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Summer ain’t no time for to-do lists; as the song suggests, it should be easy livin’. But those three glorious (scratch that: hot and humid) months we call summer come and go as quickly as an August thunderstorm. Our deadline- (and booze-) addled minds don’t remember much, but we do know how difficult it can be to wring maximum fun out of the summer. One moment you’re planning a Memorial Day cookout and the next you’re preparing for Buckeye football tailgating.

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Columbus’ Miss Congeniality Nina West (aka Super Drag Queen, Andrew Levitt) loves a lot of things: “my dogs, Edgar and Madison, my awesome parents, my drag family, Mikey’s Late Night Slice, pho, Weight Watchers (this is a love/hate) and running (also a love/hate).” And, duh, Columbus.

Brad Henry has designed a mobile application, Find Brutus that will present a virtual 3D Brutus as a tour guide for Ohio State University. The app will allow users, especially students, to have an interactive experience throughout Campus using a mobile device — offering directions, university facts and history and a scavenger hunt-type game.

Robert Grimmett has been a successful businessman since before he could get into a PG-13 movie. At 12, he began offering graphic design services and selling office supplies in his hometown of Ravenswood, West Virginia. By the time he was 16, his business opened its first retail store, and Grimmett hired his parents to run it. Eventually he sold that store to his parents and headed off to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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