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My Thanksgiving Day

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Date: November 11, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Melinda Giordano It all started in September. I was marketing with the Boyfriend, and at one point I stopped in mid-aisle to exclaim, “Where are the roasting pans?  It’s late September!  Where are the cranberries?” You see, with the beginning of September, the first of the blessed quartet of 3-syllable months, my mind will turn [...]

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A Stellar Week and it’s only Monday!

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Date: April 28, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Sue Procko As I sit in my office on a Monday (and if you know me, you know how I feel about Mondays) listening to my music combo of everything from Arturo Sandoval to Eminem, I am amazed at how far I have come.  I grew up in a small town in Southeast Kansas known as Arma (population 1,481).  Those of us in the entertainment industry [...]

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Doing The Write Thing

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Date: April 25, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Melinda Giordano Many years ago, when I worked in advertising – and what a raucous, vodka-laden time it was – my boss would hand me memos to type with the addendum that I could correct any errors as I saw fit.  Now, there were only very minor grammatical oddities that had to be dealt with, but even then I felt the red-penned power [...]

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The Beatles and Billboard — What else did you not know?

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Date: April 7, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Tim Williams I was told that this month (last week, in fact) on April 4, 1964, the Beatles occupied the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. I did not know that.  Here are 10 things you might not have known about those four lovable mop-tops from Liverpool. Paul McCartney is not British,  he was actually born in Green [...]

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SPPR MOVIE NIGHTS

From Left to right: Ed Peters, Hector S Quintana, Melinda Giordano, Sue Procko, John Lavery, Scott Barton
Date: March 28, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

SPPR MOVIE NIGHTS By Ed Peters   “I’ll get you my pretty and your little dog too!” “I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.” “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”   All the above listed quotes are from three American films from the last 100 years (or 87 years if you date from the start of talkies). If you [...]

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Was Patrick really Saintly?

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Date: March 14, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Hector S. Quintana Was Patrick really Saintly? Saint Patrick is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. St Patrick is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. Most of what is known about him comes from his two works; the Confessio, a spiritual autobiography, and his Epistola, a denunciation of British mistreatment of Irish [...]

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WELCOME TO EL LAY

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Date: March 10, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Scott Barton- “Please come with me,” sternly said Deputy Sheriff Madison after I handed him my newly purchased Metro swipe card as I attempted to switch trains at Union Station downtown.  I had decided to make an adventure out of my Monday and take the Metro rail system from my northeast LA neighborhood to our Culver City office on [...]

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JENNIFER GASOI MAKES GRAMMY HISTORY!

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Date: January 27, 2014 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2014     JENNIFER GASOI MAKES HISTORY BECOMING THE FIRST CANADIAN TO WIN THE GRAMMY® AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR LOS ANGELES, CA  –– Canadian Jennifer Gasoi won the coveted Grammy® Award for Best Children’s Album of the Year for her self-produced album, Throw a Penny [...]

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I Love New York…Comic Con!

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Date: October 23, 2013 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Ed Peters Last week, I was at Comic Con. Wait! I thought Comic Con takes place in July? Well, the one in San Diego does. But for the past few years, the East Coast has brought some of that fan love to the Big Apple, at the Javits Convention Center to be exact. And you know what? It’s WAY more fun than the original West Coast template. [...]

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Blog-Worthy?

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Date: October 11, 2013 Categories: Blog Comments: No Comments Share:

By Melinda Giordano & Julie Siegel (SPPR, Inc.’s resident “Siskel & Ebert”) “Location, Location, Location!” is the mantra of every real estate agent.  The mantra of anyone working in public relations – that which is suitable for public consumption, that is – would be “Coverage, Coverage, Coverage!”  This never-ending [...]

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