The Crunch goes to the dogs for a night

I saw two drop-the-gloves fights by men on the ice but no pull-the-leash fights by dogs in the stands. Even though the Syracuse Crunch lost 2-0 to the Rochester Americans Saturday night in an American Hockey League game at the Onondaga County War Memorial, Dog Night was a smashing success. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle…

Syracuse underground parking.

Photo 101: Where are you, pop of color?

Cheri sent out instructions about color this first day of week three in Photo 101. She wanted us to find images that popped. She wanted us to study the angles. She wanted us to consider the lighting. I drove downtown from the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, running other errands but…

Photo 101: A State Street runs through Syracuse

Assignment No. 2 in Photo 101 is titled Street. It’s a challenge to our perspective. My Tuesday life took me from my dear wife Karen and I’s Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood to a half-business, half-pleasure trip that ended on State Street, a busy thoroughfare in downtown Syracuse. After I’d filled…

A good and Crunchy season

We had fun watching them from high above in the Carrier Dome in November. We had more fun from behind the goal in the Onondaga County War Memorial in December. On this Wednesday in January, I write about the successes of Syracuse Crunch for my weekly community blog for Syracuse Public Media site waer.com. You…