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Reviews of I Am Fool and The Goonies

Sophistafunk

On a Tour Across the Universe

After all, it was a Sunday show on a bitter cold night in January in Moscow, Idaho. As soon as the 1995 baby blue GMC conversion van the band calls Pat Sajak (the first van was named Vanna White) pulled up behind the snow-covered venue, an older, clearly intoxicated brunette started banging on the window.

Party Animals

Skip Murphy and the Merry Pranksters ride again at the Westcott Community Center

Skip Murphy, a newly inducted Syracuse Area Music Award (Sammy) Hall of Famer, has been active in the Salt City music scene since the early 1970s. He's played harmonica with a wide variety of groups, emceed events, worked behind the scenes and written programs.

Socci’s Spirit

No End in Sight

The Mike Estep Band celebrates 15 years by still going stro

The Fleck Effect

Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio will bring the banjo back to the Westcott

There are plenty of musicians in the world that make cool instruments even cooler. Just think of all the sexy, idolized guitarists, vocalists and even drummers and bassists out there (I’m kidding, rhythm section. Relax).

An All-American JAZZ FEST

The music festival is back to three days, making Syracuse a stay-cation destination over Fourth of July weekend

Frank Malfitano, the founder and producer of the Syracuse M&T Jazz Fest, always manages to keep his lineups unpredictable.

Still Bleeding Orange

Garland Jeffreys is bubbling with excitement to revisit his alma mater and perform at the Palace Theatre

Garland Jeffreys is a New Yorker through and through - to the point that he states it within the first 30 seconds of an interview. (The Brooklyn accent gives it away, too.) But Jeffreys' New York City roots go further upstate than the borough he lives in.

Doobie Bros., Taylor Dayne, Grandmothers of Invention Headline 2013 Jazz Fest

July 4 weekend will be red, white and cool

Motivated by Mozart

Four organizations combine to celebrate Syracuse Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro

The word of the day is “collaboration,” when it comes to the first-ever Central New York Mozart Festival happening throughout this month.