There are a ton of tribute shows every year, but it takes a little something more to pull off a Roy Orbison tribute show. It takes a voice like Stephen Macdonald’s. MacDonald will be serving as Roy Orbison Friday night (April 26) when Black and White: An Ode to Orbison takes place at Nietzsche’s (248…
Here’s a challenge for Sheila Rayam, the still relatively new editor-in-chief of The Buffalo News. My print subscription runs out sometime in the next week or so. Why should I resubscribe? I’m a hardcore print person. As someone who worked in newspapers for 27 years, who loves designing publications and who loves reading them, there’s…
There used to be an axiom among newspaper editors that the last thing in the world they wanted to do was to make changes to the comics page, because they knew cutting a single comic could result in a flurry of angry calls and letters from upset listeners. A corollary to that is that editors…
Wow, just wow. That was my response after reading Kathleen Parker’s column, headlined “This is already a summer I’d like to forget,” from the July 5 Washington Post. Not that I disagree with her main point. This has been an awful year in so many respects, and especially with the mass shootings, which only our…
By Elmer Ploetz Jim Kinsella should be remembered. I write that as I look for the Cape Cod Review online tonight. It’s a day after my friend died, and his final project seems to have evaporated into the digital ether. It’s too bad because it may just have been the project closest of any to…