What do you call the event to honor the best musicians in your city?

Perhaps you have heard of the Gramophone. That’s the machine invented to listen to recorded music. Alexander Graham Bell was involved. Then Emile Berliner came up with a process in 1887 that used records. Records evolved to black vinyl, topped with grooves. The early record players were equipped with a horn-shaped speaker of sorts. That’s…

Keep Calm and Strum On on Wooden Guitar Pick

See, Keep On and … is a money-maker. Told you!

Keep Calm and (I had fun filling in the blank)

Keep Calm and Go Orange, read the T-shirt on the student walking up the aisle in the Carrier Dome. Now, where have I seen that slogan before? As it turns out, the Syracuse fan’s shirt is just the latest in a parade of variations that have grown from the British pre-World War II slogan Keep…

I think it’s ‘About Time’ you check out the link for my weekly film reviews

On Mondays, my movie reviews run on the syracusenewtimes.com site. This weekend, I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated “About Time.” The Brits have a winner with this romantic comedy. Because the Syracuse site has just undergone an extensive redesign, I thought today would be the right and proper time to share the link. http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/take-time-see-time/ By the…

Promote Your Blog

Promote Your Blog. This kind 20-year-old from Derby, England, offered up his 20,000-plus followers for a reblog. And I took him up on that offer. Thank you, Mr. Fox. I shall consider this a test of the power of reblogging. Have any of you followees/followers gone this route yet?

My list of favorite Christmas songs, ready already

Walking into the Destiny USA entrance yesterday to see “About Time” for my weekly Syracuse New Times blog movie review, I was pretty certain the song greeted me with the line, “It’s Christmas at the mall.” My dear wife Karen assured me it was “it’s Christmas after all.” I am sure that halfway up the…

Neutral, no way. I had to cheer for my alma mater over my hometown team

When it came down to one lineman pushing and another shoving, my loyalty came through Saturday afternoon as dear wife Karen and I sat at the bar at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Destiny USA watching my alma mater and my hometown squad tussle on the football field. The prior game…

Love and loyalty play out on the football field

Tuition checks trump season-ticket checks. Today comes the football game I have been anticipating for more than two calendar years. Ever since it was revealed in September 2011 that Syracuse University would be leaving the Big East to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, I have metaphorically and mentally drawn a big, red circle around the…

Syracuse awakens to a blanket of snow on the morning Santa will arrive at the mall

‘Tis the season in Syracuse, N.Y. I opened my eyes this morning to our first snow, bright white on a gray day. It’s sticking stubbornly on the lawn, not melting away a bit, just two days after I played golf while wearing shorts. Somebody up there knows something. Santa Claus is coming to town today,…

On Nov. 6, it was golf weather in Syracuse

My last wish for golf season 2013 was granted Tuesday. I got to play one more round of golf in Syracuse, N.Y., before the cold and snow settle in for good. The day broke with the weather forecasters promising temperatures in the 60s, with sun until sometime in the afternoon. I sent the text messages…