All posts tagged "SNT 50th Anniversary"
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5.5KNewsSNT is still partying like it’s 1969 at the PressRoom Pub (photos)
Downtown’s PressRoom Pub was the location for fun, frivolity and flashbacks as Syracuse New Times staffers past and present convened April 17...
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4.8KNewsView From The Top: Syracuse New Times publisher discusses the paper’s new subscription model
After being in the engineering world for 27 years, current Syracuse New Times publisher William Brod, of Cazenovia, needed a change. But how did a...
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5.2KNewsYou Gotta Have Art: Former publisher Art Zimmer recalls a quarter-century with the Syracuse New Times
"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...
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9.9KNewsAll politics is local: 50 years of Syracuse politics (photos)
As we’ve said more than once this week, the Syracuse New Times has been around the block more than a few times and...
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8.1KArtDid you know Al Roker was a cartoonist for the Syracuse New Times?
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...
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5.1KNewsLife’s a Pitch: Early Syracuse New Times scribe recalls articles that kicked off writing career
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...
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14.0KArtsA look back at the last 50 years of the Syracuse music scene (photos)
It goes without saying that the Syracuse New Times would not have been nearly as much fun without our expansive coverage of...
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4.6KNewsDefining the Alt-Write: Longtime writer reaffirms differences between the downtown daily and our alternative weekly
The “alt” in alt-weekly stands for alternative. In the first 10 years of the Syracuse New Times there was no question what we were an...
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4.1KNewsBad Moon Rising? SNT’s longest-serving editor-in-chief ponders forces that imperil local journalism
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...
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4.1KNewsSimon Says More: Recalling memories from Ken Simon’s leadership of the New Times
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,...
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4.5KNewsThe First 11 Years: SNT founder recalls pioneering days of Syracuse alternative journalism
The Syracuse New Times’ origin story starts at the defunct Waldorf Diner on Erie Boulevard in the fall of 1968. Over a hottle of...
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13.1KCover StoryThis is Us: Syracuse New Times publishes 50th anniversary issue
Welcome to the Syracuse New Times’ 50th-anniversary celebration! This retrospective issue is something of a bittersweet triumph, however. Although we’ve made it...
