Around midnight Saturday, the streets of downtown Kent filled with costumed students, out-of-towners and spectating locals, gathered to celebrate Halloween with the Kent community. Thousands of revelers...
If Norman Bates of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho formed a rock band, what kind of rock band would he form?Probably one like Survivor Girl.An amalgam of 1950s-style gymnasium rock ‘n’ roll and “horror”...
In 1992, Tracy McCool was sitting in Broadcast Journalism 101, listening to a stern warning from Gene Stebbins for new journalism students such as herself. She had just joined TV2 her junior year at Kent...
In a little pocket of the University Plaza, among vacated stores and former beauty parlors, sits the ever-so-humble Upaya Zen Center. Inside sit little Buddha statues dotted in between meditation pillows...
October marks the 204th anniversary of the celebration of Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Saturday also makes for the first downtown Kent Oktoberfest in almost two decades.The German-American festival,...
The families in the 1930s play, “You Can’t Take It With You” are very much not our time. They precede the eras of smartphones, America Online and handheld video games. Other than a few loose ends,...
Freshman Sara Formoso stood in the middle of Room 207 at the Schwartz Center and pointed a six-shelled blue and orange NERF gun toward the front of the classroom. She looked indecisive.“Go ahead,”...
Kathy Lovell is unmissable at the Kent Starbucks. Working mostly with Kent State students half her age, Lovell initially seems out of place. Yet the one-time actress’ personality — as gleaming and...
Nine up-and-coming musicians took the Kent Stage for the 4th Annual Ohio’s Got Talent competition Saturday, Sept. 13, hosted by Humble Heroz Productions. By the end of the night, only one would take...
R.J. Wilkinson, Iraq veteran and Kent State alum, is an advocate of the phrase that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.His latest project, entitled “Tell Me About The War,” intends...
