The Cortland music scene and SUNY Cortland students don’t typically interact, but members of Stealing Signs found time between assignments to play at Cortland bars. The punk band, which …
Here’s a sampling of what’s going on in the greater Cortland area. MUSIC June 7: The Verve Pipe, 8 p.m., Center for the Arts of Homer. June 9: Josh Ritter, 8 p.m., Center …
I will confess that the sum total of what I know about Italian cuisine can be summed up in an exchange I once had with an Italian grandmother, whose parents had come over on the boat. …
Pride month is upon us and with that there is a vast increase in the number of rainbow flags people fly to show their support for the LGBTQ community. Pride month is also when a lot more LGBTQ people …
St. Anthony’s Italian Festival will begin a week of festivities with a spaghetti dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the St. Anthony church hall, 50 Pomeroy St. The menu includes Election …
It’s kitten season, and whether you want to make your pet’s life better or maybe adopt a new friend — kitten or other — Saturday’s Pet Fair has something to offer. …
Here’s a sampling of what’s going on in the greater Cortland area. MUSIC May 31: Tinsley Ellis, 8 p.m., Rose Hall, 19 Church St., Cortland. June 5: John Hiatt, 8 p.m., …
In my corner of western New York, the past winter was a lukewarm and muddy season. It rained more than it snowed. The landscape resembled a muddy impressionist painting rather than a frozen …
FREEVILLE – Amy Dickinson has never left anything in her life, she said; she just wasn’t built for transitions. Today, she left something for the first time: her column “Ask …
On May 18, 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 10 mission. Apollo 10 was designed to test every part of the Apollo 11 mission, except for the landing. Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young were …
The spousal unit is a carbivore. Potatoes, pasta, white rice — if it has so little flavor that anything dresses it up, and such a soft texture that chewing isn’t necessary, she’s on …
Gilligan’s Island is not a perfect musical, said Director Jim Coon. But the perfect cast, and perfect execution, can make it a three-hour tour instead of a three-hour ordeal. Center for …
Need a new hobby this summer? Take up doll-making, or sew your next Halloween costume. This summer, Magpie Custom Creations, in the Cortland Corset Building on East Court Street, is offering …
Artist Ralph Turturro sees a split-second moment in a film, and creates an 8-foot-long painting interpreting it, and everything else surrounding it. Turturro’s show, “Excape …
The punk scene is all about D.I.Y., or doing it yourself, said Sawyer Wolak, a performer and show organizer. That makes Cortland ReUse the perfect venue for the genre. Cortland ReUse is hosting …
Nobody told me the herb was a tree. Today, the potted bay plants I bought about a decade ago for about $8 at a farmers market are better termed “saplings.” If I stripped every leaf …
The Homer Regional Farmers Market has existed in many shapes and sizes before, but this summer, it will be held weekly, and it will be more than just a place to pick up some vegetables. The …
Fran Crowe, owner of gaming store Area 51, was always interested in video games and technology growing up. But when the 3D printer was invented, he thought it was the most sci-fi technological …
On May 14, 1973, the United States launched its first space station through NASA. Launched from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Skylab repurposed unused hardware from the Apollo …
It’s been a staple of high school English classes for generations. Now it’s on stage in Homer. Homer students of all grades, genders and levels of acting experience will perform …
I grew up in a community with so little cultural diversity that if you looked at it from orbit, you’d go blind. No Asian people; no Hispanic people; no Jewish people and few (if any) …
I have not been to a lot of concerts over the years, but I have seen a few great bands in person. I saw The Who in Buffalo when I was in college at St. Bonaventure University. I went to a Beach …
MUSIC May 4: JD Souther, 8 p.m., Center for the Arts of Homer. May 5: Margaret Glaspy, Unplugged, 8 p.m., Center for the Arts of Homer. May 5: Patti Stanford Band, 2 to 5 p.m., …
My mother would call home from work when I was 11. She had forgotten to take supper out of the freezer, and she needed me to cook. I was 11; I hadn’t learned anything about food except …
