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Well, I never thought I’d see the day. A few months ago, Browns’ Brewing’s popular Wednesday night trivia moved out of the venerable taproom, and relocated to Monday nights down at Revolution Hall.  The challenging 60-question trivia game lasted for about six months, then it was cancelled; the hosts Marc and Anthony are now hosting…

I had hoped to include this photo of a Coca-Cola vintage advertisement, painted on this Schenectady building, as part of an upcoming self-produced art book called “Ghost Signs of the Capital District.”  It was actually one of the first ghost signs (faded brick advertisements painted on old buildings) that I was able to photograph for…

I’m nervous. I’ve already finished off my second glass of diet soda and a bowl of cream of chicken soup (with rice) at the Blue Ribbon diner on State Street in Schenectady. My guests are on their way. Some background information. Last week, I noticed that one of my photographs, a late night HDR composition…

What I am about to tell you is the God’s honest truth. And what I had to go through to put this together was nothing short of Herculean. I had actually dated Vicki for about six months, and she was cool with being involved with a single father who had two young daughters and a…

I want to take you back to at least 1979. If you had cable television back then (and in the Capital District, you would have had either Capital Cablevision, Troy NewChannels or Schenectady Cablevision), one of the benefits of cable was that you could watch cartoons after school on WPIX-11 New York City, WSBK-38 Boston,…

So I was talking with Michael Huber, the editor of the Times-Union blog universe, and he alerted me that although the higher-ups at the TU enjoy my daily blogs, and that I’m in the upper third of all TU blog posters (of course, we all know who’s the #1 blog poster – natch, it’s Capital…

Hockey fans have probably heard of Edmonton’s Shedon Souray. He’s got a slapshot that could put a puck through a brick wall. He’s a force on the ice, and one of the Oilers’ most popular players.

And during the 1996-97 AHL hockey season, I found out he was my brother. At least for that year.

I realize we’ve come to a point in music history where the melody of almost every song is derived from another song written years ago.  Sometimes these issues can be quickly resolved, such as Mike Oldfield receiving a writer’s credit on Paul Hardcastle’s Vietnam-sampled dance track “19” because one of the melodies in the 1985…

So I’m sitting at home, watching the Halifax Rainmen play the Rochester Razorsharks in a streaming online video feed from the Premier Basketball League, when I saw an e-mail in my personal account. And talk about a shock.  A blast from the past. Walt Adams, one of the deans of broadcasting in the Capital District,…