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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

Pope Joan flickers on Europe’s silver screens

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Thirteen years after the publication of Syracuse author Donna Woolfolk Cross’ novel, Pope Joan, it has finally been made into a movie!
Cross was in Germany the week of Oct. 22 for the film’s premiere in Berlin. The movie opened there because the book was a huge bestseller in Deutschland, and much of the early action takes place there.
Pope Joan stars 34-year-old German actress Johanna Wokalek as Johanna von Ingelheim, a 9th century woman of English extraction born in Germany who disguises herself as a man and ascends through the ranks of the Vatican.

Morocco = 9th century
“The movie was produced by Constantin Film and was filmed in Germany and Morocco,” Cross said...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Pope Joan, Pope Joan film,Constantin Film,Johanna Wokalek is brilliant as Joan,David Wenham,John Goodman as Pope Sergius,Donna Woolfolk Cross,Doug Brode,illustrator Joe Orsak,new Yellow Rose of Texas, a graphic novel,McFarland Press

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Nov

SU sports equipment manager becomes an alumnus

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Kyle Fetterly finally graduated from college!

The 50-year-old CNY native donned robes and mortar board in May to accept a bachelor’s degree in retail management from the in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.

Hey, it only took him three decades!

Fetterly first matriculated on the hill in 1977, but as his personal life sputtered his focus on academics waned. He answered an ad seeking a student manager for the SU football team. Because he’d played sports at Liverpool High School, Fetterly saw the job as a way to keep his hand in athletics. By 1983, he was overseeing SU sports’ entire equipment department, which services 20 different teams...

CATEGORY: Culture

TAGS: Syracuse entertainment,Kanjira,Pastabilites, the new school syracuse,Hospice of Central New York,Brian’s Art Gallery,Kyle Fetterly,John Gerard,Robbie Q. Telfer

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Nov

Ex-cop argues in favor of legalizing marijuana

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Marijuana is only one of many things that have been prohibited in America. So was prize-fighting. So was alcohol. So was gambling.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) is a national organization comprised of present and former cops and lawyers and judges who know that none of those previous prohibitions worked. And neither does the prohibition against marijuana. (Visit leap.cc.)

Central New York LEAP spokesman Peter Christ, a former Tonawanda police captain, spoke as a guest of the local Libertarian Party Oct. 17, at Liverpool Public Library. About a dozen attended.

One by one, Christ (pronounced KRISSED) listed the bans on boxing, booze and numbers rackets...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: BeVard Studio,John H. Mulroy Civic Center,LEAP,Marijuana,Peter Christ,Tonawanda police captain,War on Drugs,Diva’s Caribbean Restaurant,JGB Properties,Connections of CNY,Downtown Syracuse

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Nov

Onondaga Lake boasts a proud history

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I bumped into old family friend Gregg Tripoli last month at the Syracuse Technology Garden, down city.
We reminisced about our days in Liverpool Little League, because his late father, Dom Tripoli, coached me and my brother and Gregg and his brothers on the little lakeside diamonds.
Ah, yes, the lake.
That’s what brought Gregg and me to the new tech center. We both wanted to look over an exhibit of paintings, photographs and diagrams related to the history (and the future) of Onondaga Lake.
“It’s coming back,” Gregg mused about our long-polluted body of water.
He’s right...

CATEGORY: General Society

TAGS: Onondaga Lake history,Asa Danforth,Gregg Tripoli,John and Dorothy Gormel,Traditions restaurant,Wise Guys comedy,Plowshares Craftsfair,Chris Smither,Folkus Project,Syracuse Winter Peace Festival

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