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…
A Super Bowl primer for people of many lands. I wrote this one to help out non-football-regulars follow the big game last year, before it was New England vs. Seattle with the shadow of Deflategate and before it was Katy Perry set to dance at halftime and before this new set of commercials carefully crafted…
Always on the lookout for new stuff, my iPhone 6 came out of my pocket as I approached the parking-lot-side entrance to the pedestrian bridge at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. The windows to their world were pitching the winter entertainment this time around. Quite the idea, thought I. Throw down…
The first time I recall seeing Moody McCarthy, he was kind of shy. Reserved, even. Still, there he was walking up to the stage of Wise Guys Comedy Club in his hometown of Syracuse … Turn back the calendar, oh, to the 1990s, and Wise Guys was in the basement of a Mexican joint out…
I stayed up later than usual Friday night and caught Norman Lear chatting with David Letterman on CBS. Man, he looked old. Letterman, not Lear. No, the guest in the porkpie hat look positively dapper as he discussed the the period of TV in which he was the undisputed leader in cutting edge comedy. “All…
For a while there, I was a Halloween Scrooge. Didn’t care to dress up anymore. Kept the porch light off. Skip my place, kiddies. No candy here. Bah. But you can’t be that way and live in Syracuse, N.Y., I am convinced. Halloween is pretty darn big up my way. So big, in fact, that…
Some topics are ripe for the picking. They sit on the shelf of our society ready for any amateur yuckster to poke at playfully, for stand-up guys and girls to jab at with certain enthusiasm, for monologue writers to roll over disdainfully with the toe of their shoe. Did you hear the one about the…
Over at my weekly community blog for Syracuse Public Media site waer.org, I decided to voice a bit of dismay at the folks who like to say there’s nothing to do. This was a good week for me to take my stance because … Well, Friday through Monday carried a stupendous schedule. My dullest day…
When I worked for the big daily in the 1990s, I came home pretty dusty every night during a 12-day stretch that started in August and ended on Labor Day. Part of my beat covering music and entertainment was reviewing concerts. And, yes, the New York State Fair threw a concert or 23 that I…
It’s called Taste of Syracuse, and the name of this June festival could not be more appropriate. For two days, tens of thousands of people flock to the blocks that surround Clinton Square in downtown Syracuse. They get to sample much music. Three stages worth, in fact. Around noontime Friday, three Syracuse music veterans played…
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