DETROIT — Six days after returning home, two of the June 23-26 columnist conference’s field trips burn in me, tours of the Motown Historical Museum and the new heart-of-downtown home office of Quicken Loans. Hitsville U.S.A. The museum, informally called “Hitsville,” is in the two original houses in which Berry Gordy created the Motown recording […]
Category: I’m Your Vehicle, Detroit
Bricks from the 2011 conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, held at the Westin Book-Cadillac hotel in Detroit. Title refers to the non-Motown 1970 hit “Vehicle” by the Ides of March.
This column also was published in the July 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Once again, an NSNC columnist conference astounded its audience with information and fun. The June 23-26 session in Detroit catered to would-be and published book writers, gave fresh tips to free-lancers (and in “custom content” not just columns), […]
Categories
Roger and Me
Roger Ebert receives the 2011 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists A version of this Brick is published at columnists.com. DETROIT, Saturday, June 25, 2011 — Following is the acceptance speech of Roger Ebert for the NSNC’s Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. Ebert’s physical condition prevented him from accepting in person, […]
Categories
Folio the Leader
“Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?” — Attributed to Tom Lehrer DETROIT, 8:47 a.m. EDT, Friday, June 24, 2011 — Hear ye, hear ye, (swat newspaper) I am Ben Pollock, president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. I hereby call the 35th annual NSNC conference to order! [Swat paper? […]