Jeff Spevak
Jeff Spevak has been a Rochester arts reporter for nearly three decades, with seven first-place finishes in the Associated Press New York State Features Writing Awards while working for the Democrat and Chronicle. He has also been published in Musician and High Times magazines, contributed to WXXI, City newspaper and Post magazine, and occasionally performs spoken-word pieces around town. Some of his haikus written during the Rochester jazz festival were self-published in a book of sketches done by Scott Regan, the host of WRUR’s Open Tunings show. Spevak founded an award-winning barbecue team, The Smokin’ Dopes, and believes Bigfoot is real. His book on the life of a Lake Ontario sailor who survived the sinking of his ship during World War II will be published in April of 2019 by Lyons Press.
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The innovative musician will give a free talk, 'Musicality,' at the Eastman Centennial celebration this Thursday. Iyer says music is all around us, especially in places we don't expect to hear it.
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WXXI News has gathered three artists for Dialogue on Disability Week, a partnership between WXXI and Al Sigl Community of Agencies, in conjunction with the Herman and Margaret Schwartz Community Series.
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Elizabeth Williamson will take over for Mark Cuddy as artistic director of Rochester’s Geva Theatre Center.
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The music of the Rochester chamber ensemble fivebyfive is classical that thinks like rock.
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If you’re lucky, here’s how Garth Fagan greets you at the front door of his home off East Avenue: “Give me a hug!” And you do. He’s earned it. Fagan...
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Thomas Warfield was thinking back about 20 years, to when Shawn Dunwoody had created a work of art for the Rochester Museum and Science Center. “Some...
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The poet composes a daily haiku: Miles fly like eighth notes Legato arpeggios A big state, Texas The photographer selects his favorite photo: Peter...
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Maureen Callahan is making her pandemic-delayed journey to the city that the New York Post columnist has decreed “grim and depressing.” And, since we...
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With a thin metallic click, Charles Jaffe flips open a lighter and ignites a cigarette. How long have you been smoking? “Since I was 11. Kicked out of...
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The Bug Jar is a slim sliver of Rochester real estate. Four small rooms, if you count the two bathrooms, at the corner of Monroe Avenue and South Union...