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“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is an old song whose lyrics haven’t aged much. One of the last major scheduled events of this...
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I took my fourteen year old son to see Green Day at the Times Union Center on Saturday, July 25th. It wasn’t an experience I was looking forward...
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Every year, the Park Playhouse in Albany features a production of a well-known stage musical under the stars in Washington Park. The Albany Park...
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Unless you’ve been living on another planet (not Krypton, of course, it blew up years ago), you’ve no doubt noticed that your local...
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Feeding a teenage boy is terrifying. You don’t want to stand between your adolescent son and food; on the other hand, unless you’ve gotten...
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A famous cartoon by Warren Miller appeared in The New Yorker in 1986 showing two beaming parents, each wearing only barrels, as they proudly stand...
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It is not true that teenage boys don’t read. It is often true that it is difficult to convince them to read. TV, computers and video games...
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