In Part 1, we spent a good deal of time detailing how a young Patrick Stewart managed to make the transition from being a barely educated Northern lad from Yorkshire to a full time student at the Bristol Old Vic School of acting. In his 2023 Memoir Making It So (Gallery Books, Camm Lane, […]
The name Patrick Stewart no doubt connects with SciFy fans through the resume of characters he has played in recent times: Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation TV / movies / and now streaming with the newest iteration Picard), Professor Charles Xavier (X-Men movies and other Marvel movies like Dr. Strange and […]
The dawn of the 1980s had to be a revelation for Lita Ford. She was 22 years old, an outstanding but newly unemployed guitar player living back home with her parents in Long Beach, California. She had seen all the ‘lead singer drama’ she could tolerate before her old band, The Runaways, imploded. Lita […]
It is getting to be that time of the year when our senior’s minds begin to look to the future. With the last marking period of the last semester of their school careers in progress, we begin to hear less of them on the air than we would like. It isn’t like they are […]
Did you get to enjoy the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024? Ontonagon County got to watch the overcast sky darken and listen to the birds roosting, but seeing the actual eclipse had to be done on-line or on TV. It wasn’t nearly as good in the Western Upper Peninsula as the show we […]
In FTV: Student Teachers (4-10-24), I recounted some of my experiences with the rite of passage called ‘student teaching’. The state wants teaching candidates vetted in an actual classroom setting before signing off and giving them a license to teach. Usually one decides whether or not they want to pursue a career in teaching before […]
The day FTV: Name That Tune came out in the Ontonagon Herald (March 13, 2024), my phone rang. On the other end of the line was one of Ontonagon’s favorite singers, Jim Brogan. He said, “You know that little quiz in the paper? I can’t believe you couldn’t identify Under the Boardwalk!” For those of […]
There is only one student teacher who will be named in this article and that would be me. It has been nearly fifty years since I was a student teacher but it seems like it only happened yesterday. I found myself mentoring a student teacher of my own a mere four years later and […]
Being one of The Beatles was not the be all/end all for George Harrison. Saying the name of the Fab Four usually sends people down Lennon and McCartney Lane, memory-wise. Even Ringo managed to garner more attention than poor George. Paul was always ‘the cute one’, John the ‘serious one’, and Ringo, the ‘fun […]
Mark your calendars for April 8, 2024 around 3:00 p.m. EDT. There will be a Total Solar Eclipse crossing the United States. The path of totality (the area where the entire disk of the Sun is obscured by the Moon) will stretch from central Texas to the Michigan/Ohio border and on to Maine. The rest […]