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‘You want to feel heard, you want to feel seen:’ Eight Akron artists on equity and inclusion at the Akron Art Museum

May 29th, 2020

by Noor Hindi Akron Art Museum director Mark Masuoka resigned May 19 after weeks of press reports about management's poor treatment of employees. As the search for a new director begins, Akron-area...

Akron Art Museum board eliminated members’ voting power in September 2019, following investigation

May 15th, 2020

by Noor Hindi and Rosalie Murphy UPDATE: In an email to employees Tuesday, May 19, the Akron Art Museum announced director Mark Masuoka's resignation effective immediately. Board member Jon Fiume will step ...

‘A preventable disaster:’ Akron Art Museum employees, former chairman say museum’s leaders let them down

May 7th, 2020

by Noor Hindi and Rosalie Murphy UPDATE:In an email to employees Tuesday, May 19, the Akron Art Museum announced director Mark Masuoka's resignation effective immediately. Board member Jon Fiume will step i...

Richard Rogers: ‘Tragedy at the Akron Art Museum’

May 7th, 2020

UPDATE:In an email to employees Tuesday, May 19, the Akron Art Museum announced director Mark Masuoka's resignation effective immediately. Board member Jon Fiume will step in as interim. He's a local arts advo...

Akron’s airport is closing a runway to make way for future growth

February 13th, 2020

words and photos by Colleen Hanke At Akron Executive Airport, or AKR, the staff does everything from fueling planes to ordering pizza for passengers. The Akron Executive Airport has been servicing corpor...

Home In Akron | This landlord wouldn’t make repairs. So his tenant convinced a judge that he shouldn’t collect rent.

February 10th, 2020

by Doug LivingstonAkron Beacon Journal Anthony Williams keeps a pile of pillows on his bed to block a drafty window. But that’s not why he sleeps on the living room couch. The basement wall below his bed...

Summit County unites to advocate for the elderly

February 6th, 2020

by Allyson Smith As people age and need more help managing their health and day-to-day lives, their family members often turn to nursing homes and assisted living facilities. But many families wonder whethe...

A new climate activist group, Citizens Climate Lobby, launches in Akron

February 6th, 2020

by Derek Kreider Citizens’ Climate Lobby is bringing its brand of activism to the Akron-Canton area. Founded in 2007 by Marshall Saunders, a former real estate broker from California, CCL is ...

Home in Akron | A crash course in squatters' rights

February 3rd, 2020

Killing time between the morning pick up and afternoon drop off Tuesday, Laura Speaks parked her school bus and hopped on Facebook. An advertisement flashed on her cell phone for a used side-by-side Kenmore...

Doggie Brigade brings happiness to all at Akron Children’s Hospital

January 31st, 2020

words and photos by Allyson Smith Portraits line a hallway in Akron Children’s Hospital. But they’re not of patients or donors, or even doctors and nurses. Instead, these portraits are of dogs: Labrador ret...

In Review | How to hang with ‘Boogers, Witches and Haints’

How Black Artists are Practicing Self-Care in 2020

Millennial Theatre Project Takes on conversations about race in community-driven play

Sculptor Tom Baldwin captures ‘a millisecond of a bird’s life’

The Corner Pocket

Showcase Meats offers lunches, baked goods to Kenmore

How three Akron business owners practice and preach self-care

Coffee Talk with Vanessa Michelle | No money, no business — now what?

An Interview with Singer/Songwriter Rachel Roberts

Devil’s Dozen | 12 virtual and outdoor events for July

Review of Swell Tides’ and Roid Rage’s new EP Split

Northeast Ohio Living Room Talent Show aims to bring people together in a fun and innovative way

What makes Your Pizza Shop so good? ‘There’s some love behind ours’

Ohio entrepreneur strives to replace single-use products

Can hedgehogs help protect heads? Local startup designs helmets inspired by hedgehog quills

The Sassy Sunflower celebrates grand reopening in new Copley Circle location