PHOTO BY KATE SWEENEY
by Julian Smith
@DANGERSMITH
One day, in my dreams, this site will have reached a level of importance where people will care to ask me how it began and I will tell them “with a restaurant”. In January 2011, I began training to be a server at the then unopened Bravo in the Lennox Town Center and met Larry and Kate. As the months flew by, we toiled and triumphed in Bravo’s trenches and forged tight bonds over music and indifference towards serving pasta to often unappreciative people. Eventually, we started tossing around the skeletal ideas that eventually, with the introduction of Jeff’s leadership and guidance, became Spoonfeed. It was at this same restaurant that I became acquainted with Kevin Hendricks.
Kevin is one of those people that I feel like I got to know in fifteen minutes. He could wax forever when presented with any topic of conversation, a constant and talkative source of knowledge laced with a dry, often humorous insight. He was also sort of goofy, a physical presence that might be imposing if you hadn’t discussed Ocarina of Time long enough with him to know he wouldn’t hurt a fly, unless of course it was attacking him in 1080p. Needless to say, I wasn’t surprised when, later that year, Kevin told me he was beginning to dabble in stand up comedy. Dabbling has since given way to regularly performing about town, his name one of the many that is beginning to rise in an already prosperous comedy scene in Columbus. He brings to the stage the same distinct sort of observation he brings to one on one conversations and does so with a confidence that cannot be broken… even if the jokes don’t land.
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