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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
01

Ron Spencer’s ridin’ a rock’n’roll Roller Coaster


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For a quarter-century now electric guitarist Ron Spencer has rocked righteously in any number of Central New York jam sessions, blues bands and studios.

He toured with Chicago blues diva Big Time Sarah, traded licks on stage with Rhode Island guitar great Duke Robillard and backed up Syracuse’s Godfather of Rock’n’Roll, Jimmy Cavallo.

A chance collaboration in 2007, however, has led Spencer down a new path on which “less is more.”

Memorable moment
Eleven years ago, Spencer brought his four-piece group, the Nite Crew, to national attention with the CD, Burnin’ Desire. After the turn of the century, he added formidable frontman Dugan Henhawk and a horn section to create Jumpstart...
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CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Syracuse Cinephile Society,fall film series,Byron Stripling,Atlantic Flyway,Valkyrie club,Gonstermachers’ honcho Leo Crandall debuts his new band, Ambassadors of Love,Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Maple Leaf Rag, Mark Gibson,Ron Spencer, Jimmy Cavallo,pianist Andrew Russo,Julliard School of Music and,artist-in-residence,Le Moyne College,the Mill Bar & Grill,Valkyrie Adult Fantasy Club,Richard Curry fiddler Andrea Asprelli,saxophonist Chris Vadala,conductor Jeff Tyzik SSO jazz,Spaghetti Warehouse,Entertainment syracuse,1936 airport film, Thirteen Hours by Air

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Oct
08

CRUNCH squad packs plenty of PUNCH!


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With swift skaters and savvy stickhandlers such as Stefan Legein, Maksim Mayorov and Alexandre Picard, the Syracuse Crunch should score scads of goals during the 2009-2010 American Hockey League season which got underway last weekend in Scranton.

Home opener Saturday
The home opener is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, against the Adirondack Phantoms, at downtown’s Onondaga County War Memorial...
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CATEGORY: General Entertainment

TAGS: CRUNCH squad,Onondaga County War Memorial,Derek MacKenzie,Falcone-Cavallo, Bob Popyk,Frankly Just Between Us,Chuck and Gap Mangione, Sal Nistico, Nick Brignola, Sam Noto, Sy Simpson, Danny D’Imperio, Anna Marie Genovese,Calvin Custer,Tony Leonardi,Crunch Coach Ross Yates,Jerry Lewis, Jack Jones, Frankie Randall, Julius LaRosa, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Joe Piscopo,Tony Bennett,Sparky Town Restaurant ,Emmett Van Slyke,Glenn Gomez Adams,Annie & The Hedonists,Kanjira,James Cagney,Spaghetti Warehouse syracuse,Russ Tarby,hanna and phil flanagan,john rohde,Tony Riposo

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Oct
20

Dances with Wolf soon to be but a memory


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Downtown After Dark is where Russ Tarby highlights happenings of special note in and sometimes out of Syracuse, the heart of CNY.


Al Wolf’s hanging up his rock’n’roll shoes!
After 47 years of music-making here in Central New York, the talented electric bassist is retiring from show business.

Wolf will play one of his final live dates with Smokin’ from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 23, at the Metro Lounge and Sushi Bar, 505 Westcott St., on Syracuse’s East Side; 428-0815...
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CATEGORY: Entertainment News

TAGS: cinephile society,Spaghetti Warehouse,Murders in the Zoo (1933), Lionel Atwill,Randolph Scott;Mark of The Vampire,Phil Flanigan,Hanna Richardson,Bistro Elephant,Al Wolf,Smokin,Downtown After Dark,Russ Tarby, Metro Lounge,westcott nation,Marcia Rutledge,Doug Robinson,Syracuse Crunch,Delavan Art Center

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Oct
29

Upstate jazz legends featured on Friday’s double bill


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Downtown After Dark is where Russ Tarby highlights happenings of special note in and sometimes out of Syracuse, the heart of CNY.

“We’re showing off two of the finest exponents of jazz who just happen to live in our region,” said CNY Jazz Arts Foundation Director Larry Luttinger. He’s talking about Friday’s double bill pairing the multi-talented Syracuse saxophonist Joe Riposo with Ithaca guitarist extraordinaire Steve Brown.
Riposo and Brown will showcase their own compositions in concert with the CNY Jazz Orchestra, directed by trombonist Bret Zvacek, at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct...
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CATEGORY: General Entertainment

TAGS: Upstate NY jazz legends,Lary Luttinger,CNYJAF concert series,CNY Jazz Orchestra,Sal Nistico, Nick Brignola, Sam Noto, Sy Simpson, Vincent Falcone, Danny D’Imperio, Phil Flanigan, Anna Marie Genovese, Calvin Custer, Tony Leonardi, Nancy Kelly, Jeff Stockham, Karen Oberlin,Joe riposo,steve brown,Daniel Hege,Gridley Building,Dan Klamm,Prime Steakhouse,Quinlivan Pierik & Krause,Mike Casale,Tony Riposo

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