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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matternews.org | Andy Downing
Tyiesha Radford Shorts has begun to prepare for her future artist-in-residency stint at Urban Arts Space by looking to the past. An educator, writer and multidisciplinary artist, Shorts has in recent months focused her attentions on Black Ohio history, and more specifically the years that stretched between the state’s 1803 founding and the Reconstruction era that followed in the wake of the Civil War.
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matternews.org | Andy Downing
In one play, a monster lurks in the basement. A second spends time with a snail-loving Amsterdam tour guide. And a third features an anatomically correct teddy bear. But despite the diversity of subject matters and perspectives, Theatre Reset cofounder Colleen “Squiddy” Kochensparger said they see a common theme running through the nine works featured in the company’s forthcoming short play festival that is rooted in a desire for community.
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matternews.org | Andy Downing
For Dizzy Spell, from 2024, the Columbus band Abel crafted a dense, shoegaze-leaning soundscape born in part of the headaches and the various emotional challenges singer and guitarist Isaac Kauffman experienced from childhood, the tangles of guitar serving both as a means to drown out these chronic pains and as a reflection of the deep-seated anxieties that occasionally left the musician feeling emotionally tied in knots.
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matternews.org | Andy Downing
Decades ago, when Carol Tyler was a young girl at a Catholic elementary school, one of her teachers, a nun, told her that if something mattered, then it should be written down.
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1 week ago |
matternews.org | Andy Downing
In the time since Peter Hook parted ways with New Order in 2011 – an acrimonious split attributable to personal and creative tensions developed over years between Hook and former bandmate Bernard Sumner – the bassist has continued to push at the wounds left in the wake of this fracture, committing to revisit each New Order album, along with releases from his earliest band, Joy Division, in an ongoing series of tours with current project Peter Hook & the Light.
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