“I didn’t set out to collect cookbooks,” Green answers when asked how she accumulated so many books, “I set out to learn about cooking. In the course of that, I was so curious that I kept buying cookbooks to try this, that or the other thing, or cook like Julia {Child}.

Bob Gates is a people person. He needs to be in order to have been so successful taking photos of Syracusans standing at downtown’s Common Center, the corner of Fayette and South Salina streets. While that’s been commonly the domain of bus riders and the main transfer point for Centro, not everyone there is on, ahem, official transit business.

The most urgent issue I faced on 9- 11 was making sure the paper got out the door by 5 p.m. That the first plane hit just before 9 a.m. made an eight-hour work day even more difficult in an industry dictated by deadlines, and our normal production day of Tuesday worsened quickly.

The Black Jack Burger starts with a half-pound all-steak burger seasoned with blackened spices, topped with pepperjack cheese, salsa kicked up (but in a pleasant way) with Thai sirachi sauce and sour cream, garnished with sliced scallions and served on a hard roll with lettuce and tomato and red onion slices; fries and a pickle come on the side.

Stone was available for an interview via email only, not our favorite way to operate, but it’ll have to do.

Imagine, just imagine, vehicles and bicycles coexisting on roadways as people make their way to work, to the store, to wherever. Sure it sounds like Montreal, or Copenhagen, but it’s also a vision many in Syracuse have harbored for years. And finally, after frustrating stops and starts, movement in a bike-friendly direction seems to be taking place.

All these photographs prove once again the adage that the camera doesn’t lie. While the photographer can mess with aperture and focus and light to alter an image into something nearly abstract, the image remains grounded in reality. In the case of people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, reality can often sting.

Three weeks ago we warned you that the emerald ash borer is on its way, and there is nothing to stop it (see the July 13 Syracuse New Times cover story “Green Monster”).

Any special exhibition brings with it special events, and Wedded Perfection is no exception. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute presents lectures, guest speakers, guided tours and a film series to underscore the main attraction. Among them:.