‘Equalizer’ tops box office
Flexing his star power, Denzel Washington spurred the thriller The Equalizer to a dominant debut at the weekend box office.
The opening marks the third-best of his career, behind American Gangster (2007), with $43.6 million; and Safe House (2012), with $40.1 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through yesterday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak: 1. The Equalizer, $35 million 2. The Maze Runner, $17.5 million
3. The Boxtrolls, $17.2 million
4. This Is Where I Leave You, $7 million
5. Dolphin Tale 2, $4.8 million
Partnership awards named
The Greater Columbus Arts Council has announced three individual winners of the latest Community Arts Partnership Awards.
The winner in the category of arts educator — dancer and teacher Mimi Chenfeld — runs a folk-dance program at Ohio State University Hillel; instructs students at Otterbein University in Westerville and Columbus State Community College, and preschoolers at the Jewish Community Center; and conducts arts workshops nationwide.
The arts-partner winner — Jim Sweeney, executive director of the Franklinton Development Association — helped create the Franklinton Arts District and the Go West and Urban Scrawl events.
The emerging arts leader — Eric Rausch, a ceramic-studio manager, an instructor and a curator at the Cultural Arts Center — seeks to build cooperation among visual-arts organizations.
Winners will be recognized during an Oct. 16 luncheon at COSI Columbus, 333 W. Broad St. Business honorees will be announced there.
To register for the luncheon, visit www.gcac.org.
Exhibit to feature prints
Members of Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative will show a selection of prints in “A Gathering of Images,” scheduled for a Wednesday opening in Worthington.
Also going on display at High Road Gallery, 12 E. Stafford Ave., will be prints, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry and painted porcelain by other artists.
A free reception will last from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, with the exhibit continuing through Oct. 25.
The gallery has hours from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. For more information, call 614-781-6454 or visit www.highroadgallery. org.