What’s for dinner: Pasta with cauliflower or broccoli rabe and sausage
Spring’s lighter, greener dishes are on the way, so now is the perfect time to get in the last hearty tastes of winter. This Napoli pasta dish marries loose sausage meat cooked in red wine with chile,...
View ArticleLife in Brief — week of April 6
AAA says cold Ohioans flocked to sunny placesWhen winter has the Buckeye State in its icy grip, Ohioans flock to warmer destinations. This year’s brutal winter pushed even more of us to the sunny...
View ArticleJohn Rosemond: Daughter is funny, but doesn’t like to be laughed at
Q: Our 4-year-old daughter has a huge problem with being laughed at. She loves to be goofy and do funny things but as soon as someone, including one of us, laughs at her, she becomes upset. She will...
View ArticleGwyneth Paltrow’s ‘conscious uncoupling’ confounds many
Like any world unto itself, Hollywood has its own lexicon. But Gwyneth Paltrow’s use of the term “conscious uncoupling” to describe her breakup with Chris Martin had even Hollywood veterans scratching...
View ArticleThe To-Do List — week of April 6
See shellsExquisitely decorated eggs will be the stars at the Elegant Egg & More, an eggshell art show and sale open Saturday and next Sunday at Our Lady of the Elms, 1375 W. Exchange St.,...
View ArticleBook review: Burlesque dancer searches for her missing infant and a friend’s...
Frog MusicEmma DonoghueEmma Donoghue’s latest novel has many facets, all of them fascinating. Like her short-story collection Astray and her novel Slammerkin, Frog Music is a detailed historical drama,...
View ArticleDisabled players relish ferocious competition of wheelchair rugby
The gladiators’ legs were tucked inside their machines. On their hands, they placed a foam-like wrap, followed by gloves and duct tape, sticky side up. It was time to do battle.Wheelchair rugby was...
View ArticleBook talk: ‘Cage of Human Hearts,’ ‘Hoover and Honeybunch’
Cage of Human Hearts by Wadsworth resident JR Peske is the unsettling story of a group of children forced to live with a brutish mail-order minister at his rural Ohio home.Set in 1953, the story begins...
View ArticlePop reviews — week of April 6
Out Among The StarsJohnny CashThirty years after getting shelved, a nearly forgotten Johnny Cash album is being made public for the first time. Out Among the Stars may not rank with the legendary...
View ArticleIf you go to Costa Rica
If you go: Lodging: VRBO.com (Vacation Rentals by Owner), www.vrbo.comGetting there: Nearest commercial airport is Daniel Oduber International Airport, Liberia (70 miles); Juan Santamaria International...
View ArticleThe beach in Costa Rica: Surfing, riding, fishing
GUIONES, Costa Rica: A vacation to escape the cold led us to Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, where we went surfing, horseback riding, deep-sea fishing and even visited a dry tropical forest. Our extended...
View ArticleEatery at center of Paula Deen controversy closes
SAVANNAH, GA.: Paula Deen and her younger brother, Bubba, have shut off the fish fryer and locked the doors at the Savannah seafood restaurant that served as the backdrop to a workplace discrimination...
View ArticleModel Seder lecture to be presented at Walsh University
A multimedia learning opportunity about the symbolism in a Passover Seder is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Barrette Business and Community Center at Walsh University, 2020 E. Maple St.,...
View ArticleShaw JCC’s new executive director ready to serve
Eric Goldstein felt a desire to lead the Jerry Shaw Jewish Community Center of Akron the moment he walked through its front doors.“I fell in love as soon as I got here. It just feels like home,” said...
View ArticleTo board or not to board frightened kitty
Q: I have a 2-year-old cat (De-De) that gets spooked easily. A sudden noise or someone coming in the house and he goes running. When we go on trips I leave him home alone. We have another cat that we...
View ArticleInvasive pets are squatters in paradise
Key Largo, Fla.: Each year we make a pilgrimage to a group of islands we call paradise, an archipelago that juts between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico known as the Florida Keys.Spanish...
View ArticlePETA proposes vegan restaurant in Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home
An animal-welfare organization is trying to capitalize on the notoriety of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home by suggesting it might turn the house into a vegan restaurant. Ingrid E....
View ArticleNewspaper columnist visiting Akron to discuss end-of-life issues
Area hospitals, universities, legal experts, faith-based groups and others are trying to get people to start talking about how they want to live their dying days. Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer...
View ArticleAkron Rotary honors 100 years
“Honoring the Past, Driving the Future” was the theme for the Akron Rotary Centennial Celebration Saturday evening. Co-chairs Cheryl Warren and Jack Harig, along with Vice Chair George Rooney, greeted...
View ArticleBeautillion Militaire presents 32nd class
Seven area men were presented in front of 200 guests at the 32nd Beautillion Militaire Saturday evening at Quaker Station in downtown Akron.The men have been working on numerous leadership development...
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