The Music Industry Conference, MIC, is returning to OnCenter, 800 S. State St., on Friday, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12, this year featuring five music industry speakers. Friday’s headlining event will be the Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys).

Seems no entity is immune to the usual Syracuse doom and gloom, not even a sports team that gives us a reason to leave the house on a cold winter night. Other teams have succumbed to the fail culture. But not the Syracuse Crunch, which, with this 18th season, has established itself as the hockey franchise to beat locally.

At the 2011 Juneteenth Festival, reporters from The Stand, a community newspaper written for South Side residents, were on the hunt for a story. Donning South Side Stand T- shirts, they jotted notes during the parade and interviewed vendors. Following the festivities, they returned to The Stand’s office at 2331 S.

Since our last visit to the under-renovation Landmark Theatre, the place is looking more like a finished product and less like a series of unrelated remodeling efforts. In the past four months, the project has gone from ready for prom to almost ready for prime time.

The Vietnam War remains the cultural lynchpin for the baby boom generation. But there was a second, lesser-known, conflict from 1964 to 1973 that has informed a good deal of photographer Mike Greenlar’s career. In those years, the Hmong people, mostly living in Laos, were the victims of Operation Barrel Roll, a U.

Use your smartphone’s QR code reader app to capture this image, which will lead you to our online image gallery of Syracuse University football, from the lens of award-winning photographer Michael Davis.

Does anyone remember The Beatles’ second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show? That’s kind of how it felt this past Saturday night at Alliance Bank Stadium, where phenom pitcher/rock star Stephen Strasburg returned to the Syracuse Chiefs for the third stop on his minor-league injury rehabilitation tour.

It all started with an art show at Fayetteville Free Library with a positive feedback. Now it has grown into a large art gallery in Shoppingtown Mall, where local artists can display their work in a creative environment. CNY Artists owner Peter Svoboda never could have predicted the outcome.

An impressive collaboration among a handful of entities is making it possible for children with disabilities to learn a career in studio recording. Syracuse University, SubCat Studios, the MTAP (Music Technology Access Project), Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), University College and the Rose, Jules R.

Imagine, just imagine, vehicles and bicycles coexisting on roadways as people make their way to work, to the store, to wherever. Sure it sounds like Montreal, or Copenhagen, but it’s also a vision many in Syracuse have harbored for years. And finally, after frustrating stops and starts, movement in a bike-friendly direction seems to be taking place.