Happy Sunday, everyone. It’s time for another helping of the weekly guest column from our friend Paul Curran. From Canada, why don’t you help yourself to a cup? Your Barista – Paul Gas Deliveries Welcome to the weekly coffee and tea garden. My name is Paul, I’ll be your barista today and I’m happy to…
We gathered at Kelley’s 15 strong Wednesday night to break bread for Elisabeth, to show this amazing young woman how proud we all are of what she’s accomplished these past two years. The food was good. The smiles were better. We were thrilled to then head down the road apiece to Onondaga Community College. My…
Where where you when … The phrase that brings us together in the collective good, bad, sad of life. The tragic and triumphant. Today I sadly sit in the living room of the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood as Today rightly chronicles the times of Prince. Another pop music legend left…
It’s been a wild 20 years for the Central New York Jazz Orchestra. The state of the economy in Syracuse and the region over the two decades has made the sustenance of the 16-piece professional ensemble that could a true labor of love. But onward the CNYJO has marched under the umbrella of the Central…
Hard Promises is making its Syracuse party bigger this year. Front man Jeff Gordon dropped me a line with the news that Petty Fest IV is moving on down — as in , a flight of stairs and the road ‘a piece from its former spot at Upstairs at the Dinosaur. The new spot is…
A day off from the store and friends a stretch of warm spring Syracuse weather added up to the opening of golf season 2016 for KP, Tater and I. Tater chose Camillus Country Club, a public-private hybrid built high on a hill on the west side of Onondaga County. The sun shined brightly again for…
A slew of folks will gather at a Syracuse restaurant early this evening in honor of one of the smartest people I know. We’ll eat some, drink a little, smile a lot, maybe even tell a story or two about what makes her so special. Then we’ll all head off to the program where two…
I noticed a couple of big rocks hanging out on the empty lot separating the Little Bitty and our neighbor’s brick house the other day, and got hit by one of my little ideas. Those are the perfect size, I thought, to place in the holes the Eastwood skunk digs under our Syracuse city fence…
Dress Kevin Costner down as a psychopathic do-badder who’s spent most of his life in one prison or another, and he can still own the screen. In fact, when Costner growls while in chains as Jericho Stewart, it’s fairly impossible not to get the willies. Smarten Ryan Reynolds up as a U.S. Agent in London…
With our first shared day off in a couple of weeks, my dear wife Karen and I jumped into her pretty red Mazda Friday afternoon and headed west on the New York State Thruway. We rekindled a tradition that had sat idle for a year or so, thanks to … Oh, the combination of a…
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