Other Voices, Other Rooms

Talk About the Passion – a relatively new music blog by Saratoga Springs musician Mike Grutka – offers up impressions of last week’s Exit Dome IV Local 518 benefit concert – with lots of good photos, too.

We’re blushing. Over at Advantage Sound, Andy Maroney penned a glowing love letter to – well, to Nippertown.com. We’re tickled pink that all of the hard work of the many, many Nippertown.com contributors is not going unnoticed. Thanks, Andy…

Got cabin fever? How about Hiking the Plotter Kill Preserve with Ed Atkeson? BYOSS (bring your own show shoes.) Meanwhile, over at AllOverAlbany.com, Liz Clancy Lerner weighs in on the winter-time beauty of Plotter Kill, as well. Sounds like the secret is out on this great hidden treasure of Nippertown…

If winter hiking sounds too hot and sweaty, Sebastien Barre has photos from the Grafton Lakes Winterfest, including the annual Polar Plunge into Long Pond.

Sweet potato fries, strawberry-rhubarb crisp, pâté de compagne, ymmm… Barbara Price has just launched Greenwich Meal Time.

Rick’s Picks, Rick Bedrosian’s podcast of film reviews, has a two-part behind-the-scenes interview with Susie Essman of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Your Super Bowl party can help the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Association.

At IndieAlbany, J. Eric Smith tries to knock some sense into The Weather Channel and its ratings-baiting, scare-mongering forecasts.

Over at Get Visual, David Brickman reviews Channing Lefebvre’s collages now on exhibit at Clement Gallery in Troy.