RAISING THE BARBECUE

Some pit-stops to check this summer

Some 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.

Shock Around the Jock

Members of Howard Stern's radio goon squad bring their raunchy shticks to Eastwood's Palace Theatre

Shuli 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.

Shakes It Up

Hamlet Cha Cha Cha kids the Bard in Central New York Playhouse’s musical spoof

As 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.

NEWS & BLUES

A 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.