Akron Soul Train was founded to provide short “residencies” for artists in all disciplines, enabling them to work on a specific project that’s then presented in the gallery or at one of its partner ...

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 ...

Once again, Story Club Cleveland is back at Forest City Brewery to regale those attending with narratives by a couple of guest storytellers and tales told by volunteer audience members. As usual, ...

There’s never a bad time to engage with nature, no matter what the weather is like. Come to Cleveland Metroparks’ Garfield Park Reservation and join a comfortably paced hike on one of its beautiful ...

Cleveland baroque chamber ensemble has a miniature treat for listeners this weekend. In honor of the birthday this month (January 25, 1759) of Scotland’s best known poet Robert Burns, it’s put ...

Author Thrity Umrigar is “local” — she lives in the Cleveland area and is a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. She came to this country from India at the age of 21 and got her ...

It’s that time of year — the ice carving artists come out of their caves, or wherever they go in July. And Kent’s 22 nd annual “Make Mine with Ice” ice-carving exhibition, presented by Standing Rock ...

It’s scarcely necessary anymore to have a special night of female-fronted bands such as the one at Akron’s Musica this weekend: there are now more than you can possibly keep track of. But it’s still ...

As Judge Stuart Friedman sentenced 18-year-old Justin Jarmon to more than four decades in prison for accidentally blowing off half the skull of a 3-year-old girl, and wounding her 9-year-old cousin ...

Now that we’ve settled in to 2026, it’s time to take stock of your situation and do something about it. If you’re wondering “Why Is America So Divided,” and “How Did We Get This Way?”, then the ...

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”—Cicero Books, books, books. They’re everywhere, and I can’t keep them out of my house, off my Kindle, or out of my earplugs. I was an English ...

Brent Kirby is one of the most high-profile musicians in northeast Ohio. Not only is he known for the variety of projects he’s been involved in as a solo singer/songwriter, guitarist/vocalist in the ...