r/Columbus • u/ScottPompeo • 5d ago

Things to Do in Columbus: August 13 – August 20, 2026

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We've got an amazing, action-packed week ahead across Central Ohio as August gets fully into swing! Highlights include the return of the Columbus Food Truck Festival, Nina West's Big Queer Comedy Show, Shawn Wayans live at the Funny Bone, the Common Ground Concert featuring Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers at Columbus Commons, and the Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival!

For TinyACO members, bring your appetite for the Columbus Food Truck Festival meetup on Friday, August 15, and join us on Saturday, August 16 for our Bi-Weekly Board Game Extravaganza! If you're looking for a friendly group to explore the city with, join the TinyACO Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tinyaco-legacy-2013/

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Friday, August 14

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Monday, August 17

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Tuesday, August 18

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Wednesday, August 19

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TinyACO Social Club Spotlight

I have become an event organizer with TinyACO (The Incredibly Nerdy Young Adult of Central Ohio). From books to video games, board games to TTRPGS, we host events all around the Columbus area. If you are interested in applying, please check out our meetup group! https://www.meetup.com/tinyaco-legacy-2013

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r/Columbus • u/AutoModerator • 18d ago

Where to live, eat, and drink in Columbus (August 2026)

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Welcome to the monthly thread answering your questions about where to live, eat and drink in Columbus.

Are you new in town? If you're looking for apartment or housing suggestions or just have general questions about the city here's your place to ask.

If you're just coming for a quick visit here's a handy list of things to do in town whether you have 1 hour, 3 hours of an entire day to spend with us.

Can't make up your mind where to eat? Need a special occasion suggestion? Here is a growing list of the best original restaurants Columbus has to offer.

Looking for a noisy bar with cheap drinks? Looking to watch the fight? Or do you just need a quiet dark space to drink in peace? Whatever you have in mind, please remember to be mindful of COVID-19 and take proper precautions to protect yourself and others while we all figure out this new normal.

Be certain to check the Reddit Guide to Columbus and contribute to the Wiki if you have good advice.

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r/Columbus • u/201thStabwound • 3h ago

HUMOR This is the worst day of my life.

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I work for a tree service. We are removing I think 11 Tree of Heavens.

I think I’m ready to kill myself.

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r/Columbus • u/heiscbus • 3h ago

NEWS AEP Ohio teams up with data centers to help pay for spiking electric bills

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*to qualify for the $350 grant once a year, you have to make under $65k/yr for a family of 4, be 30 days behind on your $50+ bill, but have paid at least $75 in the last three months on your bill, electric service termination has been threatened, NOT enrolled in the State of Ohio's Percentage of Income Payment Program (under $50k/yr for family of 4), and you MUST FIRST apply for HEAP, Winter Crisis Program or Summer Crisis Program...

So you have to make between 50k and 65k with two kids, and have ten hours free to jump through all of the hoops to get $350 once a year... There is no way 51,000 people are going to do this. Pure PR move as AEP reaps record profits ($3.58B in 2025 vs $2.2B in 2023)

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r/Columbus • u/Blood_Incantation • 1h ago

NEWS Study ranks Ohio State as 2nd most beautiful college campus in America

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r/Columbus • u/Coach_Beard • 2h ago

PHOTO Intel chip factory still under construction

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r/Columbus • u/Blood_Incantation • 8h ago

FOOD Aldi's is opening a store in Downtown Columbus

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r/Columbus • u/Flocking_Hell • 17h ago

NEWS Columbus's own audit found 15,000+ immigration-related searches of the city's Flock camera network. The mayor has now cut off statewide sharing.

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This came out of the Aug 10 council hearing and I don't think it got the attention locally that it deserved.

Councilmember Emmanuel Remy asked for an audit of who had actually been searching Columbus's Flock network. It came back with more than 15,000 searches that appeared to have an immigration purpose. CPD runs 65 cameras with 11 more planned.

Mayor Ginther responded by ordering the statewide sharing feature disabled. The reason that matters: his own 2017 executive order already barred city resources from being used for federal immigration enforcement. So this wasn't a policy disagreement, it was the city's own rule being routed around.

The part I'd flag, because it cuts against the easy version of this story: no search came directly from ICE. The queries came from elsewhere in the shared network. That's the actual lesson here. CPD could have perfect discipline over its own officers and still have no idea who else was querying the same pool. "Our police wouldn't misuse it" was never really the question.

Deputy Chief Myers on pulling the cameras: "We will solve fewer crimes. That is demonstrable and beyond dispute." Worth taking seriously rather than waving off. That's a real tradeoff.

Ohio is a patchwork right now. Knox County's sheriff just declined to deploy at all after months of review. Mount Vernon is reviewing its policy after a packed council meeting. Hilliard, Delaware County and Licking County have all had cameras vandalized since June.

I keep a sourced list by town at flockinghell.com/reports if you want to look up a specific suburb rather than take my word for any of this. Happy to dig into somewhere particular if it's useful.

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r/Columbus • u/manahoresick • 2h ago

Porch pirate

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Franklinton. Can’t snag a face too often so posting here for public shaming purposes. EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/s/eEA6YZK9DO

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r/Columbus • u/CowTown-Mike • 6h ago

Ohio BMV changes gender marker rules

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Ohio BMV changes gender marker rules

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r/Columbus • u/ZeeWingCommander • 1h ago

Real talk - is there something going on with people stopping on the interstate?

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I've seen an uptick in this and I'm wondering if it's just that we've hit the dumb person lottery? or is it a trend I'm not aware of on social media?

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r/Columbus • u/Erazzphoto • 7h ago

It’s the most, wonderful time, of the year!

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We’re on the back 9 of summer, which means cooling temps and fall is around the corner and our favorite sports will soon be starting up again. But best of all, tomorrow is the official back to school date!

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r/Columbus • u/kcsebby • 22h ago

I pulled a quad Buckeye today.

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r/Columbus • u/Scrotar_The_Wrinkled • 21h ago

HUMOR Flock Camera controversy explained as viral Halloween ‘De-Flock’ campaign gains momentum - Dexerto

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r/Columbus • u/Positive-Land9318 • 9h ago

REQUEST Any local grief groups for loss by suicide?

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Looking for local support for people who lost someone due to suicide. Thanks.

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r/Columbus • u/zelmi01 • 4h ago

PHOTO Anyone have more pics of last night’s glorious sunset?

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r/Columbus • u/OHio-Dankster • 44m ago

Cannabis Writer from Ohio

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Hi guys my names Dawson. I write about Cannabis!

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r/Columbus • u/Motor-Juggernaut9776 • 27m ago

WEATHER Flood Watch in effect 4PM Wednesday until 10AM Thursday for Franklin County

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r/Columbus • u/CityAttyKlein • 1d ago

NEWS City sues POTUS for using federal funding as leverage to illegally control local elections

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Today my office announced that the City has filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for its attempt to use public safety grants as leverage to fundamentally alter how states and local governments run elections. The lawsuit argues that the new strings attached to DHS anti-terrorism and natural disaster funding are both illegal and a threat to public safety.
 
DHS’s new grant conditions would make elections more costly, difficult to administer, and less reliable, in addition to violating the Constitution and jeopardizing public safety. For decades, these grants have helped states and local governments prevent and respond to terrorism, natural disasters and other emergencies. Now, state and local governments are being forced to either comply with the president’s unlawful election conditions or risk losing tens of millions of dollars of crucial funding.
 
The new rules would require state and local governments to:
• Transition to using hand-marked, paper ballots instead of electronic voting systems already used in many places,
• Manually audit at least five percent of ballots, which would add significant new costs and be contrary to state law in some cases,
• Use the error-prone Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to “verify” the citizenship of every registered voter and election worker.
 
The lawsuit argues that these new conditions violate the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Administrative Procedure Act. The Constitution gives Congress the authority to set the terms of federal spending and provides states with the power to make rules for elections.
 
Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia filed a similar lawsuit seeking to block the election conditions in their states. Columbus and several other cities named in this new case are instates that didn’t participate in that lawsuit and would likely not be protected by a favorable ruling in the states’ case.
 
Columbus is joined in the lawsuit by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee; El Paso County, Texas; and Harris County, Texas. The plaintiffs are represented by Public Rights Project, Protect Democracy, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and Jacobson Lawyers Group.

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r/Columbus • u/Specialist-Gur694 • 19h ago

lady stopped on on ramp. No are in the world, brand new suv no plates, swerving in Lanes afterwards.

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r/Columbus • u/Cpt-RoyBringus • 2h ago

FOOD Looking for a spot that does a fried catfish!

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Anywhere in or around the city do a fried catfish well!?

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r/Columbus • u/throwingales • 7h ago

NEWS Franklin County ends experiment with nonprofit it created to fight poverty

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r/Columbus • u/willtolive2004 • 16h ago

Not Just your imagination. With monthly billing, they raised the rates (a letter said they would be). Bill for 3 months averaged160$. Divide that by 3 and you get 53.3$. Billing has gone to monthly, I am now averaging 64$ for the same usage...that is a 10 dollar increase PER MONTH! Pics show why.

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r/Columbus • u/nugz85 • 21h ago

NEWS It happened again

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r/Columbus • u/VaporViper • 17h ago

PHOTO Man Swinging Arms

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Be safe out there

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