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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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Jun

Sammys honor Leo and more ...

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This has been a year to remember for Leo Rayhill! In January his weekday radio show was reduced to a single hour at 5 p.m. every Sunday on WCNY-FM (91.3 Syracuse, 89.5 Utica, 90.9 Watertown).

Ever since then, however, things have been looking up.

Soon after his program’s demotion, WCNY-FM reinstated his Classic Sounds of Jazz seven days a week on the station’s new High Definition signal, WCNY-HD3. And now archived Sounds can be heard anytime online at wcny.org/content/view/230/359/.
This month Leo will be honored by the Syracuse Area Music Awards with a Lifetime Achievement trophy between 6 and 8 p.m. Friday, June 5, at Taste of Syracuse Main Stage, downtown. The stage is located at the corner of Franklin and Washington streets...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Sammy,syracuse,mark doyle,dean brothers,Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks,Leo Rayhill

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Jun

Church organ resounds with ragtime Sunday

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Ragtime and boogie woogie keyboardist Bob Milne will give a church organ a rather worldly workout at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 14, when he performs at the First English Lutheran Church of Syracuse, 501 James St. at the corner of Townsend Street.

Although trained on the French horn at Eastman School of Music, after stints with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony Milne found himself drawn to the piano and the off-beat sounds of ragtime and stride piano...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Rochester Fest,actor Tom Minion,Bernard Cardinal Law,Sin: A Cardinal Deposed,Jazz Central,El Kabong,Hanna-Barbera,Quick Draw McGraw,Spaghetti Warehouse,Bob Milne,Frank Rhodes

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Jun

What is DestiNYs destiny?

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Former Atlanta Braves superstar pitcher John Smoltz, the only hurler in major-league history to top both 200 wins and 150 saves, pitched in Syracuse last Friday on a rehab assignment for his new team, the Boston Red Sox. Photo by Herm Card.

It may be Mayor Miner!

So Citibank wants a pile of up-front cash before it’ll continue to pour $155 million in loans into the DestiNY USA-Carousel Center expansion off West Hiawatha Boulevard.

Doesn’t it seem that Bob Congel’s Pyramid Cos. always wants someone else to finance its developments? First they wanted big tax breaks, PILOTs, state money for roads and a tourism center...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: International League Playoff,Salt City Brass,Nick Palumbo,Veteran jazz clarinetist,Bob Congel’s Pyramid Cos.,Citigroup,DestiNY USA,Polish Festival,Carousel Center,Syracuse Jazz Festival

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Jun

Hold that note!

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Frank Malfitano is the man who puts together the jazz Fest in CNY each year.

Kenny G, who headlines the 27th annual Syracuse Jazz Fest Saturday night at OCC, earned a place in the Guiness Book of World Records in 1997 for playing the longest note ever recorded on a saxophone.
Using a circular-breathing technique, Kenny G held an E-flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds in the Hopkins-Bright Auditorium at D&R; Music World in New York City.
That record was reportedly broken less than a year later, however, by Costa Rican saxophonist Geovanny Escalante who blew one note for 90 minutes and 45 seconds, according to Reuters news service.
Escalante’s effort was reportedly witnessed by two lawyers, two notary publics, his parents and a bunch of barflies...

CATEGORY: General Entertainment

TAGS: El Kabong,Joe Maggio,Syracuse Jazz Fest,Spyro Gyra, led by alto saxophonist Jay Beckenstein,keyboardist Tom Schuman,Tamaralee Shutt,Salt City Jazz Collective,Lyndie Benson,Frank Malfitano,SU’s Jabberwocky,Guiness Book of World Records

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