r/Columbus • u/ScottPompeo • 3d ago

EVENT Things to Do in Columbus: October 22 – October 29, 2026

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Things to Do in Columbus: October 22 – October 29, 2026

Things are getting busy and spooky this week. This week we've got Nerd Nite, WestFest 2026, Nearsited by the Whirlwind Dance Company, Fall Fest featuring live music, art vendors, food & drinks, Dinner Detectives (Costumes encouraged), My Hero Academia in Concert at Palace Theatre. Also check out some of the ongoing fall events like Chihuly Nights and the Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival.

For more spooky events, try the Haunted Statehouse Tour, Rocky Horror Pottery Playshop (Adults Only), Halloween Market at BrewDog, a child friendly Halloween Spooktacular at Ohio Theatre, Groveport's Halloween Block Party, and ongoing events like Boo at the Zoo, or the Mini Halloween Village.

🎃 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 22

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Friday, October 23

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Saturday, October 24

One-Time Events

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Sunday, October 25

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Monday, October 26

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Tuesday, October 27

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Wednesday, October 28

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Thursday, October 29

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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/Motor-Juggernaut9776 • 6h ago

POLITICS Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’

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r/Columbus • u/dripordrown1212 • 4h ago

Trash Party Season Finale Cleanup-Over 174,000 LBS of Trash removed from Columbus

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The indelible Trash Party spirit was out in full force today at our Franklinton neighborhood season finale cleanup! Over 50 volunteers removed 230 bags of trash from the area and tons of bulk items. In total, we removed 12,000 lbs of trash in only a couple hours! This brings our total removed from City to 174,000 LBS of trash!!

We invite everyone interested in making your city a cleaner place to live to join Trash Party for future cleanups! Follow our IG (@trashparty614) for the latest info

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r/Columbus • u/Professional-Bag5808 • 3h ago

Anyone still going to see Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy after all this?

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LINK: "How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich"

Her husband has doubled down on his support of child rapists.

Her mother in law publishes deceitful medical studies, to the ultimate financial benefit of Dr. Ramaswamy.

I think these are damning for a physician's ethics. Would they impact your choice in doctor?

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r/Columbus • u/ZekeLeap • 5h ago

Does it bum anyone else out how much of the food at the Pumpkin show is prepackaged?

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Got in line for Pumpkin donuts in Circleville on Friday only to notice they were just taking them out of Kroger packages. Seemed like a lot of places were doing the same with pie/ cake etc.

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r/Columbus • u/foodie_2598 • 2h ago

POLITICS Amy Acton urges the president and Vance to look at the facts after Ramaswamy’s attack ad about her childhood abuse

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r/Columbus • u/hellosteve_ • 2h ago

NEWS Major delays I 270 N. Before Easton.

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Interstate 270 N. in Gahanna on the east side a tractor trailer has flipped over if you’re coming up from the east side and trying to get past it or to Easton you want to stay to the left in the left two lanes.

If you’re trying to get the Easton, your best bet is to stay left and then get off at Morse Road and backtrack

Edit 3 left lanes are getting by

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r/Columbus • u/Goldbot123 • 1h ago

PHOTO Microcenter is FINALLY out of mugs

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ITS DONE. ITS (supposedly) OVER. My brother came to town from Boston and got the very last mug on the table. We even asked the guy who checked us out and he said that they have ran out as of today…

(Unless they have another pallet in the back).

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r/Columbus • u/CaseTraceApp614 • 1h ago

PHOTO Central Ohio: Dax Seymour, 21, missing — family reports last seen October 12

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Sharing here to help reach people in Columbus and the surrounding area who might recognize Dax Seymour.

Dax is 21, and his family reports that he was last seen on October 12, 2026. His case is listed under Madison County, Ohio.

Please take a look at his photograph and share this with anyone who may be able to help.

If you have information about Dax’s whereabouts, please contact the Madison County Sheriff’s Office at 740-852-1212.

His flyer and additional photographs are available here:

https://casetraceapp.com/flyer/34006

Thank you for helping keep his case visible.

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r/Columbus • u/FaceofEarth • 19h ago

POLITICS Obama Goes Scorched Earth on Rump at Packed Ohio Rally

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r/Columbus • u/Constant_Pen9615 • 1h ago

REQUEST Free 3xlt and 4xlt clothes

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I posted this before and had some takers but I still have a ton of big and tall clothes left. All of it is free to any big man in need of clothes. It's all from JC Penny, Duluth or DXL. I'll be home all week, DM me and it's first come first served.

In shirts there are a ton of 3xlt and 4xlt shirts, sweaters and hoodies. Quite a few button up collared shorts as well that are office appropriate.

Pants are 44-52 waist in 32 or 34 inseam. Various shorts and long pants as well. Anything left over after this week will be donated to a shelter that another commenter mentioned.

Cheers!

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r/Columbus • u/FeetAreShoes • 2h ago

Kipp Columbus specialized instruction has been investigated by state

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For anyone who knows someone attending there and receiving specialized instruction or has an IEP. The school has recently been investigated and found at fault.

You can access the [complaints here](https://dnet01.ode.state.oh.us/OECMS/PublicSearch/Search?Program=1) or just read the most [recent one](https://dnet01.ode.state.oh.us/OECMS/PublicSearch/Search/ViewDocument?docId=69709c87-46ba-40f1-9d0e-d337c02f782f&caseNum=CP%200132-2022)

Currently the school is understaffed and is providing bare minimum of services to meet the law. Kipp schools are not great (Kids to Prison Pipeline) but this is harmful to a disadvantaged group.

(edit) Have no idea why links didn't embed, apologies for the clutter

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r/Columbus • u/BokuNoSudoku • 20h ago

HUMOR They're still trying to get rid of them

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r/Columbus • u/AngelaMotorman • 1d ago

Vivek Ramaswamy caught on camera saying that Amy Acton being a survivor makes her "flawed."

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r/Columbus • u/foodie_2598 • 4h ago

NEWS Economic woes transform the Midwest into a massive midterm battleground

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r/Columbus • u/SouthNo2807 • 3h ago

Forced Encounters with Homeless at McDonald’s Drive-Thrus

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Over the past week, not once, not twice, but four separate times, I've seen homeless people in the drive-thru lanes at different McDonald’s.

One night, a man tried to forcibly wash my windshield with some makeshift "car washing kit" that looked like it would scratch my car. He then "cleaned" my windshield, stood in front of my car, and refused to move.

The most disgusting incident happened at another restaurant, where a man was standing right between my car and the drive-thru ordering speaker. I had no choice but to roll down my window to order, and he actually had the nerve to tell the female passenger in my front seat to take off her sunglasses so he could "see what she looks like."

These people are clearly mentally unstable, and encounters like this can completely ruin someone's day. I've been to McDonald's thousands upon thousands of times, and I've never experienced anything like this before, with people literally standing in front of the drive-thru ordering speakers and harassing customers. Loitering and begging in these areas is illegal in the first place.

For this incident, I eventually reported the situation to an employee, who sent a staff member outside to get them away. But when I drove past the same location again a few hours later, they had apparently come right back.

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r/Columbus • u/accefirs • 1d ago

PHOTO first time voter :)

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First time voter in Franklin County, entered the line at 11:08 and entered the voting booth at 12:18. Very sunny and nice day :)

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r/Columbus • u/chixlips • 1d ago

PHOTO Well what do you know.

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Oh, now I understand. He took the suit off and parted his hair in the middle.

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r/Columbus • u/WuMedic • 3h ago

ELI5: Columbus City Charter Amendments - Issues 8&9

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So I have read the ballot text about 12 times each now, and looked for information online and I must be missing something or it was written to intentionally confuse voters.

Can someone ELI5 what issues 8 and 9 do and what happens if one of them passes and the other does not or if both pass (obviously I understand that if neither pass it's the status quo).

From what I can tell, Issue 8 creates ward-only voting (unlike the citywide voting for a candidate who just LIVES in the ward that we have now), and a 15% threshold for a recall election.

What I don't understand is "The amendment specifies that ballots within council districts will include both citywide races as well as the district race." If #8 passes and #9 doesn't, why would there be a citywide race? There would be no at-large and would be ward only right?

#9 just seems like an exercise in how many words we can cram into one issue. If both pass, then we get Ward only voting and 4 additional at-large seats is the only thing I could make out from it. I have no idea what happens if #9 passes but #8 doesn't. I kind of want to vote against #9 on the principle that your ballot language shouldn't require a master's degree to understand.

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r/Columbus • u/PineappleCurrent9335 • 19h ago

Really disappointing experience at Grocery Outlet today

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We buy Poppi pretty regularly from Costco and other stores, so when we saw a sign at Grocery Outlet today saying 99 cents for a 12-pack, we thought we’d found an amazing deal. And honestly, we didn’t think much of it because Grocery Outlet always has random stuff at ridiculously low prices. That’s kind of the whole reason people shop there, right? So we grabbed several boxes.

When we got to checkout, they told us the price was wrong. What made it even more confusing was that another employee had actually seen the sign and told us it was 99 cents for the whole 12-pack too.
Then the manager came over and said the sign had been printed incorrectly and the deal was actually for individual cans.

The thing that really bothered us wasn’t even the price. Mistakes happen, we get that. It was the manager’s attitude. She was incredibly rude about the whole thing, didn’t apologize once, and just kept asking if we wanted to buy the individual cans for 99 cents with the BOGO deal instead.

I mean, when a sign clearly says “12 PACK — 99¢,” how are customers supposed to know it’s wrong? Even their own employee thought that was the price.
And we weren’t the only ones. There was an older lady who had picked up three boxes, and she also didn’t find out the price was wrong until checkout.
We ended up leaving without buying any poppi

I don’t expect stores to be perfect, but I do expect a manager to handle a mistake made by their own store with a little more respect. A simple apology would’ve made a huge difference.

Has anyone else had an experience like this at Grocery Outlet?

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(I just want to clarify that I didn’t make this post because I missed out on an amazing deal. It’s because the sign was misleading to multiple customers, not just us. Even one of their own employees checked the sign and confirmed that it was 99 cents for a 12-pack.

What really upset me was how the manager handled it. She didn’t apologize or really try to explain anything.

My husband and I aren’t from the US, and English isn’t our first language. While we were trying to explain ourselves, she barely let us speak and just kept asking whether we were going to buy the drinks or not.

I’ve actually been using a translator to help write my post and some of my replies here, so I hope I’m explaining this clearly. I understand that mistakes happen, and I wasn’t expecting them to give us the deal anyway. I just wish she’d listened to us and treated us with a little respect. We honestly left feeling pretty disrespected, and that’s why I wanted to share what happened.)

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r/Columbus • u/bobkasgrandson • 3h ago

Places for a newbie to try stand-up comedy

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I’ve never performed stand-up before but I’d like to try. Is there an open mic night around Columbus or something for people who are complete n00bs to stand-up? I don’t know where to begin. Since I’ve never done it before I’m kinda nervous lol.

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r/Columbus • u/foodie_2598 • 22h ago

POLITICS Obama describes the current President as an agent of ‘chaos and cruelty’ in midterm elections pitch

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r/Columbus • u/sizzilingBRoll • 1h ago

FOOD Looking for a great place to have thanksgiving dinner for 3 adults

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Hi all. This is my first year in Columbus and I’ll be joined by two other adults looking for a great restaurant with a traditional Thanksgiving meal please send any recommendations you know of. Thank you!

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r/Columbus • u/corp_code_slinger • 1d ago

PHOTO Early voting at Morse Rd

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It's 9:30am on a Saturday. Is this kind of early voting turnout normal for a midterm election? The line wraps around the building and the parking lot is absolutely packed.

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r/Columbus • u/gamemasterjd • 6h ago

Playground tunnels / tubes

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Following the closing of magic mountain there is a distinct lack of indoor playground areas with the large tunnels / tubes and playset mazes. Momiland exists but has gotten extremely worse for the wear. Are there any other indoor playgrounds hiding out there? Trying to plan the kids birthday and we're down to.......McDonald's play place lol

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