Jess Santacroce
Jess Santacroce is a novelist, writing teacher, and content writer for Utica area artists. Her online workspace can be found at www.artistcafe315.com
Selling scams are on the rise for summer 2023
With Amazon’s most recent “Prime Day” happening earlier this month, everyone from fraud watch groups to news channels have been issuing warnings about online...
Myths and Realities about AI generated content
AI (artificial intelligence) generated content creation is mentioned everywhere from the national news to “day in the life” videos on YouTube. Some consider it...
The Heat Beat: The music of Phoenix Radio and beyond: Looking for a summer...
While a small percentage of professional musicians do become wealthy, most working musicians are of more modest financial means. Many even need to have...
Tramontane Cafe celebrates one year re-open
The Tramontane Cafe, known affectionately as “The Tram,” celebrated the one-year anniversary of their reopening this past week, honoring their first year back with...
Levitt AMP Utica returns for 2023 concert series
Photo: Crowds gather for the 2023 Levitt AMP launch
The Levitt AMP Monday night summer concert series has returned to Kopernik Memorial Park. This year...
Romance scams 2023
by Jess Szabo'
Many people are tempted to believe that romance scams are a thing of the past. After all “everybody” knows about them now...
The Heat Beat: The Music of Phoenix Radio and beyond: Top five songs to...
by Jess Szabo', Arts Writer
Warm weather is finally here in Utica, and warm weather means summer activities. Day trips and longer road trips are...
The Heat Beat: The music of Phoenix Radio and Beyond: Five facts about music...
by Jess Szabo; Arts Writer
Mental Health Month returns for May 2023. This year, we honor the month and the music with five facts about...
An old, cruel scam gets a scary new update: Don’t fall for “virtual kidnapping”
by Jess Szabo', Arts Writer
The term “virtual kidnapping” has been a feature of both true crime and crime drama shows for years. It previously...
The Heat Beat: The music of Phoenix Radio and beyond: What does it mean...
by Jess Szabo', Arts Writer
Fans of the music of Phoenix Radio…and beyond…know that the music they love is brought to them by members of...