This is Jackie Mantey. Say hi next time you see her out (secret password to receive a high five: spelunking; earn a secret handshake if you work it into a sentence). Jackie has worked as a reporter at Alive since October 2010. She mostly writes feature stories about style and art in Columbus. Beer assignments are always fun, too.
Hometown: Marion
Neighborhood: Harrison West
Favorite band: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Favorite style trend that is now dismissed as silly: Leather fringe on everything. Eep!
Favorite thing to do in Columbus: Meet the creative people who make this city special
Favorite quote: "But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things." —Vincent Van Gogh
Favorite cat in a movie: That pudgy little orange one in “Aristocats”
Recent articles by Jackie Mantey
- Arts preview: Skype Q&A with “Edie & Thea” filmmakers
- Arts preview: Village Valuables offers antique deals in German Village
- Arts preview: 134th Annual Student Exhibition showcases CCAD’s best
- Arts previews: “Transplanted” exhibit focuses on meanings of environment
- Staff Pick: Fergus Fellows exhibition presents looks at modern female experience
- Behind the Scenes: A trek for Trekkies to the “Star Trek” super store
- Art preview: “African Rhythms in Paint, Act 2” look like they could leap off the wall
- Arts preview: “Les Misérables” swoons into Ohio Theatre
- Art preview: Art scene renegades prep for “MIKE” opening reception
- Art preview: MadLab’s Theatre Roulette features emerging playwrights
- Husband-and-wife design line Alison Rose opens its first retail location
- Behind the Scenes: Journalist Sheryl WuDunn to tell her story behind “Half the Sky”
- CCAD Fashion Show: Making it in America
- Preview: Two video-centric exhibitions at the Wex cover meaningful ground
- Gallery Hop preview: Get adventurous with mobile photographer Adam Elkins’ 'My Columbus'
- Behind the Scenes: Dublin Arts Council’s ‘Subrural’ explores an evolving American experience
- Preview: Columbus Flea brings vendors (and food trucks) Seventh Son
- Preview: Jazzy musical ‘Five Guys Named Moe’ comes to Riffe
- Art preview: OhioDance Festival to showcase professional and fledgling dancers
- Arts preview: Nelson Mandela-inspired take on “Julius Caesar”
- Behind the Scenes: The Columbus Film Council gives advice on what does and doesn’t affect jurors
- Art preview: The Magic Flute, Mozart’s most commercially successful arrangement, comes to the Southern Theatre
- Art preview: In the Box presents art in, well, the back of a box truck
- Quiz: What popular local summer festival would you enjoy the most?
- Arts preview: Craftin’ Outlaws brings alternative-craft fair to Vets Memorial
- Arts preview: Art of Beauty Earth Jam Fashion Benefit
- Theater preview: Passing Strange is a tale of self-discovery
- Arts preview: Saddle up for War Horse, a masterful piece of theater
- Behind the Scenes: Long Street Collective, Downtown’s newest ink spot, is about much more than skin art
- CCAD Art Fair preview: Now juried, the semi-annual fair is carefully curated
- Concert preview: Billy Joel, Elton John and Stevie Wonder walk into a theater…
- Behind the Scenes: “This Inspired That” pairs artists for unique show
- Exhibit preview: Baseball and the big screen at the Wex
- Junctionview’s swan song (plus five reasons to go to Agora X)
- April Gallery Hop: Three exhibits not to miss
- The Mad Men rules: We are who we pretend to be
- Jackie’s Mad Men Rules
- Behind the Scenes: The influences of Namasya
- Local comedy: Monday Night Live’s revitalization continues
- Staff Pick: “Nina Does CBUS” is mighty and fabulous
- Behind the Scenes: Making John Cage 101
- Preview: Kodo — One Earth Tour 2013
- Staff Pick: Art of Illustration
- Behind the Scenes: Friends and artists
- Preview: The Canaletto Ensemble
- Preview: Exposure: A Mobile Photography Exhibition
- Columbus Crew: Tackling tifo
- Behind the Scenes: Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer
- Studio Time: The artists of No Place Studios
- Preview: Contemporary Realism: Four Visions