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The week ahead

Here are a few things to keep in mind, look ahead to, or take care of this week -- from the weather (way up, then down), to free ice cream, to blue men, to science, to comedy, to a whole bunch of music...

Weather

Here's the paraphrased forecast:

Monday: Warm and stormy. Chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs near 80.

Tuesday: Cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs in the low 60s.

Wednesday: Some sun. Chance of rain. Highs in the low 50s.

Thursday: Sunny. Highs in the low 60s.

Friday: The same.

Weekend: Cloudy, cooler, chance of rain.

We're just gonna call it: spring is here.

Madness! Madness! (It's this week, really)

The Palace's classic movie series is showing The Bridge On the River Kwai Monday night. (It's really is week. We had mistakenly mentioned it last week. Sorry about that.) 7 pm - $5

Free ice cream

Tuesday is free cone day at Ben & Jerry's, from noon - 8 pm. There will be lines. Bring an umbrella.

Tax day, a little later

April 15 -- this Friday -- is usually the deadline for filing income tax returns. But, because of a holiday in the DC on Friday, this year's deadline is April 18 (the Monday after). That said, the sooner you get it finished (if you haven't already), the sooner you won't have to think about it.

Men who are blue

Blue Man Group opens a five day string of performances at Proctors on Tuesday. Tickets start at $20.

Laugh

+ Famed improv group The Second City will be at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Thursday night. 7:30 pm - $20 and up / students $10

+ Laughs on Lark is back at Elda's Wednesday night. 8:30 pm - $5

Arts and Sciences

+ Dr. Michele Caggana, director of the newborn screening program at the Wadsworth Center, will be giving on a talk at the Russell Sage campus Tuesday night "Newborn Screening: Past, Present and Future." 8 pm - free

+ Poet Rosanna Warren will be reading at UAlbany Tuesday night as part of the NYS Writers Institute visiting writers series. 8 pm - free

+ Artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist Jim Gimzewski talk at RPI Tuesday night about their collaboration on Blue Morph, "an interactive installation that uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly." 7 pm - free

+ There's a preview screening of ManDove, a documentary about singing dove competitors in Indonesia, Wednesday at EMPAC. 6:30 pm

+ Environmentalist and scientist Wes Jackson will be giving a talk at Union College Thursday. Jackson is the founder of The Land Institute, where researchers have been trying to develop grain crops that are perennials. 7 pm - free

+ Pulitzer Prize finalist fiction writer Susan Choi will be reading at RPI Thursday as part of the NYS Writers Institute's visiting writers series. Choi's latest novel is A Person of Interest. 8 pm - free

Music

Lupe Fiasco | Steve Aoki

+ Musician, and activist, Koji will be at Valentine's Monday night. Also on the bill: Caleb Lionheart and Steve Layman. 7 pm - $7

+ DJ/producer Steve Aoki is at the Washington Ave Armory Tuesday night. 9 pm - $25-$35

+ Rapper/singer Lupe Fiasco is at the Washington Ave Armory Wednesday night. 7 pm - $35

+ Nine-piece band Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds is at Jillian's Thursday night. 7 pm - $5

+ Friday at Valentine's: Mycon from Deep Children, Ghoul Poon, DJ Ofi & Dwell, Rawstrumentals. 8 pm

+ Bluesman Duke Robillard is at the Van Dyck Friday night for two show. 7 and 9:30 pm - $18 ahead / $22 at door

+ Saturday at Jack's Place at St. Rose: We Are Jeneric, Scientific Maps, and I Low. 7 pm - $7

+ The Iron and Wine show at MASS MoCA on Saturday is sold out.

These are a just a few things for this week. Know of something people should be looking forward to this week? Please share!

Look for our "Stuff to do this weekend" post on Friday.

EMPAC, The Palace, The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, and Proctors all advertise on AOA.

Lupe Fiasco photo via Atlantic Records | Steve Aoki photo via Dim Mak
Blue man group photo: Blue Man Group