Found in almost every classroom, the ubiquitous pencil can be used as more than just a paperweight. Yes, it’s used as writing utensil, but sometimes gets shoved aside when its cousin, the almighty pen makes his entrance. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but for education, artistic, ...

The pocket. Often these words are mentioned in different contexts, all of which are valid. Talk with a baseball player and the pocket may mean the part of the glove where baseball sits best between the base of thumb and the base of the index finger. Because of hand size, different gloves ...

The debate lives. It’s one that guitarists and bassists often have. The debate is over the use of tablature vs. musical notation. For me, it’s a simple answer. I would rather read music than to read tab. To me, and some other bassists and guitarists may agree, it is that tab doesn’t ...

At first thought, I did not want write about him, but the name of his release — “McCartney III” — intrigued me. Then I had a rethink, some time to re-evaluate my position. I’m not a big fan of music reviews, so this is more of my commentary. I haven’t really bought any new ...

Have you ever tried visualizing your writing? Sounds weird, but it may help. Speak to an athlete on any level, and he may tell you that he visualizes catching a football, shooting a basketball foul shot, hitting a home run, scoring the winning goal on a one-timer from the blue line, or ...

FREDONIA — Bernd Gottinger, head of the State University at Fredonia’s Sound Recording Technology program, was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Engineered Album-Classical for his work on the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s recording of Richard Danielpour’s “The Passion ...