The following message appeared today on the Jazz West Coast listserve. With all the ink flowing about this being 25 years since John Lennon bought the farm, I must tell you how I heard about it. I was at Dante's jazz club in the San Fernando Valley and the TV set above the bar was on and showing … [Read more...]
Archives for December 10, 2005
Radio Followup (& Florence Foster Jenkins)
John Schaefer, Drew McManus and I had a good time addressing the proposition: to applaud or not to applaud. It was on WNYC Radio's Soundcheck program. The discussion included calls from listeners with intelligent observations. If you missed it, you can listen to it by going to the Soundcheck page on … [Read more...]
Blurring The Line
In a recent Rifftides posting, I wrote: It must be tempting, if you own a newspaper, to break down the traditional separation between the news side of the paper and the advertising department. There are plenty of advertisers eager for credibility they think will come from a more direct connection … [Read more...]
Comment: Ed Masry, RIP
The other day, we declared the following item from The Los Angeles Times the winner of the Rifftides everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-in-the-lead newswriting competition. Ed Masry, the flamboyant, crusading environmental lawyer portrayed by actor Albert Finney in the movie "Erin Brockovich," which … [Read more...]