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.
Most people associate Jack Ruby with the striptease shows that unfolded nightly in the early-Sixties at the Carousel Club, a second-story night spot on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. In fact, over the course of his career as a nightclub owner in Big D from 1947 to ’63, he also booked country singers like Hank Williams and Little Jimmy Dickens, big bands such as the Red Calhoun Orchestra and Dixieland acts like the Cell Block Seven.
Raised in Chicago in the 1920s, Ruby apparently inherited the Windy City’s affinity for the sounds of the South...
Uncle Jim’s coal-filled Christmas stocking and ...
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My grandfather, Matt Egloff, was one of the lucky ones.
After the stock market crash of 1929 degenerated into the Great Depression, thousands of Central New Yorkers suffered long years of unemployment, but grandpa still worked three days a week at the Will & Baumer Candle Co. His pay envelope was only half as full as it had been in the 1920s, when he worked five or six days a week, but it was better than nothing.
And nothing was what hundreds of thousands of Americans had plenty of...
As a book, The Lovely Bones sold more than a million copies.
Good reason to assume the movie, based on the 2002 crime novel by Syracuse University grad Alice Sebold, might well attract many mill itself. But now the Bones may be cracking.
The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who’s murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the afterlife. That vaguely pathetic premise allows her to explore the lives of the people around her all while attempting to get someone to find her lost, dismembered body.
Directed by Peter Jackson, the film stars Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci and Michael Imperioli. That’s a ton of talent, but it may not be weighty enough to guarantee big box office...
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