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Q & A for Priscilla Meyer about Heartbreaker and her brother, John Meyer   1.          Can you tell us about your brother, John Meyer? Growing up, was John always interested in songwriting?   My earliest memory of Johnny is from a summer in a rented house in Westchester County, NY in the late 1940s, when he was 10, and I was 5. He decided to do a “radio show”—we were fans of Fred Allen, Jack Benny, the Lone Ranger. He wrote a script full of parodies, and taught me the words: “I’m as corny as Kansas in August/With a conventional...

Chicago Film Festival Founder Michael Kutza to Receive Prestigious Polish Cultural Honor April 14 CHICAGO — Michael Kutza, the legendary Founder and longtime Director of the Chicago International Film Festival, will be awarded the Honorary Badge “Meritorious for Polish Culture” on Tuesday, April 14, 2026,  at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago  The honor will be presented by Consul General Regina Jurkowska in recognition of Kutza’s decades-long dedication to promoting Polish cinema and culture in the United States. Through his leadership of the Chicago International Film Festival, Kutza introduced American audiences to major Polish filmmakers and their work—particularly during the 1970s through the 1990s,...

Thought you should know that I will be giving a talk in Greenwich, Connecticut on April 15th in connection with the BearManor release of my new book, UNFETTERED: Words on Music by a Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World, Volume II.” The talk is called “New Standards for a New Century: Pop Music Today” and is sponsored by the Retired Men’s Association of Greenwich (RMA) and will take place at Parish Hall, Christ Church, 254 E Putnam Ave, Greenwich, Connecticut at 11 A.M. It will be televised and available for streaming at the RMA website (https://greenwichrma.org/) shortly thereafter. This is my...