What’s Up in the Neighborhood, October 18 2025

Just for curiosity, I looked up how many times I’ve created an entry for this blog category. Counting its original iteration as a “Best of our TU Community Bloggers” recap when the Times Union stopped supporting its community bloggers (the first of many times they did that), I’ve penned over 500 of these recaps, including over 400 since my post -2017 Times Union escape.

The posts underwent several changes in name and format and date; it picked up the “What’s Up in the Neighborhood” designation when the beloved local blog platform All Over Albany, who used to do a blog recap every Wednesday, folded. Since then, it’s been a Saturday staple on this platform.

So let’s get right to it, shall we?

• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • The Emptywheel platform, “Revenge of the “Lib Tard:” Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal.”
  • Molly White’s “[Citation Needed],” “Anatomy of a crypto meltdown.”
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life,” “Mindset Matters: Empowering Young Adults to Overcome Challenges and Embrace Growth.”
  • Silvia Lilly’s blog, “Whatever gets you through the night (and day).”
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “Record Numbers.”
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “Our Latest Adventure.”
  • Richard Lakin’s blog, “Broadstairs.”
• BLOGS FOR YOUR SOUL
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Crying and dying music.”
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “Ogunquit Fall Magic.”
  • Tim Jeffers Photography, “My 66 Year Old Crown Graphic!“
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “The snow in black & white II.”
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “Flower Art, Friday, October 17, 2025. Flowers, Sex, Messages.”
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • The B&S About Movies blog, “The Amy Fisher Story (1993).”
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “Testament of Youth (2014).”
  • The Saturday Morning Archives, “That time Easy Reader visited Sesame Street (1974).”
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • F. Pokorny in the Bel Esprit platform, “Life Under the Stove Light.”
  • Bryan Furuness in the Pine Hills Review, ““The Loneliness of the Sharpshooter.”
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • The RIP Baseball site, “Mike Greenwell (1963-2025).”
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever, “New York Groove (1978).”
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “The Pumpkin Harvest.”

Have a great weekend, everybody!