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The pop artist announced her new "Ultrasound" tour ahead of her June 27 release of the album "Virgin." The New Zealand singer is known for her unique vocal talent and hit tracks like "Royals," "Team" and "Ribs." The tour will kick off in September in Texas and stop in Columbus about a week later. Lorde will perform at the Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Drive, on Sept. 23. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. May 16. A presale will start May 14 at lorde.co.nz/tour. "Ultrasound" will tour 38 dates across...

At just 20 years old, genre-bending singer-songwriter Jessie Murph has taken the country music world by storm, dominating charts and wowing crowds with her powerhouse live performances. Fresh from making her Coachella debut in April, the "High Road" singer just dropped dates for her highly anticipated "Worldwide Hysteria" tour, and local country fans can count themselves lucky — Columbus made the cut. Murph will be taking her talents to KEMBA Live! for an outdoor performance on Aug. 15. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on May 9 at axs.com....

Pataskala extended its freeze on businesses growing, processing or selling adult-use marijuana within the Licking County city. The City Council on May 5 extended the city's moratorium on issuing and processing permits related to the cultivation, processing and dispensing of marijuana for adult-use until Dec. 31, according to a YouTube video of the meeting. The moratorium, originally approved Sept. 3, was set to expire July 1. Council members enacted it to allow officials time to review state regulations that were supposed to be finalized last fall. But legislators still haven't...

A TikTok sensation and one of pop music's freshest artists will take his best hits on the road for an arena tour. Following his debut performance on "Saturday Night Live," Benson Boone announced his fall 2025 "American Heart" arena tour. The Grammy nominated pop artist will kick off the tour Aug. 22 and will stop in Columbus on Aug. 25 at Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on May 9 on ticketmaster.com. A presale will begin at 10 a.m. on May 8. The...

If it seemed like it rained a lot on Saturday, May 3, you're not wrong. Columbus set a new rainfall record for the date May 3 with 1.39 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington. That beat the previous record of 1.16 inches set in 2011. The weather service reported at 5 p.m. May 3 that the record had been broken with 1.32 inches of rain recorded, but continued rainfall into the evening and night added to the day's total. Some areas around central Ohio received...

It’s always been fun to think about how many refrigerators in Columbus kitchens are adorned with weathered newsprint photos I’ve taken. It’s probably more likely that they’ll be shared on Facebook walls these days, but I’ve certainly photographed a lot of you since starting at The Columbus Dispatch. Just this week, I was asked for a print of a photo because I captured the man’s “best sports memory of his life.” I also got to use my favorite party trick — opening the photo archive app on my phone and...

• Gaynelle Sloman's painting "Some Place in Time" is featured in the Ohio Art League's "Mindful: The Art of Love & Loss" exhibition. • Sloman, a multimedia artist with a background in graphic design and advertising, also has experience in filmmaking and acting. • Sloman's artwork has been displayed in various venues, including Bryn Du Mansion and the Ohio State Fair. Gaynelle Sloman is an award-winning artist whose painting, "Some Place in Time" (acrylic on canvas 2023, reworked 2025), is on view in the Ohio Art League show, "Mindful: The...

• Pink lady’s slippers are the most common lady's-slipper orchid in Ohio, but they are still rare and mostly found in the southeastern part of the state. • The orchids trick bumblebees into pollinating them with their vibrant, nectarless flowers. • Transplanting pink lady’s slippers is often unsuccessful because they rely on a symbiotic relationship with soil fungi. The largest family of flowering plants in the world is the massive sunflower family (Asteraceae) with over 32,000 species thus far described. No. 2 is the orchid family (Orchidaceae) with about 28,000...