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See below for some of my writing from the Syracuse Post-Standard, New Times, the Democrat & Chroincle, Charleston Post & Courier and more:
Syracuse Post-Standard
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Prison breaks and pop culture: Why we’re so fascinated with the Dannemora escape (6/29/15)
Chevy Court: The best free concert series in America? (5/28/15)
What do Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton have in common? B.B. King (5/15/15)
Trash or art? ‘Welcome to Syracuse’ sign takes a poignant swipe at Mayor Miner (5/10/15)
Grandstand concerts at state fairs may be a thing of the past (4/29/15)
Saturday night fever: 5 takeaways from an evening at a Brewerton Disco (4/28/15)
Electronic dance music: Rock ‘n roll? Or disco? (8/2/14)
Dancing with Marge, Syracuse’s biggest music fan (8/1/14)
B.B. King struggles at Jazz Fest, and we all love him for it (7/13/14)
Beta testing with Yonder Mountain String Band 2.0 (7/8/14)
Abdo’s Grocery closes shop after 78 years on Westcott Street (6/27/14)
5 reasons we love to hate Dave Matthews Band (5/28/14)
The Phish that got away: Syracuse nearly landed the band’s 6-day stay (5/19/14)
David Remnick at SU: If commencement isn’t the right forum for a socially charged speech, what is? (5/12/1$)
WSYR’s local presence continues to fade (4/1/14)
How to drink like a grownup on St. Patrick’s Day (3/14/14)
Unwinding with Phish bassist Mike Gordon (2/27/14)
Punk rockers Perfect Pussy: Scorned in Syracuse (1/16/14)
Life lessons with longtime rocker Todd Hobin (1/15/14)
Lou Reed’s last legacy at Syracuse: A criminal, a dissident and a poet (10/31/13)
Telling tales with Upstate’s most ambitious new band: Rabbit in the Rye (10/20/13)
Remembering and resurrecting the Long Branch concerts (6/18/13)
May album reviews (5/24/13)
Old Crow Medicine Show (5/23/13)
How a group of buskers from Ithaca became the biggest bluegrass band in America
Meet this year’s NYS Fair grandstand acts (5/17/13)
NYS Fair: Do country acts sell more tickets? (5/10/13)
Ke$ha proves more style than substance at the Carrier Dome (4/27/13)
After 48 years, Garland Jeffreys returns to Syracuse (4/19/13)
Record Store Day 2013 celebrates the commercial resurgence of vinyl (4/19/13)
Review: Dirty Projectors supersede standard indie rock (4/15/13)
Bob Dylan’s love/hate relationship with Upstate NY (4/11/13)
Review: The Revival Tour returns populism to popular music (4/3/13)
Syracuse vs. Michigan: Beyond basketball (comedy) (4/2/13)
Review: Dinosaur BBQ proves Syracuse is more than just a basketball town (Samantha Fish) (3/22/13)
Why hip-hop in Syracuse gets a bad rap (2/22/13)
Why Mumford & Sons didn’t deserve a Grammy (2/11/13)
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Review: The Blue Man Group (11/2/12)
The blue-faced trio takes the stage at the Rochester Auditorium
Review: Patton Oswalt (9/22/12)
The porky stand-up comic takes aim at himself at Rochester’s Fringe Fest
Syracuse New Times
Ring-a-Ding Boomeranger (9/19/12)
Syracuse ivory-tickler Vinnie Falcone returns home after a 40-year Vegas career including a long run with Frank Sinatra
Growing Pains (9/5/12)
Adulthood seems to be finally catching up with Syracuse sweethearts The Scarlet Ending
Water Works (8/8/12)
COVER STORY: How a small town turned a toxic island into a thriving quarter-million dollar arts and entertainment venue
Jason Benetti (7/3/12)
COVER STORY: Syracuse Chiefs commentator Jason Benetti has taken the organization by storm in the past three years
Q&A with Bobcat Goldthwait (4/25/12)
COVER STORY: Syracuse native Bobcat Goldthwait discusses the premiere of God Bless America at the SXSW festival in Austin, TX
Jim Donovan of Rusted Root (4/25/12)
The champion drum circler comes to Liverpool to lead a community-based workshop
Bird Brains (4/18/12)
The latest scandal in Orange nation: a basketball-shaped birdhouse (scroll down to find story)
Laugh Out Loud (4/11/12)
What caused Syracuse groups to book three major standup comics in one weekend? (scroll down to find story)
West Side Wonder (4/4/12)
A group of Syracuse University students transform a drug house into an arts education facility on the Near West Side
Books, Brews, and Bumpin’ Beats (3/21/12)
Creekside Books emerges as the premier music venue in Skaneateles following the closing of Morris’s Grill.
Stimulus Package (2/22/12)
A look at the underground world of virtual sex in Utherverse’s Red Light Center (scroll down to find story)
Sex and the Salt City (2/22/12)
Why filmmaker Justin Nappi chose Syracuse for the John Cusack film Adult World (scroll down to find story)
Heartbreak Kid (2/15/12)
Mike McKay channels heartache and heartbreak in his newest album: Fortress.
Hip-Hop Hooray (2/1/12)
COVER STORY: Hip hop returns to Armory Square, pioneered by spud-spitting potato rapper ToTs.
Review: A Little Lights Music (2/1/12)
The Canadian pop singer scrambles through an erratic, unfocused set at Lost Horizon
Occupied (1/25/12)
COVER STORY: Syracuse’s 99% face eviction and arrest with unbridled optimis
Hip & Happening: A Profile of the Westcott Theater (1/18/12)
COVER STORY: How a former porn theater evolved into CNY’s premier music venue in less than three years
The Grass is Always Bluer: Greensky Bluegrass Preview (1/18/12)
The Kalamazoo jam-grass group channels Jerry Garcia in the wake of bands like String Cheese Incident
Tome Sweet Tome (1/11/12)
Syracuse adopts the One Community, One Book program (scroll down to find story)
Boos from B’ville (1/4/12)
Local filmmaker Matt Lipke capitalizes on urban legends in his directorial debut
Dominic Robinson: Northern Light (12/28/11)
COVER STORY: What has Dom Robinson been up to since his football coach father fled town?
Kollege of Musical Knowledge (11/17/11)
A firsthand account of Syracuse’s Music Industry Conference
Review: The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (10/19/11)
Chris Robinson proves he’s still got the physics, but he and his band lack any chemistry
Charleston Post & Courier
Rebirth Brass Band parties on (6/8/12)
Preview of the New Orleans-based brass troupe
Spoleto on 2 wheels (6/8/12)
Charleston artists and their favorite mode of transportation
Soundscapes: How music defines a city (6/5/12)
Reaching the young (6/3/12)
How the Spoleto festival attempts to bridge a widening generational gap and shed the image of white hairs and hearing aides
Crossing over (6/2/12)
John Cage and Jonny Greenwood blur genre in featured Spoleto program
Review: Joy Kills Sorrow (6/1/12)
Q&A with Martha Teichner (5/31/12)
A conversation with the queen of Spoleto conversations: CBS correspondent Martha Teichner
Review: Bowed Piano Ensemble (5/31/12)
Spoleto board notes ticket surge (5/28/12)
Coverage of Spoleto Festival USA board of directors meeting
Echoes of the Civil War (5/26/12)
Preview of the 8th Regiment Band of Georgia with Jari Villanueva
Spoleto Festival USA launches with extravaganza (5/25/12)
Coverage of the Spoleto Festival’s opening ceremony
The NewsHouse
History repeating (2/29/12)
Chris’s thoughts on Corey Glover and Galactic at the Westcott Theater
Syracuse students call Westboro Baptists’ bluff (12/2/11)
A Patriot’s Ride (11/3/11)
A day with the Patriot Guard Riders
Review: Rachael Yamagata (10/28/11)
Review: Paper Diamond and the Turnt Up Tour (9/24/11)
Homecoming with The Scarlet Ending (8/26/11)
An interview with the local starlets
Breaking Nails Magazine
In spring 2012 I, along with three other graduate students at the Newhouse School, developed and launched a prototype women’s magazine–Breaking Nails. Check out my story on Peace Corps volunteer Kaitlyn Malkiewicz.
Film Geek Radio
Check out my weekly online radio show “Wait Wait, Don’t Eat Me!” where I talk zombies, the apocalypse and The Walking Dead with co-hosts Sam Napolitan and Katrina Tulloch!
Green Room Reviews
Review: Jeff Kramer’s ‘Reaching for Marsby’ premiers in Syracuse (3/3/12)
Review: Behind enemy lines at the ‘Vagina Monologues’ (2/11/12)
Review: Not Another Theater Company performs ‘A Tuna Christmas’ (11/11/11)
JamBandsOnline.com
Review: Phish Superball IX (8/1/11)
Review: Bonnaroo 2011 (6/27/11)
Review: Umphrey’s McGee (3/9/10)
Review: Furthur (2/20/10)
SpyPod
On my other blog, SpyPod, I single out celebrities and let you know what’s on their iPod. A quick, fun time-waster.
I love music and journalism and try to get as much of both as possible. I also love gold shekels but find them harder to come by. I am the music and entertainment writer for Syracuse Media Group. If you're with Rolling Stone please give me a call.