In "Sidechain," set at a warehouse party on the final night before the world ends, players navigate scenes that draw inspiration from the formative years that artist Cameron Granger spent frequenting spaces such as MINT, Corrugate, and Skylab.
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Columbus City Council voted to approve the Haslam Sports Group's land and money grab to secure an NWSL franchise in Columbus. There are a lot of people articulating why this is an awful deal but this article from @matternews.bsky.social
sums it up pretty succinctly tinyurl.com/m6k7mttd #nwsltocbus
I requested to speak and got back an email saying “unfortunately, we’ve already reached our maximum number of speakers in opposition to the piece of legislation for which you are requesting to speak” 👀
Would I like a professional women's soccer team in town? Yes! At the cost of marginalized residents? Of course not
Again, getting an NWSL team would be amazing, but if this is what it takes, absolutely not.
After spending years working with neighbors and promising improvements to benefit disabled residents, elected officials are prepared to give away a 28-acre park in the poorest corner of the city for the use of billionaire investors writes Rachel Wenning.
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Join us tonight at Two Dollar HQ with Stop the Sweeps 614 and two of our unhoused community members. The conversation kicks off at 7 pm.
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When I wake up in the middle of the night, they come back to me. I think of the people I’ve reported on who are still alive but struggling. I think of the people I’ve reported on who died. I think of the people who have whispered the names of those they have lost to me.
New from Jack Shuler.
“I come from a different continent and a completely different culture, but that [bite] alone was such an amazing connection. I mean, what piece of language could have done that? What paragraph or poem? ... This was just a bite, and it created a connection between two very different humans.”
We have two of our unhoused community members joining us for this conversation at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social on Thursday. Hope to see folks there.
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We have two of our unhoused community members joining us for this conversation at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social on Thursday. Hope to see folks there.
www.facebook.com/events/15180...
Romero, for one, sees a benefit in staffers gaining a greater voice within the company, particularly as employees continue to deal with backlash to the ICE statements released in January by management. “We would at least like to try to repair a bit of that broken connection with the community.”
“My mom’s not here anymore. My brother’s not here. And there are so many people with my disease who died before they could even graduate high school. So, why would you not take a hold of every opportunity you could knowing it’s all going to be gone someday?”
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Romero, for one, sees a benefit in staffers gaining a greater voice within the company, particularly as employees continue to deal with backlash to the ICE statements released in January by management. “We would at least like to try to repair a bit of that broken connection with the community.”
During the viewing, Viola said that Mitchel watched wordlessly, offering his feedback only when pressed by the director. “And I was like, ‘Do you have any notes?’ … And he was like ... ‘You know what I liked about it?’ and he has this scratchy voice, and he’s like, ‘It wasn’t all about me.’”
“I turn on the news and see the stories, and it feels like we exist in some AI fever dream that has gone horribly wrong and is delivering insanity to us. …And the only thing I can do about it is write songs and scream and yell, and hopefully some people pay attention.”
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A lawsuit looking to restrict council from closed-door sessions is making its way through the courts at the same time that organizers with Our City, Our Say are beginning to collect signatures for a ballot initiative designed to recast how council members are elected.
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“There’s a feeling in those songs of being overwhelmed and trying to remain human,” Rutili said. “And that’s something we’re all trying to deal with – that feeling of helplessness when the whole world is going way faster than it can handle into fascism, or into some weird tech sci-fi shit.”
A lawsuit looking to restrict council from closed-door sessions is making its way through the courts at the same time that organizers with Our City, Our Say are beginning to collect signatures for a ballot initiative designed to recast how council members are elected.
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A lawsuit looking to restrict council from closed-door sessions is making its way through the courts at the same time that organizers with Our City, Our Say are beginning to collect signatures for a ballot initiative designed to recast how council members are elected.
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“There’s a feeling in those songs of being overwhelmed and trying to remain human,” Rutili said. “And that’s something we’re all trying to deal with – that feeling of helplessness when the whole world is going way faster than it can handle into fascism, or into some weird tech sci-fi shit.”
An Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed last week alleges that the recent termination of a CML employee was “unlawful and retaliatory,” motivated by the worker’s involvement in union organizing.
New from Larkin Cleland.
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Libraries are cornerstones of democracy. Unions are a tool to ensure libraries operate democratically. Union-busting is anti-democratic! Read more about the fight for our union at CML!
Columbus, Ohio has one of the best public library systems in the country. It's one of the absolute best things about this city.
But its management is engaging in union-busting and they need to be stopped. matternews.org/community/wo...
An Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed last week alleges that the recent termination of a CML employee was “unlawful and retaliatory,” motivated by the worker’s involvement in union organizing.
New from Larkin Cleland.
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Tracy Ramey of Tastes & Tomes will join fellow collective members Barbara Bailey (Eqstesi by B.E.E.) and Megan Turner (Rooted Books) in a panel discussion at Zora’s House from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, as part of the inaugural National Black Bookstore Day.
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“It’s been refreshing to play for Kyle’s audience, because they’re looking for humor, and they’re waiting for the joke, and it reminds us to not take ourselves so seriously. And I think we’re having a lot of fun doing that. It’s given us a lot more confidence.”
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Despite the hospital construction projects all over the state, residents across most of Ohio are no closer to health care – and many are even further removed from hospitals.
New from On Development columnist Brian Williams.
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