Life and Arts

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Dreamers’ Circus is piano and accordion player Nikolaj Busk; violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen; and cittern player Ale Carr. (photo provided)

The Upstate Beat: Caffè Lena and SPAC offer a free weekend of folk and world music

SARATOGA SPRINGS – After several months of live music under the towering pine trees at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the… Read more »

Bashir Chedrawee, co-owner of Simone’s Kitchen in Schenectady, prepares Shawarma chicken wings and a tzatziki-blue cheese dressing for Saturday’s Wing Walk.

Popular Wing Walk returns to Schenectady Saturday; Saratoga Springs hosts Wing Off

SCHENECTADY, SARATOGA SPRINGS – Downtown Schenectady and Saratoga Springs will be filled with the smell of savory and sweet chicken… Read more »

Cathryn Wake and Jeremy Webb in "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors" at Capital Rep. (theREP)

Schenectady native Cathryn Wake part of talented cast in theREP’s ‘Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors’

ALBANY – Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill loves to lure New York City-based actors to her Capital Repertory Theatre stage in Albany, and… Read more »

From left: Tom Mooney, Susan Katz, Maghen Ryan and Rob Weber in Harbinger Theatre's "Andy and the Orphans." (Adam Wilson-Hwang)

Albany

Theater review: First-rate Harbinger play provides new perspective on term ‘orphan’

ALBANY — In the press packet for “Andy and the Orphans,” director Patrick White writes, “This play is the perfect opportunity… Read more »

Actor Bradley Cooper waves to fans outside City Hall in Schenectady before filming of 'The Place Beyond the Pines' in August 2011.

Did somebody say Schenectady? On screens big and small, ‘Schenectady’ has popped up often through the years

SCHENECTADY – Actor Henry Hull was one of the first to give Schenectady a cinematic shout-out. Hull was portraying a… Read more »

Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt talks via long distance telephone to his representatives at the Chicago Democratic Convention following his nomination as the party’s candidate for the presidency on July 2, 1932.

Schenectady

New miSci exhibit an ambitious look at advances in communication technology

SCHENECTADY – Humanity’s need to communicate has been a quest like no other and the technological advances that have affected… Read more »

FILE - People lift off in their hot air balloons during the kick-off event for the 47th annual Adirondack Balloon Festival in 2019.

Weekend plans: Glenville Oktoberfest and Adirondack Balloon Festival among top picks

WEEKEND PLANS – There’s no shortage of things to do in the Capital Region, whether you’re looking for live music,… Read more »

FILE - Pieces for sale by Action for Empowerment (AOET), handmade from Uganda, are on display during the annual Saratoga Peace Fair and Festival in 2019.

Saratoga Springs

Peace Week underway in Saratoga Springs

SARATOGA SPRINGS — City residents have until Sept. 27 to participate in any number of events — many of them for free… Read more »

"Tiny Houses" at Curtain Call Theatre in Latham features, from left, David Quinones Jr., Sarah Wasserbach, JJ Buechner, Elizabeth Pietrangelo and Alex Perone. (CCT)

Theater review: Pietrangelo builds standout performance in well-paced ‘Tiny Houses’ in Latham

LATHAM — Gee, human beings are strange creatures, aren’t they? I think that’s the conclusion you might come to when… Read more »

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Fall Home 2022: Innovation, Preservation, Restoration, Inspiration (13-story special section)

FALL HOME 2022 – Our Fall Home section 2022 looks at innovation, preservation, restoration and inspiration. Find all that in… Read more »

Solar panels outside of the home of Paul and Joanne Coons (inset) in Clifton Park

Fall Home 2022: Renovation helps Clifton Park couple go green while maintaining home’s architecture, character (3 photos)

CLIFTON PARK – Anyone who saw “before” photos of Paul and Joanne Coons’ Clifton Park home would have to admit… Read more »

'Blastoff' Brandon of Mad Science demonstrates how submarines surface and submerge at the Glenville Public Library; Orion Cooper, 4, and his sister Nova Cooper, 5, look at starfish

Fall Home 2022: On a mission to reduce ‘mountains of plastic’ in Glenville (4 photos)

GLENVILLE – At the Glenville Library, during a program called “Life in the Sea,” children wiggle with excitement. When the… Read more »