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Tuesday at HVCC with Sondheim

by B.A. Nilsson May 16, 2013

To emphasize the range of characters for which Stephen Sondheim has written songs, interviewer Mary Darcy pointed out that the range includes John Wilkes Booth and Little Red Riding Hood. “Yes,” said Sondheim, “but they’re ...

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Two Sides, One Story

by Erin Pihlaja May 15, 2013

The beginning of a pattern of dualities began in his life, says Jason Blue Lake Hawk Martinez, when he was 1 year old and his parents split up. The dissolution of the union between his ...

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Gonzo Theater

by James Yeara May 15, 2013

They’re all locked in the room with no means of communicating with the outside. Only one man knows their specific purpose. Everyone else knows they’re desperate to do something, with someone, somewhere. Some have been ...

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War Stories

by Erin Pihlaja May 8, 2013

When Brianna Carter, age 17, first met the nine female veterans whose stories are the heart of the play, On Her Shoulders, she was surprised. She had expected, as she describes, the “G.I. Jane” type—the ...

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Art Beat

by Shawn Stone May 1, 2013

TULIP TIME, ALMOST Though I know you’re excited, Tulip Fest is a week away. Still, it seems worthwhile to make sure a new addition to Tulip Fest is brought to your attention now. And it ...

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David Finckel’s Lyric Goodbye

by B.A. Nilsson April 24, 2013

Just over a year ago, cellist David Finckel announced his intention to leave the Emerson String Quartet, with whom he’s been performing since 1979—three years after the quartet was founded. The group appears Sunday afternoon ...

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Justice Served

by Molly Eadie April 11, 2013

There is very little “Ken Burns effect” in his new documentary. His daughter, Sarah Burns, and her husband and co-producer, David McMahon, visited Page Hall at the University at Albany on Friday, April 5, where they ...

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Coffee and Art

by Darryl McGrath April 11, 2013

There’s something about a city the size of Albany that works especially well for local artists—it’s small enough to get your name out there, and large enough to have a wide range of places to ...

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Art Beat

by Shawn Stone April 4, 2013

SOLDIER STORIES Beginning Friday (April 5) at 7:30 PM, Classic Theatre Guild will be presenting Charles H. Fuller’s classic drama A Soldier’s Play at the Fenimore Gallery at Proctors (432 State St., Schenectady). This Pulitzer ...

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Art Beat

by Shawn Stone March 20, 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Capitol Chamber Artists are an integral, longtime part of the local music scene, and one of their key members is celebrating his birthday this Saturday night with a Celtic-themed concert. Flautist and all-around ...

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R.U. Ready?

by Jeff Nania March 6, 2013

When the exhibition-performance was ready to begin, the humans in attendance were herded into a line as recordings played over the house loudspeaker from “the machine.” Instructions like “you can help by not helping” were ...

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Art Opening at The Foundry

by Ann Morrow February 28, 2013

Last Friday (Feb. 22), art lovers checked out Paper, Plastic and Concrete, the new exhibit of works by Terry James Conrad, at an opening reception at The Foundry for Art Design + Culture (119 Remsen ...

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Oscar Grouch

by Ralph Hammann February 28, 2013

Once again we have witnessed that celebration of competition in the most ridiculous of venues, motion pictures. The Oscars are useful only for promoting the rare piece of artful entertainment that might otherwise go overlooked ...

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In Residence

by Erin Pihlaja February 20, 2013

Laurie Anderson is on stage wrestling with plugs, computers, and other electronic bits. Her hope is to get the machines talking, and as she crouches low to the ground near the snake’s nest of coiled, ...

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Art Beat

by Shawn Stone February 6, 2013

COMICS, ART Attention fanboys and fangirls: If you haven’t had the chance to check out the Heroes & Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., ...

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Art Beat

by Shawn Stone January 23, 2013

MYTHBUSTING Connie Frisbee Houde, the photographer who has done so much to give us a window into life in Afghanistan over the last decade of endless war, now turns her lens on West Africa. Her ...

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Art Beat

by Shawn Stone January 16, 2013

MADISON THEATER PREMIERES Two locally made films are having world premieres at the Madison Theater. As Miriam Axel-Lute detailed in this week’s Looking Up (see page 4), there will be screenings at the Madison at ...

Art Beat

by Shawn Stone January 10, 2013

GALLERY SEEKS ARTISTS, PROPOSALS The Lake George Arts Project is seeking “regional and national, emerging and established artists” to send their exhibition proposals to the Courthouse Gallery. They will give preference to “experimental or non-traditional” ...

Art Beat

by Shawn Stone December 6, 2012

THE PRICE OF CELEBRITY Back in October 2011, an entertaining and unnerving documentary titled Craptastic! had a one-night-only screening at the Spectrum 8 Theatres. It chronicled the attempt by producer and Chatham resident John James (of ...

Art Beat

by Shawn Stone November 29, 2012

THAT HOLIDAY FEELING As the late Andy Williams so memorably crooned, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” The State of New York gets into the holiday act this Sunday (Dec. 2) with the ...

Empire State Plaza

A Graphic Process

by Elyse Beaudoin November 8, 2012

On Friday night, the Opalka Gallery spread out its usual crudité which serves as a centerpiece for art receptions ranging from student studies to renowned artists. This time the veggies and dip were surrounded by ...

Opalka Gallery

Party in Peace

by The Staff November 8, 2012

Here’s one of creature sculptor Jeff Brower’s monstrously wonderful creations as it was on view the evening of Oct. 27 at the Festival of the Dead, held Albany’s Washington Avenue Armory. Lenore Granich’s grand costume ...

Washington Avenue Armory

I Wish I Drove an Oscar Meyer Wiener

by The Staff November 8, 2012

The Oscar Meyer Wienermobile hot-dogged its way through the Capital Region last week, stopping by Albany Law School, an Albany Devils game at the Times Union Center and Saratoga Spa State Park. Here, on Nov. ...

Latham Holiday Inn

Party Like the Dead, Benefit the Living

by Ann Morrow October 25, 2012

Creature sculptor Jeff Brower is looking forward to laying his dead body to rest. His corpse, he reports, has been hanging out on his couch, and soon it will be removed to a funeral parlor—at ...

Washington Avenue Armory

Hollywood in Pine Hills

by Ann Morrow October 25, 2012

“It gets under your skin.” That’s the tag line for Creeping Crawling, a regionally made horror film about insects interacting with humans (“Buggy On a Budget,” July 12). As the tag implies, this three-part anthology ...

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