I’ve let this news of my hometown Syracuse University’s self-imposed penalty of no post-season play for the Orange men’s basketball squad swim around in my head and gut a couple of days before attempting to make sense of how this makes me feel about college sports, life in general in this college city and how…
At the latest installment of my Vanity Appointment, my good friend Theresa Constantine pinned me down to the specific night. “You and your dear wife Karen meet me, David and Althea at New Fuji Buffet on Erie Boulevard at 6:30,” my hair and beard stylist implored. “I’ve got coupons.” Indeed we did. It had been…
How am I ever going to watch a movie that took just a year to film again? Richard Linklater, you’ve spoiled me with “Boyhood.” The director took his time filming the story he wrote about a brother and sister coming of age in Houston. The Texas native, in fact, shot the film over a dozen…
There’s a new baby on the Syracuse festival scene. On Feb. 20 at the Palace Theatre on James Street comes the Snow Plow Blues Festival. If you want to read about the who-is-coming and why-is-this-happening, the event is the subject of my column today for my weekly community blog on Syracuse Public Media site waer.org.…
Joe Whiting stood at the podium in front of the asssembled and interested folk in the Palace Theatre on Syracuse’s James Street this morning, a quite capable and appropriate choice to fill them in on the 2015 Hall of Fame class and list of nominees for the Sammys ceremonies that will take place March 5…
My dear wife Karen took the day off from work today, so she scheduled a nail appointment for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle for 10 a.m. Yeah, our beloved rescue mutt does not like getting the paw nails clipped, so we take her to the vet every couple of months for the chore. It’s better…
The five teens in “Project Almanac” start off with a really big need when they discover one of them lurking around as they watch the just-discovered video in the background of his seventh birthday party. As you would imagine. What the …? How did that happen? Can we make it happen again? Very interesting premise…
Katy Perry didn’t let me down during the halftime show just now, turning in a short and colorful array of her hits that was likely more entertaining than the first quarter of the 14-14 first quarter of the tie forged in tonight’s Super Bowl by the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots. The special effects…
Reading my friend Doobster’s blog Mindful Digressions last week — because he’s always got something interesting to say to the world — I noticed one cool looking blog badge. It’s for the Premio Dardos Award, and my fellow University of Maryland Terrapin Doobster was noting its uniqueness. Although he walked the quad of College Park…
Free Advice is a periodic feature in which I answer anonymous letters sent to markbialczak.com. Today’s reader asks for my opinion on Super Bowl Sunday. Mark, I know you had mentioned you once wrote about sports and you had once lived on Long Island. I too grew up on Long Island. I’ve hit a low…
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