The Bilge Bum (guess which one of us he is?) was walking around today with his ear to the ground trying to get a sense of the local word on the street. He was in the shops and schools and trash lots sniffing out a flavor that distills the current state of affairs in Handshake City. For [...]
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Bilge Bum hits the streets for the local word
Posted in HELL, The Future, Utica fame, singles and dating on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Meet the authors of The Utican
Posted in CNY Literary Scene, Utica, Utica fame on June 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Jay Johnston, Angry Man (currently on hiatus until psychiatric/emotional injury heals)
Justin Scalzo a.k.a. “Rider”, Quill Master (Floridian and real-life 40 year old virgin)
Mr X, Proud Utican (the brains behind The Utican and a rudely conservative Italian)
Utica’s lowest low
Posted in Utica fame on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is not surprising.
Utican in the West
Posted in Utica fame on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oliver de la Paz, a former professor of English, Spanish and Creative Writing at Utica College, has had a second book of poems published by Southern Illinois Universeity Press in September 2007. The book, entitled Furious Lullaby, is a collection of aubades, or poems that portray the separation of lovers at dawn. The poems in [...]
Pratt Students invent the next New York
Posted in Pratt, Utica fame, tagged Pratt on October 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The issue of The Village Voice dated for the week of August 1-7 reports on the field work Pratt students in Brooklyn are doing to revitalize and preserve the face of New York. The article follows along with students from the Pratt campus in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. It mentions Justin Kray who is working toward a master’s degree [...]
Utica goes to Hollywood
Posted in Utica fame, tagged NBC Dunder Mifflin on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For the second time in a decade an NBC television show will incorporate the city of Utica into its plot. The first occurrence of this happened in 1997 when Utica was indirectly referred to on the short-lived sitcom Jenny starring Jenny McCarthy. Utica received a good ribbing by the portrayal of McCarthy’s character as a ditsy, [...]
The Onion lampoons Utica
Posted in Utica fame on October 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An August 10th article in The Onion–a nationally famous satirical newspaper– about the recent minimum wage hike lampoons Utica poverty. This would not be the first time that the our city has received national attention of the negative sort and it is safe to say that it won’t be the last. As a Utican, however, [...]
