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The Running Man
Joe Nicoletti believes he can win the city of Syracuse’s coming mayoral election for two reasons: He has an incredible amount and range of experience in governance and civic administration, and his...
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Fair Exchange
Visitors at the 2016 New York State Fair walked through a new main gate, an enticing visual flashback to the arched carriage-gate style that welcomed turn-of-the-20th-century attendees. The main gate...
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Ronnie Leigh
Local jazz legend Ronnie Leigh will be honored during the 16th annual Jazz-N-Caz festivities to be held this week in Cazenovia. On Friday, Sept. 15, Leigh’s legacy will be feted during the 7:30 p.m....
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Welcome To The Best of Syracuse 2017
Best of Syracuse is a reader-generated poll trademarked by the Syracuse New Times. Since its 1997 inception we have asked our readers to nominate in a number of categories. For the 21st anniversary...
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Nojaim’s No Más
After almost a century, and three generations, of serving the grocery needs of the neighborhood known as the Near West Side, Nojaim Brothers Supermarket, 307 Gifford St., is closing its doors....
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Many Happy Returns
You’ve probably seen Laurence Segal around town. He’s the guy who hauls those big, pink recycling bins around Central New York, including stops at the recent New York State Fair — all 13 days of it —...
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Orange Holds The Tigers
“God Luv Ya.” That was one of legendary Syracuse University football coach Dick MacPherson’s favorite “Macisms,” and that’s what he would have likely said to current coach Dino Babers after the...
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The Truth Is Out There
Are we alone in the universe? According to UFO researcher and columnist Cheryl Costa, the answer is an emphatic no. And her book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015...
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The Con Con: Pros and Cons
Twenty years ago on Central Issues, the WCNY-Channel 24 public affairs program, host Dan Cummings asked Lee Plavoukos, then associate counsel to the speaker of the New York State Assembly, if we should...
View ArticleFurious Styles For A Cool Yule
Dave Bergan’s fashion consciousness came early. His family talked clothes at the dinner table. After all, his family was in the clothes business. “A family of retailers,” he recalls about growing up in...
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Project Censored 2017
In America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself, and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the...
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Miner Details
Outgoing Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner probably began considering her political options at a young age, stuffing envelopes with local candidates’ campaign appeals at her grandmother Cooney’s Eastwood...
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JFK: The Unsolved Mystery
Thousands of previously classified documents have been released this year, but no new suspects have surfaced in America’s most famous cold case: the Nov. 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy....
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Elder Women Activists Honored At ArtRage
Oral histories come in various formats: in books, in conversations between elders and grandchildren, in radio or television programs, in other media. And now the ArtRage Gallery is hosting an...
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Welcome to the Jungle
One of the reasons so many people follow Syracuse University men’s basketball is that the season helps us mark the time through our long, dreadful winters. Michael Davis Photo Two more games this week,...
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Indie Jones
When Nic Oliver and Mark Turley started L.R.S. Records in January 2013, the duo didn’t envision a long-lasting label. It just sounded like a fun match between two longtime pals and their talents....
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Nevertheless, She Persisted
A crowd formed in the parking lot of Laci’s Tapas Bar on Syracuse’s North Side Saturday morning, Jan. 20. The group began as only a handful of women, but soon it swelled to more than 300 as the time...
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Still Folkin’ Around at 40
The Oswego Music Hall has been bringing local and national acts in the folk and acoustic veins to Central New York music fans since 1977. Although the operation has moved among buildings and changed...
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DeFran Makes His Move
Whether at the ballot box or in pickup basketball games, it is obvious that state Sen. John DeFrancisco doesn’t like to lose. A calm intensity settles in, and an attitude emerges based in large part on...
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Catwalk On The Wild Side
Downtown Syracuse’s Landmark Theatre, 362 S. Salina St., is usually the classiest venue in the area to catch live concerts and stage performances. Yet once each year the vaudeville-era showplace is the...
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