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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 12h

“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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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.

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.

Matter News @matternews.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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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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dfilipi @flip1.bsky.social · 7d

Essential article in @matternews.bsky.social on how cruelty-motivated GOP bills and actions impact everyday people.

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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.

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.

Matter News @matternews.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 ...

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.

Matter News @matternews.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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TerrifyingTrish🧙‍♀️🎃👻 @trishinohio.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you, Jack Schuler and @matternews.bsky.social.

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.

Matter News @matternews.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.

Matter News @matternews.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.

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 15d

“I think that’s part of what makes the magazine work,” Wright said. “Steyven and I have both talked about this idea that artists, just as a necessity of focusing on discipline, can become siloed. … And what this does is expose you to a different kinetic energy.”

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‘Superspreader’ continues to mutate – Matter News

Steyven Curry and Co. will celebrate the third edition of the ever-evolving DIY publication with a release party at Two Dollar Radio Headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 27.

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 16d

“I was out in the woods on my own ... thinking about how good being alone feels in comparison to being around people who take energy from you. And then I’m just watching these hawks crush it. And it was like, the hawks get it, man. The hawks know what’s going on.”

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Mukiss slows down, emerges with ‘Everything That Shakes Is Changing’ – Matter News

Columbus musician Caeleigh Featherstone documents a transformative stretch of years on her new full-length album, which releases on Friday, Sept. 26.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 17d

Ed Plunkett at Matter in April.

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 17d

“[The poems] had become very cerebral and conceptual ... and as things really kicked off in Palestine, I found I almost couldn’t have those kinds of conversations. ... No. Right now, children are dying. Full stop. What are we going to do about that? What is my poetry going to do about that?”

Larry Robertson comes back to Earth ahead of the second annual Poetry Festival – Matter News

The Cleveland-born, Columbus-based writer will join a small army of poets set to perform and present workshops at a trio of venues over a pair of days this coming weekend.

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MedBed Snorer @chaptal.bsky.social · 17d

Will there be a plan, or more pointing of fingers?

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 17d

Revisit Ed Plunkett's April essay ahead of today's planned autism announcement from Trump/RFK Jr.

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Essay: What comes after RFK Jr. labels his cause for autism? – Matter News

The Health and Human Services Director has long linked autism with vaccines despite numerous studies to the contrary. Let’s say he eventually manufactures his connection. What then?

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 17d

Revisit Ed Plunkett's April essay ahead of today's planned autism announcement from Trump/RFK Jr.

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Essay: What comes after RFK Jr. labels his cause for autism? – Matter News

The Health and Human Services Director has long linked autism with vaccines despite numerous studies to the contrary. Let’s say he eventually manufactures his connection. What then?

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 20d

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 20d

“I mean, we’re all scar collectors in some way. And, God, I don’t want to spout off some cliche about how we heal and we’re better for it, but I do think we keep moving. And the scar may not make us better or stronger, but it’s the fact that we’re not done yet.”

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John Calvin Abney takes a spin through the past on ‘Transparent Towns’ – Matter News

Released today (Friday, Sept. 19), the latest album from the Tulsa-raised, Columbus-based musician finds him wrangling with the memories of the places he once dwelled.

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 21d

“And now that I’m done with the book, I feel like I’ve done such a service to my child self. I’ve finally released her of the burden of holding onto secrets she was forced to keep her whole childhood. ... And I can’t quite articulate enough what a profoundly beautiful experience that has been.”

Graphic novelist Kayla E. transforms childhood trauma into ‘Precious Rubbish’ – Matter News

The North Carolina-based artist will appear throughout this weekend’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, beginning with a discussion at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sep...

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 22d

“I would start telling the story in the way I always had, or the way I had been working previously, which was with these much more cartoonish, stereotyped characters. And I realized immediately that was not the way to go, and that I needed to approach it in a much more personal way.”

Graphic novelist Charles Burns continues to mine the past – Matter News

The legendary comics creator, who visits town this weekend as part of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, credited his artistic breakthrough to a willingness to allow more of himself on the page.

Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 22d

“I would start telling the story in the way I always had, or the way I had been working previously, which was with these much more cartoonish, stereotyped characters. And I realized immediately that was not the way to go, and that I needed to approach it in a much more personal way.”

Graphic novelist Charles Burns continues to mine the past – Matter News

The legendary comics creator, who visits town this weekend as part of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, credited his artistic breakthrough to a willingness to allow more of himself on the page.