HATTIE’S™ ADDS NASHVILLE STYLE HOT CHICKEN TO THEIR MENU! SARATOGA SPRINGS – Editor’s note: When Co-owner Beth Alexander shot me this memo, my remark was simply: “These Yankees better pull their big boy pants up!” Having lived in Nashville for a few years, all I can say is that after one serving, winter will...
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National Ballet of Cuba to Make First-ever Appearance in Capital Region at SPAC in 2018
Upcoming Season Highlights Announced SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Saratoga Performing Arts Center has announced the dates for the 2018 season, highlighted by the first-ever Capital Region appearance of the internationally renowned National Ballet of Cuba, known around the world for its exuberant flair and uniquely Cuban, athletic training based in the Russian style. Slated...
The Gallery: Digging (and Dining) In for Jake’s
“Cantina for a Cause:” Dining and Drinking at Cantina Yields A Record $5,797 for JHFH Photos by Cathy Duffy for Daily Planet Arthur SARATOGA SPRINGS – It’s been a great week for local not-for-profit Jake’s Help From Heaven (JHFH) – see their website/. On Tuesday, December 5, JHFH announced that they had achieved a...
Snow Ball 2017 Shows How It’s Done… Again!
Snow Always Generates the Sweetest Fruit and the Brightest Flowers Photos: Arthur Gonick New Magic Strikes Carrie Rowlands Johnson SARATOGA SPRINGS – Long, bare arms reach out, fingers curled and beckoning. Tall bodies made even taller in heels and clothed in sequins stand statuesque, one blonde and one brunette. Faces are smiling and genuine,...
Saratoga City Ballet will be Sweet + Swingin’!
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Celebrate the holidays with the whole family and join Saratoga City Ballet for a rhythm-filled evening at The Nutcracker: Sweet + Swingin’. The first production of its kind in the Capital Region, The Nutcracker: Sweet + Swingin’ is a fusion of Jazz, Tap, African + Ballet dances featuring live music by...
Dancing in the Land of the Blue Light Special!
Thirty-Fourth Annual Dancing in the Woods Dancing for Decades Carrie Rowlands Johnson LATHAM – Makeshift chandeliers and delicate tea lights drop from the ceiling, dangling like talented gymnasts, their job to mask and steer attention away from the industrial white tiles they’re anchored to. Several feet away, boughs of branches claim their own real...
The Pinnacles of the Repertoire
SPAC Presents Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos at Bethesda Episcopal Church Friday SARATOGA SPRINGS – As part of Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s continued commitment to presenting programming that extends beyond the traditional summer months, SPAC announced that the Orchestra of St. Luke’s will perform Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concertos at...
A Savory Passage To Patagonia
Monthly Tasting Voyages Out To Patagonia and Britain SARATOGA SPRINGS – So, the lesson is: Come to Savory Pantry (486 Broadway) and see the world! At least in the culinary sense, this is turning out to be true – at their once-a-month tasting and sampling events, a new theme and featured vendors delight and...
Scholar of the Month: DeVaughn Berry
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Standing out, whether it be in a crowd of scholars, or in pads and helmet on the gridiron, is the result of hard work. That is the commitment DeVaughn Berry – our Saratoga Sponsor-a-Scholar (SSAS) for the month of December – brings to the table each day. But it is enhanced...
The Working Farm: Pitney’s High Tunnel Holiday
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Pitney Meadows Community Farm will turn its new “high tunnel” greenhouse into a festive facility for making holiday ornaments and decorations on Sunday, December 10. At the “Holiday Ornament Festival” between 1 and 3 p.m., families will find all of the materials they need to make a wide range of decorations,...