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Madison Theater, Albany, New YorkOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter The Madison Theater is one of Albany’s last neighborhood motion picture palaces (the Spectrum on Delaware Avenue is the other). Many of the other palaces in the Capital District have long since disappeared – the Strand and the Warner and the Ritz all were destroyed when downtown…

I’m really not a fan of Price Chopper’s AdvantEDGE program. In order to get any sort of a discount at their stores, you have to acquire an AdvantEDGE shopping card, which then gets swiped when you purchase items. You get a discount, but that AdvantEDGE card tracks your purchases – which, I suspect, then get…

I still can’t believe I put this together. I also still can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner. A little background. I’ve covered the Vocal Group Hall of Fame inductions since the first one was held in 1998. In 2001, I started taking pictures along with my written coverage, both for Goldmine and Billboard…

Poestenkill Gorge waterfalls, Troy, New YorkOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter Of the four photos I wanted to submit to the Altamont Fair photo competition, one of the quartet just didn’t grab me. Try as I might, I could not get a decent capture of the Oakwood Cemetery waterfall without climbing down a very unsafe ravine. I…

There’s a new web-based 5-minute TV series, produced by NBC, called CTRL. Here’s a link to the episodes via Hulu. The show is based on a 2008 Sundance film festival entry, in which a nebbish office worker discovers that, thanks to an accident involving spilled tea on his computer keyboard, now gives him the power…

Robert Bradley is an expert in the history of professional basketball. He’s the head person behind the Association for Professional Basketball Research, an organization similar to the SABR people who chart baseball’s history. So when he contacted me the other day and asked if I had any information on the Continental Basketball Association standings for…

This is absolutely funny. And it’s great. And it’s ironic. Here’s the deal. This musician, Dave Carroll, from the band Sons of Maxwell, was on tour and was waiting for his United flight to take off, when a passenger on that plane looked out the window and said that the plane loading crew were tossing…

I scrimped. I saved. I went without. But on Friday, I was able to finally realize my goal. Backstory. From 2005 to the present, I worked with a Nikon D70 camera. I actually purchased this camera to replace my Nikon Coolpix 800, which I had owned since maybe 1999. At the time, the Albany Patroons…