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Some pit-stops to check this summer by Margaret McComick The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que looms large over Syracuse. It perfumes the air with the enticing aroma of slow-cooked meat, fills it with the sound of soulful blues—and the thunder of Harley-Davidsons—and brings busloads of visitors downtown.
Some pit-stops to check this summer by Margaret McComick The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que looms large over Syracuse. It perfumes the air with the enticing aroma of slow-cooked meat, fills it with the sound of soulful blues—and the thunder of Harley-Davidsons—and brings busloads of visitors downtown.
After all, it was a Sunday show on a bitter cold night in January in Moscow, Idaho. As soon as the 1995 baby blue GMC conversion van the band calls Pat Sajak (the first van was named Vanna White) pulled up behind the snow-covered venue, an older, clearly intoxicated brunette started banging on the window.
If a voice from upstate is heard at all in Albany, it is likely to be that of state Sen. David Valesky. . . unless you want to count Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, whose influence in the Capital, if it exists, has thus far been kept well out of public view.
Frank Malfitano, the founder and producer of the Syracuse M&T Jazz Fest, always manages to keep his lineups unpredictable.
“I like what we can be,” Boeheim said after Louisville handed the Orange its third consecutive loss on March 2 at the Carrier Dome. “We’ve lost to three ranked teams {Georgetown, Marquette and Louisville} and we haven’t played very good. We haven’t shot very well, and we could have won two of the three.
Five volunteers were needed in 2008 to calibrate a new bilateral breast MRI at St. Joseph’s Imaging. Peg Kunz was the first in the machine. The radiologist told her there was something in her left breast, but it could be just an artifact or a glitch.
Five volunteers were needed in 2008 to calibrate a new bilateral breast MRI at St. Joseph’s Imaging. Peg Kunz was the first in the machine. The radiologist told her there was something in her left breast, but it could be just an artifact or a glitch.
Mayor Stephanie Miner failed to respond to questions from the Syracuse New Times last week about her proposal to reorganize the Syracuse Fire Department to save money.
Have you professed your cause to the masses yet? In late March, over 2.7 million Facebook users changed their profile picture to a red box with an equal sign in the middle.
Mayor Stephanie Minor recently held a special ceremony at the United Way on James Street to honor volunteers of Syracuse organizations for Mayors' Day of Recognition. She is one of 832
The New Look
In a news conference, Facebook announced that there will be changes to the way the Facebook newsfeed looks and operates.
Arthur Storch, who founded Syracuse Stage in 1974 and was its artistic director until 1992, died Tuesday. He was 87.
A woman was kneeling in prayer on the kitchen floor of her Seattle home when she felt someone grab her hair from behind. She later told police she thought it was her husband playing a joke on her, but when she turned around, she saw an unknown man. According to the police report, she yelled out, “Lord help me,” whereupon the intruder fell back, hitting his head on the refrigerator. The man then stumbled out of the house, taking only a $20 bill that had been sitting on the table, and drove off in a white Cadillac.
A woman was kneeling in prayer on the kitchen floor of her Seattle home when she felt someone grab her hair from behind. She later told police she thought it was her husband playing a joke on her, but when she turned around, she saw an unknown man. According to the police report, she yelled out, “Lord help me,” whereupon the intruder fell back, hitting his head on the refrigerator. The man then stumbled out of the house, taking only a $20 bill that had been sitting on the table, and drove off in a white Cadillac.
Dogs would be required to wear life jackets at pool-equipped daycare and boarding facilities in Colorado, according to rules drafted by the Pet Animal Care Facilities Program, a division of the Colorado Department of Agriculture. “Not every dog is a good swimmer,” program manager Kate Anderson explained.
Intending to reduce the sprawling wild boar population in Belgium’s northern forests, wildlife officials near Postel organized a hunt and enlisted 200 hunters. They managed to kill only one of the animals.
A month after the Social Security Administration reprimanded an employee for creating a “hostile work environment” by regularly passing gas at his office, the agency withdrew the action.
Curses, Foiled Again
While serving time in the Gwinnett County, Ga., jail for paying an undercover police officer $3,000 to murder his neighbor and former business partner, Joseph Memar, 65, was caught again trying to have the man killed. Police Cpl. Jake Smith said Memar spread the word among inmates, met with a plainclothes officer during his visitation time, offered the officer $10,000 to kill the man and told him where to go to collect the money. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Digital Addiction
A 15-year-old girl and
her 16-yearold friend in Rocklin, Calif., drugged the younger girl’s
parents with prescription sleeping drugs so they could use the Internet
after their 10 p.m. curfew. The suspicious parents tested themselves
with a drug kit the next day and called police. (The Sacramento Bee)
Police searching for thieves who broke into a home in Gaithersburg, Md., and then stole the homeowners’ car for their getaway, spotted the vehicle at a nearby convenience store. The suspects were there because one of them, Marcus Lee, 20, stopped to use the bathroom, where he spent 11 minutes.
High-Fi Boeing engineers used sacks of potatoes to solve the problem of spotty signals with in-flight Wi-Fi. The tubers stood in for human passengers because their water content and chemistry absorb and reflect radio wave signals much the same as the human body does.
An armed carjacker, who police described as having “leathery skin,” failed to rob three women in the same shopping center parking lot in Oceanside, Calif. The first drove away. The second ignored him and proceeded to a store, where she called police.
Pennsylvania state police accused Randy R. Clinkscales, 27, of stealing a man’s identity after he applied for a credit card in the victim’s name and used it for a nose job.
To the graduates of 2013: Have a great life. You are exiting the academy and venturing out into the world at the collision point of two world altering events—the first successful cloning of a human embryo and the news that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached just shy of 400 parts per million.
To the graduates of 2013: Have a great life. You are exiting the academy and venturing out into the world at the collision point of two world altering events—the first successful cloning of a human embryo and the news that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached just shy of 400 parts per million.
People who say they want to legalize marijuana for medical use remind me of guys who say they read Playboy for the interviews. Sure you do.
“How could you miss the fact that the guy you were, you were informed by a foreign intelligence service you have a radical in your midst? We can’t track him to Russia. We lose him going to Russia and coming back as far as an interview.
Lelisa Desisa, 23, of Ethiopia, won the men’s race in a time of two hours, 10 minutes and 22 seconds. Desisa has been known as a 10,000-meter runner and a half-marathon (13.1 mile) specialist until this year. He came to Central New York in 2010 and won the Boilermaker Road Race in Utica.
Democracy can move at a glacial pace, and sometimes that serves us well. Except that glaciers no longer move at a glacial pace. If you care about what’s happening to the global climate, and you look at what’s happening in Washington, or what’s not happening in Washington, you have good reason to worry.
To the list of state officials either accused or convicted of criminal acts, add the name of Malcolm Smith, the state senator from Queens who a few years back was briefly the majority leader and president pro tem of the Senate. Since December, he has been a partner of our own state Sen.
Like Allende, who nationalized the Chilean copper industry in the early 1970s, Chavez sought greater state control of Venezuela’s rich oil fields. Like Arbenz in Guatemala, he stepped on the toes of powerful landed interests, many of them linked to the United States.
You can’t live in fear, but no doubt we are all living a bit more fearfully today, holding the children just a bit closer, looking both ways before venturing out in the dark.
A month ago, on Monday, Feb. 11, most of the world awoke to the shocking news that Joseph Ratzinger, a.k.a. Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church, chief of state of the Vatican, was calling it a day. The tweeting pope announced that day that he just didn’t have it in him anymore.
There were a number of solid reasons to move the Centro hub. The corner of South Salina and East Fayette was getting congested. Doughnut shops, law firms and other businesses found their entrances blocked by the crowds waiting for the bus.
While the Syracuse City School District is pleased to have obtained $31.5 million in state aid for seven struggling schools, the head of the city’s teacher’s union says that the money, while welcome, isn’t the answer to the problems his members face every day in classrooms and hallways.
While the Syracuse City School District is pleased to have obtained $31.5 million in state aid for seven struggling schools, the head of the city’s teacher’s union says that the money, while welcome, isn’t the answer to the problems his members face every day in classrooms and hallways.
“We would walk in somewhere, I’d turn around, and she’d be in this group of people, have no idea who they were, and they’d have their arms around her, hugging her,” friend Erin Colaneri says of Socci’s ability to draw people in with her charismatic presence.
The district is batting 1.000 in its efforts to attain state money for struggling schools. In March, it learned that all seven applications submitted to the state for “Innovation Zones” have been approved by the state Department of Education; $31.5 million will be available beginning with the next school year for seven of the lowest performing schools in the city, designated by the state as “priority schools.”
In an April 19 appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof chatted with guests about the Boston Marathon attacks and the gun control debate.
The Syracuse Fire Fighters Union is pulling out all the stops in its battle against Mayor Stephanie Miner’s plan to reduce Fire Department staffing and to take one fire engine out of service.
The Roman Catholic nun who in 2012 told the Democratic National Convention that “We Nuns on the Bus care for the 100 percent,” will speak Friday, April 26, 4 p.m., at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Whether you’re thanking the groundhog for predicting an early spring or just grateful to Mother Nature that the sun has found its way to Syracuse, it seems that winter is finally thawing. With warm weather comes fishing season, and for the 17th consecutive year, the Nine Mile Creek Conservation Council will stock the lower section of the river with trout.
The Hebrew Bible’s Book of Genesis includes a story in which the
patriarch Abraham sees three strangers on the horizon. To protect
himself from potential attack, Abraham opens his tent as a sign of
welcome and hospitality.
After Abraham served a feast of fine bread
and meat, the strangers said that his wife, Sarah, would bear a child. A
year later, when she was 90 and Abraham 100, they had a son, whom they
named Isaac.
It took that long for DeVesty, now 50 and the mother of two young adult boys, to rip that hand from her mouth and speak about what happened to her. In the past three years, she has devoted her life to enabling other abused men and women find their voice and a path to healing through a fast-growing project she calls the Clean Slate Diaries.
If the crowd attending the Syracuse University spring football game expected to come away with answers about next season’s squad, they exited disappointed. When trying to evaluate a school’s players against each other, the takeaways can be genuinely mixed.
