A quick recap of the week

week review 2011-10-29

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

+ Photos from Occupy Albany, and some video, too.

+ Sebastien shared some photos from this year's zombie walk.

+ The supermarket war escalated as Price Chopper sued ShopRite.

+ Jen asked about who to call for furnace maintenance.

+ A few UAlbany students (allegedly) showed some entrepreneurial initiative in their desire to party.

+ We took a look at the distribution of household incomes in the Capital Region (you know you want to see where you rank).

+ Abby asked about good gift-pass ideas for families -- that would also be interesting for adults. (We're still looking for a few suggestions.)

+ It snowed. People had a few thoughts about that.

+ Speaking of snow -- we looked at the earliest, latest, least, and most snow records for the Capital Region.

+ What was up in the Neighborhood this week: Halloween, unintentional scares, therapists, the Riggis, the truth about upholsterers, a burger endorsement, hot dogs, beautiful pizza, Provence, being literal, restaurant servers, rainbow construction, coldplaining, and things that set off detectors in the night.

+ Nick and Erin asked about the best sushi place in the Capital Region -- and people had a lot of suggestions.

+ We talked with Orian and Emily, two RPI students who have started a swing dancing studio in Troy.

+ Mark asked about contractors to fix a broken or warped sidewalk.

+ A few of the items found on Craigslist this week: a request for the intelligent women of Troy, flirting at court, a request for focus, and a deer head.

+ Emily came across "wine" at Walmart. It was more like cheese food.

+ All hail Mr. Dave!

+ We asked a bunch of people about how to survive the zombie apocalypse in the Capital Region.

+ And believe or not -- the Icy, Snowy Apocalypse Meter made its first appearance of the season.

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 shared a photo or idea this week!

Comments

I clicked on the link to see pictures of the Zombie Walk, but was instead greeted with the horde from Occupy Albany... is that AOA trying to make a political statement? hahaha!

Editors: Ha. No, just a copy/paste mishap. Thanks for the heads-up. Fixed.

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