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Readers’ Poll: Arts

by The Staff March 13, 2013

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    Best Movie Theater 1. Spectrum 8 Theatres 2. Regal Colonie Center Cinema 13 3. Bow Tie Cinemas Movieland Your love for the Spectrum has only gotten stronger with age: The venerable arthouse won by more than 300 votes this ...

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Ben Frost

by The Staff February 7, 2013

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  There’s body-moving music and then there’s music that literally moves your body. If the Beastie Boys were experts on the former, Australian-born and Reykjavic-based composer Ben Frost is an expert on the latter. Part punk ...

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Existential Whoa

by Josh Potter October 11, 2012

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  “I don’t mind being called messy, but being called sloppy would make me mad. There’s a difference.” It’s a subtle, almost ineffable difference to Patrick Porter, but large enough to make him pause temporarily, draw the ...

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Best of Arts

by The Staff July 19, 2012

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  Best Arts Complex Proctors 432 State St., Schenectady Quality programming across genres in multiple venues, simultaneously: Proctors set a high standard for themselves, and meet it. Broadway shows, independent and classic cinema, internationally renowned pop, classical, soul, rock ...

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John Zorn

by The Staff March 29, 2012

Simply put: John Zorn is one of the biggest international names in experimental and avant-garde music. From free jazz to hardcore, Jewish devotional music to classical, rock & roll to film and theater, there are very ...

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Rough Mix

by John Brodeur February 2, 2011

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AFRO-GRAM Saratoga Springs’ own Phantogram made their network-TV debut on Wednesday with a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The duo, who are currently prepping a new EP for release this spring (we think), ...

Universal Doldrums

by David King January 12, 2011

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If you are familiar with New York City techno-rap-punk act Mindless Self Indulgence, you know they have an off-kilter, sometimes offensive sense of humor. But if you thought MSI’s bizarre sexual lyrics were the apex ...