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Jamestown Musician To Release Third Full-Length Album

Mike Brunacini is setting the stage for the release of what he is calling his finest work yet.The Jamestown musician, a 2009 graduate from Jamestown High School, has written and recorded the material that will compile his third full-length album, "Cherry Springs," which he will make available for public consumption in November.A self-professed "piano man," Brunacini said his latest work will mark a bit of a departure from his previous efforts - 2013's "Breakup at Allen Park" and 2014's "Artificial Individual" - in that the majority of the tracks are largely guitar-driven. Coupled with ...

‘BRRH’ Season Premiere To Feature Smilo And The Ghost, Dan Vogan

Trinity Guitars will kick off the third season of its monthly radio program, "Back Room Radio Hour," with both a modern and vintage take on music composition.The Jamestown guitar store will present a live taping of the 19th installation of "Back Room Radio Hour" on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. The program will feature the Erie-based folk-rock band Smilo and the Ghost along with area singer-songwriter Dan Vogan.Established earlier this year around Erie folk musician Tyler Smilo, who also performs with his other band Daybreak Radio as well as solo shows, Smilo and the Ghost already has a ...

‘The Media’? There Is No ‘The’ In ‘Media’

Those of us who write commentaries are just as prone to random acts of stupidity as are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.An example? Arthur Schaper's headline.It reads, in part, "The media are biased."So what Mr. Schaper is saying is that he himself is biased.The problem arises with the phrase, "The media."It does not exist."Media" is a plural noun. The singular form, as we all know, is "medium."This newspaper is one medium for the spreading of news.Another medium is The Progress, our over-the-mountain sister newspaper in Clearfield.Put them together. We have two "media."But the noun is ...

Summer: A Warm Memory

I can't believe that soon it will be September, school will be starting in a few days and the leaves will soon be changing. I was driving around this weekend, looking at the world as it readies for the beginning of fall as summer comes to a close.It seems like it was barely a whisper.Here in the frozen tundra that is Western New York, we cling to the summer months not unlike a child clings to their mother on their very first day of school.I should know, because I've seen children grabbing at their mom's pantleg, wailing until they couldn't breathe on the first day of school.That's how I ...

How Am I Doing So Far?

In all walks of life, we have those moments when we have to make decisions - while plotting our courses, taking care of business, sometimes taking chances, assuming risks, making investments, and more, most of those times with a hope (but without a clue) how those things will turn out for us. Often times, life allows you to plan in some cases. Other times, life forces you to do things, or make decisions on the spur of the moment. Some may call those spur-of-the-moment times or decisions, "gut check" times, or "from the gut" decisions, where you have no choice but to act first without the ...

Those Aren’t My Tomatoes

Well, they looked just like tomato plants - and I knew I put some tomato seeds in my garden.The plants surprised me by being so happy to grow here, leaping up by the proverbial leaps and bounds. I anticipated a great harvest. An abundance of tomatoes and apples too - what a year indeed!Only why, when I went out later for a closer look (keeping an eye at the same time on my one and a half zucchinis), were all these tomatoes hollow? They look more like the Japanese lantern plant than anything I could imagine eating.Then, loading up on ripe tomatoes at a local grocers, I saw my "things" in ...