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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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May

Chicken Little media should put pig flu in perspective

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“Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.”
—Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo
I swear, if I see another news story about swine flu, I’m gonna puke!
Why is the media going crazy over some minuscule mucus-borne illness from Mexico?
Let’s put this pig gig in perspective: as of Monday, May 4, a total of 26 deaths had been attributed to the swine flu all South of the Border.
Twenty-six!
Compare that to the estimated number of annual fatalities from the influenza which hits the United States like clockwork every winter: 36,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: swine flu,mark hoffman,thespian friend,Chrissy Clancy,Nancy Josephson,David Bromberg,Spaghetti Warehouse

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May

Is JAZZ just another four-letter word?

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Baritone sax star Gary Smulyan plays with the CNY Jazz Orchestra at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at the Carrier Theater, in the Mulroy Civic Center, downtown; 479-JAZZ.

A few years ago I booked Syracuse’s most musical married couple – Hanna Richardson and Phil Flanigan – to play at a local art festival.

Phil, a world-class acoustic bassist, previously backed Benny Goodman...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Hanna Richardson,Phil FlaniganJAZZ,Swinging American Music,Larry Luttinger,Catherine Russell,Luis Russell,Jazz Appreciation Month,Frank Malfitano,Gary Smulyan,Jazz In The Square,CNY Jazz Orchestra

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May

The times they are still a-changin!

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As he has for 17 years now, Jamie Notarthomas and a host of CNY musical luminaries will celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday this month by performing an entire evening’s-worth of Dylan tunes.

In honor of Bob Dylan’s 68th birthday, Notarthomas, an accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist raised in Syracuse and now living in Canastota, will perform dozens of the 125 Dylan compositions he has committed to memory, starting at 8 p.m. Saturday May 23, at the Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St.

One of pop music’s most prolific writers, Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn., on May 24, 1941...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Jamie Notarthomas,bob dylan,Syracuse Area Music Hall-of-Famer,Nancy Kelly,Hanna Richardson,Phil Flanigan,RedHouse syracuse,Carlo Alban,Intríngulis

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May

Twitter twaddle

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Hey, I love the Internet as much as the next guy, and I admit that e-mail itself has immeasurably improved my personal and professional life. But the rise of texting and Twitter is rapidly dumbing down the entire field of human communication.

You can’t talk to anyone walking down the street anymore because everyone’s got cell phones glued to their ears. I call these people cell-phone zombies.
And neighborhood taverns used to be the place where folks would go to share a toddy with buddies or strike up a conversation with some seductive stranger. No more...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Twitter,Tarby,syracuse,SAMMY,Don Campbell,Pittsburgh Pirates,Syracuse Chiefs,Dinosaur Bar-B-Que,good morning america,john stage,Glenn Gomez Adams,ArtRage Gallery,Craig Stammen,charlie,Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Sensuous Slathering Sauce,Redhouse Live!, chaplin,the lulus

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