COLUMBUS MONTHLY ADVERTISING SECTION Wexner Center Presents
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
COLUMBUS MONTHLY ADVERTISING SECTION wexner center presents performing arts 90/91 A full spectrum of traditional classics, modern, contemporary and experimental works, including the following series offerings: I Great Artists Modern Masters I I Contemporary innovations I Classics • Moscow Virtuosi • Moscow Virtuosi • Spalding Cray • Jay Bolotin with Bebe • Japan Philharmonic • Kronos Quartet • Trisha Brown Company Miller • The Paul Taylor Dance • Emerson String Quartet • Sankai juku • Bebe Miller and Company • Juilliard String Quartet / • Kronos Quartet^^^^^ Company • Emerson String Quartet Billy Taylor Trio • The Paul Taylor Dance • John Kelly j0 • juilliard String Quartet / • Art Ensemble of Chicago Company • Karen Finley ^^ I Billy Taylor Trio • Schoenberg Quartet • Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane • Dianne Mclntyre • Ivo Pogorelich • Arditti String Quartet & Company • Eiko and Koma • New World Symphony • Meredith Monk / • John Zorn's Naked City • Joe Goode Performance • Metropolitan Opera Houston Grand Opera • Meredith Monk / Group I Orchestra Houston Grand Opera • Susan Marshall & Company • The Wooster Group • Susan Hadley with Subscribe to the Wexner Center Performing Arts Season and Bradley Sowash receive savings of at least 20% over single ticket prices. Other subscriber benefits include free parking, a • Guillermo Gomez-Penna complimentary copy of the 1990-91 Works catalogue, quarterly newsletters, monthly calendars and more. emm ] Subscription orders may be placed by mail, by phone with MasterCard or Visa, or in person. Payment options available. Call (614) 292-2354 for more information, or stop by the Wexner Center Ticket Office, located in the lobby of Mershon Auditorium on the campus of The Ohio State University, Monday-Friday from 9 am to 6 pm, and Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm. The Ohio State University J t 1€tC "Next to my family, my counselor was one or my biggest cheerleaders. M**+*¥ more energetic than 1 have in almost ten years. Without a doubt, I have Jenny Craig to thank for that. My counselor made me feel special and was in credibly supportive. Her Marianne Montano lost 65 lbs. SUMMERSPECIAL encouragement was absolutely Lose all the weight you want. vital to my success. And not only that, the food was delicious and the plan was so easy to follow. Price Guaranteed. All in all, Jenny Craig is a terrific program that 1 highly recom- mend. I feel like a new Nowyoucan. person and I certainly look like one. JENNYCRrMG 6c4e*?Af/&i4 d*&u- Call today. Beechcroft Eastland Newark/Heath 848-8080 864-9090 522-5050 Broad Street Lancaster Upper Arlington 2754445 687-5611 442-7555 *Service fee • Jenny's Cuisine additional • Major credit cards accepted • Open Saturdays and evenings • Maintenance/Products optional Upper Arlington Advertising Section / June 1990 1 UP ERA LINGTON Welcome to Upper Arlington! hose of us fortunate enough to live or work in Upper Arlington take pride Tin a community that continues to grow in civic, social and economic strength. Our strength is not in rapid de velopment of new housing or industry, but in the spirit of more than 37,000 peo ple who call the community home. Our housing values are among the highest in Franklin County. Owning a home in Upper Arlington is an excellent investment. Without ever leaving the community, you can visit fine doctors and dentists, eat at first-class restaurants and browse among the latest fashions. We're proud of our police and fire pro tection, our parks and recreation depart ment and our strong, dedicated munici pal work force. Upper Arlington's spirit and pride can be seen and felt in our Fourth of July Parade, our excellent school system, our many recreational opportunities, our 180 acres of park land, our senior center and our cultural arts program. There is some thing for everyone in this stable, mature community. The City of Upper Arlington, The UA City Schools and the Upper Arlington MICHAEL'S KIDS TALK Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to join Columbus Monthly in bringing you this special advertising section. Christiane Cox You'll find stories about our plans to re Age 11m new Upper Arlington's infrastructure (page 3); UA business and retailing (page 7); leisure-time opportunities (page 12); SCHOOL UA schools (page 17); the current hous Jones Middle School ing market (page 23); and a personal reminiscence by our school superinten FAVORITE PASTIME dent, Homer Mincy (page 28). If you'd Softball & Tennis like to know more about UA, just give us FAVORITE VACATION a call! Walt Disney World WHEN I GROW UP... Richard A. King / want to become a stockbroker City Manager GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT Patricia L. Post Straight A's Executive Director U.A. Area Chamber of Commerce FAVORITE STORE Michael's Kidstuff Columbus Monthly's Upper Arlington Advertising Section is published by CM Media Inc., 171 E. Liv ingston Ave., Columbus Ohio 43215. All contents of this publication are copyrighted © 1990 by CM Me Michael's Kidstuff dia Inc. All rights reserved. This publication is pro duced and distributed in cooperation with the City Lane Avenue Shopping Center of Upper Arlington and the Upper Arlington Area Monday-Saturday 10-9 Sunday 12-5 Chamber of Commerce. All photography, unless otherwise credited, is by Rycus Associates Photogra phy. 2 Upper Arlington Advertising Section / June 1990 UPMUNGTOH Preparing for the 21st Century Upper Arlington has been among Franklin County's premier suburbs for more than half a century. Now its time to renew the infrastructure. hen Reed McClelland isn't presid ing over sessions of the Upper Ar Wlington Mayor's Court or chairing meetings of City Council, he finds time to make sure UA residents know some thing about their community's history. "I was giving a talk to the Chamber of Commerce not long ago, recognizing some outstanding students," McClelland says. "I took them back 50 years and pointed out that our competition at that time was Bexley and Grandview. Today it's a much different competitive situa tion." Different indeed. Long gone are the days when Upper Arlington High School's biggest football game of the sea son was against crosstown rival Bexley. While Bexley's population has remained relatively stable at about 15,000 for sev eral decades, Upper Arlington has grown from 9,000 residents in 1950 to about Upper Arlington Service Depanment employees Mike Bear (descending into the manhole) and 37,000 in 1990. Today the Golden Bears Paul Hoover prepare to inspect a portion of the city's sewer lines. The city must replace 15 miles of sanitary sewers during the 1990s. of Upper Arlington High School battle it out against teams from the largest subur suburb was really in the running. look inward, rather than beyond its ban high schools in Central Ohio—Wor But that was before the outerbelt boundaries. "We consider ourselves a thington, Gahanna, Westerville, Grove boom. Today suburban communities mature community," says UA City Man City and rapidly growing Dublin. with easy access to 1-270—Westerville, ager Rich King. "Our focus has to be on Just as high school sports competition Worthington, Dublin and Hilliard—are redoing what we have." has shifted, so have Upper Arlington's enjoying the lion's share of growth and Much of the city's attention in 1990 is municipal rivalries. Not much more than publicity. Upper Arlington, with 99 per on its infrastructure, the vital but often a decade ago, you could still hear lively cent of its 9.2 square miles already in use, out-of-sight, out-of-mind aggregation of cocktail-party debates about whether has been effectively "built out" for nearly municipal service systems that are the Upper Arlington or Bexley was the best 20 years. To remain competitive with cit city's primary responsibilities. Unlike, place to live in Franklin County. The im ies that still have plenty of land available say, Dublin, where most streets, utility plication, of course, was that no other for development. Upper Arlington must lines and electrical systems have been Upper Arlington Advertising Section / June 1990 3 UHRA'UNCTON built in the last 20 years, many of Upper forth—and we're setting a mechanism in erable cost of an orderly, ongoing capital Arlington's systems date back more than place in which, on an annual basis, we'll improvements program. But King and 50 years, some nearly to the founding of be allocating a certain amount of money the members of the Upper Arlington the then village by King Thompson in to replace those, based on their useful City Council believe they've developed a 1913. life. At some point in the future we will funding plan that distributes the financial Particularly in the older sections of burden fairly among those who benefit Upper Arlington south of Lane Avenue, most. many infrastructure elements are nearing "All of these facilities—sewers, water- the ends of their useful life spans. And "The city's agenda of urgent lines, streets, street lights and parks—ex some, city officials acknowledge, are on and nearly urgent projects ist in this community for one reason," borrowed time. Many streets need com King says, "and that's to support the resi plete rebuilding, not just another coat of goes on for several dential environment. We get a minimal blacktop. Upper Arlington's street-light pages. And for the first time, amount of revenue from the property system is antiquated and incomplete. says Rich King, the projects tax. The majority goes to schools, and by Storm sewers are overloaded after heavy the time the county takes its piece, rains, causing water to back up into base have been analyzed and the there's very little left for us. Our major ments; some storm and sanitary sewers needs ranked revenue source has been and will contin may be partially blocked.