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Gratefulfest at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Paradise Waits
Gratefulfest at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Paradise Waits by Bill Kurzenberger This coming weekend Gratefulfest, Ohio’s iconic and longest-running festival dedicated to the memory of the Grateful Dead, returns to the idyllic Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville. This year, some of the foremost Dead-family and Dead-adjacent musicians of…
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fIREHORSE by Tim Easton – Album Review
fIREHORSE by Tim Easton – Album Review by Bill Kurzenberger Renowned Ohio-grown guitarist/singer/songwriter Tim Easton recently released his fourteenth studio album, the noteworthy fIREHORSE. Born and raised in Akron, Easton has been widely recognized as a quintessential North American troubadour from the Buckeye state to his home base in Nashville,…
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Grassfire at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
Grassfire at Nelson Ledges – Festival Preview: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue by Bill Kurzenberger On the semiquincentennial anniversary weekend marking the United States’ 250 years of independence from a tyrannical government (the past year or so notwithstanding) there are over a hundred festivals around the Buckeye state celebrating…
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The Community Festival’s Concealed Connections to Wexner’s Power and Influence
The Community Festival’s Concealed Connections To Wexner’s Power And Influence Comfest, Central Ohio’s All-Volunteer-Run Fest Since 1972, Persists Through Untenable Ties To Billionaire Les Wexner by Bill Kurzenberger On June 26-27-28th, the Columbus Community Festival – also known as Comfest – returns to its longtime home at Goodale Park in…
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Stargazer Cannabis Festival Leans Into Its Homegrown Nature – Festival Preview
Stargazer Cannabis Festival Leans Into Its Homegrown Nature – Festival Preview Event Celebrates Recreational Marijuana In Ohio With Workshops and Uplifting Jams by Bill Kurzenberger This weekend June 12-13-14th, the Stargazer Cannabis Festival will liven the banks of the Scioto River to celebrate adult recreational and medicinal usage of marijuana…
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Bob Dylan at the Palace Theatre in Columbus – Live Concert Review
Bob Dylan at the Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio Live Concert Review – April 9th, 2026 by Bill Kurzenberger Thirty years after first witnessing Bob Dylan performing live at the Palace Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, the ebullient bard returned to the same venue this spring on his extended Rough and…
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