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Random Thoughts|Get Ready For Tiger!!

Posted by pblackwell | 07/03/09

Whatever else goes on in the summer of 2009 when it comes to sports in Central New York, we already know when - and where - the biggest show will take place. Try Aug. 24, out at Turning Stone's Atunyote course in Verona.
At that spot last year, golfer Notah Begay held the inaugural Skins Game for his foundation that helps support Native American youth activities across the country. Vijay Singh, Camillo Villegas, Mike Weir and Stewart Cink showed up, as did a big crowd, and $180,000 got raised... More

Downtown After Dark|Michael Jackson’s CNY connection

Posted by rtarby | 07/02/09

The world was shocked when Michael Jackson died suddenly in Los Angeles last week at age 50.

One of the studio wizards who helped make Jackson the “King of Pop” was a sound engineer named Matt Forger, a Solvay native who – in the mid-1970s – often worked mixing bands such as AlecStar and Kane at local nightspots such as The Shoreline club on Old Liverpool Road.

Forger made his “front of house” knob work the foundation of a super successful engineering career in Hollywood. He moved to L.A... More

City Scuffle|How green is reusable?

Posted by wshepperd | 07/02/09

Those for whom the grass is always greener someplace else, drop everything and immediately check out the city’s new pocket park. That’s where they did the demolition on the corner of East Fayette and South Warren (across from Lemp Jewelers), where they closed the sidewalk and put up chainlink fence and cleared the rubble. The park went up so fast as to inspire an Obama-like hope factor for the downtown vista... More

Wondering about|Farrah Fawcett a genius, who knew?

Posted by eleahy | 07/02/09

Without trying or the advantage of cable TV, I did periodically witness Farrah Fawcett’s last couple of months. I couldn’t help but recall it was more traditional for Hollywood’s iconic women of old, to put themselves out of the public spotlight as their beauty faded - even hiding away. Of course, Farrah’s beauty wasn’t gone, as it very much came from within. But still the drama of her deathbed?
What was she thinking?

And then, listening to her doctor after her death, I got it... More