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The Firehouse Caramel Popcorn at Popped! in downtown Kent on Monday, April 22, 2017. FILE.

Best Sweet Stuff

Paige Bennett April 17, 2019

Best of Kent 2019Winner: Popped! and Peace, Love and Little Donuts (TIE)Located in Acorn Alley, Popped! offers a wide selection of gourmet popcorn, chocolate, candy and ice cream. Making treats with Ohio-grown,...

Patrons enjoy breakfast at Mike’s Place in Kent on April 23, 2017. FILE.

Best Place to Cure a Hangover

Lexi Marco April 17, 2019

Best of Kent 2019Winner: Mike's PlaceAn X-wing Starfighter, a boat and a school bus walk into a bar. … No really, you can find all of these things at Kent’s very own Mike’s Place.For many, Mike’s...

Peter Finley, a co-founder of Lucci’s Place in Kent. He’s the mastermind behind all the recipes used for the pizza at Lucci’s. 

Best Pizza

Henry Palattella April 17, 2019

Winner: Lucci's PlaceLucci’s Place is located in a plaza right on the cusp of Kent’s campus, nestled between The Exchange and 101 Bottles. This not only put Lucci’s in the ideal area for customers...

Ed Bzomowski fills the marquee outside The Kent Stage. Bzomowski has been a volunteer with The Kent Stage for 11 years. “I do this in all kinds of weather,” Bzomowski said, but he prefers the spring weather. 

Best place to hear local bands/music

Henry Palattella April 17, 2019

Winner: The Kent StageThe Kent Stage is a Kent State staple. First started in 1927 as a silent movie theater, its doors have seen countless acts, some popular, some more obscure.Whether it be the monthly...

Two opposing bowling leagues duke it out at Kent Lanes Tuesday, April 19, 2016. FILE.

Best Place for the Under-21 Crowd

Henry Palattella April 17, 2019

Best of Kent 2019Winner: Brewhouse Pub We’ve all been there. You’re at a party, and it’s approaching midnight. Everyone who’s over 21 is itching to go to the bars, but there you are, 19, with...

(From left) Bryan Dodd, Kyle Thrasher, and Brenton Pahl watch Super Bowl 50 at Ray’s Place on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016. FILE.

Welcome to Ray’s Place: the ‘heart of downtown’

Dylan Reynolds April 17, 2019

If you’ve spent any length of time in Kent, it should come as no surprise that Ray’s Place dominated Best of Kent’s restaurant categories with four big wins, including Best Restaurant, Best Burger,...

DefianceTattoo

Sara Donato April 17, 2019

Larry Spano tattoos a cover-up on Terri Wendel of Kent on Wednesday. Terri and her partner, Dave, have been coming to Defiance for over eight years. “Once you get a good tattoo artist, you don’t go...

Telerobotics Lab

Rachel Karas April 17, 2019

Davis (left) tests out the virtual reality headset with the help of Jeong (right), April 12, 2019. The headset was created to allow people with cognitive disabilities experience an environment virtually...

Telerobotics Lab

Rachel Karas April 17, 2019

Jeong (far left) helps Davis (left) demonstrate how TeleBot-2 functions. DeShaun Patterson (right), a senior at Warrensville Heights High School, and Jaz Ford (far right), a junior at Warrensville Heights...

Telerobotics Lab

Rachel Karas April 17, 2019

Jeong (left) shows Trae’Shaun Davis (right), a junior at Warrensville Heights High School, how to operate the model TeleBot-2 robot and how it makes the full size robot move, April 12, 2019. The lab...

Telerobotics Lab

April 17, 2019

Kanjak demonstrates how the TeleBot-2 robot functions to the students and chaperones of the Warrensville Heights High School tour group April 12, 2019. The first TeleBot robot was created by Jong-Hoon...

Telerobotics Lab

Rachel Karas April 17, 2019

Nate Kanjak, a graduate computer science major, talks to the students and chaperones of the Warrensville Heights High School tour group about the telepresence suit that the Advanced Telerobotics Research...

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