Unlike the girls side, where they all trek to SUNY-Cortland, the Section III boys soccer championship games spread out to different locales, depending on the participating team's geographic proximity to the turf fields that are used.
They also get spread out on the calendar. From the time Hamilton and Poland kick off tonight for the Class D title to the time F-M and Baldwnisville settle the Class AA title on Tuesday, that's five days of seeing how it all ends, banner-wise.
And Hamilton-Poland is a good place to start. This has been the focal point of Class D power in recent years, and it's the fourth straight season... More

The old synagogue at Crouse and Harrison may become condos, but no matter what renovations occur inside, any passing by of the majestic stone steps and columns will always be of Salt City. A drafty main theater, always a little dark, long in need of an enclosed orchestra space to balance volume for musicals. An intimate, questionably wired second theater with an atmosphere unmatched for its funk factor. Vast storage spaces and cramped dressing rooms. “It was my Southwest Center at the time,” Ken Jackson remembers of growing up on Harrison Street in the Seventies. “It was like Our Gang, ‘Let’s put on a show!’ And at that time, no... More

I remember the exact moment that I finally really got the concept of Jesus Christ.

Consider the fact that I was baptized and raised as a Catholic in a pretty accepting America when it came to the Catholic faith.

I heard the stories, studied religion regularly, listened to the gospels, received sacraments, ate fish on Fridays, covered my hair in church, did the Stations of the Cross, made a few confessions, but still I didn’t quite get the significance of the spotlight on Jesus, the son of God. Or, more to the point, why the obsession in regard to Jesus bypassing God, our father, with almost total... More

Thirteen years after the publication of Syracuse author Donna Woolfolk Cross’ novel, Pope Joan, it has finally been made into a movie!
Cross was in Germany the week of Oct. 22 for the film’s premiere in Berlin. The movie opened there because the book was a huge bestseller in Deutschland, and much of the early action takes place there.
Pope Joan stars 34-year-old German actress Johanna Wokalek as Johanna von Ingelheim, a 9th century woman of English extraction born in Germany who disguises herself as a man and ascends through the ranks of the Vatican.

Morocco = 9th century
“The movie was produced by... More