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Musical ramblings from the manager
Steph Curry is a terrific basketball player, two-time NBA MVP, and one of those wealthy professional athletes who decided to take a stab at becoming a media mogul. It is a little too soon to pass judgement on his budding media career. His attempt at TV production (an exploitation of Curry’s interest in golf […]
How are you doing? I have been contemplating the world and looking for something to post on the WOAS-FM.ORG website to provide hope for the future. I was thinking, “What we need is an anthem for 2020 – something that tells the story of these last strange months but leaves the door open a […]
“In fourteen hundred ninety two . . . “ How many of you instinctively filled in the dots with “Columbus sailed the ocean blue”? Such was the state of North American history as taught throughout most of the twentieth century. This view did not become dogma until there was a deliberate rewriting of history […]
Here is a brief, two question music quiz to get your mental gears turning: Question 1 – True or False: Stevie Nicks was invited to join Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Question 2 – Multiple Choice: So far in her career, multi-instrumentalist Celisse has worked with or on – A) Melissa Etheridge, B) Lizzo, […]
If one checks out the WOAS-FM website (www.woas-fm.org), one can find an archive of FTV articles stretching back several years. The site is hosted by the Regional Educational Media Center (REMC) that is part of the Intermediate Schools District (ISD) office located in Hancock, Michigan. The ISD office is responsible for providing educational services […]
During the summer of 1967, I was making the transition from Jr. High to my freshman year in High School. Little did I know that events taking place across the pond in London during the first six months of that year would have such a profound effect on me. The wheels really started turning […]
Where to begin? On the back cover of his 2015 book Walking the Nile (Grove Press) Levison Wood is described as a “writer, photographer, and explorer. He served in Afghanistan as an officer in the British Army Parachute Regiment.” His resume is expanded some on the back of Walking the Americans (2017, also printed […]
While the live music industry has been in a COVID-19 induced coma, artists have gone to great lengths to fill up their empty calendars. Some have spent the time pumping out socially distanced events on various media platforms while others have hit the studio. Whether these have been low tech phone affairs or higher tech […]
In Part 1, we looked at how Ferdinand Magellan (born Fernao de Magalhaes in Portugal) was able to convince King Charles I of Spain to appoint him the Captain General of an expedition to the Spice Islands. Magellan was convinced one could sail west, find a strait that would deposit his ships at the […]
The date: September 6, 1522. Location: Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain. “As the ship came closer, those who gathered onshore noticed that her tattered sails flailed in the breeze, her rigging had rotted away, the sun had bleached her colors, and storms had gouged her sides. A small pilot boat was dispatched to lead the […]