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Last year around this time I was cheerfully writing about the great upcoming art exhibitions, dance concerts and plays scheduled for the spring: paintings at the UA’s Joseph Gross gallery by a talented young Liberian refugee; a modern dance in Reid Park by the up-and-coming Hawkinsdance troupe; and an Irish play by acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh at the Rogue Theatre.  I didn’t see any of them. They were all shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Things are getting better now, we hope. The vaccine has arrived and this miracle drug  just may bring us back to life—eventually.  

In bloody year for U.S. cities, Akron lost several children to gun violence Didi Martinez and Tom Winter and Andrew Blankstein and Ken Dilanian and Rich Schapiro © Provided by NBC News Shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 14, Shoskamika Risper said goodbye to her daughter, Mikayla, before leaving their Akron, Ohio, home for her job at a nearby KFC restaurant. “I love you, and I’ll see you later,” Risper told her. “I love you, too,” the 8-year-old replied. About eight hours later, as Risper was finishing up her shift, her phone rang. It was her teenage son. He was hyster...