Love, love will keep us together / Think of me babe whenever / Some sweet-talking girl comes along, singing her song / Don’t mess around, you’ve just got to be strong, just stop / ‘Cause I really love you, stop / I’ll be thinking of you / Look in my heart and let love keep […]
This is our old friend Al Jacquez and his wife Judy – Al was put in the Michigan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Bay City in 2024. We have followed his career since Savage Grace, Measured Chaos, and most recently as a solo artist performing his ONE VOICE – ONE GUITAR set. The […]
Near the one year anniversary of getting to see Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band in Eugene, Oregon for the first show of their 2023 summer tour, it occurred to me that some of you probably don’t have enough Ringo memorabilia in your lives. Disclaimer: I am not promoting or suggesting you patronize the […]
WOAS-FM Awards for 2023-24 Student volunteers from the Ontonagon Area Schools were recently recognized for their contributions to WOAS-FM 88.5. The radio station is owned by the school district and operates from the studios located in the K-12 school library. Some of the service awards bear the names of past WOAS-FM managers in honor of […]
Okay, so we had a winter with very little snow (about one quarter of our yearly average in the Ontonagon area). As of mid-May, we have only been playing hide and seek with warmer weather making one wonder if spring will also be AWOL this year. The only thing we can say with any […]
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 […]