How young was I went I saw that gigantic Central Avenue sign? You know… this one. See, back in the day, when Central Avenue was better known as Albany-Schenectady Road, Valle’s Steak House was a popular eatery and banquet hall. There were plenty of Valle’s Steak Houses around the Northeast; but the one in Albany…
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The day Ken Screven and I met
I realize that new Times Union community blogger Ken Screven has reported on maybe fifty thousand stories during his stint as a WRGB reporter. And I can’t ask him to remember all fifty thousand of them as if they were baseball statistics. But I do remember this one instance. And it’s the time when one…
Read MoreThe new nasty “Facebook trap” game
Last night, as I was trying to get some sleep, I checked my Facebook page. Figured I’d comment on what some of my friends were up to. Oh look, here’s one of my friends from college, whom I just “friended” on Facebook a few months ago. Interesting… She’s posted a few things about her life,…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, September 7 2013: Ten for Thursday
Thursday morning. Yawn. Get out of bed. Rise and shine. And since it’s Thursday… I can’t forget the most important part of the morning. Making sure to post links to ten blogs from the Times Union’s crew of bloggers and writers, ten fantastic articles from the community bloggers. This is a chance for me to…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: More Forgotten 1970’s Disco Hits!
Okay, here’s the deal. It’s Wednesday, and I don’t feel like posting some video of a camel asking what day of the week today is. And with that in mind, since it is the middle of the week and the weather is dreary, I want to bring you some dance music from the 1970’s. That’s…
Read MoreWeek 1 of the 2013-14 Ruck Trivia Tournament
It took three tries, in writing that headline, to NOT type the words “Elbo Room.” For years, I played in the Elbo Room big money tournament. My Street Academy trivia team won it twice, and came in second place twice. But the minute the tournament became a “raffle” tourney, in that teams received raffle tickets…
Read MoreThe Flying Light Project
A couple of years ago, I tried a photography experiment where I composed one shot in two cameras. My “Single Shot: Half Shot” photograph, if you will, was designed so that the film was be exposed in one camera, then re-exposed in a second camera. I got it to work – at least reasonably so…
Read MoreThe Results of BUILT 2013
“BUILT: Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes” is the final stop on my photography “charity season.” The three artworks I submitted, which encompass Capital District architecture and iconography, were displayed – along with hundreds of works from other amazing local painters, photographers, sculptors and inkers – in the soon-to-be-fully-restored 60 State Place, the former KeyBank building on…
Read MoreNever let another MC steal your name.
It’s 1979 and I’m in high school. Street Academy of Albany. And it’s there that I discover this musical genre called rap. And back then, “rap music” was pressed on 12-inch vinyl records, and usually contained one long rap song on side A, and an instrumental version on side B. I bought my first rap…
Read MoreSomeecards have invaded my blog!!
You’ve heard of Someecards.com. Well, I’m sure you’ve heard of Someecards.com’s output – they’re all over your friends’ Facebook walls and, by extension, they’re in your news feeds as well. Sort of like how many of your Facebook friends are into the bitstrips feature, where their lives and actions are turned into cartoon characters. Normally,…
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