Purple Chopstix: Love, Yoga and the taste of Appalachia
After a soothing yoga session at Purple Chopstix, I’m in the best state of mind to put fingers to keys and document my time spent under the towering flowers that adorn the hearth inside this Richland Avenue sanctuary. Ed Fisher is a restaurateur, generous philanthropist and world traveler of sorts. […]
Wash them balls: Bingo in the Boonies
“B59.” “He ain’t callin’ none of my numbers today. Someone’s gotta’ tell ‘em to shake them balls.” “Shake them balls!” The balls are plastic bingo balls, bumbling on top of one other in a metal cage in the basement of St. Mary of the Hills Catholic church in Nelsonville, Ohio. […]
Refections on a life in the library
Scott Seaman’s desk is immaculate. Only a phone, a few neatly stacked papers and a boxy Thinkpad grace its surface. Mr. Seaman, wearing a tweed sport coat over a dress shirt and impeccably knotted tie, mulls over the question: Why is he a librarian? After gazing into the snow swirling […]
An empty box of chocolates
The day old sunshine is turned orange with age as Apollo rides away over the tree-covered hills in the distance. This is a grand landscape; the sky is a mix of colors that anywhere else seem forced, artificial, surreal. Here they seem as natural as the warm spring air on […]
Beer Me: The Art of Homebrewing
Though it’s a known fact that very few people in Athens drink alcohol, Grant and Kevin Hanzel have created quite the little beer brewery on Lancaster Street. Last weekend, the two shared their skills and gave Bread Magazine a quick how-to on home-brewing your own bubbly beverage. Beer me, please […]
VIDEO: A Night of Musical Improv
On a dismally cold Sunday evening in February, a handful of members of Ohio University’s student-run improv troupe, OU Improv, gather in an empty studio in Kantner Hall to rehearse. “Rehearse” isn’t really the right word. “Prepare” or “exercise” might better describe their work. Their art is one of spontaneity […]
His name is Ib
A 20-year-old half-American, half-Syrian, guardian of two high school-aged siblings, Libertarian-turned-Democrat, conspiracy theorist, former cheerleader, water-fluoridation-obsessed townie and OU student, who is running for Athens City Council. After having a conversation with a few of Ohio University’s own candidates for Athens City Council, it was clear that one candidate stood […]
SLIDESHOW: SB 5 protests
All photos by Spenser Heaps
Protesters gather to stand against SB 5, university cuts
At just around noon on a cold, rainy Friday, hundreds of impassioned students, faculty and community members gathered at the Scripps Hall amphitheater to air their grievances about Ohio’s controversial Senate Bill 5 and pending cuts at Ohio University. The bill, which passed the State Senate on Wednesday, would eliminate […]
