Real Good For Free: The Ballston Spa Film Festival, 8/6-8
The inaugural Ballston Spa Film Festival was held last summer, screening 28 films over the course of two evenings.
This year the fest is back, and it is…
LIVE: African-American Family Day @ Empire State Plaza – 8/1/09
The weather cooperated magnificently for the annual African-American Family Day on Saturday, August 1. Led by Marshall Thompson, the last remaining original…
LIVE: Red Haired Strangers @ the Tang Museum, 7/31/09
The Red Haired Strangers started out more than a decade and a half ago as the acoustic duo of harmonicat-vocalist Ryan Dunham and guitarist-vocalist John Rice,…
BEST O’ SUMMER: The Xylopholks, 8/5
OK, this is just a hunch on my part because I've never seen them perform, but I'm willing to bet the farm that the Xylopholks will be serving up one of the most…
The Stony Creek Band: Life after Today (Show)
Yes, a week ago the Stony Creek Band was the toast of Nippertown, serving up their trademark rustic Adirondack sound live all across the nation on NBC-TV's…
Cartoons dancing
It seems almost sacrilegious to refer to Jules Feiffer as a mere "cartoonist." After all, he's written books, plays and screenplays, as well. But he's…
Song of the Week: Ring of Fire Eight Miles Wide
Greg was making a case for that cute five-year-old who sings and plays Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." (I would include the link here but I can't find it again -…
St. Agnes Cemetery Photo Contest
St. Agnes Cemetery is sponsoring a free photography contest. Amateur photographers are invited to take photographs of sculptures, art work, nature, and…
A Bang-Up Job
The Wall Street Journal has a story with video of John Fletcher, or "Ghengis John," who routinely lights his firecracker-covered suit on fire to to raise money…
Real Good for Free: Paul Geremia @ Congress Park, 8/4/09
The Saratoga Acoustic Blues Society and the City of Saratoga Springs are co-sponsoring a free concert by veteran acoustic bluesman Paul Geremia in Congress Park…