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Andy Downing

Andy is the director and editor of Matter News. The former editor of Columbus Alive, he has also written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Spin, and more.

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Chris Cohen embraces the power of community on ‘Paint a Room’

The singer and songwriter, who visits Ace of Cups for a concert on Thursday, Oct. 31, took a more collaborative approach in the making of his radical, deeply empathetic new album.

Looming eviction threatens the end of Skylab Gallery

Barring last-minute reprieve, the long-running, artist-operated exhibition and performance space, which has existed on the fifth floor of 57 E. Gay St. since 1998, is about to enter its final month of existence.

Z Wolf stands at a crossroads on ‘The Red Mirror’

In the midst of a challenging year shaped by family illness and the death of a beloved pet, Wolf, one half of Damn the Witch Siren, returns with a rock album that finds the musician weighing what might be next.

The once-solitary world of printmaker Amy Caldwell begins to open up

Caldwell, who has been creating as a means of self-discovery since high school, will take part in a rare public exhibition of their art in a new group show at Home Sweet Gallery on Saturday, Oct. 26.

Garet Camella gets closer to the source with the ‘Mont Michel Archives’

The Indigo Wild musician’s new solo album, culled from archival recordings and available digitally today (Wednesday, Oct. 23), came about only after he learned to let go of his perfectionist tendencies.

Dom Deshawn sheds his skin with ‘The Skylab Sessions’

The Columbus rapper delivers a stripped-down trio of EPs that find him turning inward to examine everything from the tug of self-doubt to the unflagging motivation that has kept him pushing toward a career in music for 13 years.

David Cross is not yelling specifically at you, the person in Row G, Seat 37

The comedian continues to channel a more universal anger in his new standup show, ‘The End of the Beginning of the End,’ which visits the Athenaeum Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 24.

The beautifully empowering work of artist Sara E. Adrian

In ‘The Road,’ opening at 934 Gallery on Saturday, Oct. 19, the Columbus native and CCAD grad displays more than two dozen works meant at least in part to remind women that they’re worth more than what our society often says they are.

Frank Lawson brings it all back home with his debut solo exhibition

The artist, whose new show opens at the Citadel on Friday, Oct. 25, wants to introduce a sense of possibility to kids growing up in his South Side neighborhood.

There Is Power in a Union: Filmmakers take viewers inside the Amazon labor battle

Director Brett Story will appear in conversation with Steven Bognar following a screening of her new documentary, ‘Union,’ which takes place at the Wexner Center on Thursday, Oct. 17.