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Michael Watts
Michael or Mike Watts may refer to: *Michael Watts (geographer) (born 1951), English geographer and professor at the University of California, Berkeley * Michael Watts (journalist) (1938–2018), British journalist *Mike Watts (record producer), American record producer and audio engineer * Mike Watts (sportscaster) (born 1993), American television sports commentator * Mike Watts (racing driver), American stock car racing driver *Michael Watts, American journalist for ''Melody Maker ''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. In January 2001, it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publicatio ...'' magazine See also * Michael Watt (other) {{hndis, Watts, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Watts (geographer)
Michael J. Watts (born 1951 in England) is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired in 2016. He is a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. His first book, ''Silent Violence:Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria'' (1983, 2013), is considered a pioneering work in political ecology. Other published works include ''Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent'' (1992, with Allan Pred), ''Liberation Ecologies'' (1996, 2004, with Richard Peet), ''The Hettner Lectures: Geographies of Violence'' (2000), ''Violent Environments'' (2001, with Nancy Lee Peluso) and the ''Curse of the Black Gold'' (2008, with photojournalist Ed Kashi). Watts has also been an assistant editor of the award-winning ''New Encyclopedia of Africa'' (2008) and its predecessor, the ''Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara'' (1997). Biography After spending his childhood in a village between Bath and Bristol, Watts atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Watts (journalist)
Michael Watts (18 October 1938 – 5 March 2018) was a British journalist and broadcaster best known for his "Inspector Watts" column in the ''Sunday Express'' and other publications, which ran for over 35 years. Journalism career Watts, born in Nottinghamshire and educated at Nottingham High School, began in journalism at age 16 as a reporter on the '' Nottingham Evening News''. After four years there, he became London editor of ''The Viewer'' television magazine for a year, before joining the ''Sunday Express'' in 1960. There, he was variously gossip column editor, deputy news editor, and deputy editor in Manchester, and started the paper's ''Town Talk'' diary. In 1969 he began ''The World of Michael Watts'', a consumer column laced with social comment and humour. This concluded with the Great Corny Joke Contest, offering a cash prize of a "Crisp Oncer" - at £1 "the meanest prize in Fleet Street", and one which became relatively meaner as the years passed. In the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Watts (record Producer)
Mike Watts is an American audio engineer, mixer, and record producer, who has worked with a variety of artists including The Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw, As Cities Burn, Hopesfall, As Tall As Lions, The Dear Hunter, and Gates. Watts has owned and operates VuDu Studios in Long Island, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * .... for past 23 years. He graduated from the Aaron Copeland School of Music, majoring in percussion and music business. Watts opened VuDu Studios in 1997 which started as a small one room facility. As his success continued, VuDu moved into a 9,000 square foot multi-room recording compound in Port Jefferson, NY. Production credits References External links Official websiteVuDu Studios website {{DEFAULTSORT:Watts, Mike Year of birth m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Watts (sportscaster)
Michael Watts (born 1993) is an American television sports commentator. He has commentated on soccer games including for the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), USL Championship, and CONCACAF Champions League, and worked in other sports. Early life and education Born in 1993, Watts grew up in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio. He played football in his youth until he had a back injury as a sophomore at Saint Ignatius High School. He then commentated school soccer, ice hockey, and other sports for the online Saint Ignatius Broadcasting Network, a new student club that he eventually led. He also helped run the school's Student Sports Information Department, writing a media guide about the football team. He graduated from Saint Ignatius in 2011 and received his degree in finance from Fordham University in New York City in 2014. While in college, he was a sports reporter, anchor, and manager for the NPR affiliate WFUV, covering college and professional sports in the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Watts (racing Driver)
Mike Watts (born October 18, 1956) is an American former professional stock car racing driver who has competed in the NASCAR Busch Series and the NASCAR Goody's Dash Series. Watts has also previously competed in the Southeast Limited Late Model Series Challenger Division, the Rolling Thunder Modifieds Series, the DIRTcar Nationals, the IPOWER Dash Series and the ISCARS Dash Series. Motorsports results NASCAR ( key) (Bold - Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' - Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) Busch Grand National Series References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Watts, Mike Living people NASCAR drivers Racing drivers from North Carolina 1956 births ISCARS Dash Touring Series drivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Maker
''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. In January 2001, it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publication) ''New Musical Express''. 1920s–1940s It was founded in 1926 by Leicester-born composer and publisher Lawrence Wright as the house magazine for his music publishing business, often promoting his own songs. Two months later it had become a full scale magazine, more generally aimed at dance band musicians, under the title ''The Melody Maker and British Metronome''. It was published monthly from the basement of 19 Denmark Street in LondonPeter Watts. ''Denmark Street: London's Street of Sound'' (2023), pp. 30-31 (soon relocating to 93 Long Acre), and the first editor was the drummer and dance-band leader Edgar Jackson (1895-1967). Jackson instigated a jazz column, which gained in credibility once it was taken over by Spike Hughes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |