Celebrate Halloween With A Night For Horror Masked By Cinema
October 29, 2020 No Responses

Celebrate Halloween With A Night For Horror Masked By Cinema

Overview by Brad Balfour [photo: Glenn Hughes] When I recently found a new edition of Irish author Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” it led me back into one of the greatest stories ever told. It’s a classic tome about a legendary character...
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The Late John Lennon Would Have Celebrated His 80th Birthday This October
October 21, 2020 No Responses

The Late John Lennon Would Have Celebrated His 80th Birthday This October

Reflections by Brad Balfour On October 9th, John Lennon, the former superstar Beatle, and genius singer/songwriter, would have been 80 years old. Born in 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital to Julia and Alfred Lennon – a merchant seaman of Irish...
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Most of the Major Arts Spaces are Open — Socially Distanced With Masks Required
October 7, 2020 No Responses

Most of the Major Arts Spaces are Open — Socially Distanced With Masks Required

Reflections by Brad Balfour Though I’m not sure I was ready for it, I made my way on September 30th to the re-opened Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for its media preview. That was the first major arts space I’ve visited...
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Social Media and Crowd-Funding Serves to Make “Work” for Actor/Director Aoife Williamson
September 24, 2020 No Responses

Social Media and Crowd-Funding Serves to Make “Work” for Actor/Director Aoife Williamson

Story by Brad Balfour Production: Work Writer/Director/Lead actor: Aoife Williamson What’s an actor to do during a pandemic? Is there no better motivation than sitting around an apartment as antcy as can be, frozen in one’s tracks, with no stage...
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Suffragettes In The Age of Covid
September 10, 2020 No Responses

Suffragettes In The Age of Covid

Essay by Brad Balfour In this pandemic age, women have been shouldering much of the burden as essential workers like never before. As nurses, teachers, store clerks and more, they have been here for us and still have to fight...
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Doing The Binge This Labor Day — A Way to Visit Other Worlds and Save a Mind In Lock-down

September 4, 2020 No Responses

Doing The Binge This Labor Day — A Way to Visit Other Worlds and Save a Mind In Lock-down


Essay by Brad Balfour Yes I did. I let a lot of things go when the pandemic shut-down kicked in. My hair grew out; I ceased emailing and texting with a lot of good and great people; since I was...
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Choir Master Jim Papoulis: Traveling the Globe Sharing Music with Kids
September 3, 2020 No Responses

Choir Master Jim Papoulis: Traveling the Globe Sharing Music with Kids

Interview by Mike Greenly In my many years of working with musicians either as collaborators, whether for corporate projects or the public, I’ve met some major world-class talents. Jim Papoulis is one of them — respected globally for his mastery...
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A Weekend to Remember and To Reflect Upon Its History and Its Discontents
August 23, 2020 No Responses

A Weekend to Remember and To Reflect Upon Its History and Its Discontents

Essay by Brad Balfour When I was working as the Cincinnati Post’s pop/rock critic, I covered an Elvis Presley concert in 1976. Little did I know that would be his last tour. I reviewed him during that tour and caught...
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In Celebrating Journalist Pete Hamill and Creem Magazine’s Crew, A New Sense of Community Is To Be Found
August 18, 2020 No Responses

In Celebrating Journalist Pete Hamill and Creem Magazine’s Crew, A New Sense of Community Is To Be Found

Essay by Brad Balfour When I was a mere whippersnapper of a teen, I started writing — thinking it was a good way to bide my time until I figured out what I really want to do. Well, I’m still...
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The Political Conventions That Will Be Mostly Politics and Little On-site Partying
August 14, 2020 No Responses

The Political Conventions That Will Be Mostly Politics and Little On-site Partying

Commentary By Brad Balfour Yes, it’s less than three months until the election day. And the conventions are about to happen — sort of. In this age of the pandemic, what would have been two whiz bang weeks of thousands...
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