By: Bill Cushing – May, 2018 From time to time, my column will feature questions asked by readers regarding the world of TV. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have about TV at BillsTVTalk@gmail.com, and I’ll do my best to answer you and may feature your question in a future column. […]
By: Bill Cushing – April, 2018 On April 1, legendary TV producer-creator-writer Steven Bochco passed away from Leukemia at the age of 74. The legacy he left behind cannot be matched by many people in television history. A 10 time Emmy winner, Bochco had a hand in creating, producing, or writing some of the most […]
By: Cindy Annis – March, 2018 I hope you enjoyed Buddy Holly last month. Now that he is done I can start thinking about “The Day the Music Died!” This month, however, we shall all learn together about the incomparable Sam Cooke. Sam was born back in January of 1931, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His dad […]
By: Bill Cushing – March, 2018 At first glance, the previews for Fox’s new procedural series ‘9-1-1’ may have appeared that it was going to be just like any other police/firefighter/first responder drama. Don’t get me wrong, there are some aspects of the show that are familiar. If you’re a child of the 70s, you’ll […]
By: Cindy Annis – February, 2018 Buddy Holly was born on September 7, 1936 in Lubbock Texas. His birth name is Charles Hardin Holley. When Holley turned 11, he followed in the musical footsteps of his brothers and sister, and took piano lessons. After nine months however, he quit the piano and grew interested in […]
VIDEO BELOW Download or listen to this week’s podcast. Today on the Paying Attention Podcast Tom talks about lawyers for the Acadia Insurance Company trying got have a reporter thrown out of a public proceeding in a public building during a 1st Amendment civil trial. Tom and Paul Murano talked about the Florida school shooter, […]
By: Cindy Annis – Jan. 2018 I hope you’ve been enjoying reading these articles every month. In the new year, you will learn more about the artists and groups from the 50s, 60s, and 70s you love. Let’s start the new year off with Neil Diamond. Neil Diamond was born and raised in Brooklyn, New […]
By: Bill Cushing – Jan. 2018 It’s that time of year again. That time when all TV people start thinking about the best shows that they watched over the past year. As usual, it was tough to leave some shows off the list, but here are my picks for the best TV had to […]
By: Cindy Annis – Dec. 2017 Connie Francis was born Concetta Rosa Maria on December 12, 1938. She grew up in Newark, New Jersey with her mother Ida and father, George. Since her father didn’t want children, he didn’t start to build a relationship with his daughter until she turned three. Concetta wanted to learn […]
By: Billy Cushing – Dec. 2017 When Bates Motel ended its 5-season run in April, it didn’t take long for its star, Freddie Highmore, to get another gig. Now he is starring on ABC’s excellent new series, The Good Doctor. The Good Doctor comes from creator David Shore, the same person who created the long […]
By: Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen, Dec. 2017 Not since the McCarthy era has one segment of society been hunted on the kind of threadbare allegations with the unconscionable sort of zealousness today’s men of influence are. Ever since Harvey Weinstein, pursued by tons of women for greater fame and fortune, or even just a bit […]
By: Cindy Annis – Nov. 2017 The Byrds were a rock group from Los Angeles California. They started recording in the middle of 1964 with members Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and David Crosby. In 1957, Roger McGuinn went to ‘The Old Time School of Folk Music’ in Chicago. There, he learned how to play the […]
NECC Presents Winter Concert The Northern Essex Community College Chorus will present its winter choral concert on Sunday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m. in Room 103 in the David Hartleb Technology Center on the Haverhill campus, 100 Elliott St. A selection of seasonal music will be performed by the NECC Chorus. This event is open […]
By: Bill Cushing – Nov. 2017 “How do we get ahead of crazy, if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” That is the question posed by FBI Agent Bill Tench in the riveting new Netflix series Mindhunter. Tench (Holt McCallany) presents that question to his boss, a hardened bureau man who considers psychiatry as […]
By: Cindy Annis – Oct. 2017 Elton John was born on March 25, 1947 in Pinner Middlesex, UK. His birth name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Dwight was raised by his grandparents in a council house until he turned six years old and his parents got married. Dwight found a friend in music. When his parents […]