“I mean, we live in a political hellscape. I’m not super happy with the political climate in the nation – or in the world, really. I think it’s weird we can’t talk about the genocide in Palestine, and that AI is this destructive thing we’re just supposed to be okay with.”

“When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, back when Into It. Over It. was doing a lot more, I think I got hung up on what the fans would want. And that’s a prison, and it doesn’t make for good anything.” Into It. Over It's Evan Weiss plays solo at Secret Studio on Saturday.

“We’re all touched by immigration in some way, and I just want people to think critically about that instead of just seeing it as a black and white issue, because it’s not.” The new group exhibition at the Losinski Gallery at the Main Library will host a reception from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3.

Flock has cost the city of Columbus $228,000 since 2024, according to city council records. The sum of the cost for all approved Shotspotter contract renewals and expansions sits at $7,020,384.56. In a June hearing, the council unanimously authorized an expenditure of $661,500 for Shotspotter.

“We were helping these African American people get the boot off their neck, as it were,” said Tennon, who now believes that the film’s lack of a “white savior” in part helped to doom its early release. “This was Black people saving themselves, which was totally against the status quo.”

Much of new Kill Gosling album Super Plume recalls these internally tumultuous months when this musical future remained an open question, Maguire grappling with his place both in the band and within the larger Columbus scene. “It’s a very meta, self-referential album in hindsight,” said Maguire.

“It’s what happens after the death of parents, after middle age, and also the aftertime for maybe our democracy, for our planet. And it’s [asking] what do we do with that? And I don’t want it to be a downer. ... It’s looking at how we go forward, because if we’re breathing, we must.”

“When I started on this, I originally thought, well, this will be a warning. Well, too late. And I worked as fast as I could, but it’s a big book,” said Backderf, who sees myriad echoes between the Wilson administration that persecuted the cartoonists of The Masses and the one being led by Trump.

Faced with a rent increase of more than 30 percent, the Hess family opted to move on from the artist’s creative home of the last eight years. And while the next steps remain uncertain, they stressed that Henry would maintain a presence in Franklinton. ‘We’re not going anywhere,’ Sophia Hess said.