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When a 33-year-old unnamed Irish man was admitted to a Dublin hospital with swelling in his right forearm and a rash, he surprised the attending physician with the “cure” he had been using for his back pain. For a year and a half, reported Canoe.com on Jan. 16, the man had been injecting his own semen into his right forearm. X-rays revealed a pool of the fluid under his skin, which had become infected. “He had devised this ‘cure’ independent of any medical advice,” noted Dr. Lisa Dunne in the Irish Medical Journal. He also told Dr. Dunne that his back pain had worsened after lifting a heavy metal object.

PRECOCIOUS KID

Employees of John J. Murphy Elementary School in Round Lake Park, Illinois, were surprised on Jan. 9 when a car drove into the drop-off lane and an 11-year-old student exited the driver’s seat. Witnesses alerted police, who issued an arrest warrant for the front-seat passenger, 31-year-old Khafilu M. Oshodi of Round Lake, for two counts of child endangerment; a 9-year-old was riding in the back seat. Police Chief George Filenko told the Lake County News-Sun the situation could have “resulted in any number of tragic scenarios.” The children have been placed with other relatives, and police are still looking for Oshodi.

FASHION FOIBLES

According to Time magazine, Nike will be mowing over the competition with its new Air Max 1 golf shoes, which feature uppers covered with a green material that resembles grass. Matching green laces will further disguise your dogs as you play a round, but lest you think you’ll disappear altogether, fear not: The trademark Nike swoosh on the sides is bright white. The sneakers, yet to be released, are expected to retail for $140.

IT’S A SNAP!

You’ve seen photo books and calendars depicting swaddled infants surrounded with flowers. In Irmo, South Carolina, on Dec. 29, photographer Stephanie Smith re-created the look using her high school friend Nicole Ham, according to FOX13 News. Ham, who is “336 months old,”

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was swaddled in a pink blanket and wore a giant gold bow on her head as she lay within a circle of garland and flowers. A sign next to her read: “Loves — champagne. Hates — dating in 2018. Go Tigers!” “We couldn’t keep a straight face,” said Smith, adding that she and Ham are already brainstorming ideas for future funny photo shoots.

BECAUSE IT’S THERE

Eakins Oval, a Philadelphia traffic circle, was the scene of an ominous accident on Jan. 1 when a 21-year-old unnamed man tried to climb a monument to George Washington at the center of the circle. WPIV-TV reported that the man slipped while climbing and fell on the sharp antler of a large deer statue at the base of the monument, impaling his left side. He suffered lacerations and was admitted to Hahnemann Hospital nearby.

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT

Three customers and staff of a Wells Fargo branch in Solana Beach, California, were stunned on Jan. 3 when 35-year-old Clint Gray entered the bank shortly after it opened and yelled, “This is a robbery! Everybody get on the ground!” a witness told The San Diego Union-Tribune. But Gray, who was unarmed, didn’t follow through. Instead, he stripped down to his underwear and sat in a chair near the front door, asking bank employees to call law enforcement. He also kindly told one female customer that she could sit in a chair instead of lying on the floor. A sheriff’s deputy arrived shortly, and Gray surrendered without resistance; he was later charged with attempted robbery.

DESK JOCKEYING

Students at a Fairfield, Ohio, middle school were subjected to an unexpected lesson on Jan. 8 when they reported suspicious behavior “taking place behind (the) desk” of substitute teacher, Tracey J. Abraham of Cincinnati. WHIO-TV reported that the school resource officer at Creekside Middle School received several complaints from students that the teacher was, ahem, taking matters into his own hands, and he was removed from the room and building. Abraham was

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booked and charged with public indecency and ordered to stay away from all locations where there are children under 18 years old.

SMOOTH REACTION

A female jogger on the Goldenrod Trail in Oakland, California, used pepper spray on a dog that attacked her on the morning of Jan. 3, angering the dog’s owner, Alma Cadwalader, 19. According to KPIX-TV, police said Cadwalader retaliated by tackling and punching the jogger multiple times, and finally biting the victim on the forearm, causing significant wounds.

Police posted a surveillance camera photograph of Cadwalader and asked for the public’s help in identifying her; she was arrested on Jan. 4.

SOCIAL MEDIA FAIL

Game warden Cannon Harrison, 24, is well known around his area in Oklahoma, so when he filled out a profile for the dating app Bumble, he didn’t include his profession. But when he “matched” with a woman nearby in December, he was surprised when she messaged him that she had just bagged “a bigo buck.” “I thought it was someone who was messing with me because they knew who I was,” Harrison told The Washington Post. Deer season had ended, although hunting with a crossbow was still legal, so he decided to play along. He wrote back, “Hell yeah, get em with a bow?”

When the unnamed huntress demurred, he asked her if she had been “spotlighting” — an illegal technique that involves shining a light into the animal’s eyes to stun it before shooting it, and she replied, “Yeahhhh.” Next she sent Harrison a photo of herself with her trophy, and Harrison went to work. He tracked her down on social media, and the following morning, game wardens appeared at her door. The woman paid a fine and will avoid jail time — and probably a date with warden Harrison.

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN

An unidentified 39-year-old wannabe carjacker hit a bump in the road on Jan. 7 when he approached the driver of a Chevrolet Volt in San Diego, reported The San Diego Union-Tribune. The thief demanded the driver’s keys and mobile phone around 6 a.m., according to San

Diego police, and tried to drive off in the vehicle. But he couldn’t figure out how to operate the hybrid car, and in frustration he ran away, discarding the phone and keys. Police located the carjacker a short distance away and arrested him on suspicion of carjacking and robbery.

RECURRING THEMES

In the category of Straining Logic, Jana Moschgat’s defense attorney suggested at her drunk-driving hearing on Jan. 8 in Berwick, Pennsylvania, that the results of her breath test might have been compromised by the fact that, according to the arresting officer, she was nibbling on her coat before the test was administered.

Moschgat, 47, smelled of alcohol, the officer testified, and failed a field sobriety test; her blood alcohol level was tested at 0.151 percent, almost twice the legal limit. Attorney Travis Petty questioned the officer about his knowledge of the fabric content of her coat, reported The (Bloomsburg) Press Enterprise, saying certain materials can alter the results of breath tests. The judge wasn’t buying the argument and sent the case to trial.

FAKE NEWS

Rachel Childs, 29, of Pearland, Texas, is not autistic and doesn’t have a twin autistic sister, according to the Houston Chronicle. Nevertheless, she hired a caregiver for her (fake) twin sister who is (not) autistic. The elaborate plot, which played out in early January, involved the caregiver picking up the “twin” at Childs’ house and taking her to the caregiver’s home, where he was hired to care for her overnight. But when Childs’ “twin” exhibited sexual conduct toward the caregiver, he became suspicious and investigated Childs, then contacted police.

Childs was charged with burglary of a habitation with intent to commit assault and indecent exposure.

LUNAR LUNACY

The rare super blood wolf moon of Jan. 20 was so captivating to some skywatchers on Florida’s Ponte Vedra Beach, that they didn’t notice when the tide rolled in and waterlogged their Honda CRV. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office told News4Jax the occupants were able to get out of the car and move to safety, although the vehicle itself wasn’t recovered until the next day. A photo showed water up to the windshield on the front end.

Meanwhile, in West Palm Beach, Florida, two unnamed 24-year-olds chose to view the Jan. 20 eclipse by lying prone in the middle of a dark road near the Apoxee Wilderness Trail. Which would have worked out fine, except around 11:30 p.m. a West Palm Beach police officer patrolling the area ran over the pair. Fortunately, reported the South Florida Sun Sentinel, he was cruising at just 5 mph, and the human speed bumps sustained only non-life-threatening injuries. The officer was put on paid administrative leave while the incident was investigated.

TERRIFYING TECHNOLOGY

Laura Lyons of Orinda, California, was in her kitchen on the afternoon of Jan. 20 when a loud alert noise blared in the living room, followed by a detailed warning

from “Civil Defense” that intercontinental ballistic missiles were on their way from North Korea to Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio. Lyons told the San Jose Mercury News the message warned residents they had three hours to evacuate. As she and her husband absorbed the news, they realized it had come from their Nest security camera — not from the TV, where the Rams-Saints game was proceeding as normal, and news channels were not reporting anything unusual. “It was five minutes of sheer terror,” she said. The Lyonses called 911 and then Nest, where a supervisor told them they had been victims of a “third-party hack” on their camera and speakers.

RELIGIOUS MESSAGE

British retailer Marks & Spencer is in hot water with Muslims who claim the store’s brand of toilet paper is embossed

with the Arabic symbol for the word “God.” An unnamed man posted a video to social media displaying a roll of M&S Aloe Vera 3-ply tissue and urging his Muslim brothers and sisters to avoid buying it or boycott the store altogether. Metro News reports that in response, Marks & Spencer says the symbol is of an aloe vera leaf: “The motif on the aloe vera toilet tissue, which we have been selling for over five years, is categorically of an aloe vera leaf, and we have investigated and confirmed this with our suppliers.”

GOING VIRAL

Vaev, a Los Angeles-based internet startup, is offering consumers the “luxury to choose” when to become sick with a cold, gushes 34-year-old Oliver Niessen, the company’s founder. For $79.99, Vaev will send you a box containing a petri dish, which houses a facial tissue

used by a sick person. Niessen explained to Time magazine that the recipient wipes their nose with the provided tissue and contracts a cold virus to get it out of the way before, say, leaving on a vacation.

But Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, debunked Niessen’s theory: “There are more than 200 types of rhinoviruses. Getting inoculated from one doesn’t protect you against all the others.” He adds that Vaev’s customers will never know what exactly is on the provided tissues, which Niessen says are produced by a “stable” of 10 go-to sneezers, some recruited on the internet. Still, Neissen claims to have sold about 1,000 used tissues, although the company’s website currently shows the product as sold out. “We’ve had some supply-chain issues,” Niessen said, without offering details.

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Rolling out the barrels: Deadly mass shootings are becoming more commonplace in our society. Michael Davis photo

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LOCKED AND LOADED

Mass shootings are not as far away as we are led to believe

BY LUKE PARSNOW

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he shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, was the one of the first major news stories I remember seeing in real time.

On April 20, 1999, I was in kindergarten. I didn’t know what was happening but I clearly remember seeing those now iconic television images of students running out of the building. I also remember that my small backpack, which contained only some papers and a “Cat In the Hat” lunchbox, was searched thoroughly at my school’s front door by staff for the next week afterward.

In what once was the deadliest school shooting in American history — 12 students and one teacher were killed — Columbine was a flashpoint in time and the first substantial event in the modern-day nexus of mass shootings that we now know all too well. Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Orlando, Aurora, Las Vegas, Parkland, Sutherland Springs, Pittsburgh and Charleston: They’ve all happened since.

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Yet there are so many others that were just as terrifying that have slipped from our memories because they happen with such frequency.

Locations have varied just as much as cities. Schools, malls, churches, movie theaters, airports, grocery stores, concert venues, military bases, restaurants and clubs have all been targets.

These shootings can happen anywhere at any time. As shocked and heartbroken as we are during these events, we try to comfort ourselves with a sense of false security by believing “it can’t happen here.” But it might startle us to realize that San Bernardino, Sandy Hook or Orlando aren’t as far away from us as we think.

Working in media for the last four years, I’ve covered the stories, updated the death counts and listened to the most sorrowful descriptions imaginable from witnesses and victims’ family members. Current events often influence my dreams, or as journalists call them,

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“newsmares.” The most common news story setting I’ve been in during these dreams have been mass shootings; at least two took place at my high school.

Working in journalism also makes me think about the hostility toward the press and the actions some have taken in response. With a shooting at The Capital Gazette in Maryland last June and pipe bombs mailed to CNN in October, I have found myself looking around and wondering which direction I would run if I had to. It’s just a part of the human psyche this post-Columbine world has created.

While Las Vegas and Orlando are large cities thousands of miles away, nearby Binghamton is not. And yet it also has a place on the list of America’s deadliest mass shootings. On April 3, 2009, Jiverly Wong walked into the American Civic Association building in Binghamton and opened fire, killing 13 people and himself. It is often deemed “the forgotten mass shooting,” even though it ranks the

13th deadliest in the United States and took place just 116 miles from where I grew up.

When I was living in eastern New York in 2016, I remember getting an alert on my phone about reported shots fired inside Crossgates Mall in Albany. While no one was injured and it turned out to be a gang-related incident, videos released from security cameras show people running frantically in one direction and hiding under tables, much like you would expect to see in an actual mass shooting.

Then last September, we had reports of people getting shot in Syracuse and people lined up at the emergency room.

It was later determined that five people had been shot. This was also believed to be gang-related and all the victims survived. But we were so close to a shooting scenario that we had to have a newsroom conversation about whether to use the phrase “mass shooting” in the broadcast, not just because of its textbook definition, but because of what we associate it with nowadays.

Most recently, on a Sunday morning in February, a man had fired a gun in a Denny’s restaurant. The suspect had been arguing with his girlfriend and walked into the restaurant and first shot a man before opening fire on a group of patrons and employees. Three people were injured in the shooting.

Not only was this barely a mile from where I live, but I could have actually been there when it happened. I was driving home from Oswego that Saturday night and considered going to that Denny’s. I arrived in North Syracuse just after 3 a.m. and if all went well, I would have ordered food, ate and left there by 3:50 a.m. The shooting happened 10 minutes later.

It’s crazy to think about. But maybe the reason for our failure to curb mass shootings in this country is because we rely on that “it can’t happen here” sentiment, even though it keeps proving us wrong.

Twenty years ago, Columbine was the deadliest school shooting we’ve ever had. It only took eight years for that statistic to change. Virginia Tech became the deadliest shooting ever committed by a lone gunman, until it was surpassed

by Orlando, which was then surpassed

by Las Vegas.

But at the bottom of it, the numbers themselves don’t really matter in our mass shooting problem. What matters is that there will be a next one. And we don’t know when or where it will be. SNT

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Tallon Larham and Basil Allen in Central New York Playhouse’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Amelia Beamish photo

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Two minor characters from Hamlet take the lead in Tom Stoppard’s Shakespearean riff

BY JAMES MacKILLOP An early review described Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as “Waiting for Godot with more laughs.” The show, which opened when the playwright was 28, is that uncommon modern drama more often read than performed. So many undercurrents of meaning, so many words calling for close attention.

Getting laughs with a show that runs nearly three hours calls for passionate commitment from the director and cast, which is delivered at the Central New York Playhouse production, running through April 27. Alyssa Otoski Keim, making her local directing debut, says R&G is her all-time favorite play, and that she’s long wanted to get this on stage. We can tell.

Otoski Keim, who trained at the Moscow Art Theatre, has been a distinctive presence in her short time as a performer on local floorboards. There’s a Meryl Streep-like (really) ability to look entirely different at each outing, such as the title role in Eurydice, the contacts-losing bimbo in Noises Off, the mannish Miss Casewell in The Mousetrap and Lucy of the delectable neck in Dracula. Inhabiting such contrasting personae can be seen

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as a warm-up for R&G, which interrogates many of the themes of Hamlet, as seen from the wings.

Anyone not knowing that tall Rosencrantz (Tallon Larham) and shorter Guildenstern (Basil Allen) are minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and that Stoppard’s title is uttered in the last scene of that play, will be at some disadvantage. Despite the title and the character’s names, we learn only gradually that this is a metatheatrical gloss on Hamlet, quite a startling innovation at the play’s premiere in 1966. The approach is hardly commonplace, but it is similar to that of Taylor Mac’s Gary, now just opening on Broadway, and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.

It’s not necessary to have seen or read the Shakespeare original recently to keep up with the pace. A good part of Hamlet’s prestige is built upon the universality of its themes — fate, destiny and moral decisions — as well its inexhaustibility.

They can be revisited constantly without being worn out.

The famous opening sequence remains highly inviting. The boys are flipping coins to test the odds, and they keep coming up heads, 85 times in a row.

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Increasingly conscious that they are violating the laws of probability, they speculate on what other forces may be at play. Without surprise, then, they continue with the coin up to 92, always with the same results.

In other productions the two title characters are played as two sides of a coin, or as indistinguishable as the twins in The Comedy of Errors. Otoski Keim not only sets them apart by physical type but also body set and heat. She drives them hard over what must be more than a hundred pages of dialogue, never flagging in articulating and shaping every word.

Larham’s Rosencrantz is cooler and more accepting, whereas Allen’s Guildenstern is given to slow burns and resistance.

This does not deny the running gag of calling themselves by each other’s names (have we remembered?) or having other characters in the cast confuse them.

Those other characters include a dark-browed Hamlet (Derek Powell), a somewhat operatic Claudius (Bill Doolittle), naïve Ophelia (Cassie Angerosa), decadent Gertrude (Kristina Rusho), and doddering Polonius (Phil Brady).

Each one of these has moments of fun, with Powell’s Hamlet gaining the most,

of course. Usually seen as a forthright leading man in 1984 and The Diviners, Powell bursts forth with previously unseen leaps of physical comedy. At other times his Hamlet is a disagreeable brat, and such a disposable figure he can go over to the corner and sleep, letting the boys carry the show.

Instead of Hamlet, the third most important figure is The Player (Strange David Fuller), after the Player King of Shakespeare’s play. He’s the one who puts on The Murder of Gonzago, the play-within-the-play to catch the conscience of the king (talk about metatheater). Fuller has been notable before, such as his Christopher Wren in The Mousetrap, but has not in our experience been such a dynamic presence. Some of this comes from the way costumer Liz Stanistreet and Otoski Keim have dressed The Player, with long ponytail, women’s high-heeled boots and crimson-painted nails, sort of a hermaphrodite dominatrix.

To this profile Fuller adds Medusa-like glances and stentorian diction.

Fuller’s Player leads the most fun in R&G with the madcap staging of Gonzago. It’s impossible to give all the credit that’s due as some of the clowning is performed by the ensemble, called inappropriately “Tragedians,” whose names are not assigned to different actions.

Even though we do not have the names, Otoski Keim has shaped and individualized each performer so that even when the action is most frenzied, each step is choreographed. Some of the ensemble also take on smaller parts from Hamlet, such as Fortinbras, the ambassador from Norway.

About this time a character named Alfred (Max Smith), first seen as an oversized baby, dons a dress, wig and lipstick.

No need to worry if you don’t remember an Alfred in Shakespeare’s play.

Otoski Keim’s commitment to this project, produced by Michaela Oney, extends to the ingenious scenic design, with a row of heavy but backless wooden boxes to be used in the second act.

Through them the ensemble appears and disappears.

The director gains a valuable assist from recent Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Live Theater (SALT) winner Isaac Betters as the sound designer. He picked out the accompanying music from a variety of sources, in which the Harry Warren golden oldie, “That’s Amore,” wittily glides into a Dmitri Shostakovich string quartet. Such is this production’s level of invention. SNT

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ical found in the plant turmeric. When ingested by humans, it may diminish inflammation, lower the risk of diabetes, support cardiovascular health, and treat digestive disorders. But there’s a problem: the body is inefficient in absorbing and using curcumin—unless it’s ingested along with piperine, a chemical in black pepper. Then it’s far more available. What would be the metaphorical equivalent to curcumin in your life?

An influence that could be good for you, but that would be even better if you synergized it with a certain additional influence? And what would be the metaphorical equivalent of that additional influence? Now is a good time to investigate these questions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The Beat Genera-

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “I have the usual capacity for wanting what may not even exist,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell. How about you, Scorpio? Do you, too, have an uncanny ability to long for hypothetical, invisible, mythical and illusory things? If so, I will ask you to downplay that amazing power of yours for a while. It’s crucial for your future development that you focus on yearning for actual experiences, real people and substantive possibilities. Please understand: I’m not suggesting you’re bad or wrong for having those seemingly impossible desires. I’m simply saying that for now you will thrive on being attracted to things that are genuinely available.

one de Beauvoir sent a letter to her lover, Aries author Nelson Algren. She wrote, “I like so much the way you are so greedy about life and yet so quiet, your eager greediness and your patience, and your way of not asking much of life and yet taking much because you are so human and alive that you find much in everything.” I’d love to see you embody that state in the coming weeks, Aries. In my astrological opinion, you have a mandate to be both utterly relaxed and totally thrilled; both satisfied with what life brings you and skillfully avid to extract the most out of it; both at peace with what you already have and primed to grab for much more.

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tion of American poets arose in the late 1940s as a rebellion against materialistic mainstream culture and academic poetry. It embraced sexual liberation, Eastern spirituality, ecological awareness, political activism and psychedelic drugs. One of its members, Jack Kerouac, tweaked and ennobled the word “beat” to serve as the code name for their movement. In its old colloquial usage, “beat” meant tired or exhausted. But Kerouac re-consecrated it to mean “upbeat” and “beatific,” borrowing from the Italian word beato, translated as “beatific.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re on the verge of a similar transition: from the old meaning of “beat” to the new. the ordinary world, there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.” Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges said that, and now I’m passing it on to you—just in time for your entrance into a phase when such doorways will be far more available than usual. I hope you will use Borges’ counsel as a reminder to be alert for everyday situations and normal people that could lead you to intriguing experiences, extraordinary revelations and life-changing blessings.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in,” wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. I’m guessing you’ve had that experience—maybe more than usual, of late. But I suspect you’ll soon be finding ways to express those embryonic feelings. Congrats in advance! You’ll discover secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself. You’ll receive missing information whose absence has made it hard to understand the whole story. Your unconscious mind will reveal the rest of what it has thus far merely been hinting at.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Many experts who have

studied the art and science of running fast believe that it’s best if a runner’s legs are symmetrical and identical in their mechanics. But that theory is not supported by the success of champion sprinter Usain Bolt. Because he has suffered from scoliosis, his left leg is a half-inch longer than his right. With each stride, his left leg stays on the track longer than his right, and his right hits the track with more force. Some scientists speculate that this unevenness not only doesn’t slow him down, but may in fact enhance his speed. In accordance with current astrological variables, I suspect you will be able to thrive on your asymmetry in the coming weeks, just as your fellow Leo Usain Bolt does.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo adventurer

Jason Lewis traveled around the world using transportation powered solely by his own body.

He walked, bicycled, skated, rowed, pedaled and swam more than 46,000 miles. I propose that we make him your role model for the next four weeks. You’re primed to accomplish gradual breakthroughs through the use of simple, persistent, incremental actions. Harnessing the power of your physical vitality will be an important factor in your success.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Curcumin is a chem-

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world, rivers and lakes are drying up. Sources of water are shrinking. Droughts are becoming more common and prolonged. Why? Mostly because of climate change. The good news is that lots of people are responding to the crisis with alacrity. Among them is an engineer in India named Ramveer Tanwar. Since 2014, he has organized efforts leading to the rejuvenation of 12 dead lakes and ponds. I propose we make him your role model for the coming weeks. I hope he will inspire you to engage in idealistic pursuits that benefit other people. And I hope you’ll be motivated to foster fluidity and flow and wetness everywhere you go. The astrological time is ripe for such activities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A blogger named

Caramelizee offered her definition of elegance: “being proud of both your feminine and masculine qualities; seeing life as a non-ending university and learning everything you can; caring for yourself with tender precision; respecting and taking advantage of silences; tuning in to your emotions without being oversensitive; owning your personal space and being generous enough to allow other people to own their personal space.” This definition of elegance will be especially apropos and useful for you Aquarians in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You Pisceans have

been summoning heroic levels of creative intensity. You’ve been working extra hard and extra smart. But it seems that you haven’t been fully recognized or appreciated for your efforts.

I’m sorry about that. Please don’t let it discourage you from continuing to express great integrity and authenticity. Keep pushing for your noble cause and offering your best gifts. I’m proud of you! And although you may not yet have reaped all the benefits you will ultimately sow, three months from now I bet you’ll be pleased you pushed so hard to be such a righteous servant of the greater good.

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elcome to the Syracuse New Times’ 50th anniversary celebration! This retrospective issue is something of a bittersweet triumph, however. Although we’ve made it this far (as you can tell by examining the many mastheads that have adorned the paper through the decades), this is the final free edition of The New Times.

The April 24, 2019, issue begins a new journey as a paid newspaper, right alongside The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other bastions of journalism. But they don’t cover the Salt City beat, which is why the Syracuse New Times will remain your favorite local source for community journalism as Central New York’s news and arts weekly.

This keepsake edition travels down memory lane with articles, reprints, reminisces from key figures and plenty of photographs from the Syracuse New Times history. After all, founder Ken Simon’s tonguein-cheek motto for the alternative newsweekly was “Fun to read, easy to hold.” So enjoy these blasts from the past, and if certain people, places and events were unable to get squeezed into these pages, we promise to get them in for the 75th anniversary issue.

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The First 11 Years

Our founder recalls the pioneering days of Syracuse alternative journalism

BY KEN SIMON

The Syracuse New Times’ origin story starts at the defunct Waldorf Diner on Erie Boulevard in the fall of 1968. Over a hottle of tea and a shared plate of home fries, I was discussing with my college pal Jack Myers what we were going to do once we graduated from Newhouse that June.

Neither of us were eager to take a corporate job. We had an idea: We knew that free all-advertising tabloids called pennysavers were distributed in stores throughout Syracuse. We figured that if we blanketed the Syracuse University campus with a similar publication we could attract advertisers who coveted the student market but who weren’t advertising in the Daily Orange student newspaper.

We didn’t have a well-reasoned business plan. And we had no real-world business or journalism experience. We did have, however, lots of youthful ambition, energy and enthusiasm. We decided to call our planned publication The Orange Pennysaver in order to leverage the name recognition that the city pennysavers already had with local advertising prospects.

The idea had traction. We convinced about 40 advertisers to sign up and on Feb. 4, 1969, we published an eight-page inaugural issue. Five more biweekly issues followed before the summer break. Each 16-page tabloid was jammed with ads and a bit of amateurish editorial content. After the sixth issue, Jack left for a real job and I decided to carry on solo.

When SU opened for the fall 1969 semester, I continued to publish every other week. As ad sales increased, so did the editorial content, mostly covering music, movies, art, food and drink, politics, the Vietnam War, drugs and sex.

I was 21 and it was an exhilarating time. My increasing hours at the paper forced me to drop out of my Newhouse graduate sequence, which led to the loss of my education draft deferment. I subsequently received a 39 in the new draft lottery. There was no question that I would be drafted.

By that time, I was, like many of my peers, anti-Viet-

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From left, managing editor Alan Stamm, publisher Ken Simon and editor-in-chief Mike Greenstein at the Syracuse New Times office on 311 Comstock Ave., circa 1971.

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nam War. I wanted to continue publishing the paper, so getting drafted or moving to Canada was not an option.

I went to the National Guard armory downtown to see if there were vacancies. To my surprise, there were. I signed up on the spot.

Next, I had to figure out how to keep the paper going while I was in basic training for four months. Luckily, my friend Dane Hahn agreed to manage the paper during my absence and we published seven more issues out of my apartment at 200 Euclid Ave. I continued to write a column for the paper while away, mixing serious issues with wise-ass comments.

“Hello, all you hippies, freaks, commies and other civilians!” led the column written on the plane taking me to basic training. The country was polarized; student protests and strikes were becoming more frequent. The times were changing and so was The Orange Pennysaver, as more editorial space came to be dominated by the war, student power, gender and racial issues, the environment, the arts and alternative lifestyles.

I was eager to complete basic training in mid-May. Then on May 4, 1970, during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, four college students were killed and nine injured, shot by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest strike.

That was it for me. I decided I had to get out of the guard. A few days after the Kent State massacre, I went AWOL on base, having left barracks without permission.

I went to the base’s independent restaurant and sat on the patio eating a pretty good steak-and-potato lunch.

I was thinking about Kent State and my six-year military obligation when the radio station on the restaurant’s patio speakers started playing Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Who’ll Stop the Rain.”

At that moment, the song crystallized for me emotions that changed my life and solidified the paper’s journey.

I would do everything I legally could do to get out of the military. And I determined to remake The Orange Pennysaver into a progressive citywide alternative to Syracuse’s conservative media outlets.

The first order of business was to rename the paper.

I settled on The Syracuse New Times, sketching it on the Department of Defense envelope containing my active-duty discharge papers. The second was to publish weekly, rather than every other week and increase free distribution citywide. I couldn’t wait to get back to town to start this new phase. Four months later, on Sept. 17, 1970, the first issue of the Syracuse New Times weekly appeared, a hefty 64 pages.

The demise of Walt Shepperd’s great Nickel Review

that summer had left alternative journalism in the city to us. We were ready.

Several New Times stalwarts first came on board that year. Former Nickel Review film critic Doug Brode’s column “Film Rap” and SU student Mike Greenstein’s “Rip-Off” column started in that first September issue. A few months later, I was elated when Review editor-owner Walt Shepperd started writing “Conjuring a Counter-Culture” for the paper.

Later that year, I made Mike managing editor and then editor in September 1971, the first of his two stints as top editor.

That year set the journalistic path that the paper would take for the rest of my tenure, and beyond. We were open to new ideas. Politics, culture and the arts, alternative lifestyles and the environment continued to be our focus. We connected with our readers in a powerful way, reporting on previously neglected communities and issues. We were independent and brash. We celebrated grassroots initiatives and spoke truth to power. We did it with wit and had a singular perspective, rhythm and style. We were on a mission to inform, entertain and provoke our readers. And that we did.

It was a steep learning curve for me, with 80-hour weeks common. Everyone

worked hard. The production staff and editors often stayed up all night producing the paper on deadline — the analog way, with offset headline strips, copy galleys, photo halftones and ads, all pasted down on page flats with melted wax.

Those first 11 years are burned into my memory forever. We were young and we were blessed to get to do what we did.

Countless talented journalists, artists and others worked at the Syracuse New Times or contributed to its pages, moving on to successful careers elsewhere; others became mainstays at the paper and pillars of Syracuse journalism.

That the publication has survived for 50 years is amazing. I am proud that the Syracuse New Times is the oldest surviving alternative newspaper in the country still in print. I hope that it can hold on to that title for years.

The truth is, however, that our favorite alt-weekly is at risk, challenged by the same digital forces and lifestyle changes that have shrunk or killed so many newspapers. It’s a great time to show your support for this venerable alternative newspaper.

As the early 1970s New Times mascot Fat Igor would say, “Can ya dig it?” I hope you can. Now subscribe. SNT

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Simon Says More Recalling many memories from Ken Simon’s leadership of

The New Times

BY LUKE PARSNOW

When Syracuse New Times creator Ken Simon visited our 1415 W. Genesee St. office on March 19, 2009, to talk to staffers about the origins of what was then the nation’s third-oldest alternative newspaper (we’re now No. 1), it seemed like a good idea at the time to record his comments for a future issue. We published his flashbacks in the July 29, 2009, edition as part of our 40th anniversary celebration.

“I don’t know what led me to do it,” he admitted about turning his Orange Pennysaver into something more than a vehicle for advertising. “I guess the urge to communicate did, but it was crazy because I had no money. I knew there was a void on campus for a newspaper that had advertising. The Daily Orange had gotten so strident and radical and there was no advertising.

So I looked at it and thought, ‘Maybe there’s a market for advertising. Maybe I could start something.’ I borrowed $50 and I printed up business cards, letterhead and invoices and thought, ‘That’s it: I’m in business.’ I didn’t have any plan; I just sort of did it. I don’t know what I was thinking.”

Simon, then a 21-year-old broadcast journalism senior at Syracuse University, certainly helped define, shape and co-invent the ingredients that would go into every issue — which often included everything but the kitchen sink. The first eight-page issue of The Orange Pennysaver was “a hodgepodge of display ads, a few classifieds and one syndicated editorial cartoon,” Simon recalled. “It generated a profit of $700.”

Simon quickly went into expansion mode to increase the page count for subsequent issues. “The first place I went to for advertising support was Liquor Square, and he said, ‘I’ll take a double-truck’ (two-page center spread) and I said, ‘For how long? For a year?’ And he said sure. That was the key moment right there, so then I went to Discount Records and sold them an ad.

“The 11 years that I ran The New Times were incredible. We were a lot less established then. We were young

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Publisher Ken Simon and editor-in-chief Mike Greenstein display their friendship in this mid-1970s photo.

and wild and inventing it as we went along. It was crazy times, 1969 to 1980, very rich and profoundly important times to our country. We were all in our 20s and 30s. We were people who love journalism and who love newspapering. I’ve always thought that the dream is you go out and you work your butt off at a daily newspaper, and then you retire, you buy a little weekly, you retire to that.

I was lucky enough to do that ass-backward. It was the greatest 11 years that I’ve spent in many ways, lucky to do the things that I love doing. I helped to invent the concept of the alternative newspaper, me and the people who worked with me.”

Here are more excerpts from that 2009 session: This was a tough city to start an alternative newspaper in many ways and for those reasons, The New Times is even more important to the city, to give it an alternative voice, a place for civic discourse, and that is at risk these days as newspapers implode all over the place.

The first issue, I needed to get some cash going so we ran around and put it on everyone’s door at SU; it was advertising, it was a pennysaver for a while. Then I started putting in editorial when we could, even though Vic Ianno (in charge of printing The New Times at the Scotsman Press) asked me, “What are you doing putting stories in that? Are you crazy?” A pennysaver is all income but then we started adding editorial as we could afford to and I started recruiting writers. So I changed it to Campus Pennysaver, because I expanded it to Onondaga Community College and Le Moyne College.

I recruited people. Walt Shepperd was publishing The Nickel Review at the time. I met Walt coming out of the Scotsman Press; I was going in with the paper that week. He was experiencing some difficulties, so I started a conversation: “If you don’t make it, you’ve got a place here.”

Mike Greenstein, I went to his dorm room; he was writing for The Daily Orange at the time and I thought he’d make a great addition to the paper, and I was right.

After a while we got the core together and then people started coming in, we built up an editorial staff. It grew very rapidly because the news hole grew rapidly and we were scrambling to fill it. The work flow was not as efficient as it is these days. I pasted the first issue up on a piece of plywood on my bed; it was eight pages.

When we started growing, a piece of plywood was not very practical, so we moved out down to 311 Comstock Ave., across from the SU chancellor’s residence. I lived on the second floor and the paper was produced on the first floor.

I cut this deal to give away movie passes to Shoppingtown Mall, and there was a lot of response. It’s the first time I knew we really had some impact. The paper came out with a half-page vertical ad with two free movie passes; all you had to do was show up at the office.

We looked out the window and there was a long line, it was very impressive. Wow, people are reading this and they’re responding.

Because we had been going great guns, we also started a paper in Ithaca in 1972, and started a paper in Buffalo.

Unfortunately, these were in the days when we didn’t have computers to keep track of our expenditures; everything was on these ledger sheets. All of a sudden it seemed we were producing three papers on this antiquated equipment. In a good week we produced 120 pages among the three. And we had three sales staffs, so I had weekly meetings in three different cities. We grew so rapidly, and what happened was we were losing money but I didn’t know that.

When I figured it out, where before I had never had an increase in my printing bill, the price of newsprint shot way up. We had a 30 percent increase in newsprint just at the time when I needed three times as much of it. And the prime interest rate had gone to almost 21 percent.

And our advertisers were having trouble paying their bills. This is the first time we needed money. Now I look back on it and there’s something to be said for a fist in

the stomach. I shut down Buffalo, gave the Ithaca paper to Jim Bilinski (still the Ithaca Times’ publisher), and concentrated on Syracuse.

This was the first time that I was scrambling around to find local partners that could put money into it. I had to separate the business from the editorial. We were at the White Memorial Building (East Washington and South Salina streets). I didn’t tell the staff that I had no money, that I couldn’t meet payroll. So that became my job, to scramble around to meet payroll, and part of that was finding some partners real quick. I decided I had to shut down. We were four or five days away from the deadline for that maybe last issue. It was also the middle of winter and we lost heat.

Then I asked Tom Peyer if he would create a cartoon for our last issue. It was four panels featuring the publisher of The Herald Journal at the time, and he’s looking at a copy of The New Times that

says “New Times out of business,” and the publisher looks up from his desk and says, “You mean we won’t have The New Times to kick us around anymore?”

The day before payroll I got the green light from a group of four businessmen in town who invested in the paper. We put out another edition and the heat went back on. We were good for another year before the investors decided, that’s it, you’re not making any money, you’ve got two weeks before we shut you down.

So I had to go through the whole thing again. A couple years earlier I had saved the Advocate newspapers (out of Simon’s home state of Connecticut). They were experiencing financial difficulties. There was a store on Marshall Street, Discount Records, and the guy that owned it ended up working for CBS Records. So we printed and distributed newspaper inserts for CBS Records to alternative newspapers. They were printed at the Scotsman and shipped out by truck all

Roland Sweet, creator of the News and Blues column and the awardwinning “We for Lee” political endorsement (see pages 34 and 35), feverishly at work on his typewriter. Bob Lorenz photo

Ken Simon’s reflections on Fat Igor, the paper’s memorable mascot: “He thought he was very hip and cool but he wasn’t really, and that’s kind of what I liked. He’s kind of brash, he’s kind of aggressive and you like that in a person. He’s harmless, he’s a womanizer. We just started using it and people responded to it. I even posed for a photo dressed like Fat Igor. I don’t know how long Fat Igor lasted. He was a cool mascot. “Can you dig it?”

over the country. There was lot of money involved and that saved our ass for a long time.

I knew the people from the Advocate, and they asked me for cash since they were going out of business. I told them, I can give you this newspaper insert and had faith that they would distribute it. I called a couple of people there: “Would you be interested in owning a piece of a paper in Syracuse?” So I ended up selling another chunk of The New Times. For a year I was going to Amherst, Massachusetts, once a week because we stopped producing the paper here, which I didn’t like. I insisted on working the boards so we could have some control. So for a year, I pasted it all up there, using their crew. That was kind of tiring. After a year my contract was up, so they ran it for a couple years and they screwed it up big time, business-wise (which eventually led to the Syracuse New Times being purchased by publisher Art Zimmer in 1984).

I can appreciate the fact that you are still here. There have been three or four times that I didn’t think it would survive,

and it has, which I think speaks to the passion that people working here have for it. You are going over and above what would be a normal threshold for people, and it speaks to the community’s need for something like this. Sometimes if there is a real need for something, the stars do align.

It’s unbelievable that stupid management decisions and corporate ownership and inability to foresee the internet and take advantage of the new digital platforms led to a situation where it’s sounding the death knell for daily newspapers.

But the business model will eventually catch up, because people crave the kinds of things that alternative newspapers can do in a big way. Economic diminishment and layoffs lead people who really are passionate about journalism or community or arts or culture to another outlet, because downturns don’t stop that passion from happening. We still need to know what’s going on. I think The New Times and papers like it that are well run and well managed are going to survive because the playing field has been leveled. SNT

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Bad Moon Rising?

Left, Mike Greenstein during his second stint as editor-in-chief, circa mid-1980s; right, political reporter Walt Shepperd poses for his Syracuse Press Club photo ID. Michael Davis photos

Our longest-serving editor-in-chief ponders the forces that imperil local journalism

BY MIKE GREENSTEIN Alternative newsweeklies such as the Syracuse New Times began in the midst of a technological revolution.

Offset printing and phototypesetting made publishing cheaper, enabling these print publications to start on a shoestring, proliferate and sometimes even prosper.

Fifty years later, another technological revolution hastens their decline, hand-in-hand with the demise of the daily newspapers to which these brash newcomers had been alternatives.

While digital and mobile advances have turned nearly everyone into a potential reporter or opinion leader, the internet provides little in the way of standards or filters.

The internet has many voices, but few editors. There’s lots of bad grammar, bad spelling, bad ideas, factual errors, excessive use of explanation marks and CAPITAL LETTERS, and readers accept it.

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According to a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center for Journalism, “just 14% of American adults say they have paid for local news in the past year, either through subscription, donation or membership. When those who don’t pay were asked why, the widespread availability of free content tops the list (49%).”

This makes me fear for the future of journalism, especially on the local level, as the so-called media desert expands. The Washington Post and The New York Times will survive, but what will happen in Syracuse and cities, towns and villages even smaller, when the newspaper goes from daily to three days, or the free alternative newsweekly goes to paid circulation, or the 150-year-old local weekly dies? Is there any sustainable business model that will support people to cover local government and schools, to criticize local theater, to

follow high school sports and to promote local bands?

Who will be there to turn a spotlight on unsung heroes and shine a searchlight on the charlatans?

Sorry, unfortunately I have no idea. In the 1970s, when the Syracuse New Times began and I was in my 20s, we thought we had all the answers. At the dawn of the 2020s, I’ll be in my 70s and a lot smarter, after finally realizing how little I know.

I was lucky to work at the Syracuse New Times. The passion of those days and the dedication of the staff to putting out The Paper every week through thick and thin made it more a lifestyle than a job, and I enjoyed (almost) every minute of it. I hope it can find new ways to survive for another 50 years or more. The community needs it. SNT

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Clockwise from top left, writers-editors Cornelia Read, Karen Tackett and Barbara Goss from February 1987; masks aplenty during Mike Greenstein’s 1999 birthday party (Michael Davis photos); Lisa Santoro and Sheila Ossit in hippie costumes for the 25th anniversary bash in February 1994 (Robert Bogdal photo); the trophy-winning 1981 New Times softball team; and comic-strip auteur Tom Peyer from June 1989, whose Sideshow strip spoofs Lee Alexander’s cat on page 35 (Michael Davis photos).

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Stage critic James MacKillop trades banter with the host of The Doug Brode Review from February 1989. Michael Davis photo

Defining the Alt-Write

Our longtime stage critic reaffirms the differences between the downtown daily and our alternative weekly

BY JAMES MacKILLOP The “alt” in alt-weekly stands for alternative. In the first 10 years of the Syracuse New Times there was no question what we were an alternative to. The thenNewhouse newspapers, under pugnacious publisher Stephen A. Rogers, dominated political and social discourse in town. Indeed, it was to counter the malign behavior of what we used to call “the dailies” that I first became involved with our own now half-century-old alt-weekly.

The Herald-Journal, the now-extinct afternoon daily, had run a series of attacks on the English Department at Onondaga Community College, of which I was then a member. The focus was on a fresh-faced, untenured assistant professor named Thomas McKague, then in his first semester. He had assigned an essay titled “The Student as Nigger” for analysis in freshman classes. Written by Jerry Farber, an English professor in San Diego, the essay had been kicking around for five years and had been a staple in freshman classes in hundreds of schools. Taking a familiar position in the 1960s, it argues

that students should not be passive when manipulated by institutions.

People at the Herald, specifically columnist Mario Rossi, hardly objected to the N-word, and if writing today, Farber, who’s still alive, certainly would have employed different rhetoric. The sanctimonious Rossi, who also often wrote favoring censorship, was a constant derider of what was then the youth culture. He seemed to take the call for student assertion as an affront to the taxpayers and to decency. His columns, however, gave no indication he had actually read Farber.

The vilification of McKague came at a time when OCC could not catch a break with the dailies. Rogers was quoted in public as having called the place “comedy college.” His animus no doubt had many sources, but one was the college’s abandonment of the old Smith-Corona typewriter factory on Water Street and building a new campus atop Onondaga Hill, occupied for the first time that semester.

The editors of the Syracuse New Times were happy to publish my words under

the title, “Herald and OCC Feud Over Academic Freedom,” in the Oct. 26, 1972, issue. It wasn’t enough to point out that Farber had more in common with Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken than with Karl Marx or Ho Chi Minh. The larger point was that McKague was a professional who had every right to assign what he saw fit, what would do best to engage and motivate students. The speed at which the word got out was a lesson to me about how many people, especially influential people, read the “free” newspaper.

In The New Times piece I referred to Mario Rossi as the “Herald’s anti-intellectual in residence.” Looking back at him from 47 years, however, he is not without redemption. He was the first public figure I know of who railed at how the two interstate highways, 81 and 690, had diminished Syracuse civic life.

Some staffers at the Syracuse New Times delighted in the dailies’ frequent blunders.

Clippings of misspelled and incomprehensible headlines decorated several writers’ work stations. We had the feeling that

the dailies would do what they could to avoid citing the name New Times in print.

To counter this, publisher Art Zimmer from 1985 to 2010 managed to rename an auditorium at the New York State Fairgrounds as the New Times Theater that would oblige the dailies, then only The Post Standard, to cite our name in events listings.

In my case there was never any personal beef with the Post or the Herald. I genuinely liked and respected many people who worked there and even got on well with the usually scowling and private Joan E. Vadeboncoeur, heiress of E.R. “Curly” Vadeboncoeur who once ran the whole shebang. I also knew they paid attention to us. Because I had been a judge of the local Spelling Bee, I was once invited to walk through the editorial office, still on Clinton Square, on a Wednesday afternoon. That week’s issue of the Syracuse New Times was mostly covered with orange ink. It was easy to see a copy on every desk.

For two years in the 1980s, when The New Times was at low ebb, I wrote for both the alt-weekly and the Post. I considered my fellow scribes and the man who made assignments to be pals. Overall, however, the experience was dispiriting.

Not only would my reviews be shortened at the last moment by a few paragraphs, but they were regularly dumbed down.

Particularly irksome was the deletion of “hamartia” in describing tragedy and replacing it with “tragic flaw.” In freshman literature classes I had spent about 20 minutes explaining why “tragic flaw” is a mistranslation of “hamartia.”

At the Syracuse New Times I could be free to say what needed to be said. This could mean quoting the blue language of a David Mamet play. Sometime in the 1990s I wrote the word “ensorcell,” which means to enchant in a negative way. It has no good synonym; “bewitch” won’t do it. As a longtime reader of folklore and traditional literature, I came across it all the time and did not think it especially highfalutin.

The next time I ran into Robert Moss, then Syracuse Stage’s artistic director, he greeted me with a hooting, “Ensorcell!”

But within the next two weeks Maureen Dowd used “ensorcell” in one of her New York Times columns. Since then she has used it about three times a year, perhaps because malicious enchantment comes up on her beat more often than it does mine.

She and her editors think Times readers can deal with it.

And that’s what we think about Syracuse New Times readers. SNT

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Life’s a Pitch

An early Syracuse New Times scribe recalls the articles that led to his writing career

BY JEFF BLUMENFELD The National Casket Company, the Borscht Belt singles scene, the MONY weather star and numerous interviews with iconic baby boom celebrities, most of whom you’ve never heard of if you were born after the first moon landing: They all served as a launch pad for my 45-year writing career.

I was a freelance writer for the Syracuse New Times in the early 1970s while attending Syracuse University’s Newhouse full time as an undergrad. It was my proving ground, my source for press clips that I knew would someday land a writing job. My thick clipbook worked like a charm: A New York public relations agency hired me on the spot for $9,500, which was big money when 50 cents bought you a coffee and bagel with schmear.

It all started with a story pitch to then editor and still good friend Mike Greenstein, as much a writing mentor as one could possibly want.

“Hey Mike, Mutual of New York is going to let me climb the 85-foot MONY weather star. What do you think?”

Mike would look at me with his soulful eyes, perched like two dark olives over his Freddie Mercury ’stache, and told me to go for it. Boom! Cover story.

“Hey Mike, the National Casket Company in Syracuse agreed to give me a tour,” I later pitched. Together we worked up a great headline: “A Tisket, A Casket.” After my visit, during which time various coffin makers in the factory showed me the casket where they were planning to spend eternity, I was offered a discounted casket; I decided to take a pass, sure I wouldn’t need it for a while. So far, I’m fine without my own National Sealer Couch casket with self-aligning bolt fasteners.

I would go on to profile comedic bug-eyed actor Tom Poston, who later played “George Utley,” the inept handyman in 184 episodes on The Bob Newhart Show; and Stubby Kaye, a former vaudevillian who originated the roles of “Nicely Nicely Johnson” in Guys and Dolls on Broadway, and hosted the Saturday-morning children’s game show Shenanigans on ABC-TV. Radio raconteur Jean Shepherd toured the campus. I used to listen to his stories on WOR Radio, coming to me on a staticky table radio from an antenna in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, 84 miles southeast of my home. I asked him about his best-known work, A Christmas Story, later to become a 1983 MGM feature film, which is now considered a holiday classic, wherein I learned the consequences of licking a frozen flagpole.

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This was heady stuff for a 20-year-old cub reporter from a hick town in the Catskills. Each celebrity, from Hollywood A-listers on down, treated me — a longhair student with a scraggly, decidedly un-Freddie Mercury mustache in a silly-looking Army fatigue jackJeff Blumenfeld (above) and some of his cover stories (right). et — with patience and kindness.

Perhaps that’s one reason he dropped his guard to exRod Serling was the kindest of all. He was my perplain to me that Woodstock, nearly 50 years ago today, sonal hero and the cause of many sleepless nights after almost didn’t happen. watching Twilight Zone aliens who pretended “to serve During a town board meeting, Yasgur asked each ofman” but instead whisked humans away to become twoficial if there were any legal stipulations within their legged hors d’oeuvres. That episode creeps me right respective departments that hadn’t been met to accomout to this day. modate the expected 40,000 people per day. When no The noted screenwriter and playwright, a native of reservations were raised, he addressed the entire meetCentral New York, was speaking at Ithaca College when ing: “So the only objection to having a festival here is he granted me 10 minutes of alone time. I sent him a to keep longhairs out of town?” copy of the story afterward, to which he replied with a A murmur of dissent swept through the heavily conserpersonal letter complimenting me on the accuracy of vative Republican crowd, and Yasgur bellowed: “Well, my direct quotes. I’m still a fan of both Serling and his you can all go pound salt up your ass, because come iconic anthology series and regularly listen to Twilight Aug. 15, we’re going to have a festival!” He stormed out Zone podcasts. of the room, and the rest became rock history.

Not every story resonated with Greenstein and his My yellow-lined legal notebook from that early 1970s green eyeshade. I had the brilliantly creative idea of interview would temporarily go on display, then remain profiling the life of a New York State Thruway toll taker. a part of the permanent collection of The Museum at After much wrangling with the state, I was granted an Bethel Woods, located at the festival site. The story is overnight visit to the Exit 35 Carrier Circle toll plaza. reprinted in the 40th anniversary book titled Woodstock Try as I might, I couldn’t turn the visit into a comRevisited (Adams Media, 2009), and can still be found pelling read. All my host did was watch TV and accept on various Woodstock commemorative websites. tolls. The evening was a snore, as was my soon-to-be I’ll always remember my Syracuse New Times experejected story. rience as the incubator for what has become a lifelong Looking back, the one Syracuse New Times story I career as a writer and storyteller. I pitched the SNT conpenned that resonates most to this day was an exclusive stantly to tell the stories of fascinating people and places 1971 interview with Bethel dairy farmer Max Yasgur, and in so doing learned more than I could ever imagine on whose farmland 600,000 baby boomers flocked to about myself. the 1969 Woodstock Festival for “three days of fun and music,” as Yasgur would proclaim to the throng. I grew Jeff Blumenfeld owns an adventure marketing agency in Boulder, up about 10 miles from the concert site and Yasgur was Colorado, and has a new book out this month called Travel With Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). He’s thrilled a customer of our family department store, so he knew his Netflix subscription allows him to binge watch dozens of episodes my father. of the original Twilight Zone series whenever he wants. Learn more at In fact, by the time “they” got to Woodstock, I was travelwithpurposebook.com. already there.

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Al Roker

Now safely ensconced as the third wheel to co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on NBC-TV’s The Today Show, there was a time when Al Roker hailed from our neck of the woods, back during the early 1970s when he was attending school at SUNY Oswego and as a weather forecaster on WTVH-Channel 5.

And for a very short time, Roker also put pen to paper as a Syracuse New Times cartoonist for the comic strip “Salt and Pepper,” which debuted in the Oct. 3, 1976, issue.

“I want the strip to reflect Syracuse,” noted Roker. “You know, a good time.” With that, Roker married “Doonesbury”-style drollness to the Salt City scene, as his central characters Gregory Salt (a visual alter ego for the artist) and his Caucasian roommate McFarland W. Pepper lobbed then-timely shots at area politicians, multimillion-dollar edifices (such as the brand-new Civic Center), the deteriorating downtown picture (a background image in one panel depicts the Flah’s department store with a closed sign on its doors) and even local television programs (a spoof of rival weatherguy Bud Hedinger, who hosted Channel 3’s Bowling for Dollars).

Beyond the sometimes spicy seasoning of “Salt and Pepper,” however, Roker’s New Times’ stint was short and sweet. Roker drew just 10 strips before pulling the plug on his characters, as he pulled up his Syracuse stakes at year’s end to head for major-market status at a TV station in Washington, D.C. This retro sampling of strips from joker Roker’s New Times career provides a glimpse of the observational humor that would eventually propel this wisenheimer weatherman to early-morning stardom.

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Art Zimmer (left) walks behind his Zimmer classic car as boxing champ George Foreman waves to the crowd during the 2003 Boxing Hall of Fame parade. Michael Davis photo

You Gotta Have Art Former publisher Art Zimmer recalls a quarter-century with the

Syracuse New Times

In “The Art Issue,” printed in the Sept. 9, 2009, issue, publisher Art Zimmer celebrated his 25th year of Syracuse New Times ownership with a sit-down interview.

Zimmer came along at the right time to ensure the paper’s survival, yet he had his own unusual reason for buying the alternative newsweekly.

Twice since he founded the Syracuse New Times in 1969, Ken Simon sold part ownership of the paper, first to Ed Green and other local investors and then to the Advocate Newspapers, a chain of alt-weeklies in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Westchester County. In 1981 the Advocate owners gained control from Simon, and they appointed as publisher Syracuse University law school graduate Peter Orville. Out-of-town ownership eventually crippled The New Times, as its page count, ad sales and circulation all plummeted, and Advocate owners were on the cusp of shutting down the operation.

Everything changed in August 1984 when Zimmer took over The New Times both as an investment and as a vehicle to publish his wintertime ski column, which had just been dropped by The Post Standard. Zimmer’s “On the Slopes” column appeared in these pages until 1991.

Zimmer touched upon a flurry of memories for this interview, especially his romance with the former Shirley Sherburne, who is still Mrs. Z to his Arturo Z: I grew up on a Hamilton farm milking cows and bailing hay. After the farm, I joined the Army. I was there for three years active duty, three years active reserve and was stationed all over. I went from here to Texas and back a couple of times which was a lot of travel for a very naïve and innocent little farm boy that had gone nowhere and done nothing. It was quite an experience

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to travel all over the United States when I was in the Army and it opened my eyes that there was more to the world than cows.

In high school, because we were extremely poor and farming was a tough business, I had to stay home and work the farm a great deal and was never able to take part in school activities and was never able to play sports because I had to work. I wasn’t much of a scholar at all; there were 43 people in my class and I graduated 43rd and came very close to not graduating at all. They graduated me because they wanted to get rid of me because I wasn’t much of an asset to the school.

I hitchhiked to Syracuse in 1962 with just $18 in my pocket and knew nobody and had no contacts. I didn’t plan on staying here very long. I latched onto a fairly decent job with the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) selling cookies and crackers, which was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had in my life. I was there about five years and it was a good job because each morning we’d go in and they’d give us a box of samples to go out and use on our sales. So I’d go out in the morning and sell them like hell and then eat the samples for lunch. I had no money, so I lived on sample boxes for about a year until I started doing well and getting a little bit of money ahead.

I was also looking for some social contacts and I had heard about the Onondaga Ski Club. I wasn’t a skier, but I joined that first winter and found that it was a really wonderful organization and I got really involved and went on to become president of it. I ran the whole club for about 20 years and when I joined they had about 800 members and after I became president and head

of marketing and such, I brought the club up to about 1,600 members.

My first experience in the newspaper business was at The Mid-York Weekly, the hometown weekly newspaper in Hamilton. I was a member of the Boy Scout troop and I got elected to a position called “scribe,” which nobody knew what it was. I was 11 or 12 years old and they said they needed somebody to tell people about the scout troop and what they’re doing. So I went over to The Mid-York office and they said, “Just write about what the scout troop is doing and give it to us.” So I did that for about four years and they were publishing my articles every two or three weeks and I still have a scrapbook full of those articles. That was my career with The Mid-York Weekly.

With Brown Newspapers, the forerunner to the Eagle Newspapers, I was actually a sales rep selling advertising. So I convinced the publisher to let me write a column about the businesses that were advertising as free publicity for them.

Then I was the ski editor of The Post-Standard from 1978 to 1983. Because I was president of the ski club, I had been the founder of the big ski show that was out at the New York State Fairgrounds that ran there for 20 years, which I was the director of for 16 years. I grew it from zero to the largest ski show in the United States and, as a pure ski show, it was bigger than the ones in New York City and Chicago. We filled the entire Center of Progress building and it was quite the extravaganza for years.

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Happily ever after: Art and Shirley Zimmer during their August 1987 wedding reception. Michael Davis photo

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 28 We were always trying to get The Post-Standard to write ski articles and they were never interested. They did throw us a little bone in January and February for eight weeks when they would run a weekly column about what was going on in the ski world.

One day I picked up the paper to read the ski column and it wasn’t there. So I called up the paper and talked to the sports editor at the time, Bob Atkinson, and Bob said, “The person that was writing the ski column has left town and we don’t have anyone else on staff interested in skiing so we probably won’t bother having a ski column anymore.” And I said, “Look, if you want someone to write a ski column, I’m president of the Onondaga Ski Club and was an instructor at a ski school and was on a race team and have worked at ski shops and did the ski show and basically knew everything that was going on with skiing in Central New York.” And he said, “Oh, that sounds good. Do you know how to write?”

Well, I was faced with a decision: Do I tell a little white lie, the first one of my entire life? Or tell him the truth and have the conversation be over? So I said, “Well, sure I can write,” and he said, “OK you can write the ski column.” So home I go and write the first ski column and drop it off and tell all my friends, “Hey, I’m now the ski editor at The Post-Standard.” So Thursday morning I pick up the paper and there’s no ski column. So I called Bob Atkinson and said, “Where’s my column?” He said, “That piece of garbage? You can’t write! We couldn’t print that!” He said they didn’t have time to edit the article and that they’ve got to look at it for 30 seconds and it goes in the paper, and that I was done, finished.

I drove down and walked into Bob’s office and literally dropped down on my knees in front of his desk and said, “Please, you’ve got to help me.” So we talked a bit and he said, “OK, Art, I’ll make an exception. If you turn in your ski column three or four days early, I’ll spend

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a little time and clean it up and make it printable,” and that’s what we did.

So now I’m a ski editor and a ski writer, and then I found out about the United States Ski Writers Organization, a group of top-quality professional ski writers for the national ski magazines and big daily newspapers.

They only had two requirements for membership. One requirement was that you had to be a paid ski writer. The Post-Standard was paying me $10 a column and I was doing eight columns in January and February, so I was getting $80 a year. The second requirement was that you had to write at least eight columns per year, which I was.

So I applied for membership and now belonged to the most prestigious ski writers association in the United States. Every ski area in the world wants you to come there in hopes you will write about them and that it’s carte blanche with everything. I had six all-expense paid trips to Europe by the Austrian National Tourists Office and the Swiss National Tourists Office. I traveled all over the United States to every ski area and I wrote about these places, so I was living the life of Riley for an average skier.

Meanwhile, my day job and business at that point was real estate: I’d buy old junky buildings and fix them up and rent them out, doing all the work myself. And since I was working for myself, I had lots of time and a flexible schedule that I could go on these trips and it was great.

So everything is rolling along fine for several years until Bob Atkinson got promoted as an executive editor at The Post-Standard. So in comes this new sports editor, and he called me up and said, “Art, I know what Atkinson’s been doing with you and I’m not going to do it.

You’re done, finished, fired.” So I thought, “What am I going to do now? I’m going to get kicked out of the ski writers association.”

There was The Herald-Journal, but they had a very

talented ski writer who was already writing a weekly column and was a friend of mine that went on a lot of these trips with me, so there was no opening there. And the other problem was that I can’t write.

But there was this publication that I never read or didn’t know anyone else that read it, called The New Times. And when you’re desperate, you’ll do desperate things. So I went down there and I said, “How would you guys like the former Post-Standard ski editor on your staff?” I told them they only had to pay me $10 a week and they thought that was great. But then they told me even at $10 a week, forget it, because they were bankrupt and going out of business.

So I thought my life with the ski writers association was over and for about two weeks I wandered around town in a daze. And then I’m driving down Route 81 one afternoon, and just before I got to LaFayette, there’s a place every time I drive by that I still look at and smile.

It’s a place where it says, “No U-Turn” and it hit me clear as a bell and I thought, “I know what I’ve got to do.” So I made the U-turn and drove to The New Times office. They said they’ll be closing either the next week or two and that’ll be it. So I said, “Fine, I’ll buy the place, name myself ski editor and I’ll live happily ever after.” And that’s the true story of how I bought The New Times.

My first issue as the publisher was the first issue of September 1984. Now, I was doing all right with the real estate, but was not wealthy by a long shot and couldn’t afford to have a money-losing business just for the sake of publishing my ski column. My fondest dream was to bring it up and break even. Circulation was about 3,000 and staff was three unpaid people and rent in the office hadn’t been paid in six months and the landlord had eviction papers already drawn and was getting ready to put us out on the street.

And since I couldn’t afford to have a money-losing business, I rolled up my sleeves and went to work and put some time and effort into it. I swung the paper from being left-leaning liberal to being a little more centered and more of a community paper than it ever had been.

We went from 3,000 to 40,000 circulation and an unpaid staff of three to 25 full-time employees. And we went from grossing under $200,000 per year to over $2 million a few years later. About a year after I bought The New Times, I asked photographer Mike Davis, “What’s the big difference around here since I came on board?”

And he said, “Our paychecks don’t bounce anymore.”

When I bought The New Times, it was in a rented office down in Armory Square. After settling up with the landlord, after a year or two, I decided that The New Times should have its own building. One thing most people don’t realize is that The New Times was the original business in Armory Square and set the trend. Being a funky, crazy, far-out business, you could say we were the founders of Armory Square.

I thought it would be important to stay in Armory Square, but there was one major problem: There was no parking. So I couldn’t find anything downtown, so this office (1415 W. Genesee St.) ended up being the best choice where we had parking and it was as close to downtown as possible and on a bus line.

Regarding the Zimmer Motor Car Co., one day I happen to see a fancy car parked in front of Sam Dell Dodge,

so I stopped and looked at it and said, “Wow, it’s called a Zimmer.” And that was the end of that. Then about a year later, Shirley and I were on a trip to a newspaper convention and saw a Zimmer in a used car showroom.

I took it for a test drive just to have fun. Shirley insisted that we buy and I said, “No, I don’t buy toys. If I had a few spare dollars I’d invest it into The New Times.”

But then I found out the Zimmer company was bankrupt and closed. I said somebody should manufacture this car because it had my name on it. So I bought it and started the Zimmer Car Co. because it had my name on it. Now Shaquille O’Neal has one, Hulk Hogan, Willie Nelson and Lou Rawls, who passed away a couple of years ago, bought two of them.

Shirley and I were fixed up by mutual friends on a blind date and went out to dinner with them, which was 22 years ago. It was a raging blizzard that night and she thought I’d call her up and cancel the date. So she called her friend who was fixing her up and said, “It’s a blizzard out there, are we still going out to dinner tonight?” And my friend, who was also an avid skier in the ski club, said, “Those guys are skiers, they’ll drive through anything.”

That first date was Jan. 23, 1987. And after dinner that night, my friend said to his wife, “Don’t you ever fix one of my friends up with your friends again. They didn’t like one another.” Then about three weeks later, Shirley and I went to visit them and told them we were engaged to get married. And six months later, we were married.

Clockwise from top, Art Zimmer is the guest chef with Ron Curtis Jr. during a 2002 installment of “Freaky Flix and Food”; Zimmer prepares to accept the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce in March 2004; and among the editors-in-chief during Zimmer’s reign were Molly English-Bowers and Tina Schwab.

Michael Davis photos

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View From The Top Syracuse New Times publisher

Bill Brod discusses the paper’s new subscription model

BY KIRA MADDOX After being in the engineering world for 27 years, current Syracuse New Times publisher William Brod, of Cazenovia, needed a change. But how did a once self-described “tech geek, outdoorsman and sports guy” end up running the oldest alternative weekly in the United States?

To celebrate the Syracuse New Times’ 50th anniversary, Brod spoke about how he stumbled upon the newspaper nine years ago, the changing publishing industry and how The New Times has changed him over the years.

How did you find the Syracuse New Times?

It found me. When I was leaving my job in the engineering world, I talked to people I knew in town who dealt with businesses. I was looking for three things: A business that was involved in my community, because I was in a job that was taking me all over the Western Hemisphere; I wanted to be home at night; and I wanted something that if my wife and daughters wanted to be a part of it they could. Engineering was never going to offer that.

An accountant friend of mine told me that Art Zimmer was looking to sell The New Times and would I be interested in taking a look at it. I said, “Thanks for thinking of me, but I don’t know anything about the publishing business. I really don’t think that’s a fit.” But a nagging voice in my head kept telling me, “You wanted something that got you off the road and home at night, involved in the community, and something that your wife and daughters could be a part of.

What about those three things does The New Times not fit?” My wife and I eventually went over to Art Zimmer’s house and met with him for six hours, and that was it.

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What did you talk about?

Just about all the tentacles of the Syracuse New Times, its history and how it was founded. How it supported the liveliness of the community and the vibrancy.

The food, the art, the music, the other things that they traditionally covered.

There was no one else really doing what they were doing.

What has been one of the more impactful things someone has said to you about The New Times?

Some of the most impactful things have been said within the last nine months as we’ve been exploring a business model change. I did listening sessions and there were times where I sat for 45 minutes to two hours talking to readers who were really passionate about the paper or longtime readers who said, “This is a really important piece of the community; you have to find a way to preserve it.” It really inspired me to think about what we could do. And that drove us to the business model change.

One thing I heard was that people wanted more of the paper, not less, so now we’re thinking of ways to become more.

And that decision is now in the hands of the community, and I feel very at peace with that. If the community comes back and says The New Times is no longer interesting and relevant, we will learn to live with that. I don’t think they will, but if they do, there’s a great quote that says, “The market is never wrong.”

What has the overall reception been, between the marketing campaigns and the #ChooseSNT campaign, to switching to a subscription model?

I’m surprised by the number of people who have told me we should have done this years ago. I was kind of smacking

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myself in the head and saying, “Duh, how come we didn’t see that.” It shakes your nerves to make a major change like this to your business model. It’s not an easy thing that you just wake up and do.

When I talk to (other publishers) who have 40 or 45 years under their belt and they say this is something everyone in the business has to embrace at some point, it makes it a little easier to latch onto the idea. It’s a big, scary, audacious goal to make this change in the timeframe we’ve given ourselves. Very interesting times we live in, for sure.

Do you have a response to the naysayers saying things like “Print is dead” and “They should just close”?

I do. We are complete, ardent supporters of the First Amendment and people’s right to say what they want. But my question is: Who’s going to create the original content people want to see about their community? Do you think Facebook is going to hire people to go to Syracuse to talk about all of the cool things that are happening, or the new stores that are opening, or the new art exhibits or musical events? Is Google going to do that?

We have trusted journalists that are backed by editors and photographers.

We do our homework, we produce good, high-quality content that’s thought out, well written and well edited. And now the question is: Does Central New York appreciate that enough to pay a very modest price to get that delivered to them? I don’t know the answer, but I’m happy to ask the community and see what they say.

What do you enjoy most about being the publisher of the Syracuse New Times?

Going out and being in the community. If you talk to my daughters, they will say The New Times has changed me in many ways. It’s made me more aware, more tolerant, more open-minded, more interested in things that I never would have been interested in before. Prior to The New Times, you probably could have pigeon-holed me as a tech geek, an outdoorsman and a sports guy. Now I have so many different things that interest me.

And I’ve met a ton of people who are out here doing good work.

I’ve enjoyed being part of different discussions about community issues. David Haas wrote his story about I-81, which was nominated for an award. He created a great piece and did his historical research on that, and that injected The New Times into the forefront of the conversations about the changes surrounding

the interstate, and me into the discussion about I-81 as well, which I wouldn’t have been a part of otherwise.

What sets The New Times apart from other local media?

We are champions of Central New York. We’re not looking to tear people down or catch people with “gotcha” journalism. Sometimes we’ll call people on the carpet if they need it, but we’re looking to cover the good stories about what’s happening in Central New York that you will not find anywhere else. That is our unique niche. We’re not telling people what happened, we’re telling people about what’s going on in the area and what they need to be aware of. It could be recreational, it could be community and social, or it could be about a national issue like immigration. But we focus on things that affect our community.

The New Times is now the oldest alternative newsweekly still in print form. Why do you think it has lasted so long?

That title is because the two papers ahead of us went out of print. I would really honestly rather be the third oldest, all things being equal. But the fact that we are now the oldest, I’d like to hold onto that. It’s a sign of the times and it’s a sign of why we need to make changes.

No business is immune from disruption; it’s incumbent upon us to react to it, or other things will clear us off the landscape.

Subscription model aside, is there anything else you see on the horizon for The New Times or the industry?

I think the world is starting to tire of constantly being “on” with digital, and that the idea of reading something in print is coming back into fashion. I also think, whether you like Trump or not, the president has created a forced awareness by the general public of, “Where does your news come from, and is it a source that you can rely on and trust?” I think a lot of people see they have a lot of information to look at, and they can’t possibly consume it all, so they have to choose where and what they want.

One of the good things about the Syracuse New Times is that it sits on your table and waits for you. When you’re ready, it embraces you, and when you need to take a break, you get up and go do something else, and it’s waiting for you when you get back. It’s kind of like a puppy. It loves you, and it never lets you down. It’s always right there.

From left, publisher Bill Brod, columnist Jeff Kramer, and former editor-in-chief Larry Dietrich. Michael Davis photos

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Clockwise from bottom center, Susanne Panek from July 1987; Syracuse Mayor Tom Walsh enjoying a Winterfest ice slide from February 1988; the Mahoney family during their weekly Fridaynight pizza feast from April 2001; state Sen. Nancy Larraine Hoffman from summer 1996; Gov. Mario Cuomo at the May 1986 Syracuse University commencement (photos by Michael Davis); and faithful Syracuse New Times reader Tricky Dick.

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Clockwise from top left, WOLF’s Rick Wright from January 1995 (Michael Davis photo); 1970s morning-drive fixture Sweet Dick Burch, who bussed listeners to a Deep Throat screening (his show was titled “Sweet Dick in the Morning”); Galaxy Communications honcho Ed Levine from April 1997 (Michael Davis photo); longtime radio jock John Gray from the early 1980s (Michael Davis photo); Craig Fox at the start of his radio empire during the late 1970s; WNDR mainstay Jim O’Brien during the mid-1980s (Michael Davis photo); and WYYY programmers Howie Castle and Tommy Nast (Stephen Wunrow photos).

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Local and Vocal

It goes without saying that the Syracuse New Times would not have been nearly as much fun without our expansive coverage of the local music scene across the decades. The many acts included (clockwise from top left) the Masters of Reality from the late 1980s; the Electric Chick Magnets from April 1997 (Michael Davis photos); Hamell on Trial from May 1993 (Mr. Goodvibes photo); George Rossi from August 1993; and banjo impresario Tony Trischka from May 1994 (Michael Davis photos).

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Clockwise from top left, Lost Horizon club owner Greg Italiano from November 1987 (Michael Davis photo); the Lost’s former identity as the Yellow Balloon from November 1973 (Jaffe photo); The Flashcubes from June 1981, perhaps the most published photo in Syracuse New Times history (Dean Abramson photo); the Livin’ Ennd’s Sandy Bigtree and Al Wolfe from March 1975 (Bob Lorenz photo); Out of the Blue circa March 1983 (Michael Davis photo); Moss Back Mule Band from 1977 (Mr. Goodvibes photo); and hardcore fun with Earth Crisis from January 1995 (Michael Davis photo).

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Channel Surfing

Watching the local media all these years also meant profiles on a variety of newshounds and TV shows, including (clockwise from top left) the Channel 9 news team of Bob Burton, Rod Wood and Wendy Woods in a promotional shot from the late 1970s; Channel 9 reporter Mike Price hams it up with a circus employee from November 2004; then-Channel 5 anchor Carrie Lazarus before she station-hopped; Bill Lape and Alan Milair from Channel 3’s Monster Movie Matinee; Channel 5’s veteran anchor Ron Curtis from 1985; and Channel 5’s then-newbie newsie David Muir from 1998. Michael Davis photos

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Sunny Daze

Meteorologists that graced our pages over the decades include (clockwise from bottom left) Channel 5’s Al Roker from the mid-1970s; rivals Bud Hedinger, Jack Slater and Dennis Bowman during the early 1980s; Channel 3’s Wayne Mahar from 1989; and there’s not a mouse in the house with Channel 3 weathercat Doppler on patrol, circa 2005.

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THURSDAY 4/18 CNY Love Jam. Thurs. 7:30 p.m. Lil Mo and Slim of 112 share the stage with local performers Deidre Graves, Tamar Juntia and Erika Lovette at the Landmark Theatre, 362 S. Salina St. $30, $40, $50, $60, $80, $100. (315) 475-7979, landmarktheatre.org.

The Lizards. Thurs. 8 p.m. Hear the Phish tribute band at the Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St. $15. (315) 299-8886; thewestcotttheater.com.

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FRIDAY 4/19 Space Junk. Fri. 9 p.m. This band blends traditional rock with house music sounds, holding their own against modern DJs. Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $7. (315) 474-1060; funknwaffles.com.

Buggin’ Out. Fri. 9 p.m. Syracuse group mixes poetic hip-hop with funk and rock influences. Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. $6-$10. thelosthorizon.com.

SATURDAY 4/20 Roll Over Fest 2019. Sat. 7 p.m.

Tribute concert featuring three bands celebrating the music of the Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd. Tickets available at cnytix.com.

Palace Theatre, 2384 James St. $20.

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Anabasis. Sat. 7 p.m. Local progressive metal band at the Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Road. $10. thelosthorizon.com.

Pearly Baker’s Best. Sat. 9:30 p.m.

Grateful Dead tribute band performs with Chris Merkley. Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St. $10. (315) 474-1060; funknwaffles.com.

SUNDAY 4/21 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. (315) 682-1578.

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Buckethead. Tues. 8 p.m. Eclectic guitarist and multi-instrumentalist visits the Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St.. $25-$30. (315) 299-8886; thewestcotttheater.com.

David Kim. Tues. 8 p.m. Hear two jewels of the French piano repertoire: elegant and graceful “Suite Bergamasque” and Ravel’s exquisite “Sonatine.” Mohawk Valley Community College Utica Campus, 1101 Sherman Drive, Utica. $5. (315) 731-5721; calendar.mvcc.edu.

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Melody Rose. (Marriott Syracuse Downtown, 100 E. Onondaga St.) 5:30 p.m.

Jess Novak. (Notch 8, 6523 E. Seneca Turnpike, Jamesville) 6 p.m.

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Karaoke. (Phoenix American Legion, 9 Oswego River Road, Phoenix) 6 p.m.

Dirtroad Ruckus Duo. (David’s Hideaway, 68 Route 11, Central Square) 8 p.m.

Acoustic Open Mike. (Listening Room, 443 Burnet Ave.) 6:30 p.m.

Menage a Soul. (Dinosaur BBQ 256 West Willow St.) 9:30 p.m.

John Lerner. (Parker’s Grille, 129 Genesee St., Auburn) 7 p.m.

Lisa Lee Trio. (Kitty Hoynes, 301 W. Fayette St.) 8:30 p.m.

Lou Sacco & Friends. (Dominick’s PubN-Grub, 145 Camic Road, Central Square) 7 p.m.

Modafferi. (Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St, Auburn) 9 p.m.

Caleb Liber Duo. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave.) 8 p.m.

Brass Inc. (Club 11, 1799 Brewerton Road, Mattydale) 6 p.m.

Bruce Tetley. (Trappers Pizza Pub, 5950 Butternut Drive, East Syracuse) 6 p.m.

Jeff Paul. (Dock’s Grill at Pirate’s Cove Marina, 9170 Horseshoe Island Road, Clay) 6 p.m.

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Z-Dogs. (DannO’s, 3855 Split Rock Road, Split Rock) 7 p.m.

Calib Liber. (LakeHouse Pub, 6 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles) 8 p.m.

Hard Promises. (Sharkey’s, 7240 Oswego Road, Liverpool) 6 p.m.

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Max Eyle & Colin Aberdeen. (Listening Room, 443 Burnet Ave.) 7 p.m.

Jess Novak. (Duskee’s, 8 Bridge St., Phoenix) 6 p.m.

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Max Eyle Trio. (Al’s Wine and Whiskey Lounge, 321 S. Clinton St.) 9:30 p.m.

Open Mike. (Club 11, 1799 Brewerton Road) 8 p.m.

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Open Mike w/ Moe Bauso. (Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St., Auburn) 7 p.m.

Drew Serafini & Friends. (Green Gate Inn, 2 W Genesee St, Camillus) 7:30 p.m.

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Loren Barrigar, Lara Herscovitch & Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers. (Seneca Street Brew Pub, 315 E. Seneca St., Manlius) 7 p.m.

Swing Fever. (Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St, Auburn) 7 p.m.

SAT 4 .20

BIG “G” JAM MUSIC FESTIVAL

Open Mike w/ Evan Bujold. (Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St.) 7 p.m.

Open Mike. (Kellish Hill Farm, 3191 Pompey Center Road, Manlius) 7 p.m.

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Elephant, 238 W. Jefferson St.) 7 p.m.

Open Mike w/ Eric Scott. (Moniraes, Route 10, Pennellville) 7 p.m.

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Joe & Terry Acoustic. (Sweet Lew’s, 7356 Church St., North Syracuse) 6 p.m.

Brian McArdell & Mark Westers.

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Chapter Eleven. (Lucy’s Lounge, 6555 Old Collamer Road, East Syracuse) 7 p.m.

Jesse Derringer. (Phoenix American Legion, 9 Oswego River Road, Phoenix) 7 p.m.

John Spillett Jazz/Pop Duo. (Bistro

Phil Petroff and Natural Fact.

(Shifty’s,1401 Burnet Ave.) 9 p.m.

Urban Knight Punks. (Coleman’s Irish Pub, 100 S. Lowell Ave.) 11 p.m.

SATURDAY 4/20 John Spillett Jazz/Pop Duo. (Wegmans Market Cafe, 6789 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville) Noon.

Bruce Tetley. (Aloft Hotel, 310 W. Kirkpatrick St.) 6 p.m.

John Spillett Jazz/Pop Duo. (Stone’s Steakhouse, 3220 Erie Blvd E.) 6 p.m.

Paul Davie. (Full Boar Brew, 628 S. Main St., North Syracsue, Syracuse) 6 p.m.

Easy Ramblers. (Listening Room, 443 Burnet Ave.) 6:30 p.m.

Jesse Derringer. (Baldwinsville American Legion, 8529 Smokey Hollow Road, Baldwinsville) 7 p.m.

Jmo. (McAvan’s Pub, 1217 W Fayette St.) 7 p.m.

Outlaw Duo. (Phoenix American Legion, 9 Oswego River Road, Phoenix) 7 p.m.

The Ripcords. (Harpoon Eddie’s, 611 Park Ave., Sylvan Beach) 7 p.m.

4:20 Caustic Party. (Club 11, 1799 Brewerton Road, Mattydale) 8 p.m.

Bradshaw Blues. (McCarthy’s Pub, 64 Albany St., Cazenovia) 8 p.m.

Karaoke w/ CustomRock Entertainment. (Sweet Lew’s, 7356 Church St., North Syracuse) 8 p.m.

Safe Word. (Dominick’s, 145 Camic Roaed, Central Square) 8 p.m.

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Congratulations from the Syracuse Community Choir!

“Singing for Peace and Justice since 1985”

Dinner Show & Auction at May Memorial Summer Solstice Concert at St. Paul’s 4040 Tanner Road) 9 p.m.

Gold Dust Gypsies. (Average Joe’s, 2119 Downer St., Baldwinsville) 9 p.m.

Johnny Rage. (Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St., Auburn) 9 p.m.

Dirtroad Ruckus. (Roadhouse 48, Route 48, Fulton) 9:30 p.m.

Los Blancos. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave.) 9:30 p.m.

Tumbleweed Jones. (LakeHouse Pub, 6 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles) 9:30 p.m.

Better Than Bowling. (Canastota American Legion, 325 S. Peterboro St., Canastota) 10 p.m.

Modafferi. (Maxwells, 122 E Genesee St.) 10 p.m.

My So-Called Band. (Coleman’s Irish Pub, 100 S. Lowell Ave.) 10 p.m.

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SUNDAY 4/21 Dale Randall. (Wegmans Cafe’, 6789 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville) Noon.

Jesse Derringer. (Phoenix American Legion, 9 Oswego River Road, Phoenix) 2 p.m.

Jazz Jam. (Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St.) 3 p.m.

John Spillett Jazz/Pop Duo. (Blue Water Grill, 11 W. Genesee St., Skaneateles) 5 p.m.

Open Mike w/ Gunrunners. (Valley Blues House, 4141 S. Salina St.) 7 p.m.

Tim Herron. (Shifty’s, 1401 Burnet Ave.) 7 p.m.

Dinner and a Movie. (Funk N Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St.) 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 4/23

Gate Inn, 2 W. Genesee St., Camillus) 7:30 p.m.

Open Mike w/ Jess Novak & Friends.

(Maxwells, 122 E. Genesee St.) 9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 4/24 Dave Solazzo Duo. (Le Moyne Plaza, 1135 Salt Springs Road) Noon.

Frenay & Lenin. (Sheraton University Inn, 801 University Ave.) 5 p.m.

Andrea Miceli. (Marriott Syracuse Downtown, 100 E. Onondaga St.) 5:30 p.m.

Joey Belladonna. (Sweet Lew’s, 7356 Church St., North Syracuse) 5:30 p.m.

Jane Zell & Tamaralee Shutt. (Listening Room, 443 Burnet Ave.) 6:30 p.m.

13 Curves. (Kosta’s Bar and Grill, 105 Grant Ave., Auburn) 7 p.m.

Salsa Heat. (Wildflowers Armory, 225 W. Jefferson St.) 6:30 p.m.

Bruce Tetely. (The Stoop, 311 W. Fayette St., Syracuse) 7 p.m.

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Waffles, 307 S. Clinton St.) 7 p.m.

Open Mike w/ Moe Bauso. (Moondog’s Lounge, 24 State St, Auburn) 7 p.m.

Devinne Meyers. (Maxwells, 122 E Genesee St.) 9 p.m.

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The Humans. Wed. April 24, 7:30 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m.; closes May 12. Stephen Karam’s comedy-drama about a Thanksgiving gathering at Syracuse Stage’s Archbold Theatre, 820 E. Genesee St. $20-$53. (315) 443-3275.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Thurs.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m.; closes April 27. Tom Stoppard’s Shakespearean riff continues the season at the Central New York Playhouse, Shoppingtown Mall, 3649 Erie Blvd. E. $22/Fri. & Sat., $20/Thurs. & Sun. (315) 885-8960.

A Wee Bit O’Murder. Every Thurs.

6:45 p.m.; through April 25. Shamrock-inspired shenanigans in this interactive dinner-theater comedy whodunit; performed by Acme Mystery Company. Spaghetti Warehouse, 689 N. Clinton St. $29.95/plus tax and gratuity. (315) 475-1807.

COMEDY

Pretty Ricki. Thurs. 7:30 p.m. The funny lady performs at the Funny Bone Comedy Club, Destiny USA, off Hiawatha Boulevard. $10. (315) 423-8669.

Auggie Smith and Chris Lamberth.

Thurs. 8 p.m. The comics take the stage at The Vine, Del Lago Resort & Casino, 1133 Route 414, Waterloo. Free. (315) 946-1777, dellagoresort.com.

New York” at Sullivan Free Library, 101 Falss Blvd., Chittenango. Free. (315) 727-0759.

Spring Premiere Horse Show. Sat. & Sun. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Terrific trotters strut their stuff inside the Toyota Coliseum, New York State Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd. Free. (315) 682-1933, naomishorseshows.com.

Yoga with heART. Sat. 10:30 a.m.; through May 11. Enjoy a morning of alignment-based yoga led by Dara Harper at Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St. $15; free/first-time dropins. (315) 474-6064, everson.org.

Sankofa Piecemakers Quilting Group. Every Sat. 11 a.m.; through April 27. The gang meets at Beauchamp Branch Library, 2111 S. Salina St. Free. (315) 435-1900.

Mindfulness Meditation. Every Sun. 10 a.m.; through May 5. Focus on deep breathing and open up your mind at Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn. $5. (315) 2536669, auburnpublictheater.com.

Guy Torry. Fri. 7:30 & 10 p.m., Sat. 7 & 9:45 p.m. The actor-comic visits the Funny Bone Comedy Club, Destiny USA, off Hiawatha Boulevard. $15.

(315) 423-8669.

Earth Day Celebration. Mon. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Bird and nature walks and learn how to recycle in new ways at Beaver Lake Nature Center, 8477 Mud Lake Road, Baldwinsville. Free with $5 nature center admission. (315) 638-2519, events.onondagacountyparks.com.

Vernon Downs Race Track. Fri. & Sat. 6:10 p.m. Harness racing kicks off the 66th horsey season at Vernon Downs, 4229 Stuhlman Road, Vernon. Free.

(877) 88-VERNON, vernondowns.com.

Syracuse Professional Horseman Association Show. Wed. April 24, 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; through April 28.

The 70th annual event takes place at the Toyota Coliseum, New York State Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd. Free.

(315) 682-1933, syracusepha.org.

SPORTS

Syracuse Mets. Fri. 6:35 p.m., Sat. & Sun. 1:05 p.m., Mon. & Tues. 6:35 p.m., Wed. April 24, 10:35 a.m. The new boys of summer continue their inaugural season with contests against Pawtucket (Friday-Sunday) and Buffalo (Monday-Wednesday) at NBT Bank Stadium, 1 Tex Simone Way. $10$15. (315) 474-7833.

Syracuse Crunch Hockey. Fri. & Sat. 7 p.m. The puck-slappers continue their Calder Cup quest as they face off against the Toronto Marlies in the first and second games of the playoff series at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena, 515 Montgomery St. $19, $21, $23. (315) 473-4444, syracusecrunch.com.

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New York State Archaeological Association Meeting. Wed. April 17, 6-8 p.m. The local William M. Beauchamp Chapter hosts a discussion on “Late Pleistocene Peoples in Western

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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.

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Onondaga Lake Skatepark. Daily, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; through April, weather permitting. 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. Free. (315) 453-6712.

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After. Teen romance involving a virginal college student (Josephine Landford) who falls for a rebel without a cause (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin). Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:05, 4:05 & 7 p.m.

Late show Fri. & Sat.: 9:50 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 10:45 a.m., 2:15, 5:45 & 9:15 p.m.

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Topher Grace star in this faith-based drama. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1, 3:55 & 6:55 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 12, 3:30, 7 & 10:30 p.m.

Captain Marvel. Brie Larson as the Marvel Comics heroine in this high-flying installment. Great Northern 10.

Daily: 1:10, 4:10 & 7:10 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:05 p.m. Movie Tavern.

Daily: 11:15 a.m., 2:45, 6:15 & 9:45 p.m.

Cold Pursuit. Liam Neeson in vengeance mode as a Rocky Mountains snowplow driver who wants to wreck

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Daily: 9 p.m.

cartoon classic. Movie Tavern. Daily: 10:30 a.m., 2, 5:30 & 9 p.m.

The Curse of La Llorona. Linda Cardellini headlines this horror thriller.

Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:30, 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:15 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m.

Fighting With My Family. Dwayne Johnson plays himself in this biographical comedy-drama about WWE wrestler Saraya Paige Bevis.

Hollywood (Recliners). Daily: 3:50 p.m.

A Dog’s Way Home. Family flick about one pooch’s 400-mile journey. Hollywood (Recliners). Fri.-Mon.: 11:20 a.m.

Dumbo. Colin Farrell and Michael Keaton in director Tim Burton’s live-action version of the 1940 Disney

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Hellboy. The dark superhero gets darker with a R-rated reboot. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:40, 4:40 & 7:40 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:35 p.m.

Movie Tavern. Daily: 12:15, 3:45, 7:15 & 10:45 p.m.

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. Will Ferrell, Chris Pratt and Will Arnett bring their voices back for this cartoon sequel. Hollywood (Recliners). Fri.-Mon,: 1:30 p.m.

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Missing Link. Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson lend their voices to this stop-motion animated cartoon.

Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:25, 4:15 & 6:35 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 10:45 a.m., 2:15 & 5:45 p.m.

The Mustang. A convict rehabilitates wild horses in this heartfelt drama.

Manlius Art Cinema. Daily: 7:30 p.m.

Sat. & Sun. matinee: 2:30 & 4:30 p.m.

Penguins. New Disney nature documentary. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:20, 3:50 & 7:15 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 9:30 p.m. Movie Tavern. Daily: 1, 3:45, 6:30 & 9:15 p.m.

Pet Sematary. Remake of the 1989 movie adaptation of the Stephen King horror novel about the undead. Great Northern 10. Daily: 1:35, 4:35 & 7:35 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:30 p.m.

Movie Tavern. Daily: 12:30, 4, 7:30, 8:45 & 11 p.m.

Shazam! Asher Angel and Zachary Levi co-star as Billy Batson and his superheroic alter ego in this fun reboot of the Fawcett Comics’ longago Captain Marvel character. Great Northern 10. Daily: 12:55, 4 & 7:05 p.m. Late show Fri. & Sat.: 10:10 p.m.

Movie Tavern. Daily: 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 6:45 & 10:15 p.m.

Unplanned. Faith-based drama about a Planned Parenthood employee who becomes a pro-life activist. Great Northern 10. Fri. & Sat.: 9:40 p.m.

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Amazon Adventure. Wed. April 17-Sun. & Wed. April 24, 1 & 3 p.m.

Large-format thrills involving explorer Henry Bates’ travels amid the rainforest in the 1850s. Bristol IMAX at the

MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $6.

Film and exhibit hall: $17/adults, $15/ children under 11 and seniors. (315) 425-9068.

Apollo 11. Wed. April 17 & Thurs. 7 p.m. Documentary features new footage as Neil Armstrong and company blast off to the moon. Cinema Capitol Twin, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $8/ adults, $7/military and students. (315) 337-6453.

The Chase. Tues. 1 p.m. The 1966 high-voltage drama about tensions in a small Southern town with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and many more stars at the Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., Auburn. Free. (315) 253-6669.

Destroyer. Fri. & Sat. 4 & 7 p.m.; Sun. 1 & 4 p.m.; Mon.-Wed. April 24, 7 p.m.

Nicole Kidman in a gritty bad-cop yarn. Cinema Capitol Twin, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $8/adults, $7/military and students. (315) 337-6453.

Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. Wed. April 17-Sun. 11 a.m. Large-format yarn with the cute critters. Bristol IMAX at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $6. Film and exhibits: $17/adults, $15/children under 11 and seniors.

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Life of Brian. Thurs. 7 p.m. The irreverent 1979 Monty Python biblical spoof at the Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. $10. afterdarkpresents.com.

Marihuana: The Weed with Roots in Hell. Sat. 10 p.m. The 1936 anti-pot cult classic. Cinema Capitol Twin, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $10. (315) 3376453.

Mary Magadalene. Wed. April 17 & Thurs. 7:15 p.m. Rooney Mara in the title role plays opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus in this biblical fare.

Cinema Capitol Twin, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $8/adults, $7/military and students. (315) 337-6453.

The Mustang. Fri. & Sat. 4:15 & 7:15 p.m.; Sun. 1:15 & 4:15 p.m.; Mon.-Wed. April 24, 7:15 p.m. A convict rehabilitates wild horses in this heartfelt drama. Cinema Capitol Twin, 234 W. Dominick St., Rome. $8/adults, $7/military and students. (315) 337-6453.

Superpower Dogs. Wed. April 17-Sun. & Wed. April 24, noon & 2 p.m. A half-dozen heroic pooches come to the rescue in this large-format documentary. Bristol IMAX at the MOST, 500 S. Franklin St. Film: $6. Film and exhibits: $17/adults, $15/ children under 11 and seniors. (315) 425-9068.

Think Fast Mr. Moto, The Phantom of Crestwood. Mon. 7:30 p.m. Doubleheader mystery fun with Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez and more, which continues the Syracuse Cinephile Society’s spring season at the Spaghetti Warehouse, 680 N. Clinton St. $3.50.

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Articles of Organization of B-Call, LLC (“LLC”) were filed with Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 03/19/2019. Office Location: Onondaga County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to, and the LLC’ s principal business location is 606 Mallard Drive, Camillus, New York 13031.

Purpose: any lawful business purpose.

HAIR JOINT 356, LLC: Notice of Formation of LLC. Art. of Org. for HAIR JOINT 356, LLC (“LLC”) were filed with the Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 04/08/2019. Office Location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 356 N. Midler Ave., Syracuse, NY 13206.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.

JLI HOLDINGS LLC with SSNY on 02/19/19. Office: Onondaga. SSNY desg as agent for process & shall mail to 4265 Inverrary Drive, Liverpool, New York, 13090. Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FILING OF ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION IN NEW YORK BY A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: MCS Business Solutions, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with sec. of state of NY(SOS) on 3/1/19.

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Notice of Formation of 261 W. 28th St, 7E, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/7/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 245, Syracuse, NY 13214. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of AWM Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/2/19.

Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 6032 Lakeshore Rd., Cicero, NY 13039. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of B Yoga LLC. Filed 3/13/19. Cty: Ondondaga. SSNY desig. as agent for process and shall mail to: Betsy Pfohl, 310 N Manlius St., Fa y e tt e v i l l e , N Y 13066. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BFN TECH CONSULTING.LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/28/2018. 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 STIG REHNMARK, 34 LAKEVIEW CIRCLE, SKANEATELES, NY 13152. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Business Edge, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/1/19.

Office location: Onondaga Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Michael Suits, 201 Knowell Road, Camillus, NY 13031.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Central New York Language Services LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New Yo r k ( S S N Y ) o n 01/31/2019. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of L LC u p o n w h o m p ro c e ss m a y b e served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 100 High St., Syr-

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acuse, NY 13208.

Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Clarke Law Firm, PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 8, 2019. 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: 499 S. Warren St., Ste. 703, Syracuse, NY 13202. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CNY Havens, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 29, 2019.

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 170087, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CNY Reliable Services, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on Feb. 4, 2019. 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 Eric Hirons, 4998 Alexis Dr., Liverpool, NY 13090. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CovOps, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/22/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, P.O. Box 3057, Mt. Vernon, NY 10553.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Dental Assistants Rock, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on

12/31/2018. 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 Julie Varney 3 Mirage Lane, Clay, NY 13041. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: 6864 E. Genesee Street LLC; Date of Filing: 03/07/2019; 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 Edabel Juliees, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 27, 2019. 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 655, Jamesville, NY 13078. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EMLIZ EDWARDSVILLE PA PROPERTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/20/19.

Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1665 South Ivy Trail, Baldwinsville, NY 13027. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of EMLIZ FULTON PROPERTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/20/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of L LC u p o n w h o m process against it

may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1665 South Ivy Trail, Baldwinsville, N Y 1 3 0 2 7 . Pu r pose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of EMLIZ WILKES BARRE PA PROPERTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/20/19.

Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1665 South Ivy Trail, Baldwinsville, NY 13027. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of ETAX NY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03-122019. 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 ETAX NY LLC, 1004 BUTTERNUT ST, SYRACUSE, NY 13208. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Goalline Medical, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/14/19. County: Onondaga. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 8 Mirage L a n e , C l a y, N Y 13041. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Gratitude Culture LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 24, 2019. 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 129 Stafford Ave, Syracuse, NY 13206. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JFMA Consulting

Group, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 11, 2019. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon who, process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Jody Manning, 6422 Jane Lane, Cicero, NY 13039. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Lamson Road Properties, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/14/2019. Office location: County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e ss m a y b e served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: LLC, 100 Madison Street, Suite 1905, Syracuse, NY 13202. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LaSala Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/28/19. 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 425 Allen St. #3, Syracuse, NY 13210. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Leatherneck Safety, Service and Supply, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 11, 2019. 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 5100 Highbridge St., Suite 41C, Fayetteville, NY 13066. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LEPANTO 35 LLC— Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of

New York on March 29, 2019. 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 3625 Pendleton Street Extension, 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.

Notice of Formation of Lively Entity, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/05/2019. Office is located in the County of Cortland. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 44 Oswego St., Apt #3, Cortland, NY 13045. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Madden Development CNY LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/19/2019. 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: LLC, 4760 Cornish Heights Pkwy, Syracuse, NY 13215. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MGM CNY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/8/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7020 Hunters Crossings Road, Lafayette, NY 13084, Attn: Mr. Gregory S. Miller. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Mixed Meth-

ods, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on April 7, 2019. 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 Northwest Registered Agent LLC 90 State Street STE 700 Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MULKEYWELLS, LLC, Art of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/13/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process: 415 East Washington Street, Syracuse NY, 13202 Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Nojaim Holdings, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/25/19.

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 c/o the LLC, 5316 Cobbler Way, Camillus, New York 13031.

Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SAIGON VIETNAMESE KITCHEN, LLC, Art of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/05/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process: 7421 Oswego Road Unit B, Liverpool, NY 13090. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Source Social Connect, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 13, 2019. Office is located in the County of

Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e ss m a y b e served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Source Social Connect PO Box 6332 Syracuse, NY 13217. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Talev Properties, LLC, a Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) with offices located in Onondaga County, for the purpose of any lawful act or activity under the Limited Liability Company Law. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on February 22, 2019.

SSNY is the agent designated to receive service of process on behalf of the LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of such service of process to Alexander Talev, 4279 Crested Butte Run, Syracuse, NY 13215.

Notice of Formation of The Candelero Group, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/01/2018. 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 136 Walton St., Syracuse, NY 13202. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of The Haven Shoppe LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/25/2019.

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 4796 Appaloosa Trl Clay, NY 13041. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of The Lake Camp LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on

March 20, 2019. 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 4465 E Genesee St. STE 115, Syracuse, NY 13214-2242. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of The Recover Lounge, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/7/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 311 Town Dive, Fa y e t t e v i l l e , N Y 13066. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Travels With Wendy, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 4, 2018.

Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of L LC u p o n w h o m p ro c e ss m a y b e served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4727 Troop L Road, Manlius, NY 13104. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Tully’s Good Times Concessions, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/29/19. Office location: Onondaga County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: One Technology Place, East Syracuse, NY 13057, Attn: Mr. Daniel M. Giamartino. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of WHIPPLE HOLDINGS, LLC — Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on April 10, 2019.

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 8371 Glen Eagle Drive, Manlius, New York 13104. The principal office of the limited liability company is located at 122 Tompkins Street, Cortland, New York 13045. The limited liability company was formed for any lawful business purpose.

Notice of Formation of Wishes and Wardrobes, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/25/2019. 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 c/o the LLC, 164 Terrace Way, Camillus, New York 13031. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WOODY’S 103 LLC — Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 3/12/19. 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 3625 Pendleton Street Extension, 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.

Notice of Formation of Zazzara Management, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State or New York (SSNY) on 3/28/2019. 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 344 S. Warren St., Ste 202, Syracuse NY 13202. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Zazzara Organization, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/11/19. 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 344 S. Warren St., STE 202, Syracuse, NY 13202. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of: M & M of Syracuse, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/11/2019. Office is located in the County of Onondaga. SSNY is designated as agent of L LC u p o n w h o m p ro c e ss m a y b e served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3393 Stiles Road, Syracuse, NY 13209.

Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of: Salt Lake Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/11/2019. 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 7307 E. Sorrell Hill Road, Baldwinsville, NY 13027. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of LLC Formation Damnon Brothers LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/12/2019. 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 Damon Brothers LLC, 1021 Willis Ave., Apt 4, Syracuse, NY 13204.

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designated agent upon whom process may be served against the LLC to C/O C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, New York, NY 10005. DE OL: Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington. DE 19801. Cert of form filed with: Secy. of St. of DE, Division of Corps., Townsend Bldg, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. PUR: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Gem Street Holdings LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/20/19.

Office location: Onondaga County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/18/19.

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Sami Syracuse, LLC with SSNY on 02/20/19. Office: Onondaga. SSNY desg as agent for process & shall mail to 7740 Doe Haven Circle, Cicero, New York, 13039. Any lawful purpose.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ONONDAGA —————————————x MidFirst Bank, Plaintiff,

-against- Kristina White a/k/a Kristina Wilkerson as heir to the Estate of Blanche A. White, Delmon White as heir to the Estate of Blanche A. White, Danielle Foster as Heir to the Estate of J a c q u e l i n e White-Foster who was heir to the Estate of Blanche A. White, George Foster as Heir to the Estate of Jacqueline White-Foster who was heir to the Es-

tate of Blanche A. White, Jermaine Foster as Heir to the Estate of Jacqueline White-Foster who was heir to the Estate of Blanche A. White, Racine M. White as Heir to the Estate of Max White who was heir to the Estate of Blanche A. White, Marlena W. White as heir to the Estate of Blanche A. White if she be living and if she be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as maybe dead, and her spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees, and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, Deborah White as heir to the Estate of Blanche A. White if she be living and if she be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgag-

ees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as maybe dead, and her spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees, and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown t o P l a i n t i ff a n d Blanche A. White’s respective heirs-atl a w, n e x t - o f - k i n , distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America, St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, New Century Finan-

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $46,050.00 and interest, recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Onondaga on December 11, 1991 in Book 6086, Page 089 covering premises known as 215-17 Elizabeth Street a/k/a 215-217 Elizabeth Street, Syracuse, NY 13205.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured

by the Mortgage described above.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

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BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York March 7, 2019 Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01087738- F00 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ONONDAGA INDEX NO. 008066/2018 Plaintiff designates ONONDAGA as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 204 CRANBERRY DRIVE LIVERPOOL, NY 13088 District: Section: 29 Block: 7 Lot: 12 REVERSE MORTGAGE

FUNDING LLC, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates ONONDAGA as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

MARIA D. HEINLEIN, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARY A. BUSCO, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; ANGELA L. BUSCO, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARY A. BUSCO; ANTONIO G. BUSCO, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARY A. BUSCO; ROCCO L. BUSCO, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARY A. BUSCO; TONY BUSCO AKA ANTHONY L. BUSCO, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARY A. BUSCO; CYNTHIA PAOLETTI AKA CYNDY A. PAOLETTI, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MARY A . B U S CO ; U N KNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE

ESTATE OF MARY A. BUSCO, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; ONONDAGA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES; HSBC BANK NEVADA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last t w e l v e n a m e s b eing fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporat i o n s , i f a n y, h a v ing or claiming an int erest in o r l i e n u p o n t h e p re m i s es, described in t he c o mpla i n t , Defendants.

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff ’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff

THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $138,000.00 and interest, recorded on March 28, 2012, at Liber 16753 Page 0474, of the Public Records of ONONDAGA County, New York, covering premises known as 204 CRANBERRY DRIVE LIVERPOOL, NY 13088.

BY: Sahar Hamlani, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675

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Upstate Professional Center LLC with SSNY on 03/21/19.

Office: Onondaga.

SSNY desg as agent for process & shall mail to 4589 Stoneledge Lane Manlius, New York, 13104.

Any lawful purpose.

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The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

ONONDAGA County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.

Verbeck LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/14/2019.

Office: Onondaga County. Legalcorp Solutions, LLC designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Legalcorp Solutions, LLC at 11 Broadway Suite 615, New York, NY 10004.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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