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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 17h

“I almost never sit down with an idea. ... And I like that it’s a puzzle. Instead of going to a therapist, I can sit in my studio and start picking things apart, like, ‘This painting is about this, and this is about this.’ … I never know what that next show is going to be until it builds itself.”

Daniel Ferlan works toward joy – Matter News

Coming off of a memorial show for his late mother, the Columbus artist landed on ‘Tripping Over the Underneath,’ an exhibition now on display at Sharon Weiss Gallery that he described as a celebration...

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Lair Of The Gurt Sherm (Stoker 1911) @gurtsherm.bsky.social · 1d

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

“The dinner can still be really good if you didn’t brown the zucchini to the right point. It’s not about technical perfection every step of the way. The world still goes on. Ultimately, what really matters is us being together. And the food is in service of that but rarely the point of it.”

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 2d

“But I think watching [my father] die was a real moment of clarity for me, like, oh, I’m going to die one day, too. … And when I’m in this position and I’m dying, I want to look back on love and friendship and nature and beauty and joy.”

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Samin Nosrat gets to the heart of cooking in ‘Good Things’ – Matter News

The celebrated chef and author brings her current book tour to the Davidson Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, where she’ll appear in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

my brief fling with them was definitely big lebowski inspired.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

columbus in a light drizzle

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

“But I think watching [my father] die was a real moment of clarity for me, like, oh, I’m going to die one day, too. … And when I’m in this position and I’m dying, I want to look back on love and friendship and nature and beauty and joy.”

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Samin Nosrat gets to the heart of cooking in ‘Good Things’ – Matter News

The celebrated chef and author brings her current book tour to the Davidson Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, where she’ll appear in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

time to start outsourcing essays on the subjects that really matter, like the osu student who feels threatened seeing "free palestine" chalked on a campus sidewalk

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

let's do the fucking news.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 2d

“Those mixed-up vibes of happiness and sadness are somehow truer to life, in a way. We all crave patterns and meaning, but sometimes it all just kind of happens. Everything is chaotic and there’s no rhyme or reason to it. And sometimes it feels good to make music that reflects that.”

Goon leans on intuition for ‘Dream 3’ – Matter News

The Los Angeles psych-pop quartet visits Rumba Cafe for a concert on Tuesday, Oct. 7, playing behind an excellent new album that finds singer and songwriter Kenny Becker spending more time exploring h...

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 5d

my gemut “helles real” t-shirt is killing it here at burial’s burnpile fest.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 7d

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News

A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 7d

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News

A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 7d

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”

By Larkin Cleland.

Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News

A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 8d

“Certainly, I’m having these formal shifts in the paintings relative to what seems like the condition of the world. Sometimes the world collapses and you go, ‘Well, I want to give everybody a treat.’ And sometimes the world collapses and you need a painting that feels like that collapse.”

The disorienting world of Rob Robbins features in ‘Double Back Around’ – Matter News

The artist and former CCAD professor’s new exhibition, which opens at No Place Gallery on Friday, Oct. 3, features dense, large-scale landscapes that simultaneously hold viewers at arm’s length while ...

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 9d

gannett is valued at nearly $600 million c’mon now

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 9d

couldn't roll my eyes any harder at gannett/the dispatch soliciting donations to pay for its intern program.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 9d

"stupid rules of engagement"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 9d

Mark your calendars for our next Community Conversation.

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The exterior of a square gray building, the Columbus concert venue Ace of Cups, with an overlaying Matter x Two Dollar Radio graphic. The image is accompanied by the text: Matter News Community Conversations, The State of Our Independent Concert Venues. 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16. Join artist manager/talent buyer Lisa Cave and Rumba Cafe owner/concert promoter Timothy Eddings to discuss the state of the Columbus live music scene in the wake of Rambling House and the Athenaeum closing, along with the realities of running an independent venue in a time of deep economic uncertainty.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 9d

"tpusa should stage a competing halftime show with creed"

"real patriots want to see lee greenwood and kid rock at halftime who's with me"

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 9d

the bad bunny super bowl announcement has triggered the blue check crowd to unleash a flood of the most garbage music takes you will ever see

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 10d

“I wrote something 20 years ago that was not for that time, but it started resonating with me, and now it’s resonating with other people that have heard it now in ways it never did then. … I very literally wrote my way into the future.”

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Mark Lomax revisits the past and comes away with lessons for the future – Matter News

The Columbus drummer and composer will join the Urban Art Ensemble at Wexner Center for the Arts this week to perform ‘The Unity Suite’ – a piece he first composed more than two decades ago and recent...

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 11d

Draft of the recap for the Guardians game in tomorrow's newsletter.

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Guardians 9, Rangers 8: With Detroit losing nearly an hour earlier the Guardians had already clinched the AL Central. But winning this game like they did – with a four-run tenth inning rally capped off by a walkoff three-run homer from Brayan Rocchio – bolstered a theory of mine: that the Guardians are possessed of more Devil Magic that any team since the La Russa-era Cardinals.
They had a massive comeback here. They clinched their playoff spot on Saturday night on a walkoff hit-by-pitch. They beat Detroit with 57 dinks-and-doinks last week, with the rally being kicked off by their own dude getting hit in the damn face with a hundred mile-per-hour heater. And, of course, they came back and won the AL Central from 15.5 games down despite ending the season with a negative run differential. There is nothing natural about any of this. And they don't friggin' care, man. That's the most unsettling part.
The Cleveland Guardians can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. I don't actually think that means they're World Series favorites or anything, but it does mean that we toy with them at our peril. If they eventually get knocked out of the playoffs it's probably because they just get beat, but it's also possible it will be because they accidentally ran their car over the entire opposing team and were deemed to have forfeited. And now they get the Tigers again after playing them six times in the last two weeks, winning five of those contests in no small part because Detroit seemed utterly spooked and intimidated.
It's almost cruel.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14d

"Do what you can where you are. Look to the institutions around you and participate in them. Be present at local government meetings. Help the vulnerable if you can. And when you are called to do so, protest."

New from @jackshuler.bsky.social.

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Be bold. Be brave.: Lessons from a visit to the Resistance Museum – Matter News

The catalog of harm keeps growing, with new pages added every day. But we are not afraid.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 14d

“For me, being in a band is just about getting together with my friends and drinking beer. And if we get to make music, yeah, that’s great. But sometimes you just need to eat hot dogs in the backyard.”

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The Kyle Sowashes wish the world would finally ‘Start Making Sense’ – Matter News

A pair of weekend concerts at Rumba Cafe will find the long-running Columbus rock band celebrating both its 20-year anniversary and the release of a new album on Anyway Records.

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