Lawrence Czajkowski performed his original composition “Electric Fancy” at the Onondaga County Public Library Masterclass “Finale 2” on Monday. Czajkowski (chy-KAWF-skee ) was the closing act. The event featured nearly 20 artist performances and was held at Le Moyne College. The third finale will be held tonight.
Thanks to Larry Luttinger for inviting us to this event last night. The OCPL Masterclass sounds like a great way to expose emerging and under represented talent. We also found out that the Masterclass is a free program. Check out below, as Larry (Luttinger) introduces another Larry (Czajkowski), and reminds us that CNY is also home to some great composers.
When it comes to getting in shape, training for sports, self-defense or fight choreography, there’s no better experts in Syracuse than H2 Fitness (JT and Alana) and the EMAT Center. We’ve seen their work up close. This morning JT Houston and Alana Hughes visited the Syracuse Open Martial Arts Tournament, which was organized by El Java Abdul Qadir and Excel Martial Arts.
The President has a theme song; Syracuse Football has a fight song,but we think this would be a great welcome to summer song for our city. In fact, maybe Sophistafunk and the 315 Elks Pride Drumline could play the next Hancock Airport musical showcase or open up the Northeast Jazz and Wine Festival.
Some people are just cool enough to be mentioned by first name alone. Here Michael (Heagerty) does his best Michael (Jackson) dance moves during a set by Joe Driscoll (accompanied by DJ Afar) at the Taste of Syracuse.
A great day for a duck race: Syracuse Inner Harbor
Louisville, KY may have the Derby, but in Syracuse we have the Duck Race.
Here are some photographs from today’s 13th Annual Duck Race to end Racism, sponsored by Interfaith Works. The event took place at the Inner Harbor Pavilion; the race started at the Kirkpatrick entrance of Onondaga Creek.
Media personality George Kilpatrick (center) leads the crowd in a Wobble dance in the Harbor Pavilion before the duck race.
Student intern Abiba Salahou (left) and Mercy Works, Inc. Program Director Gina Rivers enjoy the festivities before the duck race.
After a week of non-stop promotional appearances, Quackers catches a well-deserved break.
Ducks in a row: Inner Harbor (flowing against a strong wind from the northwest)
Listen below to some of Dr. Boyce’s comments about Syracuse, his differential diagnosis for future progress, and a prescription for leaders to replenish.
We have been on the look out for Professor Charisse L’Pree, Ph.D. since we heard she took over the (Media) Race and Conversation series at SU. Her areas of expertise include persuasive communications and media psychology.
L’Pree’s presentation on “The #Healthyselfie” was a crowd pleaser at TEDx Syracuse University back in April.
A selfie is still a selfie, even if you don’t share it or post in on social media, she says, because in our hyper-connected world we use them to encode our memories and document our lives.
We look forward to L’Pree’s forthcoming selfie book, The Media Made Me Crazy. Beyond her academic pursuits, maybe she’ll launch a reality series called the “Charisse Chronicles,” or “Keeping up with L’Pree” to continue the psychoanalysis of our selfie obsession.
