Every year I observe that Music Is Art, the great arts festival Robby Takac and his army of volunteers throw every fall, is a gathering of the tribes — for me, that means my friends in the music scene. And it’s still true. In addition to being a great place to catch music and all…
Congrats, Frank Layden, that’s quite an honor
I woke up this morning to read that Frank Layden was receiving the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Basketball Coaches. You can read about it here: https://www.nba.com/article/2019/06/02/frank-layden-2019-lifetime-achievement-award-recipient. It brought up some memories, and I thought I’d put them into words. So here’s my Frank Layden story. … As anybody who…
News, etc. 003 – After pushing people out the door, The News is hiring
Things just keep happening down at 1 News Plaza. Here’s the latest read on it. The paper is in the midst of being reshaped, perhaps radically. This may be the start of it. We’ll again direct you to The Public for the full story, since that’s where this first appeared. But here are the first…
News, etc. 002 – So who’s leaving The News?
It’s going to take awhile to unpack everything that’s happening at 1 News Plaza. But here’s Part 2 on the upheaval there. Several major figures and some key backliners are among those leaving. We’ll again direct you to The Public for the full story. Here’s the start of it. What’s Happening at the Buffalo…
News, etc. 001 – What’s happening at The Buffalo News
Here was where the story began. This post on The Public’s website (and later in the paper itself) was the first look at the turmoil that’s been going down at the region’s major daily. Because The Public was the initial publisher of this piece, I’m going to give you the first six paragraphs of this…