CULTURE / ARTS
Don’t Miss SPAC’s Delicious Expansion of the Arts
Ahead of a busy winter events schedule, the producers of CulinaryArts@SPAC—Kim Klopstock an Pam Abrams—sit down with SPAC President Elizabeth Sobol.
Saratoga Living: SPAC’s CulinaryArts has become a regular series in record time, with tickets to every event selling out fast. When did this happen—and why?
Elizabeth Sobol: We started CulinaryArts@SPAC at our 2019 Wine and Food Festival. It was a chance to work with Kim...
#TBT: Bob Dylan’s Shaky Start
He is undoubtedly the biggest star with a bona fide Saratoga footnote in his origin story, but the audience members at Bob Dylan’s first two shows here were, by all accounts, clueless to his talents. The softspoken singer was living in the Village in Manhattan in 1961, doing local gigs but unable to score anything outside his artsy neighborhood—a matter of his folk bent...
Unmasking the Man Behind Popular Spa City News Site, the ‘Saratoga Report’ (Exclusive)
If you've spent any amount of time trawling the internet or social media for news on Saratoga Springs, you've likely come across the usual...
First Annual Saratoga Book Festival Coming to the Spa City October 15-17
Saratoga Springs has long been a destination for celebrated authors, whether they're coming for a talk and book signing at Northshire, Skidmore College's Summer...
Zac Brown Band Frontman Tests Positive for COVID, Cancels SPAC Show
The Zac Brown Band (ZBB) was a late-season mainstay at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in pre-pandemic years—sort of a post–Dave Matthews Band...
Trotter & Sholer Gallery in NYC Presents Artist Pajtim Osmanaj’s ‘The Story of the Evolution of a Falling Star’
When our New York City art correspondent Nicole Ianniello last checked in at the end of August, she had just met up with and...
George Frayne, Country Rock’s ‘Commander Cody,’ Dead at 77
It's time to dust off that old turntable, drop the needle and pay tribute. Country rock's George "Commander Cody" Frayne, of the 1960s and...
Saratoga’s Beyond My Battle to Host Third Annual ‘Art With Heart & Hope’ at UPH
Call it a virtual upgrade. Saratoga Springs nonprofit Beyond My Battle (BMB), which last year was forced to bring its annual Art with Heart...
SPAC 2021: Dave Matthews Band Back on the Amphitheater Stage
At the Church of Dave, eating, drinking and being merry are all required. Last night marked the Dave Matthews Band's triumphant return to the...
SPAC 2021: The Black Crowes Bring ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ to Saratoga
A Tuesday night crowd at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) turned back the clock to 1990, courtesy of Southern rockers The Black Crowes....
Richard Blanco, Obama’s Inaugural Poet, to Be First Visiting Artist at SPAC’s School of the Arts
Talk about an "inaugural" visiting artist. The Saratoga Performing Arts Center's soon-to-open School of the Arts just landed its first visiting artist, poet Richard...
2021 Ultimate A2Z Guide: The ‘Best of Everything’ in Saratoga
After a difficult 2020-21 for most Saratoga Springs small businesses, let’s start off by giving them all—the shops, restaurants, firms, salons, practices, nonprofits, et...
The One Where ‘Friends’ Executive Producer Kevin Bright Loves Local Art
If you count yourself among Kevin Bright’s friends—the ones that don’t get starstruck by the fact that he was once the executive producer and...
Pause, Renew, Retreat, Repeat: How Yaddo Survived Pandemic Lockdown—With Its Magic Intact
If you’re one of the lucky souls who has gotten past the barriers at Yaddo’s front gate—and haven’t been deterred by the “no trespassing”...