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 ...

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 ...

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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., ...

Esteemed Cleveland photographer (and CoolCleveland Editor) Anastasia Pantsios recently released her first book, Girls to the Front: Girls: 40 Years of Women in Rock, which originated as a popular Rock ...

After closing for major renovations – including all-new walls – Ursuline College’s Wasmer Gallery re-opens with the work of Thomas Salomon. In Memoriam: Responses to the Unanswerable represents an ...

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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens was once a spacious estate for one of Akron’s wealthy citizens, Goodyear Tire and Rubber co-founder F.A. Seiberling. Built in 1911, it was donated in 1957 to a nonprofit ...