Chapel Hill Mall: Death is Imminent

“Join me and we can haunt Akron with our dead mall spirits.”- Rolling Acres Mall Intro: “The next Rolling Acres.” “A scary place to shop.” Many things like such have been said about Chapel Hill Mall of late. The past four years have not been very kind to Chapel Hill and that’s an understatement. YouTube […]

Midway Mall: A Place to Breathe

“When gone I am, the last of the malls in Elyria will I be.”-Midway Mall *in Yoda voice Intro: Well that was actually a dumb quote because this is the only mall that Elyria has ever had, but knowing me you know I had to throw a Star Wars quote into this. Nonetheless, Midway Mall […]

Union Street Diner: The Best Restaurant in Ohio University (Athens, OH)

It’s unfair how good Union Street Diner is. I almost feel bad for every other restaurant in the area that has to compete with them. If Thomas Rarden and Daniel Boone were still alive today you can just about guarantee they’d agree with me when I say that Union Street Diner (or Union for short) […]

Great Northern Mall: A Surprise to be Sure, but a Welcome One

“A wise mall once said nothing.”- Mall God Welcome to stop 2 on the Mall Maniac exhibition! Backstory: To be honest, I had no idea what I was going to see when I went to this mall. I looked up a few pictures online and a little bit off of Wikipedia but this was by […]

SouthPark Mall Review (Strongsville, OH)

“Wait a minute, Cleveland. Are you telling me you built a shopping mall… on the site of what was going to be the Browns new stadium?!”- Marty McFly The quote above is actually true. This land was purchased originally by Cleveland Browns’ former owner Art Modell in the ’80s with a secret plan to build […]

Mall Maniac: A 3 Stop Trek Through Northeast Ohio

“That’s no towne center. It’s a shopping mall.” -Obi Wan Kenobi Backstory: As you probably saw from my last post, I’ll take a mall over a towne center any day of the week. The fact that a new mall being built nowadays is almost unheard of is where I find the charm in them. Some […]

Bourbon Lemonade Recipe

What is the number one liquor drank by dads? Bourbon! Now of course that’s up for discussion, but I have seen some men get pretty hefty after a 1.5 oz cup of bourbon. Bourbon is one of those liquors that has a million and one sub-genres, from barrel proof, to small-batch to rye and many […]

Kingmakers Board Game Parlour (Columbus, OH)

Are you Board? Scramble for Scrabble and Brews at Kingmakers Board Game Parlour By: Sheriff of Rarden Secret Hitler. Beer. Need I say more? …I do? Well damn, I guess I have to write a whole post now. Kingmakers Board Game Parlour, located in the Short North district of Columbus, serves up board games, brewskis, […]

Tri-County Mall: What’s left?

Main entrance of the mall. (Pic definitely not screenshotted from Google Maps street view.) Intro: Once a thriving mall in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati, Tri-County Mall has fallen by the wayside and its future is already written. It’s tough to watch the demise of a place that you’ve known and attended your entire life, […]

SPAM Fried Rice: On Fire

I know you’re already enticed just by the name, but before I get started here I need to tell you a few things. You do not always have to follow recipes to a T. In fact, many of the best chefs don’t measure precisely (most specifically spices and seasonings.) Watch a cooking show and you’ll […]