The Syracuse Orange football squad wasn’t the only thing dressed in gray Saturday. The new building going up across from our usual parking lot down the hill had a new layer on certain portions ...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/11/16/speaking-of-getting-your-gray-on/
For Friday night’s Syracuse college football game against Clemson, my dear wife Karen and I decided to take a different walking route up to the Carrier Dome. It took us past the Golisano Childr...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/10/17/lets-hear-it-for-the-childrens-hospital/
The radio talk show guys were wondering what Syracuse’s 27-24 upset over Clemson on the night of Friday the 13th compared to in the Orange’s Carrier Dome history. They were young post-game ho...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/10/15/syracuse-rocks-the-dome-old-school-with-the-clemson-win/
Our one show at Lakeview Amphitheater this summer did it for me. Lady Antebellum, You Sound Great. That horn section borrowed from Justin Timberlake? Genius. Yes, I’d say the power of Hillary S...
With the weather looking iffy as usual this summer of 2017, my dear wife Karen and I decided we’d go for the lawn-to-pavilion upgrade if the folks at Lakeview Pavilion offered it. I’d called ...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/07/20/lakeview-amphitheater-still-looks-gorgeous-to-me/
Another movie taken from the pages from a YA novel, is this romantic excursion Everything, Everything. I’ve stopped treading so lightly to these Young Adult fests, having been thoroughly pulled...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/05/22/everywhere-everywhere-leaves-me-feeling-nowhere/
You couldn’t help but root for Amy Schumer in her movie premiere from 2015, Trainwreck. Now that was a romantic comedy that showed off every bid of her wit and wisdom, as she wrote and starred ...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/05/15/amy-schumer-goldie-hawn-grab-my-guilty-laughs-in-snatched/
Joe Driscoll smiled widely from the podium on the stage of The Palace Theatre on James Street during Friday night’s Syracuse Area Music Awards show. He gripped his shiny black Sammys trophy for...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/03/05/yes-the-music-scene-in-syracuse-is-lovely/
A trip to downtown Syracuse to meet my dear wife Karen at the end of our last work week brought me a surprise as we walked past Clinton Square. The city Christmas Tree not only still standing, bu...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/01/24/a-tree-still-colorful-in-clinton-square/
We completed a bathroom project at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. And I’m so glad we didn’t have to drill into the tile inside the tub/shower enclosure to do it. W...
https://markbialczak.com/2017/01/12/well-go-there-with-the-shampoo-bottles/