Smashburger is a promising new food chain in Ohio, with eight restaurants statewide. The company has 193 shops in the country, and its newest place has just opened on North Hamilton Road. Comparable to Five Guys (currently the best place to get a burger), Smashburger might change the minds of Central Ohioans.

Pies and Pints, a new restaurant, located in Worthington, Ohio, in the shopping mall off the 270 interstate, serves a wide variety of pizzas and beer: hence its name. This isn’t just your typical pizza place. The Thai Pie, for example, features shrimp, coconut, curry sauce, cilantro and basil. Another is the Black Bean pie,…

On Friday, March 1st, an Academy audience witnessed its friends be drawn into different illusions. Those students who were hypnotized and those who watched others captivated by Michael Anthony were more than impressed. Taylor True’15 says, “I guess I thought it was going to be a gimmick, but it seemed real and it was hilarious.…

  Artist: Luke Bryan Album: Spring Break . . . Here to Party Release Date: March 5, 2013   The 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards co-host, Luke Bryan, released his fifth spring break-themed album, Spring Break . . . Here to Party, on March 5. This was his first full-length album of tunes to get…

Wild is a tremendous story about a shattered woman finding her way on the Pacific Crest Trail. After the death of her mother, a disintegrated family, and an unsustainable marriage, Cheryl Strayed embarks on an eleven-hundred mile solo hike hopefully to recover from a low, self-destructive place in her life. This memoir focuses on the continuous…

The ambitious Asian grill, Fresh 50, lives up to its name. Gone are the traditional greasy counters, overwhelming menus, and MSG-loaded meals. Enter this clean-cut California version of Asian flair and sophistication, and you will see how it emits a fresh outlook on classic Asian meals. Fresh 50 follows the serving line-up of Chipotle and…

Every year around early to mid-February, we receive decorative red and gold-trimmed envelopes filled with treats in celebration of our annual Chinese New Year celebration at school. This past Monday’s new year celebration (Feb. 11, 2013) was high-spirited and enjoyable to watch.  The Chinese department’s new, elaborate dragon costume was a sensation. The Chinese skit,…

Quite frankly, Romeo and Juliet is overdone. How many times can you remake a story before it bores audiences? We would have guessed by the time it was made into an animated, talking-gnome film, people would understand the story has been exhausted. With that in mind, Warm Bodies is Romeo and Juliet meets the Twilight…