We polled three local foodies—SM2 Dev Founder and CEO Dan Graham, graduate student Jen Van Strander and NYS Department of Health Quality Improvement Coordinator...
Turning to this page probably just made you do a double-take. Something is unequivocally missing from this stunning 1914 photograph of Congress Park from...
Prep your pasta al dente! In our latest episode of Capital Region Cook-off, we’re pitting Chef Frank Otte from Panza’s Restaurant, one of Saratoga’s...
Eighty-eight years ago this April 6, American morale was high. The 18th amendment—a.k.a. Prohibition—was about to be repealed, meaning the following day, the drinking...
Since it was built in 1871, Universal Preservation Hall (UPH) has housed two congregations, welcomed speakers such as Frederick Douglass, and hosted performers such...
Is there someone in your life—a healthcare worker, service industry employee or first responder—that you feel deserves a proper "thank you" for all that...
The story of Kayleigh Cox's Rotterdam-based furniture refurbish business, The Attic By Kay, begins more than 3,000 miles away at Ramstein Air Base in...
For many college seniors, spring semester is all about partying, hanging out with friends and looking forward to special end-of-the-year activities. For Sarah Greene,...
We've been thanking essential workers for nearly a year now, but that doesn't mean they deserve our praise any less. So Saratoga Living called in some...
Below, find six wedding professional from Saratoga Springs—a member of a wedding band, a wedding photographer, wedding floral designer, wedding cake baker, owner of...
Before the pandemic hit, it seemed as though everybody and their sister got married at Saratoga Springs’ Canfield Casino. After all, it’s located in...
A successful businesswoman who has lived in the Capital Region her whole life, Madeleine was overjoyed about walking down the aisle. After her first...
We polled three Saratogians—Peter McPherson, board game designer and book reviewer, Dawn Oesch, Home Made Theater's artistic coordinator and owner of the Saratoga Candy...
There’s this memorable patch of dialogue in the 1992 Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs, in which Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) describes to Mr. Orange...
Feel like your home's interior design needs a little zhuzhing up? Interior designer Lee Owens of Lee Owens Design, a full-service interior design firm...
According to legend—and this is the founding legend of Saratoga Springs we’re talking about—Sir William Johnson, a British-born friend to the Mohawk Indians of...
As soon as local businesses realized that digital-first marketing plans—creative video series and livestreamed events—were the “new normal” during the pandemic, guys like Frankie...
When last we checked in with our youngest Saratoga Living contributor, 11-year-old Jameson Dalpe, a seventh grader at Albany's Christian Brothers Academy (CBA), he...
There's a scene in the now-20-year-old movie, High Fidelity, in which record shop owner Rob Gordon (John Cusack) sashays over to his fellow employee...
If you have been following Saratoga Springs native Josh Greenbaum's film directing career over the past decade and change, you would have long since...
Just a few months after Ed Mitzen, owner of Fingerpaint, and his wife, Lisa, bought Saratoga Springs' beloved Bread Basket Bakery, transforming it into...
Just two years ago, the Saratoga Springs community was celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saratoga Guitar, one of the city's oldest downtown businesses and...
If you've been following the news lately, New York State's vaccination rollout plan hasn't been going so well. Despite Governor Andrew Cuomo's daily assurance...
With snow still being removed from many neighborhoods in the Capital Region after last Thursday's massive nor'easter, which dumped more than two feet of...
Shots fired—espresso shots, that is. On the night of December 21, Saratoga Coffee Traders' General Manager Scott Swedish took to social media to air...
Mike and Shelley Spain, the husband-wife duo that opened Saratoga Springs' restaurant Seneca in August 2019, may have just singlehandedly saved 2020. In the...
On December 10, Saratoga Living and Capital Region Living hosted a COVID-safe, hybrid virtual-live celebration—the first of its kind in the Capital Region—honoring 10 local philanthropic superstars...
Downtown Saratoga Springs has hit a grand slam—during a global pandemic, no less. Cooperstown Distillery, which is headquartered in the hometown of the National...
Michelle Tsao
Principal, Saratoga Springs High School
What’s one positive thing that came out of 2020?
The pace of life slowed, allowing for more reflection on what...
When New York Giants running back Dion Lewis was growing up in Albany—he moved there from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, when he was 5—his father used...
One Saratoga native is betting that his alcohol-laced, honey-touched product, mead, will spark the next major craft-brewing gold rush. And he's putting his money...
Last winter feels like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? When Saratoga Living unveiled our inaugural Saratoga Gives Back list and event in December 2019,...
Last winter feels like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? When Saratoga Living unveiled our inaugural Saratoga Gives Back list and event in December 2019,...
Last winter feels like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? When Saratoga Living unveiled our inaugural Saratoga Gives Back list and event in December 2019,...
Last winter feels like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? When Saratoga Living unveiled our inaugural Saratoga Gives Back list and event in December 2019,...
Last winter feels like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? When Saratoga Living unveiled our inaugural Saratoga Gives Back list and event in December 2019,...
With the holidays fast approaching and COVID cases spiking across the Capital Region, locals have been inundating doctor's offices and urgent cares, trying to...
