Food waste might be the last thing patrons expect to see on display at this year's reimagined Saratoga Wine & Food Festival—but when it's as beautiful...
Being an online influencer might appear to be an endless scroll of glorious selfies, viewed and liked by millions of adoring, digital hangers-on, who...
If you catch HBO's hit show Succession this weekend, you might see a familiar, local face: Norman Dascher. He's not a veteran SAG-AFTRA guy from the Capital...
Bravo! saratoga living magazine is celebrating the release of its second annual "Best Of Everything" Issue on October 6, with an exclusive brunch party at Prime...
A different kind of horsepower will be making its way to Saratoga Springs next weekend, when the Saratoga Automobile Museum's 2019 Saratoga Auto Auction rolls...
Coffee and TV, anyone? On Thursday, September 12, Skidmore College will be hosting a free public screening of a brand-new WHMT Public Media-produced Caffè...
If shows at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) by the Dave Matthews Band or Phish mark the unofficial kickoff to the Saratoga summer, Zac Brown Band's annual...
So what if the Woodstock 50 music festival was a complete bust? The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) landed one of the OG Woodstock's greatest acts,...
Summer's not officially over yet (especially with the 150th running of the Travers Stakes this weekend), but that hasn't stopped Opera Saratoga from looking...
Now's the time to brush up on your Beethoven. Next summer, from August 12-15, 2020, The Philadelphia Orchestra, under Music Director and Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin,...
Award-winning novelist Richard Russo may have a Pulitzer Prize and several bestselling books under his belt, but he hasn't forgotten his humble roots here...
The Philadelphia Orchestra kicked things into high gear during the final week of its summer residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC), with...
In 1996, my daily diet of music consisted of a rotating cast of bought and borrowed compact discs, including everything from Beck's Odelay (borrowed), The...
The Philadelphia Orchestra's season in Saratoga is once again off to the races. Kicking off its annual summer residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts...
Get this: It might only cost you an Alexander Hamilton (i.e. a ten-dollar bill) to enjoy the blockbuster Broadway musical Hamilton. The show's producer,...
It's no exaggeration to say that Patton Oswalt is one of the hardest working comedians in show business. For younger audiences, Oswalt's general hilariousness...
One Schenectady teenager has just made herself millions of nerdy fans. In a scene-stealing moment from Season 3 of Netflix's Stranger Things, which premiered on...
This past Tuesday kicked off the New York City Ballet's (NYCB's) 2019 summer residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC). In the season opener, Tchaikovsky...
It couldn't have been choreographed any better. With the New York City Ballet's (NYCB's) annual summer residency kicking off at the Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center...
Historically, the trainers, owners and jockeys that have gotten the most ink—and to that end, been the centerpiece of the majority of museum exhibits...
In his play King Lear, William Shakespeare wrote: “In jest, there is truth.” There'll certainly be plenty of both—plus a bit of tragedy (it's Shakespeare after...
Woodstock's 50th anniversary is shaping up to be one that its creators might want to forget. The embattled Woodstock 50 festival, which originally boasted...
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) announced on July 3 a change to its summer global music lineup. Fela! The Concert, a stripped-down version of...
Pop some popcorn in the microwave, Saratoga. WMHT Public Media, Eastern New York's Public Broadcasting Service, has announced the lineup for its annual, summer indie film...
Saratoga Springs' resident artists' retreat Yaddo just completed a massive renovation project, and Saratogians are about to get their first glimpse. One of the...
With the exception of the upcoming Saratoga Race Course season, Proctors nabbing the national tour of forever-red-hot Broadway musical Hamilton has been the most talked-out...
Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival is fast approaching, and it's letting some fresh new faces kick off this year's star-studded event. For the first time in...
Recently, I found myself standing shoeless on a padded red gymnastics mat, partially enclosed in a scaffolding-composed canopy, struggling to balance on one foot,...
An ambitious debut novel by Syracuse-born writer Heidi Diehl is creating quite a bit of buzz in literary circles. Slated to be released on Tuesday, June...
Last September, I opened up Facebook Messenger to find some saratoga living fan mail. Caffè Lena’s Chairman of The Board of Directors, Jim Mastrianni,...
Talk about fate. Awhile back, Saratogian Jim Mastrianni, a musician and general music-lover—who also happens to be Chairman of the Board of Directors at...
Attention bookworms: Northshire Bookstore and Skidmore College are teaming up to host a discussion with bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen. The author...
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the Albany Symphony likes a challenge. In 2017, the Grammy Award-winning Capital Region orchestra celebrated the...
A spectacular, special effects-laden production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera has pulled out all the stops for its return to Proctors Theatre...
One Skidmore College professor has joined an exclusive club. Earlier this month, Cecilia Aldarondo, a documentary filmmaker and assistant professor of English, was named...
Saratoga owned the Eddies. At the inaugural Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards (Eddies) at Proctors on April 14—basically, a local version of the...
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) and Caffè Lena are jazzing up Saratoga's second annual Freihofer’s Jazz Festival Friday. The two have teamed up...
Back in January, saratoga living included the über-talented, Troy-based solo artist Girl Blue (a.k.a. vocal powerhouse Arielle O'Keefe), on our "8 Female Musicians From Upstate...
Move over, avocado toast—it’s all about succulents now! The latest trend among millennials—and anyone who wants to think they have a green thumb, really—is...
The star-studded Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) summer lineup just got even brighter. On April 1, Live Nation announced that Grammy Award-winning rap star Cardi...
While spring may be quickly approaching in Saratoga Springs, winter has officially come to Westeros, the fictitious continent where a majority of the wildly...