For what he approximates is a dozen years, Dave Smith has been playing kickball with his daughter. “It kind of takes me back to my childhood,” Smith said. In recent years his work as a p

Matt Simms walked off the rookie bus at SUNY Cortland, luggage in tow, and looked up at the media spectacle that had nothing to do with him. The first-year quarterback waited in line July 26 to of

Big changes have come to the Cultural Resource Council (CNY Arts) of Syracuse and Onondaga County. The arts-funding group has expanded its services to three additional counties, changed its name t

On the back of a Shannon Taylor goal, the U.S. women's Olympic field hockey team upset world No. 2 and defending World Cup champions Argentina on Tuesday, July 31. Taylor's 28th-minute goal

John Grogan, the author and “Me” of the 2005 New York Times bestseller Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, will speak at the Adirondack Museum

Find out which local artists took home this year's prizes.After a precipitation-forced postponement from Saturday, July 28 (Wayne picked that day to finally get it right?), our annual Street Painting competitions got under way the following day. Attrition naturally follows a change in schedule, but, as the photos printed on these pages attest, there was no dropoff in quality.

Special thanks go to the Downtown Committee’s Laurie Reed and Chuck McFadden, who helped clean the sidewalks of Montgomery Street and further barricaded the streets so our artists could be safe while they did their thing.

Friday, July 27, unfolded as an ideal summer night in Syracuse. Music of many types—jazz, rhythm and blues, swing, roots rock, salsa and blues—filled the air of and between Clinton and Hanover squares as the Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival and Stage of Nations Blue Rain Ecofest celebrated their opening nights. 

Go ahead. We dare you. Try to find someone who has a bad thing to say about former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin.

With more than 3.2 million current members and 59 million alumnae in the United States alone, Girl Scouts continues to shape the ambitions and confidence of young girls striving to grow into the leaders of tomorrow

On Sunday night July 29, Shannon Taylor will run onto Olympic turf at London’s Field Hockey Centre.