On August 5, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson attended the dedication of Newhouse 1 at Syracuse University and delivered the Gulf of Tonkin speech, which two days later would become the justification ...

A valued component of Central New York’s entertainment legacy was blown to smithereens on Saturday, Jan. 9, when a series of strategically-placed explosives helped to crumple the New York State Fair’s ...

If the late 1960s was the dawning of the age of Aquarius, a future where harmony, understanding, sympathy and trust would abound, an even more radical reality — electronic music — loomed on the ...

Best of Syracuse is a reader-generated poll trademarked by the Syracuse New Times. Since its 1997 inception we have asked our readers to nominate in a number of categories. For the 22nd anniversary ...

Starting in 1988, Syracuse photographer Michael Greenlar visited an Algonquin community in Quebec, Canada, several times a year. In a remote area 90 miles from a city, the members of the First Nation ...

The summer months are upon us, which means expanded schedules of events and activities for Central New York’s historical forts and mission sites. Perhaps you’ve driven right past one of these ...

Best of Syracuse is a reader-generated poll trademarked by the Syracuse New Times. Since its 1997 inception we have asked our readers to nominate in a number of categories. For the 21st anniversary ...

Lots of folks have been going bonkers with anticipation of the solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21. The issue for most people interested in the eclipse is where to see it. Any seasoned sky watcher will ...

In last week’s post, we discussed the idea of contacting extraterrestrials with the mind using our immortal consciousness. The method for contacting extraterrestrials is called the close encounter-5 ...

It was a seasonal evening in June 1965, when a couple of school teachers witnessed the Flying Saucer Whisperer. Samuel explained to me that back in the mid 1960’s he taught school in the Corning – ...

People are fascinated with rankings, and UFOs are no different. People want to know where the top UFO hot spots are. So here it is: the top 25 cities in the U.S. for UFO sightings! When we published ...

In the chart, we see a summary of reported UFO sightings in New York covering the 50 years from 1950 to 1999. The chart represents 759 sightings logged with National UFO Reporting Center, or NUFORC.