Take a look at the just-released photos from Focus Features for The Place Beyond the Pines, which was filmed in Schenectady and stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta and Rose Byrne.
The movie is slated to open in limited release on March 29, but then opens wide on April 12.
No new word yet on a special advance screening in the Capital Region.
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Check out his backing band, Railbird.
Read past Sean Rowe coverage:
Review of Helsinki Hudson show in Feb. 2012.
Sean Rowe signs with Anti Records
Watch: Sean Rowe’s “American” video
Troy artist Gina Ochiogrosso is part of a group exhibit at the Castle Gallery at the College of New Rochelle in Westchester County, and has been written up in the New York Times.
This is from the NY Times write up:
The might of the environment also informs the work of Gina Occhiogrosso, who traveled from her home in Troy, N.Y., to attend the opening reception in New Rochelle. Her piece “Slump,” a series of 24 gouache-on-paper panels, takes weather-ravaged billboards as its subject.
You can read the full report here.
MOMIX, the celebrated troupe of dance illusionists led by choreographer Moses Pendleton, will perform its fantastical multimedia artistry at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs.
The company will present its highly acclaimed production of “Botanica,” a performance that fuses elements of dance, theater and cinema to create larger-than-life images from the natural world.
“MOMIX’s ‘Botanica’ is a glorious melding of music, dance, theater and technology that is breathtaking in scope and innovative to its core,” said Marcia J. White, SPAC’s president and executive director, in a written statement. “It is an opportunity to see the beauty and imagery of nature, magnified and dramatized through the brilliant lens of choreographer Moses Pendleton.”
Created in 2009, the production follows the rhythms of the seasons, the changing shape of life on Earth and the passing of a day. Set to an eclectic score that ranges from bird song to Vivaldi, the performance is enhanced by costumes, projections and giant puppetry designed by Michael Curry — acclaimed production designer for Cirque du Soleil, Disney’s “The Lion King” and the Metropolitan Opera.
Known internationally, MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists led by Pendleton, a choreographer and director for more than 40 years. In addition to worldwide stage performances, the company has also worked in film and television.
The evening will also feature a special “Enchanted Family Night” pre-show from 6 to 8 p.m., with magical scavenger hunts on the lawn, illuminated balloons, whimsical glow-in-the-dark face painting, and Sparkles on Stilts.
Tickets are $30 and go on sale March 18 at http://spac.org.
— Jennifer Paterson
By Kaitlyn Jasnica
The clock is ticking for “The Bomb.”
Albany singer-songwriter Olivia Quillio — who won the Times Union-College of Saint Rose Garage to Glory music competition in 2011 — has turned to Kickstarter to help fund the release of her debut album, “The Bomb.”
She has until midnight Friday March 1 to raise $3,500 through the online fundraising platform. As of 2:45 p.m. Thursday, she had raised $2,952.
“The eight songs from this album are the songs I won Garage to Glory with,” Quillio said. “It’s been a long time coming for this album, and I have a second one written already. I’m not the same girl that wrote ‘The Bomb,’ but people need to see that girl to see who I am now. Many people really liked the songs on the first album and have been anticipating its release.”
Although she spent two years recording the songs, Quillio still needs funds for more recording, mixing, mastering and printing (CDs and vinyl). Her music is a mix of folk-inspired lyricism and melodic jazz tonality played on ukulele and guitar.
Kickstarter is a website that helps people fund projects. If a person wants to help fund a certain project, they pledge money. Money will be charged only if the project reaches its funding goal.
After the person seeking funds sets a time frame to reach his or her goal, the date cannot be extended, and those who fall short of their goal receive nothing. Quillio is feeling a sense of urgency as her deadline nears.
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“No Further Instructions,” a performance by Howard Fishman with New York Times travel journalist Michael Benanav, takes place at 8 pm Friday tonight in the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. The program combines original music, historical memoir, storytelling and photography to document the duo’s exploits and experiences as American Jews in rural Romania.
Fishman uses music to better understand his heritage and identity as a Jewish American, and the voice is decidely Jewish, but the music he creates as a singer, guitarist, composer and bandleader often flirts with jazz, soul, country, blues and gospel. Fishman’s most recent recording is 2011’s “The Howard Fishman Quartet Vol. III: Moon Country.”
Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and the Skidmore community, and free for students and children. Please visit http://www.skidmore.edu/zankel for ticket information.
Saratoga Springs resident Chris Millis wrote a novel in 72 hours as part of the annual Three Day Novel Contest and just like most books written that way … he adapted it into an independent film directed by Grammy-winning Swedish video director Jonas Akerlund and starring Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, James Caan, James Marsden, Rosie Perez, Juno Temple, Rebel Wilson, David Koechner, Amanda Plummer, Matt Lucas and Dolph Lundgren.
“Small Apartments” premiered in Los Angeles on Feb. 5 and makes its local debut at Saratoga Music Hall on Broadway at 6:30 pm Friday night. And Roxette’s Per Gessle contributes her first ever movie soundtrack. In the film, Franklin Franklin (played by Lucas of “Little Britain” and “Bridesmaids” fame) kills his landlord and tries to get away with it while trying to escape to “magical” Switzerland.
The premiere event is also a DVD release party that will feature a Q&A, raffles, DVD sales and signings, free popcorn and Moxie cola (featured in the film) and more. Millis’ former Saratoga High teacher Dave Patterson moderates the evening.
Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys are coming back to The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, in Albany at 8 pm Friday for a release party for their third album, “Reasons That I Run.” The CD will be available at the concert for $5 off.
The roots music album is filled with character sketches, bluegrass story songs, blues tunes and call-and-response dance numbers, all delivered in Gaudet’s distinctive voice. The songs may come from Gaudet, but the msuic lives because of all the members of the band, including: bassist Bob Ristau, mandolinist Sten Isachsen and new addition and former Times Union employee, fiddler Mat Kane of The Doc Marshalls.
Tickets are $15. For tickets or information on the show, visit http://www.thelinda.org or call 465-5233, Ext. 4. For more information on Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys, visit http://www.jimgaudet.com or call 438-1297.
People didn’t so much read Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” as inhale it, with the page-turner selling something like a bajillion copies (now those tattered paperbacks are left behind at rental cottages all up and down the coasts).
In anticipation of his newest book, Inferno, Random House has just released the cover art.
So, go ahead, judge this book by its cover.
