A blend of dance and percussion will give maximum exposure to a leading minimalist composer. Music by Steve Reich will be highlighted in “Drums Downtown IX,” an annual celebration by the Ohio State University, on Friday and Saturday in the Riffe Center’s Capitol Theatre.

The sorbet for $10 a pint in the Columbus company’s shops and $12 online is not a big seller, Britton Bauer said. But sales are up at least 50 percent since Influenza Sorbet made its debut, and the company plans to make 2,500 pints this winter for the flavor’s growing fan base, she said.

The Midwest begins on the western slopes of the Allegheny Mountains, around Rick Santorum’s Pittsburgh, birthplace of the Ohio River, the original highway into the Midwest.