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The September gallery Hop saw the last of the 90 degree days before the weather changed to cooler fall temps. This brought out a big crowd for the Labor Day Weekend along with the Greek Festival down the street. The artists weren't shy either. Above is Abraham and his female figures made from trash he displayed at Waldo's. This was a step up for the artist who previously saw group shows in

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 For the third month in a row, the monthly Short North Gallery Hop had to go on against mother nature's worst. For March it was rain, the middle of two days worth. The Arnold Fitness event down the street brought some people to the galleries, but most just returned to the convention center after their dinner. Umbrellas were the visual effect of the evening. The new Hubbard Bar and Grille signage

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 The Columbus Museum of Art has finished its renovation of its original building and early 1970's addition. It is still the tiny art museum it was 35 years ago, but a new addition is set to break ground soon for a late 2012 opening. The site on E. Broad Street is hemmed in by a gothic church to its west and the Columbus College of Art and Design to its rear. Small for its size of city today.  

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 Window displays at the holidays are a Short North tradition. For 2010 the windows seem to be without sophisticated light displays.  BD was alive with elf and snowflakes.  The above two views of a window should get an award for originality.  83 Gallery is also new this year with a busy studio concept.  The Jackson high-rise apartment building had some understated christmas trees lining the

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 The 2010 Holiday Hop was once again the worst weather experienced up until then for the Autumn season. Snow was only a dusting, but the cold stayed on. Yet, people came out in their finest winter coats and hats. Few sidewalk vendors and performers were found, however. The top photo above could be an Edward Hopper painting as the bricks match the woman's coat at GRID, a new futuristic furniture

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October Gallery Hop was one of the first rainy gallery hops in over a year. And in the middle of a draught! A new hair salon in the Greystone Apartments Chris Mohler at Ray's Living Room Live models were found in many storefront windows Even body painting in the window strike a pose window displays were all the rage Halloween and Christmas together at last The 83

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September 11th Memorial on Staten Island overlooking New York Harbor. The Jersey City skyline on left, Manhattan in the middle, and Brooklyn on the right.

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Yes, even at 30 MPH Speed Limit, The September 2010 Gallery Hop was like rush hour traffic from early afternoon to way into the night.  A surprising number of afternoon hoppers may have been a spill-over from the Greek Festival down the street. But that happens every year and this was a massive crowd on the order of Comfest.  Even the Bollinger Towers got in a yard sale on their front steps. Not

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The first Summer Flea  flea market in the Short North was held in the empty Fireproof Warehouse parking lot at Third and High St. The space was filled with vendors and shoppers for most of the day. This was the Sunday after the August Gallery Hop. A wide variety of products were available from crafts to cupcakes (Penelope Danger is in the middle above selling her unusually flavored cupcakes) to

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Art cars at Gallery Hop: 1985 and 2010. Not much has changed. August 2010's Gallery Hop was 25 years after the first event called The Short North Gallery Hop to be held the first Saturday of each month. Galleries have been in the neighborhood since at least 1978, a group opening call the SoButt Walking Tour was held in 1980 (SoButt for South of Buttles as everything was back then), and monthly

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HIGH STREET ART began as a newsprint publication in August of 1985 for the first modern Gallery Hop in the Short North when Spangler Cumming Gallery entered scene and provided a big roomy gallery and an even bigger audience on the first Saturday of the month. HIGHstreetART's first issue (top) was mostly previews of artists in Spangler's first show. Later issues covered more of gallery row and the

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The 2010 edition of the Doo Dah Parade was a stark contrast to the 2009 Parade. The parade lasted twice as long and the parade route was packed from beginning to end. Top is Anna and her Android dance group hamming it up. The stilt walkers of High Jinx were occupied at other local parades and couple make the Doo Dah. The coneheads seemed to be down to this one guy and didn't parade. A new

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 The 2010 Community Festival continued a tradition in taking over Goodale Park in the Short North. Originally a campus event put on yearly between the off-campus student centers of major religious organizations in the 1970's, Comfest moved down to the Short North in 1983 because of the lose of some of these centers to the economy. Not having readily available buildings anymore to put on the

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 The new signs are finished that tell people about the gallery hop. The first Saturday in June is always a crowded as Columbus dominates network TV sports and holds a comic convention. The Memorial Golf Tournament was joined by the NCAA Rugby Championship at Crew Stadium, so both CBS and NBC were in town. This brought Rugby shirts and plaid dinner jackets down to the Short North in a window of

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The 2010 Zombie Walk was massive, as hundreds of the undead walked High Street in the Short North to their demise at Goodale Park.   Best Dead   All you can eat  I'm carrying a severed head down the street and nobody cares!  onward to the gates of hell!  grrraww! who called the paramedics?   I have a burning sensation  why did I have to die in this clown costume?  A toot out from your local

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Ian Alexander Horn built an extensive installation piece in that 4th Ave. building that used to hold an address machine service. He used projection TV onto a table with plates to show people eating as well as another projector of a painting over a mantel. It was a recreation of sorts of a Massachusetts house except the upstairs took you to a brightly lighted cube of a room. Ed Gately (above left

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Rivet Gallery's "Uber Cute" show was made up of rather small artist made toys.RoyGBiv had a seemingly empty gallery. This was because of performance art by Cassandra Troyan that involved splattering paint. Other things will happen in this space through-out the month. It also reflects the snow outside.The second RoyGBiv Gallery Daniel Forrest Hoffman presents his interesting constructsMahan

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The February 2010 gallery hop was held right after the first of two 30 hour snow events that blanketed this part of the country. Fortunately, Columbus got one of the lesser snowfalls in the path of the storm. Unfortunately, people didn't venture out to the galleries resulting in one of the worst attended gallery hops in the Short North history.These are shots taken on the following day which saw

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What a way to ring in the new year. The January Gallery Hops are always the least attended, by hoppers and gallery owners alike. Many were on vacation and didn't open. Others just continued with December's show. This is also the month for the worst weather. Gallery Hop has only been canceled once, and that was a January one. For 2010 we got temperatures in the teens and light snow flurries.

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The above picture is above Fabian Pizza and shows some kickball size lighted globes along the roof along with the arch lights.Gallery 83 used the holiday lighting tradition to bring attention to their (way) off the beaten path gallery. Below, they even framed some of their artist drawings out front.Corsets are becoming big in the North Short North and Mrs. Santa is no exception.The Katheryn

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The December Holiday Hop is most anticipated through-out the year, but this year is seeing many boutiques closing up shop. Still, the gallery hop must go on and there is much to see and do. At the new Travonna Coffee House a reading by Leah-Carla Gordone of her new book "The Motorgirl Memoirs" brought a bit of bohemia to the Northern Short North. Hoppy Holidays!The Mahan Gallery (top) was

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The Short North is the most volatile it has been for many years. Businesses are closing and opening right and left while new storefronts are being made available in large numbers in the North Short North. Even the OSU South Campus Gateway development is repositioning part of it as an "art alley" with the Ohio Art League moving up there. Above is the most unnerving of the closures as the chef

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The northern and southern most arches now have lights on the word "Short North". As more and more neighborhoods get arches over their streets, one cannot rest in identifying yours.Big Rock and Little Rooster (above) ran a fashion show of their wedding fashions in their window. They're still looking for an appropriate mens shirt, apparently. The Short North is offering a lot of businesses that

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The arches are up and the street is now open north of campus on N. High Street. For some reason they want the Old North Columbus to start just north of OSU property and extending to Arcadia Ave. North Columbus was a town around Hudson and High Street before Ohio State was thought of.The oldest building is this 200 year old log cabin on Norwich Ave. just east of High Street that was moved here

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RoyGBiv Gallery is celebrating their 20th anniversary with two exhibitions this month, the Dan Work Show at their current space and their group show in an empty storefront in the new Smith High development. It's a hyper-modern brand new building that incorporates an old strip mall extending back from High Street as well as new condos on top.This is the extreme north end of the Short North before

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NOT AUTOBAHN Park, AUDUBON!The new Audubon Metro Park has opened just south of downtown between the river and German Village. Thanks to the generosity of Grange Insurance, whose headquarters are a few block away, the Whittier Peninsula is being transformed into a Metro Park connected to downtown by the bikepath and by car along E. Whittier Avenue just off of South High Street. (above freeway

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One of the unexpected surprises of High Street are the unusual events that people bring. Last weekend was the 12th annual Scoot-A-Que by Columbus Cutters Scooter Club . Kickstart Coffeeshpop and scooter dealership in the Short North was the bar-b-que site of the multi- event Rally for Vespa and other scooter owners. There are old and new, traditional and customized, with side cars and those with

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The new Main Street Bridge will soon frame the future default shot of the skyline.The City Center Mall, when it is removed, will uncover one of the more dynamic skyline scenes.Demolition of City Center should come just before the 20th anniversary of its opening.The Main Street Bridge arch is one cool hunk of metal and cable.Oh no! The old LaVeque Tower just spilled a beer.The new courthouse is

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Some of the Art Squatters along N. High St. downtown.

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The 2009 Via Colori Chalk Art festival was incorporated very well in the empty sections of the Gay St. part of the This is Independence Day Festival. Curtis Goldstein (above) was the obvious featured artist. He is not only a local artists who is getting attention for his murals in Columbus, but he was on the CBS Morning Show in July demonstrating chalk art. His Columbus Snow Globe is done in

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The 2009 This is Independents' Day Art Festival was bigger and better attended than the first one last year, but not as cool. The two new Scion automobiles parked right in the middle was a dead give away. In 2008, the festival was confined to one block of Gay St. and Pearl Alley down to the next alley. This year all of Pearl Alley to Broad St. and the all of Lynn alley was packed with booths and

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September 5, 2009 marks the 25th Anniversary of the first monthly group gallery openings in the Short North. It turned out to be perfect weather and the perfect storm of crowds. The Greek Festival was on down the street and OSU had just finished beating Navy in football up north in the Shoe. Add to that a Labor day weekend during a recession and the gallery hop jammed the sidewalks for

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30 years ago this weekend the new-wave fanzine testube put out its first issue. It was heavy into new technologies and art rather than music at first. The first volume of issues were screenprinted 8 1/2 x 11 magazines.testube came out as a Newsletter on the local and national scene to fill-in between special issues. Each issue had a theme.Full size tabloids were also released like the last

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It wasn't like they weren't trying. The galleries and shops put out the welcome mat for Doo Dah Parade watchers and tried to make an afternoon out of the post-parade period before the Gallery Hop began. Lindsay Gallery had a singer and guitar player going the whole time. Flower Child (above) put out its best parade furniture.LuLuLemon (above) greated people with a patriotic theme. Even Jeni's Ice

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For the third time in history the Doo Dah Parade fell on Gallery Hop Saturday in July. Next year the Gallery Hop will land before the downtown fireworks on the 3rd while the Doo Dah will be the next day on Sunday. Judging from this year, next year's schedule should do more for the galleries. There was much hope in the air this year that people would start with the parade at 1:00 pm and hang out

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The 2009 Comfest was witness to a stabbing on the ever crowded Saturday Night. Sundays are usually overlooked because things only run until dark on the final day of the three day weekend. This year, Sunday seemed to be the best without too much of a crowd and a wide variety of art and music. Not to mention great (though windy) weather.The above etch-a-sketch for the 2009 Comfest was in the dash

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The June, 2009 Short North Gallery Hop started very early and went way into the night. The crowd just got bigger and bigger on the street as perfect weather plus other events fed the frenzy. Not only was there spill-over from the downtown Arts Festival, but also the Memorial Golf event, a gamers convention at the convention center, and of course, Ohio's best Zombie Walk. Many new shops were

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A genuinely gruesome new tradition to the Short North experience is the Zombie Walk. Just before the gallery hop on June 5th about 200 people dress up and act like zombies. Making their way from Goodale Park to downtown and back to the Short North as the already crowded sidewalks of people try to figure out what's going on. What do the undead want?!!Old and young zombies from all walks of life

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For the second year the Columbus Art Festival was held on the campus of the Columbus College or Art and Design with spill-over to the art museum and Columbus State Community College. Then there were events at the Topiary grounds of the Deaf School Park. The museum was wrapping up its Egyptian exhibit at the same time that COSI was beginning an Egyptian Mummy show. Nevertheless, the art festival

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Dissecting High Street with great force is the 180 year old National Road which enters eastern Columbus on Main Street, turns north on Drexel and proceeds out west on Broad Street. Today it crosses High Street with a wide swipe lined with skyscrapers and elegant mansions. Even the public buildings along East Broad Street are classical, inspiring buildings. The National Road reached Columbus about

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High Street is sometimes thought as a street that begins at the south pole and runs to the north pole. Well... almost. It depends on what route you think High Street follows out of the Columbus metro area. Going north out of the Short North the scenery changes dramatically.The first stop is that area not claimed by the Short North (arches) or campus. It is anchored by a Kroger's supermarket which

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The May, 2009 Gallery Hop was much too noisy due to the dozen or so loud musical groups that lined the street. One of the most entertaining was the above band infront of Phia Salon that was promoting a variety of things including the Ohio Rollergirls. Yes, the weather turned-out to be perfect and people busted-out the skates and scooters. Motomojo was heavily promoting their unique transportation

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It is hard to concentrate on the artwork at the gallery hops with so much nice weather and other activity. There was a new small gallery guide of 16 major Short North galleries available. RoyGBiv (above) had their usual show of more than one installation artist. This month it was 3 artists with one displaying unusual things found in office planters.Sherrie Gallerie had Curtis Benzle, a former

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Though not along High Street, Junctionview across the river and tracks in Grandview Heights is one of the few artist studio settlements available. It is threatened by Nationwide developing the industrial area into a mixed use project. And, the dirt is flying.For now, a bunch of artists have nice clean studios in the above one story building. There is enough common area to put one shows like the

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April 18th, 2009 was opening day at the new Huntington Park baseball stadium, the latest state of the art in minor league baseball stadium design. 10,000 seats and virtually no extra parking in the neighborhood west of the arena district known as Pen West (the State Pen was torn-down in 1998). Things get jammed as far north as the Short North when both the arena, the new stadium, and the various

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The construction crain for the new "Jackson" condo mid-rise tower is piercing through the northern Short North skyline. It puts on a different character depending on which angle and what time you see it.The Bollinger Tower public housing complex is encased in scaffolding like some art installation. With the sun just right, it glows over gallery row.

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As the flowers at the Greek Cathedral and the courtyard off Lincoln Avenue attest, Spring has come to the Short North Gallery Hop.Many musical groups lined High Street with their instrument cases opened, so much so that good spots were all taken. But then construction sites line the street and the construction/ destruction extends north past campus and south past the statehouse.Not to be outdone,

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One of the pivotal figures of the High Street New-Wave of the early 1980's passed away March of 2009 after a long fight with a brain tumor. Greg Six (also known as Grey Six)was in several early new wave groups like the Highly Evolved Cosmic Beings, The Dustbunnies, and Girlboys. Though rarely recorded, the spirit and the creativity of the groups as well as the other band members who went on to do

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Thanks to warm weather and the Arnold Fitness Classic the March Gallery Hops were one of the crowded in memory, especially when it came to traffic and parking. Depending when you touched-down in the Short North, you might have spend a half hour or more in the car trying to legally park. The lights on the arches seemed to hypnotize the crowd. Yet, daylight savings time began that night and by the

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North of OSU there is a major streetscape renovation strecthing for blocks of what was once called North Columbus. This streetscape is set to showcase the many ethic and unique restaurants and shops that are found north of campus. It will also include a few arches over the street somewhat like the Short North. At Hudson and High St. was once a small town called North Columbus where the streetcars

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If you stayed away from the February Short North Gallery Hop you played it safe. Despite the seasonably warm weather, the ice and snow from the previous week had not all disappeared. Sidewalks on High Street had a wide path, but the sidewalks on the side streets were mostly ice. Biashara wrapped a tree in front of their shop with scarfs (above). The crowd stayed away, but plenty of people still

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2009 begins with High Street in a new construction boom. Even the removal of architecture is a big story like the removal of the skybridge at the City Center (and the planned removal of the City Center itself later this year). The former skybridge connected the mall with the former Lazarus department store and included shops and restrooms of its own. The dark tunnel is gone! High Street has

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The January, 2009 gallery hop in the Short North was lightly attended outside of the restaurants, this despite the good (for January) weather. After a week of ice, wind, and freezing rain before Christmas, people didn't plan much for the January 3rd openings.Infact, some galleries were closed, like Mahan Gallery and Rebecca Ibel Gallery (above). An official dress code seemed to be in effect,

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The Holiday window displays in the Short North are the best in town. Mary Catherine's brought out new animated displays of a Ferriswheel and a merry-go-round (click on pictures to enlarge). They even had more Christmas sculpture inside. Zona Cora Zon Galleria is still in business! (above left) They now only have the single storefront, but the same Mexican art and novelties are available. Their

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Galleries have traditionally offered lots of small, low priced artwork during the December Holiday Hop, and 2008 was no exception. RoyGBiv Gallery  (above) offered a diverse group show of small works, including these ceramic treats by Emily Hutton. Don't you just want to pop one into your mouth? A string ensemble presented music next to these delicacies later during the hop.  The Ohio Art League

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Yet another great weather gallery hop! The November, 2008 hop started real early, like in the afternoon early, and kept going well into the night. Musicians seemed to be everywhere. [top left:) a rousing brass band kept things jumping early on. [top right:) Even a child with a violin found a place to play on the street. [lower left:) For what must have been a first, Phia Gallery had an opera

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The Short North is always coming up with new small wheeled vehicles. (above:) Three brand new bikes pulling triangle trailers try to sell ad space under the rainbow arches.A new place to watch is Kick Start in the shopping strip at First and High St. Kick Start sells motor skooters, but they have now started a coffeeshop in their cool storefront. Is this the new creative hang-out ?Yes, it is

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The 2008 Short North Gala was held at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral Ballroom. The Chefs of the Short North were the true stars of the day. The area has the greatest concentration of Columbus's best restaurants and the 6 course meal served October 12th proved it.Starting off with octopus from Haiku (above left) started things off. A 6 onion cappucino soup from Rosendales was to die for. Hyde Park

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Andy Warhol looks over the Short North. The only North American stop for a major Andy Warhol exhibition is at the Wexner Center up on N. High Street Campus area.RoyGBiv had a playful exhibition of  small works with triangles of string crawling along the inside wall. Lindsay Gallery had folk art aplenty from the collection of the late Maggie and Dick Wenstrup of New Richmond, Ohio. It is a great

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The first art festival in the bubbling Gay Street strip happened Saturday, September 20th. Called "This Is Independent" it was one of two art festivals downtown that weekend and was mostly ignored by the local media. Yet, great weather and a sizable crowd made it a memorable laid-back affair to showcase the great downtown buildings being transformed by creative people a block from the statehouse.

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With two gallery hops per months now in August and September (Art el Fresco on second Saturday in August and Via Colori on second Saturday in September function almost like the First Saturday Gallery Hops) the normal crowd seemed to be getting an overdose and the September Hop is taking a beating. Of course, Oktoberfest was downtown and the OSU/OU game kept campus a lively place for intoxication

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The High Jinks stilt walkers were doing art attacks up and down the street during Art al Fresco. This included children who learned stilt walking. All of which were in brightly colored flowing costumes. The above short video is of a "frozen people" performance on High Street. I believe it was done by Red Devil Productions, but not sure since they were roving around. The old man in the brown

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A new type of mid-month gallery hop was tried August 16, 2008 called "Art al Fresco". With all the new high-end bars and restaurants, it doesn't take a gallery hop to gridlock the street in the Short North and bring-out the foot traffic. Yet, the Wood Companies decided to spread artists and performers across the sidewalks on High Street to start another summer tradition. Dry, sunny weather

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Yes, the Santa Maria is still at port. This stunning rig against the skyline has to be the most famnous public art in the downtown. It is a replica built in 1992 and still sells tickets for tours. They've kept it up nice. In the background you can see the new Broad Street Bridge from 1989 that opened with the Bicentennial of the first white settlement here, namely Franklinton on the west side of

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In case you haven't been downtown lately, most everything from Broad Street south to Main Street and West of High Street to the river is a construction zone. Just because they can't figure out the City Center Mall building doesn't mean nothing is happening. There's a new courthouse going up in that empty city block across from the Great Southern Hotel. A big middle-class condo neighborhood is

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Another First for Columbus: the Franklin Park Conservatory's million dollar light show. California light artist James Turrell has given the old Palm House the most high-tech LED lighting installation in the world. Over 7,000 lights are able to light the front of the conservatory in any combination of colors through-out the night. At this time, the light show is a very, very slow changing display

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A couple of years ago Columbus wanted to publicize the new North Bank Park. To do this some people brought in a weekly event from Providence, RI called "Water Fire" where floating bondfires are set on fire along the river. The first event in Columbus included dancers and street performers along with a huge procession of people and a large sound system. Weather and the OSU football schedule

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The August, 2008 gallery hop will go down in history, as having the most perfect weather for strolling along High Street. Not too hot, no wind, little humidity, and not too sunny. This hop was dominated by sidewalk musicians and solicitors, but not the poltician type. Above: Anna and the Annadroids, a dance troup, passed out cards in white face and with poise: http://www.amerifluff.com/ .The

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This summer has seen new players in the Short North restaurant business. The long running Coffee Table at the corner of Buttles and High Street was closed at the beginning of the year and the space was joined with a small restaurant called "8" to form a large up-scale restaurant now called "The Black Olive" (not affiliated with other Black Olive restaurants around the country). The Black Olive is

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The 1988 July Gallery Hop seemed to be dominated by 3-D art work of various kinds. (above) The Geoffery Taber Gallery was still in its original space. Large avant garde sculpture were featured by three local artists, including Skip Stander. The Ideal Building was newly opened and trying to find businesses to fill the space. Large banners that were hung downtown previous to 1988 were for sale and

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The Doo Dah Parade was created in the early 1980's for the 4th of July to promote Victorian Village as a fun place to live. By 1988 the Gallery Hops had shown enough people that High Street was fixed up and a good place to see the parade. Most people camped out on High Street eventhough Neil Avenue and 2nd Avenue were less crowded and earlier in the parade. Before the parade began, a group of

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This year's Community Festival was continuing trends started in the past few years. The crowd just keeps growing. This is spilling out into the Park Street clubs and High Street shops. Parking lots close to the festival are taking advantage charging $10.00 when an extra block walk to the Arena District found plenty of $5.00 lots. Local visual artists seem less and less represented in the booths.

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The Community Festival (Comfest) was much different in 1988 than it is today. Like the first Comfest it had only one stage. The arts tent was still a couple years away. During the afternoon bands played to a thin crowd (above left), but the crowd came out for the evening shows. In the early 1980's Comfest moved from campus to the Short North to this huge empty lot where Riverside Methodist

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Yes, this is Broad Street, but not far from High Street. There are some gems that seem to have come in under radar that make East Broad Street a pleasant walk. Above is the new State Teacher's Retirement building which seems to have all the new post-modern flair going for it. Every side of this building looks different. Notice the shades along the windows. The architectural features around the

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In case you aren't aware, Gay Street in Downtown Columbus is going through a transition. Though not the original name of the street, the street north of Broad Street has been called Gay Street since Columbus was laid out in 1812-1816. The downtown portion runs roughly from City Hall to the Columbus College of Art & Design. There are some pieces of the street farther East. It was a minor

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(click on images to enlarge)The June, 2008 Short North Gallery Hop was typical for a June Hop. The visual arts mostly take a backseat. It was an event to see and be seen, to push certain agendas, and to check-out the shops rather than the galleries. High Street got very crowded as there were other events going on flwoing into the Short North. Park Street bars, behind the North Market, were

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with construction of the Main Street Bridge and the rest of riverfront the 2008 Columbus Art Festival was moved to the campus of the Columbus College of Art & Design. Infact, the Art Festival will take place here through 2011. Technically, they are saying it was held in the DISCOVER DISTRICT (eastern part of downtown). The 300 booths barely spilled-out beyond the C.C.A.D. campus. The music stage

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(click on pistures to enlarge) Gallery HOP June, 1988 was an exciting event full of discoveries. TOP ROW:> The North Short North was humming both day and night. BIASHARA was a retro shop showing tons of old ties. ATLANTIS always had a new set of mannequins in the window at King & High, this month they turned their backs. The Geoffery Taber Gallery was showing large paintings made of aggregate.

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There were different signs gracing the Short North in June, 1988 from today. ABOVE FROM TOP LEFT:> JUKE was a stylish retro furnishing shop in the block north of Buttle Ave. >Portraits by Jeni was in the Body Shop. >Ritchey's @ 714, the collector's paradise, was at Lincoln Ave & High St.,>THE LIGHT SHOW was on the upper floor of the Body Shop bringing us the first glimpses of rope lighting. >

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In May, 1988 The Short North arts district looked different from today. Ritchey's (upper left) at the corner of Lincoln and High was an important collector's shop. Putt'n On The Dog (upper right) had half a Fairlane in its storefront window and many vintage clothes like its sister store Atlantis (see below) futher north. There was truly a gap between the southern gallery hop area and places

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High Street was in rare form for the May, 2008 gallery hop. (click on images to get a bigger picture) Spring had bloomed and the unique look of the Short North street was looking its best. Norka Futon had an artist painting a model sitting relaxed in one of their futons. The campaign to discuss STREETCARS for the street was bending ears. And... monsters and devils abound. Picture taking was

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In August, 1985 Spangler Cummings Gallery opened in the Carriage House Place development six months before RIGBY'S. The Gallery was a double space storefront with an arche that connected the two halves. Sherrie Gallerie and the Cookware Sorcerer occupy the two storefronts now. Spangler was always about the artists and the art. Sculpture or performances would often overwhelm the gallery hoppers.

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This is a view of North High Street downtown 50 years ago. The shopping was good. This is basically Spring Street, Long Street, and Gay Street would have come in at the bottom of the photo. Notice the large number of awnings over the sidewalk as a customer service.The buses are Trollybuses that slowly replaced the streetcars from the late 1930's to the late 1940's. The overhead wires are too

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(click on photos to enlarge) This is a scene from the Greystone Apartments in 1983 just as Bollinger Tower was being constructed. >The empty car dealership building in the foreground is where Rosendales, one of the top restaurants in the state, now hold court. Back then, the original Winders Motors (founded 1913) building was at the end of its days as a vehicle showroom. This was before it was

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In 1983 as the Huntington Center rises from behind, North High Street downtown was lined with retail stores. The center of this picture shows the block between Gay St. and Long St. being filled with shops instead of an empty parking lot today. An S. S. Kresge store sits at High Street and Gay Streets, one of two (only two block apart) along High Street downtown. Sure, this was the end of an era

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The feminist cafe-lounge LIQUID is getting closer to opening. It took over the space that the rock club Little Brothers had for ten years. Little Brothers used to be Stache's & Little Brothers and was the virtual CBGB's of Columbus through the 80's and 90's. They had to move to the Short North in 1997 and didn't get another lease past 2007. Let's see what excitement LIQUID brings to the North

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Renaissance Faire people mixed with the crowd for the April Openings. The Fair is always during the May opening weekend at O.S.U.'s South Oval behind the Student Union construction site off High Street. GO Green! was the theme of the early Earthday Gallery Hops. OSU was showing their Hybrid car (above), Smart Cars were parked around, and many galleries provided some sort of "green" display. The

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Before the Haiku Restaurant, Hubbard and High St. was the site of the Trailways Bus Terminal. (click on picture to see detail) Trailways ran buses East and West out of Columbus, but would connect to Cleveland at Zanesville. This was the auto dealer and car care part of the Near North back in the 1960's and before. Trailways didn't come in until the early 1980's. In the background is Taylor Tower

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Before the Short North gallery hops in the early 1980's there was a KC Hamburgers and Plasma Donor Center between Russell and Popular St. on High. The white building above (Plasma Donor Center) was removed and a parking lot was built. The bar between these two businesses was the Lucky Leg Lounge (now East Village). After the gallery hops started the Lucky Leg Lounge was renovated into Prophet's

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This the window of either the Collector or Biashara. The picture is reversed to read the signs across the street (click on image to enlarge) This building burned down in Sept., 1988. The Sandbar is now the Surlygirl Saloon. Wick's Lounge is "What The Rock" now. You need to click on these two images to see detail. You have a Glass Shop (Stained Skin Tattoo Shop today), a barber, Kathryn's,

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Before the Short North Gallery Hops had run for several years nobody worried about whether you were at Buttles and High St. or King and High St. The Northern regions of the Short North were quite interesting with many unique shops. The transition from Pawn Shops to Hipster Galleries took longer. The coat hanging on the sidewalk above is in front of Kathryn's which is still there and deals in

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I don't know if the first show at OSU's new Urban Arts Space needed to open in February, all I know is that the building just isn't ready for an art gallery, yet. The gallery occupies the lowest level of the Rich St and High St. corner of the former Lazarus Building downtown. You can look into the newly revealed windows of the building (Lazarus had covered most of its windows decades ago) and

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Little Overlooked, the ZonaCorazon Gallerie at Fifth and High is quite a gem for collectable Mexican Art. This March they have everything on Sale. An excellent time to buy a colorful figurine or a wrestler mask. Usually the time before the Mexican Day of the Dead in October is the time people think of skeletans and hand carved animals. But, this March is when you can truly save money on your

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Studios on High has added this nifty video window of the artwork inside. It looks High-Tech even if it is small with a simple slideshow of works. Great Innovation from one of our oldest art businesses. Another Coffeeshop bites the dust: Emack and Bolio's a Boston franchise known for their fancy ice cream cones has given up on its High Street location. The coffee was always good, plush living

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