Above: A painting of our beloved and much-missed Nico, by GG Roberts. You can see more of GG’s work tonight at the opening reception for the World Unity Corporation Gallery Art Show @ MSK Building, 184 Central Avenue, Albany.

3/5/10: Today’s Tips: Friday

WEEKEND ROUNDUP

Be Here Now: “Hello Pretty City” @ Valentine’s Music Hall, 3/5/10

Be Here Now: Tiffany @ the Waterworks Pub, 3/5/10

Be Here Now: The Blasters @ Valentine’s Music Hall, 3/5/10

Real Good for Free: Don Braden Joins Williams Jazz Ensemble, 3/6/10

Be Here Now: SAM Fund Benefit Concerts @ Caffe Lena, 3/6-7/10

Be Here Now: Bands ‘n Beans @ Roaring Brook Ranch, 3/7/10

Thanks to everyone who stopped by this week! Here’s some ideas on how to spend your weekend:

Weekend Roundup
Ideas for Valentine’s Day
Free Day At MASS MoCA
Sound + Voice + Image @ Nicole Fiacco Gallery
Today’s Tips: Friday
ArtBeat: What to See

Thanks to everyone who stopped by this week! Here’s some ideas on how to spend your weekend:

• Weekend Roundup
• Albany First Friday
• Saratoga Winterfest and Saratoga First Saturday
• ArtBeat: What To See
• 2/5/10: Today’s Tips: Friday

There's no way I'm peeing out here when it's this cold.

What To Do This Weekend:
Today’s Tips
Weekend Roundup
ArtBeat: What To See
Be Here Now: Concert for the Arts @ Saugerties High School, 1/29/10
The Last Hurrah at Jason’s Upstairs Bar 1/30/10
Old Songs Sampler Concert @ Old Songs, 1/30/10
Ernie Williams Birthday Bash @ The Linda, 1/30/10

Thanks to everyone who came by, wrote in or commented. See ya next week.

Sigh. I wish I were old enough to have seen Dirty Face at QE2.

Lots going on: Friday’s Tips and ArtBeat: What To See and The Weekend Roundup.

Did we miss anything? Let us know.

And thanks to everyone who stopped by to visit or chat this week!

Here’s this weekend’s music suggestions and art highlights.

And here’s a couple more suggestions:

FILM: A Serious Man (written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen) @ Saratoga Film Forum, Saratoga. Nominated for a Golden Globe, the latest offering from the Coen Brothers tells the story of Larry, who, struggling for some kind of equilibrium, seeks someone help him cope with his ills and become a righteous person–a mensch–a serious man. Friday, January 8, 8pm (Also Sunday January 10, 3pm)

THEATER: Village Stage Children’s Interactive Theater presents “Little Red Riding Hood” @ The New York State Museum, Albany. Families are welcome to this FREE event. Please arrive early. There is no admittance to the theater after the performance begins. Saturday, January 9, 1 p.m.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by this week. Have a great weekend!

Baby, it's cold outside.

• Ramblin Jug Stompers @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs
• John Pizzarelli @ the Maihaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Mass.
• Blue Factory @ Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany
• The Lee Shaw Trio @ the Stockade Inn, Schenectady (FREE)
• Matt Durfee, Black Mounatin Symphony @ the Bread & Jam Cafe, Cohoes (FREE)
• The McKrells @ the Parting Glass, Saratoga Springs
• Blackcat Elliot, the Blisterz, the Statues of Liberty, the Velmas @ Savannah’s, Albany
• Happy Traum, John Sebastian, Larry Campbell, Amy Helm, more @ the Bearsville Theater, Woodstock

• Railbird, Sean Rowe, Amanda Rogers @ the Bread & Jam Cafe, Cohoes
• My Fair Planet @ the Blue Water Bistro, Coxsackie
• The Zucchini Brothers @ The Egg, Albany
• Michael Jerling @ the Jonesville Store, Clifton Park (FREE)
• Donna the Buffalo @ the Bearsville Theater, Woodstock
• Magpie, Kim & Reggie Harris @ the Eighth Step @ Proctors, Schenectady
• Eileen Ivers @ the Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, Mass.

• The Burns Sisters @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs
• The McKrells @ the Spa Little Theatre, Saratoga Springs
• The Brian Patneaude Quartet @ Justin’s, Albany

• Art Night Schenectady @ various locations, downtown Schenectady
• Beauty and the Beast stage musical (based on the Disney adaptation) @ Cohoes Music Hall. Buy one – get one free with Promo code 241BEAUTY (also Saturday and Sunday).

Author/photo-journalist Vincent Zandri will sign copies of his new novel, Moonlight Falls and perform with his band, The Blisterz, @ Savannah’s, Albany 7:30pm

• Winterfest @ various location, downtown Albany, noon-5pm (FREE)

• The Albany Berkshire Ballet performs the Nutcracker @ The Egg, Albany
• Static 101 & The Electroscope @ The Childrens Museum of Science and Technology, Troy 1-2pm (pre-registration required)

• Ceramists Thaddeus Powers, Meg Oliver, Kyla Toomey and Stacey Esslinger @ Tom Myott Gallery, Glens Falls (through 12/ 23) Here’s the Nippertown review.
• Don Johnson (sculpture) and Joe Concra and Denise Orzo (paintings) @ Surprenant Art & Design, Kingston (through 12/20)
• “Holiday Small Works,” curated by glass artist Isabella Raven @ The Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams
• Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield is featuring “SMALL WORKS: Art + Object,” a small works show of affordable art and “PAPER -or- POTTERY­ -not- PLASTIC,” a group show of 100 paper and ceramic plates. (works are also available online)
• “Picture This,” photos by Rick Bedrosian @ McGreevy Prolab (Through 1/29)
• “Somewhere in Time: Portraits in the Victorian Style” by Lady Ostapeck @ The Photography Center of the Capital District, Troy (through 1/3)
• Group Show, Pt. 2 @ Clement Art Gallery, Troy including works by Sergio Sericolo, Laura Glazer, Jeff Wigman, Christopher Murray, Dorothy Englander, Robert Gullie, Joe Putrock and Erik Laffer. (through 12/31).
• Poet of the Ordinary — Photographs by Keith Carter @ Massry Center, College of St. Rose, Albany (through 1/17)
• Giftable Art: Handmade small works by local artists and craftspeople @ Albany Art Room, Albany (through 12/31)
• Lives of the Hudson, Type A: Barrier, Nicole Eisenman @ The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga. (Here’s the Nippertown review.)