Meets once a month. Books can be picked up at the reference desk. Call ahead for book title and availability. We will be discussing An Albany Girlhood by an autobiography by Huybertie Pruyn Hamlin
Fleetwood Mac
Even though they said that they wouldn’t, Fleetwood Mac have broken the chain of touring more than a handful of times since their birth in the late ’60s and rise to commercial success a decade later. Whenever Stevie Nicks or Lindsey Buckingham strike out on a solo jaunt, it rarely does more than stoke fans’ [...]
PaperWorks
The Berkshire Museum continues its 110th anniversary celebration with the opening of a big summer-and-fall contemporary art exhibition this weekend. PaperWorks: The Art and Science of an Extraordinary Material “explores paper as a source of creative inspiration and innovation.” Featured artists include Michel Ocelot, Jen Stark, Michael Crozier, Erik Demaine, Steven Briand, Simon Griesser [...]
Freedom Festival
“Freedom” is a word that gets used pretty fast and loose in this country—often to idealize and justify absolutely antithetical policy and politics. But when it comes to the physical liberation of human beings from their captors, no other word will do. The Freedom Festival is a celebration of diverse global freedom movements but [...]
Andrea Bocelli
The most popular and successful tenor in the world is coming to Albany tonight. Andrea Bocelli has a repertoire of popular and light classical romantic ballads that have melted the hearts of millions. (Literally: He’s sold more than 80 million albums worldwide.) Even if you think you don’t know of him, you do. His [...]
Heroes
Shakespeare & Company’s latest production, Heroes, opens with a preview performance tonight (Thursday). The award-winning Heroes is “the irreverent and poignant story of three World War I veterans confined to a retirement home in their twilight years,” translated from Gerald Sibleyras’ French original by Tom Stoppard. Heroes, which is directed by Kevin G. Coleman [...]
