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Grandstand’s Last Stand
A valued component of Central New York’s entertainment legacy was blown to smithereens on Saturday, Jan. 9, when a series of strategically-placed explosives helped to crumple the New York State Fair’s...
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Trump Card
Back in the day, Hart Seely organized Syracuse’s annual AHOY party. Around Christmastime, local media types and hanger-ons would gather at a mildly seedy bar for loud music, too much beer and the...
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Blade Runners
In the moments following the Frozen Dome Classic in November 2014, Syracuse Crunch owner Howard Dolgon mulled all of the work that went into playing a hockey game before an indoor record crowd of...
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Lady Swings the Blues
Shemekia Copeland was born into a musical family. Her father, Johnny Copeland, was a blues guitarist and singer who encouraged her to follow her own musical path. When she was just 8 years old, he...
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Missing Inaction
When Sonoma State University professor Carl Jensen started looking into the new media’s practice of self-censorship in 1976, the Internet was only a dream and most computers were still big mainframes...
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Pest Case Scenario
By Vanessa Langdon and Christopher Malone Picture this: You’re in bed, unwinding after a long day before drifting to sleep when a conga line of bedbugs strolls across your covers. Thinking about...
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Still Pickin’ and Grinnin’
Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazengarb first met in 2005 when Mazengarb was still working toward his degree in classical guitar at the University of North Carolina. Barrigar had been playing since he was 4...
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George Rossi
George Rossi’s wife was having an affair with another guy, and everybody knew it. What made it extra-ugly was that his scarlet-haired rock-songbird bride was making the scene with another prominent...
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Cause and Effect
As Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Joanne Shenandoah faces a life-threatening illness, she looks to her Native American heritage to describe her place in the universe. “We flow, as does the...
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Rocking Out
When Molly D’Agostino was 13 years old, she saw the progressive rock outfit Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert for the first time. Although she had played clarinet in school, it was the TSO show that...
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Burger Time
Mike Odd, manager of Mac Sabbath, didn’t see the band’s success coming. What started with an anonymous phone call and a strange meeting in a hamburger joint has since become an international sensation...
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Sidewalk Scenes
This winter the Everson Museum of Art is focusing on street photography, displaying images taken in 1890s Paris, 1930s Harlem, 1960s Syracuse and other locales. The main attraction, Helen Levitt: In...
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The Empire Strikes Back
Turn off Route 20 onto Route 13 south in Cazenovia and, just past the Lorenzo State Historic Site, you see it rising: a large structure with a trio of turrets in the style of the Madison County hops...
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Climate Keepers
When Dan Kingsley made plans to build a new facility for his physical therapy practice in Chittenango, he considered all of his options. “We could have done anything,” he said. “It was a dream of mine...
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Cats Vs. Dogs
There have been contentious relationships since the dawn of time: religion vs. science, liberals vs. conservatives, Syracuse vs. everybody. There is, however, another great and hairy debate standing...
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New York state was truly the center of the universe in April as a quintet of presidential candidates made their campaign rounds ahead of the state’s April 19 primary. The fab five each made pit stops...
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The Pearl
Pearl Washington. Michael Davis photo | Syracuse New Times Syracuse University basketball great Dwayne “Pearl” Washington, 52, died April 20 from brain cancer. The 6-foot-2 point guard helped catapult...
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News of the Weird
Chuck Shepherd. Photo by Bob Baggett. Editor’s note: The Syracuse New Times has been printing News and Blues, the weekly column of humorous items culled from around the globe, since its inception in...
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Room Service
Ed Riley tries to end each workday with a walk through the former Hotel Syracuse, now Marriott Syracuse Downtown, where he is spark-plugging the renovation of 473,000 square feet on 11 floors into 320...
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Madeleine Peyroux
Somewhere shortly into a Madeleine Peyroux performance, a fundamental shift becomes apparent. Although the title and refrain may be familiar, it’s not the same old song you’ve heard so many times...
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