Local Features

* If you’re a jazz junkie, then step into the rhythm of the musical muse this week with two significant — and free — events from which to choose. At 5:30 p.m. today, as part of the new Jazz IN Columbus series, performing on Fourth Street is basically an Indianapolis all-star ensemble known as The Blue Side. The group consists of several musicians well known to Columbus residents — Tad Robinson (pictured), Gordon Bonham, Rob Dixon and Kenny Phelps, the last two 0f whom sold out shows recently at the Jazz at Helen’s series.

Cathy Goode captured this photo of a peaceful sunset over beautiful Lake Lemon in Unionville, Indiana.

Rhonda Bolner took this early morning shot of Charlie 119 from the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum.

Ron Arnold took this photo of the honeysuckle vine and bird house in his backyard.

Jackie Brich took this picture of a Lutheran Church in Oslo, Norway.

I made my first loaf of sourdough last week. It took less time to give birth to our first child than it took to make one loaf of bread.

Calvary Community Church’s Fifth Annual Back to School Block Party, in which organizers have invested more than $5,000, reigns as far more than entertainment with a bounce house, games and other activities. The free gathering from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 27 on the church property across the street from its building at 1031 Chestnut St. in downtown Columbus also serves as a serious outreach and a message to struggling families: We’ve got your back.

It was a spectacle (and for some, a menace) when droves of suit-clad young men showed up to theaters for 2022’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru.”

I liked to call him the Mayor of Kope Kon Pointe.

A.C. Reeves photographed this beautiful September early morning in Woodland Parks.