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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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Jan

Riley’s recession special: ‘Bologna Burger’

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Riley’s is well-known for its delicious burgers, Bud’s beef stew, tortellini casseroles, boneless pork loins, steaks, fresh fish and chicken dishes. At lunchtime on New Year’s Eve day, however, one of its specials was full of bologna.

The char-grilled Liehs & Steigerwald “Bologna Burger” is a slab of bologna served hot off the grill on a roll with mustard, red onion and Kraft Velveeta cheese. It comes on a platter with potato and vegetable for $7.99.

“Go for it,” Riley’s Dec. 31 menu urged...

CATEGORY: General Society

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Jan

Morrison recants her crowning of Clinton as...

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the ‘first black president’

Well, America’s first black president was inaugurated Jan. 20…or was he?
Ten years ago, somebody said Bill Clinton was our country’s first black president.
That’s right, in 1998 Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who is black, praised Bill Clinton as “our first black president.”
Then teaching at Princeton University, Morrison wrote that, “Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President, blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: morrison,clinton,black president,Joey Belladonna,Skip Murphy,CNY Irish-American Cultural Institute

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