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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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Derek Christopher centers Black musicians with new label, studio

Christopher recently signed Cherimondis and Kali Dreamer to his new Non Entity label, along with debuting a nonprofit recording studio that offers free services to Black artists.

Odd couples make magic in Blockfort’s ‘We Go Together Like’

Curator Signe Damron and gallery founder Adam Brouillette paired writer-artist duos for a new exhibit that opens at the downtown art space on Friday, Jan. 13.

She Bears added – for the last time

After 15 years as a band, the Columbus stalwarts will hang it up following a concert at Spacebar on Friday, Jan. 13.

Daryl Murphy has run 1,000 straight days and is still going strong

The Columbus native and founder of Miles for Justice has run at least a 5K every day since April 14, 2020, raising more than $20,000 for social justice causes. And he's just getting started.

Beverly Whiteside keeps to the path as she begins arts residency

The Columbus native will spend the next three months working in the East Side home of the late Aminah Robinson.

Trek Manifest steps fully into his own on ‘The One Day I Arrived’

Working with longtime friend and producer Soop, the Columbus rapper emerges from a challenging personal stretch with a career-best album.

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Red Velvet Letdown emerges from COVID ‘nightmare’ with joy intact

The self-described loud, sleazy rock band will perform alongside Bridesmaid, Pale Grey Lore and Dead Winds of Summer at Spacebar on New Year’s Eve.

This Must Be the Place wants naloxone to be as common as Band-Aids

The Columbus nonprofit, which distributed more than 10,000 naloxone kits at music festivals this summer, hopes to fight the opioid crisis by normalizing the conversation around the life-saving drug.

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