How cold is just too?

It was hard to get going Saturday in Syracuse. First off, yes, it had snowed overnight again, I’d discovered when I’d let Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle out off the back porch of the Little Bitty in our city neighborhood of Eastwood. As I looked out the kitchen window before my first morning coffee in…

Fast times at Destiny USA

Again a cluster of folks in the Canyon at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA slowed down the walk of my dear wife Karen and I as we went to watch the movie for my weekly review. This time the young and not-so were gathered around a track designed for speed and…

Please pick up your errant crap

My dear wife Karen and I take pride in our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood or Eastwood. For a dozen years now, we’ve done the most we can to pretty up our little piece of property here on Earth. And so it irks me when some of my neighbors are not so diligent…

A bright bulb or just confused?

On a trip to my Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood’s Paine Branch library on a day off, I noticed some green shooting out from the small patch of earth in front. Hey, bulbs, this early in February in Syracuse, N.Y., is not the time to be showing your lovely heads yet. Too much cold to…

The big Syracuse music party will bring together Jam Factory

If there’s anything I’ve learned from watching musicians and music fans mix and mingle at the Syracuse Area Music Awards since the debut edition in 1993, it’s that everybody digs the reunion set. This year’s spotlight band will be Jam Factory, the Sammys organizers announced last week at a news conference at The Palace Theatre…

Hail, Caesar! pictures Hollywood in its glorious past

Envision Hollywood as it was in the 1950s, with big stars in the middle of epic historical remakes, comedies and musicals all the while embroiled in dodgy personal lives sure to draw the interest of the best gossip columnists and the American public at large, all of it keeping studio officials on their toes to…

No more meatloaf, please and thank you

The infomercial about the ultra-thin wallets has caught my eye. Not enough to go to the phone or web site, mind you, but enough to push me over the line regarding the life span of my trusty black leather version. Too worn. Too thick. A hockey puck in my possession whenever it must be carried.…

I’ll crow about the big rooster

Every once in a while, now that I’ve settled into the role of a red wine drinker, I decide to check out a new bottle. Before the holidays, I walked into the store and went for something different from the 19 Crimes red blend that’s been satisfying my once-a-week-or-less routine since summer. A bottle on…

He shoots, he scores at the AHL All-Star Classic

The best of the American Hockey League gathered in Downtown Syracuse Monday night for something all the banners and posters dubbed the All-Star Classic. And the old Onondaga County War Memorial rink was hopping. My dear wife Karen scored tickets Friday at SMG, and we were glad to take our two spots among the 5,710…