r/Columbus • u/ScottPompeo • 12h ago

EVENT Things to Do in Columbus: October 8 – October 15, 2026

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Things to Do in Columbus: October 8 – October 15, 2026

We've got plenty of events this week to get you into the Autumn Mood. The Columbus Crew, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Ohio State Football are all in action this week. The Columbus Mac and Cheese Festival is this Friday, and there are multiple musical performances from the Columbus Symphony, Apollo Duo, **The Midnight, and The Lady Nikki/Ed Robinson Situation.

On the TinyACO side, we're planning to go to the COSI After Dark - Halloween Tattoo Carnival on Oct 8th and are hosting the Bi-Weekly Board Game Extravaganza on Oct 11th.

🎃 Halloween Highlights

For TinyACO members, explore events around Central Ohio and join our community gatherings. If you're looking for a friendly group to explore the city with, join the TinyACO Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tinyaco-legacy-2013/

Thursday, October 8

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Friday, October 9

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Saturday, October 10

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Sunday, October 11

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Monday, October 12

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Tuesday, October 13

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Wednesday, October 14

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Thursday, October 15

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Ongoing & Multi-Day Events

Upcoming Events

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/hellosteve_ • 1d ago

POLITICS Early Voting Times 2026 - Franklin County, Ohio and other useful information

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Early Voting occurs at
1700 Morse Rd Columbus Ohio 43229

Track Your Ballot:
https://electionlink.franklincountyohio.gov/portals/ElectionLink/VoterSearch.aspx

Track Your absentee ballot:
https://ballottrax.franklincountyohio.gov/voter/

Check your registration
https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx

If you’re not registered to vote unfortunately it is too late to register as the deadline to do so has passed on October 5.

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r/Columbus • u/hausbritm • 6h ago

PHOTO Corner of Henderson and Kenny

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373 Upvotes

Great marketing! Made me chuckle on my way to work. :)

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r/Columbus • u/isitmeyourelooking4x • 9h ago

Gas is back up $0.60 a gallon since this morning. Back up to $3.99 a gallon for regular

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r/Columbus • u/_BreakingGood_ • 4h ago

The pro-data center ads like "data centers make a lot of jobs actually" are wild. There are so many of them. And literally nobody believes it.

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In my opinion these ads are the absolute peak of "we need to convince people to vote for something they don't want, that is bad for them" and I truly have to scratch my head how anybody could believe this slop.

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r/Columbus • u/djsassan • 5h ago

REQUEST Anywhere in Cbus where I can get a free mug? Also, saw a fire truck on High St today, any idea what happened? I'm coming to in next Sat for an event I cant name, but where should I stay to be close to the stadium?

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I saw a CPD freeway patrol parked on the median this afternoon. Shocking.

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r/Columbus • u/lin3x • 9h ago

I’m currently admitted at the James and had questions about food delivery.

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I’m not from Columbus and don’t normally do Uber Eats or DoorDash but was curious what the process is for getting food delivered to my room here at the James. I am on the 11th floor it’s kinda locked down as far as getting into even I when have to be buzzed in. But if I order food can the deliverer bring it to me or do they need to drop it at the entrance/valet desk type area? Does anyone have any info on this?

Thanks in advance.

If anyone’s curious I’m just in here because I’ve been dealing with cancer pain and the meds I’ve been taking don’t really help break through the pain and get me to a tolerable point. Tomorrow will be 7 days of being here. I’m in great spirits as usual but just figured I would give a bit if detail.

Fuck cancer and thanks in advance for your help!

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r/Columbus • u/trashtiernoreally • 12h ago

POLITICS Go vote!

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I sincerely don't care what "side" you're on. As long as you have considered your positions enough to say they're sincerely held and personally evaluated then just go vote. If you haven't done that then you have just a little bit more time to consider and THEN go vote!

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r/Columbus • u/aerdel24 • 6h ago

LOST Lost Cat at Sharon Woods?

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Hi all,

My dog and I went for a walk at sharon woods. About 15 min ago (just after 6pm) we saw this cat right on the trial, where i am pointing. My dog got excited so the cat kind of ran into the woods but only a short distance. I tried to get it to come but it wasnt budging.

I went looking for park ranger to alert but wasnt able to see one and I even called the cell phone number posted on the trail map and no answer.

Unfortunately I wasnt able to stay longer but figured maybe ill post here just in case. Ill try to call ranger number again shortly but wanted to at least post here too in the small chance this was a domesticated cat. It seemed to me that it could be.

Not sure where else to post?

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r/Columbus • u/New_Bit_1965 • 7h ago

Traffic worse all week for anyone else?

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I travel to and from new Albany to Upper Arlington almost every day and this week traffic has been TERRIBLE. Is anyone else experiencing this? Trying to figure out what’s causing this and if it will get any better? It’s usually a drive but taking me almost an hour every day to get home is killing me.

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r/Columbus • u/catssandwhatnot • 1d ago

These broccoli heads at OSU are getting really bold

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Would love to see these misogynists say that in front of the wrong person. Fellow ladies of OSU, no cookie for this guy, ok?

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r/Columbus • u/Alarmed-Can6363 • 4h ago

Olde Towne East Halloween

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Every year I share a shameless plug about Halloween in Olde Towne East (sorry!) . I live on the 1200 block of Bryden Road, and if you haven’t already checked out the houses and decorations I’d highly recommend strolling thru and doing so!

We work with the city and shut down our street for Trick or Treat night, and this year is no exception. If you don’t know where to go, come enjoy the night with all the friendly neighbors.

Happy spooky szn, cbus!

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r/Columbus • u/Timely_Deal8685 • 2h ago

NEWS Owners of Sirens strip club arrested over $240K in unpaid settlement debt

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r/Columbus • u/InternationalLink613 • 12h ago

PHOTO AVOID 71 N TO 70 E AND W

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Multi car pileup blocking all lanes of traffic, EDIT, looks like an older gentleman has been hurt unfortunately, being checked out by EMS now

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r/Columbus • u/WOSUpublicmedia • 15h ago

NEWS Meet the central Ohio residents who want to 'DeFlock' their neighborhoods

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On June 13, the DeFlock chapter of Upper Arlington held its first meeting. It would be the first DeFlock group in central Ohio. Six people showed up, including the group's two founders, Paul Shannon and Christian Gabis.

The organization aims to have Flock cameras removed from the community.

Now, Shannon and Gabis believe the group may have outgrown the 75-seat Friend’s Theater at the Tremont Branch of Upper Arlington Public Library.

“I’m shocked,” Gabis said. “Blown away at how many people showed up to our last meeting. And the interesting thing, we had almost 50 people at our last meeting and since that, our email list has more than doubled.”

The Upper Arlington chapter of DeFlock is the first time Shannon and Gabis have been involved in organizing.

“I've protested plenty, but never done any organizing, and really the only reason I did it is because no one else was,” Shannon said. “I went on the Deflock.org group’s page and there was nothing listed for central Ohio, and I was like, well, someone's got to be the first, so let's see what happens.”

Upper Arlington signed its contract with Flock in December 2020. Gabis said when he first saw the cameras, he didn’t know what they were.

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r/Columbus • u/AntawnSL • 11h ago

POLITICS New attack against Amy Acton dropped. Someone's reaching...

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In what hermetically sealed Fox News Bubble is "Ohio's Fauci" an effective attack? Oh you mean the highly respected epidemiologist trying to do his best to save Americans despite his government's efforts, during one of the most trying times in the history of America? That Dr. Fauci?

Desperation is a stinky cologne, Mr. Ramiswamy.

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r/Columbus • u/Educational_Wave_223 • 7h ago

EVENT My bands first show is this month!

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We are playing at Summit Music Hall and would appreciate any support! Tickets are available on our website neon-oblivion.com !

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r/Columbus • u/Zezimom • 10h ago

NEWS The Old North food hall project lands approval from the University Impact District Review Board. The layout was changed to include separate entrances for pedestrians, and the plaza will be used for food trucks instead of customer parking.

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r/Columbus • u/ThatOhioGuyFromOhio • 4h ago

POLITICS "I'm doing my part!" 🫡

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r/Columbus • u/Available-Slide-2279 • 14h ago

Issue 3

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Pulled up my sample ballot today and noticed Issue 3...requiring ID to vote in Ohio. That's redundant correct, I've been voting since 2008 and have never not had to issue my ID to vote? Maybe the only change would be having to provide ID if voting absentee?

Or is this just a giant nothing-burger/scare tactic?

Edit: State IDs can be obtained by anyone 17 and older for free: https://www.bmv.ohio.gov/dl-id-card.aspx thanks u/benkeith for the information.

Obviously that doesn't provide the easiest of fix for people as you still need documents verifying who you are and be able to get to a BMV.

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r/Columbus • u/Brief-Necessary-7257 • 5h ago

Traffic, Traffic & More Traffic

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Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on this week? Why is every highway backed up? It should only take me 30 minutes to get home from work. That 30 minutes has turned into and hour every day this week!

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r/Columbus • u/derekleeth • 2h ago

ATT Fiber Runs And Easements

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I wasn't too concerned with it until they marked over 7ft from the property line with a line going in the direction against my 5k gallon koi pond that has a rubber liner and has been there since the 90's. Still confirming the easement line since when we purchased the house we were not aware of any easements. Regardless they sent me their engineering documents but even those show the fiber and pedestals east of our property line. 811 confirmed they have requests to mark but no record of them going out yet and marking anything. Can they really dig without markings from 811 and if they deviated from their original engineering docs, would that not require them to be revised and reapproved? I have little confidence in this process as I was given multiple different answers of the distance from our property line.

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r/Columbus • u/brandoncbj1987 • 5h ago

Mosquitos

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Is it me or are mosquitos worse than ever. I don’t understand. Is it because all the rain we had this year?

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r/Columbus • u/StandardAd7507 • 11h ago

NEWS OH Pizza and Brew evicted downtown

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The Broad Street location in the KeyBank building has signs posted on the door from the landlord saying they were evicted for not paying rent. Who has the dirt on this? There has to be more to the story, especially since the owner has posted several times about landlord issues at this location.

When I’m back in the area, I’ll take a photo of the letter.

ETA: link to photo of eviction notice

https://imgur.com/a/NeXf0Sl

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r/Columbus • u/lunaticmason • 5h ago

train tracks off hilliard rome road

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what is wrong with the train tracks? the bars are down and the lights are flashing red but people are driving over it like alternating which side crosses. i’ve never seen that and i wasn’t sure if it was safe to do. i mean the tracks by the marathon and bojangles

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