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/2013/05/23/arts-preview-king-arthur-and-the-sword-of-britain.html Playwright Philip J. Hickman brings knights, ladies and adventure to the free outdoor theater Actors’ Theatre series http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/arts-preview-king-arthur-and-the-sword-of-britain.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/art-preview-funny-bone-talent-search-finals-promises-laughs.html The first couple rounds of the Easton comedy club’s re-occurring talent search for those with fledgling comedic chops can be excruciating. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/art-preview-funny-bone-talent-search-finals-promises-laughs.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/art-preview-becoming-american-concert-pays-homage-to-american-history.html Feeling all Memorial Day-ey? This concert by the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra that pays homage to American history is sure to suffice. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/art-preview-becoming-american-concert-pays-homage-to-american-history.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/arts-preview-color-fields-a-brief-history-from-mark-rothko-to-now.html Understanding color’s role in art seems like it would be intuitive. Red, passion! Grey, turmoil! Green, serenity! But those are just the basics, dear Watson. And sometimes even those rules aren’t true. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/arts-preview-color-fields-a-brief-history-from-mark-rothko-to-now.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/staff-pick-photographys-back-to-the-future.html Sorry, no DeLorean here, but the 10 Ohio artists with work in this Ohio Arts Council exhibit do plenty of technique time travelling. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/staff-pick-photographys-back-to-the-future.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/art-preview-get-a-taste-of-asia-at-asian-festival.html Don’t let last year’s gang-related gunfire just outside the Asian Festival scare you. There’s so much cool art at this annual festival of all things Asian — from Chinese folk dance to Indian bollymoves. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/art-preview-get-a-taste-of-asia-at-asian-festival.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/theater-review-jane-eyre-a-memory-a-fever-a-dream.html In her 1847 novel “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Brontë addresses her “reader” directly time and again, telling us what to think or not to think, summoning our support, chastising us. So it makes eminent sense that in adapting the novel for Available Light Theatre, Daniel Elihu Kramer puts a handful of those readers directly on the stage to remember encountering the novel and to respond with its personal impact. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/theater-review-jane-eyre-a-memory-a-fever-a-dream.html http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/behind-the-scenes-a-local-couples-car-is-of-epic-geometric-proportions-.html The car that Otis Oswald owns has been in my peripheral vision for the past six months. http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2013/05/23/behind-the-scenes-a-local-couples-car-is-of-epic-geometric-proportions-.html 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