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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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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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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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Zan Strumfeld

by Josh Potter March 20, 2013

“I played clarinet for eight years, but I probably couldn’t blow a note today.” This was the handwritten, numbered confession on my copy of Zan Strumfeld’s Someone New EP, penned under a flap of screen-printed ...

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Clean Up, Clear Out

by Erin Pihlaja October 10, 2012

What would you do with six acres of prime, vacant real estate on the Hudson River? That’s what the city of Troy is trying to decide now that a long-term lease between the city and ...

Falling Through

by Erin Pihlaja June 27, 2012

‘Half off of everything! Everything has to go,” Al Smith, owner of Dealer’s Den, a thrift store at 444 River St. in Troy, called out to the dispersing crowd in front of the building. It ...

Marketplace of Perseverence

by Erin Pihlaja May 30, 2012

“There were moments in the last year and a half that I didn’t know if we could keep doing this,” says Zhenelle Falk. “It’s hard to see the work it takes to put this on. We’ve ...

Dreams Come True

by Alexis Abb May 10, 2012

In the world of St. Forget, a prehistoric magic has a hold on the dispirited, washed-up fishing town. The townspeople wander through their daily lives in a haze, and except for the witches among them, ...

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Remembering the Strip

by The Staff September 28, 2011

Once upon a time, long before modern offices, wonderful antique shops and architectural parts stores moved into Troy’s River Street neighborhood, there was a rock & roll culture happening. This Saturday, Jimmy Barrett’s River Street ...

River Street Beat Shop

Nadia Trinkala Memorial Show

by The Staff June 22, 2011

Nadia Trinkala, better known as Trink, was a vital figure in the Capital Region art scene for 20 years, as a gallery owner, jewelry designer, artist and photographer—and an incandescent inspiration to many. When Trink passed ...

Fulton Street Gallery

Silverstein

by The Staff January 5, 2011

The crowd will have been pretty well softened-up by a monster lineup when Canadian “post-hardcore” heroes Silverstein take the stage tomorrow night. The crowd will have been pummeled by Texas-based Christian “ambient hardcore” enthusiasts A ...

Northen Lights

Upstate Odyssey

by Josh Potter August 18, 2010

A man sits beneath a tree on the side of a country road. A breeze rustles up along a fence line choked by long grass and wildflowers, excites the leaves overhead, and cuts the rising ...

If It Fits in a Tortilla . . .

by B.A. Nilsson March 24, 2010

Cuisine: reimagined Tex-Mex Entrée price range: $2.50 (single taco) to $9.75 (huge nacho supreme plate) Ambiance: We don’t need no stinkin’ ambiance! I would enjoy a job that required me to answer the phone with ...

Badass Burrito