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Art
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THE
TELEVISION OF TOMORROW, TODAY: As of 1 PM this very afternoon
(Thursday, March 11), WMHT-TV will officially begin
digital broadcasts from a new facility in the Helderbergs.
If you have one of those newfangled digital TV sets with a
digital receiver, or a digital set-top box, you can tune into
Digital Channel 34 to get two, count ’em, two programming
“streams.” One will carry a digital version of the analog
signal currently broadcast on channel 17; the other will be
24-hours-a-day of PBS-supplied high-definition TV.
This is all the result of an FCC mandate—though the analog
service will eventually go away, that’s a few years down the
road. For more information on digital TV, visit the station’s
Web site at www.wmht.org/digital. Just don’t ask me about
it, as I have absolutely no freakin’ idea how it works and
plan to hold on to my analog Quasar TV until they pry
it from my . . . well, you know.
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Funny
business: D. Jack Solomon’s Funny Paper #53.
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EXHIBIT
TODAY: The exhibit of D. Jack Solomon’s recent
works opened March 2 at Albany Center Galleries, but the reception
is today (Thursday, March 11). So, if you hustle on over to
the Albany Public Library (161 Washington Ave., Albany) at
5:30 PM, and take the elevator to the second floor, you can
check out the art and mingle. Solomon’s work has been praised
for its juxtaposition of formal elegance with alternately
comic, ironic or absurd imagery. The artist himself will be
on hand, naturally, and will take part in an “artist interview”
at 6:15 PM. For more information, call 462-4775.
EXHIBIT
TOMORROW: Like a bear waking up from a long winter’s nap,
the Firlefanz Gallery (292 Lark St., Albany) has reopened
after a winter hiatus with an exhibit of 60 new landscape
oil paintings by Harry Orlyk. The centerpiece of the
show will be 25 paintings Orlyk made on a recent trip to the
Caribbean. There will be a reception tomorrow (Friday, March
12) from 5 to 8 PM. If it’s like other Firlefanz receptions,
folks will be spilling out the door onto Lark Street. For
more information, call 465-5035. (That’s the new gallery phone
number, by the way.)
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David
Halliday’s Satsumas and Mariposa, at the new Haddad
Lascano Gallery.
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OVERTURE,
CURTAINS, LIGHTS: Carrie Haddad—of Hudson’s Carrie
Haddad Gallery, of course—has joined forces with Ramon
Lascano to open a brand new gallery in Great Barrington,
Mass. Called, logically enough, the Haddad Lascano Gallery,
it is located at 297 Main St. in Great Barrington, and formally
opens its doors on Saturday, March 27, with a reception from
6 to 8 PM. According to the formal announcement, the gallery
will feature “contemporary fine art by local artists and artists
from nearby regions with an emphasis on painting, sculpture
and photography.” And you Hudsonites, don’t worry—the Carrie
Haddad Gallery isn’t going anywhere. For more information,
call 828-1915.
PAUSE
AND REFLECT: The Chapel + Cultural Center (2125
Burdett Ave., Troy) is in the middle of an impressive Lenten
lecture series. Every Wednesday during Lent, the C + CC will
host a Roman Catholic mass at 5:15 PM, and a meatless supper
at 6 PM (bring a dish to pass) followed by a lecture “on a
variety of subjects both topical and timely.” C + CC director
J. Eric Smith adds, in the press info, “if you are
not comfortable with joining in [the mass], please feel free
to join us for the potluck supper and speakers.” On March
17, Rev. Imani-Sheila Newsom-Camara will speak on African-American
Women in Church and Mission History. On March 24, David
M. Carr will discuss The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality
and the Bible. The series will conclude on March 31 with Ursula
Goodenough, who will talk about the Sacred Depths of Nature.
For more information, call 274-7793.
—Shawn
Stone
Alive
at 25
Photos by Martin Benjamin
Metroland’s
25th anniversary blowout at the Holiday Inn Turf on Feb. 26
featured (among other things) belly dancers, Jay Yager and
the Burners UK, and appearances by a host of former Metroland
staff, including (l-r) production manager Doreen Walsh, editor
and publisher Peter Iselin, business manager Cheryl Hendricks,
and account executive Kathy Chenette.
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