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In 1949, a man by the name of Nick Ciriello and his wife, Rose, bought a steak house on N. Main Street in Akron, Ohio. Initially, this small one-room restaurant was known for it’s great steaks and ...

Dr. Amy Acton came to the public’s attention as the first woman to serve as director of the Ohio Department of Health, exhibiting leadership during the pandemic to work collaboratively and ...

There are those among us — the weather-hardy ones — whose outdoor activities aren’t stopped by cold and wind and snow. If you’re one of these, put on the parka, wool hat, gloves and boots, and head ...

If you need a little magic to brighten up this dreary season, come on out to Wizbang Theatre & Spirit Room Cocktail Bar in Cleveland Heights where something entertainingly offbeat is usually happening ...

Dan Deagan, owner of the Lakewood Food Truck Park, opened his second location in Beachwood at a closed fire station on Chagrin Boulevard, in mid 2022. It’s the same basic idea: a rotating schedule of ...

Rock quintet Red Wanting Blue has been a fixture on the Ohio regional music scene and well beyond it since the late 90s. They formed in Athens, Ohio in the mid 90s and had moved to a more central ...

Isn’t it weird that the Beatles are still so much part of contemporary music that high school kids are influenced by them? Think how odd it would’ve been if, in 1964, the year they broke in the U.S., ...

Kent Natural Foods was originally created as a buying club in the 1970s, where members picked up their orders at area churches. By joining the Kent Community Project, which included a co-op record ...

Gadi Zamir’s Negative Space gallery, located on the second floor of the Asia Town Center, is a little hard to find and not all that great at promoting its events. But it’s well worth checking out for ...

70s/80s rock and roll diva Pat Benatar isn’t from Cleveland but she has a strong Cleveland connection: her longtime husband, guitarist Neil Giraldo, is from Parma. And since her career hit its peak ...

Steve Presser’s toy shop for all ages, Big Fun, was a staple on Cleveland Heights Coventry Road for three decades before the landlord forced him out in 2018. Somehow, nothing ever filled the space, ...