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Westword is Denver’s weekly news and entertainment publication, with a print circulation over 270,000 and an online readership of 1.5 million. During the Denver Road Trip, it was an honor to be invited to sit with reporter Gil Asakawa for a couple of hours, discussing the documentary project and the history of the Organ Grinder….
During our Denver Road Trip, Colorado’s CW2 kindly invited director Bob Richardson to appear on their “Daybreak” morning program to talk about the Organ Grinder and the documentary project. Footage provided by Colorado’s CW2 – Copyright © KWGN-TV
(Two monkeys, to be precise. The little one in the yellow jacket, and the goofball with the weird hair.) The Denver tour has been amazingly productive. As of today, six interviews have been completed, with at least two more coming up this weekend. In addition to all the production activities, there have been multiple opportunities…
The October issue of Theatre Organ magazine, the journal of the American Theatre Organ Society, has a feature article on the Summer Youth Adventure, an intensive week-long experience to train young theatre organists and expose them to a variety of instruments, with coaching from world-class performers. Multiple events from the week were filmed for the…
(Originally aired Tuesday October 22nd at 6:30pm PDT.) Recently, filmmaker Bob Richardson sat for an extended interview with KXRW’s Steven Glickman to discuss the Organ Grinder, and the new documentary about the much-beloved establishment, “Pipe Dreams and Pizza Crusts”. Listen over-the-air on 99.9FM, or stream live on https://www.kxrw.fm/ The interview will also feature an array…
Portland’s Willamette Week newspaper has just posted an article about the project, which should also be coming out in their print edition today. The Organ Grinder, once found on Southeast 82nd Avenue between Foster Road and Holgate Boulevard, was made immediately notable by the spectacle of its 32-foot diaphone pipes visible from the street, a…
“Documentary brings back great Portland memories of the Organ Grinder Pizza” The Organ Grinder Restaurant on Southeast 82nd Avenue was a popular attraction from 1973 to 1996. Jason VondersmithAugust 26th, 2024 Born and raised in Portland, Bob Richardson remembers many fun and happy days at the old Organ Grinder Pizza Restaurant on Southeast 82nd Avenue….
Today I was invited onto KPTV-12’s streaming show by reporter Greg Nibler, to talk about the history of the Organ Grinder and about the next steps for the documentary project.
Willamette Week (a weekly newspaper serving the Portland, Oregon area) recently published an article about the documentary project:Superfan of Portland’s Organ Grinder Restaurant Is Making a Documentary About the Beloved Music-and-Monkey Venue
