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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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Sep

Bobcat’s butt bared on national TV

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Bishop Grimes High School alumnus Bobcat Goldthwait made quite an impression Aug. 27, when he joined his comic colleague Robin Williams on ABC-TV’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Goldthwait, the 47-year-old East Syracuse native who’s now a blossoming Hollywood director, appeared on Kimmel’s late-night show to promote his newest film, Bishop Grimes High School "World's Greatest Dad," which opens nationwide Friday, Sept. 4.

I caught a preview of the dark comedy when it screened May 3 at the Palace Theater as part of the Syracuse International Film Festival...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Bobcat Goldthwait,comic,Robin Williams,Jimmy Kimmel Live,Dan Duggan,State Fair NY,Syracuse International Film Festival,Bishop Grimes High School,World's Greatest Dad,The Coachman,CNY,Russ Tarby,Dinosaur Bar-B-Que,Phil Petroff,The Shakedown,Chief Big Way,Mike Crissan,Pete McMahon,Jerry Neely,Jesse Dee plays Wednesday, Sept. 9,Nighthawks, Miss E,Tim Foli’s ballclub,Brad “Big Country” Eldred,Ian Desmond,Marco Estrada, Ross Detwiler,Andrew Kown, The Syracuse Chiefs baseball,Democratic Syracuse mayoral candidate, Stephanie Miner,talk-show host,Jim Reith

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Sep

Amerikan Primitive debuts loudly Friday at Lost Horizon

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We last heard guitarists Matt Pedzick and Sue Karlik rockin’ the walls off a hangar-sized East Syracuse nightclub two decades ago when their band, Slang Girl, opened for the legendary Masters of Reality at MOR’s SRO album-release bash.
Matt fronted the band, played an unrelenting rhythm guitar and growled out the vocals. Sue played lightning leads on a Les Paul guitar, electrifying the audience with her agile and intelligent improvisations.
A former student of master axeman Joe Jewell, Sue Karlik is arguably the best female rock guitarist ever to emerge from Syracuse.
Now, after nearly 20 years in New Jersey, the husband-and-wife six-stringers have returned to Central New York and will debut their new band, Amerikan Primitive, at 10:45 p.m., Friday, Sept...

CATEGORY: General Entertainment

TAGS: Joe Jewell,Sue Karlik,Lost Horizon,Amerikan Primitive,Superthrive,syracuse,Cold Woman Blues,The Inheritance,the palace eastwood,Irish Fest in Clinton Square,Onondaga County Sheriff’s deputy, Sean Andrews,

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Sep

Why Jimmy Cavallo should be in the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame!

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It’s mid-September, time for Jimmy Cavallo to make his annual homecoming at Festa Italiana, downtown. So it’s a good time to wonder aloud, “Why isn’t Jimmy Cavallo in the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland?”

We all know that the indefatigable singer-saxophonist is a charter member of the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame, having entered at the first Sammy Awards show in 1993, at the Landmark Theatre.

Godfather of Rock’n’Roll
But after turning 82 years young in July as he continues performing several nights a week, Jimmy deserves to be recognized not only by his fans and colleagues but by the entire world...

CATEGORY: General Entertainment

TAGS: Carmen Harlow,Jim Reith Show,Jimmy Cavallo,Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame,Festa Italiana, downtown,George Horton,Leave Married Women Alone,Diz Utley,State Street Band,The Houserockers,Westcott Theater,John LaTocha,Chuck Sgroi,Tommy Rozzano,Burnet Park Ice Rink Pavilion,The Sim Redmond Band from Ithaca, John Cadley & The Lost Boys, Dusty Pascal, The Adam Fisher Group, Brian Frances, Frank & Burns, Independent Louis, Maka Rouge, Quigsy & The Bird, Smart Alec, The Causeway Giants, The Fabulous Ripcords, The Freeborn Men, The Mere Mortals, The TippHillbillies,The Tom Dooley Choraliers,The Z-Bones,Tipp Hill Music Festival,Down N’ Dirty,The Mill,Syracuse,Russ Tarby

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Sep

Miner’s support is rooted in anti-Destiny politics

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Nibsy’s Pub, which sits pretty at the foot of Tipperary Hill, is as Irish as Jameson’s. On Primary Night, however, all creeds and colors filled its upstairs banquet room as mayoral candidate Stephanie Miner celebrated her victory over three Democratic challengers, Joe Nicoletti, Carmen Harlow and Alfonso Davis.

At a Sept...

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TAGS: Miner for Mayor,Stephanie Miner,Russ tarby,Hotel Syracuse,Syracuse,run for mayor syracuse,Nibsy’s Pub,Tipperary Hill,Bob Congel,John DeSpirito and his benefactor,John DeFrancisco,Al’s Wine & Whiskey Lounge,Nanni, Herron and Winston,Syracuse Crunch,Quickway Ice Girls,Songwriter Leo Crandall,Ambassadors of Love,War Memorial scoreboard,Common Councilor anti-Destiny politics

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