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Wednesday, May 22 2013
RAISING THE BARBECUE
Some pit-stops to check this summer
by Margaret McCormickSome pit-stops to check this summer by Margaret McComick The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que looms large over Syracuse. It perfumes the air with the enticing aroma of slow-cooked meat, fills it with the sound of soulful blues—and the thunder of Harley-Davidsons—and brings busloads of visitors downtown.
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Apps & Downs
A look at the good and bad of new tech
by Maria WelychSmartphone sales have been rising for 10 years. In the first quarter of this year, for the first time, more smartphones were sold than so-called feature phones (dumb phones), according to International Data Corp.
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Shock Around the Jock
Members of Howard Stern's radio goon squad bring their raunchy shticks to Eastwood's Palace Theatre
by Jessica NovakShuli Egar is more serious than expected on the phone, but that doesn't mean his sense of humor is absent - he's even funnier when the anecdotes nonchalantly slide into the conversation.
Wednesday, May 22 2013
A Homer Run
A cast of one inhabits multiple roles for Syracuse Stage’s An Iliad
by James MacKillop
For several hundred years, the sprawling stories of western culture’s oldest epic, Homer’s The Iliad, were recited and acted out before they were written down. Even when seen on the page, certain pages seem to cry out to be spoken:stark verbal encounters and the hair-raising viciousness of battle.
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Shakes It Up
Hamlet Cha Cha Cha kids the Bard in Central New York Playhouse’s musical spoof
by James MacKillopAs you can tell from the title, Hamlet Cha Cha Cha is not a tragedy about a melancholy Danish prince who can’t make up his mind. Strange to say, this Hamlet (Peter Dowling), sometimes called “Hammy,” speaks quite a few of the lines from Shakespeare. Like, “O! that this too solid flesh would melt,” only here it becomes a gag line.
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Where Fantasy Meets Reality
Photo exhibit at Tech Garden features the surreal
by Tom MagnarelliAbandoned prisons, biblical battles on Interstate 481 and infrared orange groves are among the pictures that line the hallways of The Tech Garden on Harrison Street in downtown Syracuse. They are a part of the surreal and haunting exhibition of four Syracuse-based photographers called Dreamt Realities, on display 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Friday, May 24. It is the second exhibition organized by the curator of The Gallery at the Tech Garden, Maria Rizzo.
Wednesday, May 22 2013
NEWS & BLUES
by Roland SweetA woman was kneeling in prayer on the kitchen floor of her Seattle home when she felt someone grab her hair from behind. She later told police she thought it was her husband playing a joke on her, but when she turned around, she saw an unknown man. According to the police report, she yelled out, “Lord help me,” whereupon the intruder fell back, hitting his head on the refrigerator. The man then stumbled out of the house, taking only a $20 bill that had been sitting on the table, and drove off in a white Cadillac.
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Science Giveth, and Science Taketh Away
Eternal life might not work out if breathing is still required
by Ed Griffin-NolanTo the graduates of 2013: Have a great life. You are exiting the academy and venturing out into the world at the collision point of two world altering events—the first successful cloning of a human embryo and the news that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached just shy of 400 parts per million.
