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Ben Willis new book of photos, “The Home We Know,” shows Columbus in a way only someone who knows the the city and its people intimately could do.

Brett Kernan, formerly of music tech company Splice, and Michael George, who was...

Rating Reporting A January 20 2021 image of Bernie Sanders sitting (with mittens) at United States President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony went instantly viral as a meme, and among responses was a since-deleted tweet — labeled “Still the best picture of # Berniesanders sitting though” and purportedly depicting a young Sanders at a protest for racial justice: On Facebook, screenshots of the deleted tweet above circulated widely (as seen in a search for images): Context: Bernie Sander...

A negative of a photo of Bernie Sanders' arrest in August 1963 was found in the Chicago Tribune's archives.

Russian travels: Symphony winter concerts rescheduled The Columbus Symphony will make its annual sojourn to Russia this week with two limited-capacity Russian Winter Festival concerts in the Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St. The doubleheader is the result of a rescheduled program from this past weekend. The first program, set for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, will feature pianist Caroline Hong performing “Piano Concerto No. 3” by Sergei Prokofiev. The second rescheduled program now is set fo...

Beeler Gallery reopens with lens-based exhibition November Still images from The Work by Lexie Smith. COLUMBUS, OH .- Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD) reopens to the public with November, an immersive lens-based exhibition curated by CCAD alum Heather Taylor (Cinematic Arts, 2015). The exhibition, on view by appointment Tuesday, Jan. 19, through Saturday, March 6, 2021, features 12 emerging Columbus-based, national, and international artists: Dru Batte of Columbus; Nata...

Subscribe Civil rights supporters long regarded School Supt. Benjamin Willis as a segregationist, Kraft wrote, and King would likely target him in speeches and protests. Kraft noted that school desegregation had been slow, and he hinted that as civil rights leaders, King included, remained uncertain of what to do next, the upcoming generation of leaders were “remarkedly different from King.” “They tend to be more aggressive, more keen to enter the big cities of the North, more concerned a...