Despite what Chrissie Hynde once sang, there is still a downtown in Akron, Ohio. I went to college there, in what turns out to have been something of a golden age. Most Fridays, we'd pay a $5 cover to see bands at a club called the Lime Spider—every month or two, it was the Black Keys. Other times, we stayed on campus to watch basketball games featuring a local prep phenom named LeBron James. Actually, it was a lot like going to the Moda Center this week.