“There’s this sense of comfort with things I don’t yet understand, which feels so much better than just being confused, right? There’s confusion, and then there’s, ‘I don’t have all of the answers, and I’m okay with that.’ And that’s where this book lands.” matternews.org/culture/word...

had a great time at the wednesday show among friends; one of 'em wrote this matternews.org/culture/musi...

“From the very beginning, [the collages] were always a reaction to my overthinking. ... I do data analytics in my day job, and I’m overthinking shit constantly. So, when I come home and work with paper, I just want to rely on instinct. This is a practice in instinct.” matternews.org/culture/art/...

This week for @matternews.bsky.social: Ohio is considering a formal trade partnership with Israel. Businesses say good for business. Residents wonder why state is spending time on this instead of "literally anything that would benefit a single regular person." matternews.org/voices/local...

A bill to create an Ohio-Israel trade partnership is under review in the State Senate. Reactions in the city have been mixed at best. Read the latest Local Politics column from Jules Roscoe. matternews.org/voices/local...

“I definitely went through that phase where I was like, ‘I’m not very comfortable, so I’m going to do a million cross-hatching lines to show off and hide whatever inadequacies I have as an artist.’ And I’ve gotten past that. And I’m more comfortable in my own skin after 25 years, thankfully.”

“Rarely do interviewers ask what they really want to know,” said Carver, who traced this natural curiosity in part to a traumatic childhood that long left her feeling detached from the rest of humanity. “I felt like an alien spying on humans ... so I asked questions like, ‘How do you human?’”

“The purpose of the book is to try and make solidarity more doable. And my approach is to strip away concepts of heroism and perfection. ... If we can reconceptualize solidarity as a series of errors and self-criticisms and changing paths, I think it becomes something much less scary for people.”

Columbus journalists!

The Cringe live events calendar at Matter News has been updated with events through April 5. matternews.org/calendar/

Sunday reading, icymi.

More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind. New from Elizabeth R. Blackburn.

This is the sort of local news hardly anyone sees anymore. Outlets like @matternews.bsky.social are doing fantastic work, though. Please support them! It's never been more critical to do so! matternews.org/donate/

A fantastic story from @matternews.bsky.social about people working at the grassroots level to deal with the housing crisis. A coalition of Christians, anarchists, socialists and businesspeople fighting what will always seem like an uphill battle but fighting all the same.

Matter News is currently seeking new board members, with applications due by end of day tomorrow. Feel free to share this with folks who might be interested. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind. New from Elizabeth R. Blackburn.

This is a long essay that addresses a number of difficult ideas with a lot of heart, and I hope people take the time to sit with it.

More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind. New from Elizabeth R. Blackburn.

and we also have an expansive (and very good, imo) personal essay on these issues coming thursday morning.

we'll be discussing this one in more depth at two dollar hq on thursday.

Even as new bonds approved by Columbus voters hope to transform housing development in the city for years to come, a desperate shortage of affordable units continues to push low-income renters into the lowest-quality homes. New from Larkin Cleland. matternews.org/community/de...

Even as new bonds approved by Columbus voters hope to transform housing development in the city for years to come, a desperate shortage of affordable units continues to push low-income renters into the lowest-quality homes. New from Larkin Cleland. matternews.org/community/de...

"I wanted to normalize being open about your flaws, because especially Black men, we’re not allowed to make mistakes. We can’t grow. There’s this expectation that our prefrontal cortex is fully developed as soon as we come out of the womb. ... There’s no redemption." matternews.org/culture/musi...

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“For me, as a woman, the night is something that has always fascinated me, both as a spectator and a participant. And I would love to go out and take up space at night. But I find myself resistant to going out downtown by myself at night, or to wander through a park late at night.”

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly told recipients of overdose prevention funding that they may no longer be allowed to promote the message that has become one of the pillars of harm reduction. New from @jackshuler.bsky.social. matternews.org/voices/the-p...

"This is the beginning of a conversation," councilmember Christopher Wyche said of the four-hour meeting, during which reps from the data center industry, labor unions, and environmental groups joined residents to debate everything from water usage to the number of jobs data centers actually create.

“As a Brown-bodied person, it’s hard to be in a band sometimes, and to go into a venue and look at this sea of white faces, like, am I even allowed to be here? … And to me, this band is a really fun way to be like, ‘I am allowed to be here. I am allowed to do this.’” matternews.org/culture/musi...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly told recipients of overdose prevention funding that they may no longer be allowed to promote the message that has become one of the pillars of harm reduction. New from @jackshuler.bsky.social. matternews.org/voices/the-p...

“Given what the governor has said about the [death penalty], given his Catholic faith, given his seeming willingness to do something on the issue, as a coalition of organizers we were very optimistic that there was going to be something coming in the final year of his term,” said McCann.

“I still feel uncertain all the time, but now it’s like, I’ve made four albums, I guess I can kind of do this.” Lily Seabird, who visits Rumba Cafe this week, has a new record coming this fall that finds her emerging from a tough couple of years with at least a shred more confidence.

“If something weird happens to me, or I overhear a weird thing, or somebody says something weird to me and it disturbs me, that, to me, is a good opportunity for an essay." CITY OF TOYS out today from OSU Press! Thank you @matternews.bsky.social! matternews.org/culture/word...

“I don’t know a lot of bands that are touring [the U.S.] from that part of the world right now, so we have no reference for how it’s going to be. And we know it’s a risk. But in talking to Ahmoudou, asking, do we still want to do this? The answer is yeah. It’s part of our life. We need to do this.”

In interviews with Matter News, former staffers described what they termed a history of inappropriate behavior within the shop enabled and perpetrated by owner Nick Wolak, who said the business is "putting in the work to make Evolved Body Art better from the ground up" matternews.org/community/ev...

In the band’s first run, Butler said he viewed Church of the Red Museum's music through a gnarlier lens, with time and experience having collided to shift his perspective. “I’m struck by how the songs used to feel aggressive to me, and now they feel melancholy.” matternews.org/culture/musi...

In interviews with Matter News, former staffers described what they termed a history of inappropriate behavior within the shop enabled and perpetrated by owner Nick Wolak, who said the business is "putting in the work to make Evolved Body Art better from the ground up" matternews.org/community/ev...

Good stuff from @matternews.bsky.social matternews.org/community/ev...

In interviews with Matter News, former staffers described what they termed a history of inappropriate behavior within the shop enabled and perpetrated by owner Nick Wolak, who said the business is "putting in the work to make Evolved Body Art better from the ground up" matternews.org/community/ev...

“It’s just getting harder and harder now to live,” said Steve Van Kuiken, a Columbus pastor who is part of a community group opposing utility rate increases. “The working class is really getting squeezed, and everything’s going up.” New from Dan Gearino and Marianne Lavelle of Inside Climate News.

A reminder that we've partnered with Cringe to maintain a robust live events calendar, which was updated today with events through March 15. matternews.org/calendar/

“Tosca’s Boy Sessions is really just a way for me to tell the story of how I’m doing, what’s going right, what’s going wrong, and then how I’m moving forward.” matternews.org/culture/musi...

Did a cool interview with @andydowning33.bsky.social of @matternews.bsky.social about 15 years of Nix and the upcoming party/title reveal matternews.org/culture/art/...

“There’s just the improbability of 15 years, and all of the things that have to happen for me to end up where I am now, doing what I’ve done, and doing what I continue to do. It’s a tapestry, you know, and it’s pretty crazy,” Ken Eppstein said. matternews.org/culture/art/...

“Whether it is or isn’t popular in whatever kind of specific way, I don’t care as much now. … It’s almost like, why would a painter keep painting if nobody buys their paintings? And I’ve just gotten to the point where the answer can be because I like painting.” matternews.org/culture/musi...

Explaining the Board’s decision in a recorded call, Walker cited the potential that students could be physically harmed or even killed if allowed to exit the building, proposing a scenario in which “some psycho lays down in the field across the street with a shotgun and kills one of our students.”

Legit was talking about how much I miss TNV in the office last week.

Explaining the Board’s decision in the recorded call, Walker cited the potential that students could be physically harmed or even killed if allowed to exit the building, proposing a scenario in which “some psycho lays down in the field across the street with a shotgun and kills one of our students.”