Here’s the first part of our conversation with local entrepreneur and artist Michael Heagerty. Heagerty founded a non-traditional tour/hospitality business called NoExcuses(SYR).
New signs (designed by Syracuse students) now dot the Connective Corridor Bus Route.
Here’s part two of the Tim Bond interview from last week.
Syracuse Stage Producing Artistic Director Timothy Bond talks about the impact of writer August Wilson, specifically Two Trains Running, which is playing this month at the theater. Syracuse Stage has run seven of Wilson’s ten plays that chronicle African American life in each decade of the 20th Century.
Bond, who is the director for Two Trains, said Wilson’s plays are “poetic blues operas.”
Actor Taye Diggs, who earlier this week fought off an intruder at his home, came to Syracuse a few years ago and read from his book Chocolate Me. The event was held at the Greater Evangelical COGIC. Fellow SU Alum Shane Evans provided the sounds.
SU professor and short story writer George Saunders recently taped a segment with Charlie Rose and gave insight on his work flow and shared a few wonderful stories about upstate cities such as Rochester and Watertown.
Here’s a brief conversation with illustrator/photographer/painter Anthony Washington, who installed a new mural outside the Spark Art Gallery on East Fayette Street on Monday afternoon.
Jump Around: Wacky Chad performs at the Palace Theater
Wacky Chad and Wade Live played tag team partners and performed a family show (hosted by Dan Frigolette) last night at the Palace Theater. The night was full of energetic stunts, tricks and plenty of laughs.
Wacky Chad recently returned to the States after shows in India.
Wade Live, the magician with comic timing
T. Blunt
Anna Phillips
Dan Frigolette
Hoboken’s Dan Frigolette (graduate of Baldwinsville High) put together another joke fest this year, featuring Anna Phillips, and Syracuse natives Jessimae Peluso and newcomer T. Blunt (who served as the MC). There were two sets for the Friday show.
Jessimae Peluso
Junot Diaz at Syracuse University
Former SU professor and current best-selling writer Junot Diaz will be featured in a conversation today at the 92 St. Y in NYC.