Akron Soul Train’s core mission: providing artists with short-term residencies to create specific projects. McSweeney is a young multi-disciplinary artist with who earned her degrees at the University ...

Singing Resistance started in Minneapolis early this year as a form of non-violent protest in response to the violent invasion of ICE in that city and the murder of Renee Good by rogue ICE agents.

It’s one thing. And then another. No Exit New Music moves forward, inspired by Cleveland School artists. Lakewood Public ...

There’s never been anyone quite like Steve Popovich. He arrived in Cleveland from Western Pennsylvania like he was shot out of a cannon, making a big mark on the local music and record company scene ...

The Akron Art Walk is a quarterly event, now held on a Thursday evening, when the various cultural institutions in and near downtown open their doors for displays of art, music, activities and food.

Men of a certain age can get very nostalgic when talking about playing baseball in their youth, whether in a vacant lot in their neighborhood or in an amateur “sandlot” league. Cleveland was once ...

I write fairly extensively about the evils of mass incarceration, and the damage done to particularly black and brown neighborhoods by this pernicious practice. Locking up non-violent drug offenders ...

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East Coast-based playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is red-hot right now: his play Purpose, his first to be staged on Broadway, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; two of his earlier plays were ...

Tigran Hamasyan is known first of all a jazz pianist, but he’s a lot more than that. The Armenian musician/composer ...