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The vaping epidemic has become of colossal concern for parents, educators, and health professionals, particularly as it pertains to teenagers and young adults. In response to the rising epidemic of youth vaping, New York schools are spearheading initiatives aimed at curbing this trend among students. These efforts encompass educational programs, policy enforcement, and community engagement to create a holistic approach to tackle the issue. Encouragingly, there has actually been a noticeable decline in e-cigarette use among high school students from 2022 to 2023. Specifically, the percentage of high school students who reported current e-cigarette use dropped from 14.1% to…
Syracuse Jazz Fest founder Frank Malfitano reflects, “For longtime fans of the Syracuse arts and music scene, this past week may well be remembered as ‘the week the music died.’ The passing from the local music scene within days of both the legendary Dan Elliott (Sammy Hall of Fame lead vocalist and front man for The Monterays, the Glenn Miller Orchestra and The Belmonts), and the incredible Doug Moncrief, the charter Todd Hobin Band vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist, followed closely by the publication of the final issue of the Syracuse New Times after 50 remarkable years, truly marks the end of the Golden Era in Syracuse musical history. Everyone I know in…
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The Syracuse New Times, the oldest alternative newsweekly in the United States, walked away with another batch of accolades during the 41st annual Syracuse Press Club Awards ceremony.The event, held April 27 at the Genesee Grande, lured a sellout crowd. Awards in more than 50 categories were distributed to first- and second-place victors, with several third-placers also in the winners’ circle. The evening was capped by the year’s Wall of Distinction honoree, former Post-Standard investigative reporter John O’Brien, who poked fun at the platoon of Post-ies on hand during his heartfelt speech.Syracuse Press Club first-place honors went to sports writer…
“We went from grossing under $200,000 per year to over $2 million a few years later,” said Art Zimmer, former publisher of the Syracuse New Times.
As we’ve said more than once this week, the Syracuse New Times has been around the block more than a few times and riled up its fair share of politicians. With quick-witted political cartoons — some all the way from an underground bunker in Albania — to some iconic New York government faces, our lens has captured much of the goings on in the world of Big Brother. Here’s some of the highlights:
Now safely ensconced as the third wheel to co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on NBC-TV’s The Today Show, there was a time when Al Roker hailed from our neck of the woods, back during the early 1970s when he was attending school at SUNY Oswego and as a weather forecaster on WTVH-Channel 5. And for a very short time, Roker also put pen to paper as a Syracuse New Times cartoonist for the comic strip “Salt and Pepper,” which debuted in the Oct. 3, 1976, issue. “I want the strip to reflect Syracuse,” noted Roker. “You know, a good time.” With that, Roker married “Doonesbury”-style drollness to the Salt City scene, as…
The National Casket Company, the Borscht Belt singles scene, the MONY weather star and numerous interviews with iconic baby boom celebrities, most of whom you’ve never heard of if you were born after the first moon landing: They all served as a launch pad for my 45-year writing career. I was a freelance writer for the Syracuse New Times in the early 1970s while attending Syracuse University’s Newhouse full time as an undergrad. It was my proving ground, my source for press clips that I knew would someday land a writing job. My thick clipbook worked like a charm: A New York public relations agency hired me on the spot for…
It goes without saying that the Syracuse New Times would not have been nearly as much fun without our expansive coverage of the local and national music scene across the decades. The many acts included the Masters of Reality from the late 1980s; the Electric Chick Magnets from April 1997; Hamell on Trial from May 1993; George Rossi from August 1993; banjo impresario Tony Trischka from May 1994; and many, many more. But the New Times was not alone in local musicians and showmen on the map. We’re also dedicating this page to the slew of Syracuse-area radio disc jockeys who…
Alternative newsweeklies such as the Syracuse New Times began in the midst of a technological revolution. Offset printing and phototypesetting made publishing cheaper, enabling these print publications to start on a shoestring, proliferate and sometimes even prosper. Fifty years later, another technological revolution hastens their decline, hand-in-hand with the demise of the daily newspapers to which these brash newcomers had been alternatives. While digital and mobile advances have turned nearly everyone into a potential reporter or opinion leader, the internet provides little in the way of standards or filters. The internet has many voices, but few editors. There’s lots of bad grammar, bad spelling, bad ideas, factual errors, excessive use of explanation marks…
Ken Simon’s reflections on Fat Igor, the paper’s memorable mascot: “He thought he was very hip and cool but he wasn’t really, and that’s kind of what I liked. He’s kind of brash, he’s kind of aggressive and you like that in a person. He’s harmless, he’s a womanizer. We just started using it and people responded to it. I even posed for a photo dressed like Fat Igor. I don’t know how long Fat Igor lasted. He was a cool mascot. “Can you dig it?”When Syracuse New Times creator Ken Simon visited our 1415 W. Genesee St. office on March…
The Syracuse New Times’ origin story starts at the defunct Waldorf Diner on Erie Boulevard in the fall of 1968. Over a hottle of tea and a shared plate of home fries, I was discussing with my college pal Jack Myers what we were going to do once we graduated from Newhouse that June. Neither of us were eager to take a corporate job. We had an idea: We knew that free all-advertising tabloids called pennysavers were distributed in stores throughout Syracuse. We figured that if we blanketed the Syracuse University campus with a similar publication we could attract advertisers who coveted the student market but who weren’t advertising in the…
Welcome to the Syracuse New Times’ 50th-anniversary celebration! This retrospective issue is something of a bittersweet triumph, however. Although we’ve made it this far (as you can tell by examining the many mastheads that have adorned the paper through the decades), this is the final free edition of The New Times. The April 24, 2019, issue begins a new journey as a paid newspaper, right alongside The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other bastions of journalism. But they don’t cover the Salt City beat, which is why the Syracuse New Times will remain your favorite local source for community journalism as Central New York’s…
The 2019 Syracuse Area Music Awards saw a medley of local musicians and music-scene supporters once again honored for their dedication and service to the Central New York arts community. More than 600 people attended the annual, gala-like awards ceremony on March 8 at Eastwood’s Palace Theatre to see who would take home the coveted black obelisk this year. Related: Soaring SAMMYS: Syracuse area musicians recognized at 2019 ceremony Nominees were whittled down from about 111 submissions, and the SAMMYS committee announced their final decisions this weekend. See the full list of winners below: Best Pop Forgottensong, Forgottensong Vol. 1…