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Police accuse bank robbery suspect of gobbling up note (with dashcam video)
Victim of beating in Kent last week is declared dead at Akron hospital
Can DNA tests free ex-Akron captain?
Dad accused of forcing son into field, killing him
Man found dead in North Akron home is identified
Does it work? Test team returns to try out new products advertised on television
Blogs:
Pets:
Cat-loving chihuahua suckles seven abandoned kittens
The Heldenfiles:
Sunday Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
Browns sick after sick loss in Detroit
Akron Zips:
Zips advance to Sweet Sixteen
Tribe Matters:
Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
Cleveland Browns:
Post-game defensive quotes
Kent State Sports:
Kent State defeats Rochester College, 63-44
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Gameblog: Cavs vs. Philadelphia 76ers
Buckeye Blogging:
OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
Varsity Letters:
Four area football teams play tonight
All Da King's Men:
The Sunday Sanity Challenge
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Will Health Care Reform Pass?
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (69) The Brookings Institute Study on "Bending the Curve" – Four General Strategies
See Jane Style:
Vintage Chic
Car Chase:
TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Silverdome Potentially SOLD!
Ohio Travels with Betty:
George is looking for a Thanksgiving buffet in Akron.
Sound Check:
Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
HRLite House:
Personal Rant – You are All Wrong About Jobs, or the Lack of Jobs, Being the Reason People Do Not Live in NEO
Akron Gamer:
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Sunday, May 31, 2009
Nostalgia is the merchandise, and Cleveland's Department Stores delivers. The pictorial, annotated by University of Akron alumnus Christopher Faircloth, shows the great stores — Halle Brothers, Higbee's, May Company and Sterling-Lindner-Davis — in their downtown art deco heydays, with throngs of busy shoppers and helpful clerks.
Readers of a certain vintage will recognize Higbee's Silver Grille and bargain basement. There is a chapter devoted to the many celebrities (Rock Hudson! Zsa Zsa Gabor!) who made promotional appearances at the glamorous stores. The Christmas season, including traditions like the spectacular tree at Sterling-Lindner, is well covered, as is beloved Mr. Jingeling.
Cleveland's Department Stores (128 pages, softcover) costs $21.99 from Arcadia Publishing.
Hiking 'Trail of Truth'
Former Cuyahoga Falls resident Mark Stephen Taylor has had an eventful 64 years: work as a police officer in California, health problems and four divorces. He became an avid hiker and Bible scholar, and his book Hiking the Trail of Truth: Knowing God through His Creation, is part memoir, part exploration of the terrain and fauna of the Southwest and part Bible instruction.
Taylor sanctions only a literal translation, adding his certainties that the Earth is ''just a little over 6,000 years'' old and that homosexuality is ''detestable in the sight of God.'' His descriptions of various desert creatures, like coyotes, snakes, eagles and locusts, are interesting.
Hiking the Trail of Truth (332 pages, softcover) costs $18.99 from http://www.xulonpress.com. Taylor now lives in Petaluma, Calif.
Inside Day's life
In his May 10 column about David Kaufman's biography of Cincinnati native Doris Day, Beacon Journal writer Rich Heldenfels notes that the author talked to ''just about everyone who was alive and able to provide insight into Day.'' One of those people was Mary Anne Barothy, who tells of her four years as Day's live-in private secretary in Day at a Time: An Indiana Girl's Sentimental Journey to Doris Day's Hollywood and Beyond.
Four years doesn't seem like that long, but they were among the most eventful in Day's life and career: They included her son's near-death in a motorcycle accident and brief association with Charles Manson, and starring in a television show that her late husband/agent had contracted her to without her knowledge. And ''personal secretary'' hardly conveys Barothy's duties, which included fishing lawn furniture out of the pool and caring for — and being bitten by — Day's many, many dogs.
Day at a Time (170 pages, softcover) is a snapshot of early 1970s Hollywood and an insider's look at a reclusive star. It costs $18 from http://www.hawthornepub.com.
Events
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Gary Stromberg signs Every Tiger Has a Tale: Generations of Grads from a Cleveland Area High School Share Their Amazing Life Stories, 7 p.m. Wednesday; Bo Parfet signs Die Trying: One Man's Quest to Conquer the Seven Summits, 7 p.m. Thursday.
Cuyahoga County Public Library (6155 Engle Road, Brook Park) — Bill Livingston signs Above and Beyond: Tim Mack, the Pole Vault and the Quest for Olympic Gold. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Reservations required; call 216-267-5250.
Barnes & Noble (4015 Medina Road, Bath Township) — Amherst author Doug Kane signs Ariel's Journey, first in the Ice Horse Adventures series. He will bring an Icelandic horse and colt. 8 p.m. Friday.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
Nostalgia is the merchandise, and Cleveland's Department Stores delivers. The pictorial, annotated by University of Akron alumnus Christopher Faircloth, shows the great stores — Halle Brothers, Higbee's, May Company and Sterling-Lindner-Davis — in their downtown art deco heydays, with throngs of busy shoppers and helpful clerks.
Get the full article here.
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