November 9, 2025Local Business, NA Beverages Review: Lost & Found Bar and Kitchen NA Beverage Experience: Okay Background The Lost & Found Bar and Kitchen is a small establishment in Albany’s warehouse district. Its building […] Read more
November 9, 2025November 9, 2025Local Business, NA Beverages Review: Fiden’s Brewing Company NA Experience Rating: Okay Background Fiden’s is a local brewing company that opened just before the pandemic hit. They weathered the pandemic […] Read more
November 8, 2025I wanted to share Life Events, and some changes here About a month ago, a cardiac situation sent me to the hospital emergency room. I’m fine now (I was discharged the same […] Read more
November 1, 2025Public Correspondence Rt 2 Corridor (Congress and Ferry) I submitted the below comment to the public comment section for the Rt. 2 Corridor project. Capital Streets has a good deal […] Read more
September 21, 2025September 21, 2025Cocktails Cocktail: Manhattan Project This one is my own invention, inspired by the need to use a decade-old white elephant gift. A family holiday gift swap […] Read more
June 13, 2025Cocktails Cocktail: Gold Rush A friend recently asked if I had any favorite cocktails for summer. When I gave him my list (Old Cuban, French Harvest, […] Read more
May 17, 2025Cocktails Cocktail: Honey Peach Margarita Our beautiful sunny day clouded over here in upstate New York, but this drink evokes sunshine nonetheless. I’ve been trying to branch […] Read more
March 18, 2025Brief thoughts Leases and Independent Businesses The Albany Business Review reported yesterday that Rare Form Brewing in downtown Troy will be closing temporarily while they find and move […] Read more
March 7, 2025Cocktails Cocktail: A La Louisiane In recognition of Mardi Gras this past Tuesday, and National Absinthe Day this past Wednesday (March 5), today’s cocktail is an A La Louisiane (also sometimes called a De La Louisiane). Read more
March 4, 2025Brief thoughts, In the news Improving the Harriman Campus It would be hard to catalog all the damage governors and other state-level officials of New York State have done to the […] Read more