Akron’s Karen community recently celebrated the 2757 New Year at the Akron-Summit County Public Library's Main Library in downtown Akron. Traditional music and dancing, along with food, was provided for the hundreds in attendance. The Karen people have been in Akron since 2006, and the community now totals around 1,000 people. The celebration also included an overview of the … [Read more...]
Legendary Cavs player, coach Lenny Wilkens delivers 2018 MLK Day lecture at Main Library
Former Cleveland Cavaliers player and coach Lenny Wilkens will be the speaker for the Akron-Summit County Public Library’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2 p.m. at the Main Library in downtown Akron. A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Wilkens had a storied career as both player (1960-1975) and coach in National Basketball … [Read more...]
Cartoonist Roz Chast kicks off Library’s Main Event series Oct. 12
Fall lineup also includes Rolling Stone correspondent Matt Taibbi and ex-local contributing writer Malu Halasa -- Akron-Summit County Public Library’s Fall Main Event Speaker Series kicks off with acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast Thursday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m. at Main Library, 60 South High St., in downtown Akron. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Chast’s cartoons began … [Read more...]
True crime author discusses ‘Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio’ Aug. 17 at Main Library
Akron-Summit County Public Library's Main Library will host local true crime author Jane Ann Turzillo for a discussion and signing of her book, “Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio,” on Thursday, Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. in Meeting Room 1. Main Library is located at 60 S. High St. in downtown Akron. The book “recounts the misdeeds of 10 dark-hearted women who refused to play by the … [Read more...]
Main Library presents ‘Discovering Your Military Ancestors’ day-long workshop Aug. 5
Military historians and expert genealogists Eric Johnson and Michael Strauss will present “Discovering Your Military Ancestors” on Saturday, Aug. 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Akron-Summit County Public Library's Main Library Auditorium. Co-sponsored by the Library and the Summit County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, the program will focus on tracing … [Read more...]
Library hosts free screening of ‘Civil Rights and Wrongs’ Jan. 7
Fred Korematsu was a California-born welder who, following Pearl Harbor, attempted to conceal his identity as a Japanese American. Alienated from his family and community, Korematsu made the complex decision to become a legal “test case” against the U.S. government’s forced internment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Although he lost his landmark Supreme Court case … [Read more...]
Stray Dog heads indoors to North Hill tavern, serves up inventive Akron-centric menu
The Stray Dog has long been known for its fleet of food carts, but the business now has two brick-and-mortar restaurants in town. Along with the Stray Dog Cafe next to the downtown Main Library on South Main Street, the business has reopened a North Hill staple with the Stray Dog Grill at Akron Tavern on North Main Street, known for many years as the Office Bistro, and then the … [Read more...]
Yeats, Dickinson combine with jazz in April 21 concert presented by Tuesday Musical
Combining jazz and classical with the poems of Yeats and Dickinson, pianist and composer Gregg Kallor and mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala will perform Thursday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in EJ Thomas Hall, presented by Tuesday Musical. The finale of Tuesday Musical’s 2015-16 season, the concert will include selections from the duo’s Exhilaration, a CD featuring Kallor’s … [Read more...]
Shop ‘Mom & Pop’ at Crafty Mart on April 2
Spring is in the air and that means it’s time once again for Crafty Mart’s annual Mom & Pop Shoppe. The Mom & Pop Shoppe is the spring show, which features goods and gift items appropriate for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduation and home and garden decor. On Saturday, April 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Crafty Mart will host nearly 70 local artists and makers … [Read more...]
Roomful of Teeth concludes Tuesday Musical’s Fuze series
The vocal vibrancy of the Grammy-winning a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth concludes this season of Tuesday Musical’s Fuze series on Tuesday, April 5. Praised by The New York Times for “making nerdiness cool,” Roomful of Teeth mines the expressive potential of the human voice with world-inspired grooves. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Akron-Summit County … [Read more...]
