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Last year I started to receive AARP promotions in the mail. Yeah, we are that old now, yet, I don’t feel as old as my grandfather looked at age 50. I feel like I’m still a 90s GenXer. That’s my mentality. It shapes the way I think and feel about church structures, values, and traditions.…
Mass Media and Marketing Today Before motion picture or books that printed color pictures, people had to see a painting or sculpture in-person to get to experience it. For the art aficionados it was costly to travel exclusively, unless the artists traveled with their works. Some reproductions were available but usually fell short of the…
The Shawn P Greene Show Weekly Podcast Recap (Apr 11 – Apr 15, 2022) This week we get into more pop culture events and Taxes, #WordWednesday was about the Sinning, we had special guest Pastor Mark Robshaw, and talk The Holy Week for #FunFactFriday. Overalls are back! CMT Awards and other stuff in the news.…
The Shawn P Greene Show Weekly Podcast Recap (Apr 4 – Apr 8, 2022) This week we started off on Monday celebrating MLK Day coupled with the U2 MLK tribute track, we had special guest DeAnn Alaine from Orlando, #WordWednesday was about the Love of God, I recapped a potential furthering of my education, and…
The Shawn P Greene Show Weekly Podcast Recap (Mar 28 – Apr 1, 2022) This week was a jam packed week with the interview I had with David Lewis of Niagara Falls, the Word Wednesday and Fun Fact Friday on April Fool’s Day. Of course I talked about the Will Smith slap on Chris Rock…
The Shawn P Greene Show Weekly Podcast Recap (Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2022) This week I talk about Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Great Lakes Christian Film Festival, Church History, and Fun Facts Friday: 1870. Special guests Cheryl Felicia Rhoads and Rev. Fr. Raphael K Barberg.
Since Saturday Night May 2, 2020, around 10:00 pm, South Buffalo, New York feels like the center of a major NASCAR event. Everyone is quarantined so less people on the roadways giving way to those who have cabin fever and the need for speed. I live around Seneca and Stevenson, and for the last 2…
Aitina Fareed-Cooke – Leader, Mentor, Champion By Shawn Patrick Greene @shawnpgreene How can you help troubled youth in an area of high crime rate within your city? Who has come out of the environment, to help the next generation to rise above their circumstances? Buffalo native Aitina Fareed-Cooke has endured many hardships as a young…
PAUL ROBESON THEATRE IN BUFFALO HOSTS NATIVE SON All I can say is, what a great opportunity. I was cast as Mr Britten in the stage play Native Son, Opening Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, at the Paul Robeson Theatre, in Buffalo, NY. I was tipped off to the casting by a former co-star of a…
When I was six years old, the one movie that inspired me the most was Star Wars. Not only was it an awesome experience as a kid to see the special effects, it was also a great story with the best characters around. George Lucas was indeed my hero from that point forward. At eight…
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