By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 12, 2019
The Akron Center for Art, Music and Performance is hosting Heart to HeART: a Family Friendly Valentine’s Day Show on Feb. 14, at 6 p.m. The event will take place on the second floor of The Akron Center for Art, Music and Performance, located at 118 W. Market Street in Akron. Tickets are $5 per person and can be purchased either online or at the door. Free admission is granted to children ages two and younger. Valentine’s Day is celebrated on Feb. 14 of every year and is known to be a celebration of love...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
February 11, 2019
As part of Rethinking Race and the 7:17 events on campus, vocalist and guitarist Nelly’s Echo performed in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union Starbucks on Feb. 5. The 7:17 Coffee House series is run by the Residence Hall Program Board, where the first 100 people to attend are given a voucher for one free coffee or tea while listening to either a musical or comical performance. Sophomore Lexie Gore, the music and comedy chair for RHPB, said they saw Nelly’s Echo at a convention for residence life committees...
By Dave Lucas, Syndicated Poet Laureate
December 11, 2018
What makes poetry, poetry? Ask that question of a dozen poets, scholars or readers and you’ll get as many different answers, maybe more. Some won’t be much help: “Poetry is the sort of thing poets write,” Robert Frost is said to have said. I’m sorry I asked. If we struggle with poetry, this struggle to define it is partly to blame. It would be easier if poetry obeyed certain rules—if we could trust it to rhyme, or appear in lines or make sense. Easier, maybe, but certainly less exciting: set...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
December 5, 2018
Editor's Note: The writer would like to clarify that the contents of this article were originally written several years ago for poetic purposes only. The following poem does not necessarily represent the thoughts, emotions or actions of the writer. A flower in the snow, a flaw in the system. Struggling to stay alive, but have already lost the fight. Falling to no end, it's useless to scream. Smiling through everything, to gain pain from spite. Dark colors collide, my moon-pale skin. Hides self-made secrets,...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
February 11, 2019
As part of Rethinking Race and the 7:17 events on campus, vocalist and guitarist Nelly’s Echo performed in the Jean Hower Taber Student Union Starbucks on Feb. 5. The 7:17 Coffee House series is run by the Residence Hall Program Board, where the first 100 people to attend are given a voucher for one free coffee or tea while listening to either a musical or comical performance. Sophomore Lexie Gore, the music and comedy chair for RHPB, said they saw Nelly’s Echo at a convention for residence life committees...
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts and Entertainment Editor
September 11, 2018
Radio station 97.5 WONE hosted “Rock the Lock” on Friday, Sept. 7 from 6-10 p.m. at Lock 3, featuring Outside Voices and Zoso, the Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience band. According to WONE 97.5’s website, “Rock the Lock” is a part of Give Back Fridays, where the community hosts fundraisers during the day to support local charities. Admission was $5 at the door and all proceeds went to the charities. Food and drinks were also available with part of the proceeds going to charities. Charities for the 2018...
By Sala Wier, Copy Editor
January 28, 2019
This summer, Brittany Charek, the 2017 Akron Knight Arts Challenge winner, partnered with Joanna Wilson, plans to bring a feminist film festival to Akron. The five-day festival will take place in various downtown locations such as the Nightlight Cinema, starting on May 29. Only films that pass the "Bechdel Test" will be shown. Coming from a part of Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (1985), the test is used to determine that a film or any other piece of fiction has proper representation of women (Image...
By Sala Wier, Copy Editor
November 12, 2018
Two weeks ago on Oct. 26, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” debuted on Netflix. This is a live-action version of the eight-issue comic published by Archie Horror in 2014. This comic series is a spin-off from another comic by Archie Comics called “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” which ran from 1971 to 2009. Many people are probably familiar with the television adaptation of this comic which aired in 1996 and ran until 2003. This Netflix Original Series is much more chilling than “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,”...
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 19, 2019
‘Finding Neverland’ is coming to EJ Thomas Hall on March 5-6, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Broadway in Akron Series, which has brought shows like ‘Rent’, ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Rock of Ages’ to EJ Thomas Hall over the years. According to the Broadway in Akron webpage, this show has been the recipient of many awards, including the Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award for Best Musical. The show is directed by Tony-Award-winner Diane Paulus, the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the...
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 19, 2019
EJ Thomas Hall is hosting the Scared Scriptless show put on by Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, most known for their comedy and improv work on Whose Line is it Anyway? on April 4, at 7:30 p.m. Many famous comedians graced the stage onWhose Line is it Anyway? including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Keegan-Michael Key. Mochrie and Sherwood, however, were season regulars. The two comedians were known for their improv work and the chemistry that formed when they performed together. Relying on that chemistry,...
By Amanda Piekarz, Arts & Entertainment Editor
February 13, 2019
The University of Akron Dance Institute hosted the production of “The Snow Maiden” on Feb. 2, at EJ Thomas Hall. "The Snow Maiden" is an opera composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1881 and has since been adapted into new formats as time went on. UA performed a ballet adaptation of the original opera, with incidental music by Tchaikovsky. In an email interview, the current manager of The Dance Institute Christina Foise said, “Lana Carroll Heylock, a previous manager of Dance Institute, first produced this...
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
November 13, 2018
The University of Akron Dance Company will be performing its Fall 2018 Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Kolbe Hall Daum Theatre on Nov. 15,16 and 17. Tickets for this event can be purchased by calling 330-972-7895. General admission is $12, student admission is $6 and seniors, UA alumni, faculty and staff admission is $10. According to the UADC website, the faculty choreographer is visiting professor Nick Carlisle with guest choreographers Holly Bass, Kaleb Reilly and Mary-Elizabeth Fenn. The performance will...
By Jake Herron, Online Editor
February 11, 2019
More than 450 student organizations strive to find a way to enrich and refine college life for students at The University of Akron. At RooCatholic, that ‘way’ seeks to enrich for a lifetime. An affiliate of Newman Catholic Campus Ministry for than 80 years, RooCatholic is situated within the confines of the historic Saint Bernard Parish in Downtown Akron. The organization, which assumed its current name during a 2016 rebranding, identifies itself as an “instrument of the Holy Spirit, providing a joyful...
By Sala Wier, Copy Editor
February 11, 2019
Almost everybody is probably familiar with Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, where you spend time with your significant other and spoil them with love and affection. But, most people probably don’t pay any attention to the day before. Feb. 13, sometimes referred to as Galentine’s Day, is a day to get together with your friends and show them some love and affection for a change. In 2010, fictional character Leslie Knope from NBC's Parks and Recreation introduced this idea by hosting a brunch on Galentine’s Day. “Ladies...
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