‘You want to feel heard, you want to feel seen:’ Eight Akron artists on equity and inclusion at the Akron Art Museum
by Noor Hindi Akron Art Museum director Mark Masuoka resigned May 19 after weeks of press reports about...
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‘A preventable disaster:’ Akron Art Museum employees, former chairman say museum’s leaders let them down
by Noor Hindi and Rosalie Murphy UPDATE:In an email to employees Tuesday, May 19, the Akron Art Museum...
Richard Rogers: ‘Tragedy at the Akron Art Museum’
UPDATE:In an email to employees Tuesday, May 19, the Akron Art Museum announced director Mark Masuoka’s resignation effective...
Social 8 brings new energy to the Merriman Valley
words and photos by Charlee Harris A new wave of young professionals is looking to change Akron’s social...
Point of No Return Improv delights and challenges Cuyahoga Falls audiences
by Anne Walsh Point of No Return Improv, a Cuyahoga Falls-based improv troupe, celebrated its 18th anniversary in...
Can hedgehogs help protect heads? Local startup designs helmets inspired by hedgehog quills
by Skylar Cole The concussion crisis is not a new epidemic. From athletes, both big and small, to...
Sober Chronicles | Connection
by Marc Lee Shannon It’s 4:55 am and 18 degrees outside on this Ohio February morning. I’ve had...
Unencrypted | WTF is Wi-Fi?
by John Nicholas It is easy for those of us who are “computer geeks” to forget that most...
KRS-One and the Jungle Brothers bring true-school hip-hop to Musica
by Kyle Cochrun On Saturday, hip-hop’s premier philosopher, KRS-One, and most criminally underappreciated posse of Afrocentric spokesmen, the...
The Akron Pizza Task Force visits Upper Crust
by Deborah Endris For this month’s review, two representatives of the APTF visited Upper Crust, which recently opened...
Vintage Structures | The Kenmore Boulevard Trolley Barns
words by Mark Schweitzer, photos by Charlotte Gintert Long ago, back before there was a Metro Regional Transit...
Capturing the 1970s Akron Sound at Cirrus Recording Studio
by Steve Bucher It was the 1970s, and bell-bottom jeans and disco was all the rage. Akron had...
The Sassy Sunflower celebrates grand reopening in new Copley Circle location
words and photos by Megan Combs When Copley’s Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) approached Jodi Ashe-Crossley about moving The...
Immigrant kids adapt to Akron life with support from ASIA Inc.
by Zaïré Talon Daniels As a child, it’s hard enough to manage classwork, after school activities, and making...
Akron’s airport is closing a runway to make way for future growth
words and photos by Colleen Hanke At Akron Executive Airport, or AKR, the staff does everything from fueling...