People who don't know him personally ask those of us who do know him personally: "Is he really as much of a totally decent guy as he seems?" And the answer is: Yes. Even though he's so often called by duty, amateur or professional, to render judgment upon a mind-numbing variety of local creative productions across a shimmering spectrum of disciplines, Faires does so with the sort of precision and clarity that makes a phrase like "fair and balanced" seem quaint in comparison, that makes him the very spirit and image of "a gentleman and a scholar."
