http://www.columbusalive.com/content/ Arts Stories from Columbus Alive Copyright 2012, The Dispatch Printing Company Copyright 2012, The Dispatch Printing Company http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/staff-pick-fergus-fellows-exhibition-presents-looks-at-modern-female-experience.html Although separate exhibitions by two artists comprise the new OSU Urban Arts Space offering, the subject matter in each traverses similar territory — the dynamics of the female body. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/staff-pick-fergus-fellows-exhibition-presents-looks-at-modern-female-experience.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/staff-pick-available-light-theatre-continues-string-of-hits-with-jane-eyre-show.html The artists of Available Light Theatre have been producing some of the city’s most exciting stage shows lately, like the modernity-helmed “Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice” and audio exploratory “John Cage 101.” Available Light has a niched knack for re-examining famous people and characters, bringing them to life and letting them breathe in new ways, so I can’t wait to see what they did with a favorite of mine (and millions of other people): Jane Eyre. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/staff-pick-available-light-theatre-continues-string-of-hits-with-jane-eyre-show.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/behind-the-scenes-a-trek-for-trekkies-to-the-star-trek-super-store.html I’m surprised my spell check didn’t autocorrect when I tried to write Trekkie with one “k.” You would think at least one “Star Trek” fan would have been on the team that developed this software. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/behind-the-scenes-a-trek-for-trekkies-to-the-star-trek-super-store.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-previews-transplanted-exhibit-focuses-on-meanings-of-environment.html This season is a clever time to show this visual art exhibit of new works by local artists Catherine Bell Smith, Mabi Ponce de Leon and Lauren Mudd. Each artist’s work takes root in the various meanings of environment. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-previews-transplanted-exhibit-focuses-on-meanings-of-environment.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-preview-village-valuables-offers-antique-deals-in-german-village.html Legit antique collectors from multiple states travel to Columbus for this annual yard sale in one of the city’s most beloved neighborhoods. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-preview-village-valuables-offers-antique-deals-in-german-village.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-preview-skype-qa-with-edie--thea-filmmakers.html Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer were engaged for 40 years before they married in 2007 in Toronto. Death did them part two years later. After Spyer’s passing, Windsor was charged thousands in inheritance taxes because the U.S. did not recognize their lesbian marriage. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-preview-skype-qa-with-edie--thea-filmmakers.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-preview-134th-annual-student-exhibition-showcases-ccads-best.html The arts college compiles the best of its students’ work in this annual showcase. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/16/arts-preview-134th-annual-student-exhibition-showcases-ccads-best.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/husband-and-wife-design-line-alison-rose-opens-its-first-retail-location.html Alison Rose Nocera and her husband Nicholas Nocera met at Kent State. It was also in Kent that they met the third, de facto member of their relationship — a half-ton printing press occasionally called “The Beast.” jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/husband-and-wife-design-line-alison-rose-opens-its-first-retail-location.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/behind-the-scenes-journalist-sheryl-wudunn-to-tell-her-story-behind-half-the-sky.html Watch one freaking History Channel special on serial killer H.H. Holmes and suddenly all Netflix thinks you “might be interested in” are movies about Satanic cults, the Salem Witch Trials and anything in which at least three and half people are murdered in a chainsaw factory. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/behind-the-scenes-journalist-sheryl-wudunn-to-tell-her-story-behind-half-the-sky.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/arts-previews-les-misrables-swoons-into-ohio-theatre.html Perhaps you’re still feeling permanently scarred about “Les Miz” because of actress Anne Hathaway’s horrendous lettuce and starvation diet employed to play ill-fated Fantine in last year’s movie version of the musical. But listen here: The only thing about “Les Miz allowed to cause permanent emotional damage is its tragic subject matter. Got it? jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/arts-previews-les-misrables-swoons-into-ohio-theatre.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/art-preview-madlabs-theatre-roulette-features-emerging-playwrights.html The downtown theater company’s annual festival of short productions written by emerging playwrights is entering its 14th year. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/art-preview-madlabs-theatre-roulette-features-emerging-playwrights.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/art-preview-art-scene-renegades-prep-for-mike-opening-reception.html As a kick-off for a new season of art shows at Till Dynamic Fare, the Vic Village/Peach District bastion of gourmet grassroots cuisine is hosting a show in its attached gallery space composed of work by the young artists of No Place Studios. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/art-preview-art-scene-renegades-prep-for-mike-opening-reception.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/art-preview-african-rhythms-in-paint-act-2-look-like-they-could-leap-off-the-wall.html There’s a reason Otterbein theater teacher and painter Suzanne Accetta’s jubilant depictions of African dancers and performers look like they could leap right off the wall. She painted many of them in real time, while watching the performers of the Thiossane West African Dance Institute. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/09/art-preview-african-rhythms-in-paint-act-2-look-like-they-could-leap-off-the-wall.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/gallery-hop-preview-get-adventurous-with-mobile-photographer-adam-elkins-my-columbus.html Self-taught photographer Adam Elkins is an encyclopedia of Columbus’ secretly awesome, atrophied spaces. The 26-year-old campus-area native has spent a lot of time exploring the city’s forgotten areas. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/gallery-hop-preview-get-adventurous-with-mobile-photographer-adam-elkins-my-columbus.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/theater-review-short-north-stages-passing-strange-is-a-must-see.html The musical “Passing Strange” passes from Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin and from the protagonist’s childhood to his maturity. But it also recounts how this middle-class African-American guy passes himself off to his European friends as a kid from South Central’s mean streets. jay weitz http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/theater-review-short-north-stages-passing-strange-is-a-must-see.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-two-video-centric-exhibitions-at-the-wex-cover-meaningful-ground.html Pronounced “metro palace,” video and film artist Shimon Attie’s video installation’s title alludes to its subject: the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-two-video-centric-exhibitions-at-the-wex-cover-meaningful-ground.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-queer-burlesque-festival-fierce-dances-through-columbus.html The headliners of this first annual international queer burlesque dance festival include 2011’s Miss Exotic World, Seattle’s Indigo Blue and Tigger!, the godfather of New York’s up-and-coming boylesque dance scene. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-queer-burlesque-festival-fierce-dances-through-columbus.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-jazzy-musical-five-guys-named-moe-comes-to-riffe.html The song titles of the musical “Five Guys Named Moe” are a pleasure for anyone who likes things a little raunchy. Among them: “What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober,” “I Like ‘Em Fat Like That” and “Pettin’ and Pokin’.” jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-jazzy-musical-five-guys-named-moe-comes-to-riffe.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-columbus-symphony-ends-season-on-fantastique-note.html What better way to conclude the Symphony’s season of master works than with the color-coated dreamland of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique”? brad keefe http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-columbus-symphony-ends-season-on-fantastique-note.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-columbus-flea-brings-vendors-and-food-trucks-seventh-son.html The spring outdoor Columbus shopping season is blossoming. This weekend more than 60 vendors take over the uber-cool Seventh Son brewery to sell also uber-cool jewelry, books, records, T-shirts, furniture and vintage décor. jackie mantey http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/02/preview-columbus-flea-brings-vendors-and-food-trucks-seventh-son.html