Iron Chef Michael Symon of Cleveland is headed to the “Magic City” Barberton. Along with Symon, the Food Network is in town to showcase Barberton and its famous chicken. On Sept. 8, Symon will visit two area chicken houses and decide which is his favorite. All Akronites are invited to attend the taping of [...]
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Do you think you could win a LeBron’s Biggest Fan contest? Or a LeBron Look-a-Like contest? Or maybe you’d just like to record a video message to LeBron to show your appreciation. All this AND MORE will be going on at the LeBron Appreciation Day event June 19 at InfoCision Stadium.
From 10 a.m.-12:00 p.m., InfoCision [...]
You guessed it. Akron, Ohio is the setting for the new Fox comedy. The new sitcom has officially been billed a nerdy version of 30 Rock. It also has the Office influences as the plot centers around an Internal Revenue Service office and stars Martin Short. The show is not filmed in front of a live studio audience at the Civic [...]
For a school supporting invention you would think they could come up with a better name. Maybe the APS should tack on Community Learning Center to the name? I mean National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Community Learning Center has a much better ring to it than just [...]
Akron is miserable. Youngstown is less miserable. Canton is more miserable. Cleveland is the most miserable. Well at least the four Northeast Ohio cities are miserable by FORBES standards.
FORBES magazine recently assessed the top 200 US metro areas based on a “Misery Measure” which takes into account unemployment, taxes (both sales and income), commute [...]
More than 285 million people visited national parks and other branches of the National Parks during 2008, up 10 million from the year prior. Thank you Ken Burns! Ohio’s only National Park came in at #8! Here are the top 10 visited National Parks: Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Zion, [...]
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We hope 2010 is as big as the USS Akron airship.
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LeBron James played his very first High School basketball game for St. Vincent – St. Mary on this day ten years ago, December 3rd, 1999, against the Cuyahoga Falls Black Tigers.
What will he have accomplished 10 years from now?
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