As a young girl, I thought the front yard went on for miles, but when I go back to Ohio as an adult, I see it’s just about twenty-five feet of grass. Our space is family friendly and wheelchair accessible, with plenty of comfy tables for group seating.Our first home was a modest ranch house on Tinkers Creek Road, tucked in between the quiet, rural street and the crick, where we’d go to skip rocks and hunt for treasures. Our performance space features a wide range of offerings from panel discussions, local and touring author readings, musicians, magicians, trivia, themed storytelling, poetry open mics, and more. Our bar serves cocktails, wine, and draft beer, and our cafe serves locally roasted coffee, house-made vegan meats and cheezes, sandwiches, salads, pizzas, dips, and more. As a bookshop, we carry an exciting, carefully curated list of titles almost exclusively devoted to independently published literature.
Two Dollar Radio Headquarters (HQ)-a locally owned and operated family-run shop opened in 2017-is an indie bookstore, performance space, and fully vegan bar, coffeehouse, and cafe located on the South Side of Columbus, Ohio. Two Dollar Radio acknowledges that this land where we live and work, commonly known as "Columbus, Ohio," is the contemporary territory of the Shawnee, Miami, Hopewell, and other Indigenous Nations. Rust Belt Femme is the story of how these twin foundations―rural Ohio poverty and alternative 90s culture―made Raechel into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest. It was the early 90s, full of Nirvana songs and chokers, flannel shirts and cut-off jean shorts, lesbian witches and local coffee shops. Raechel escaped to the progressive suburbs of Cleveland Heights, leaving the tractors and ranch-style homes home in favor of a city with vintage marquees, music clubs, and people who talked about big ideas. Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and took their trauma out on one another.
After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel Anne Jolie’s early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. Publisher : Belt Publishing (September 14, 2021).
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