Akronite

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Akronite

In this week’s issue:
* BizTech Profile David Giffels
* Interview Chad Treboniak and John “Shorty” Oldwine of FoxxyBeverages.com
* Sounds The Surprise of Being-Live At Birdland from the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
* RoldoLink When the Cleveland Press Really Died
* Cool Cleveland Kids podcast click here, CC podcast click here, CC Blog click here

Akron’s a cool town. This week we vodcast Akronite David Giffels, writer, musician, and columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal, and offer a review of First Night Akron, one of the tightest community events in NEO all year. Cle-based Foxxy Beverages will set you on edge as they launch a new energy drink with a recipe that former inmate John “Shorty” Oldwine discovered in prison. As for Cool Cleveland, our eyes and ears are open. Tell us what you got going on, and we’ll spread the word of mouth. Stay tuned, Northeast Ohio, it’s going to be a high octane year. —Thomas Mulready

David Giffels
Author, Columnist, Musician, Akronite

David Giffels may be the quintessential Akronite. A columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal, his thrice-weekly missives eyeball the community with a passionate, sometimes critical, and always rigorous eye for detail. He’s written two books, Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron and We Are Devo! Deviants in a Post-Modern World, which, while being as disparate as can be, are both so Akron. He’s also a musician, and he’s taking a leave of absence from the ABJ to work on his 3rd book. Cool Cleveland’s Thomas Mulready interviewed him at the corner of N. High & E. Market in Akron, at the center of the burgeoning “Akron’s Own Historic District,” where they discussed the new Akron, brain gain, and what it feels like to live through the massive layoffs at the ABJ. http://www.TheBeaconJournal.com

WATCH THE MOVIE Writer David Giffels