A queer and non-binary artist in the south, Josey is aiming to illustrate a reality unseen in the day-to-day.
‘Trauma with a Candied Twist’: Josey Posy
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Columbus Souls: Artist Jarrod Turner
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I’ve always had the desire to create. I have a passion for music and did the band thing for years. I’ve taken a break from that and started focusing on this new thing (visual art), after returning from a trip to Howard Finster Paradise Garden (in Summerville, Georgia). Howard’s art was all I could think about. I even dreamed about it. The following day I painted a snake on a...
Lylie Mae Makes Bubble Bath Music
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Lylie Mae sitting for Electric City Life Live Lylie Mae began her musical journey by working at The Loft for over eight years, moving from host to server to bartender to sound engineer to headliner. “That’s my little home, my little family, whenever I go there, that’s where I laid my roots down,” shares LM, “At one point, I quit and moved for several months to Fiji. When I came back I’d lost...
Michael David’s Music
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MD flew to Chicago and made The Voice, then made American Idol in Atlanta
Columbus Souls
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“My family was in the army for 20 years and retired here, I lived in Hawaii, Belgium, and Kentucky before this. People say there is nothing to do here but I love walking around downtown, and working at Freeze Frame can be fun. I’ve been studying Music Ed at Columbus State University, I’ve played the violin for 10 years, was a fiddle player only briefly in middle school when...
Sunday Q&A: Thad Haygood
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Senior Pastor, St. Luke United Methodist Church Why do you think God called you to come lead St. Luke as Senior Pastor?“The ‘Why?’ will come about down the road. I don’t know the ‘Why?’ yet.But I can 100% percent say that God has definitely called us here to Columbus at this time in our lives. We know that because we were not looking to move. We were not planning to move. We didn’t ask for this...
“We’re Not Taught the Local Heroes”
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Community leader and creator of the Kinfolx Co. blog, Sherricka Day discusses the knowledge gained and lessons learned through her research the Black history of Columbus, Georgia.
Sunday Q&A: Rabbi Beth Schwartz of Temple Israel
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What does International Holocaust Memorial Day every January mean to you and the congregation here at Temple Israel? “In the spring, within the Jewish world, there is an observance called Yom HaShoah, That is timed to coincide with the uprising at the Warsaw ghetto uprising. That’s mostly observed within the Jewish world, but World Holocaust Memorial Day makes everyone stop and think about their...
Sunday Q&A: Dominick Perkins
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Georgia Political Director for Biden/Harris 2020 Campaign Were you surprised that Joe Biden won Georgia? “No. We had a tremendous campaign with volunteers giving up their time and driving all over the state to encourage voter turnout. This was positive and important work for the [Democratic] Party. Plus all the voter registration efforts of Stacey Abrams and the Fair Fight organization...
Sunday Q&A: John Greenman
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President & Publisher, Ledger-Enquirer, 1995-2004; Don E. Carter Chair of Excellence in Journalism, emeritus, University of Georgia Greenman presents “How to Survive as a Writer in the 21st Century” Masters Class at Columbus Writers Guild Conference on Saturday, Sept. 21 How does a writer survive in the 21st century? “The point I’m going to make, which is on the business of...