Reviews
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Schenectady Civic Players’ August: Osage County Delivers a Strong Dramatic Look at the Cruelty of the American Family- by Joanna Palladino. Families can be the most positive influences in a person’s life and they can also be the source of trauma, cruelty, violence, ridicule, and destruction. Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer prize-winning play August: Osage County is a […]
The Books – The Lemon Of Pink (Album Review) – by Joshua Reedy. (2003) My copy: 2016 remastered reissue on yellow vinyl with pink splatter by Temporary Residence Limited. Thought For Food is a tough act to follow – the album is so conceptually fresh that expansion is difficult to anticipate. And so Paul De […]
Harbinger Theatre’s In The Blood Tackles Societal Hypocrisy with Heart and Grit – by Joanna Palladino. What happens when institutions with a mission to help and support others are responsible for creating so much pain and trauma? “In The Blood” written by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks explores the shortcomings of personal relationships, education, social […]
Cat Power @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall 2/16/24 – by Tara Davis. The slight young woman clutched her guitar and backed away from the front of the stage at Great American Music Hall, edging further and further away from the audience and begging the staff to dim the stage lights. “More please, lower, lower,” […]
Straight Jacket, Assault On The Living, Sworn Enemy, Spiritkiller, and Grand Street played at Empire Live on Saturday, March 9th. Video by Dick Boof. Grand Street Spiritkiller Sworn Enemy Assault On The Living
Back In Black returns to the Strand Theatre for TWO nights of AC/DC music! On Friday, 3/22/24, Back in Black with opening act Legacy Of The Beast take the stage and on Saturday, 3/23/24, Back In Black with opening act Sister Christian will rock out the Strand! Shows start at 7:30pm. Do you want the “True AC/DC […]
Sasha Velour ’s The Big Reveal Drag Show at Proctor’s GE Theater – March 2nd, 2024 My son and I have been fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race for a while now – and season 9 winner Sasha Velour is one of our all-time favorite queens. So, when we saw her scheduled to perform at Proctor’s […]
10,000 Volts from a Jersey Team has Ace Frehley walking on the moon! – by Michael Bruce. Who is Ace Frehley? To some people, that would be a really foolish question, and to some others, a totally legitimate one. So let me take the guess work out of it if you’re not sure who ‘Space […]
Top Ten Fake Books – David James Keaton Sometime around last year, I realized I’ve been steadily losing my ability to read due to a decade of rampant, attention-span-destroying internet usage. This became even clearer to me when, for the first time in my life, I found it impossible to come up with a year-end […]