The perfect schedule for Duke game planning

By Aine Hunt humor columnist

If you’re anything like me, you like to plan everything down to the last second. Planners get a bad rep, but we’re the reason your group of friends makes it out of the pregame. We make sure you avoid going to a busy restaurant without a reservation and let’s be honest, we don’t get the credit we deserve. I’ve planned birthday parties, baby showers and a couple of weddings, but now I’m ready to plan the biggest boss of them all — the Duke vs. Syracuse basketball game.

Anyone who goes here knows that the Duke game takes a full day to really complete. It’s not like most game days, where you wake up, roll out of bed and put on a shirt that’s sort of orangey — could be red now that you’re looking at it in the light. The Duke game is the real deal, ladies and gentlemen. That’s why I’ve planned out the ideal

Duke game day schedule to a T, which you and all your lame friends should follow.

6 a.m.

Yup, that’s no typo. We’re not playing around here. I’m having you wake up at 6 a.m. for the 7 a.m. sunrise. Why, you ask? What color is the sunrise?

Orange. Start your day with an orange sky to remind yourself what color the best basketball team in the U.S. wears.

If you wake up past 7 a.m., what color is the sky going to be? That’s right, genius! Blue. And what color does the worst basketball team in the U.S. (and probably the world) wear? Duke Royal Blue.

8 a.m.

Once 8 a.m. hits, you’re gonna want to start chugging. Water, that is. It’s very physically exhausting watching 10 tall men run up and down a polished wood floor for two hours. I’m sure they’re tired, but you — you’re exhausted. That’s why it’s essential for you to hydrate at the start of the day. Whatever liquids you can find in your kitchen will do: water, orange juice, vod—

10 a.m.

Start rallying the troops. Call everyone you know and give ‘em a nice early morning wake-up call.

The game may start at 6 p.m., but the festivities start now!

You may be thinking (like the big dumbie you are), “When’s

Funk ‘n Waffles

Funk ‘n Waffles will be hosting the fusion band Lush Honey this Friday evening. The four-piece band hailing out of western Massachusetts is known for its neo soul and rock style, and is led by lead singer Jennifer Myers. Tickets for the show can be bought on Funk n’ Waffles’ website, and attendees must be 18 years old or older.

WHEN: Friday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 7 p.m.

PRICE: $13.07

Westcott Theater

Take it back to the ‘70s this weekend with Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso - The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience. Performing at The Westcott with local indie rock opener Elephant Back, Zoso strives to capture both the music and the experience of Led Zeppelin shows, something that has landed them on the stage at festivals like Bonnaroo.

WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m.

PRICE: $43.75

The Lost Horizon

Rock band Studio89 will be bringing the sounds of the SU house show scene to the city of Syracuse at the Lost Horizon this weekend. Joining the four-piece rock band will be Alocasia, Saint Luke and Pelarded, all local bands. Tickets can be bought on The Lost Horizon’s website, and ticket holders under the age of 16 need to attend with a guardian.

WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m.

PRICE: $17.45 breakfast? I’m hungry!” No breakfast! You need to save your appetite for those delicious and nutritious (not by any doctor’s standards) Dome Dogs. I usually scarf down five or six dogs before the game starts. Then, if I’m still hungry, which I usually am, I’m ordering three dome-chos. And no, I’m not sharing with you.

12 p.m.

Now that you’re hydrated and hungry, it’s time to hit the streets. Now that everyone is finally awake, grab your rowdiest, most disorderly group of friends and get ready to cause a scene. The bars think your ID is fake? Call the cops on them. A group of frat dudes won’t let you into their darty? Fake a seizure. The world is your oyster and the Duke game is your pearl.

2 p.m.

Lay on the ground. God, you’ve been up for a while, and the ground is starting to look especially cozy. No one would notice if you just layed down for a couple of seconds, right? Right.

10 p.m.

Wake up alone on the ground in a pile of red solo cups and discarded orange foam fingers. You can’t find your wallet, keys or phone and there are 12 smudged tally marks on your forearm. You missed the game, but boy did you have a time! Or did you? You can’t remember, you hydrated too hard. ahunt04@syr.edu

Hendricks Chapel

As a part of Hendricks Chapel’s “Music and Message” series, Incantare will be playing a concert covering the diaspora of early modern European Jewish composers and how they impacted later generations. The performance will also include a performance from the Hendricks Chapel Choir.

WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 19 at 4 p.m.

PRICE: Free the door because we want everybody to come inside and have a great time,” said Dylan Fox, co-owner of Redgate.

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Fox said venue hosts and band members will often visit each other’s shows for fun, but also to observe and build off their ideas. Stehle said they’ll also share technical equipment and help out with staffing shortages.

“It’s all love, we don’t want to be competing,” Fox said. “In the scenes that we find ourselves in today, we’re all learning from each other.”

Sausville says that music venues attract crowds of people that are friendly, interesting and come from many different backgrounds. He loves being able to meet people from every corner of the country and further.

“I’ve been able to make good connections with not just the people that are organizing the events, but also the people that are attending the events,” Sausville said.

In the past year, three times as many guests have been attending The Harrington, Stehle said, something he attributes to the vendors.

Before the Pits became its primary vendor, The Harrington used extra space in its house to sell merchandise from the bands to her, as she did not expect to even be on the list.

Chen was born in Buffalo, as her parents were studying for doctorates in the city at the time. She was then raised in Taiwan, where she stayed until she returned to New York to receive her masters and doctorate at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.

“My life has been associated with central New York because it was where I was born, where I studied my grad school, and where I got my first teaching job,” Chen said “It is rooted now in my life.”

Chen said she hadn’t always thought about pursuing a career in teaching until a classmate of hers in Taiwan told her she had a “natural” ability for it. At the time, she was working to set up a jazz club at her alma mater, the National Taiwan Normal University.

Back in Taiwan, Chen said there wasn’t a lot of jazz education available, but she was still eager to teach herself by buying the materials, like a piano, herself. After getting more involved in various camps, private institutions and some performing activities, Chen said she started to become more determined to pursue a career of becoming a musician. Eventually, that turned to teaching, though that wasn’t always her main intention.

“I wasn’t thinking about teaching exactly, but the need to pass the knowledge of jazz to the next generation kind of pushed me into the career of teaching right now,” Chen said.

Chen started sharing her knowledge of music as a teaching assistant at Eastman, teaching functional jazz piano. After getting her doctorate in jazz piano performance, Chen landed her position at SU, where she’s been able to share her love for jazz even more.

“She is deeply passionate about jazz and providing students with endless opportunities for growth. I have learned so much from her and she’s constantly showing me more and more reasons to love jazz,” said Abbie Wood, a sophomore organ performance major.

As a professor, Chen likes to focus on letting her students express themselves, adding that improvisation is a way to express oneself. She never wants to kill the ideas her students have in mind.

Hannah Scarborough, a masters student of music composition, said she has taken two different classes with Chen, and noted how Chen genuinely wants her students to enjoy the material, and works to make that happen.

“Her energy is contagious and I love going that were playing. Will Harrington, the venue’s co-founder, said its biggest goal is to make use of the house as well as it can.

“If it’s just an empty space you’re just generally going to have people milling around in their clumped up friend groups,” Harrington said. “But once you have some sort of shared medium that you can interact with, I think it allows people to talk to each other.”

The economy of house shows extends further than the relationship between vendors and hosts to also include the bands and collaborators that are hired for the event, Stehle said. The venues often hire people outside of the business to design posters and photograph the night.

Sausville said he knows almost every band and band member and that they often perform with the clothes he sells. While he may never be on stage, Sausville loves how Pits Vintage has immersed him with the Syracuse music scene.

For Fox, Redgate is a place where anybody can come and have a good time, regardless of the club, organization or college that they are a part of. All the owners of Redgate want is to make the music experience the best that it can possibly be.

“Every single person that puts on these shows loves music, that’s really where it stems from,” Fox said. “The economy runs it, but it’s really for the love of music.” cmroshu@syr.edu from page 1 viding vendors an outlet to sell their products and give the consistent customers a place to find fresh produce, Vitale said. But bad winter weather still makes sales fall, said Dale Haas, another vendor at the market. Willis is the third generation of his family to sell at the market. Alongside other farmers, Willis said he wished more people of the Syracuse community were aware of the fact that the market is open year-round.

To attract business, the market broadcasts the produce that will be on sale later that day on News Channel 3 every Saturday morning, and creates monthly newsletters to highlight vendors and give recipe inspiration for seasonal foods, Vitale said.

“One new thing that we’ve done the past couple years is starting to highlight our vendors and provide our vendors opportunities to educate the community about what they do and how they do it,” Vitale said. “I think community education, especially when it comes to agriculture in farmers markets, is really important, because I think it’s just so important to know and understand where your food is coming from.”

Another goal of these advertisements is to show the community that fresh fruits and vegetables are still available despite the weather, Vitale said. Some farmers, like Haas, keep some of their produce in cellars to keep them fresh, while others use hydroponics so vegetables can grow in a greenhouse environment.

Amelia Walisuk, the owner of Amelia’s Avocado Salsa, sources her ingredients from local businesses that use some of these techniques. She, like Vitale, hopes that people will start to understand that you can eat clean produce during winter.

But some vendors, like Bob Turner, are less hopeful. Turner said the outreach isn’t helping grow the market’s crowds.

“[The market is] charging more and more (for vendor spots) and without any improvements in the market, which has been a shame,” Turner said. “But what can you do?

At least it’s an outlet.”

The market operates on a budget of $2 million a year from their own revenue with to her class because I always leave with lifted spirits,” Scarborough said. “Dr. Chen always gives high fives and hugs at the beginning and end of class and she makes everyone in her class feel welcome, included and important.”

Outside the classroom, Chen has also been able to co-direct and teach the Orange Juice Jazz combo. Chen said her role allows her to teach advanced musicians and assign them with challenging charts, or songs.

Aside from her work on campus, Chen has also found success in her own work.

“Whispering to God” was nominated for Best Jazz Tune category of the 2022 Golden Indie Music Awards in Taiwan.

Chen described the album as an international cooperation, as recordings for the album were done in Rochester while production aspects happened in Taiwan. The final product: a comforting, healing piece that she worked on during the early pandemic period.

“It’s healing jazz music - I believe jazz does have that power, make beautiful music, not just powerful but healing too,” Chen said.

Chen said she’d like to see the small jazz circle of Syracuse become more vibrant. With fewer and fewer people appreciating jazz, Chen said she’s eager to join in on any jam sessions or events she comes across.

For now, Chen is enjoying her time as a professor and is eager to continue showing her students the ways in which music represents her. She said when she can’t express things orally, music helps her illustrate what comes from her heart.

“Music can be really flexible so it represents who you are, and it shapes my individual characteristics and my personality,” Chen said. “To me music is the way I am. And the way I speak, the way I communicate.” ehkelley@syr.edu no public funding, Vitale said. Other farmers markets a fourth of the size will work with the same budget, she said. As a result, the market’s three-person maintenance team struggles to keep its original 1930s infrastructure intact during the winter, she said.

“We have just a couple guys on staff and whenever it snows they’re here around the clock cleaning the facility,” Vitale said. “So, they have to get through the winter because it’s really busy for them.”

But Vitale said in an area like Syracuse, where food insecurity is very high and there are food deserts right near the market, the ability to go to a farmers market is fundamental. Customers are able to use their EBT and debit credit tokens at the market, and can use the national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that allows people living in poverty to have a monthly budget for nutritional food, Vitale said.

“The fact that we can [provide food] is just huge for the community because it provides food that’s not only affordable but affordable if you’re looking to use SNAP benefits, and it’s here and it’s available and it’s so close to these vast food deserts,” Vitale said.

The proximity to these food deserts gives vendors the opportunity to touch base with their customers and understand their perspective on the issue, Vitale said. With this, Walisuk said she is able to interact with her customers closely and think more about how to sell her products during the summer.

“The market is more than just the market to [farmers], it’s almost home,” Vitale said. “That’s why their customers are not just people that come and buy produce from them, it’s somebody that they’ve known and gotten to know.” rlboehm@syr.edu