All Over Albany

A quick recap of the week

Here are a few highlights from the past week on AOA:

+ An extraordinarily flabby tabby showed up at the humane society. How'd he get so fat? The Secret Photostream of the Flabby Tabby may have some clues.

+ It would seem that New York drivers don't really know what they're doing.

+ CAPow! asked about where she could find macarons -- and Ginny had the answer.

+ Sebastien sent along photos from the Freihofer's Run for Women.

+ Carl told us about about time when Menands was a "Pleasure Island" and a "Dreamland."

+ Toni asked about where to find shampoo bars.

+ A local software company developed a coloring book for the iPhone.

+ What was up in the Neighborhood this week: priorities, anchovies, Amtrak, parking lots, breakfast burritos, a cheese plate, radishes, gynecologists, $12 beer, Hare Figwort and advice.

+ The first episode of Work of Art premiered -- could RPI's Nao Bustamante be the "villain?"

+ A few of the items found on Craigslist this week: lawn mowing in bikinis, a vacationable woman, insincere apologies over bologna and a prairie dog.

+ Music lineups for the River Street Festival and Pearl-palooza were announced.

+ Albany has a hockey team again -- the Albany Devils.

+ It's strawberry season -- here a handful of places where you can pick your own.

+ And next week is Lunch Week on AOA! There could be such a thing as a free lunch...

If you'd just like the whole week unfiltered, check our listing of the last seven days of AOA.

Thanks to everyone who posted a comment or sent along an idea or photo this week!

And many thanks to everyone who voted for us in the TU Best Of poll! We appreciate it!

race photo: Sebastien B
Al-Tro Park photo courtesy of the Town of Colonie
coloring book image: Axeva