I did my part over the weekend, spending $200 on a new kayak and saving the sales tax. It’s interesting how much the state can motivate people to patronize usually sleepy businesses on a summer sunday just by eliminating the sales tax. Some where I read that that this move […]

What a perfect day to stroll through a fruit orchard and view sculpture. Art in the Orchard opened this afternoon, and for the next few months you, too, can take this stroll through the orchards and woods to see fascinating artwork…Click to learn more!

disturbed-theater (click to view photos) Ok, so dancing around with your dead wife isn’t a particularly funny scenario…but throw in some nubile, scantily-clad burlesque dancing girls, a lively soundtrack…and you’ve got an evening of fun. Disturbed Theater put on their annual smorgasbord of sketch comedy, improv and a wonderful dash […]

For ten years every Tuesday night, Harpo Power, the friendly patronne of the Harp in North Amherst, has stood up on a chair at 9 pm and begun asking trivia questions to a packed house. Teams of four and five people usually include “a science geek, someone young for the […]

I read a passage in a book that I’m reading that made me laugh out loud on the treadmill. It’s a book called The Big Rich, which chronicles the great fortunes made and lost by four famous Texas oil men. The first of the big rich to buy a serious […]

  For sixty years on Saturday nights, a sound has roared out of the north side of Route 104 in Oswego, a city on Lake Ontario in Western New York. It’s the unmistakable growl of cars going fast around a track, the sound of a culture of racing, of generation […]