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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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Mar

Brass breathes life into movie music Sunday at the Palace

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Syracuse’s horniest big band always stimulates plenty of audience response. The thundering sound of all the trumpets, trombones, French horns, alto horns and tubas in the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble are enough to make any listener shiver with anticipation.
This coming Sunday, the ensemble plays live at the Palace Theater. Be there! You’ll thank me for reminding you.

Hollywood scores
The 35-member SU Brass Ensemble presents its second annual “Silver Screen Spectacular” at 3 p.m. Sunday March 15, at the Palace Theater, 2384 James St., in Eastwood. Tickets cost $5, or just $6 per family and $2 for senior citizens.
Under the direction of Dr...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: brassed off,SU brass,Jeff Stockham,Syracuse st. pats,Syracuse Irish Session,Johnston’s BallyBay,Ted Anthony,Pensabene,hotel syracuse

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Mar

Restaurants versus the recession

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The deepening recession has begun to take its toll on the local restaurant industry, but hope springs eternal. While some fall by the wayside, a few new ones join the fray.

Traditions will let go of its prime downtown location at South Salina and Washington streets in order to concentrate on its suburban eateries. Back when it was Nikki’s, the classy corner bistro often hosted Mayor Lee Alexander, his lady friends and his cronies.

A West End landmark, Doc’s Little Gem Diner, will reportedly be next to shut its doors...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Mayor Lee Alexander,Traditions,Doc’s Little Gem Diner,Greek cuisine,Syracuse,Koumanidis,Casey’s Deli,Nick Frenay,Frank Malfitano,Syracuse Jazz Fest,Dino barbecue,Hanna Richardson,Phil Flanigan,armory Square,Hymie Witthoft,Gonstermachers,Albanian cuisine

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Mar

Dulcimer dynamo Dan Duggan battles cancer

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One of Dan Duggan’s best solo discs is “Seasons of Change.”
Now the one-time National Hammered Dulcimer Champion is experiencing his own personal season of change as he undergoes intensive treatments for head and neck cancer.
Duggan, who was raised in Syracuse and now lives in Red Creek with his singing partner, Peggy Eyres, is widely recognized as a master of the hammered dulcimer. That instrument, the ancient predecessor to the piano, is shaped like a trapezoid and strung with 40 to 100 strings. It’s played by striking the strings with wooden mallets known as hammers.
On “Seasons of Change” Duggan deftly demonstrates his dulcimer skills using several different techniques including muting, harmonics and plucking...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Bix and Spiegle,Kevin Dorsey,Bronzetti,G.D. Bower, Amy Christian,Greg McCrea,Loren Barrigar, Joe Davoli,Dave Duggan,dulcimer,cancer,Michael Philip Mossmann,CNY Jazz Orchestra,Bill Pomares

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