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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.

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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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Natalie Cole, Boz Scaggs top Syracuse Jazz Fest

rtarby, Downtown After Dark

The granddaddy of Central New York music festivals, the Syracuse Jazz Fest, announced its 2010 schedule last Friday at a 10 a.m. press conference Upstairs at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.
Lunchtime hadn’t quite rolled around yet, but festival sponsors, supporters, staff and reporters inhaled a brunch of barbecued ribs, beans, corn bread and cole slaw as they listened to tunes by Phoenix, N.Y. saxophonist Evan Knight, keyboardist Tom Witkowski and drummer Karl Sterling.

Three days and nights of music
Festival founder Frank Malfitano drew applause when he announced that, for the first time in three years, the event will return to a three-day format, June 25, 26 and 27, at Onondaga Community College...

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TAGS: Natalie Cole, Boz Scaggs syracuse jazz,County Executive Joanie Mahoney,Dinosaur Bar-B-Que,Frank Malfitano ,Russ Tarby,Onondaga Community College jazz,downtown after dark, Syracuse Jazz Fest

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