Christmas is coming early to Saratoga Springs this year! There…
Fireworks on New Year’s Eve are so 2019. Beginning with this year’s First Night Saratoga 2020…
Read More →Early Sunday morning in Saratoga Springs, it was 0 degrees outside. (Yes, zero.) Fourteen-hundred miles…
Read More →This past summer, I was able to see Saratoga Springs’ generosity on a global scale.…
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SARATOGA AFTER DARK
(Lawrence White/H.O.P.E.)
On Friday, November 8, Homes for Orphaned Pets Exist (H.O.P.E.)…
THE BIG STORIES
The Pride Center of the Capital Region, located on Hudson Avenue in Downtown Albany, serves the LGBTQ community
in 11 counties from Columbia to Warren. (Holly Northrop)
Albany’s Pride Center Of The Capital Region Readies For Its Historic 50th Anniversary The LGBTQ center is the oldest, continuously operating hub of its kind in the nation.
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, considered to be the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ rights movement. As someone who identifies as bisexual, I…
Work stations at one of Saratoga's new coworking spaces, The Worker's Club.
Trend City: Are Coworking Spaces The New Normal? Downtown Saratoga welcomes two new innovative shared work establishments.
As someone about to enter the workforce, I’m aware that the professional landscape has changed since my parents’ day: neither one could’ve ever imagined being able to work remotely for a living.…
(Dori Fitzpatrick)
Will The Night Owl’s ‘The (Saratoga) Apple Of My Eye’ Be The Next Great Saratoga Cocktail? We end our search for “The Next Great Saratoga Cocktail” with an apple-tastic bang!
The inspiration for saratoga living‘s “The Next Great Saratoga Cocktail” feature was, simply put, that our staff agreed that the Saratoga cocktail of record—the “Saratoga Sunrise“—was both outdated and gross. So we set…
"Diamond Jim" Brady stands out among all the larger-than-life personalities in horse racing. (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame)
The (Mostly) True Legend Of ‘Diamond Jim’ Brady The Saratoga-loving multimillionaire was one of horse racing's greatest characters.
Besides all of its immortal horses, legendary jockeys and masterful trainers, what makes Saratoga Race Course a one-of-a-kind horse racing venue is the countless larger-than-life personalities—the owners and high-rollers—who’ve frequented its stands.…
Daily Racing Form
Trainer Steve Asmussen (far right) will receive a stay of suspension for two positives for the regulated sedative acepromazine while he appeals the penalty.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Steve Asmussen will receive a stay of a 30-day suspension recently handed down by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for two positives for a regulated sedative while he appeals…
FROM THE EDITOR
'saratoga living' Editor in Chief Richard Pérez-Feria is happily surrounded by SPAC's Junior Committee officers: (from left) Samantha, India, Amanda, Ashley, Caitlin and Katrina. (Dori Fitzpatrick)
Those who know me well—and I’m lucky to say a lot of amazing people can easily make that claim—have invariably heard my go-to refrain whenever I’m asked to do something I’m not…
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(from left) C.J. DeCrescente, Dave DeVoe, Tony Ianniello, Chad Brown and Dan Pickett are five Mechanicville natives, who’ve become captains of their industries and remain friends. (Dori Fitzpatrick) -
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Vocalist/guitarist Caitlin Barker of Saratoga band Candy Ambulance. (Danny DeRusso) -
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(from left) Walter M. Jeffords, Sr., owners Sonny and Marylou Whitney, jockey Bill Hartack and trainer J.J. Greely, Jr. at Saratoga Race Course in 1960, after the Whitneys' horse, Tompion, won the Travers Stakes. (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame) -
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The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Pig N' Whistle in Downtown Saratoga, with Co-Owners Scott Solomon (left) and Jordan Bush (left) at center. (Gabriella Boschetti) -
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The Adelphi Hotel's David Burke; Boca Bistro's Roslyn Riggi; Osteria Danny's Danny Petrosino; Fish at 30 Lake's Tracey Kwiecien; and Hattie's Restaurant's Jasper Alexander are five of the master chefs in Saratoga's explosive restaurant scene. (Fahnon Bennett)