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Democrats Witness History In The Unmaking
6 a.m., Election Day. The shiny paint walls and imposing electronic scoreboard in the St. Lucy’s gym exemplify the effort of the Near West Side to rejuvenate itself. A dozen poll watchers sit silently...
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Phoebe’s @ 40
Where to begin? Ellen Leahy has so many vivid memories of Phoebe’s Garden Café, back in the day. She remembers driving to New York City in a big, red truck with fellow manager Peter Lord to pick up...
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The Vault Grinds To A Halt
In late October, The Vault, an art and entertainment space located at 451 S. Warren St., closed its doors after being slapped with a stop-work order from the city of Syracuse. Since there isn’t a...
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Up, Up and Away
In the 17 years since the launch of the joint Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University Drama Department holiday venture, there has never been a lollapalooza production number like the exuberant...
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A Nose For Hues
Michael Weismore sat on the sofa next to his dad, in his usual recliner, cocked back, with the remote in his hand. “Put the football game on, Dad,” Michael said. “Hold on a minute,” his father said....
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Winter Blues Blowout
On Monday, Dec. 26, 7:30 p.m., the Great Salt City Blues Concert takes place at Eastwood’s Palace Theatre. The all-star evening is being staged to honor the legacies of Syracuse blues kingpins Kelly...
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Season On The Brink?
Bet you miss Trevor Cooney now, don’t you? Cooney, a shooting guard who graduated from Syracuse University last spring, was a verbal punching bag for many Orange fans who expected him to become the...
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All in the Family
“My dad always joked that it was my destiny to go into public service,” Ben Walsh says. “At the same time he never really pressured me and never really brought it up. At the same time, I’ve always...
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Head Games
A Syracuse Silver Knights indoor soccer game at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena is not your run-of-the-mill sporting event. Before the game, during breaks in the action and between periods,...
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The Rights Stuff
Laura L. Dorr drove with her 18-year-old daughter, Emma Buckley, from Carthage (Jefferson County) to Seneca Falls Saturday, Jan. 21, for the post-inauguration march. They started the day steps from the...
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The Clay’s The Thing
When she became director of the Everson Museum of Art two years ago, Elizabeth Dunbar assessed the facility and quickly determined that it was time to radically transform the Ceramics Gallery. “It was...
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Vision Quest
Alfonso Davis netted 25 percent of the vote running in the 2013 mayoral primary against incumbent Stephanie Miner. (Pat Hogan was also in that race.) Four years before he had logged 11 percent against...
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Flipper Fever
Flashing lights and colors inside large, stationary machines coupled with the clamor of bells, chimes and digital sound effects have officially returned to Central New York. Advertisement This is the...
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New Kid On The Block
On the morning of Feb. 1, the del Lago Resort and Casino’s doors were opened to the mass of patrons that had lined up outside for hours in the 30-degree temperatures. Soon afterward, most of the...
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Jukin’ Bone
Jukin’ Bone’s induction into the Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys) Hall of Fame this week entails a certain irony. For starters, Jukin’ Bone wasn’t even the real name of the band. Advertisement The...
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Keeping the Tipp
Peter Coleman just turned 80 and moved back to his old neighborhood, Tipperary Hill. He had been living in Westvale for 44 years but had never abandoned the home turf. Sixty-two years ago he took over...
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Otto Unpeeled
On a dark, bitterly cold morning, a few figures, some dressed only in shorts and T-shirts, race through wind-whipped snow from the parking lot into the Manley Field House. Their sunny demeanors defy...
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Hop, Howard and Hooplah Aplenty
In the aftermath of the Syracuse University men’s basketball team’s season-ending 85-80 loss to Mississippi in the second round of the NIT March 18 at the Carrier Dome, we can safely say there are only...
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City Hall: Maxwell’s House?
Born and raised in Syracuse, Andrew Maxwell is the seventh generation of an Irish family that calls Central New York home. A graduate of Corcoran High School, he grew up with an orientation to public...
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Fab Four Flashback
1966 had been a burdensome year for The Beatles. In March, John Lennon told London’s Evening Standard his rock group was more popular than Jesus, and in July the American teenzine Datebook published...
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