It could have been just another story of a large
inner-city church closing down. The congregation aged, the endowment
shrunk, the heating bills became unbearable. It’s a sad tale we’ve...
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Wednesday, December 26,2012
Cover Story
Cover Story
Leap of Faith
Isaiah’s Table forms out of the remnants of First Presbyterian Church, and redefines the meaning of urban ministry
Wednesday, December 19,2012
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SANITY FAIR
End Game
Nothing will matter after the Dec. 21 apocalypse turns the world into zombieland
This is the last column of mine that you will ever read in the Syracuse New Times. (Please hold your applause.) This is, we are sad to say, the last edition of the Syracuse New Times.
It’s not
Wednesday, December 12,2012
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SANITY FAIR
Unfinished Business
It’s still not clear why Syracuse University didn’t suspend Bernie Fine in 2005, when allegations against him were first raised
It was time for a road trip. Fireworks stores. The enormous cross hinting that the savior is Paul Bunyan.
It was worth every minute of the 16-hour car ride to
Missouri just to watch that last-minut
Wednesday, December 5,2012
WHAT'S SHAKIN'
WHAT'S SHAKIN'
Sandy Relief Surges
A guy
walks into a bar, sits down and starts his tale of woe. So begins the
old joke, with a thousand different endings. But this was no joke, and
it wasn’t just one bar. When Jean Albanese
Wednesday, December 5,2012
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SANITY FAIR
The XXX Files
Local media’s hang-up with sex surfaces in reportage concerning District Attorney Mark Suben’s long-ago porn career
We will see how long it is possible to go
without making a pun while speaking of the trials and tribulations of
one Mark Suben, the recently re-elected district attorney for Cortland
County. Aft
Wednesday, November 28,2012
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SANITY FAIR
Come Together
Help is on the way this Sunday during Syracuse Sandy Relief Day
Sometimes the people of this town just blow you away. Maybe
that’s not the best phrase to use when talking hurricane, but even
hurricane isn’t the right phrase to use when talking about
Tuesday, November 20,2012
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A Lot of Fuss
Habitat for Humanity abandons its plans to build a ranch-style domicile along West Onondaga Street
I guess
there won’t be a meeting of the minds on West Onondaga Street. The
much-beloved housing organization, Habitat for Humanity (which two years
ago honored Syracuse New Times publisher
Wednesday, November 14,2012
MUSIC
MUSIC
IDLE CHATTER
Sandy Saddens Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s current tour has been all about ghosts. The title song of Wrecking Ball
(Columbia) refers to the demolition of the old Giant
Wednesday, November 14,2012
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SANITY FAIR
We’re Getting Warmer
If Hurricane Sandy teaches us anything, it’s that climate change is real
Meteorologists have to be right only some of the time.
Pundits and commentators never have to be right. The day after Election
Day, Newt Gingrich, two days from his confident prediction of a Mitt
Wednesday, November 7,2012
WHAT'S SHAKIN'
WHAT'S SHAKIN'
Storm Stories
Tales in the aftermath of Sandy, straight from residents of Staten Island
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Oct. 29 maelstrom
that miraculously bypassed Central New York, communities in the New
York City area, including...
