On a cloudy Saturday in May 2009, I took my new-to-me Nikon D700 camera for a little photo walk around the Capital District. And the photo walk included a few shots at an old building that no longer exists today. Recognize this structure? Yep, that is the old First Prize slaughterhouse and meat packing plant on…
Read MoreHey, remember Heather Kovar?
It was all over last year’s news. WRGB anchor Heather Kovar did a broadcast that – well – wasn’t really one of the best out there. And social media shredded her like government documents. I blogged about it back then. And I wondered … after all that … whatever happened to Heather Kovar? I can tell you. She’s…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 16 2023
Good morning everybody, I hope all of you got your holiday shopping done – there’s no reason to head out on the final Christmas weekend to fight someone else for that last $200 flatscreen on the wall, right? Well, if you DO have to take a break to deal with the world … you couldn’t…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 15, 2023
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreLady Ballers is the worst sports movie ever. Heck, it’s the worst MOVIE ever.
Many years ago, there was a Hollywood film called Juwanna Mann, a comedy about an NBA washout who tries to rejuvenate his career by dressing in women’s clothes sand joining the WNBA. It was about as funny as a fart in church. I wrote about Juwanna Mann last year as part of a larger blog piece…
Read MoreThe Self-Destruction of Cait Corrain
Cait Corrain was on top of the world. Her debut novel, A Crown of Starlight, was scheduled to be published by Del Rey Books. It would receive national distribution and appear as a featured text in several subscription book clubs. And in the span of 48 hours, the book and its author was dropped by…
Read MoreChristmas in Iverhill: The Snow Fort of St. Timothy
NOTE: To read Chuck Miller’s book “The Robins of Iverhill: A Minor League Fairy Tale,” as well as the short stories in the “Christmas in Iverhill” series, visit this link. Monday, December 24th, 1973. Port’s alarm clock rang at 8:00 a.m., with that same bang-bang-bang bell-ringing that married 8:00 a.m. to the end of sleep. …
Read MoreA new life for my old high school building.
The Street Academy of Albany operated from 1974 to approximately 1986 in a building at 165 Clinton Avenue in Albany’s Arbor Hill neighborhood. Ninety years prior to the Street Academy claiming tenancy in that structure, the building was originally constructed as Public School No. 7 to serve the neighborhood residents. After Street Academy left the…
Read MoreThe Littlest Angel is the ONLY Hallmark Christmas special you need to see.
Follow me on this. It’s December 6, 1969. And among the television offerings on NBC that evening was a broadcast of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, an anthology series designed to entertain viewers and hopefully sell lots of greeting cards. The special that evening was a musical rendering of Charles Tazewell’s 1950’s radio script of…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 9 2023
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. I’m just trying to get up and get out there and enjoy my Saturday, and I hope you do the same. I just need to take care of this wee little thing this morning … capturing the blog posts on my blogroll that I feel you would enjoy reading…
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