Experience Columbus

May 3, 2013 / Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery
Join curator Catherine Evans of the Columbus Museum of Art for a free lunchtime tour of the exhibition. Photography's Back to the Future showcases 10 contemporary artists who illustrate the variety and complexity of the medium by using everything from the earliest photographic processes to the latest digital technologies.

May 2, 2013 / Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Join us for an evening at the Waters Edge of the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium while sampling products from 22 of our finest restaurants and food vendors. Entertainment will be provided by the Derek DiCenzo Trio and Morgan Treni. There will be a silent auction.

May 2, 2013 / Gateway Film Center
Avengers Assemble! Join us for a marathon screening of Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers and the premiere of Iron Man 3.

May 2, 2013 / Camelot Cellars Winery
Join Writer's Block at Camelot Cellars for the perfect pairing: a night of wine and poetry! This summer series of poetry and wine will be in our Tuscan Room, where for $5 you can take in the best of local Columbus poetic talent, while enjoying a locally crafted glass of wine.

May 2, 2013 / OSU Urban Arts Space
We are proud to present this month's Paging Columbus in the curatorial styling of Two Dollar Radio, a Columbus-based publisher. Their line-up for the evening includes Sam Pink, Jordan Castro, and Scott McClanahan, who celebrates the release his book (published by Two Dollar Radio), Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place.

May 2, 2013 / Mitchell's Steakhouse Downtown
Please join us for a 5-course taste of the south with big reds and small batch bourbons.

May 2, 2013 / Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery
Curated by Catherine Evans, the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art, Photography's Back to the Future showcases 10 contemporary artists who illustrate the variety and complexity of the medium by using everything from the earliest photographic processes to the latest digital technologies.

May 1, 2013 / Brothers Drake Meadery and Bar
Watch great animated films, drink mead, and eat great Japanese food from Tokyo GoGo with us Wednesday night. We've combed through the archives to bring you some of the best animations for grownups that have screened at the CIF+VF over the last few years. And they are great!

May 1, 2013 / Mid-Ohio Sports Course
Learn the physics and dynamics of driving, then get behind the wheel of a 2013 ACURA ILX sport sedan. Test your skills in high performance drills - skid car, slalom and high-speed breaking and turning. The day culminates with an on-track lapping session around 2.4-mile, 15-turn road course.

April 30, 2013 / Columbus Metropolitan Library Main Branch
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

April 30, 2013 / Grandview Heights Public Library
Enjoy a presentation about famed Columbus-born artist George Bellows.

April 30, 2013 / Lincoln Theatre
Joel Chasnoff is not your grandfather's Jewish comedian. With humor that's clever, sharp, and never degrading. His comedy is a smart mix of personal anecdotes and keen observational humor centered on the absurdity of modern American life. Audiences across the spectrum, from students at College of the Holy Cross to U.S. Marines stationed at Okinawa to the rebbes of Lubavitch Yeshivah Flatbush, find Chasnoff's comedy smart, witty, and - most importantly - hilarious.

May 2, 2013 / Mitchell's Steakhouse Downtown
Please join us for a 5-course taste of the south with big reds and small batch bourbons.

April 29, 2013 / Ohio Statehouse
The 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery A, a group of Civil War re-enactors, will provide an honor guard for a replica of Lincoln's casket from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. This will take place on the site where the slain President lay in state in the Ohio Statehouse Rotunda on April 29, 1865. A special exhibit of images from the Library of Congress will be on view in the Ohio Statehouse Rotunda on Lincoln's assassination and the men and women named as conspirators along with their fate. This exhibit is for mature audiences.

April 29, 2013 / Camelot Cellars Winery
Enjoy a four course meal made of seasonal, local ingredients. Each course will be paired with a Camelot Cellars Wine.

April 27-28, 2013 / Southern Theatre
Opera Columbus presents Toronto's Opera Atelier in Mozart's beloved opera, performed with the Opera Columbus Chorus and Columbus Symphony. The Magic Flute tells the story of a prince named Tamino who is sent by The Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from her nemesis Sarastro. Accompanied by the endearingly incorrigible Papageno and the aid of a magic flute, the besotted Tamino ventures into the temple and quickly finds that all is not as it seems.

April 27-28, 2013 / Ohio Expo Center
This event features 150 vendors from the health, beauty, food and home decor industries. These vendors will be on-site selling, sampling and demonstrating thousands of products and services. The Women's Expo is a fun filled shopping extravaganza with an emphasis on education and information.

April 27-28, 2013 / Ohio Expo Center
Creation is an adjudicated dance competition that helps to promote the learning and development of young dancers.

April 28, 2013 / Lincoln Theatre
Chris Mann certainly shined as a finalist on "The Voice," but since then, his star has risen even higher. His debut full-length album, Roads, introduced a whole new generation to the classical-pop genre and shot straight to No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart and Top 5 on Billboard's Classical Chart.

April 28, 2013 / Columbus Museum of Art parking lot
In the Box is a one day event that allows designers, artists, and entrepreneurs to create encounters within the confines of a box truck. Audiences are invited to experience galleries, performance venues, retail shops, and multimedia displays that are temporary but extraordinary. The only restriction is that participants' ideas must fit into a truck.