The Northern Ohio Returned Volunteer Association (NORVA) is a nonprofit organization founded by former Peace Corps volunteers whose interest in uplifting people worldwide didn’t end when their service ...

Seventy-seven-year-old American pianist Garrick Ohlsson had had a stellar career since winning the International Chopin Paino Competition in Poland at the age of 22. It was only the first of many ...

With the weather getting cooler, you might need some help getting warm. And there’s no better wat to do so than working up a sweat at the monthly Bainbridge Swing Dance, where you can learn some new ...

Northeast Ohio finger-style guitarist Brian Henke has been presenting his annual Woodchoppers Ball to raise money for charity for almost a quarter of a century: this year’s show at Kent Stage is its ...

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In 1949, a man by the name of Nick Ciriello and his wife, Rose, bought a steak house on N. Main Street in Akron, Ohio. Initially, this small one-room restaurant was known for it’s great steaks and ...

Any list of the the most influential people in Cleveland rock & roll, no matter how long or short, would have to include Henry LoConti. LoConti has passed away at the age of 85. Henry, affectionately ...

Bill Busta painted by Tim Callaghan, one of the artist who shows in his gallery In January, the Cleveland art community was dismayed when long-time local gallerist Bill Busta announced he would be ...

The Akron Art Museum isn’t missing an opportunity to jump on the increasingly crowded Halloween bandwagon, with its Circa Thriller party, borrowing its theme from the legendary 1982 Michael Jackson ...

The Morgan Conservatory will be opening its next show on Halloween, so “spooky costumes are encouraged,” they say. The show itself, titled Form Matters, has nothing to do with Halloween, however. The ...

David Auburn’s 2000 play Proof revolves around a brilliant mathematics professor who also faced mental illness, and his daughter’s struggle with the two issues herself, as she cares for him prior to ...

C. Ellen Connally is a retired judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court. From 2010 to 2014 she served as the President of the Cuyahoga County Council. An avid reader and student of American history, she ...