Patriots Day strikes the right blow for heroes rising from the terror

The heroes rose immediately from amid the victims that horrible sunny April morning at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and Patriots Day does one hell of a job reminding us all about how high they had to climb from that gut punch. Director and co-writer Peter Berg brings us back to that tragic…

We’ll go there with the shampoo bottles

We completed a bathroom project at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. And I’m so glad we didn’t have to drill into the tile inside the tub/shower enclosure to do it. When our dear friends Theresa and David gifted us with a card from the new At Home store in Syracuse mega…

Good promo for the home squad

Good promo space for the Syracuse Crunch at Destiny USA, I figure. The downtown AHL hockey squad and the mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex can root for each other to do well. The pro team is having a good season, by the way. My dear wife Karen and I must get to a game,…

We all won because these Hidden Figures reached for the stars

The nation was full of hope and fears in so many ways back in 1961 when these folks at NASA were busting butt to keep up with the Russians, a President on small screens seen by huge groups voicing dreams and concerns as fragmented groups wondered if they could come together to accomplish this greater…

The Cowboy joint opens at last in Destiny USA

It seems like forever since Toby Keith’s place closed its doors at Destiny USA and other Cowboy joint hung a shingle with the promise to bring some yee-hah back to the pahdnahs of Syracuse. In fact, it was sway back in February of 2016 when I wrote and posted photos about the pending new place…

Happy New Year, and may things look up in 2017

The Christmas tree at the very center of Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA caught my eye on the one day I rushed around to complete my shopping for my dear wife Karen. I was hit hard by the angle above, and knew I’d hold onto it for the first day of…

Gosling, Stone sing, dance their way into a faraway La La Land

Director and writer Damien Chazelle wastes not one moment to let everybody know La La Land is going to bring everybody back to the days when Hollywood musicals were big, bold and bright. The first five or so of his 128 minutes of this beautifully shot and choreographed picture are spent on an L.A. Freeway,…

The type of Office Christmas Party you either run to or from is back on the big screen

Directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck bank on the well-worn reputation of the office Christmas party to drive home the romp and camp in this holiday comedy they’ve fashioned from a story and script turned out by six (!) writers. You know. There are those who will go overboard when the usual restrictions of the…

The elusive Warren Beatty applies his rules to recluse Howard Hughes

No doubt he’s an odd duck, but wildly intelligent. That much I was certain of even before my dear wife Karen and I took in the Black Friday 6:50 p.m. showing of Rules Don’t Apply in the Regal Cinemas’ theater at Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. When I left after the…