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...
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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,...
The Gallery: 31st Annual Victorian Streetwalk
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Once a year, we walk along Broadway. More recently, we walk ON Broadway – but just on one evening. Always the Thursday following Thanksgiving. And on that evening, No town rings the bell that says “It’s Holiday Time!” more spectacularly than this one. None more emphatically – none with more dignity,...
First Night Preview 411
SARATOGA SPRINGS – In 2017, First Night Saratoga was voted to be the best annual event in the region! As one of the oldest and largest celebrations of its kind in the country, First Night Saratoga has built a record as the most affordable, accessible, safe and exciting way to spend New Year’s Eve...
Planet Mandy: Tree Time!
22nd Annual Festival of Trees Preview SARATOGA SPRINGS – Get ready folks, the most wonderful time of the year is fast approaching. The time of the year when you make a list, and check it twice. And yet – it’s the time of the year when you try to wear the ugliest sweater to...
Simply Sidney Blooms Large
Grand Opening November 17 With Local Clients Already in Full Flower Sidney Martin with Tracy Strann and Tas Steiner SARATOGA SPRINGS – You have to recognize the strategy first. Before you appreciate it. And then transfer the concept to your eyeballs, dear reader. But here’s a stab at it – don’t wait to open...
Saluting the Strongest Links in the Chain of Giving
The Giving Circle’s 2017 Compassion Awards SARATOGA SPRINGS – The need never stops, though it does shift. And, these days – the need grows. Cropping up all over the globe…. In the aftermath of both natural and man-made catastrophes, one thing you can bank on is the need. Which is why a moment was...
Once Upon a Time…
Inaugural All Hallows Eve Dark Faerie Tale Masquerade Ball MESMERIZED Carrie Rowlands Johnson SARATOGA SPRINGS -Tattered remnants of clothing and dirt-streaked cheekbones hang hauntingly across Cinderella’s skin-covered bones. She polishes candelabras and sweeps fairy dust from corners. Clearly, she has yet to receive the royal invitation that summons her transformation from dank chambermaid to...
Team Fingerpaint Is Ready to Dive In!
Fingerpaint Gearing Up For Big Splash at Polar Plunge on November 18 SARATOGA SPRINGS – Here’s what I’m amazed by… How these people manage to find the time to get any work done – let alone, the multi-award winning work that they do – is beyond me! And yet, each time I have the...