Downtown’s PressRoom Pub was the location for fun, frivolity and flashbacks as Syracuse New Times staffers past and present convened April 17 for a celebration of the paper’s 50th anniversary issue. The cast included arts writer Carl Mellor and longtime New Times writer Frank Malfitano; Shirley Zimmer alongside publishers Art Zimmer and Bill Brod; director of operations Deana Vigliotti and editorial director Veronica Westfall; the circulation team of C.J. Johnson, Tom Tartaro and Mark Angiolillo; Sara Minix with senior graphic designer Greg Minix; and editor-in-chief Bill DeLapp with long-ago production manager Lorraine Harper, who initiated the Syracuse New Times’ annual Street Painting Festival, which returns for its 29th edition in July.
