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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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Aug

Guys and Dolls frolic amid Thornden Park’s rose bushes

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Is gambling legal at Thornden Park?
Nicely-Nicely, Big Jule and Harry the Horse will have a field day there as Nathan Detroit reigns over “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York,” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, when Syracuse Opera Chorus members perform a concert version of Guys and Dolls at the East Side’s historic amphitheater, off Ostrom Avenue, just a stone’s throw from the famous rose garden.

Admission is free as the breeze.

But make sure to avoid those snake eyes!

Story by Damon Runyon
While Nathan, one of the guys, tries to raise the cool grand he needs to run the big game in the Big Apple he meets a doll, Salvation Army angel Sarah Brown...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Pascale Wine Bar & Restaurant,Bernie Kraft,Syracuse Opera Chorus,Douglas Kinney Frost,Thornden Park,City of Syracuse Department of Parks,Guys and Dolls,POMCO Presents Jazz in the City,steve becker,Dinosaur Bar-B-Que,

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Aug

Dems rule, GOP books at State Fair Grandstand

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Early this year, Live Nation lost its contract to promote concerts at the New York State Fair to Triangle Talent.

Live Nation has a history of supporting Democratic candidates while Triangle Talent has bankrolled Republicans. So our fair, presently controlled by Democrats such as its controversial director Dan O’Hara, now finds itself doing business with a GOP-friendly concert promoter.

According to watchdog.net, employees of Triangle Talent, based in Louisville, Kentucky, have contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of former Congresswoman Anne Meagher Northup and U.S...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Congresswoman, Anne Meagher Northup,U.S. Senator,Dan O’Hara,Live Nation,Frankie Negron,Syracuse Chiefs,Triangle,Marimbas Maya Quetzal-Marimbas and Congas,Wise Guys Comedy Showroom Talent ,State Fair NY,Mitch McConnell

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Aug

The taxman cometh to Armory Square

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No one hovers like Kanjira - Tamaralee, Karl Sperberger and Karl Lovell. The Trio will perform next week at Opus.

Following in the fouled-up footsteps of Kelly Cole’s Improper brew pub, two Armory Square nightclubs have been shut down by New York for nonpayment of taxes.
The unforgiving taxman seized Ohm Lounge, 314 S. Franklin St., on Aug. 12. Telling signs posted on Ohm’s windows reported that, “Property has been seized for nonpayment of taxes and is now in the possession of the state of New York.”

The state tax-o-crats neglected to list the amount that Ohm Lounge owes, but word-on-the-street estimates run from $100,000 to $176,000.

The Ohm seizure came 15 days after its neighbor, Ambrosia, was closed for failing to pay some $17,000 in state sales taxes. Three times earlier this year Ambrosia had been cited by state tax collectors, according to officials...

CATEGORY: General Entertainment

TAGS: Kelly Cole's Improper,Kanjira,Opus,Les Paul,Diana and Joe Whiting,Headquarters Unisex Hair Design,Brad Eldred ,Syracuse chiefs baseball,Alliance Bank Stadium,North Syracuse musician Dave “The Boogie Man” Corcoran,Downforce guitar,Syracuse,SkaneatelesArmory Square

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