Opinion

Turnstile’s singer Brenden Yates singer thanked Columbus for Turnstile’s bassist Franz
Lyons towards the finale of Turnstile’s Kemba live outdoor show.

Turnstile’s set in front of 5,200 people under the heavens started with the embracing ambiance
of Never Enough which thundered once the guitars, and drums kicked in. Kids moshed with a collective exuberance after the introduction pronounced allure of hardcore’s promise.

Turnstile is from Baltimore.
Franz is from Columbus.

I’d watched Turnstile’s last Columbus show in front of a sold-out Kemba indoor show of 2,300 people in 2022. Turnstile doubled their Columbus audience and then some. Kemba’s new attendees included people who knew Franz but weren’t familiar with Turnstile’s music.

LOD Embassy Boardshop Columbus was now accompanied by Cafe Bourbon Street alumni circa 2009, Old Town East skateboarding, and over 5000 thousand teenagers. Walking around Turnstile show was  kinda like Comfest meets Camp Flog.

Every day brings new indictments for Israel. The early accusations of genocide by South Africa are now quickly becoming an accepted legal definition among international bodies and governments alike. The latest indictment came from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

 "The Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have had and continue to have the genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip," the UNHRC's Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) report unambiguously stated. While this may seem obvious to those watching the Israeli genocide unfold in real time, the step is historic nonetheless.

Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Spanish language songs including Buena Vista Social Club, Lila Downs, Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Eddie Pamieri and more!

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It is interesting how President Donald Trump keeps whining about the 20 alleged Israeli hostages that are reportedly still held by Hamas in Gaza, demanding that they be released immediately, while ignoring the hundreds of unarmed Palestinians that are being murdered daily by Israeli military and armed contractors as well as by deliberate starvation. Also, the thousands of Palestinians who had nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza and are nevertheless being held without charge in Israeli prisons under horrific conditions including torture are of no interest to the US president and his team. Trump is of course profoundly ignorant, demonstrated most recently during his 55 minute rambling speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he attacked both the UN institutionally as well as nearly every delegate and nation represented in the room, minus the Palestinians, of course, for whom he had blocked the issuance of visas guaranteeing that they would have no voice or presence in New York.