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.
Two ‘Bittersweethearts’ beat as one Saturday at Redhouse
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Scott Allyn and Laura Austin at RedHouse - how bittersweet it is!
Laura Austin and Scott Allyn enjoy an especially harmonious marriage.
The Central New York husband-and-wife duo will perform “An Evening of Songs and the Stories Behind Them” live at 8 p.m. Saturday April 4, at Redhouse...
Last June, Syracuse bluesman Roosevelt Dean was inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame. On April 4, Rosey died at his home on Midland Avenue after an eight-year battle with cancer. He was 65.
Roosevelt Dean’s Hall of Fame Sammy was his eighth and in his acceptance speech he reminded everyone why he was called “The Voice of Syracuse” by singing the heck out of the blues. But he also kept it real by talking about the cancer with which he’d been afflicted for so many years. The illness was so serious, Dean said, that all he could do is leave it up to the Lord. He closed his short set with a heartfelt gospel number, Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)...
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So you think you can harmonize like The Temptations? Croon and swoon like The Supremes?
Prove it when Lisa Gentile highlights the music of Motown at her weekly “Music Mavericks” Open Mic at 8 p.m. Wednesday April 22.
Every Hump Day night, Gentile welcomes performers of all backgrounds and abilities to the Opus Lounge & Restaurant, 218 Walton St., in Armory Square. Sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m., and the music rings out until 11:30 p.m. Appetizers are available, and there is no cover charge.
“Opus Lounge has an actual stage, a built-in sound system and best of all a grand piano,” Gentile said...
Opera isn’t just for classical music snobs. It’s also for rock’n’rollin’ club crawlers.
Despite its champagne image, opera inspires beer drinkers as well. Opera’s not just for high-toned sopranos. It’s also for the coloratura cocktail crowd including Karaoke kooks.
In an effort to transport opera from the stage to the nightclub scene, Syracuse Opera presents an innovative evening of Opera Karaoke, at 9 p.m. Friday, April 24, at Opus Restaurant & Lounge, 218 Walton St., in Armory Square, downtown. Admission is free. For info, dial 475-5915.
Douglas Kinney Frost, Syracuse Opera’s director of music, will host and play piano...
Maybe the ‘Connective Corridor’ should host May Fest
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The day after April Fool’s Day, Gov. David Paterson announced that he’s going to send $1.55 million from the federal Transportation Enhancement Program to pay for a “Civic Strip” in downtown Syracuse.
The “strip” – more like a labyrinth – is an element of Syracuse University’s Connective Corridor, whatever that is.
The planned Civic Strip (hey, maybe someone will open a Civic Strip Club, shades of the old Civic Follies!) runs roughly from the Erie Canal Museum on Water Street to the Everson Art Museum at Harrison and South State streets...
