r/Columbus • u/ScottPompeo • 7h ago

Things to Do in Columbus: October 1 – October 8, 2026

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Things to Do in Columbus: October 1 – October 8, 2026

We've got an amazing, action-packed week ahead across Central Ohio as October kicks into gear! Highlights include 10th Annual Bed Race, Oktoberfest in New Albany, Weezer at Nationwide Arena, Shaboozey at KEMBA Live!, Monthly Ice Cream Social @ Jeni's with TinyACO and the Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter at Newport Music Hall!

🎃 Halloween Highlights

This week's spooky lineup includes The Blair Witch Project: Film Screening and Q&A, Bloodrave: Halloween Tour, Haunting the House Down II: A Sober Halloween Drag Show, Short North Hops on High, Short North Highball Halloween, and COSI After Dark - Halloween Tattoo Carnival. Those last three events all have a TinyACO event tied to them if you want to go with some friends.

You can find a full list of Halloween themed events at the end.

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 1

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Friday, October 2

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Saturday, October 3

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Sunday, October 4

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Monday, October 5

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Tuesday, October 6

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Wednesday, October 7

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Thursday, October 8

One-Time Events

Recurring Events

Ongoing & Multi-Day Events

Upcoming Events

🎃 Spooky Season & Halloween 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/AutoModerator • 9h ago

Where to live, eat, and drink in Columbus (October 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.

Previous threads

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r/Columbus • u/Throwingsofas • 7h ago

PHOTO Rescued statue from the razed Buca di Beppo

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r/Columbus • u/IndustryRobertPlant • 2h ago

POLITICS Acton up by six points in recent polls

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Obviously we can’t get complacent, but this is a pretty huge spread from even a few weeks ago. The tides are turning all across the country, you can tell the GOP is terrified. The fact that two of the biggest red states in the country, Ohio (Cold Florida) and Florida (Warm Ohio) might get Democratic governors is so wild.

Trump really messed up.

Edit: ok it seems that some of you are missing the first sentence here, so I’ll be more clear.

This doesn’t mean you can just stay home. Go vote, tell your friends and family to vote, tell strangers to vote.

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r/Columbus • u/Motor-Juggernaut9776 • 3h ago

POLITICS 1 in 4 respondents incorrectly identified Sherrod Brown as the incumbent U.S. Senator in BGSU's September 2026 poll

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https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/democracy-and-public-policy-research-network/bgsu-poll.html

Notably, while 9 in 10 respondents could correctly identify Republicans as currently in control of Congress, 1 in 4 respondents incorrectly identified Sherrod Brown as the incumbent U.S. Senator.

Thought this was interesting, might partially explain why his polling lead is greater compared to other "toss-up" races like Maine for example

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r/Columbus • u/scaptai • 5h ago

NEWS (CW: slurs) Racism in Rural Ohio Follow Up

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Following up on my post from the other day about the KKK flyers being passed around in Hillsboro, Ohio. Worthington and Clintonville got hit the same exact night and both places are about an hour and a half away from Hillsboro, so this wasn’t just a couple of people creating flyers to cause trouble as some suggested. I’ve attached screenshots that two women of color received from a fake account and a random number for making a post to bring awareness to what happened in Hillsboro. Both women have since deleted their posts out of fear for their own safety.

There is going to be a rally in Hillsboro on Sunday to stand against this hatred if anyone would like to show up. I’ll attach an event link for more info. Also I’m sorry to anyone in Worthington and Clintonville who were affected by this bs.

Stand Against the Klan: No Hate in Hillsboro event link: https://www.facebook.com/share/1DqR9EbpQV/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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r/Columbus • u/Professional-Clue448 • 50m ago

Avoid The Quarry Apartments: months without AC, broken amenities, and management that won’t answer

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Avoid The Quarry Apartments outside of Grandview off 5th— months without AC, broken amenities, and management that won’t answer

Posting this because I wish somebody had warned me before moving here. We’ve lived at The Quarry for about five years, and I genuinely cannot understand how this place operates the way it does while charging what they charge.

The biggest issue is our AC has been broken since the beginning of July. Not a few days. Not a week. Months. During August, our apartment was getting up around 95 degrees in the afternoon. We have two cats, and it got so hot that we literally had to pay people to watch them because we didn’t feel safe leaving them in our own apartment. So we’re paying full rent while also paying somebody else because our apartment is too hot for our pets, and somehow that still wasn’t enough to get the AC fixed.

Getting ahold of the office is a joke too. Seriously, try calling them. In our experience, they almost never answer the phone, and emails go unanswered. Eventually you realize the only way you’re getting any kind of response is by physically going into the office, and then you get the same runaround every time. “We’re waiting on somebody.” “Someone’s out of town.” “Maintenance will be there tomorrow.” “They’ll be there Monday.” “This person has to approve it.” Then tomorrow comes and nothing happens. Monday comes and nothing happens. You go back into the office, get another explanation, another promise, and the whole cycle starts over. After dealing with this for years, it honestly feels like they’ll tell you whatever they need to tell you in that moment just to get you out of the office.

And apparently we are FAR from the only people dealing with this. A lot of residents have gotten to the point where they’re putting their rent into escrow just to try to get maintenance issues handled. That alone should tell you how bad things have gotten. People should not have to take formal action just to get basic repairs done in the place they’re paying to live in.
What’s even crazier is that from what we’ve seen and heard, there are so many people doing that now that even residents who have gone the escrow route are still waiting weeks for things to get fixed. There’s basically a backlog. So if the people who have already taken that step are still waiting around a month or more for maintenance, what do you think happens to everybody else who hasn’t? You get pushed even further to the bottom and it feels like nobody is coming at all.

We didn’t go the escrow route ourselves because of our situation with buying a house and not wanting anything to interfere with that process, but plenty of other residents have. The fact that people are having to do that in the first place just to get the property to handle basic maintenance is insane.

What makes the AC situation even more ridiculous is that when we first moved here and had an AC problem, they actually had portable AC units for residents to use temporarily. So they already know this solution exists. I’ve suggested multiple times that they buy more. These units cost a few hundred bucks. If you know AC failures are an ongoing issue at your property, wouldn’t it make sense to keep enough portable units around so somebody isn’t sitting in a 90+ degree apartment for weeks? Apparently not.
And meanwhile, look at the amenities residents are paying for. The dog parks are awful, the car wash doesn’t work, the vacuum doesn’t work, one of the pools is completely closed, and the gym equipment is garbage. Yet rent keeps getting collected every month without a problem. They act like they have no options and no money to fix anything, but residents are paying a lot to live here and still dealing with broken or unusable amenities and basic maintenance problems.

Eventually we filed a complaint with the City of Columbus because we couldn’t get anywhere ourselves. The property was given a deadline to address the AC and other issues. And now, right at the end of that deadline, literally two days before we move out, maintenance calls us and asks, “Is your AC fixed?”

What???

YOU ARE THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT.

If the AC had been fixed, wouldn’t YOU know? Because presumably somebody from YOUR maintenance department would have fixed it. That phone call pretty much perfectly summarizes what living here has been like.

They’ve gone through multiple maintenance crews since we’ve lived here. We’ve even had maintenance workers come into our apartment and tell us they didn’t know how to work on these AC units because they’d never worked on them before. And almost every time I’m in the office, somebody else is there pissed off about some maintenance issue that hasn’t been handled.

We finally bought a house and we’re getting the hell out. I’m posting this for anyone searching Reddit later for The Quarry Apartments, apartments in Columbus, or where not to rent in Columbus, because I know that’s exactly the kind of thing I would’ve searched before moving somewhere.

Talk to actual residents before you sign anything. Don’t just look at the website, the amenities list, or the Google rating. And if you already live here and are dealing with this stuff, document everything. Save emails. Screenshot maintenance requests. Take pictures and videos. Take pictures of your thermostat. Write down dates, names, and exactly what you were told. Because when residents are having to put rent into escrow just to get basic maintenance handled, and even THEN they’re still waiting weeks, that should tell you everything you need to know about how bad the situation has gotten.

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r/Columbus • u/Chaseism • 2h ago

NEWS Gov. DeWine signs bill to suspend Ohio gas tax for 90 days

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Ohio lawmakers approved a temporary suspension of the state's gas tax at the request of two gubernatorial candidates locked in a tight race focused on affordability.

House Bill 519, which passed with GOP and Democratic support, will suspend Ohio's 38.5 cents-per-gallon gas tax and 47 cents-per-gallon diesel tax, reducing them to virtually zero for 90 days. The change would save the average driver about $80 around the elections and the holidays, though estimates vary.

Legislators approved spending more than $725 million in taxpayer dollars to ease drivers’ pain at the gas pump, and Gov. Mike DeWine signed the gas tax suspension into law.

The change will take effect on Oct. 4.

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r/Columbus • u/Rare-Turnover-3344 • 3h ago

Started driving two months ago. Keep having vehicles merge into my lane like they don't see me

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Is this normal for highway driving? I woulda let the truck over but he didn't use a signal and wasn't expecting him to move. And I made a lot of space for him after but he drove off. I've almost had my car ran into 4-5 times in the last 2 months

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r/Columbus • u/whyounowin • 5h ago

NEWS No charges filed after videos show Ohio soccer players bound, blindfolded

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r/Columbus • u/jeff61813 • 6h ago

The Hilltop Doesn't get any love for it's sunrises

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r/Columbus • u/rtt3532 • 2h ago

European dude feeling kind of lost

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Hi everyone,

I am a European dude here in Columbus for a while. I've been here a month and I have one more month to go. I'm here on a work placement.

I'm feeling a bit lost in the scale of everything (I come from a small village in Southern Europe) and feel I'm missing out. Where do you guys find events and things?

I am near High Street and I think it is warping my view of Columbus ha! The Kroger there was an experience! I've been shopping more in Lucky's Market.

But I am running the half-marathon coming up and I've been training on the Olentangy Trail and Scioto Trail and that's been great.

I think I'm just too much of an introvert! And I don't have a car.

Just wanted to reach out!

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r/Columbus • u/Apollo847 • 21h ago

PHOTO For the love of god someone tell me who’s responsible for these stickers/posters plastered over downtown 😂

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I’ve cracked up at every one of them and need to know who to thank.

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r/Columbus • u/CMDR-L • 7h ago

PHOTO 'Mornin

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r/Columbus • u/Pimplicate • 6h ago

Anyone Wanna Go Outside and Play?

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I've been feeling a little couped up and everything has been a bit stale lately, I'm guessing I'm not the only one. Anyone want to go outside and do stuff? The weather is actually nice finally!

Things I like to do: Drive spiritedly, wrench on cars, walk around in the woods, flip through bins at record stores, hit up local concerts, catch comedy shows.

Things I don't do: drinking, sports, large crowds.

I'm open to trying new things as long as they aren't based around the things I don't do.

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r/Columbus • u/Stinkoplotz • 9h ago

POLITICS Ohio immigrant group adds to its list of criminally charged federal agents

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r/Columbus • u/Improvisedbackpakguy • 2h ago

Drivers license system down state-wide

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Just to give everyone a heads up. I went to renew my license just now and the system is down for getting a new license or renewing. I was told it’s down state-wide wide, they can’t photos. There was no estimate on when the system would be back.

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r/Columbus • u/stankmanly • 1d ago

NEWS Columbus, Ohio, rolls out free menstrual hygiene products to all sports venues

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r/Columbus • u/chlochlooooo • 2h ago

PHOTO 270 southbound

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270 southbound near Tuttle at a standstill due to what appears to be a car on fire

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r/Columbus • u/steelersfever • 6h ago

PHOTO What type of hawk is this?

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Also i love this picture

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r/Columbus • u/BlockDifferent733 • 50m ago

REQUEST Sneaker heads please help!

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Hello Reddit family! Thank you in advance for any info you share! I purchased a storage unit at auction and it had a pair of highly collectible Jordan’s in it. Two of my coworkers are into sneakers more than I am these days and they think the shoes are authentic but they have not seen a pair in person until I brought the pair I won in the storage auction to them. Is there somewhere I can go in Columbus to get them professionally authenticated? My worry is it’s such a rare shoe that not many people have seen it in person to even know how to authenticate it. I’m trying to avoid shipping it to get authenticated if possible.

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r/Columbus • u/theabebe • 22h ago

we deserve better public transit

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by the COTA 4 just not showing up for an hour

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r/Columbus • u/Antique_Western_ • 4h ago

PHOTO Interesting cloud formation on the east side

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r/Columbus • u/dynobro_jones • 22h ago

Traffic in 2026

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Is it just me but is traffic been getting steadily worse throughout the year? And it’s not even a rush hour anymore it’s all hours of the day, any direction, just an explosion of traffic.

I know Columbus has been growing but it feels like there’s been a serious jump in 2026, and not even just because of construction. Side note- sure would be cool if we had a passenger rail or metro system to get around the city but I digress.

Wondering what you guys think

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r/Columbus • u/Vast-Topic9199 • 5h ago

REQUEST what's the best downtown lunch you can realistically get in 30 minutes?

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not “30 minutes if there's no line and you already know where to park.” actually leave work, get food, eat, and be back in about half an hour.

I've been working around downtown more lately and I'm realizing a lot of places that look like quick lunch spots aren't really quick once noon hits.

doesn't need to be fancy. ideally somewhere you can get a decent meal for around $10-12 without spending most of the break waiting for it.

what places actually pass the 30 minute test?

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