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Top 10 Things to Do in Albany (Week of May 14-20, 2012)
Grease, Hydrofracking and Some Great Greek Food and Dancing
This week we all have something to sing about with a Grease sing-a-long, sold out show with a songstress, souvlaki, and some big names and acts coming together for a good cause. From fashion to boxing [...]
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Ways to Spend Mother’s Day in Utica
Alternatives to Candy and Flowers for Mother’s Day
Have you exhausted your flower supply for the past five Mother’s Days? Are you looking for a new way to show the woman who gave birth to you, raised you, and put up with all of your antics, just how much you [...]
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Top 10 Things to Do in Albany (Week of May 7-13, 2012)
Dennis De Young sings STYX, Phil Ochs Night and The Tulip Fest
This week in the Capital Region, Tulip Fest is finally here! Celebrate Albany’s Dutch heritage, migratory birds and a talented life lost. There’s Art for All, a lecture on empathy and an Iron [...]
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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in Connecticut
Five Fun Ways to Celebrate Mexican Culture
It’s Cinco de Mayo (meaning May 5th) a celebration of Mexican heritage. Its origins derive from the Mexican state of Puebla, where the Mexican army defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Celebrated through the US and Mexico, it’s more or [...]
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It is Spring in the 1700s
A Preview of the Herkimer Home Spring and Garden Fair
According to the HerkimerTelegram.com, the Herkimer Home has recently received $100,000 in state funding, and what better way to celebrate than to once again host the 18th Century Garden Fair?
Always a popular event, visitors are able to see how people during the [...]
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Top 10 Things to Do in Albany (Week of April 30-May 6, 2012)
James Bond, Sushi and the 1st Annual Blues Music Competition
Goodbye April, hello May! May is here and with the seventh month will it finally bring the warmth we’ve been teased with/waiting for? Celebrate whichever way you know how, whether with maypoles or [...]
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The Finger Lakes Comedy Competition and Festival (April 26-28)
Three Days Worth of Laughs
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour – ha ha ha ha ha – they’ll take you away, man. You can’t.” ~ Lenny Bruce
I grew up pretty sure that being [...]
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The 2012 Washington County Farm & Fiber Tour
Alpacas, Sheep and Much More
This weekend you’ll have the chance to partake in some fun, farm-centric activities at the 20th Annual Washington County Farm & Fiber Tour. Several of the county’s many fiber farms will open their doors (and barns) from 10am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday, April 28 [...]
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The Top 10 Things to Do in Albany (Week of April 23-29, 2012)
Restaurant Week, QFEST and Erotikon
This week there’s good food (for a good cause), movies for whatever letter you identify with, photography, mosquitos and some Fun! It’s the Top 10 Best, Not to Be Missed Things to Do in Albany (For the Week [...]
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Paris as Seen through Painting and Music
Debussy’s Paris, Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton
Walk into the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) on any day of the week and you’re in for a treat. With exhibits changing on a regular basis, the museum is bound to have something on view for everyone, regardless of [...]
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