When people think of garbage cans, they rarely think of beauty. It may bring up memories of being stuck behind a city garbage truck on a one-way street while trying to get to work. It ...
Our favorite old-media bigmouth: David Carr in Page One: Inside The New York Times
Though there was pleasure to be had in the buzz emanating from certain films at the sixth annual Berkshire International Film Festival, ...
IT’S HUGE Saratoga Arts Fest is, indeed, huge. Beginning Thursday (June 9) and continuing through Sunday (June 12), it overwhelms. There will be art, music, dance and theater from one end of town to the ...
Ignore the backdrop: An example of the work of designer Joleen Button, which will be featured in the Electric City Couture Fashion Show.
FASHION AS ART As part of the celebration of Art Night in Schenectady’s ...
Photo by the awesome Alicia Solsman.
On April 12, teams of “the best and brightest members of the of the design community,” like these fine folks here, met at the New York State Museum (Empire State ...
It begins with a mea culpa, of sorts. Though Steamer No. 10 Theatre, the “little theatre that could,” is in its 20th year of operation, my visit for the Monday performance of the Tanglewood Marionettes’ ...
Painter, jewelry maker and sometime store and gallery owner Nadia Trinkala died suddenly last week. Trinkala was widely known and much loved in local arts circles, and is remembered not only for her boundless creative ...
Cartoonist Ben Katchor’s newest book, The Cardboard Valise, begins with an episode in which a young man takes an inexpensive suitcase on a test run. He has packed the case with “a hundred pounds of ...
For the last two months, the former Cheeky Tiki Monkey gift shop underwent a radical remodeling and has re-emerged as the Icarus Dreams gallery and studio. Seth Sanger, Casey Walsh, and Nathaniel Innes, with the ...
CURE YOUR CABIN FEVER Wow, isn’t it a great day! Yesterday, Punxsutawney Phil declared winter officially over! The snow finally stopped! The streets are safe for traffic and it’s time to step out of ...
CALL FOR ENTRIES It’s time for the annual members’ show at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (Blue Mountain Lake). So if you’re a member, you have until April 25 to submit up to ...
ADVENTURES IN SCREENWRITING
When humbly recommending a film by a friend and former colleague, it’s probably best to start with a few quotes from unbiased observers.
“Relentlessly entertaining!” said New York magazine.
“Required viewing,” said The Onion AV ...
WHAT’S THE LITERARY FREQUENCY, DAN? The good people behind the College of Saint Rose’s Frequency North literary series—including that devotee of the inappropriate, Daniel Nester—have organized Capital Lit, the “first-ever Albany Lit Mag & Small ...
