About Riveting Riffs Magazine
About Riveting Riffs Magazine
Riveting Riffs Magazine is primarily focused (in no particular order) on music, theater, film, fashion, television and streaming productions, as well as visual and literary arts. Over the years a lot of different writers contributed to this magazine, many of whom were professionally employed as actors, actresses, singers, songwriters, musicians and fashion designers. The magazine has during our twenty years (as of 2024) of existence interviewed major award winners and nominees,from all of the previously mentioned artforms. Stars of Broadway productions have graced our pages, as well as Broadway Spain. We have however, not just focused on today's stars or yesterday's stars, but we have always reserved time and space for the stars of tomorrow. As the publisher of this magazine it has been with pride that I have watched many of those emerging talents achieve wonderous accomplishments in their careers. We have been fortunate to interview performing artiists and designers from thirty-nine countries.
Our main focus is in providing in-depth, quality
interviews and we occasionally
Riveting Riffs Magazine is dedicated to the memory of our publisher's son, Kent David Montague, who passed away suddenly, 17 days after his 18th birthday (March 1st, 2003) from a lethal arrythmia, which doctors and the Chief Medical Examiner (Coroner) believe was caused by an electrical problem within the cellular structure of his heart. This magazine is also dedicated to the memory of my other best friend, Patches Montague, Kent's ragdoll cat, who became mine and went to heaven on December 20th, 2011. If you live in Canada you can learn more about this condition, which claims 50% of its victims on the first symptom, by contacting SADS at www.sads.ca In the United Sates you can contact www.sads.org and in the U.K www.sads.org.uk I could have chosen to remain silent about the dedication of this magazine to the memory of my son, but I decided to make it publically known in the hope that it might prevent further loss of life, better education for all people, and the deployment of defribillators in public places and in work environments, because CPR cannot restore a heartbeat to someone who has due to a sudden arrythmia. Employers and owners of public facilities who do not invest in defribillators have sent a loud message to you, that being your life is not worth much.
Riveting Riffs Magazine is also dedicated to the memory of my next closest friend Patches who I lost on December 20th, 2011. She was not all that big, but she had a great big heart and lots of love. Patches who had been Kent's cat passed away after a long illness. For some people she may have been just a ragdoll cat, with beautiful blue eyes, but for me, she was much more. In a lot of ways she became my world.
As the publisher I am the individual who is most visible, but in truth, I just had a dream and the publicists, artist managers, tour managers, artists, music labels, filmmakers, producers, authors, directors, fashion designers and others who have made album reviews, concert reviews, theatrical reviews and interviews possible are the real people behind the success of Riveting Riffs Magazine. They do not have to give us those opportunities, yet they have decided to trust us, because we do not publish gossip or supposed news. We respect their time and their art and in return they have become our friends. Most of all we thank you the readers who take the time to visit this website. We only publish interviews and sometimes film reviews.
I live in Canada, our magazine was once geared primarily to an American audience, but we now are truly an international publication crossing time zones from Finland to Australia to New Zealand, to California, with stops in Brazil and Argentina and to the twin loves of my life Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.
Finally, thank you to the people of Spain, who opened up their hearts and made me one of their own.
You can write to Riveting Riffs Magazine: publisher then the @ sign dot rivetingriffs dot com I am sorry we have to write it this way, but we have been spammed so many times.
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