and had a wonderful time.ย Most times, the interaction between bloggers and readers is limited to a nickname commenting on the text written from someone with a photo headshot (or in my case, a photo with a camera in it). So it’s great to meet my fellow bloggers and blog readers at Times Union mixers…
Read MoreRemembering “Trivia Rich” Mahady
I first met Trivia Rich Mahady in, of all places, Boston.ย It was 1993, and I was visiting my grandmother in West Roxbury – and to get there, I had to take a Greyhound from Albany to Boston, and then transfer to the T to get to Cleveland Circle, and then ride a city bus…
Read MoreA Farewell Party for Harriet Gibbons High School / Street Academy of Albany
Forty years ago, on September 21, 1970, the Albany Times Union reported the beginning of a new alternative high school in the district, a partnership between the nuns of the Kenwood Academy of the Sacred Heart and the staff of the Albany chapter of the National Urban League.ย That school became the Street Academy of…
Read More“The Gong Show” – The Greatest TV Game Show of All Time!
You think Simon Cowell was harsh? You think Gordon Ramsay is cruel? Try going on stage and performing the latest pop song – only to watch as one of the judges grabs a big body-length mallet, and swings it at a huge Chinese gong – and with that, you’re off the show.ย Thanks for playing,…
Read MoreAnd your host for Answers Please, Ed Dague!
Let’s put it this way.ย Ed Dague is one of the most dedicated, principled reporters the Capital District has ever had.ย For years as Ernie Tetreault’s assistant anchor on WRGB’s 6pm newscast in the 1970’s, to his long tenure as the lead anchor on WNYT, Dague has been a strong and reliable institution when it…
Read MoreVisiting the 2010 New York State Fair (and seeing how my Nipper and Coca-Cola photos did)
Saturday morning.ย 3:30am.ย I think the only people up this early are graveyard shifters and those who still haven’t gotten home from Last Call. But this is a big day for me.ย And I need to get up.ย Revilee, Revilee, hit the deck, rise and shine… Nikon D700 fully charged, an 8-gig CompactFlash chip stuffed…
Read More“Gremlins” at the Uptown Theater in Utica
So the last time I passed through the Mohawk Valley, I had my Nikkormat FTn in the car.ย Of course it was loaded with a roll of Kodachrome, and of course I had to take some photos of things that I remembered from the time I spent at Hamilton College and the surrounding villages and…
Read MoreRemembering “The Pirates of Dark Water” – NOW ON DVD!!
It began as a five-day-long cartoon miniseries on Fox.ย One year later, it underwent a slight name change, andย became a 13-episode Saturday morning TV show on ABC.ย One year after that, a few more episodes were manufactured for the syndication market.ย After that, the show disappeared into the mists of cable television, airing on…
Read MoreA new skin for my Nikkormat FTn
I don’t know if it’s something hardwired in my DNA, but if I own something cool, I have to find a way to cosmetically “modify” it to be distinctively mine.ย You know the feeling.ย It starts in grade school, when you put your name on your school books – but instead of pencil, which can…
Read MoreHelp a family – buy a school uniform
It’s tough enough for families around this time of year.ย Kids need new school supplies.ย They need new schoolbooks.ย And most importantly, they need new school clothes. Now, for some schools in the Capital Region, the “school clothes” does not mean you have to outfit the kid in the latest Ed Hardy or North Face…
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