The Next Akron' 14-35 'The Akron We Know' As Told by 34 Different People 17 How to Know When You've Hit Rock Bottom 24-29 a Shopper's Guide to Akron Made Awesome
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DECEMBER 2016 • VOL 2 • ISSUE #12 • THEDEVILSTRIP.COM 10 Where to find 'The Next Akron' 14-35 'The Akron We Know' as told by 34 different people 17 How to know when you've hit rock bottom 24-29 A Shopper's Guide to Akron Made Awesome FREE A PROGRAM OF FOUNDING PARTNERS SUPPORTED BY More than 40 experiences Huntington Bank fireworks at 9 p.m. and midnight Free parking and METRO shuttles New attractions Wesley Bright & the Honeytones at the Akron Civic Theatre Jul Big Green on the Mill Street Main Stage The Chardon Polka Band at the JSK Center Learn a little about a lot from eight inspirational Akronites at PechaKucha Saturday, December 31 Returning crowd favorites Silent Disco is back and bigger from 6 p.m.-midnight than ever Dance the night away at Admission $ Greystone Hall with Akron Big Band buttons available for 10 Bundle up and enjoy horse drawn at Acme Fresh Market, sleigh rides on Main Street FirstMerit Bank branches and Goodyear Ice Sculpture Garden with carving demos and firstnightakron.org special appearances Follow us on #firstnightakron17 Discover Downtown Akron Passports also available for $15 and include admission to PLATINUMFirst Night PARTNERSAkron 2017. table of contents table of 18 contents 14 THE ARTS 13 Author Corey Sheldon gives us a peek into the Valley of Progress 14 Humans of Akron know art. The Devil Strip 12 E. Exchange Street 2nd Floor CULTURE CLUB Akron, Ohio 44308 17 Humans of Akron recover, too. Publisher: Chris “no carny-handed mango man” Horne Email: [email protected] 18 Humans of Akron have culture Phone: 330-555-GHOSTBUSTERS 13 22 Art Director: Alesa “doesn’t sleep” Upholzer Managing Editor: ENTREPRENEURSHIP M. Sophie “Has Many Names, Wears Many Hats” Franchi Email: [email protected] 21 Humans of Akron run businesses. 22 How can local libraries give your Visuals Editor: Svetla “The Balkan Comrade” Morrison business a boost? Director of Sales & Distribution: TJ "is in fact a Newsie, hat and all" Masterson Email: [email protected] SPECIAL FEATURE: The Editorial Team LOCAL HOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDE THE ARTS Lead Editor .......................................Bronlynn “Space Kitty” Thurman 24- Tired of department stores and Asst. Editor ............................Megan “Oxford comma slayer” Combs 29 shopping malls? Shop local 21 17 Literary Arts Editor .................Noor "Nervous Poodle Poet" Hindi FOOD & DRINK Lead Editor ....................................................................... Lia Pietrolungo FOOD & DRINK COMMUNITY & CULTURE Lead Editor ...............Katie “Miss Jackson if You’re Nasty” Jackson 30 The Wanderer loves Taco Tuesday Asst. Editor ..........................................Jessica “Spreadsheets!” Cherok Asst. Editor ...............Ilenia “Our Short, Tired Garbanzo Bean Eatin', 31 Humans of Akron like food WTF Video Girl Writer” Pezzaniti MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Music ............................................Brittany “Sass Master Flash” Nader MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Entertainment ..............Andrew “Has a Mighty Fine Beard” Leask Sta Writers, Columnists & The A/V Club: 33 Humans of Akron rock. And rap. Kristina “Urban Explorer” Aiad-Toss; Emily “Lady Beer Drinker” And sing. And dance. Anderson; Melanie “newbie for now” Anderson; Rick “Small Business Chronicler” Bohan; Holly “The Wanderer” Brown; 36 Super No Bueno: Floco Torres heats Christina “no paddles, fl ow downstream” Dearing; Sam "Buzzkilling up the basement at It’s a Kling Thing! Feminist" DePaul; Michelle “The Camera Nerd” DeShon; Emily “Potty Perfectionist” Dressler and Marissa Marangoni, Bathroom House 30 31 Culture Enthusiast; Brian “Wemlo Twinge” Dunphy; Grace “Always Running Away” Ebner; Lois “Beautyscandal” Elswick; Kait "rice cake enthusiast" Erdman; Gabe “Softballin’” Gott; Dan “The Akron Knight” Gorman; Paul “I don’t write but I can draw” Ho man; Jacob Luther, the Towny Townie Toonist; Hillary "Gets Lost in Her Own World but Reappears if There is Dancing Involved" Martter; TJ “Don’t Call Me Shirley” Masterson; Krissy "Someone make me a real fi sh taco before I go insane" O'Connor; Atticus “Wreckage” Pamer Adoptable Pets the absolutely real and totally non-fi ctional Georgio Pelogrande; Roger Riddle, Wears the Purple Pants; Amanda "That Crazy Cat Lady" Sedlak-Hevener; Lenny “Where’s Squiggy?” Spengler; Nicole “likes the way Akron sounds” Stempak; Steve “is not a zombie” Van Auken; Patrick “Pattycakes” Worden; and The Shane Wynn Blue Dodge was born in November 2014 and weighs about 65 pounds. This handsome man takes some Supremacy; Scott "The Swiss Army Intern" Piepho; Ted "Super No time to warm up to new people but some yummy treats is the way to his heart. He shows potential with the Bueno" Lehr; "Awesome" Dawson Steeber right dog but also wouldn't mind being the only pooch in the palace. He also requires an adult only home. In his previous home, Blue Dodge did live with cats but he enjoyed chasing them around the house from time ———————— ———————————— to time. If Blue Dodge is your boy stop in and meet this lovely pup today. CONTACT US: O c e ....................................................................(330) 842-6606 General Info [email protected] Meet William! This easy going guy is sure to fi ll your home with loads Advertising .......................................... [email protected] of love! William is a very friendly guy who adores everyone he meets! Dstribution .................................... 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Akron Distribution: The Devil Strip is available free of charge, limited to one copy PAWSibilities Humane Society of Greater Akron per reader. Copyright: The entire contents of The Devil Strip are copyright 2016 by Random Family, LLC. Reproduction in whole or in part without 7996 Darrow Rd., Twinsburg, OH 44087 | 1.888.588.8436 | 330.487.0333 written permission of the publisher is prohibited. Publisher does not assume [email protected] | www.summithumane.org | www.facebook.com/summithumane any liability for unsolicited manuscripts, materials, or other content. Any submission must include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. All editorial, advertising, and business correspondence should be mailed to the address listed above. 4 | THE Devil Strip / DECEMBER 2016 • VOL 2 • ISSUE #12 pub notes of color at this pool. One guy offered to pay people, but I am of the opinion that in their wired to connect and cooperate. If you want to for his membership on the spot. They were still social relations, the two races should be end bigotry, commit to community. turned away but he had a smirk on his face as separate and that they should not have pleasure Pub Notes >> they left. He was proving a point. or recreation grounds to be used or enjoyed One of my heroes is Will Campbell, a Southern together and in common.” writer and Civil Rights activist who abandoned The pool closed a few years later. I heard organized religion but not his faith. Whenever someone sued the owner for discrimination That might be the earliest recorded use of “I’m he preached to the choir, the choir got nervous. and he was ordered to open to everybody. He not racist but…” In a 1984 sermon, addressing other activists fi lled it in with concrete instead. As the great about race in America, he said, “Whether we philosopher and theologian Howard Thurman Since the election, I’ve worried with my friends know it or not, whether we live like it or not, we observed, “Hatred is destructive to the hated who fear that the threats against people of are already brothers and sisters. Not perhaps, and hater alike.” color, women, immigrants, refugees and maybe, someday, if we be good boys and girls, members of the LGBTQ community will be but already. Then our vocation becomes to be, Sometimes it’s also instructive. I was a chubby, made against them next. Or worse, acted upon. not to do but to be what we already are… ...to popcorn-loving white kid absorbing someone’s Over the past month, I’ve learned that the overt be what we are by our nature, reconciled to hand-me-down racism, unwittingly a participant bigotry most expect in Georgia isn’t hard to God and all his creatures, and unable to endure in the ongoing effort to keep whites and blacks fi nd here. Evidently, the President-Elect’s hateful the indignities and injustices that are heaped The Akron We Know apart. Estrangement is the aim of bigotry. The rhetoric has encouraged some of our fellow upon them.” less we get to know each other, the less likely Americans to behave in very un-American ways. A couple summers after my folks divorced, Mom we are to see each other as human and the When you connect with and care about got enough money together to get the three quicker we’ll default to thug, bitch, homo or Richard Spencer is one of those, a white someone else, you can’t ignore their suffering. of us kids a membership to the neighborhood terrorist instead of sister and brother. Disunity nationalist who says he views Mr. Trump’s Maybe this explains why I maintain greater faith pool so we’d have somewhere to go while she begets disunity. election as progress towards the “white ethno- in potlucks and parties than politics. It’s why I worked. Half the thrill was the half-mile walk state” desired by the “alt-right”.