Dublin loses its golf entertainment campus, plus another car crashes into a Clintonville storefront and focaccia makes a comeback.

Good morning, Columbus. It's 37° right now, climbing to 54° under mostly clear skies. The kind of February day that tricks you into thinking spring is here.

Light jacket at sunrise, maybe none by afternoon.

📍 Rise Brands scraps plan for Bogey Inn 'entertainment campus' in Dublin

So much for that golf-themed entertainment complex. Rise Brands just pulled the plug on a project that was supposed to open this summer.

Rise Brands is officially killing its plan to transform The Bogey Inn on Glick Road into a golf-themed "entertainment campus." The company told The Columbus Dispatch the envisioned project simply wasn't feasible at that location.

The company announced the plan just last month: tear down the existing bar, rebuild it with indoor and outdoor bars, a food hall, live entertainment, and a 36-hole putting course. That timeline was absurdly aggressive from the start, and it's now dead.

Could be zoning, economics, site constraints. Whatever it was didn't pencil out fast.

Rise Brands still wants to build this somewhere, just not here. The Bogey Inn itself keeps operating as usual.

Rise Brands runs The Barn at Rocky Fork Creek and Seagull's Beachside Tiki Bar. They know how to build stuff. Just apparently not here. The golf campus was meant to be their next big swing in the Columbus market, but it won't be happening at this site.

The cancellation comes as Dublin continues to see major commercial development along the Sawmill Road corridor and around Bridge Park. Other entertainment concepts have found success in the city, but this particular project couldn't make it work at the Glick Road location. Rise Brands hasn't said whether they're actively looking at alternative sites in the Columbus area or if the concept is on hold indefinitely.

📍 Another car crashes into a Clintonville business

This is at least the third storefront crash in Columbus this year.

A car plowed into Jackson Hewitt Tax Services in Clintonville. No injuries reported, but the storefront took a hit.

This is at least the third storefront crash in Columbus since January. The city still hasn't installed bollards or changed street design in the areas where this keeps happening.

Another storefront, another crash, another day the city does nothing.

⚡ Quick Hits

Mi Tradicion's menu is basically a phone book. The Gahanna spot serves up Mexican comfort food with a menu so long you need a strategy going in. Columbus Underground calls it solid, generous, and worth the trip if you know what you want before you sit down.

📍 Out & About

Your weekend lineup: burlesque for a cause, contemplative folk music, and the return of focaccia.

AHF Presents: Ohh Mamma! Burlesque Show | Saturday | Palace Theatre — Drag superstar Kylie Sonique Love (RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13 winner) headlines this wild celebration of International Condom Day. Proceeds benefit aids Healthcare Foundation programming: safe sex awareness meets Saturday night entertainment.

Carrie Newcomer Concert | Saturday, 7-10pm | Broad Street Presbyterian Church — The singer-songwriter brings her contemplative folk to Broad Street Presbyterian. She'll also perform during Sunday morning worship if you want to catch her twice.

614 Live - Urban Audio Collective | Saturday | 1380 Sullivant Ave — Live R&B and hip-hop performances, local vendors, drinks, and food all under one roof on the west side. The Hilltop's creative scene keeps expanding.

Focaccia! w/ Amy Lozier | Saturday | Columbus State Community College, Mitchell Hall Event Center — A hands-on baking class celebrating Italy's most forgiving bread. You'll leave with dough on your hands and focaccia in your bag.

📜 On This Day

In 1907, cartoonist Milton Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He attended Ohio State, worked at the Columbus Dispatch drawing editorial cartoons, and went on to create Terry and the Pirates, one of the most influential adventure comic strips of the 20th century.

Caniff basically invented how adventure comics looked. Before TV, his strips were the closest thing to watching a movie. He later created Steve Canyon, another long-running strip that cemented his reputation as one of the medium's masters.

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at OSU has his entire collection: one of the world's largest archives of cartoon and comic art. If you care about comics at all, you should go. Rows of original strips, rare prints, and a reminder that Columbus has always punched above its weight in the arts.

Caniff made comics cinematic before anyone called them that. His sense of pacing and shadow influenced generations. His work helped establish comics as a legitimate art form during an era when many dismissed them as children's entertainment. The techniques he developed for visual storytelling, panel composition, and character development are still taught in art schools today.

See you Sunday.

Before coffee. Before the chaos.