Stories about jeans, keyboards and John Prine.
Raw denim.
Columbus Dispatch.
Zach Myers makes raw denim jeans on his rural property in central Ohio. Using local Amish seamstresses to create most of the pants, he’s trying to keep a traditional clothing creation method alive.
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Hanif Abdurraqib. Columbus Monthly.
From Broadleigh Avenue to broad cultural clout, Hanif Abdurraqib’s life has expanded beyond his childhood imaginings. What hasn’t changed for the poet and essayist: his fierce love for Columbus.
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John Prine.
Columbus Dispatch.
We spoke while the country singer/songwriter sat in his car outside his favorite Nashville comfort food spot. It was fried chicken day, he told me, after rattling off the list of daily specials.
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Far from famous. Columbus Monthly.
In which I explain to every person who told me I had the most glamorous job in the world that it also involves drunk men spilling beer on me and getting kicked out of arenas. (Still the best job though). Click to read.
Keyboards.
Columbus Dispatch.
Mechanical keyboard collectors are a small, but lively, bunch of computer aficionados. They met in Columbus, Ohio, for a quirky convention.
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Liza Anne.
Columbus Alive.
The singer/songwriter wrote third album “Fine But Dying” in the midst of an emotionally abusive relationship. Three years later, she looks back on the time with great compassion for her younger self.
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