Jeff Spevak
Senior arts writerJeff 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 was published in April 2019 by Lyons Press.
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"Russian Troll Farm" looks behind the scenes at modern disinformation efforts by Russian spies, and their attempts to help Donald Trump prevail over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. The play comes to Rochester this week with an opening at Geva.
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Warfield, who was told as a young man, “You’re killing your career,” has been going places for decades. He’s been at the Rochester Institute of Technology for 25 years. And that’s what we’ll be celebrating this weekend.
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“OKAY! The ASD Band Film” plays Thursday and Sunday at The Little Theatre. It’s a part of The Little’s One Take Documentary Series.
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This year’s Grammy winners with Eastman School of Music connections came down to the usual suspects: Renée Fleming, Kevin Puts and Bob Ludwig.
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Seth Faergolzia at Boulder Coffee describes himself as "a cave dweller" who doesn't "come out of the cave too often.” But the cave door will be flung open Saturday for a show at Abilene Bar & Lounge.
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“Woody Sez” offers Woody Guthrie classics such as “Bound for Glory,” “Pastures of Plenty” and “This Land is Your Land,” and lesser-known pieces. It opens at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Stage and runs through Feb. 19.
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Forty years of Scott Wallace's "Rejuvenation" and Doug Curry's "Blacks and Blues" on WRUR will be celebrated Saturday at The Little Theatre.
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WXXI Public Broadcasting on Tuesday completed its acquisition of Lee Rust’s now-dormant WJZR signal.
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Piece by piece, Rochester reclaims civilization. On Saturday, that’s Homegrown X — a celebration of who we are, say the event's organizers.
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Sarah Freligh has published four well-reviewed books, collections of poems and shards of fiction. On Sunday, she’ll be a big part of “Moving Images” at The Little Café.