“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...
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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,...
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...
Be There: Festival of Trees Now Through Sunday
Planet Mandy: Meant to Be SARATOGA SPRINGS – Bashert is a Yiddish word that in its basic form means, “meant to be”. My introduction to the Festival of Trees was 16 years ago when I was invited to my new neighbor’s home for their holiday party. The Parrish’s had the most amazing tree I...
The Gallery: Big Boogie-Down at Adelphi Grand Opening
Adelphi Hotel’s Festive Uncorking Benefits Double H SARATOGA SPRINGS – World-class. Everything. The historic Adelphi Hotel showcased just that – in copious quantities, in several important categories – as it officially flung its doors open with a BANG, on Thursday, November 16. – World-class cuisine, from the Adelphi culinary team. Note that the highly...
Snow (Ball) in the Forecast for December 2
Flower and Fruit Mission’s Snow Ball – A Preview SARATOGA SPRINGS – Our city’s motto is “health, history and horses.” Let’s focus on health for a second. Founded in 1904, The Flower and Fruit Mission was established to help support Women’s Health Services at Saratoga Hospital. This committee, always 35 female members for life,...
Extended Family
Saratoga Center for the Family’s Fifth Annual Corks, Forks + Brews SARATOGA SPRINGS – Since I heard some people like horse racing in this town, I shall summarize thusly: This five year-old has found its stride, and in a crowded event field – has jumped up a few class levels into graded stakes company....
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...
Autumn’s Harvest of Help
Adirondack Trust Company’s Community Fund’s Evening of Autumn of Giving SARATOGA SPRINGS – No pyrotechnics. No impromptu immersive experiences. No celebrity bartenders, no stunts, bells or whistles. Just giving. And on this night, Wednesday, October 25, the giving took center stage as people – many of whom are prominent members of Saratoga Springs’ robust...
The Great Grape: Vin Le Soir!
Vin Le Soir Benefits AIM Services, Inc. SARATOGA SPRINGS – May I offer a toast? … Please raise your glasses and savor…Here’s to the reasons why they turned out in droves to Longfellows on Thursday, October 19! Salute’! And let us salute the hardworking, genial people who make AIM Services such a joy to...