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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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Oct

Two CNY expatriates achieve their rock’n’roll dreams

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When he was a teenager here, Josh Machlin worked as a bagger at Nichols Supermarket in Liverpool. Now he’s got a brand new bag playing bass guitar for an up-and-coming New York City-based rock band.
When The Choke releases its self-titled debut disc this fall, it’ll be a memorable moment for Machlin. But the band’s fans don’t know him as Josh.
They call him Knuckles.

The Choke
Fronted by white-hot blonde Cameron Eve, The Choke has made a name for itself in alternative rock circles with its fetching blend of girl-group vocals and punk-rock energy...

CATEGORY: General Entertainment

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Oct

Music Mavericks reconvene Wednesdays at Opus

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After a three-month summer hiatus, Lisa Gentile’s popular “Music Mavericks” Open Mic will begin its third season at Opus Lounge & Restaurant, 218 Walton St., in Armory Square. Music Mavericks will reconvene at 8 p.m. on Wednesday Oct. 15, and will run weekly on Wednesdays thereafter. Sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m., and the music continues until to 11:30 p.m. Appetizers will be available throughout. There is no cover charge.

Grand piano
“I decided to kick it up a notch this season by moving to Opus Lounge which has an actual stage, a built-in sound system and best of all a grand piano,” Gentile said...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: lisa gentile,Opus Lounge,Family Dawgz,Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand,redhouse

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Oct

Check out the Redhouse - it rocks on and on

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Redhouse rocks on
Sure, it has had its ups and downs, but Redhouse rocks on, staging edgy theater, innovative visual art and exciting, sometimes experimental, music. Redhouse has bounced back from multiple staff changes and funding struggles to keep on keepin’ on, all in the name of avant art.
Now, the only thing the venue at 201 S. West St. needs is for its audience to show just as much gumption, pony up the reasonable ticket prices and support the scene!

Digital delights
Neil Rolnick, a NYC-based pioneer in the use of computers in performance, performs at 8 p.m. tonight, Thursday Oct. 16, at Redhouse. Rolnick combines unexpected and unusual materials and media in his music...

CATEGORY: General Society

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Oct

Former Le Moyne pitcher now a college coach

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As the venerable Philadelphia Phillies and the upstart Tampa Bay Rays begin their historic World Series showdown this week in the City of Brotherly Love, a former Syracuse SkyChiefs pitcher prepares for a new career as a college coach.

Cassidy leads Generals
Former Syracuse SkyChiefs hurler Scott Cassidy, an alumnus of Liverpool High School and Le Moyne College, was chatting with his former Triple-A pitching coach, Rick Langford, at Alliance Bank Stadium after the Chiefs’ final game of the season on Labor Day (a 4-2 victory over the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees)...

CATEGORY: General Society

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