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Downtown After Dark

Downtown After Dark is award winning journalist Russ Tarby's weekly take on the best and brightest of happenings inside and outside of Downtown Syracuse. Each week he adds best bets too.

Bio:
Central New York journalist Russ Tarby has been writing about entertainment, crime, sports and politics since the 1970s. His reviews and feature stories have appeared in newspapers such as the Village Voice, the Dallas Observer, the Auburn Citizen and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

For 12 years, he worked as music and books editor for the Syracuse New Times and while there he won several Syracuse Press Club awards including a Best Feature Story award for 'The Sweet Man,' his 1998 profile of 95-year-old jazz trombonist Spiegle Willcox.

In 2000, he was named music writer of the year for weeklies with a circulation of less than 55,000 by the international Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Tarby was a member of the steering committees which founded the Syracuse Area Music Awards(Sammys) and the Syracuse Walk of Fame.

He has been a member of the Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse's Board of Directors since 1993.

In 2007, Tarby edited "Into The Deep," a book by Dr. Andrew G. Hodges about the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway on the island of Aruba.

Tarby now works as a free-lance writer and editor. He compiles two weekly columns, Downtown After Dark for the Syracuse City Eagle and Livin’ in Liverpool for The Review, both published by Eagle Newspapers.

He can be reached at 457-1517, or via e-mail at [email protected].

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Feb

Hoffmann marks 10 years of jamming at Skytop

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Guitarist extraordinaire Mark Hoffmann will celebrate two different kinds of anniversaries this Saturday night.
It’s his tenth anniversary of hosting regular R&B; jams at the Inn Complete, on Skytop Road, on Syracuse University’s South Campus. The Feb 6 jam also marks his 30th jam of the past decade. Music will ring out from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Hoffmann, a former linchpin of the legendary rock band Jam Factory which toured the country as a CBS/Epic recording artist, was inducted in 2008 into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame...

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Feb

Panhandlers still haunt Armory Square

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Panhandlers wait around every corner Armory Square these days…and nights…

A few years ago the Common Council fussed and fumed about people begging on the streets of downtown Syracuse, but the councilors found there really wasn’t much they could do.

The solution lies with those of us targeted by the beggar’s appeals: just say “No.”

Last Wednesday Feb. 3, while I was making the rounds from Pastabilities to Syracuse Suds Factory to Al’s (no longer Awful) Wine and Whiskey Lounge, I was accosted separately by two of those friendly folks with their hands out, palms up.

A chunky little black lady on Walton Street tried me twice, once going and once returning from the Salt City Jazz Collective performance at Suds...

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Feb

How fat is too fat for love?

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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, all who behold had better keep an open mind.
That seems to be one of the themes of Fat Pig, a black comedy by Neil LaBute, which debuted off-Broadway in a 2004 production starring Entourage star Jeremy Priven as Tom, a yuppie who falls inconveniently in love with an obese librarian.
LaBute’s play examines how society frowns upon overweight people and also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.
Fat Pig makes its Syracuse premiere when Simply New Theatre stages the weighty one-act at the Carrier Theatre, in the Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St., downtown. It opens at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, and continues Saturday, Feb...

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