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Glen Campbell carries on despite Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Glen Campbell wants you to know that he has Alzheimer’s disease.
The pop and countrypolitan icon also wants you to know that he’s facing it head-on, and before the degenerative brain disease takes his memories, his music and eventually his life, Campbell is going to go out doing what he loves, singing and playing for fans on his Farewell Tour, which stops at the Kent Stage on Sunday.
Sound Check: Rise Against keeps punk spirit alive
Punk’s not dead, it just smells funny. Pop-punk has more or less run its course as a constant chart-topping, commercial radio force, with only a few established bands still able to make splashy Billboard debuts.
Continental Cuisine
Continental Cuisine Continental Cuisine is a restaurant like no other you’ve known. We are recipients of the Fairlawn Mayor’s Award for an Outstanding Eatery. The Akron Beacon Journals Jane Snow reviewed us as having “… low prices and high-taste food…”. We also took home Akron’s Life and Leisure award for Best Mediterranean Food in 2009. In…
‘Dangerous Method’: A talky affair
Director David Cronenberg took a decidedly idiosyncratic turn in his latest film, shifting from grim tales of violence and betrayal (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence) to a grim tale of psychoanalysis and sex.
Arts & Culture
Art notes: Akron Art Museum marks 90th anniversary
On Wednesday, the Akron Art Museum reaches its 90th anniversary, and Mayor Donald L. Plusquellic has proclaimed February to be Akron Art Museum Month.
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Continental Cuisine
Continental Cuisine Continental Cuisine is a restaurant like no other you’ve known. We are recipients of the Fairlawn Mayor’s Award for an Outstanding Eatery. The Akron Beacon Journals Jane Snow reviewed us as having “… low prices and high-taste food…”. We also took home Akron’s Life and Leisure award for Best Mediterranean Food in 2009. In…
Movies
‘Dangerous Method’: A talky affair
Director David Cronenberg took a decidedly idiosyncratic turn in his latest film, shifting from grim tales of violence and betrayal (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence) to a grim tale of psychoanalysis and sex.