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  • Father's Day for the First Gentleman
    Working largely from home, he cooks, gardens, and offers support for his wife.
    It’s around 6 p.m. on a recent Wednesday and Andy Moffit’s wife, the governor of Rhode Island, is still at work, leaving him on father duty.
    At the moment, that involves kneeling in the yard of the family’s East Side home in jeans and T-shirt planting tomatoes with his son, Tommy. His and Gov. Gina Raimondo’s daughter, Ceci, 15, is at ballet.
    As he digs, Moffit explains he’s passing on a tradition. His parents had a big garden in Michigan, where he grew up and went to college.
    He holds up his hand to simulate the mitten-shaped state and point out his hometown, which brings a look from Tommy that seems to say, “Not this again.”
    Apparently, it’s not the first time Moffit has used his hand as a Michigan map. It’s one of those things dads do, and 12-year-olds roll their eyes at.
    Moffit is often asked what it’s like to be the spouse of a female governor – one of nine in America – but this being Father’s Day, I was curious about the First Gentleman’s “First Dad” side.
    10 min
  • Florida lightning kills man and two giraffes
    Severe weather season is alive in Florida, the lightning capital of the world. Three deaths including two giraffes have happened so far in 2019. Listen to lightning safety tips from the Palm Beach Post weather reporter Kimberly Miller.
    2 min
  • Ep 84: Father’s Day with Austin musicians who are stay-at-home dads
    In the Live Music Capital of the World, it’s not uncommon for fathers who regularly play gigs in the clubs at night to be on dad-duty during the morning and afternoon if their spouse has a full-time day job. We talked to two such Daytime Dads as Father’s Day approaches: Corey Baum, who plays urban country music as the leader of Croy & the Boys, and Andrew Nolte, a pianist and pop music composer who was our December 2018 Austin360 Artist of the Month.
    25 min
  • In-depth look at starting a rooftop bar
    Rooftop bars are having a moment in central Ohio -- from Seventh Son Brewing Co. adding a retractable rooftop to their second-story space last year to the brand-new Lincoln Social Rooftop opening in downtown Columbus.
    For this week's episode of "The Great Food Debate," host Abby Armbruster discussed the work that goes into opening a rooftop restaurant and bar in a one-on-one interview with Orcun Turkay, the general manager of AC Hotel Columbus Dublin, which has VASO on its top floor.
    Turkay has been with the hotel since it was under development, and has seen its share of awards, including "most beautifully designed bar" in Ohio by Architectural Digest. 
    Listen to this week's episode to find out what it takes to create a new menu, something that Turkay and his team do at least twice a year, and if they'll bring back the snow globe-esque domes for its patio this winter.
    Other spots mentioned in this episode:
    - Lincoln Social Rooftop, 711 N. High St., Columbus
    - Juniper, 580 N. Fourth St., Columbus
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    23 min

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