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In a nutshell, What the Waffle sells food that is fun to eat for terrific prices. Examine that shell, though, and you will discover that What the Waffle is newsworthy for numerous other reasons, too. Although it’s a compact operation that serves only takeout food, What the Waffle — which opened last summer amid widespread protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd — offers an impactful interior enlivened by the work of artist Adriane McMillon. McMillon’s skillful contributions include paintings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on one knee (echoing a famous photograph taken dur...

Customers continued to file into Tee Jaye's Country Place at the corner of North High Street and Morse Road late Friday morning, even after the breakfast rush has typically ended. A quaint dining room lined with wood-paneled walls and unpretentious décor had sparse seating thanks to coronavirus restrictions that requires tables to be spaced at least 6 feet apart — a line of chairs in front of a counter at the north end of the dining room was covered in white paper to keep customers from sitting there — but nearly every table and booth was full. Patrons hoped to enjoy one final meal at...

As usual, the winners of Joe’s Mildly Entertaining Easter Egg hunt proved harder to fool than I expected. A Laotian Buddhist shrine tucked into an East Side neighborhood? They knew it. Two virtually identical statues of an aviator? They located the right one. The 16th annual contest challenged readers to decipher rhyming riddles pointing to the location of imaginary eggs. The winners of the always competitive early-bird prize are Steve Huggins, 54, of Bexley, and his daughter, Betsy, a 22-year-old Ohio State University student. Their 10 correct answers arrived in my email inbox at 12:03 a....

I speak of the big red arrow at North High Street and Morse Road. “A beacon for the community,” says Paul Da Silva, who celebrates it and other neon masterpieces in photos at columbusneon.blogspot.com and on Instagram. I asked him for his thoughts on the arrow sign after news broke this month that Tee Jaye’s, the restaurant it so emphatically advertises, would close in May after 29 years. (The company will still have seven other Tee Jaye’s restaurants in central Ohio.) Da Silva sees the free-standing sign as a gateway, for both Clintonville and the Morse Road commercial strip.