I'm not sure why I've never thought to review Columbus Underground. I mean... they're a local…read morebusiness -- and a damn fine one too. Maybe it's because it's something virtual? Anywho... moving on. I think back to when I first moved to Columbus a decade ago and what really made me fall in love with the city and decide to call it home. Two things: Yelp (for real, not a plug) and Columbus Underground. Since this isn't a review for Yelp, I'll stick with CU for now. CU is my favorite local website because it's everything I love -- tons of heart, positive and uplifting, and really scrappy. Scrappy is good, I swear. If you want to know anything that's going on in the city, you can find it here. I feel like so many news media outlets are simply wrap-ups or summaries of what has already happened, but CU is more about the cool things that are *about* to happen. They're always on the cusp of the next big thing. Or the next small thing. I love that CU doesn't just focus on the big, mega-popular happenings -- they also give lots of love to the small, scrappies of Columbus. Want to know about a tiny new bakery in Hilliard? They'll feature it. Or how about a social entrepreneur who's trying to make the city better? Yep, CU will tell you all about it. One last thing I heart about Columbus Underground -- the people. Every single person I've interacted with at CU has been wonderful. They take pride in their work and are all passionate about the city. You can feel their Columbus love.

Columbus Underground is the 411 for the 614. The best online news source, and probably the best…read moreplace to receive what's going on when planning a weekend out, like the Other Paper used to be, and Alive tries. But it is more than just that. CU is a cheerleader for urban living and development, leading the charge for livable downtown and increase density, sometimes to a fault. They are pro-future, pushing for modern public transportation--trains and light-rail--that so far alludes the city. They are on top of every development projects, at work and proposed, in town. Solid objective news stories offered here often beats the Dispatch to the punch, and are written in a high professional manner. Colorful writing also exist here: reviews of restaurants, art, and events are top notch and sophisticated. The website has a forum that often carry interesting conversation of local and national issues. The messageboard conversations are often intelligent and generally free of trolling. I love accessing them through may facebook feed where they post important stories. They do short shift covering stories of the non-professionals, the poor, and underclass--the under privaledge whose suffering the darkside if gentrification is often handwaved by the editors. Sometimes they are tone deaf to issues of preservation and community flavor in their zest to promote modern change, and seem to have a pro-developer biases even in hard news articles. This is its one-star mark I have against them. Otherwise, I love their pro-urbanization stance, their citywide coverage, and their great well written reviews.

Fantastic news and music!! New and improved music to the mix!! Always great and grateful for all…read morethe work put in for this!'

So many things to love about our LOCAL station, but if I had to pick the one I love the most it…read morewould definitely be how tied they are to our local community & how well they represent us! A VERY close second would be their Big Room performances. I am fortunate enough to have taken advantage of this golden opportunity to catch performances from my favorite artists in an intimate setting.

I prefer WCMH-4 for the weather segment. Their motto-Local 4 You is so misleading. Their news…read moremainly covers news outside the state. Just tabloid news tou can find on You Tube.

Even though I have a terminal brain condition. We left OSU emergency after waiting 7 hours because…read morewe and "about 30 other ppl" couldn't believe this man's emergency was being neglected. This homeless man was suffocating and nobody was acting like it was an emergency! I pray he survived. He was struggling to breathe for 4 hours. My mother demanded they help him. They moved him away from the crowd. And left him for about another half hour before anyone checked on him. He was an old man, bleeding from the head and asking several times for help. Horrible. If this had been your family member, you definitely would expect him to have immediate attention to prevent suffering.

First off thank you Nicole W. for reminding me about this great FREE! publication that I now miss…read moreand want to read again. I picked it up every thursday at myu local grocery stores but also at bookstores, bars or restaurants downtown. Its written well, easygoing and fun, not too stuffy, like I like my newspapers, covering any and everything going on in the area that week. Always a good inspiration for weekend fun ideas, great paper!

I'm a big fan of Columbus Alive. It seems like you see the crew out everywhere, and everyone there…read moreis so young. They give interns a shot, and they hire young writers. It's tough finding a good gig like this when you're young. Kudos to Alive for taking chances on young talent. That aside, Alive is a good read too. The staff seems to be up on all the current events. I like that they cover entertainment, fashions, food, everything every week. My favorite section is the weekly question, which is answered by the staff and by people on the street. The questions are usually fairly bizarre and have hilarious answers. This week: What's your favorite Italian export? Someone answered 'Giada De Laurentiis.' Agreed! I was once caught by the team and asked where the worst place to go for a first date; I said the cemetery and made it into print! Celebrity status? Maybe not, but it was fun. My favorite issue of the year is the Best of Columbus. Everyone in the city votes on all their favorite stuff from best bathroom and best billboard ad to best gyro and best place for live jazz. This issue makes a terrific to-do list.

My colleagues and I were invited to mix up some cocktails on 107.9 The Mix for a few weeks for the…read morenext couple months. Michelle and Eric were truly hospitable and invited us in with open arms. I truly did enjoy meeting every single one of them there. The radio station plays about hits and I listen to it daily. I'm so excited to go back in a couple weeks just in time for Christmas. Cheers!

In my punk rock early 20s I would have never dreamed that an oldies station would be one of my…read morefavorite stations, but so be it. I love this station not only because of the delicious irony of a station whose call letters are "O.D.B." playing oldies, but because I love oldies- classic rock and pop songs from the 60s and 70s that everyone in the car can, if they are made of the Right Stuff, sing along with, huge goofy grins and all. I mean, come on, this station has multiple blocks of nothing but The Beatles. Yesssssss. Granted the DJs are beyond corny here. Their jokes are so bad that sometimes I feel embarrassed to hear them- and that's not a cute joke on my part, that's the truth. Horrible, horrible humor. Granted I'm not in the target audience, but I can't imagine many people enjoying fumbled pseudo-sexual jokes made by a smooth-voiced oldies dude. Just... shudder. Still, this is one of the three stations I can stand in Columbus and it is fast becoming my second favorite of those three. Definitely worth a listen in my book.

The Short North Gazette is the ultimate chronicling agency in the Short North. For over twenty…read moreyears they've been pumping out detailed articles with corresponding pictures telling about every new business, every change in leadership, every district discussion, every everything. If you want to be in the know about the Short North, read the Gazette. Even better, if you need to go back in time to answer a question, use the Gazette's website. (Or just use it for fun; you'll learn a lot of interesting things.) The website has all the old articles, and though they're not 100% accurate, they're usually pretty close. Even when you do a Google search, the Gazette usually pops up between the first and third spot with an article. The website also has a great A-Z directory of businesses in the district. It's mostly up-to-date, and I like that they keep the addresses of old businesses on there for quite a while too or the old locations if a business moves. Sometimes that stuff comes in handy. The only bad things about the website are that the photos and info on the homepage don't change very often and the site itself has some pretty shoddy layout, but when you have a small staff, you don't have much time to focus your energy on a website. The hardcopy publication comes out once a month. I like the hardcopy print better just because I like being able to hold something tangible in my hands. I even like getting a little newsprint on me from time to time. But the web/hardcopy combo is helpful in many situations.

If you are in the neighborhood of the Short North and want to pick up a paper reflecting events…read morecurrently going on, but also want a feel for the history of this independently minded neighborhood, then you get all of that in the Short North Gazette.

Till recent, I was a daily subscriber for nearly 2 decades and decided to end my subscription. The…read moreColumbus Dispatch was once a very good newspaper, best in the State. In the last few years, the quality of the local reporting, the consistent very left leaning editorials and reliance on dated filler articles from the AP have really impacted for the worse. Their coverage of the Trump administration is so awful and one sided. I have not read a single positive story involving the President since he took office. I am not his biggest fan either. Several of their recent stories, such as the family murdered in Southeast Ohio were written so poorly with misplaced pronouns that I had to read the story several times. I simply decided that I will rely on other papers such as the Wall Street Journal. The Journal cost more, but delivers more value. It's a shame the Dispatch has decided to go left, cut costs, and employ mediocre editing. Cities need local newspapers to keep politicians in check, report news fairly and share various viewpoints so the reader can be informed. Unfortunately, The Columbus Dispatch, much like the New York Times has decided in recent years to pick a side. If I wanted that, I would tune into Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC for free.

Horrible, horrible customer service. No way to reach a live person and chats are not helpful in…read moreresolving delivery issues. I have to go back and chat repeatedly to get a credit for a missed delivery. Our delivery person has no back-up, so when she is sick or has car trouble, we get no newspaper. I don't know how much longer I can put up with this nonsense.

Finally - a radio station that quenches the spiritual thirst of Columbus! Actually, this station…read morehas been around for over 3 decades and has transformed over the years into one of Central Ohio's TOP 10 Radio Stations. If you turn your dial to 104.9 FM, you will find the most uplifting music available anywhere on the dial. In our world, especially during these tough times, we need all the help we can get to lift our spirits - don't we? Then why not refresh yourself with the best contemporary Christian hits and worship songs on the radio? You deserve it. One of the greatest advantages of relying on The River for your radio entertainment needs is that it is safe for the whole family to listen to. America's top media outlets continue to barrage us and our children with inappropriate subject matter and fowl language every day. Why not avoid this assault by tuning into WCVO? Your kids will love it - mine do! I've done a lot of business with the professionals behind the scenes here in Gahanna. They are wonderful people who are working very hard to ensure that Columbus maintains this precious commodity to enjoy and cherish. We all need more of God in our lives. Why not let Him in minister to you through your radio? You will not regret it. He loves you way too much to ever let you down :-)

I will no longer listen to this station. They posted a meme about dancing moms, supposedly funny…read more The woman dancing was very overweight. In a world where we dare not make fun of race, other religions, etc, I feel fat people and old ones are still open targets. I sent a message to the station of why I found it offensive. Many I love have always been overweight and have suffered from teasing and comments their entire lives. It's not funny to them. The response I received back, days later, said it was not funny because the person was overweight, but because of the dancing. That was incorrect, first of all, and secondly, despite the intention, there was no apology if it was offensive. Nice Christian response. But then again, I am a 62 year old woman, who was taught to sai I was sorry for hurting someone despite my intentions. I am done with The River....it flowed with a lack of empathy.

Love the morning news show. It is the only channel that still has local news at 7:00 am. The…read morecrew they have are fun, they laugh and joke, I like that. The often feature things around town so it is a great way to find out about new things to try. Not a big fan of the news as it is usually depressing and frustrating; but Good Day Columbus I never miss.

The morning people have a good rapport with each other and a couple laughs and they it is always…read moregetting a laugh what a good way to start your morning in a good frame of mind and then they have to talk about the news obviously and I've never been sad or disappointed in anything I enjoy listening to them tell you in great detail what is going on around our area I think you everybody should give you guys a try and enjoy the laughter in the morning

It is easy to get the wrong idea about (614) (the parentheses are part of its name), the free…read moremagazine available monthly at various places in town; it is not a rag to discover what weekend events are happening, what band are playing where, nor will it get you free entry to a gouging strip club like say the extinct Other Paper did. Though they do have monthly schedules, smart phones have put an end to prints that specializes in only that. What it does, as magazines do, is publish feature articles; stories from a wider perspective and more in-depth than hard news. For me, its deeper coverage of Columbus' culture and goings-on is my feature writing supplement to columbusunderground hard info. Together I am out of the dark about the community's civic and cultural trends. The covers are always graphically and photographically eye-catching. They make the issues look glossy, an illusion as one touch reveals its lower grade paper stock, a fact not to be disparage for a free publication. Still the artistry of the illusion should be applauded; often with city landmarks transported behind animated avatars they appear like old super hero comics--the city behind rendered like Gotham. Their photos laid covers are just as well done. Articles are usually well written and edited, with various levels of sophistication and acumen, but never underserving; I appreciate the general artsy style here than the tranquilized tone of the Dispatch's Art Section The February 2016 addition is typical of what you will find every month: the story of a local musician battling back after break up of his former band due to a theft; an electrically written interview with the band Animal Collective; a look into the art competition involving the Arnold Sports Festival; A look at the annual Dude-a-thon at Studio 35; a look back at the NFL's roots in Columbus; and a great article viewing the benefits and challenges of the social enterprise model embarked by Hot Chicken Takeover and other businesses in town. Packed with info and interests, it was a joy to read. Ending each addition are short-short stories written by Columbus area writer showcasing the talent in town. (They also have poetry that I think misses, but I am picky about that art form.) I usually pick one up while eating after a long work week. It is a must for anyone interested in the city's culture.

There are a core group of publications that I must have by my bedside to find what's coming up and…read morethe latest Columbus news. This is one of them. (614) is published each month and is in a nice, large format that is full color and chock full of useful local information. The tone of the magazine is similar to 'Alive' but with a bit more refined flavor. For example, the April 2010 issue has articles on African restaurants around town next to articles on the best Columbus locations to buy a house and how to go about getting a good deal. Their events section is beautifully laid out with large descriptions of each event and pictures accompanying each one which makes it nice to see something other than an endless sea of type. The stories and events are Columbus centered so you have a good chance of seeing someone that you know (if not yourself) in its pages. I usually pick up (614) at Cup O'Joe but they are scattered all about town with a high concentration in the Short North. But pick one up fast as they go quickly!!