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Listen to Poet Marcus Jackson Read Shoeless Acrobatics on High Street, 2020
The poem and photo of the same name are featured in the May 2021 issue of Columbus Monthly, a special issue dedicated to exploring the experiences of Black people in Central Ohio.
Marcus Jackson
differ only slightly, and my grace
is the same as my grandmother’s,
a grace originally born on some night
specified by the blue, weighty air,
and by the soil insisting
violence is veiled meagerness.
Preston’s burgers are still a ‘smash’-ing success
When I last covered Preston’s in 2018, it was operating out of an old Brewery District bar. Today, I’m glad to say that it inhabits a hopefully permanent new home: the Downtown North Market. I’m also happy to report that the eatery has branched out into fried chicken territory, cooking Ohio-raised birds (from Gerber’s Amish Farm) and achieving typically excellent results.
And, as evidence recently bore out again, Preston’s signature cheeseburger is as addictive as ever. Currently called the Classic ($7; $10 for a recommended double), it’s smashed-and-seared, fresh-tasting patties (mine had a desirable hint of pink in the center) flattered by melted American cheese, house pickles, shaved red onion, shredded lettuce, a zippy mayo-enriched “secret sauce,” plus a puffy and sweet toasted bun. Given its fine (if familiar) ingredients and careful execution, the trendy and inhalable burger seems both newfangled and o
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John Edgar’s Neighborhood: God, Grace and Affordable Housing
The leader of Community Development for All People has a driving mission to help Columbus’ South Side become a diverse, thriving, welcoming “front porch to the kingdom of God.”
Columbus Monthly
Start at Frank Road, where a 90-acre patch of mud marks the spot where the furnaces of Buckeye Steel once roared, and drive north along Parsons Avenue to Livingston, where the glistening towers of Nationwide Children’s Hospital loom. Between the two, you’ll see reminders of the many stages of the South Side’s history: robust industry and modest prosperity, decline and decay, rediscovery, reinvention and nascent renewal.
From the Editor: Our Man Flynt
Remembering the notorious Hustler publisher s time in Ohio
Columbus Monthly
During the 1970s, Larry Flynt was probably the most interesting man in Columbus. He grew up in Kentucky, started his first bar in Dayton and faced his first obscenity charges in Cincinnati. But Columbus was the
Hustler publisher’s home base during this pivotal time, when he turned a black-and-white promotional newsletter for his string of nightclubs into a graphic, vulgar skin magazine “one of the gamiest slick-paper publications ever to hit the newsstands,” as
Newsweek called it.
This extraordinary chapter is recalled in a first-person piece in this issue (“Lessons from Larry Flynt”). After Flynt died in February, Sheldon Zoldan, a former editorial employee of Flynt, decided to revisit his time in Larry Land, and he sent me an unsolicited first-person essay. “I thought this would be the right magazine for such a story,” he wrote in an email.
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Restaurant openings, closings and more Central Ohio food and drink news
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Openings & Announcements
Central Ohio’s second cidery is expected to open next month in Granville. The creation of Granville resident Trent Beers,
Seek-No-Further Cidery is targeting a mid-June opening at 126 E. Elm St. The 1,300-square-foot cidery, which features a bar and upstairs seating area, is housed in a barn located in the heart of Granville behind the historic Bancroft Cottage. Beers plans to offer Seek-No-Further dry and semi-dry hard ciders on-site, along with guest ciders and craft beers, cider-based cocktails and even slushies. For his dry cider, Beers is sourcing heirloom apples from Maine, while his semi-dry cider will use apples from Utica’s Legend Hills Orchard. “We’re backsweetening with Latshaw [Apiaries] honey, which is the local apiary here. It just gives it a little more sweetness,