It’s one of the most recognizable voices in pop music.
Malcolm X Abram: Area band showcases a good idea
On Saturday night, my lovely wife and I trekked to downtown Akron for an engagement party (congrats, Doug and LeAnne!) and wound up checking out a sizable chunk of the This Is Akron showcase at Musica. Unfortunately, I committed a double transgression as both a Morehouse Man and a professional journalist and brought no writing utensil, causing me to rely on my sieve-like, short-term memory, so please forgive the generalities, but I hope you’ll get the drift.
Art notes: Contemporary artists talk landscapes
Regional artist Michelle Droll, creator of Landslide: Between a Rock and a Place, builds environmentally friendly landscapes out of recycled materials.
Stage notes: ‘Color Purple’ comes to E.J. Thomas
Washington, D.C., native Ashley Ware has landed exactly where she wanted to be — playing Celie in The Color Purple, The Musical about Love.
Theater review: ‘And Then There Were None’ at Coach House
Director Nancy Cates and her cast of 11 are having great fun enacting murders nightly with Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None at Coach House Theatre.
Review: ‘New Look’ exhibit features Dior influence, but almost none of the real thing
The Massillon Museum’s current exhibit, Another Look at the New Look, purports to be an examination of the work of French couturier Christian Dior.
‘Transformers,’ ‘Drive,’ more on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday
January 29, 2012 Leave a Comment Filed under: Featured, Featured 2, Movies, On Screen, Rich Heldenfels
New items on video include a box-office megahit, a ’60s classic, an overlooked thriller and an interesting independent film. And birds.
Geena Davis to speak Monday at University of Akron
When actress Geena Davis speaks at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall at 7:30 p.m. Monday, she will be talking not only about her career but about her concerns regarding entertainment generally.
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
January 25, 2012 Leave a Comment Filed under: Featured, Featured 2, Movies, On Screen, Rich Heldenfels
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.
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.
Stage Notes: Dance company brings dreamlike work to Ohio
Avshalom Pollak says it’s difficult to define dance, in particular the off-kilter work Oyster, a signature work of the Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company.