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Syracuse Stage’s To Kill a Mockingbird reigns supreme in wake of Harper Lee’s passing

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SANITY FAIR

By Ed Griffin-Nolan

FAIR THEE WELL

Walt Shepperd, who bedeviled more editors than any other writer in his many years writing for the Syracuse New Times, had a ritual he enacted when breaking in a new boss. He would take him or her aside and set the record straight: “I don’t write for you. I don’t write for him (pointing his thumb toward the publisher’s office). I write for The New Times. “ Those defiant words have served me well in the dozen or so years I have been privileged to wear the title Walt carried for years: senior writer at the Syracuse New Times. I joined the paper in 2004 after a stint as a parenting columnist and storyteller for Family Times, after challenging Molly English, then-New Times editor, to take a more activist stance against George Bush’s insane Iraq war. Molly turned the challenge back on me, and the (mostly) weekly column we call Sanity Fair was born. Over the years I’ve had an odd role here, conducting both independent reporting as well as writing opinion pieces. It’s been a good run. In the years I’ve worked for The New Times we’ve been through three editors, two publishers and a shrinking page count. We’ve had some great times. I loved the opportunity to write stories about strip clubs failing to pay sales taxes on lap dances, and the chance to memorialize local heroes like Frank Woolever and Jerry Berrigan (quite a stretch, I know). Getting arrested with Mike Davis as we reported on two young men Dumpster diving to feed the homeless. Teaming up with Larry Dietrich to break stories such as bomb trains coming through the county, the Turkish connection involving local charter schools and social service agencies hiring sex offenders. We did all of this with integrity and very little money. We could not have done it without you, our caring, loyal readers. When I got here there were three writers and three editors working full time. (I never did this as a full-time gig.) Across town at The Post Standard, dozens, then hundreds of reporters and writers were being let go. The two daily papers became one, then cut back to a thrice-weekly schedule. Now our crosstown brethren find themselves morphing again into an upstate New York digital web presence. The notion of what is a hometown daily is gone. The people who run Syracuse. com don’t answer to Syracuse; they

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answer to a wealthy family in New Jersey. The New Times is the only true hometown paper you’ve got. So why leave now? The decline in serious journalism in this town and all over the country is a tragedy. I don’t care if you’re a Trump or a Mahoney or a Driscoll, a Cuomo or a Congel — people who wield power should have to face scrutiny and criticism in a democracy. And to a large extent, they escape that scrutiny as the news media struggles to survive. We need more, not fewer, eyes on those who wield power, and sadly, as big money washes over politics, it gets drained from the enterprise of journalism. No one has yet figured out how to properly fund investigative journalism in the digital era, and we are no exception. News outlets are like the ever-awkward adolescent, suffering their pimpled metamorphoses in a very public manner. In a recent issue an advertiser was quoted in a story. In my mind it created the appear-

ance of impropriety. My colleagues took a different view, and so we part ways. Those who plead that the paper has to survive somehow have their own standards to answer to. Like Walt, I answer to the readers. I hope you still come back each week to read Jessica Novak on music and Jim MacKillop’s theater reviews, Jeff Kramer’s wicked humorous take on life, Bill DeLapp’s unrivalled movie reviews, and those many quirky and insightful stories that make the Syracuse New Times what it is. As my stint as senior writer and columnist for The New Times comes to an end, I wish the paper, and the reading public, better times ahead. You can still find me on Facebook, or drop me a line at massage@dreamscape. com. And to Walt, always my senior as a writer, I thank you for your example. I don’t write for the editor, I don’t write for the publisher, and as of today, I don’t write for The New Times. SNT

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TOPIC: STAGE

To Kill a Mockingbird continues Thursday, March 3, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 5, 3 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m.; and WednesTAKE day, March 9, 3 p.m.; at Syracuse Stage, 820 E. Genesee St. The show runs through March 26. Call 443-3275 for details.

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ALABAMA SLAMMER AT SYRACUSE STAGE

Audiences enter a production of To Kill a Mockingbird thinking, rightly or wrongly, that they know all its secrets. Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been read so frequently and studied so thoroughly that there’s hardly an adult American who does not, for example, know the identity of Boo Radley. Popular admiration for the noble defense lawyer Atticus Finch is so great that countless families have named their sons for him. At least until last year. When we enter Syracuse Stage’s production of Christopher Sergel’s adaptation of Mockingbird, we expect to execrate the outrages of our Jim Crow past but feel elevated that one Alabama lawyer rose above the moral muck. Sergel’s 1970 stage version is not the book, although it is clearly influenced by Horton Foote’s Academy Award-winning script for the 1962 Gregory Peck movie adaptation. So we can dismiss last year’s bombshell revelation that Lee’s original draft of the story, Go Set a Watchman, presents a vastly different characterization and tone. Even though, assuredly, it is on everyone’s mind. Atticus Finch’s words are still inspiring. More pertinent is Malcolm Gladwell’s 2009 article in The New Yorker, calling out author Lee’s links to progressive segregationist (not an oxymoron) Alabama Gov. Jim Folsom. He thought an enlightened administration could save separate-but-equal. Gladwell, who is of mixed race, is troubled that blacks rarely get to speak in their own voices in the book, and questions its high place in the hearts of those championing racial justice. Director Timothy Bond scheduled To Kill a Mockingbird last year before the Watchman news broke, and in his curtain speech reaffirmed its high place in his personal pantheon. His casting of several veterans of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, his former artistic home, indicates that he was looking for performers embodying his own vision. This works well with Mark Murphey in the most important role, that of Atticus. Banished is the ponderous Lincolnesque Atticus of Gregory Peck, a much loved performance that landed Peck’s image on

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a commemorative stamp. Bond and Murphey want us to hear the familiar lines anew, as if for the first time. Murphey walks with a lighter tread. The gloss of the title on the taboo against killing the gentle mockingbirds is more effective when it is not preceded by a drum roll. Similarly, Murphey’s Atticus has a refined sense of fatalism in exposing the trumped-up charges against innocent non-rapist Tom (Landon G. Woodson). He is determined that the truth be known even if the jury and the townies will not act on it. He is neither a martyr nor an absurdist. Falsehood will be exposed regardless of what happens to Tom. It’s the best that can be wrested from a hideous outrage. Other casting choices enhance Bond’s vision, which we have noticed over the last seven years allows even the worst of villains a moment of saving grace. Tall John Keabler, with leading-man good looks, greatly humanizes Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor. Later, doubling up as Boo, Keabler has the muscle to carry adult-sized Jem (Matthew Caraccioli) back into the house. Similarly, Liam Craig as the lawman Heck Tate is anything but the enforcer of injustice. Where Bond’s To Kill a Mockingbird fails to make our pulses race is in its use of space. There is too much of it. William Bloodgood’s rough-wood set design effectively evokes the darkness of a country night, but two small balconies at left and right, originally attached to residences, must also serve for Colored-only gallery seating during the trial. Bond hired and costumed 12 local African Americans to sit there and coached them through reactions that we barely see. They are joined by veteran Syracuse Stage player William J. Hall Jr. (The Boys Next Door, Two Trains Running) as Reverend Sykes and even with his enormous presence we barely see him. Even sound designer Michael Keck’s crowd noises are not enough to make up for what’s missing.

Similarly, we don’t get to see the faces of the lying daughter and father team of Mayella (Rachel Towne) and Bob Ewell (John Pribyl) during their exposure. Towne, a recent graduate of the Syracuse University Drama Department, is masterful during Mayella’s testimony: paranoid, snaky but somehow pathetic. As Bob, Pribyl, last seen here as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has a certainly lightness of delivery not in line with a killer in the making. Nonetheless, both expressive players are tucked way over at stage left, almost in the wings, when the accused Tom tells of his pity for Mayella and we learn just how her eye happened to be blackened. Barbra Wengerd’s narrator informs without intruding. Her perfect regional accent, coached by Celia Madeoy, sets the tone, urgency without nostalgia, and never gives away more than she should. Madeoy also appears commandingly as the haughty Mrs. Dubose, remnant of a dozen characters in the book who define the conventional wisdom of the town. As the graceful household servant Calpurnia, Perri Gaffney implies that blacks in the Finch household may speak as equals and are not separated. To Kill a Mockingbird is unusual in that so much of the weight in the first act must be carried by youthful nonprofessionals. Sergel’s adaptation was aimed at school groups and only later was popular with regional theaters. Maybe not professional but experienced. Sera Bullis as Scout had previously played Gavroche in two productions of Les Miserables and looks perfect in overalls. Matthew Caraccioli delivers a nuanced Jem, an otherwise thankless role, and speaks with the sharpest projection of the three young performers. Anthony Cawley’s more restrained but wise Dill may know that he is based on Lee’s childhood pal who grew up to be Truman Capote. To Kill a Mockingbird, producing artistic director Timothy Bond’s second-to-last assignment at Syracuse Stage, is his last word on the subject of race in America. SNT

TOPIC: BOOKS By Seamus Kirst

WHY I AM CROWDFUNDING MY MEMOIR

Late last summer, just before I turned 25, I celebrated the two-year anniversary of my sobriety. I had a blog that I’d posted on once or twice before, but I decided that I wanted to write a reflective piece about why I stopped drinking when I was 22. As I wrote the piece, which did not shy away from intimate details of my nearly decade-long struggle with substance abuse, I felt a wave of apprehension about so completely opening myself up to the Internet. My fear subsided quickly after I posted a link to the blog on my Facebook, and the piece — almost instantly — took off. The post started being shared by people I knew from different parts of the world at different times of my life, and then not long after by people I had never met. Within the week the post had been viewed nearly 20,000 times, and I’d received countless messages and comments from people whom I never expected to reach out. The majority of them told me that they related to parts of my story. They actually thanked me for writing and sharing the piece, a reaction I honestly was not anticipating. The post was republished on Advocate.com, The Scribbler in India and, in Chinese and English, on The News Lens International Edition in Taiwan. Growing up with my dad, former Post-Standard columnist Sean Kirst, I’d always known the power of writing. I’d always toyed with the idea of trying to use my story to help others who might be going through similar struggles. I especially hoped to give insight to coming to terms with my sexuality and accepting — and subsequently treating — my mental illnesses. I started posting more blog entries, which came to loosely resemble the early chapters of my manuscript. As my vision for my book, which I then planned on calling Troubled, came together, I drafted a query letter and began sending it to literary agents. Several agents asked to read the initial draft of my manuscript, which I had not yet completed. As I gave them what I had, I received several “passes.” I

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realized this was not the route I wanted to take to publish my book. I did not want to try and woo an agent who would then, in turn, woo a publishing company who would then, eventually, publish my book. The more research I did, the more I read about the miniscule percentages of sales authors receive after publishers and agents take their cut. I also discovered that with large publishing houses, many starting authors often wind up doing the bulk of the marketing on their own. If I was going to need to do all of this work anyway, I decided I might as well take an alternative route. Thanks to social media and modern technology, I had options. I decided I would “crowdfund” my memoir, which I decided to rename Shitfaced after an agent suggested I choose a “stickier” title. I would hire my own editor to assist me in both manuscript development and copyediting. I am in this creative process right now, and once I am done writing I will self-publish the book and market it myself. Although it is hard to get your book into brick-and-mortar shops through this method, I believe I will be able to generate similar sales through my person-

al website and online marketplaces like BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon. I plan to also publish my book as an e-book. With “crowdfunding,” I did not want people to just give me money and get nothing in return. Instead, I made contributing a means of preordering. I created a list of contribution price points ranging from $10 to $2,000, which had different corresponding rewards. For instance, a person who contributes $25 will receive an e-book edition of my memoir upon publication, and anyone who donates $175 will receive five signed copies. I decided to do my crowdfunding in two stages, using two different websites. For the first stage, I used Kickstarter, a website on which you must create a timeline for your project and a set monetary goal. If you do not reach your financial goal within your window of time, then all of the contributors are refunded and you get nothing. I set my goal for $6,000 and my time frame for 30 days. With the help of my 125 initial backers, I was able to raise $6,896 during the 30 days, which ended Jan. 5. For my second phase — which is taking place now — I am using a Generosity

page by IndieGoGo, a website where you do not have to set a time frame, and you do not to have to reach a specific goal in order to receive funding. This way, hopefully, I will be able to grow my list of contributors — who will also receive my book — over time, as I continue writing. Visit my second fundraising page at generosity.com/fundraising/shitfaced-amemoir. I hired an editor, Alan Rinzler, who will work with me throughout the process. Rinzler, one of the leading developmental editors in the world, has worked with such authors as Toni Morrison, Bob Dylan, Lorraine Hansberry, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. After receiving Rinzler’s initial feedback, I am working on a detailed outline that I will ultimately use to write my final manuscript. All of the contributions will be used to pay for editing and the costs of designing the book, and marketing my finished product. While the costs for the project will exceed $10,000, I believe in the end — if I want the book to compete with those being put out by major publishers — I must create the same quality of work, both with content and physical presentation. I will also donate a percentage of book sales to two nonprofits that work with homeless youth: Stand Up for Kids and Safe Horizon (particularly their Streetwork Project: Youth Homelessness Program). On Feb. 1, I began leasing an apartment in Brooklyn that will serve as my headquarters while I work on the book and also work as a contributing writer for Forbes.com and Vice.com. I hope the book provides a platform that allows me to be a voice in the field of recovery, especially as someone who advocates for the LGBT community, as well as those who suffer, often in silence, with mental illness. SNT syracusenewtimes.com | 3.2.16 - 3.8.16

TOPIC: FOOD

Margaret McCormick is a freelance writer and editor in Syracuse. She blogs about food at eatfirst.typepad.com. Follow her on TAKE Twitter, connect on Facebook or email her at mmccormicksnt@gmail.com.

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MEAL DEALS AND STEALS

ining Weeks, the popular three-courses-for-$25 restaurant promotion in downtown Syracuse, is over for another year. But there are plenty of dining (and wine) deals to be had at Central New York restaurants on a regular basis — and not just downtown, exclusively. Here are 10 to keep in mind:

Modern Malt (325 S. Clinton St.; eatdrinkmalt.com). What’s not to like about a $5 burger? Classic burgers, with American cheese, lettuce, onion and tomato on a brioche bun, are $5 all day on Mondays with the purchase of any beverage. Tuesdays are “Taco Tuesday’’ with taco offerings ($7) that change each week. Sakana-Ya (215 Walton St.; 475-0117, syracusesushi.com). Craving sushi? Satisfy your yearning and save money on half-price Mondays and all-you-can-eat sushi Wednesdays at this conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Armory Square. Laci’s Tapas Bar (304 Hawley Ave.; 2195903, lacistapasbar.com). Trim your tab at Laci’s with half-price bottles of wine on Tuesday 3.2.16 - 3.8.16 | syracusenewtimes.com

nights and two-for-one glasses of sangria on Thursday nights. The menu offers something for all tastes, including soups, salads and small plates designed for sharing. Papa Gallo Mexican Restaurant (205 W. Genesee St., Fayetteville; 632-4789, papagallo restaurant.com). Mix $5 house mrgaritas plus 25 percent off appetizers and you get a wallet-pleasing happy hour every day from 4 to 6:30 p.m. On Mondays, house margaritas are $5 all day. Not that we’re encouraging you to drink. Scotch N Sirloin (3687 Erie Blvd. E., DeWitt; 446-1771, scotchnsirloin.com). A good steak and a good bottle of wine go hand in hand, but a bottle of wine can add a chunk of change to

your dinner tab. On Mondays and Tuesdays, the Scotch offers 45 wines at a 45 percent discount with dinner service. Take the savings to the bank, or splurge on dessert or an after-dinner drink. Owera Vineyards (5276 E. Lake Road, Cazenovia; 815-4311, oweravineyards.com). “Pair and Share Thursdays” features three small plates paired with three 2.5-ounce pours of wine for $25 per person (plus tax and tip). One plate is paired with the featured wine of the month. For March, the featured wine is Owahgena White, a semi-dry blended white. Small plates will include Owera greens (Chef Robert Potter’s take on Utica greens) paired with Owahgena white; a steak and veggie stacker, paired with semi-dry Riesling; and a chocolate “bomb’’ paired with Teddy’s Red. Sherwood Inn (28 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles; 685-3405, thesherwoodinn.com). The Sherwood has two great dining deals going through March. On “Two-for-One Tuesdays,’’ purchase one lunch or dinner entree and receive the second (of equal or less value) for free. The “$10 Beer and Burger Wednesdays’’ are an opportunity to enjoy your favorite draft beer with your favorite burger. Choose from among five,

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eorge Rossi’s wife was having an affair with another guy, and everybody knew it. What made it extra-ugly was that his scarlet-haired rock-songbird bride was making the scene with another prominent local rocker. So Rossi decided to do something about it.

GEORGE ROSSI

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No, he didn’t buy a nine. Instead of exacting a bloody revenge, he sought resurrection. He recreated himself as a Southern-style caterwauling con mancum-preacher named Little Georgie, the Zombie Boy, and he started a brash new band called the Shuffling Hungarians. “I created a success story out of my imploded marriage,” he says now. Over its seven-year lifespan, Little Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians grew from a kickin’ quintet to a 10-piece rhythm’n’blues revue. They waxed two unforgettable discs of free-wheeling fonk, were featured on playlists at the House of Blues music chain, played dates in Canada and Belgium and won nine Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys). As part of this year’s awards, George Rossi, 55, will be inducted into the Sammys Hall of Fame. Ever since he picked up a James Booker LP at Onondaga Music when he was a teenager, Rossi was enraptured with the music of the Big Easy. In the early 1990s — after honing his piano skills with bands such as Kindergarten, The Works, Jamie Notarthomas, Masters of Reality, the Neverly Brothers and The Bogeymen — Rossi was ready to take the plunge into the wigglin’ Mississippi. He knew he still had things to learn. “I was always learning,” he says. “Still am. If you ain’t learnin,’ you ain’t livin’!” Rossi started learning early. When he was 5 years old, growing up on the east side of Skaneateles Lake, he experienced a rock’n’roll epiphany. “It’s 1965 and I’m playing flashlight tag with the firebugs on East Lake Road,” he recalls. “Then I heard music coming from a garage at the top of the hill.” The kid wandered up to the driveway, which was packed with teens. “I saw the energy and the beautiful girls with their teased hair and bangs,” Rossi remembers. “One of these girls in a miniskirt and patent leather boots, she slips me a beer. And I knew I wanted to be a part of this, to do this for the rest of my life.” The lessons continued at Under the Stone, then Skaneateles’ top nightclub.

The Genesis of Little Georgie

The Stone booked bands every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, so on those nights a prepubescent Rossi would jump out his bedroom window and run to the club where he had a date with another window. “There was a ground-level window at stage left so I could watch cats like Larry Arlotta or Cliff Spencer or Bob Halligan,” he says. “I just had to make sure to get back in bed before I got caught.” The next day he’d clean up the place and observe rehearsals. “That was a very formative experience for me,” he says now. “I saw bands as a business.” After years of jamming on the Onondaga Reservation, studying piano with Phil Klein at Onondaga Community College and playing in bands like South Side Shuffle and The Works, Rossi hooked up with the Neverly Brothers, the pop cover band helmed by former Flashcubes Gary Frenay and Arty Lenin. “My wife was nagging me for money,” Rossi recalls. “I mean I’d always worked. Even as a kid, I worked at my father’s (P&R pasta) factory in Auburn.” Over the years, he bussed tables at Scratch Daniel’s, stocked flowers for Rao’s Florist, managed an Auburn bar named Raffles, hauled video gear for the TV real-estate program Goodbye Bazaar, and roadied for Decker Audio. With his hairdresser-vocalist spouse at his heels, Rossi anticipated more manual labor. “The phone rang the next night, and it was Gary, thank God!” Rossi joined the Neverly Brothers, who enjoyed beaucoup bookings for weddings and private parties where the money is surer and sweeter than any nightclub can pay. “Gary Frenay was my best boss ever,” Rossi says. “I became a real musician with the Neverlys.”

Reality Check

After years of roadwork with Kindergarten, The Works and the Neverlys, hard facts of rock’n’roll life would be drilled into him as a member of the Masters of Reality and The Bogeymen, two bands that featured the extraordinary electric guitar work and the ambitious rock compositions of Syracuse’s Tim Harrington. Rossi had been kicked out of the Masters of Reality just before they got their record deal in the late 1980s with Def American. Then as a member of The Bogeymen, he suffered through bandleader Tim Harrington’s years-long contractual entanglements with record and management companies. Along the way, The Bogeymen played a showcase in front of Arista Records exec Clive Davis at the Wetlands in New York City. Davis passed on the band, but Rossi was watching and learning. In 1991 Delicious Vinyl records released The Bogeymen’s debut disc There Is No Such Thing As.

George Rossi in Shuffling Hungarian mode, circa 1993. Michael Davis photos

“We started working on a follow-up record, rehearsing at Ponto’s tomato-packing plant,” Rossi says. “I had nothing in those days.” His wife was gone, he had no money and often no place to live. He bunked in a spare room in a Lyncourt home owned by one of Harrington’s sisters. “So I devoted myself to making another Bogeyman record.” But he rarely saw eye-to-eye with the former Masters. “Those were dark times. Timmy and Vinnie (Ludovico) were like wolves. They were driving me crazy,” this from a man who has often blogged about his own bipolar diagnosis. “So I steeled myself and just played the hell out of my parts. I recorded all the piano parts for an entire record in like a day and a half!” The sophomore disc was never to be, however. “The plug got pulled by Delicious Vinyl, so the best recorded work I’ve ever done will never see the light of day,” he says.

Despite the personal tensions, Rossi looked at it as a learning experience. “I’m not bitter about The Bogeymen. I’m grateful. The band helped define me as a musician, and later as a bandleader and businessman. I’m so grateful. Tim’s a genius. Tim’s a prick, but he’s a genius. He made me a man.” In fact, Rossi says Tim Harrington deserves to be honored by the Sammys. “Funny thing about this (Hall of Fame) award: I don’t feel like an elder statesman,” Rossi says. “When I was leading the Hungarians, I didn’t feel like I was setting an example. I was too busy. Tim Harrington should be getting this award as far as I’m concerned.” Things were not always rosy with Harrington, who was known to destroy dressing rooms. “But the chance to play with him in the studio,” Rossi acknowledges, “you know you’re going to be part of something bigger than you.”

Twenty-five years ago, while Crescent City rhythms inspired his music, the breakup of Rossi’s marriage inspired his personal transformation. “I mythologized my own life so I was able to say stuff that George Rossi would never say. Little Georgie was part Foghorn Leghorn and part Donald Trump,” Rossi says now. “He could out-drink, outsmoke, out-fuck and out-play ’em all!” As his personality became more incendiary — he once demanded that his Dinosaur Bar-B-Que audience arm themselves with torches and set fire to Mimi’s, the former bakery-restaurant across the street that had prohibited parking for Dino customers — so did the music. It burned hotter than all those voodoo candles that so colorfully decorated the Shuffling Hungarians’ stages. (They were bought in bulk from the Laredo Candle Company of Laredo, Texas, via Rossi’s friend, Jimmy Battaglia, at Nojaim’s Supermarket.) Early covers such as Richard Berry’s “Oh! Oh! Get Out of the Car” and Stan Beaver’s “Rocket In My Pocket” gave way to outrageous originals like “Gutbucket,” “Tear It Down” and the mytho-biographical “The Ballade of Little Georgie,” which tells of the resurrection of a discarded baby transformed into a demonic piano player. While Rossi raved against his demons in both his patter and his performance, he rocked to the rhumba rhythms of Professor Longhair on covers of “Big Chief,” “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” and “Her Mind is Gone.” He reveled in the bold sexuality of Jerry Lee’s “Meat Man” and in The Meters’ uptown anthem, “Hey Pocky Way.” The band paid further homage to the City that Care Forgot. The Hungarians’ version of “Iko Iko” owed more to Sonny Boy Crawford & His Cane Cutters than the Dixie Cups, and their “Rockin’ Pneumonia” sounded more like Huey Smith than Johnny Rivers. The Shuffling Hungarians trace their roots back to a one-nighter in December 1989, downtown at Dailey’s, showcasing comedian Tom Kenny and The Pushballs, a pickup band that Rossi organized. The Pushballs’ baritone saxophonist, Frank Grosso, would remain with Rossi for the better part of a decade with the Hungarian Horns. “At the time Tom (Kenny) called me, I was suicidal,” Rossi remembers. He had been kicked out of the Masters of Reality and struggled as the low man on the totem pole with The Bogeymen. “But Tom knew I was into New Orleans music and I was prepared to really start getting serious about playing piano. So with the Pushballs I became a bandleader, and that NEXT PAGE

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GEORGE ROSSI is where I saw how to make the Shuffling Hungarians happen.”

Zodiac Thriller

Rossi was always learning something, and sometimes that meant learning how to scheme and manipulate. “Tom wanted to do a second Pushballs show at the Zodiac Club,” Rossi remembers. “Well, at the time I loved The Kingsnakes and I was dying to play with (drummer Mark) Tiffault and (bassist Paul) LaRonde. And now, with Tom Kenny, I had something to entice them with.” Widely considered the most effective blues rhythm section in Syracuse, the LaRonde-Tiffault tandem became the engine that both powered and anchored the Shuffling Hungarians, an organic outfit that eventually included a three-piece horn section, backup singers, several screaming guitarists and a Trinidadian conga-thumper to boot. So with LaRonde and Tiffault on board, but with Kenny out of the picture, Rossi made his move. “Tom’s gone back to Hollywood,” he told the musicians. “How about me fronting the band?” Rossi was dating Eileen Heagerty at the time, and she and her brother, Michael, ran the Zodiac Club. So the Pushballs, minus Tom Kenny, started playing every Wednesday there, trying to get spillover business from the summertime Party in the Plaza events at the nearby Federal Building. “I’d never sang lead before,” Rossi confesses. “In fact, I’d never played piano and sang at the same time. I didn’t know how to count a song in. I was awful. The singing was the worst. It was an ignominious start.” The band slogged through four Wednesdays there before throwing in the towel. The project could’ve dissolved then and there, but Rossi kept fueling the fire. “I started studying Longhair, James Booker, Dr. John, really diving in deep,” he says. “I knew I had to rethink this thing, retool it and make it what I want it to be. I thought in terms of designing it as a piece of art, but also as a business, using things I’d learned from all those early-morning car trips talking with Ed Hamell over the seven years when I was in The Works. Ed Hamell was the best teacher I ever had.” Unlike most bands of the day, The Works played all original material. “It was a fully functioning organism with an attached culture,” Rossi remembers. “Every show was an uphill battle, but it was a battle willingly taken on.” That was a model that Rossi would apply to the Shuffling Hungarians a few years later. As part of that attached culture, he created a character, Little Georgie. “It made it easier for me to do a gig

because I didn’t have to be me,” he says. “I was approaching it very theatrically.” Thanks to some backstage lobbying by Big Daddy LaRonde, the Hungarians scored a weekly Hump Day gig at the trendy Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. Rossi changed the name of the group to the Shuffling Hungarians, named after Professor Longhair’s band from 1949. “That name appealed to the five people in Syracuse who knew something about New Orleans music,” he says. “It’s a concept, but nobody got it.” During the band’s two-year stay at the Dino, two terrific musicians — guitarist Pete Heitzman and saxophonist Paulie

Around that time, Rossi offered his band’s business to music agent Dave Rezak. According to Rossi, “He literally laughed me out of his office at the Galleries.” Rossi also declares that when the bandleader offered to record the Hungarians for Greg Spencer’s Blue Wave record label, “Greg said it wasn’t his cup of tea,” Rossi says with a sigh. “I had to prove them wrong.” He had to prove her wrong, too. “Every heroic figure has a tragic flaw, but the town gathers to watch,” Rossi says. “We got tongues wagging, and then we found those people would come to see you play. You’ve got to give them something to talk

Queen Bee Brand’s major recording act in an early 1990s promotional shot.

Cerra — quit the band and were replaced by Tim Harrington and Don Williams, respectively. “During those two years, I never took a dime myself,” Rossi says. “But I was able to pay the band and develop an arc for my character. The band was great, but the character was drawing people.” Little Georgie channeled Louisiana piano-pounder Jerry Lee Lewis, aka “The Killer,” and the mythic Southern bad man Stagger Lee. “My alter-ego was a superman,” Rossi recalls.

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about. I made (my ex-wife) a laughingstock. Eventually she went to Austin.” Rossi certainly has an obsession for marketing. “To be successful in the music racket, part of the marketing equation is that your legend must loom large,” he advises other bandleaders. “Gossip, word of mouth and whisper campaigns are much more effective conduits then traditional advertising platforms. Whether accurate or not, my life story has been writ large on the walls of bathroom stalls.”

Shuffling at Styleen’s

About 1993, the Hungarians began a remarkable residency at Styleen’s Rhythm Palace, in Armory Square. It was another resurrection; Styleen’s was the site of the Zodiac Club at which an early version of the band tanked and nearly sank. The Styleen’s shows were nothing short of magical. Candles flickered at their feet as the various band members sported all manner of hats, coats and shades to dull the sting of the klieg lights. The George-O-Lettes provided hip harmonies and shook their booties along with the swingin’ rhythms. One of Little Georgie’s signature songs was “Gutbucket”: “I get intoxicated . . . my 88s get radiated/ I’m a real gone daddy when I’m puttin’ out that sound/ You can throw them sticks’n’stones/ I’m still gonna feed my gutbucket jones/ It’s the only thing that has never let me down.” With the act firmly in place, Rossi turned his attention to marketing. He and his girlfriend, Eileen “Styleen” Heagerty, spent endless hours addressing and stamping performance calendars. “I was sending out over 20,000 pieces of direct mail on a bimonthly basis,” he recalls. “You try running a band and a record label, crafting the pieces, writing the copy, printing them, peeling off 20,000 self-stick mailing labels, affixing them to the mailers, paying for the bulk mail postage — every two months. I dare you.” The Hungarians quickly grasped the potential of the Internet. A website debuted in 1993; according to Rossi, the group became one of just 250 bands in the world to have a site at that time. In 1996 Rossi formed Queen Bee Brand records, hired Utica producer Bob Acquaviva (who had produced The Bogeymen sessions) and made a 15-track self-titled album. “That was a brave record,” Rossi says now. Although the live act still played a handful of covers like “Hey Pocky Way,” “Low Rider,” and “Let’s Go Get Stoned,” the disc was decidedly original, devised to stoke the legend of Little Georgie. Tracks included Rossi compositions “The Ballade of Little Georgie,” “Gutbucket,” “Working on My Addictions,” “Lie to Me,” “Tear It Down,” plus Harrington’s “Brassy Bessie” and Gary Frenay’s “Y’all Learned to Rock from Me.” The song “You Like It” was inspired by a spat that Rossi witnessed between his wife and her rocker lover, something involving a spiked heel applied by his ex to his rival’s cranium. “Yeah, man, I was dropping hints. There were coded messages all through that thing, verbal, visual, musical messages.” But you don’t need a cryptologist to understand the angst of “Lie to Me”:

“Were you thinkin’ of me baby/ When you were lyin’ next to him?/ Oh baby . . . you said you’d never lie to me.” The year 1996 was a tough one on a personal level. The Heagertys’ older brother, Patrick — the founder of Pastabilities restaurant, located across from Styleen’s on South Franklin Street — died after a long battle with brain cancer. The family tragedy put a strain on Rossi’s personal and business relationship with Eileen, but the band continued its standing-room-only Saturday nights at Styleen’s. By now, the group included Rossi, Paul LaRonde, Mark Tiffault, Frank Grosso, Don William, trumpeter Jeff Stockham, singers Gail Sampson, Jackie Clarke and Angela Washington, and the man from Trinidad, percussionist Irvin Daniel. The second record, Live from Styleen’s Rhythm Palace, Syracuse, NY, was crafted to keep the ball rolling, and to help promote the Salt City music scene. Queen Bee had sold 10,000 copies of the debut disc, Rossi says, and managed to quadruple that number with the Live double-disc. More than two hours of kick-ass music was featured, from a cover of “Come Together” to “Georgie’ Boogie” to “One Heluva Nerve.” A medley of “The Saints Go Marchin’ In” paired with “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” reminded listeners of the band’s musical moorings. “I spent a lot of money for ad campaigns,” Rossi says about the record. The expenditures must have been well directed because House of Blues came calling, and the band earned an invitation to perform in Europe. He proudly points out that the Queen Bee Brand label, which he had created, paid the travel tab for the band to fly across the Atlantic.

Big Easy Bound

Rossi’s tireless self-promotion paid off in an unexpected manner. One Sunday morning, the phone rang: “This is Jerry Wexler,” a voice said. “Yeah, and I’m (record executive) Ahmet Ertegun,” Rossi shot back, assuming one of his musicians was pranking him. But it actually was Jerry Wexler, one of the top artists-and-repertoire (A&R) men in popular music history, the guy who actually coined the term “rhythm and blues.” Wexler had heard the Hungarians’ records and wanted to talk about the band and its plans. “Jerry was about 80 at the time, and I really think he just wanted to talk music,” Rossi says. “He was very up-front, very clear that he couldn’t deliver anything, but — I later found out — he was delivering the whole time.” After returning from the gig in Bruges, Belgium, Rossi took a long look at the Central New York landscape and realized that the hot’n’humid city of New Orleans was calling him. After giving the band a year’s notice, during which time he turned down a deal offered by Alligator Records, Rossi moved to Louisiana in the summer of 1998. “I left a pretty sweet life in Syracuse to start at the bottom of the New Orleans totem pole, completely from scratch at age 38,” he observes on littlegeorgiesblog-a-thon.blogspot.com. “This

was not exactly a pragmatic life choice, but it was one that needed to be made. If I was truly to be a New Orleans-styled musician, then I had to be from New Orleans, and soak it up from the sidewalk as a native, albeit a transplanted one. Otherwise, I would have been just another culture vulture. Dues had to be paid, and shots to the body had to be taken. This was a pretty huge gamble with my life’s path. “I was guided by three little ideas: 1. You’re Only On The Planet Once, So Do Not Be Ruled By Fear; 2. Go Big, Or Go Home; 3. Listen To Your Heart, and Follow It Without Question.” Rossi ended up at the world-famous Pat O’Brien’s, a bar where he’d crank out “Piano Man” eight times a night for drunken Tulane students and closeted racists who wanted to hear “Dixie” all night. Rossi describes his work at O’Brien’s as “whoring,” but during his decade in the city, he also scored gigs and session work with heavy uptown fonksters such as Cyrille Neville, Bo Dollis, James Andrews and the late Allen Toussaint. He made appearances at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival accompanying bluesman Kipori “Baby Wolf” Woods and Cyril Neville and his authentic New Orleans R&B Revue, played organ with Marcia Ball and toured nationally for seven months in 1999 with guitarist Bryan Lee and the Blues Power Band. That same year, trumpeter James Andrews brought George along for a national television appearance on the syndicated talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, telecast from the State Palace Theatre at the corner of Canal and Rampart streets. “Sure it was national TV, but it wasn’t a big deal really,” Rossi remembers. “It was just another gig. Got the call, they’ll pay ya like $50. OK, where? Show up, do our thing and get out of there. I got to meet Kathie Lee (Gifford) and Regis (Philbin). They were very gracious, very appreciative.” Rossi was more impressed by his bandleader than the broadcasters. “Now playing with James Andrews: That was a big deal! I mean his family goes all the way back to the earliest days of jazz. To get the chance to play with people like James, that’s why I moved to New Orleans.”

Waxing with Wexler

After 12 months of sweating and scuffling, Rossi learned the extent of Jerry Wexler’s reach. He was hired in 1999 to co-produce Life is a Carnival, a record showcasing the Mardi Gras Indian band Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias. “The deal involved a ton of money and a cast of thousands,” Rossi recalls. “I mean we had Robbie Robertson, Dr. John, Bruce Hornsby, Rockin’ Dopsie, Marva Wright and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux.” Life is a Carnival was released by Metro Blue Records, a subsidiary of Blue Note Records, affiliated with Capitol and the Universal Music Group. The big-time project was overseen by Metro Blue executive Bruce Lundvall, famous for signing Norah Jones. Rossi co-produced, arranged and played keyboards on the disc. NEXT PAGE

George Rossi, then and now: Top photo, when he was with the Neverly Brothers in 1990; bottom, the pianist at home in February. Michael Davis photos

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GEORGE ROSSI

Shuffling with the Sammys

Rossi’s blossoming big-city musical career. “I was suddenly irrelevant on every platform,” he recalls.

Hungarian Games No More

Over four years in the mid1990s, Little Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians won nine Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys).

1993

Best Blues Group (Hungarians)

1993

Best Blues Instrumentalist (Rossi)

1994

Best Soul or Rhythm and Blues Group (Hungarians)

1994

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumentalist (Rossi)

1996

Best Soul or Rhythm and Blues Group (Hungarians)

1996

Best Local Release (Little Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians, Queen Bee Brand)

1996

Best Rock Instrumentalist (Rossi)

1997

Best Local Release (Hungarians’ Live from Styleen’s Rhythm Palace, Syracuse, NY, Queen Bee Brand)

1997

Producers of the Year: Bob Acquaviva and Rossi

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George Rossi with one of his New Orleans idols, Dr. John the Night Tripper. Alan Nahigian photo.

“I encountered some animosity,” he remembers. “Like ‘Who the fuck is this guy?’ But Jerry Wexler had been pulling strings left and right. I had no idea!” Rossi has a hand in all 16 tracks including “Tootie Ma,” “Coochie Molly,” “Shanda Handa” and Dr. John’s “All On a Mardi Gras Day.” Allmusic.com critic Bob Gottlieb called the record “one of the most infectious and danceable discs of the late 1990s.” Rossi’s main memory of his Carnival labors centers on the late Wardell Quezergue, the legendary arranger, producer and bandleader widely known as “The New Orleans Beethoven.” Rossi watched as Wardell wrote out charts for all instruments without even using a piano. “The level of artistry that existed down there in New Orleans, I got to feel it. I got to watch these guys do this shit. Being in New Orleans was the only way to see it.” And he knew it was thanks to Jerry Wexler that he’d been hired. It was an important lesson. “Now I knew,” Rossi says, “that’s how the world worked.”

Routed by Katrina

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina rocked Rossi’s world. He’d been playing one of the two copper-covered pianos at Pat O’Brien’s, home of the Hurricane cocktail. When the winds whipped up to 150 mph on Saturday, Aug. 27, and a voluntary evacuation was urged by Louisiana leaders, Rossi called the club to confirm its closing plans. “They said, ‘Hell, no, we’re not closing,’” he says. “‘Get your butt down here!’” He and his co-musician, Miss Vicki, were the last piano plunkers playing on the strip on the last night of the pre-Ka-

trina Bourbon Street world. He ended the night with Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927.” Then he deposited his two dogs into his girlfriend’s tiny green Ford Focus wagon. As Huckleberry and Doodle nestled in the back seat on Sunday, Aug. 28, 5:15 a.m., Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop grew smaller in the rear-view mirror. “By the time we got on the I-10, it was a parking lot,” he remembers. “It took us seven hours to travel two miles west of the Superdome. The car became increasingly more difficult to keep on the road, as the first tendrils of Katrina’s winds intermittently pushed us off axis from the passenger side. We started to get pelted by pine cone projectiles as the southwestern swirl slammed into the trees that lined Highway 59, and the pine needles on the road were so voluminous that they started to drift like snow. The only option was to go all Dale Earnhardt on Katrina’s ass and outrun her.” Eventually the couple and their dogs made it to Tuscaloosa, then Birmingham, and killer Katrina was largely behind them. By Labor Day, they’d arrived in Skaneateles. In October, Rossi played at Syracuse’s Bethany Baptist Church, 149 Beattie St., accompanying singers Angie Washington and Jackie Clarke, two of the George-OLettes. “I guess I made Angie and Jackie play for Satan so many times with the Hungarians,” Rossi quipped, “it’s only fair I throw a couple of freebies over to the other side.” He also joined his mentor and friend, Joe Whiting, to perform at the Ripple Effect Concert for Hurricane Relief in Cortland. Just as the hurricane devastated the city of New Orleans, Katrina devastated

In 2008, while still splitting time between Central New York and New Orleans, Rossi decided to revive Little Georgie with a show at the Inner Harbor, featuring what was left of the Shuffling Hungarians and a few members of the Wild Magnolias. “I pulled the old suit out of the closet for one more try, just to see if I could still fit in it, and maybe to explore the possibility of wearing it as a career again,” he says. “But after 10 years it was a little tight around the middle, metaphorically speaking.” He couldn’t stomach the idea of going through all the work and devoting countless financial resources to another band effort. “It helped me clarify what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, or better put, what I didn’t want to do. Juggling all those balls just isn’t intellectually, artistically and, more importantly, spiritually compelling enough to assume the role of ringmaster for me anymore. More than anything, it became painfully apparent that it was time for a third act. The Little Georgie suit went back into mothballs, probably for good this time.” In 2011, Rossi teamed with Gary Frenay for a show of “Songs and Stories” at the Auburn Public Theater, also featuring guitarist Loren Barrigar, Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman, the Dean Brothers, mandolin player Ted Williams, drummer Cathy LaManna, keyboardist Dave Solazzo, trumpeter Nick Frenay and the Hungarian Horns: Jeff Stockham, Frank Grosso and Don Williams. More recently, Rossi paired with his dad, 88-year-old Nick Rossi, to create a video-driven food website called You Eat What I Cook You. On the videos Nick is called Primo and George is Secondo. “We wanted to show the human side of cooking,” Rossi said. “The family, the history, the relationships and how they’re tied to food.” As usual, Rossi is learning new ways to do things. “I like the bewilderment, befuddlement of being a student,” he says. “I’m most comfortable when I’m learning. It’s the learning and doing that really counts, not what you leave behind in your wake.” Rossi currently remains more interested in social media than in shufflin’ rhythms. He still keeps up his keyboard chops (a book called Baroque Performance Practices graced his man-cave music stand

last month). But he knows that leading a band can be a thankless job. And one of the drawbacks of being a bandleader is that, sooner or later, your musicians will learn to hate you. “Someone’s gotta be willing to be the asshole, willing to take the heat,” he says. “The Shuffling Hungarians was a magic trick of epic proportions.” When the project started — after Rossi enlisted the services of that rockin’ rhythm section of Paul LaRonde and Mark Tiffault — he knew that the band, its soul and character, would be defined by its choice of material. “Every tune was chosen very carefully to acquire a skill set to be utilized for the future,” he said, “ingredients for the ultimate and upcoming gumbo.” The song “One Helluva Nerve” worked on all levels. “Basically a solo piano workout by James Booker,” Rossi says, “it not only fit the New Orleans constraint, but it was chosen to fit the future character narrative, help me to work on my arrangement chops to flesh it out with the future template of horn section and gospel corner vocalists, and, in so doing, teach everybody to rethink how to actually play idiomatically.” Rossi had multiple agendas. “It all started with just the three of us. The foundation had to be solid before it got gussied up with the rest of the musical trappings. I might have been the conceptualizer for the narrative and dramatic components, but the music itself was a platform unto itself. And, if not designed, was certainly built by Tiffault, LaRonde and Rossi.” Nowadays LaRonde lives in Florida, however, and Tiffault has little to say about his former bandleader. “Paul LaRonde wouldn’t talk to me for two years,” Rossi recalls. He assumes the bassist and drummer were upset by at least two things: George’s refusal to grant a second-year extension of the band’s life in 1998, and his rejection of a rather reluctant offer from Alligator Records’ honcho Bruce Iglauer. Because Tiffault and LaRonde were there at the beginning and because they consistently revved the band’s motor over the years, Rossi understands that they had invested more of themselves than the other Hungarians. “In that way, and from their perspective, maybe that illuminates the ongoing animosity,” Rossi says. “Everybody wants more credit for the creation of Frankenstein more than they’re actually due.” When informed that one of his former bandmates was badmouthing him, Rossi shrugs. “You know what? As much as I admire that guy as a musician, the fact is that he was a master plumber, and I was the genius.” SNT

SAMMYS NOMINATIONS

This incarnation of Jam Factory features (from left) Gene McCormick, Steve Marcone, Paul Angerosa, Mark Hoffmann, Bunny Brooks, Joe English and Earl V. Ford.

Jam Factory: Recalling a Tight-Knit Group

YouTube preserves a magical moment for local rockers from the late 1960s and early 1970s: a five-minute version of “You Better Listen” introducing Jam Factory at the time to a national audience on The Today Show, replete with Joe English (later a drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings) losing a stick, and Earl Ford and Gene McCormick initiating a vicious side-to-side head bobbing that would become the band’s trademark. “I don’t know where that came from,” Ford, who provided vocals and trombone, says today, “but my neck hurts now just watching it.” Steve Marcone, then on flugelhorn, vibes and trumpet recalls it as a dance with only head movement. McCormick, then on keyboards, saxophones and vocals, thinks he picked up the head bobbing from Soul Train. “I just started doing it,” he says. “Then Earl started doing it, but nobody else really picked it up.” Moving on to college after Jam Factory broke up, McCormick spent time as a band director and played with Marvin Gaye before moving into the mental health field. He is currently a chief clinician at Vermont’s Department of Corrections. Ford, McCormick and Marcone, along with Mark Hoffmann, still a guitarist and vocalist, will be inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys) Hall of Fame with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday, March 3, 7 p.m., at Upstairs at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. English, who has a family commitment, will not be in attendance, while former bassist and vocalist Kent DeFelice has passed on. The group, with Hoffmann’s son Gus on bass, will provide the closing act at the Sammy Awards presentation on Friday, March 4, 7 p.m., at Eastwood’s Palace Theatre. Hoffmann, a local favorite when he plays out with Gus and singer-daughter

Anna, recalls the band’s efforts to create a fresh sound capable of moving his generation toward an integrated society. His fondest memory of the group is a gig they played in Philadelphia’s Temple Stadium on the same bill with the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, the Steve Miller Band, and Cactus. English, now retired, remembers standing under the stadium’s stage listening to drummer Billy Cobham. “It felt like the earth was going to open up,” he says. “All I can remember is thinking. ‘I’ll never be that good.’” The YouTube moment will indeed prove magical for many. Yet given the vagaries of the music business, which the band learned in the process of signing a contract with Columbia Records’ Epic label, it will be bittersweet for others. The mythology of the time had band manager, the late Joe Leonard, signing the contract while relaxing in a bathtub after Jam Factory had opened to a standing ovation when they appeared with Hot Tuna at the Fillmore East. Word was Columbia saw Jam Factory as a threat to the genre Sly and the Family Stone was establishing, and wanted to stash them away on the vinyl shelf. Marcone, who has taught classes on the music business, dismisses the mythology, citing his fondest memory as when the group showcased at a Columbia convention in the Bahamas. “With hundreds of groups signed,” he maintains, “they flew us down with a handful, including Miles Davis. They weren’t hiding us.” Ford, who plays Sundays in Atlanta with a 60-piece church orchestra as well as working with four big bands, also rejects the behind-the-scenes conspiracy. “We did not have the business acumen,” he observes. “Sly just knew the right people.”

The Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys) will host its Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Thursday, March 3, 7 p.m., at Upstairs at Dinosaur BarB-Que, 246 W. Willow St. The honorees include a much-anticipated reunion of the 1970s rock band Jam Factory; British blues pioneers Savoy Brown; veteran keyboardist George “Li’l Georgie” Rossi; and gospel favorites Bells of Harmony. Jazz instrumentalist Mark Copani will be honored as Educator of the Year, while late jazz singer Mark Murphy, who died in October 2015, will received a posthumous Sammys Lifetime Achievement Award. Tickets are $25 for what is usually a sold-out event. The Sammys Awards ceremony takes place Friday, March 4, 7 p.m., at Eastwood’s Palace Theatre, 2384 James St. Tickets are $20, available at syracusearea music.com, but less than 100 remain at press time. There will be live performances by Jam Factory, Carolyn Kelly Blues Band, Joe Driscoll, Ohne-Ka and the Burning River and Savoy Brown. Here are the nominees: Best Pop: Bill Mott, Elizabeth Canino, Emma Jude, Jason Bean, The Guise Best Country: Chris Taylor, Dirtroad Ruckus, Lonnie Park, Mick Fury, Moonshine River Band Best Jazz: Andrew Carroll, Bob Holz, Jimmy Cox Best Hip Hop or Rap: Mafiosa, Steve Cook & Cyph, Street Rock Mafia, Tone Atlas, World Be Free Best Americana: Early Bird Trio, John Cadley, Molly and the Badly Bent Bluegrass Boys, Rabbit in the Rye, The Brothers MacRae Best Alternative: The Action!, Department, Mountains & Valleys, Professional Victims, Trespassers Best Rock: Chris Eves, Golden Novak Band, Honor Bright, Joe Whiting, Lonesome Crow Best Hard Rock: After Earth, Fall of Humanity, One Step From Falling, Terror Byte, Wagner 3000 Best Jam Band: Barroom Philosophers, Jam Factor, The Lightkeepers Best Folk: Allison and Zoe, Austin MacRae, Colleen Kattau, Gina Holsopple, Greg Pier Best Other Style: Jason Kessler, Josh Dekaney, Nick and Noah, The AdVentures, Yazell/Richardson SNT

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POWERSLAVE & THEM BONES

U P CO M I N G CO N C E R T S

3/10: Jay Leno. Turning Stone Resort and

Casino Event Center, Verona. 361-SHOW.

3/10: Wobblesauce. Westcott Theater, 524

4/1: Catie Curtis. May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 E. Genesee St. folkus.org.

4/2: BeatleCuse. Landmark Theatre. 475-

Resort and Casino Showroom, Verona. 361SHOW.

7980.

3/16: Experience Hendrix. Landmark Theatre. 475-7980.

Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 4461934.

3/16: Todd Barry. Lost Horizon, 5863

4/2: Rusted Root. Turning Stone Resort

4/2: Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown.

and Casino Showroom, Verona. 361-SHOW.

3/18: John 5 and the Creatures. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater. com.

3/18: Barry Manilow. Turning Stone Resort and Casino Event Center, Verona. 361-SHOW.

3/18: Magpie. May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 E. Genesee St. folkus. org.

3/19: Ceili Rain. Oswego Music Hall, 41 Lake St. 342-1733.

3/20: Million Dollar Quartet. Turning Stone Resort and Casino Showroom, Verona. 361-SHOW. 3/24: Melissa Ferrick. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

3/25: Night Fever (BeeGees tribute).

Turning Stone Resort and Casino Showroom, Verona. 361-SHOW.

3/25: Neil Hamburger. Westcott Theater,

524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

3/26: Mac Sabbath. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

3/28: Shaman’s Harvest. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

3/29: Silverstein. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

4/2: Louise Mosrie and Cliff Eberhardt.

Nelson Odeon, 4035 Nelson Road. 655-9193.

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4/18: Mobb Deep. Westcott Theater, 524

Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

4/19: Citizen. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934. 4/20: John Brown’s Body. Westcott The-

extra funk with some snare to slather on your waffles at Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $5. funknwaffles.ticketfly.com.

T H U R S DAY 3/3

Jeff Bujak. Thurs. 8 p.m. The musician per-

cott St. westcottheater.com.

ing Stone Resort and Casino Showroom, Verona. 361-SHOW.

4/6: The Sadies. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

4/22: Foam N Glow. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

4/7: Start Making Sense (Talking Heads tribute). Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St.

4/23: Christine Ohlman and Rebel Montez. Nelson Odeon, 4035 Nelson Road.

4/7: Santana. Turning Stone Resort and Casino Event Center, Verona. 361-SHOW.

4/23: Hip Abduction. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime. Thurs. 8 p.m. Expect new songs and covers from the original Queensryche frontman’s latest project at the Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. $30/ standing, $40/seating. 299-8886, thewestcotttheater.com.

4/8: Keller Williams Kwahtro. Westcott

4/25: Vibe Street. Westcott Theater, 524

Music Hall, 41 Lake St. 342-1733.

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Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater. com.

ater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

cott St. westcottheater.com.

655-9193.

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4/9: Alive 75 (KISS tribute). Lost Horizon,

4/26: Dopapod. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

4/10: Steve Martin, Martin Short. Turn-

4/26: Stick Men. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

ing Stone Resort and Casino Event Center, Verona. 361-SHOW.

4/10: Roots of Creation. Westcott Theater,

524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

4/13: Balance and Composure. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

4/15: Ryan Montbleau Band. Westcott

4/15: Loren Barrigar and Mark Mazen-

4/27: Sidewalk Chalk. Westcott Theater,

524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

4/28: Hot Buttered Rum. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

4/29: Big Eyed Phish (Dave Matthews tribute). Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St.

forms a hypnotic set of looping beats, plus Alex Gideon at Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $7. funknwaffles.ticketfly.com.

F R I DAY 3/4 Danú. Fri. 7 p.m. The ensemble from County Waterford, Ireland, brings a high-energy show of traditional and modern songs to the Sarkus-Busch Theater, Herkimer Community College, Herkimer. Free. 866-0300, herkimer. edu. Martin Luther Key. Fri. 7 p.m. The hip-hop emcee headlines an evening of beats and rhymes, plus Omari Shakir and Dillonponders at the Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. $15. 2998886, thewestcotttheater.com. Scars N Stripes. Fri. 7 p.m. The Central New

Showroom, Verona. 361-SHOW.

York hard rock band will be featured at the school’s fundraiser, plus Youthoria and guest Sal Giancarelli from Staind at Cicero-North Syracuse Junior High School, 5353 W. Taft Road, North Syracuse. $7/advance, $10/door. 4dproductions.org.

4/30: Downlink and Dieselboy. Westcott

Adam Gates. Fri. 8 p.m. Singer-songwriter per-

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4/29: Get the Led Out (Led Zeppelin tribute). Turning Stone Resort and Casino

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Skunk City Funk Night with Emanuel Washington. Wed. March 2, 9 p.m. A little

4/5-6: Datsik. Westcott Theater, 524 West-

4/3: Atkinson Family Bluegrass. Oswego

4/15: Piff The Magic Dragon. Turning Stone Resort and Casino Showroom, Verona. 361-SHOW.

cott St. westcottheater.com.

41 Lake St. 342-1733.

4/17: Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St.

Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage. Wed. March 2, 7:30 p.m. To celebrate 50 years of the sci-fi franchise, a musical and visual celebration will simultaneously feature orchestral music and familiar clips at the Landmark Theatre, 362 S. Salina St. $35, $45, $55, $65. 475-7980, landmarktheatre.org.

4/21: Time Jumpers with Vince Gill, Kenny Sears, Ranger Doug Green. Turn-

524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

3/31: Ralphie May. Turning Stone Resort

4/1: Gallagher. Westcott Theater, 524 West-

4/16: Chuck Brodsky. Oswego Music Hall,

W E D N E S DAY 3/ 2

Anomolous People. Thurs. 8 p.m. Neo Soul Night features the local groove-heavy band at Funk N Waffles, 727 S. Crouse Ave. $5. funknwaffles.ticketfly.com.

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L IS TED I N C H RO NO LO G I C A L O RDER:

4/21: Cabinet. Westcott Theater, 524 West-

4/3: The Garcia Project. Westcott Theater,

3/31: Troyboi. Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

Society, 3800 E. Genesee St. folkus.org.

4/16: Jim Florentine. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. 446-1934.

3/11-12: Aaron Lewis. Turning Stone

524 Westcott St. westcottheater.com.

garb. May Memorial Unitarian Universalist

4/1: Straight No Chaser. Turning Stone

Resort and Casino Showroom, Verona. 361SHOW.

3/17: Glengharry Boys. Westcott Theater,

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rock show features Born Again Savages, Amerikan Primitive, Vicious Rumours and Wild Jim Wade at Vendetti’s Soft Rock Café, 2026 Teall Ave. Free. 399-5700, vendettissoftrock.com.

Rabbit in the Rye. Fri. 10 p.m. The band hops

back to Armory Square for an evening of progressive folk fun, plus Nathan Kalish and the Lastcallers at Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $10. funknwaffles.ticketfly.com.

Atrilla and Friends. Fri. 11 p.m. The deejay

headlines the late shift at the Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. $10. 299-8886, thewestcotttheater.com.

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Alice in Wonderland. Every Sat. 12:30 p.m.; through March 26. Interactive version of the children’s classic, as performed by Magic Circle Children’s Theatre. Spaghetti Warehouse, 689 N. Clinton St. $6. 449-3823. Annie. Wed. March 2 & Thurs. 7:30 p.m.

Famous Artists presents the comic-strip musical-comedy (featuring Syracuse native Chloe Tiso as Grace) at the Mulroy Civic Center’s Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater, 411 Montgomery St. $32, $47, $62. 435-2121, 424-8210.

Dead Silent: Florence of Moravia. Fri. & Sat. 6 p.m., Sun. 1 p.m.; through Sun. March 6. ACME Mystery Company’s multimedia murder-mystery comedy ports its dinner theater production to the WCNY Studios, 415 W. Fayette St. $55. wcny.org/murdermystery.

$32.50, $45. (607) 277-8283, stateofithaca. com.

John Lennon and Me. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. Cherie Bennet’s play about the power of music on a bedridden Beatles fan at the Redhouse Arts Center, 201 S. West St. $15. 362-2785. The Mousetrap. Thurs.-Sat. 7:30 p.m.; through March 13. Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit is mounted in this student honors production at SUNY Oswego’s Hewitt Union Ballroom, 7060 Route 104, Oswego. $5/ Thurs. preview, $15/Fri. & Sat. 312-2141. Orson Welles/Shylock. Thurs. & Fri. 8

quintet in action, plus Palisades, Too Close to Touch, Picturesque and Only the Chosen at the Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. $13/advance, $15/door. 446-1934. thelosthorizon.com.

Don Quixote. Fri. & Sat. 7:30 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. A marionette interpretation of the classic at Open Hand Theater, 518 Prospect Ave. $20/adults, $15/children. 476-0466.

p.m. Matt Chiorini’s radio play merges the cinematic auteur with Shakespeare in this production at the Redhouse Arts Center, 201 S. West St. $10. 362-2785.

Selwyn Birchwood. Sat. 7 p.m. The energetic Florida bluesman stomps his way into the area, plus Colin Aberdeen at the Kallet Theater, 4842 Jefferson St., Pulaski. $20, $25, $35. 298-0007, kallettheater.com.

Fiddler on the Loose. Thurs. 6:45 p.m. Interactive dinner-theater comedy whodunit involving immigrants and Russian gangsters; performed by Acme Mystery Company. Spaghetti Warehouse, 689 N. Clinton St. $27.95/plus tax and gratuity. 475-1807.

The ThreePenny Opera. Thurs. & Fri. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., closes Sun. March 6. The brand-new Center Players troupe presents the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht musical at the Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer. $12/adults, $10/seniors, $5/students, free/ military/veterans and ages 18 and under. (877) 749-ARTS.

The Cadleys. Sat. 7:30 p.m. The nationally recognized, locally based bluegrass duo takes the stage at Oswego Music Hall, McCrobie Building, 41 Lake St., Oswego. $16/advance, $18/door, half-price/ages 5-12, free/under age 5. 342-1733, oswegomusichall.org.

March 18. Sam Shepard’s bizarre slice of post-9/11 heartland political satire, presented by Rarely Done Productions at Jazz Central, 441 E. Washington St. $20. 546-3224.

Dublin Guitar Quartet. Sat. 7:30 p.m. Syr-

Jack Hanna: Into the Wild. Sun. 3 p.m.

acuse Friends of Chamber Music presents an evening of music, including the premiere of a new Marc Mellits composition, at H.W. Smith School, 1130 Salt Springs Road. $25/adults, $20/ seniors, free/students. 682-7720.

The God of Hell. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m.; closes

The Columbus Zoo director and former David Letterman foil brings stories and critters to a family-friendly show at the State Theater, 105 W. State St., Ithaca. $22.50,

To Kill a Mockingbird. Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Sat. 3 & 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., Wed. March 9, 3 p.m.; closes March 26. The late Harper Lee’s memoir of childhood, race relations and legal matters in the Deep South continues the season at Syracuse Stage’s Archbold Theatre, 820 E. Genesee St. $30, $46, $50/adults, $38/ age 40 and under, $18/under 18. 443-3275.

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Gaelic Storm. Sat. 8 p.m. California Celtic

band celebrates the music and culture of Ireland at the State Theater, 105 W. State St., Ithaca. $20, $25, $30. (607) 277-8283, stateofithaca. com.

Gigantosaurus Rex. Sat. 8 p.m. The funk,

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The Shop. Sat. 8 p.m. The local rock band reunites for a special show, plus Simplelife and Shark Sandwich at Upstairs at Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 246 W. Willow St. $5. 476-4937, dinosaurbarbque.com.

S U N DAY 3/6 Old-Time Music Jam. Every Sun. 1 p.m. Jam

session for all sorts of ramblers and pickers is open to both spectators and players, followed by a potluck dinner at 5 p.m. Kellish Hill Farm, 3192 Pompey Center Road, Manlius. $5/suggested donation. 682-1578.

Symphoria. Sun. 2:30 p.m. Violinist Sara Crock-

er Vonsattel, pianist Steven Heyman and cellist Max Tan take part in this afternoon concert as the Civic Morning Musicals’ 125th anniversary season continues at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 220 E. Fayette St. $35/adults, $25/seniors, $5/students, free/18 and under. 299-5589, experiencesymphoria.org.

Storyteller Series. Sun. 6 p.m. The sing-

Larry Grenadier. Wed. March 9, 7:30 p.m. Renowned bassist, who has worked with Brad Mehldau and Pat Metheny, will be accompanied by the Oswego Jazz Project at SUNY Oswego’s Sheldon Ballroom, 7060 Route 104, Oswego. $15. 312-2500, sunyoswego.edu/arts. Cats Under the Stars. Wed. March 9, 9 p.m. The Jerry Garcia tribute band featuring Melvin Seals returns to the Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. $15/advance, $17/door. 299-8886, thewestcotttheater.com. Skunk City Funk Night with Emanuel Washington. Every Wed. 9 p.m. A little extra

their “Wintour is Coming” tour to town, preceded by AWOLNATION and PVRIS at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena, 800 S. State St. $37.50, $47.50, $57.50. 435-8009.

weekly Grateful Dead night jams on at Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $5. funknwaffles. ticketfly.com.

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The duo hosts the weekly open mike at Funk

Brass Inc. (Ukrainian National Club, 125 Washington St., Auburn), 8 p.m.

Open Mike w/Frank Rhodes. (Shifty’s, 1401

Chapter Eleven. (Western Ranch Motor Inn, 1255 State Fair Blvd.), 4 p.m.

Open Mike w/Morris Tarbell & Well Swung Trio. (Bridge Street Tavern, 109 Bridge

Chris Taylor & Custom Taylor Band. (Cross-

St., Solvay), 7:30 p.m.

roads Tavern, 7119 Minoa-Bridgeport Road, East Syracuse), 9 p.m.

Open Mike w/Raw Meat. (Muddy Waters, 2

Civil Servants. (Monirae’s, 688 Route 10, Pen-

Open Mike w/Todd Storinge & Joe. (JP’s

Cousin Jake. (JP’s Tavern, 109 Syracuse St.,

727 S. Crouse Ave.), 7:30 p.m.

Burnet Ave.), 9 p.m.

Oswego St., Baldwinsville), 8:30 p.m.

Tavern, 109 Syracuse St., Baldwinsville), 7 p.m.

T H U R S DAY 3/3 All Request Live. (Lava Nightclub, Turning

Stone Resort, Verona), 10 p.m.

Baldwinsville), 7 p.m.

Dean Martin & Davie. (Dublin’s, 7990 Oswego Road, Liverpool.), 8 p.m.

DJay 360 & S-Dot. (Lava Nightclub, Turning Stone Resort, Verona), 10 p.m.

Brian McArdell & Mark Westers. (Limp Liz-

Golden Novak Band. (Old City Hall, 159 Water St., Oswego), 10 p.m.

Dean Martin & Davie. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave.), 8 p.m.

Greg Hoover & Richie Melito. (Mohegan Manor, 58 Oswego St., Baldwinsvile), 7:30 p.m.

Dueling Pianos. (The Gig, Turning Stone Resort, Verona), 9 p.m.

Grit N Grace. (Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St.), 8 p.m.

St.), 8 p.m.

Dynamo. (Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow

Guise. (Vendetti’s Soft Rock Café, 2026 Teall Ave.), 7:30 p.m.

E. Ruckus. (Monirae’s, 688 Route 10, Pennell-

HouseDogs. (Moondog’s Lounge, 28 State St.,

Frenay & Lenin. (Sheraton University Inn, 801

Golden Novak Duo. (Byblos Bar & Grill, 216

Jeff Meloling. (Pizza Man Pub, 50 Oswego St.,

Just Joe. (Jake’s Grub & Grog, 7 E. River Road,

Irv Lyons. (Green Gate Inn, 2 Main St., Camil-

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Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate. (King of

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Just Joe. (Flat Iron Grill, 1333 Buckley Road),

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Just Joe. (Stinger’s Pizza Pub, 4500 Pewter Lane, Manlius), 6 p.m.

Karaoke. (Pricker Bush, 3642 Route 57, Oswe-

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Frank & Burns. (Blue Spruce Lounge, 400 Seventh North St., Liverpool), 8 p.m.

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Karaoke w/DJ Voltage & DJ Mars. (Singers,

Ave.), 9 p.m.

1345 Milton Ave.), 9 p.m.

907 E. Genesee St.), 8 p.m.

Mark Nanni & The Intention. (Dolce Vita,

Letizia’s Urban Country. (Buffalo’s, 2119 Downer St., Baldwinsville), 9 p.m.

Mike O’Hara. (Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub, 301 W. Fayette St.), 8 p.m.

Lisa Lee Duo. (BeauVine Chophouse, 74 State

Open Mike. (Kellish Hill Farm, 3191 Pompey

Open Mike w/Dan Schneider. (Oswego

St. Auburn), 9 p.m.

Center Road, Manlius), 7 p.m.

Music Hall, 41 Lake St., Oswego), 7:30 p.m.

Open Mike w/Frank Rhodes. (Buffalo’s, 2119

Downer St., Baldwinsville), 7 p.m.

Powerslave & Them Bones. (Mac’s Bad Art Bar, 1799 Brewerton Road, Mattydale), 9 p.m.

Open Mike w/Greg Hoover. (Basta on the River, 7 Syracuse St., Baldwinsville), 7 p.m.

Ron Spencer Band. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet

Open Mike w/Velveeta Nightmare Band.

Scott Kallas. (Fingerlakes on Tap, 35 Fennell

Ave.), 9 p.m.

(Mac’s Bad Art Bar, 1799 Brewerton Road, Mattydale), 9 p.m.

St., Skaneateles), 7 p.m.

Open Turntable Night. (Funk N Waffles, 727

p.m.

S. Crouse Ave.), 8 p.m.

Take Four: Jazz. (Tokyo Seoul, 3180 Erie Blvd.

E.), 6 p.m.

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Soul Mine. (Margaritaville, Destiny USA), 9 Soul Risin’. (Muddy Waters, 2 Oswego St., Baldwinsville), 9 p.m.

TJ Sacco. (Bull & Bear Roadhouse, 6402 Collamer Road, East Syracuse), 10 p.m.

Wayback Machine. (Asil’s Pub, 220 Chapel

Drive), 9 p.m.

Under the Gun. (Monirae’s, 688 Route 10, Pennellville), 9 p.m.

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S AT U R DAY 3/5 3’s A Crowd. (Pastas on the Green, 1 Village Blvd. N., Baldwinsville), 7:30 p.m.

Barroom Philosophers. (Mohegan Manor, 58

Oswego St., Baldwinsvile), 7:30 p.m.

Bombshell. (Mac’s Bad Art Bar, 1799 Brewerton Road, Mattydale), 9 p.m.

Brian McArdell & Mark Westers. (Kitty

Hoynes Irish Pub, 301 W. Fayette St.), 9 p.m.

Coachmen. (Falcon Lanes, 75 Pulaski St.,

Auburn), 9 p.m.

Country Rose Band. (Bridge Street Tavern, 109 Bridge St., Solvay), 8 p.m.

Denlee & The 33s. (Ukrainian National Home,

1317 W. Fayette St.), 3 p.m.

Golden Novak Band. (Dinosaur Bar-B-Que,

246 W. Willow St.), 10 p.m.

Grit N Grace. (Vernon Downs Casino, Vernon),

9 p.m.

Jimmy Wolf. (Lukin’s Brick Oven Pizza, 640 Varick St., Utica), 10 p.m.

John Lerner. (Notch 8 Café, 6523 E. Seneca Turnpike, Jamesville), 8 p.m.

Just Joe. (Pizza Man Pub, 50 Oswego St., Bald-

winsville), 9:30 p.m.

Karaoke. (DR’s Tavern, 1417 W. Genesee St.), 10 p.m.

Shining Star. (Muddy Waters, 2 Oswego St., Baldwinsvile), 9 p.m.

Open Mike. (Rooter’s Tavern, 4141 N. Salina

Karaoke w/DJ Corey. (Western Ranch Motor

Talented Ones. (Margaritaville, Destiny USA),

Open Mike w/Confused Poet. (Transitions,

St.), 9 p.m.

Inn, 1255 State Fair Blvd.), 9 p.m.

9 p.m.

Karaoke w/DJ Skoob & DJ Denny. (Singers,

Timeline. (Pompey Rod & Gun Club, 2035 Swift

Lava Arcade. (Lava Nightclub, Turning Stone

TJ Sacco Band. (Limp Lizard, 4628 Onondaga

1345 Milton Ave.), 9 p.m. Resort, Verona), 10 p.m.

Letizia Duo. (House of S. Jaye, 233 N. Clinton

St.), 7 p.m.

Lisa Lee Duo. (Anyela’s Vineyards, 2433 W.

Road, Pompey), 8 p.m.

658 N. Salina St.), 7 p.m. Ron Kadey. (Lakeside Vista, 2473 Route 174, Marietta), 10:30 a.m.

Ryan Burdick. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave.), 7

p.m.

Blvd.), 9 p.m.

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Fresh Guac. (Prison City Pub, 24 State St.), 8

Arty Lenin. (Old City Hall, 159 Water St. Oswe-

p.m.

Lake Road, Skaneateles), 4 p.m.

go), 1 p.m.

Mark Zane. (Pascale’s Italian Bistro at Drum-

DJ Adam Simeon. (Otro Cinco, 206 S. Warren

Jason Vaughn. (Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Willow St.), 8 p.m.

lins, 8000 Nottingham Road), 7 p.m.

St.), 11 a.m.

Master Thieves. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave.),

DJ Jah Roots. (Otro Cinco, 206 S. Warren St.),

Ave.), 9 p.m.

9 p.m.

5 p.m.

Nasty Habit. (Moondog’s Lounge, 28 State St., Auburn), 9 p.m.

Jazz & Gospel Jam. (Funk N Waffles, 307 S.

Willow St.), 8 p.m.

Clinton St.), 3 p.m.

PEP. (JP’s Tavern, 109 Syracuse St., Baldwins-

John Spillett Jazz-Pop Duo. (Blue Water

7 p.m.

ville), 9 p.m.

Grill, 11 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles), 5 p.m.

Quickchange. (Flat Iron Grill, 1333 Buckley

Karaoke w/DJ Chaos. (Singers, 1345 Milton

Road), 8 p.m.

Ave.), 9 p.m.

Savannah Harmond w/Andrew Sysco. (Rev-

Michael Crissan. (Colloca Estate Winery,

olutions, Destiny USA), 9 p.m.

14678 W. Bay Road, Fair Haven), 3 p.m.

Screen Test. (Vendetti’s Soft Rock Café, 2026

Multibird w/Grownup Killjoy. (Alto Cinco,

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526 Westcott St.), 11 p.m.

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An evening of Celtic Music Saturday March 5th • 7pm

Featuring Goitse and Girsa with Quona Hudson and Rosetree Free beer tastings from Cortland Beer! Karaoke w/Loudest Sound in Town. (Mac’s Bad Art Bar, 1799 Brewerton Road, Mattydale), 9 p.m.

Nasty Habit Duo. (Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246

W. Willow St.), 8 p.m.

Open Jam w/Edgar Pagan, Irv Lyons Jr., Rick Melito. (Limp Lizard, 201 First St., Liverpool), 7:30 p.m.

Open Mike. (Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn), 7:30 p.m.

Open Mike. (The Road, 4845 W. Seneca Turnpike), 6 p.m.

Open Mike w/Big Daddy Vince. (Flat Iron

Grill, 133 Buckley Road), 7 p.m.

Open Mike w/ Golden Novak Duo. (Maxwells, 122 E. Genesee St.), 7 p.m.

Open Mike w/Lounge Act. (Gathering

Lounge, 7871 Oswego Road, Liverpool), 9 p.m.

W E D N E S DAY 3/9 Brass Inc. (Old City Hall, 159 Water St., Oswe-

go), 7 p.m.

Frenay & Lenin. (Sheraton University Inn, 801 University Ave.), 6 p.m.

Golden Novak Nanni. (Oak & Vine at Springside Inn, 6141 W. Lake Road, Auburn), 8 p.m.

Just Joe. (Jake’s Grub & Grog, 7 E. River Road,

Central Square), 6 p.m.

Karaoke w/Mr Automatic. (Singers, 1345

Milton Ave.), 9 p.m.

Open Mike Jam. (Rock Garage, 6739 Pickard Drive), 8 p.m.

Open Mike w/Greg Hoover. (Basta on the

River, 7 Syracuse St.), 9 p.m.

Open Mike w/John Galli. (Funk N Waffles, 727 S. Crouse Ave.), 7:30 p.m.

Open Mike w/Frank Rhodes. (Shifty’s, 1401

Burnet Ave.), 9 p.m.

Open Mike w/Morris Tarbell & Well Swung Trio. (Bridge Street Tavern, 109 Bridge St., Solvay), 7:30 p.m.

Open Mike w/Raw Meat. (Muddy Waters, 2

Cuse Comedy Showcase. Fri. 8 p.m. Eight local comedians compete for a cash prize at the Central New York Playhouse, Shoppingtown Mall, 3649 Erie Blvd. E. $10/advance, $12/door. 885-8960, cnyplayhouse.com. Don’t Feed the Actors. Sat. 8 p.m. Central

New York’s longest-running short-form improve troupe takes the stage for their 100h performance at the Central New York Playhouse, Shoppingtown Mall, 3649 Erie Blvd. E. $10/ advance, $12/door. 885-8960, dontfeedtheactors.com.

Dr. Dirty. Sat. 8 p.m. The piano-pounding purveyor of pervy poetry returns with more lewd limericks to the Turning Stone Resort and Casino Showroom, Thruway Exit 33, 5218 Patrick Road, Verona. $20, $25. 361-SHOW, (800) 771-7711, turningstone.com. David Shine. Sat. 8 p.m. The Manhattan-based comic brings along a few second bananas to the Redhouse Arts Center, 201 S. West St. $12. 362-2785.

Syracuse Improv Collective. Sat. 8 p.m. Syr-

acuse and Rochester long-form improv troupes create scenes and generate laughs at The Vault, 451 S. Warren St. $5. syracuseimprovcollective. com.

Rich Guzzi. Tues. 7:30 p.m. Hypnotist provides fun and games, but you may not remember it at Funny Bone Comedy Club, Destiny USA, off Hiawatha Blvd. $15. 423-8669, syracuse.funnybone.com. Tracey Morgan. Tues. 8 p.m. The Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock comedian performs his long-postponed show at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino Showroom, Thruway Exit 33, 5218 Patrick Road, Verona. $54, $64. 361-SHOW, (800) 771-7711, turningstone.com. Clash of the Comics. Wed. March 9, 7:30 p.m.

Comics compete for a $100 cash prize at Funny Bone Comedy Club, Destiny USA, off Hiawatha Blvd. $7. 423-8669, syracuse.funnybone.com.

LEARNING

Parlour Games. (Le Moyne Plaza, 1135 Salt

North Syracuse Art Group. Every Wed. 10 a.m. Bring your own supplies and learn, exchange art knowledge, share fine art with others and work your media. VFW Post 7290, 105 Maxwell Ave., North Syracuse. Free. 6993965.

Tim Herron. (Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 246 W. Wil-

Improv Comedy Classes. Every Wed. 6-7:45

Oswego St., Baldwinsville), 8:30 p.m.

Open Mike w/Todd Storinge & Joe. (JP’s

Tavern, 109 Syracuse St., Baldwinsville), 7 p.m.

Springs Road), noon.

low St.), 8 p.m.

CO M E DY

Drew Lynch. Wed. March 2, 7:30 p.m. The

stuttering comic seen on America’s Got Talent makes a one-night stand at Funny Bone Comedy Club, Destiny USA, off Hiawatha Blvd. $25. 423-8669, syracuse.funnybone.com.

Tony Rock. Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Fri. 7:30 & 9:45

p.m., Sat. 7 & 9:45 p.m., Sun. 7:30 p.m. See why this comic isn’t living in this shadow of his Oscar-hosting brother at the Funny Bone Comedy Club, Destiny USA, off Hiawatha Blvd. $12/ Thurs. & Sun., $15/Fri. & Sat. 423-8669, syracuse. funnybone.com.

p.m. Drop-in classes at Salt City Improv Theater, Shoppingtown Mall, 3649 Erie Blvd. E., DeWitt. $20/adults, $15/students with ID. 410-1962.

Open Figure Drawing. Every Wed. 7-10 p.m. All skill levels are welcome: if you can write your name, you can draw. Westcott Community Center, 826 Euclid Ave. $8. 453-5565. Onondaga Lake Open House. Every Fri. noon-4:30 p.m. Come experience the lake cleanup firsthand at the Onondaga Lake Visitors Center, 280 Restoration Way, Geddes. Free. 552-9751. Art Classes. Every Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m., 4 & 6:30 p.m. Teens and adults delve into their artistic sides at the Liverpool Art Center, 101 Lake Drive, Liverpool. $60-$80/month. 234-9333.

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Center for the Arts of Homer 72 S. Main St., Homer

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SPORTS

Smartass Trivia. Every Thurs. 7-10 p.m. Steve Patrick hosts his quiz show at Pizza Man Pub, 50 Oswego St., Baldwinsville. Free.638-1234.

7 p.m. The puck-slappers face off against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena, 515 Montgomery St. $16-$20. 473-4444.

Robert Grenier. Fri. 4 p.m. Veteran of the CIA and author of 88 Days to Kanhar speaks on his experience and knowledge of counter-terrorism at Maxwell School Auditorium, Syracuse University campus. Free. Maxwell.syr.edu.

Syracuse Crunch Hockey. Wed. March 2,

Syracuse Silver Knights. Fri. 7:30 p.m. The local soccer team takes on the Harrisburg Heat at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena, 515 Montgomery St. $10-$17. 435-8000.

SPECIALS

Bunco Babes Against Cancer. Wed. March

2, 6:30 p.m. Stupid Dumb Breast Cancer’s fourth annual benefit features dice, drinks and more at Trapper’s II, 101 N. Main St., Minoa. Free. 656-7777, 559-1203.

Hayan Charara. Fri. 7 p.m. The Detroit-born

poet reads from his newest book and favorites at YMCA Downtown, 340 Montgomery St. Free. 474-6851, ycny.org/dwc.html.

Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys).

Fri. 7 p.m. Local musicians will receive awards in various categories, plus live performances at the Palace Theatre, 2384 James St. $20. syracuseareamusic.com

Syracuse Chiefs Open House. Sat. 9 a.m.-1

Trivia Night. Every Wed. 7-9 p.m. Come out

p.m. Team merchandise, season tickets and more during the preseason gathering at NBT Bank Stadium, 1 Tex Simone Way. Free. 4747833.

Central New York Recreational Vehicle and Camping Show. Thurs. noon-9 p.m., Fri.

Chili Bowl Festival. Sat. noon-3 p.m. Music,

and test your brainpan against others. Stingers Pizza, 4500 Pewter Lane, Manlius. Free. 6928100.

& Sat. 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. The annual showcase takes place at the Center of Progress Building at the New York State Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd. $10/adults, free/ ages 16 and under. (877) 228-8240.

Michael Sickler. Thurs. 7 p.m. Retired Syracuse University professor of art history reads his poetry, followed by an open mike at DeWitt Community Library, Shoppingtown Mall, 3649 Erie Blvd. E., DeWitt. Free. 446-3578. Poetry of Content. Thurs. 7 p.m. A round-table discussion featuring artists Tim Lowly, Joel Sheesley, Robert Birmelin, Tim Murphy and Gillian Pederson-Krag at Watson Auditorium, Syracuse University campus. Free. 443-4097. suart.syr.edu. Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame Induction Dinner. Thurs. 7 p.m. The Sammys bash features a dinner and the induction of Jam Factory, Savoy Brown, George Rossi and Bells of Harmony at Upstairs at Dinosaur BarB-Que, 246 W. Willow St. $25. syracuseareamusic.com.

Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7 p.m. Nightly priz-

es to those with the answers to general knowledge questions. Lamont Tavern, 108 Lamont Ave. Free. 487-9890.

Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Prizes

for contestants, who needn’t be part of an established team. Sitrus Bar, Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, 801 University Ave. Free. 380-6206.

Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Gray matters at this DJs-R-US contest at Spinning Wheel, 7384 Thompson Road, North Syracuse. Free. 458-3222. Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7-9 p.m. Brain-

storming at Trappers II Pizza Pub, 101 N. Main St., Minoa. Free. 656-7777.

Trivia Night. Every Thurs. 7 p.m. Cranium conundrums at RFH’s Hideaway, 1058 Route 57, Phoenix. Free. 695-2709.

root beer and chili during the annual bash at the Thornden Park Fieldhouse, Syracuse University campus. Free admission. 478-5164.

Weekend Snowshoeing. Sat. & Sun. 12:30 p.m. Enjoy a short snowshoe trek for beginners at Beaver Lake Nature Center, 8477 E. Mud Lake Road, Baldwinsville. $5; registration required. 638-2519. Everyday Heroes. Sat. 1 p.m. Students of the El Punto Art Studio in an original play about water pollution at Point of Contact, 350 W. Fayette St. 443-2169.

Sunday Funday. Sun. 2 p.m. Enjoy hands-on

activities and games at Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St. Free with museum admission. 474-6064, everson.org.

North Syracuse Book Discussion Group.

Mon. 6 p.m. The gang considers Breaking Night by Liz Murray at the Northern Onondaga Public Library, 100 Trolley Barn Lane, North Syracuse. Free. 458-6184, nopl.org.

Paint, Drink and Be Merry. Tues. 6:30 p.m.

Your painting of a pot of gold will look like a million bucks after it’s complete at Uno Pizzeria & Grill, 3974 Route 31, Liverpool. $38. paintdrinkandbemerrysyracuse.com.

Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Daily, 10 a.m.-4:30

p.m. The zoo, located at 1 Conservation Place, features some pretty nifty animals, including penguins, tigers, birds, primates and the ever-popular elephants. $8/adults, $5/seniors, $4/youth, free/under age 2; half-price admission during February. 435-8511.

Onondaga Lake Skatepark. Daily, noon-4 p.m.; through March 31. The park is open for anyone older than age 5. Helmets must be worn, and waivers (available at the park) must be signed by a parent. Onondaga Lake Park, 107 Lake Drive, Liverpool. $3/session; $35/ monthly pass; $125/season pass. 453-6712.

FILM

F IL M, OTH ERS L IS TED A L P H A B E TI C A L LY:

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The Bigamist. Sat. 8 p.m. Star-director Ida

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FI L M S, T H E ATE RS A ND TI MES S UBJE C T TO CH ANGE. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. The fourth family flick features more cartooning and live-action slapstick. Hollywood (Digital presentation). Sat. & Sun.: 12 & 4:10 p.m.

Lupino’s pioneering 1953 drama about a husband (Edmond O’Brien) torn between two women. ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave. $5/ suggested donation. 218-5711.

Brooklyn. Wed. March 2, 7:30 p.m. Saoirse

Ronan as an Irish immigrant in 1950s America, which continues the digital presentations at the Cinema Capitol, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $7/ adults, $5/students. 337-6453.

Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds as the masked

wisecracker in this violent Marvel Comics adaptation. Destiny USA/Carousel 19 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Screen 1: 11:35 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:50 & 10:35 p.m. Screen 2: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 & 10:05 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 12:25v a.m. Great Northern 10 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 1:45, 4:45 & 7:45 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:30 p.m. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 1, 4:40, 7:20 & 10:05 p.m.

Creed. Thurs. 7 p.m. Michael B. Jordan and

Sylvester Stallone in a punchy saga at the Kallet Theater, 4842 N. Jefferson St., Pulaski. $5. 2980007.

Flight of the Butterflies. Wed. March 2-Sun. & Wed. March 9, 3 p.m. Large-format chronicle of the winged wonders at the Bristol IMAX at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $10/adults, $8/children under 11 and seniors. Film and exhibit hall: $14/adults, $12/children under 11 and seniors. 425-9068.

Eddie the Eagle. Hugh Jackman in a fact-

based tale of a British ski jumper at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Destiny USA/Carousel 19 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 12:50, 3:50, 6:40 & 9:25 p.m. Great Northern 10 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 1:10, 4:05 & 7:15 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 9:55 p.m. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 12:15, 3:30, 6:40 & 9:25 p.m.

45 Years. Thurs. 7:30 p.m., Fri.-Sun. 4 & 7:30 p.m., Sun. 1 & 4 p.m., Mon.-Wed. March 9, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte Rampling’s Oscar-nominated turn highlights this drama, which continues the digital presentations at the Cinema Capitol, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $7/adults, $5/students. 337-6453.

Gods of Egypt. Gerard Butler in a swords-andsandals spectacle; presented in 3-D in some theaters. Destiny USA/Carousel 19 (Digital presentation/3-D/Stadium). Daily: 12:40, 3:55, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m. Destiny USA/Carousel 19 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 12:10, 3:25, 6:35 & 9:40 p.m. Great Northern 10 (Digital presentation/3-D/ Stadium). Fri. & Sat.: 10:05 p.m. Sun.-Thurs.: 7:05 p.m. Great Northern 10 (Digital presentation/ Stadium). Fri. & Sat.: 12:55, 3:50 & 7:05 p.m. Sun.Thurs.: 12:55 & 3:50 p.m. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/3-D/Stadium). Daily: 7:05 p.m. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 12:25, 3:55 & 9:40 p.m.

How to Be Single. Raunchy romcom for the ladies. Destiny USA/Carousel 19 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 1:30, 4:20, 7:15 & 10 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 12:30 a.m.

Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. Wed. March 2-Sun. & Wed. March 9, 1 p.m. Large-format yarn with the cute critters. Bristol IMAX at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $10/adults, $8/ children under 11 and seniors. Film and exhibit hall: $14/adults, $12/children under 11 and seniors. 425-9068.

King of Kings. Sun. 3 p.m. Cecil B. DeMille’s

1927 silent epic is presented by the Central New York Theater Organ Society at the New York State Fairgrounds’ Empire Theater, 581 State Fair Blvd. $15/adults, $2/children. 451-6551.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Sat. 10:30 a.m. Race. Intriguing biopic about black runner

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 12:40, 3:45 & 9:35 p.m.

Kung Fu Panda 3. Dustin Hoffman and Jackie Chan join celebrity voices Jack Black and Angelina Jolie for this third cartoon. Destiny USA/ Carousel 19 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 10:30, 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 4:25, 6:55 & 9:20 p.m. Great Northern 10 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 1:05, 4:20 & 6:45 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 9:30 p.m. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/ Stadium). Daily: 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 & 10:15 p.m.

Hardy in a brutal survival yarn featuring pesky bears. Destiny USA/Carousel 19 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 11:25 a.m., 3, 6:25 & 9:50 p.m. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/ Stadium). Daily: 12:20, 4 & 7:40 p.m.

The Lady in the Van. Title tells all in this

Risen. Splashy biblical epic with Joseph

The Revenant. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom

fact-based art-house flick with Maggie Smith. Manlius (Digital presentation/stereo). Fri. & Sat.: 8 p.m. Sun.-Thurs.: 7:30 p.m. Sat. & Sun, matinee: 2 & 4:30 p.m.

Fiennes. Great Northern 10 (Digital presentation/ Stadium). Daily: 1:25, 4:40 & 7:25 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10 p.m. Shoppingtown 14 (Digital presentation/Stadium). Daily: 12:55 & 6:45 p.m.

London Has Fallen. Gerard Butler saves the

Spotlight. Michael Keaton heads the ensem-

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Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of CORNERSTONE CONTRACTING CNY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 112 PARKER AVE, LIVERPOOL NY 13088. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CREATOR’S CUP COFFEE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/15/2015. Office is Notice of Formation located in the County of Barklyn Grace, LLC of Onondaga. SSNY is Articles of Organidesignated as agent of zation filed with the LLC upon whom process may be served. Secretary of State of SSNY shall mail copy New York (SSNY) on of process to 4938 1/28/2016. Office location: County of OnLOOK KINNEY CIRCLE, ondaga. SSNY is desigLIVERPOOL, NY 13088. nated as agent of LLC Purpose is any lawful upon whom process purpose. may be served. SSNY Notice of Formashall mail copy of protion of Dino Babers cess to: c/o LLC, 4160 Football Camps, LLC. Torrey Road, Liverpool, Arts. of Org. filed with NY 13090. Purpose: NY Dept. of State on any lawful purpose. 1/15/16. Office location: Onondaga Notice of Formation of CNY Believe & County. Sec. of State Achieve Team, LLC. designated agent of Articles of OrganizaLLC upon whom protion were filed with cess against it may be the Secretary of State served and shall mail of New York (SSNY) process to the principal business address: on 1/26/16. Office is 1301 E. Colvin St., Manlocated in the County of Onondaga. ley Field House - Football Office, Syracuse, SSNY is designated NY 13244, Attn: Dino as agent of LLC upon Babers, regd. agent whom process may upon whom process be served. SSNY shall may be served. Purmail copy of process pose: any lawful act. to 192 Pangborn Rd, Hastings, NY 13076. Notice of Formation Purpose is any lawful of Diversify-NY, LLC purpose. . Articles of Organization filed with the Notice of Formation Secretary of State of of CNY, LLC. Articles of Organization New York (SSNY) on were filed with the 12/09/2015. Office location: County of OnSecretary of State of ondaga. SSNY is desigNew York (SSNY) on nated as agent of LLC 1/19/16. Office is located in the County upon whom process of Onondaga. SSNY may be served. SSNY is designated as shall mail copy of process to: 107 Barclay St. agent of LLC upon Solvay, NY 13209. whom process may be served. SSNY shall Notice of Formation mail copy of process of DJs-R-US Entertainto 7206 Genesee St., ment LLC. Articles of Fayetteville, NY 13066. Organization were Purpose is any lawful filed with the Secrepurpose. tary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/5/16. Notice of Formation Office is located in the of ComTech Consulting LLC. Articles of OrCounty of Onondaga. ganization were filed SSNY is designated with the Secretary as agent of LLC upon of State of New York whom process may (SSNY) on 1/19/16. be served. SSNY shall Office is located in the mail copy of process County of Onondaga. to 5954 Brigadier Dr. SSNY is designated Cicero, NY 13039. Purpose is any lawful puras agent of LLC upon pose. whom process may be served. SSNY shall NOTICE OF FORMAmail copy of process TION OF DOMESTIC to 241 Lafayette Rd., LIMITED LIABILITY Syracuse, NY 13205.

COMPANY; Name of LLC: 208 Clinton Street LLC; Date of Filing: 1/15/2016; Office of the LLC: Onondaga Co.; The NY Secretary of State (NYSS) has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. The NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 7000 Highfield Road, Fayetteville, NY 13066; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Dream Tree Properties, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/15. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Nicholas A. Barletta, 311 Robineau Road, Syracuse, NY 13207. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Eastside Counseling Services LCSW, PLLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/16/2016. Office location: County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o LLC, 4317 East Genesee Street, Suite 204, Syracuse, NY 13214. Purpose: profession of licensed clinical social work. Notice of Formation of Firenze Property Maintenance LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/12/15. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5749 Boulia DR.,Clay, NY 13041. Notice of Formation of Flex Business Warehousing, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with New York Secretary of State, (SSNY) 01/11/16. Office Location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 4586 Nixon Park Drive, Syracuse, New York 13215. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Flex Warehousing Nixon Park, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with New York Secretary of State, (SSNY) 01/11/16. Office Location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY

shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 4586 Nixon Park Drive, Syracuse, New York 13215. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Greenhouse Logic LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/1/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2876 Apulia Rd. #20, La Fayette, NY 13084. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Hall Of Fame Barbershop CNY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/3/16. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3748 Armstrong Rd., Syracuse, NY, 13209. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Hani Ride LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/1/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1845 Whiting Rd., Memphis NY 13112. Purpose is any lawful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HERITAGE BREAD CO., L.L.C. Arts of Org. filed with Secretary of State on 02/09/2016. Office location Onondaga County, Principal Business Location c/o Hugh C. Gregg II Esq., 120 East Washington Street, #515, Syracuse, New York 13202. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy to: HUGH C. GREGG II ESQ., 120 East Washington Street, #515, Syracuse, NY 13202. Purpose, any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY PURSUANT TO §206 OF THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have formed a limited liability company, pursuant to §206 of the Limited Liability Company Law, the particulars of which are as follows: 1. The name of the limited liability company is “ClearDevelopment LLC”. 2. The date of filing is December

9, 2015. 3. Cortland County is the county within the State of New York where the office of the limited liability company is located. 4. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company for service of process and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail copy of any process against the limited liability company is 1108 Madden Lane, Cortland, New York 13045. 5. There is no registered agent for service. 6. The limited liability company is formed for any lawful business purpose. Dated: 02/11/16. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY PURSUANT TO §206 OF THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have formed a limited liability company, pursuant to §206 of the Limited Liability Company Law, the particulars of which are as follows: 1. The name of the limited liability company is “654 Rt 13, LLC”. 2.The date of filing is February 8, 2016. 3. Cortland County is the county within the State of New York where the office of the limited liability company is located. 4. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company for service of process and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail copy of any process against the limited liability company is 46 Hickory Park Road, Cortland, New York 13045. 5. There is no registered agent for service. 6. The limited liability company is formed for any lawful business purpose. Dated: 02/11/16. Notice of Formation of MAGPIE CUSTOM CREATIONS, LLC — Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 2/3/16. Office location: Cortland County. Secretary of State of New York designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. Secretary of State of New York shall mail process to 75 East Court Street, Cortland, New York 13045 which is the principal office of the limited liability company. The limited liability company was formed for any lawful business purpose. Pomeroy, Armstrong, Casullo & Monty, LLP. 16 Tompkins Street,

P.O. Box 828, Cortland, New York 13045. Notice of Formation of Midland Forrest LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 10/13/15. Office location: Cortland County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1 Forrest Ave., Cortland, NY 13045. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of Movie Tavern Theatres, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/12/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 E 40th St., Rm 2110, New York, NY 10016. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MSM Delights, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/8/16. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 6524 Marcus Tullius Circle, Cicero, NY 13039. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of N.W.S. Sustainable Management, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with New York Secretary of State, (SSNY)_ 02/01/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 447 Durston Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13203. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Northeast Electronics Recycling LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/08/2015. Office location: 1025 James st #38 13203 County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 1025 James St #38 Syracuse Ny, 13203. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Pierce Consulting Services, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of

New York (SSNY) on 1/11/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1979 Deer run Rd., Lafayette, NY 13084. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Productive Struggle, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on 1/20/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Andrew Rudd, 320 Myron Road, Syracuse, New York 13219. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Protective Insight, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/19/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3273 Amber Rd, Syracuse, NY 13215. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of RetroGameCon, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on 12/9/15. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 211 Burnet Ave; Apt D; Syracuse, NY 13203. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Solutions NE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/25/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 6505 Collamer Rd., East Syracsue, NY 13057. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Strategic View Consulting, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/5/2016. Office location: County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may

be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o LLC, 100 Madison Street, Suite 1905, Syracuse, NY 13202. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SYR FITNESS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on 1/5/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 2359, Liverpool, NY 13089. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of TeamChristine RE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/20/2015. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 319 Single Drive, North Syracuse, NY 13212. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of The Adventure Eagles, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/21/15. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4614 Brookhill Dr. N., Manlius, NY 13104. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of The Azzarello Team, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/6/2015. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5098 Constitution Lane, Liverpool, NY 13088. Purpose is any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of The Nastri Real Estate Team, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/7/16. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5701 Enterprise Parkway, East Syracuse, NY 13057. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

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Group Syracuse New York, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/27/16. Office location: Onondaga County. LLC formed in TX on 11/23/15. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. TX and principal business address: 1301 S. Capital of Texas Hwy., #B201, Austin, TX 78746. Cert. of Form. filed with TX Sec. of State, PO Box 13697, Austin, TX 78711. Purpose: all lawful purposes. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF ONONDAGA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, Against Index No: 642/15. ANNETTE WHITE, ET AL., Defendant(s).Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered in the Onondaga County Clerk’s Office on 12/24/2015, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at the West Lobby, 2nd Floor Courthouse, 401 Montgomery Street, Syracuse, New York on 3/14/2016 at 10:00 am, premises known as 221-23 McLennan Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13205, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Syracuse, County of Onondaga and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Onondaga County Treasurer as Section 084., Block 27 and Lot 12.0. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $32,193.54 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provi-

sions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 642/15. Susan Basile Janowski, Esq., Referee. STIENE & ASSOCIATES, P.C. (Attorneys for Plaintiff ), 187 East Main Street, Huntington, NY 11743. Dated: 1/7/2016. File Number: 201401632. PB. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF ONONDAGA Index No.: 6317/13. DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE, FKA BANKERS TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR HOLDERS OF MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SACO 1, INC., SERIES 19995, AS THEIR SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, Plaintiff, Against TERRY ROBERT CASTLEMAN A/K/A TERRY CASTLEMAN, TAMELLA J. MAJOR A/K/A TAMELA MAJOR A/K/A TAMELA J. MAJOR, ET AL., Defendant(s), Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered in the Onondaga County Clerk’s Office on 11/18/2015, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at the West Lobby, Second Floor Courthouse, in the public meeting area, located outside the main entrance of the County Clerk’s Office, 401 Montgomery Street, Syracuse, NY on 3/21/2016 at 10:00 am, premises known as 225 Mackay Avenue, Syracuse, New York, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Camillus, County of Onondaga and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Onondaga County Treasurer as Section 042., Block 01 and Lot 08.0. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $53,340.80 plus interest and costs.

The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 6317/13. William Brennan, Esq., Referee. STIENE & ASSOCIATES, P.C. (Attorneys for Plaintiff ), 187 East Main Street, Huntington, NY 11743. Dated:1/21/2016. File Number: 201102410. AMH. NOTICE OF SALESUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ONONDAGA DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR NEW CENTURY HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-1. Plaintiff. -Against- James Clark a/k/a James E. Clark, Brenda Clark et al., Defendants. Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale granted on or about July 6, 2015. I the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Second Floor, West Lobby of the Onondaga County Courthouse, 401 Montgomery Street, Syracuse NY on March 29, 2016 at 09:30 am. Premises known as: 247 Genesee Park Drive, Syracuse, New York 13224000. Section 037 Block 11 Lot 38.0. ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the city of Syracuse, County of Onondaga, State of New York, as more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Said premises will be sold subject to all terms and conditions contained within said Judgment and Terms of Sale. Approximate Amount of Judgment: $97,594.24 plus interest and costs. Index No.: 2014-582. Robert Cote, Esq. REFEREE. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C., Attorney for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street, Suite 210, New Rochelle, New York 10801. Dated: February 15, 2016.

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TAURUS. (April 20-May 20) “I do not literally paint that table, but rather the emotion it produces upon me,” French artist Henri Matisse told an interviewer. “But what if you don’t always have emotion?” she asked him. This is how Matisse replied: “Then I do not paint. This morning, when I came to work, I had no emotion. So I took a horseback ride. When I returned, I felt like painting, and had all the emotion I wanted.” This is excellent advice for you to keep in mind, Taurus. Even more than usual, it’s crucial that you imbue every important thing you do with pure, strong emotions. If they’re not immediately available, go in quest of them. GEMINI. (May 21-June 20) Some night soon,

I predict you’ll dream of being an enlightened sovereign who presides over an ecologically sustainable paradise. You’re a visionary leader who is committed to peace and high culture, so you’ve never gone to war. You share your wealth with the people in your kingdom. You revere scientists and shamans alike, providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm. Have fun imagining further details of this dream, Gemini, or else make up your own. Now is an excellent time to visualize a fairy tale version of yourself at the height of your powers, living your dreams and sharing your gifts.

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necessary to have an expansive view of where you have been and where you are going, but it’s crucial right now. So I suggest that you take an inventory of the big picture. For guidance, study this advice from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “What have you truly loved? What has uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time? Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and they may reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self.”

LEO. (July 23-Aug. 22) Sportswear manufacturer Adidas is looking for ways to repurpose trash that humans dump in the oceans. One of its creations is a type of shoe made from illegal deep-sea nets that have been confiscated from poachers. I invite you to get inspired by Adidas’ work. From an astrological perspective, now is a good time to expand and refine your personal approach to recycling. Brainstorm about how you could convert waste and refuse into useful, beautiful resources -- not just literally, but also metaphorically. For example, is there a ruined or used-up dream that could be transformed into raw material for a shiny new dream? VIRGO. (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “There isn’t enough

of anything as long as we live,” wrote Raymond Carver. “But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Virgo, you’ll soon be gliding through one of these intervals. Now and then you may even experience the strange sensation of being completely satisfied with the quality and amount of sweetness that arrives. To ensure optimal results, be as free from greed as you can possibly be.

LIBRA. (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “For a wound to heal,

you have to clean it out,” says author Yasmin Mogahed. “Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience.” According

to my analysis, Libra, you should be attending to this tough but glorious task. Although the work might be hard, it won’t be anywhere near as hard as it usually is. And you are likely to make more progress than you would be able to at other times.

SCORPIO. (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “The other day, lying in bed,” writes poet Rodger Kamenetz, “I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.” He speaks for the majority of us. We spend much of our lives entranced by the relentless jabber that unfolds between our ears. But I want to let you know, Scorpio, that the moment is ripe to rebel against this tendency in yourself. In the coming weeks, you will have a natural talent for celebrating your body. You’ll be able to commune deeply with its sensations, to learn more abut how it works, and to exult in the pleasure it gives you and the wisdom it provides. SAGITTARIUS. (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In his “Dream Song 67,” poet John Berryman confesses, “I am obliged to perform in complete darkness operations of great delicacy on my self.” I hope you will consider embarking on similar heroics, Sagittarius. It’s not an especially favorable time to overhaul your environment or try to get people to change in accordance with your wishes. But it’s a perfect moment to spruce up your inner world -- to tinker with and refine it so that everything in there works with more grace. And unlike Berryman, you won’t have to proceed in darkness. The light might not be bright, but there will be enough of a glow to see what you’re doing. CAPRICORN. (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Here’s the dictionary’s definition of the word “indelible”: “having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out, or efface; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.” The word is often used in reference to unpleasant matters: stains on clothes, biases that distort the truth, superstitions held with unshakable conviction, or painful memories of romantic breakups. I am happy to let you know that you now have more power than usual to dissolve seemingly indelible stuff like that. Here’s a trick that might help you: Find a new teacher or teaching that uplifts you with indelible epiphanies. AQUARIUS. (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) According to poet Tony Hoagland, most of us rarely “manage to finish a thought or a feeling; we usually get lazy or distracted and quit halfway through.” Why? Hoagland theorizes that we “don’t have the time to complete the process, and we dislike the difficulty and discomfort of the task.” There’s a cost for this negligence: “We walk around full of half-finished experiences.” That’s why Hoagland became a poet. He says that “poems model the possibility of feeling all the way through an emotional process” and “thinking all the way through a thought.” The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get more in the habit of finishing your own feelings and thoughts, Aquarius. It will also be more important than usual that you do so! (Hoagland’s comments appeared in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.) PISCES. (Feb. 19-March 20) Unless you work at night and sleep by day, you experience the morning on a regular basis. You may have a lovehate relationship with it, because on the one hand you don’t like to leave your comfortable bed so early, and on the other hand you enjoy anticipating the interesting events ahead of you. But aside from your personal associations with the morning, this time of day has always been a potent symbol of awakenings and beginnings. Throughout history, poets have invoked it to signify purity and promise. In myth and legend, it often represents the chance to see things afresh, to be free of the past’s burdens, to love life unconditionally. Dream interpreters might suggest that a dream of morning indicates a renewed capacity to trust oneself. All of these meanings are especially apropos for you right now, Pisces.

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2015 RAM ProMaster City Cargo Van. Auto, alloys—only 100 miles YES 100 miles—Bright White finish—Ready 4 Any Application! $21,488 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 Ford Flex SEL Package. All wheel drive, leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 9000 miles— Glossy Stone Silver finish—Picture Perfect!! $29,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 Chevy Camaro Convertible. LT Package, leather, loaded, auto—only 7000 miles—Glossy Liquid Silver finish—Driven Topless Lately!!! $25,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2013 Chevy 1500 Crew Cab. 4x4 Z71 Package, loaded with toys, 5.3L engine, 7 ½’ Western plow— only 14000 1 owner miles—Army Green finish—So SO Nice!! $29,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 Ford Escape Titanium Package. All wheel drive, leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 9000 miles—Jet Black finish—Showroom New!! $24,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 Nissan Quest “S” Package. Loaded with power equipment, 8 passenger seating—only 800 miles—Glossy Liquid Silver finish—Showroom New!! $22,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2016 Jeep Patriot Sport Package. 4x4 loaded with power equipment, auto, alloys—only 7000 miles—Bright White finish—Sharp As A Tack! $20,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 BMW X5 X Drive35i. Loaded with toys, leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 11000 miles— Glossy Space Gray finish—JUST PHAT!!!! $47,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 Mercedes Benz GLK 350. 4Matic, leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 9000 miles—Midnight Blue finish—Make Your Neighbors Jealous! $38,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2014 Cadillac XTS V Sport Platinum. All wheel drive, leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 10000 miles—Imperial Blue finish—OH BABY!! $44,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 Cadillac Escalade Luxury Package. Stuffed, leather, sunroof, DVD, Navigation, Quads—only 13000 miles—Glossy Cyber Gray finish—So SO Nice! $69,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Crew Cab. W/T Package, 4x4, full power equipment, 8’ box—only 16000 miles—Charcoal finish—Ready 4 Work or Pleasure! $29,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2009 Chevy Corvette Convertible. Leather, loaded, auto—only 26000 garage kept miles— Glossy Atomic Orange finish—Come Spoil Yourself! $32,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2015 Lincoln MKX. All wheel drive, leather, sunroof, Navi, chromes—only 9000 miles— Pearl White finish—What A Looker! $36,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2011 Chevy 2500 HD Ext Cab. LT Package, 4x4 loaded Duramax Diesel, 8’ box, only 29000 miles—Glossy Slate Gray finish—Ready 4 Work or Pleasure! $33,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2016 Hyundai Santa Fe. GLS Package, all-wheel drive, power everything—only 3000 miles— Glossy Silver finish—Sharp As A Tack!! $24,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

2013 GMC Arcadia “Denali” Package. All wheel drive, leather, dual roofs, Quads, chromes—only 30000 miles—Liquid Silver finish—OHHHHH BABY!!! $32,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM 2014 Mercedes Benz CLS550. 4Matic, stuffed, AMG Sport Package, every option—only 28000 miles—Bright White finish—Come Spoil Yourself!! $54,9888 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM 2014 Nissan Xterra. “S” Package, 4x4 loaded with power equipment, auto, alloys—only 14000 miles—Jet Black finish—Hospital Clean!! $23,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM 2016 Mazda 6 Grand Touring. Leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 900 miles YES 900 miles— Imperial Blue finish—Sharp As A Tack!! $24,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM 2016 Volvo XC70 Wagon T6. All wheel drive, leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 9000 miles— Tuxedo Black finish—Ride In Luxury!! $36,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM 2015 Toyota Tundra Crew Max. TRD Package, 5.7L loaded—only 6000 1 owner miles—Bright White finish—It’s Got Eyes!! $37,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

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2015 Lexus GS350. All wheel drive, leather, sunroof, Navigation—only 4000 miles Glossy Silver Ice finish—Ride In Luxury!! $45,988 FX CAPRARA CHEVROLET BUICK 1-800-333-0530 FXCHEVY.COM

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