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.
Last week’s Wise Guys comedy shows headlined by Richie Byrnes were originally scheduled at Ohm Lounge, downtown, but were performed instead at Fayetteville’s Craftsman Inn.
“We had some communication problems and some heating issues (at Ohm),” said Wise Guys spokeswoman Sascha McRae.
This week, however, Wise Guys returns downtown to the Renaissance Hotel, 701 E. Genesee St., downtown, as Chaz Elsner and Bill Keller crack wise at 7:30 p.m. tonight Thursday Feb. 12, and again at 7:30 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13-14. Tickets cost $15 per person, except Friday when the first 100 audience members get in for $10; 477-9898; wiseguyssyracuse.com.
The energetic Elsner entertains with mouth-made sound effects and creates an oddball array of characters...
If Andrew Wyeth had used a camera instead of a paintbrush his photos would look a lot like Spencer Baker’s. Ditto Georgia O’Keefe.
And then there are Baker’s black-and-white studies, which bring to mind the shadowy work of Film Noir directors Fritz Lang and Michael Curtiz.
A retired postman, Baker now delivers his vivid vision of our surroundings via two dozen photos hanging this month at Pastabilities, 311 S. Franklin St., downtown. Titled “Archival Prints,” Baker’s show offers 12 large-scale prints (mostly 18x24-inches) of varied natural images and another dozen 11x14-inch autumnal studies.
Spencer Baker at Pasta’s
Water holds a particular fascination for the photographer...
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Children’s Chorus calls for ‘peace in the whole world’
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‘Top of the World’ co-hosts Mark Bostick and Connie Wailer welcome two Grupo Pagan musicians to the WAER-FM studio at 10 p.m. Sunday March 1.
It’s not every day you get to hear a world premiere of a new piece of music.
And in this case, you’ll hear something new created from something old.
Westcott Nation keyboardist-composer Jonathan Dinkin has rewritten and re-arranged an ancient Yiddish folk song, “Sholem Zol Zayn,” for its first-ever performance by the Syracuse Children’s Chorus at 6 p.m. Sunday March 1, at Hendricks Chapel on the Syracuse University Quad. The song calls for peace for all mankind.
The award-winning Syracuse Children’s Chorus is directed by Dr. Barbara Tagg who founded the chorale in 1981...
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