‘Wolves and Flax’ uses a family archive to illustrate 19th-century Cuyahoga Falls Books February 15th, 2021 486
none too fragile theatre Brings Powerful New Shows From Akron to the Big City Arts September 26th, 2018 4 min read 175
Single Parent Advancement helps families take it ‘day by day, step by step’ Community March 1st, 2021 304
Brian Lisik’s ‘Gudbye Stoopid Whirled’ wasn’t supposed to be about the pandemic — but it is COVID-19 September 23rd, 2020 297
Longtime rocker Harvey Gold is ‘all the versions’ of himself on new album featured September 16th, 2020 248
Rubber City Renaissance: Akron holds its first annual Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival Music November 8th, 2016 3 min read 68
SOS in search of support, part 2: Connect with the MOPS Hell Raisers October 15th, 2020 4 min read 85
‘Wolves and Flax’ uses a family archive to illustrate 19th-century Cuyahoga Falls Books February 15th, 2021 0 4 min read 486Reporting and writing by Kyle Cochrun In April 1802, the seventh U.S. Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which...
Akron photographer to release her ‘Portraits of a Pandemic’ as a book Arts November 12th, 2020 0 3 min read 432Reporting and writing by Abbey Marshall Autumn Bland remembers how she felt when she first saw the century-old photos of...
In new book, David Giffels travels Ohio to understand the U.S. Arts September 8th, 2020 0 4 min read 563Reporting and writing by Nahla Bendefaa An annual festival in a city recovering from a mass shooting. A small locally-owned...
Michael Buckley’s new book | Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox Arts May 21st, 2020 1 3 min read 73Lauren Dangel Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox might sound like an edgy indie band, but it’s actually the title of...
Celebrated graphic novelist revisits deadly Kent State shooting at 50th anniversary Arts April 23rd, 2020 1 5 min read 534In ‘Four Dead in Ohio’ Akron native and author of ‘My Friend Dahmer’ Derf Backderf depicts lives of four Kent...
‘If This Wallpaper Could Talk’ Books September 30th, 2019 0 3 min read 285Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from If This Wallpaper Could Talk, a forthcoming book about Akronites and their...
This New Tarot Deck and Essay Collection Celebrate Northeast Ohio Wildlife Arts October 29th, 2018 0 4 min read 232by Rosalie Murphy In Rust Belt Arcana: Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds, available Oct. 30 from Belt...
‘Our love is all we have’ | Reflecting on ‘Furnishing Eternity’ Arts February 5th, 2018 0 3 min read 310by Heather Braun, special to The Devil Strip 02/05/2018 I was holding my signed copy of David Giffels’ “Furnishing...
Main Library Speaker Series: Malu Halasa Arts November 6th, 2017 0 3 min read 76A Jordanian Filipino Journalist Traverses Family Ties by Claude Christensen 11/06/2017 A small, predominantly Christian town in Jordan grapples with...
A Spooky Book Signing Arts October 24th, 2017 0 2 min read 79Jean Trawick to sign copies of Spooklin this Saturday At The Learned Owl by Sierra Allen 10/24/2017 As a college student in 1956,...
