Andy Downing
Editor and Writer at Grey Matter Media
editor/director @matternews_, formerly columbus alive (rip). "does great work on dumb, vile shit." bylines @ new york times, p4k, stereogum, rolling stone
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3 days ago |
matternews.org | Andy Downing
In March 2019, Elizabeth LaPorte Thompson drove nearly 650 miles from Savannah, Georgia, to Lancaster, Ohio, and Faith Memorial Church – a place she frequented throughout childhood but hadn’t set foot inside for decades. The years leading up to that moment had been fraught for Thompson, 42. As a teenager, she dropped out of Circleville Bible College amid struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and an associated eating disorder that she said at one point left her weighing just 82 pounds.
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4 days ago |
matternews.org | Andy Downing
It can take significant time for songs to gestate in Julia Steiner of Ratboys, who compared the process with planting a seed and then spending months or even years tending to the growing sapling before it can be properly harvested. “And every so often I run into this issue where it feels like maybe I’ve waited too long, and the moment has passed,” said Steiner, who will join her bandmates in concert at Rumba Cafe on Thursday, June 26, supported by opener Superviolet.
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5 days ago |
matternews.org | Andy Downing
During a visit to the Columbus Museum of Art early last winter, Kah’lil Newton found himself transfixed by Odilon Redon’s painting “The Two Graces,” struck, he said, by a melancholic feeling that emanated from the canvas and which he later connected with Redon’s decision to include just two of the mythological sisters born to Zeus, generally depicted as a trio and representing joy, radiance and fertility. “[The painting] was very beautiful, but it was also tragic at the same time.
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1 week ago |
matternews.org | Andy Downing
Will Oldham said one of the most important photographic images of all time, to him, is a picture of the late country legend Merle Haggard standing beside Michael Hurley, the godfather of weirdo folk, who died in April. “Both artists continued to explore humanity through music, through the circle of appreciation-inspiration-execution and back again.
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1 week ago |
matternews.org | Andy Downing
Each time Michelle Herman finishes a collection of essays based on her experiences, she believes it to be her last, thinking, she said, “I have nothing more I can possibly say about my life.” She then returns inevitably to fiction writing, which served as her primary outlet in the years after she first picked up a pen at age 7.
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“When [Glen] was still making still lifes, people would comment that they reminded them of my fiction, because there was this painstakingness and a sense of another time. They were both these glowing little objects. And now, we’ve both evolved.” https://t.co/95c30D5xKS
“It’s like I’ve been wearing my small business hat for a while. But now, especially this month, it’s like I’ve been planning mending nights, and events with local community organizations, and really reminding myself what this space is for.” https://t.co/en94abOFRB
RT @PopeZurie: After a year, and a lawsuit in the Ohio Court of Claims, I was able to obtain records that give insight into Ohio State's mo…
