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Unsilent Night started in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1992 when composer/sound artist Phil Kline, a native of the Akron area, wrote a piece of music to be played simultaneously by multiple people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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., ...

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, ...

Once again, Graffit HeArt, the nonprofit that promotes street-style art through a variety of programs, is hosting a one-day art show that’s as much an event as an exhibition. Taking place on Saturday ...

The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s investigative reporter Mark Naymik’s article regarding Cleveland Councilperson TJ Dow’s objection to a $100 million project in his ward raises serious questions about the ...