Category: Happenings

Albany Job Fair, April 15

The Dr. King Career Fair is happening today, Thursday, April 15 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany.

More than 1,400 jobs will be offered by over 70 local businesses, who will meet with job seekers and conduct interviews for a variety of employment opportunities. Admission is free to the public. Job seekers are encouraged to bring their resumes, dress to impress and be prepared to speak to local businesses about numerous career opportunities. Businesses will be recruiting for positions such as IT, Engineering, Accounting, RN, LPN, Personal Care Aides, Customer Service, Administrative, Janitorial, Sales, Auto Body/Mechanics and Management.

For more information regarding the career fair, please contact the Department of Labor at 1-888-4-NYSDOL or visit the department’s website at: http://www.labor.ny.gov.

Carrie Fisher On The Star Wars Holiday Special

Ok, this has nothing to do with Columbia County, or even our planet, but I’m a huge Star Wars fan and this is a blog post I wrote for another website but also wanted to share with you.

Ok, this has nothing to do with Columbia County, or even our planet, but I’m a huge Star Wars fan and this is a blog post I wrote for another website but also wanted to share with you.

Enjoy!

Carrie Fisher was recently interviewed by the New York Times’ ArtsBeat and in the interview, she discussed the Star Wars Holiday Special. For anyone unfamiliar with this special, it was a TV holiday special that aired on CBS in 1978 and is, without a doubt, the worst thing to ever legally come out of the Star Wars universe. The holiday in the special is the Wookie celebration of Life Day and the TV fiasco reunited the main players of the 1977 Star Wars movie with some spliced-in footage from that movie and added a handful of television “stars” including Art Carney, Bea (Beatrice) Arthur, Harvey Koreman, Diahann Carroll and musical guest – Jefferson Starship.

In the ArtsBeat interview, Fisher talks about the Holiday Special and how she made Lucas give her a copy, one of the few in existence.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t embed the video of the interview but you can watch it by clicking here. It’s short and definitely worth watching if you are a Star Wars fan.

 

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The Berkshire Museum’s Festival of Trees


The Festival of Trees at the Berkshire Museum in downtown Pittsfield, MA, is a holiday tradition, celebrating it’s 25th year. What started as a week-long event with a few trees is now a seasonal event featuring more than 200 decorated trees on display.

Each year, the Berkshire Museum decks the galleries with festive trees decorated by community organizations, businesses, and school children. This year, to mark the Festival’s Silver Anniversary, the trees have been inspired by the theme Silver Bells.

It’s a winter wonderland that will delight the entire family!

The Festival of Trees runs from November 13 to January 3, 2010.

Hours:
Mon-Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day.
Close at 2 p.m. Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.

Admission:
$12 adults ($6 members), $6 children 3-18 ($3 members).

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The Crandell Theater

I’ve always been a huge fan of going to the movies, which means leaving my home and traveling to a movie theater to watch a movie as apposed to renting/buying the movie and watching it at home. During high school and college going to the movies was almost a weekly treat but then, shortly after graduating, I moved to the big city–Jersey City–and eventually over the bridge into NYC.

While living there, going to the movies became an ordeal and unless I went in the middle of the week during an obscure time, the theater would be packed with obnoxious, loud assholes who seemed to be under the impression that they were watching the film in their own living rooms, where taking a phone call or having an outdoor-voice conversation with the person next to them was completely acceptable. City crowds ruined the movie experience for me and I rarely went unless I had a few stiff drinks in me first.

Now I live in the bucolic setting of Upstate New York and going to the movies is like traveling back in time thanks to The Crandell Theatre in Chatham.

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The Crandell was built in 1926 by Walter S. Crandell, as a vaudeville house, and not much has changed since then. The stage has been replaced with a screen but they still have one of those soda vending machines where the cup drops into an opening and then fills up with the beverage of your choice. There’s one large screen and all the movies are just five bucks!

I saw the new GI Joe flick at the Crandell on Wednesday and I’m pretty sure I saw a girl in a poodle skirt necking with greaser in the balcony. If you ever have the chance to see a movie here, I highly recommend it.

Here is a lovely little film, made by a local film maker, all about the Crandell. Enjoy!

Taking Woodstock Taking Over Columbia County

Check out the following trailer for Ang Lee’s new movie, Taking Woodstock, which was filmed around New Lebanon and East Chatham.

taking-woodstockThe motel prominently featured in the movie is a real motel, about a two minute drive down the hill from our house. The whole town was buzzing when Hollywood came a calling last summer and aside from the occasional traffic hickup (traffic does not normally exist in these parts) it was groovy times for all. We saw our hippie population (already fairly large) rise by one VW bus, selling tie-die t-shirts in the parking lot of our beer, booze, and head-shop strip mall (for real, this strip mall has four stores – the three I just mentioned and the world’s best Chinese take-out place) with said hippie staying in town after the filming wrapped (Hollywood lingo for ended).

Hopefully the only movie theater in town will be showing Taking Woodstock when it comes out this summer. If it does, I’ll be there with my new tie-died t-shirt and freak flag flying!