedelia. It's music that'll give you that sorta-sad/sorta-ebullient 3 a.m.-coming-down vibe, which should be a perfect fit for the intimate Double Happiness.
"The Theory of Everything" at a movie theater
"A Christmas Carol" at Columbus Civic Theater
The Motel Beds, The Japanese B-Sides and Bicentennial Bear at Spacebar