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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Rochester's Campbell Brothers have released a new version of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme."
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Hanna PK is a prominent figure on the Rochester blues scene. One with a different feel -- a South Korean blues singer.
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Perhaps the vehicle to lead us out of the coronavirus pandemic will be our cars. The car. In which we are hermetically sealed. Unless we roll down the...
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It’s not that Rachel McKibbens has an issue with a cappella. But “unlike other venues,” she says, “it would have been a risk for us to book the...
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This is how the sausage of journalism is made: Reporters from WXXI and CITY Magazine met last week to decide who is covering which drag queen at the...
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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...
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After 20 years of writing its own history, you’d think people could talk or write about Blackberry Smoke without referencing The Allman Brothers Band....