Data says 42 percent of businesses in the Short North moved there for the area’s arts orientation and history, but only 5 percent of the businesses in the neighborhood are actually art galleries.
Local art is under-funded, under-staffed, under-challenged and under-marketed. And you’ve been partying under a cultural fog of war if you think these changes are only now taking place.
Poet and author Scott Woods on the impact of the long-running open mic and the Godfather of Columbus Poetry, Steve Abbott, who best exemplified its spirit.
