im a young guy and feel like im missing out on things im columbus and i only find out when its later posted on social media. for example, the breakaway concert this past month i had no idea about. i wouldve went if i knew about it. now i dont live under a rock, but how do u guys find out whats going on in columbus?
Well, pack it up everyone. Nothing else left to add to the thread.
I stg I came here to say this. LOL
Yep. Get on 270 and don’t take any exits.
Ugh i wanted to make the joke
You still can! I support you and nothing is stopping you!
Well... Nothing except the traffic on 270
Show me on the doll where the north I-70 North exit from I-270 East touched you. Is that exit in the room with us now?
Thanks Dad.
Check out cringe.com for almost all the concerts that happen in the city. It includes pretty much all venues
Cringe.com is fantastic and we are all better informed because of it. However, I can’t help myself but to wish it was tabulated with filtering functions.
Yeah, I always pestered the owner about that, but he’s kept it simple since the beginning.
But maybe I can make a browser plugin to add to it.
Nah fuck that bring back the BBS system. Dial in for that shit.
Wowww completely forgot about that. Just blasted me back to the 90s.
instagram! follow columbus underground, life in columbus, columbus dispatch, 614 magazine, and 614 nightlife, just to name a few
Columbus underground megaweekend posts used to be my social calendar go-to
I also recommend following cbusmetroparks, downtowncolumbus, and experiencecolumbus!
And their Facebook pages as well. Great source of events. I get emails from them too if you would rather do it that way too.
Adding Columbus on the Cheap for free community events
This is the answer. I also follow Columbus in the Know, CAPA, and every music venue.
This is how I stay informed!
Adding columbus navigator to this also
I get the Columbus Navigator daily email. It’s pretty amazing.
I also do this, plus experience Columbus and Columbus on the cheap
I'm not on social platforms [other than reddit], so I feel this. Most recommendations are through those avenues.
For music and concerts, spotify has a thing to let you know when "followed artists" are coming near you. Helps catch some smaller acts. You can also subscribe to newsletters from promowest or other music venues for updates on that stuff.
Columbus Underground, 614 Magazine.. basically the stuff the other post mentioned. You don't have to follow them on social platforms, you can go to their websites or get emails.
You can customize Google news to some extent, it's where i get alot of my local events, but i live Lancaster right now so I don't go to many things, moving back to Columbus in July though
Follow all the music venues, from the big ones to the jazz clubs to the dive bars. Promowest, Kemba, and the Newport. Skully’s, Rumba Cafe, Ace of Cups, Rambling House, Dick’s Den, etc… etc…
Yes!!!!!! THIS!!!!!! I follow the artists I love on Spotify and it tells me before I find out anywhere else that an artist I like is performing near me.
The events calendar at Columbus Underground is fairly thorough.
https://columbusunderground.com/events/
Combined with Experience Columbus, and you have a good variety, depending on what you’re into.
I accidentally get stuck in traffic heading down High Street on the weekends.
Cringe.com for music events
Some guy gave this site to me at a taco truck and it’s been heaven sent !
I follow accounts of local businesses I like that hold events I’m interested in, DJs I like, dance party accounts, etc
I'm cranky so I try to stay out of the loop.
I’m pretty spontaneous, and I have a 4-year-old, so on Thursday or Friday, I Google things to do with kids this weekend, and all kinds of stuff come up under events and different websites. Experience Columbus is great. I deleted Facebook so idk about that but instagram has some great Columbus pages that were referenced in another comment.
Im about to be 35 i don’t care for crowds much anymore. JOMO hahaha
Struggling to find parking, wading through huge crowds, getting blasted by super loud music, waiting in a half hour line to pay $25 for a food truck meal and $9 for a domestic beer... feels like that sums up 95% of the "fun" events in town. I'm over it all.
You are my people 🫶🏼
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Truthfully, as you get older - a lot of this shit just doesn't matter. Don't worry so much about it. Just enjoy your life is the best advice I can give. I am 53......so for example:
I saw Bon Jovi back in the day, during the "Slippery When Wet Tour."
I saw Slayer on the "Reign in Blood Tour."
I saw Iron Maiden on several tours, starting with "Piece of Mind."
I saw Metallica open for Ozzy a few weeks before the original bass player died. For that matter, I saw them the year before, when nobody knew who they were.
I saw several World Cup 94 games (Ok, not in Columbus....but same idea.)
I am told by a lot of younger people that these events must have been amazing! The reality is that they were just things I showed up to and enjoyed. NONE were particularly life changing. However, the things that are - you will be at.....kids being born, graduating school, whatever.
Just chill - you are more than a consumer, and your life is working out how you want it to be.
NOW GET OFF MY LAWN.
Haha. I was going to say something along the lines of "Just wait a while, you'll stop caring".
You were a lot funnier.
It's true though. The amount of shit out there that is just noise only becomes clearer as you age.
Brilliant.
I don't think you (and me and most of us) really really realize how direly that social communication has changed. Everything has been commoditized and commercialized. You are essentially saying that experiences happen by kismet. And yeah! When you and even I grew up, they did.
And now. They (largely) do not.
All these experiences that you're just supposed to have? The Algo doesn't like that. Communication has become vastly more silo'd due to the death of the Forth Estate and late stage capitalism with a smattering of fetid techbroh.
PS. We haven't even touched upon the upcoming Discord Collapse. None of our groups ever really leveraged their identity on AIM or ICQ. The millennial and younger cohort is going to take a solar object in the D when that hits.
Also "it wasn't really that big a deal" is the response? Really? Like. Mmm. Kaaaaaayyyy lol udou
Catching a PBR that Bob Pollard threw at me is still a funny story
Yeah I almost ran over the singer from Megadeth behind the Newport. That would have sucked. Odd the people we run into, or that throw shit at us!
It really isn't that big of a deal really is the point. There are very FEW THINGS that truly matter in the end. Yes, it was great seeing Tom Seaver hit a home run when I was young, it was great seeing all those bands, etc......but it was just something we did.
However, when I was younger, there was no online. So.....the math was basically, if a metal band came to town (the format of music I was most drawn to...), you just went. So there are plenty of "accidental" bands that I saw and I was told later it was a "legendary tour." At the time, it was a band that I liked or my friends did. It wasn't that big of a deal. This is like my parents, that said Woodstock was actually a huge pain in the ass. It only became legendary years later. In fact, they said if it happened again the next year, they wouldn't have bothered.
However, I played hockey for years, and when I was like 12.....we played a game at the Cincinnati Gardens between the first and second period of a USA vs. USSR game that was part of a tour leading up to the Saraejvo 84 Olympics. That was something that sticks with you. (I had a shot hit the fucking post. We lost 3-2. I STILL remember that clearly. Go figure.)
Maybe it is because I grew up in a time when it wasn't about posting pics to prove I was there. I don't know, but you just did shit. You didn't think too deeply about it. I think the OP is far too worried about things. This is only going to get worse, as Cowlumbus gets bigger. Think of all the shit that goes on in NYC each weekend.....you would never be able to afford to keep up, let alone have the time.
upvote for ICQ ...
“UH OH!”
Echoing the recommendations for Instagram accounts listed in the thread so I won’t repeat them. But if you like Breakaway style concert a few other annual ones I’ll recommend (so you don’t miss them next time!) are:
- Breakaway (happens every summer. Usually Aug/sept but was early this year) - follow them on IG
- Haunted Fest (happens every October - Halloween themed EDM show)
- A&F challenge (charity event and concert happens at A&F HQ) - lineup usually announced in July, event in Sept I think. Last few years the headliners were bangers (Zedd, Galantis, Kygo) and the event is all you can eat and drink for entry ticket
Hey now, don’t give away the secret that is the Challenge! JK. This year’s lineup will be announced June 27th and I’m told it’s going to be pretty epic, so it’ll probably sell out in a day or two. Act fast if you want tickets!
https://www.experiencecolumbus.com/events/?view=list&sort=date
https://columbusunderground.com/events/
https://614now.com/events-in-614-2
Every suburb also have events pages
Facebook has an events feature and it’s used far more than Reddit to post weekly events
I only mess with FB for Marketplace and the Events feature which is excellent.
614 Now for all your local pizza shop news!
Cringe.com
Social media is a good source. Like yesterday was a give every resident $10,000 day. I can’t believe you missed out on that! 😂
Cd101
RIP
Shit, now I gotta learn Spanish.
Oh you mean the OG.
Follow Columbus Underground, they always seem to share the good shit!
Live downtown and make friends downtown!
If you’re on FB, I’m always looking in Facebook Events just to see what’s happening. That or else I’m out in the community and see promotions for events (ex: Clintonville Jamboree nights, Upper Arlington festivals, farmers markets, yada yada).
Ya know I live in Ohio right outside of Columbus and didn’t realize there were people who still wanted to go around other people 😂 that’s 43 for ya I guess….or im lame but both are probably true
Finally started following some of the above mentioned accounts and Eventbrite at the end of last year. Additionally, cork boards, coffee shop event calendars, library and place based spaces is how I'm learning what's going on. I'm still without friends but starting to at least connect to events which is a start
Speaking of, what big thing is happening this weekend? I think Comfest is next weekend, but isn't there something like tomorrow or Saturday?
Origins is this weekend, but like you'd have to be into board gaming and whatnot.
Buckeye Countryfest
Pretty much the same festival
Powell has a festival this weekend
Facebook it’s a group called events in Columbus
EDMTrain or Radiate!
Since you mention Breakaway specifically, try edmtrain.com.
I follow a lot of my local venues and nightlife pages on facebook (this also leads to other recommended local events that I keep an eye on), I'll mark events on my calendar if they look interesting
Depending on what you're into there's different community pages/groups you can follow for things such as EDM, punk, metal, standup, LARP, goth, etc etc (you do have to kind of hunt them down but they're there)
Check out some of the local community/art events like Pride, Ohio State Fair, comfest, etc
I will give you a heads up Columbus is a difficult city to break into any scene when you're new to town, a lot of people can be extremely cliquey for some weird reason and you really have to bite the bullet to put yourself out (and even then it takes a while), but once you do find your people it's worth it
Cringe.com is my best resource! I find out about all sorts of weird music shit going on around Columbus on there! Then it's just meeting people you vibe with and growing socially from there 🤷♀️
The daily Axios Columbus newsletter is solid.
I feel the same way!! I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think there actually need to be more billboards and each venue needs a larger exterior screens to constantly show what’s coming
Go to every hardcore show you can
follow the music venues around town on instagram
this site lists all the festivals in Columbus/Ohio https://ohiofestivals.net/ohio-festivals/
If you'd like to subscribe to some RSS feeds about local government-adjacent stuff, check out these importable OPML files:
- https://github.com/benlk/columbus-govdelivery-rss
- https://github.com/benlk/cota-reroute-pdf-rss
- https://github.com/benlk/columbus-misc-rss
There's also https://goodworkscolumbus.substack.com for activism stuff.
ODOT District 6 has a weekly Franklin County advisory, which you can view at https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisories/district-6/franklin-county-construction-update or subscribe to their newsletter.
Axios Columbus newsletter
facebook groups and just checking event pages news pages everyweek
Look to your right!! There is a hyper link called GUIDE TO COLUMBUS. Under "Things to do this weekend" are literlly pages of links for upcoming event, most beyond just one week.
Go on Instagram! There are a lot of DJ’s and promoters who are involved in the music scene and worth following to know what’s going on:
- Prime Social
- Deep Field
- Headcleaner
- Be Louder Experience
- Universally Established
- Universally Null
- Allegedly Defeated
- The ReDo
- HipsSelections
- Urban Groove Productions
- and lots more! -
Then follow some of the clubs / bars / event venues on social that seem to be throwing the type of events you want to go to! The Oracle, Land Grant Brewing Co, there are events every Thursday at the Columbus Museum of Art, Budd Dairy Food Hall, The GoGo, Duecento, etc… Lots of LGBTQ+ options too 🌈
🫡🫡 go forth!
Click on every learn more ad you ever see and turn your texts and emails into a never-ending onslaught of things to do and buy….
I go on Facebook events and see what’s happening around
First, plan ahead. Watch for events coming up and block your calendar. Planning is half the fun. Second, listen. People talk about cool things to do. Third, go outside your comfort zone. Try things because you’ve never done them. Fourth, develop your network. When you participate in something like a darts league, get to know people.
For really fun events you might not hear about, there is the FetLife events page.
You’re not missing anything, there is really nothing happening, this is Columbus
Get some pals, pal 🤷🏻♂️
Nothing ever actually happens in Columbus, you aren’t missing out on anything
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By never going outside of 270.