Barry Levine is a page designer and copy editor for The Albany Herald. Levine is responsible for editing copy, writing headlines and captions and designing pages as assigned.
Recent Stories
Some new ‘daffynitions’
The Old Rocker -- Opinion column
Noah Webster needs to change his dictionary's definitions.
Bring back the Fifties! Bring back the Fifties!
The Old Rocker
Ah, the Ffifties ... the good old days
Seniors need own alphabet soup for texting
Features Column
What are your favorite sports movies of all time? Check out our list.
How some groups got their names
Everybody had a favorite singing group when we were growing up. You knew the group members’ names, lyrics to all their hits and probably the label for which they recorded.
A few ‘little’ blasts from the past
The Old Rocker column
It’s funny how a single word can weave its way through the early history of rock ‘n’ roll.
Listening to the classics, how’d music go so wrong?
The Old Rocker -- Opinion column
I spent the past two weekends listening to some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singers/groups of all-time — Hall of Famers such as Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, the Drifters, the Coasters, the Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Four Tops and Temptations. Their music is just as enjoyable today as it was a half-century ago.
Top 30 favorite songs from the movies
This is one that the "Music Man," Carlton Fletcher, our longtime cohort, has not pulled from his bag of musical lists.
What happened to the carefree days?
Herald writer Barry Levine reflects on the differences between kids today and the ones he grew up with.
