Natalie and Fabio at the Oklahoma Training Track in Saratoga Springs, one morning a few years ago. All you could hear was the soft patter of hooves and the hushed voices of trainers nearby: easy, papi, easy.
NYRA announced the barn area track will open to trainers and staff April 15. #Saratoga
A proliferation of poetically inclined placards have suddenly sprouted in the parks and slung across lampposts in the village of Ballston Spa. #poetry
Frosty the Snowman, or Tony Montana?
Giant pile of the white stuff - approx 15 feet tall x 60 feet wide by my eyes - piled to the second story of the parking garage in Saratoga Springs on Wednesday.
“How do you know that you’re getting old?” asks Louie Perez, songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the group Los Lobos. “When you’re having lunch with David Greenberger and he pulls out a notebook.” #sxsw #film
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Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers, Dead & Company, etc.) and The Most Interesting Man In the World w/wife Barbara at Saturday night Make-A-Wish Foundation fundraiser at Canfield Casino in Saratoga Springs.
“You are the living dream,” he said, alternately strumming sultry flamenco riffs from an acoustic guitar & wrenching sassy tortured notes from his electronic machine.
“All is one,” Santana said. “Beauty. Elegance. Dignity and grace. We are all those things.”
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Draped in sequins and dancing on ice to Donna Summer, there is something refreshingly punk rock about the daughter of an immigrant who came to America a political refugee, boldly showcasing an IDGAF attitude and bearing the emotional mettle to redefine their art to be the best that it can be.
😂 😂 😂
Green Day will perform at 6 pm during the opening festivities of the Super Bowl.
#Saratoga #Jazz Fest: “We’re bringing people together. It’s a real, tangible thing for us as a society, for us to enjoy together, for us to be together.”
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If the Olympic Games were designed by Fellini.
“Once there was another city here, and now it is gone. There are almost no traces of it anymore, but millions of us know it existed, because we lived in it: the Lost City of New York.”
- Pete Hamill
A centennial celebration to Miles Davis, and another to John Coltrane. Patti Labelle, The Revivalists, Bil Frisell and more than a dozen additional artists for this year’s Saratoga Jazz Festival. The two-day festival will return to SPAC June 27-28 and will play on two stages.
mages of David Jo/ New York Dolls & Mick Ralphs Mott the Hoople/ Bad Co. gaze from the ether upon Slash & Duff, et al. performing “War Pigs” for Ozzy. #newyorkdolls #mottthehoople #GRAMMYs2026
Were there justice in the world, the Mothership would make an appearance and whisk them away.
#Geese on #SNL: only caught their 2nd song, but enjoyed a sonic glimpse of strangled Television rifferings. And if I’m totally honest, personally awakened & somewhat encouraged, by the cry of the blue Tele-tortured Little Johnny Jewel-isms & the hint of a promise contained within.
A little dash of heaven on earth: Eggplant Chips at Solevo Kitchen on Phila Street, a half-block east of Caffe Lena.
Calabrian chili flakes (southern Italy), wildflower honey and basil. #Saratoga
Sunday aboard the Titanic immersive expedition at Schenectady Armory.
2026
One always under the radar in the States. youtu.be/WM7M7zSMJcw
Bumper sticker Tuesday. A nod to the Yippies…
Across the hallway is the image of The Eldest Girl. A child herself, she cradles a diaper-draped baby in her arms.
“The eldest girl, though always responsible, would escape in her dreams,” we are informed. #art #museum #skidmore
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Michael, Janine and their children Ella & Reid stare out into the world through the windows of their sequestered home. It is the time of the pandemic, and the natural landscape of the free-flowing forest beckons them from behind the reflected glass. #art
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Just received an alert that Elise Stefanik is dropping out.
#Stefanik btw lives in the same neighborhood as I do, and while reading the alert. caught sight of this horse-and-buggy pass me by, hauling it out of town.
Not saying 2 R connected, just they happened at the same time. 😉
“When I say I’m in love, you best believe I’m in love, L-U-V … ”
Theirs are the joyous voices, harmoniously rising with the timeless hope of youthful enthusiasm, shattered by catastrophe at its crescendo would-be sweethearts cursed, poisoned and condemned.
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Tom Verlaine on stage with Television at the Bottom Line, summer 1978. With my Instamatic, and seated next to Patti Smith.
Unbeknownst to us at the time, the band broke that night, right after this gig. Verlaine would have been 77 this week. #pattismith
David Bowie stares back from the hallway of the Spa Little Theatre, where renditions of the theater’s $12 million renovation were showcased Thursday afternoon. #davidbowie #saratoga
As Jess Bien stood in Swyer studio flanked by dozens of onlookers, she asked for a pause to recognize the moment. “There is something special about being here in a space that welcomes all of us, that holds our voices, our movements and our stories…”
#saratoga
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