Mark Bialczak

Taking safe walks around our neighborhoods on Wednesday, Community Engagement staffer Cindy Hibbert and myself both noted that we had seniors from Liverpool High School who lived nearby.

The library doors have been closed because of the Coronavirus for more than two months now.

The folks at the American Library Association scrambled just a bit to make their theme for National Library Week 2020 appropriate.

The Federation of Women’s Clubs is busy again to make sure the community recognizes the need to Go Blue for Kids.

You may hit that time in the next several weeks when you know you need to have a different book in your hands.

Colleen Kattau will make sure that her Sunday, March 15 concert in the Carman Community Room will span the themes of Women’s History Month and Latin Rhythms Series.Her band Dos...

Sometimes the best of us can get lost without really identifying the when’s, why’s and how’s.

Samba Laranja is known for its infectious beats.So, yes, when the Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble visits the Carman Community Room at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb.

Dale Fiegl recalls that one day in January 2004, when inspiration whacked him, hard.

If you’ve ever owned a dog, wanted to own a dog or petted a dog you passed on the street corner, bring at least one full box of Kleenex to...

When Luba Lesser and Jason Kessler decided to mesh their musical talents to form the band LuBossa, something special happened.The nylon strings of his guitar and the sound of his...

We received an email from LPL patron Hari today, pointing out something very great created here by 9-year-old son Lucky."My kid has been a regular user of the library and...

A true lover of his chosen style will ring the piano keys in the Carman Community Room.Rod Blumenau's Dixieland Five will conclude the Origins of Jazz 2019 program at 2 p.m.

A lot of really bad things could happen if all the power in the world went out at once.

How much of a good thing is too much?

For a piano player who’s yet to turn 30, Andrew Carroll sure has put in plenty of attention from Central New York jazz fans.As a student at Manlius Pebble Hill...

Get set for round two of Origins of Jazz 2019.The piano sounds move back into the Carman Community Room at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct.

When it came time to turn the Disney resources toward the remaking of Aladdin, director Guy Ritchie went big.

There are many reasons that people enter the doors of their favorite public library every day. The programs. The WiFi. The computers. The magazines. The books, still and even.

The Origins of Jazz series is coming back for the LPL community.

The big-con buddy movie surely is not new to Hollywood. In fact, this year’s The Hustle takes its cue from two generational films before it: Bedtime Story with Marlon Brando...

Two films released in 2018 told the gigantic story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The 10th album from John Gora and Gorale delightfully covers a wide span of polka bases.

Picture a hostage situation where everybody gets along inside the gates.

At the start of Green Book, we see Tony “Lip” Vallelonga operating through famed Manhattan nightclub The Copa as if he owned the joint.

Bad guys foiled by the guy played by Dwayne Johnson?

If you lived through and paid any sort of attention to the real life and times of one Freddie Mercury and the band he led called Queen, you should recall...

Take a good look at the blue pinwheels set up in the LPL gardens that flank the building on Tulip and Second streets.

Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong stepped down that Apollo 11 ladder and made history.

Sometimes unlikely stuff plays out up there on the screen. Hollywood folks can decide to flip the roles in three-decades-later remake of a flick that’s somewhat of a cult classic...

In the fifth(!) installment of the movie series first adapted 28(!!) years ago from Michael Crichton’s forward- and backward-thinking novel Jurassic Park, the island set aside for the dinosaurs is...

Old Man and the Gun review

Imagine, if you will, a grown-up Christopher Robin ear-deep in a dilemma. He lives in London with a wife and daughter. He’s in charge of the family luggage company.

More LPL programs will be taking place out in the community in February and March.

The joy of ABBA’s music surely lives on with Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Stop, in the name of love!

”Pop singer Ed Sheeran’s album Divide held down the No. 2 spot. The rock and rap of Kid Rock in Sweet Southern Sugar took No. 3.Check out the label's album...

At some point about halfway through the strikingly poignant documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? the parade of people who pay homage to the man whom America came to know...

Tell Shailene Woodley that she’s Tami Oldham, and the actress is all in.

There’s so much going for The 15:17 to Paris.

The musicians in the Onyx Clarinet Quartet will make sure of that.They promise a set of music to wrap up the Fall Music Series: From Bluegrass to Polka to Holiday...

Danny Ocean is gone, we find out in the fourth installment of the franchise that made his last name and big crime game famous, but his sister Debbie is fresh...

There could be surprises sprung at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, in the Carman Community Room during the third concert of the Fall Music Series: From Bluegrass to Polka to...

Transformation is the name of the game in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

The story about the making of this particular monster really is quite a dilly.

Fritz’s Polka Band will fill the Carman Community Room with happy sounds this Sunday. Oct. 21.That much you can bank on.Fritz Scherz has been making me smile with his music...

So a middle-aged set of parents drop their daughter off for her senior year at college, and as soon as they reach the car for the ride back home, hubby...

Thanks to all who volunteered for the year-long effort of book sorting, setting up, sale operation and break down.

As the wonderful, honorable stars do their reliably solid work in Book Club, I’m still not ever quite all there.

Life sure didn’t come easy for young Bart Millard.