MARK DAWIDZIAK AND POE TOGETHER, FOREVERMORE!

 

Forever more!

 

Mark Dawidziak is continuing his Cuyahoga County Public Library tour with his latest book, “A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe.” 

 

Mark appeared at North Olmsted on Thursday, April 27 and will be at the Chagrin Falls branch at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 17.

 

Chagrin Falls registration:

https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/7584426

The launch event was February 14.

JANE SNOW AND TONY KAWAGUCHI CELEBRATE 16th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

 

Jane Snow, the best BJ food writer (and there was plenty of excellent competition) in history, and Japanese native and sushi chef Tony Kawaguchi celebrated their 16^th wedding anniversary at Henry Wahner’s in Kent, a restaurant Jane reviewed for the BJ more than 30 years ago.

Quips Jane: ‘It’s just as good as when I reviewed it. Tony has held up well, too.”

When Jane walked into Tony’s Sushi Katsu restaurants in the Merriman Valley, where I have enjoyed the cuisine from time to time, Tony swept her off her feet when he hugged her into the air and said, “You’re going to be my girlfriend.”

Two weeks later, they were engaged. The next year, they were married.

When a sushi chef marries a food writer you know that’s a match made in cuisine heaven.

There were two Snows who were BJ food wrtiers. The first was Glenna Snow, whose 1944 “Glenna Snow’s Cook Book” has been purchased for decades and decades.

BJ readers thought for decades that Glenna and Joan were related. They aren’t. Just had Snow for a surname.

In between was Polly Paffilas, Charlene Nevada and Connie Bloom.

Glenna retired from the BJ in 1944. Jane, who started at the BJ in 1979, in 2006.

Jane once told me:

“Glenna Snow’s son called me once from his home in Biloxi, Mississippi. He wanted to know why the BJ was still using his mother’s name. Her cookbook usually can be found at The Bookseller in Wallhaven.”

WILL BJ BUILDING BE DEMOLISHED FOR A PARKING LOT. TUESDAY, MAY 2 MEEETING BY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION

 

Parking lot or salvation for BJ building?

 

The Urban Design and Historic Preservation Commission on Tuesday, May 2 will consider whether the former BJ building is demolished and the the property turned into a parking lot or saved as a historic site.

The 230,000 square foot BJ building and tower was bought by Capstone Real Estate Investments in Birmingham, Alabama.

Capstone founder Michael Mouron paid $1.1 million in 2020 for the 44 E. Exchange Street building. The BJ moved to the seventh floor of the AES Building at 388 S. Main St., a former rubber company building.

Mouron’s sons Drew Christopher and Lewis, who manage Capstone Real Estate Investments, own the former student housing building at 22 E. Exchange St. and have converted it into a conventional apartment property known as The Standard. They want more parking for the apartments.

The meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 2, on the third floor of City Hall in the City Council chambers.

The Akron Times-Press opened the downtown landmark in 1930, and it became the Beacon Journal’s headquarters after the two newspapers merged in 1938.

The Beacon Journal was editor and publisher John S. Knight's first newspaper after he took over the debt-ridden business during the Great Depression from his late father, C.L. Knight. JSK created Knight Newspapers,, which once owned 32 newspapers and employed 18,000 workers.