Category Archives: Events to attend

Put Pleased To Meet Me on your must see list

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Pleased to Meet Me the movie had its Columbus, Ohio, premiere last Saturday and I talked with director/cowriter Archie Borders and director of photography Michael Fitzer afterwards. Check it out on Youtube to learn about how the movie was made … Continue reading →

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Charlene Fix: Poet and paper aficionado

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Doug Dangler

How can you tell when a poet is getting ready to do a lot of writing? Like birds nesting in the spring, he or she will start to gather paper. Or so it was with Columbus College of Art and … Continue reading →

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Ready to take a bike ride across the United States?

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Bruce Weber was. And his book Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America is the result. We discussed why anyone would want to undertake such a trip, especially when one has already done it once. … Continue reading →

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Time To See a Starry Night

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Part 2 of the double header this week on Craft: My interview with Amy Raubenolt. On Sunday, April 6 from 2-6pm, Westerville South High School will host Starry Night, which its organizers, Amy Raubenolt and Michael Wander, describe as a … Continue reading →

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Richard Shindell: The International Monetary Fund is a great basis for a song

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Doug Dangler

“Living in Argentina, I’ve learned a lot about how the world works. You live in The States and a dollar’s a dollar,” says Richard Shindell. That’s not the case in other countries, where “the IMF, Moody’s and what they say about … Continue reading →

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Carl Hoffman talks cannibals and what gifts to bring your children from your travels

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Travel writer Carl Hoffman will be at Thurber House on March 31 to discuss his new book Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art.  We talked about how Hoffman followed up on his journalistic hunches … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons’ Cable Green Opens Up about Content

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Cable Green received his doctorate in educational psychology from Ohio State and started its first online doctoral program. He is now the Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons, a nonprofit for open access. He will deliver the keynote address … Continue reading →

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How to plan a murder

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Doug Dangler

JA Jance will be in Columbus with the Thurber House on March 10. We talked about how she got started, why she doesn’t like the word “prolific,” and why you shouldn’t plan even fictional murders in restaurants.

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Aaron Jay Kernis

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Doug Dangler

The Ohio premiere of composer Aaron Jay Kernis’s trumpet concerto, “A Voice, a Messenger” will be February 25 by the Ohio State University Wind Symphony, featuring Michael Sachs, principal trumpet player for the Cleveland Orchestra. Commissioned by the NY Philharmonic and  Big … Continue reading →

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The Steel Wheels Roll into Columbus with Six String Concerts

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Doug Dangler

How a play about a pastor of a dying church who is losing his religion led to an upbeat gospel song: Listen to The Steel Wheels on Craft Six String Concerts hosts The Steel Wheels on Saturday, February 15 at 8:00 PM … Continue reading →

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