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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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Aug

Blues hues

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Sunny and muggy or cloudy and wet. Take your pick.
Regardless of the weather, July 12 and 13 were two solid days of hot blues in Clinton Square at the 17th annual New York State Blues Festival.

Orange and blue
Looking radiant in white and sounding just as splendid, North Carolina blues belter Toni Lynn Washington jump-started the Budweiser Main Stage on Saturday under sunny skies. She acknowledged America’s present struggles overseas by dedicating a song to those serving in the armed forces, “Every Day will be Like a Holiday.”
San Francisco-based harmonica-blower John Nemeth was raised way up in Idaho, where he became familiar with Syracuse by watching SU basketball games on TV...

CATEGORY: General Society

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Aug

Tito Allen, ‘El Elegante de la Salsa,’ sings here Sunday

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Tito Allen is known worldwide as “El Elegante de la Salsa.” The Puerto Rican-born vocalist is a favorite in London, England where a critic once declared, “He has the smoothest, truest, warmest voice of the many salseros singing today.”
Allen will headline the 2008 Festival Latino Amnericano with a 9 p.m. set Sunday Aug. 17, in Clinton Square.
Born Roberto Romero, Allen started singing in 1962, relocated to New York City ten years later and hooked up with Ray Barretto’s band, singing the monster hit “Indestructible” in 1973. During the 1980s and ’90s he worked with all the superstars of salsa, including Ruben Blades and the late Tito Puente.
Some of his biggest hits are “Ahora y Siempre,” “Maldades” and “Unique.” In 1995 Allen made his first foray to the U.K...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: little georgie,hungarians,frisinia,soundcheck,syracuse,onondaga,radio

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Aug

Rock’n’roll dreams sometimes come true

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A half-century ago, Old Liverpool Road glittered and gleamed...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: entertainment,tarby,

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Aug

Lieh’s & Steigerwald’s ‘festival sausage’ titillates the taste buds

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Sausage sandwiches dominate our epicurean experiences this time of year. With the New York State Fair in full swing, people are chewing plenty of Italian sausages slathered in peppers and onions duly sautéd in the meat’s flavorful grease.
Fair vendors such as Santillo’s, Paisano’s, Basilio’s, P-Z-O’s and Gianelli’s sell thousands of sausage sangwiches daily.
All those famous places serve hearty Italian meats, I’ll admit, but there’s a new sausage in town and it’s better than any of them and you won’t find it at the fair.

‘Festival sausage’
It’s Lieh’s & Steigerwald’s “festival sausage,” a slightly skinnier dog with an absolutely addicting aromatic flavor unlike anything I’ve ever tasted...

CATEGORY: Music

TAGS: state fair,hoyt,tarby,benson,brother ray, asleep at the wheel

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