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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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Dan Gerdeman keeps it in the family with ‘Art Sons & Daughters’

In a new show opening at the Hilliard Civic and Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, June 1, the long-time arts educator displays work alongside 15 of his former students.

Big Fat Head keeps the vibes up with ‘Bobo Rising’

The five-piece Columbus rock band will celebrate the release of its new album in concert at Cafe Bourbon St. on Friday, May 31.

83 Gallery finds a new, permanent home in Franklin Park

The art gallery, which recently signed a lease for studios and an exhibition space in the East Side neighborhood, will open its doors to the public with a show on Friday, May 31.

Exhibit explores past, present and future of the Black experience

‘Freequency,’ co-curated by Iyana Hill and April Sunami and on display at Urban Arts Space, features more than 20 artists whose work explores Afrofuturist themes.

Jon Stommel brings his colorful cast of characters to Columbus

The CCAD grad, who recently completed a mural for Alley Islands outside of the downtown gallery Blockfort, returns this weekend for a group show at Home Sweet Gallery.

White Power Outage: Inside a Hilliard teen’s fascist terror plot

Christopher Cook was sentenced last year in a white supremacist plot to attack the nation’s power grid, capping his evolution from isolated suburbanite to neo-Nazi radical.

Aug Stone turns hair-brained idea into ‘Sporting Moustaches’

The author will read from his new sports-and-mustache-themed collection of short stories at Prologue Bookshop on Thursday, May 23.

Decades-old discovery leads AJ Vanderelli to ‘So… Bugs’

The new WitchLab exhibit, which features creepy, crawling creations from 20 artists working in a variety of mediums, has its roots in a journal kept by the artist/curator’s late mother.

Diego Gerard Morrison makes his own magic in ‘Pages of Mourning’

The author, who reads at Two Dollar Radio HQ on Thursday, May 16, set out to ‘rupture’ the literary genre of magical realism and instead came to an uneasy reckoning with it in the process.

Micah Schnabel is okay with the discomfort

The Columbus musician, whose excellent new album ‘The Clown Watches the Clock’ releases on Wednesday, May 15, hopes to find connection in exploring the distresses of 21st century American life.