In my monthly turn at the Blog of Funny Names, I turn my blueprint onto Ward Wellington Ward, the famous Syracuse architect who placed 26 of the homes he built around the Salt City in the early 1900s on the National Register of Historic Places. Yeah, these days they’d probably just call him Old Triple…
The main guys in Central Intelligence sure were different 20 years ago, we see in the flashback that sets up the action comedy starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. The Rock as Robbie Weirdicht was the picked-upon high school doughboy dancing in the locker room shower until the Mean Boys pulled him out and slid…
When you were a baseball-loving kid growing up in New York during the belly of the 20th century, the name Abner Doubleday carried weight. The old soldier dude invented the game we loved, said the Lords of Baseball. Of course now the myth-busters say it ain’t so. None of that matters to the folks that…
Welcome to Paul Curran’s weekly Sunday guest column. Today he takes us on a trip to a truck stop and an encounter with a special hitch-hiker with a bike in tow. Take it away, superb storyteller Paul. Welcome to the weekly coffee and tea garden. My name is Paul, I’ll be your barista today and…
I caught sight of a little kid wearing a great T-shirt last weekend at the Polish Fest in Clinton Square. Mom smiled when I asked if I could grab a photo of her kids, and they quickly lined up against the monument. Then I realized that the bigger boy on the left had the object…
The text came in Wednesday night, with the happy photo. My terrific daughter Elisabeth was at the car lot. She’d been handed over the keys to her first brand new car. At 26 years old, Elisabeth drove home her Kia Soul, the one she picked out herself. Yes, wonderful significant George Three shared some of…
We’re running a Farmers Market at the library three times this summer, and our chief organizer still hopes to sign up a vendor or three before the first edition on Monday, June 27. I volunteered to extend my lunch break a bit and run down to the first edition of the weekly downtown Syracuse version…
The reds and the yellows look quite nice sharing space in the hourglass garden in the front yard of our beloved Little Bitty in the Syracuse City neighborhood of Syracuse. And the red bush in the corner of the back porch is springing up rather nicely, too, despite the attention that spot gets from Ellie…
My dear wife Karen and I had always made it our custom to walk the Parade of Homes on a weekend day. That meant sharing the view of the bunch of new houses on display, decorated to the nines, with a whole lot of other curious Central New Yorkers. Even though there are three weekends…
Remember all that talk about your spirit animal a bit back? Well, Yorgos Lanthimos beats that animal kingdom by then-some in The Lobster, the writer and director’s first English-speaking film of his Film-Fest darling career. It’s a thoughtful satire on our society’s rush to pick somebody — anybody, really — to declare as The One.…
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