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Corporate Big Birds

by Melody Davis May 23, 2013

“Amazing” is likely the viewer’s first word upon encountering Xu Bing’s Phoenix (2007-2010)—which, properly, should be “Phoenixes” for its twin suspended sculptures. Even my 14-year-old son, who complains through every exhibition I drag him to, ...

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Making the Grade

by Darryl McGrath May 22, 2013

A year ago, the Albany School Board was on the verge of filling the district's two most high-profile positions: those of superintendent and principal of Albany High School. Even the district's staunchest defenders—and they're out ...

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Investments Revisited

by Erin Pihlaja May 22, 2013

The wild weather held off on Tuesday (May 21) long enough for the Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region to host its Annual Spring Tour. This year, the event took investors, borrowers, and members ...

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Nixing the Sixth

by Erin Pihlaja May 15, 2013

The Egg. The Empire State Plaza. The Capitol and the Million Dollar Staircase. Dutch traders. Tulips. There are certain things that are synonymous with Albany, and for anyone who has lived here during the past ...

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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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Cohoes, Reinvented

by Ann Morrow May 15, 2013

“They let me buy a castle,” says brewer Brennon Cleary with a broad grin. The first-time business owner is talking about his New Jersey investors, but he could also be referring to the city of ...

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Motion Sickness

by Shawn Stone May 8, 2013

Suddenly, the long-reclusive film artist Terrence Malick, the fellow who went decades without releasing so much as a foot of film, is a whirlwind of activity. Following up on his 2011 Oscar-nominated epic The Tree ...

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A Path to Peace

by Darryl McGrath May 8, 2013

Cloth Tibetan prayer flags flutter in bands of sun-faded color from lines strung around the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Buddhist monastery on a mountaintop overlooking Woodstock. The late April warmth and the distinct impression of being ...

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Private Talks on Public Funding

by Erin Pihlaja May 8, 2013

The sign outside of Room 124 at the state Capitol may have read, “New York State Public Hearing,” but to the many people, including members of the media, who were refused entry to the proceedings, ...

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Massive Open Online Uncertainty

by Molly Eadie May 1, 2013

Carol Yeager first entered the world of “massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, in 2008. “I dipped in, lurked and left,” she said during a Google Hangout, which she uses to talk to students—who ...

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Catharsis, Inc.

by B.A. Nilsson May 1, 2013

I am the only musical theater fan in the world who has not been exposed to any form of the phenomenon that is Les Miz. The sprawling English-language musical version of the even-more-sprawling Victor Hugo ...

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Dredge Report

by Erin Pihlaja May 1, 2013

“I grew up in Greene County,” said Judith Enck. “I went to a high school that was right on the banks of the river. I remember being a teenager and going waterskiing, and the goal ...

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Blight Fight

by Erin Pihlaja April 24, 2013

Jackie Jenkins-Cox stands at the intersection of North Lake and Clinton avenues in Albany’s West Hill neighborhood. She points to an empty lot on the corner and reminisces about a meat market that once stood ...

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Take This Test . . .

by Molly Eadie April 24, 2013

Roger Green’s third-grade daughter has had a rough week. Usually when she comes home from Albany’s Pine Hills Elementary school, Green works with her on some math, science and reading homework, which he says gives ...

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Ride for the Future

by Molly Eadie April 24, 2013

Preschoolers from Castle Island Bilingual Montessori School took a rest after riding their tricycles for the last short stretch of the Earth Day Bicycle Parade on Monday (April 22). The six-mile ride began in Lafayette ...

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A Green Goodbye

by Shawn Stone April 18, 2013

What happens to us after death? This is not a spiritual question, because this story is not concerned with whether your “soul” will end up in Heaven, Hell or on the garage roof next to that ...

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Flower Children

by Erin Pihlaja April 17, 2013

Many parents joke that they wish their new baby came with an owner’s manual. Unfortunately, there isn’t a standardized, handy-dandy reference guide for making all of the right decisions as a parent. Most of us ...

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Troy-Bilt, Troy-Grown

by Amy Halloran April 17, 2013

I don’t get enough chances to sing the song of a certain piece of Troy’s history: Garden Way and the Troy-Bilt Rototiller. I’m not a big gearhead, but this little machine left a legacy on ...

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The Medium Has the Message

by Sarah Sherman April 11, 2013

“You’re a fixer,” psychic medium Katie Manning-Hilton says minutes into my private reading. I want to say “No,” and tell her I don’t fix anything. If I could, I’d fix myself. I feel disappointed, fearing I am ...

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No Laughing Matter

by Erin Pihlaja April 10, 2013

$THUMBfracking$

Phil and Joanne Markham donned their finest garments and set up shop in Albany’s Townsend Park last Saturday (April 6) to hock homemade pickles. The main ingredient, discounting the shriveled ex-cucumbers, was fracking “brine”—a chemical ...

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Standing Up

by Ann Morrow April 10, 2013

The battle continues over St. Patrick’s Church in Watervliet. A plan to incorporate the church’s façade and 137-foot-high tower into the design of the Price Chopper store was declined on Tuesday by Nigro Companies, owners ...

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Homeless, Not Hopeless

by Kevin Wheeler April 4, 2013

The Capital Region was shocked on March 3, a frigid but otherwise relatively quiet Sunday evening, as reports started to filter through various media outlets that New York state trooper Rodney Smith, a 15-year veteran ...

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Dancefloor Showdown

by Josh Potter April 4, 2013

It’s been a long, dark winter for the Washington Avenue Armory. Ever since the Barstool Blackout foam party on Oct. 18 of last year, which resulted in a tussle between patrons and Albany police, the ...

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True Jack

by Rick Marshall April 4, 2013

Jack Kerouac’s work has always had a rough trip through the Hollywood machine. Beginning with 1960’s adaptation-in-name-only The Subterraneans, many filmmakers have attempted to bring Kerouac’s work to the screen, but few have captured the ...

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All in the Family

by Molly Eadie March 28, 2013

When the Manory family opened their restaurant in 1913, they might not have thought that 100 years later, it would be Troy’s oldest restaurant . And even if they could have imagined Twitter, they couldn’t ...

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