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Let me preface this by saying, for the record, this is not a food review blog.  You want to go read a food review blog – go to Daniel Berman’s Fussy Little Blog or read DerryX.  Or maybe Albany Eats or a few others.  Trust me – I’m one of those people who have no…

It’s happened in big-money trivia tournaments in the Capital District.  And recently it happened at WFLY’s bridal competition.  Someone messed up with the answer on a trivia question, and it caused a compromise in the outcome of a contest. The recent news report about an incorrect answer being scored as correct – the dress designer…

I’ve burned away two of my five attempts to be part of The Chance.  I have three attempts left. And if you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m not going to give up.  I’m not going to waste my three attempts.  I’m going to go down to New York City and try like crazy…

I take a cloth and dust off the Silver Shaker award.  If we don’t win the trophy back, at least the next recipient of the trophy will have one bereft of fingerprints and dust.  I read the base of the trophy one more time.  It still gives me a nice sense of pride. SUMMER BOWL…

This Sunday, the top trivia teams will compete in the invite-only Summer Bowl II Trivia Tournament at the Recovery Sports Bar and Grille in Troy. The winning team receives the “Silver Shaker” Award as champions of trivia, and their team name and teammates’ names are carved into the trophy base, and they receive the people’s…

Another try for The Chance.  Another knock on the door. But this time, The Chance has thrown me a curve ball. And it could keep me from reaching The Chance this year – if not forever. June 22, 2011. Another trip to New York City, another attempt to make The Chance accept me.  Before I…

And is your trivia team ready to handle the challenge? Here’s the date. Sunday, July 17, at the Recovery Sports Bar and Grille. A select number of “play-in” and “legacy” teams will attempt to win the coveted Silver Shaker, the second-most important Capital District trivia championship trophy (after Trivia Bowl, of course). So here’s how…

I haven’t learned yet, have I? I’ve tried for The Chance for eight years.  And The Chance keeps rejecting me. It hates me.  It wishes I never heard of it.  It thinks that I’m weird and desperate and pathetic. Be that as it may, I’m not taking “get lost” for an answer.  Not any more.…

On Tuesday night, I arrived at Graney’s Stout bar on Broadway in North Albany for their first Tuesday night trivia game, and this game would be special – a “Hooters Reunion” of the best trivia teams to ever win at the legendary restaurant. Among the classic teams to return for another round – Lynch’s Mob,…

It was the spring of 2007.  My Street Academy team at the time consisted of myself, Rich Mahady, Tracey Stein, her boyfriend Ken Secor and my wife Vicki.  The final question that night was on the category of movie monsters.  We were in the lead and bet a sizeable amount to lock everyone else out…