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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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Nov

Oyster Riot Friday at Kitty Hoyne’s

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Syracuse Beer Week continues at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday Nov. 6, with A Dogfish Head Revolution at the Blue Tusk in Armory Square and at 8 p.m. with a Belgian beer-tasting at Al’s (No Longer Awful) Wine & Whiskey Lounge, 321 S. Clinton St., downtown.
Better yet should be the Porterhouse Oyster Riot from 4:30 to 11 p.m. Friday Nov. 7, at Kitty Hoyne’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 301 W. Fayette St., on the edge of Armory Square. Chef Damien Brownlow always makes sure to order the best oysters from the coldest North American waters, and it’s sheer ambrosia to pair up the raw shellfish with pints of porter and stout.
The celebration of suds concludes with Operation Southern Comfort’s Mardi Gras party, 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday Nov. 8, at the MOST, in Armory Square...

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TAGS: Annie & the Hedonists,Blue Tusk,JASS board members,Trail of the Vigilantes,Derek Dorsett,crunch

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Nov

The Express crashes

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“That stinks!” said WSYR-am 570 radio talk-show host Jim Reith last week when Producer Bill (Ali) informed him how poorly “The Express” was faring at the box office.
As of Nov. 6, the feature film about ill-fated Syracuse University football superstar Ernie Davis had earned just $9,643,725 in theaters across the country. The movie, which has yet to be released overseas, cost its producers $40 million...

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TAGS: Crunch,DiFranco,Jim Boeheim,su basketball,Cuckoo’s Nest,LaCasse

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Nov

Local restaurants weather the recession

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Despite the punch-drunk economy, hope springs eternal in the hospitality industry.
That’s another term for hotels and motels, museums and music halls, restaurants and theaters, bars and bistros.
All of those businesses, whether non-profit or for-profit, pray that patrons continue to queue up and fill their tills with cold cash. The fear is that, as the recession tightens, such leisure activities may be seen as luxuries, not necessities.
Maybe that’s why four major hotel projects here – the convention center hotel, the Armory Square Marriott, the Destiny high-rise and the Hotel Syracuse – have all stalled...

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Nov

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From the Carousel Club to the Civic Follies
After Jack Ruby murdered Lee Oswald, the subsequent FBI investigation even extended to Syracuse.
Monday was the 45th anniversary of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on Nov. 24, 1963.
Oswald, 24, had been arrested and charged with murdering President John F. Kennedy two days earlier on Friday Nov. 22. Ruby, 52, was a Dallas nightclub owner. The Vegas Club featured rock’n’roll and rhythm & blues while the Carousel Club presented striptease dancers, singers and comedians. Live bands played at the Carousel, accompanying the entertainers.
After Ruby murdered Oswald, the FBI investigated both the Kennedy and Oswald killings...

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