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The week ahead

Here are a few things to keep in mind, look forward to, or keep busy with this week, from the weather (almost summery), to singing along, to Belle, to fashion, to souvlaki, to music...

Weather

Here's the paraphrased forecast:

Monday: Cloudy, rainy, 72.

Tuesday: Repeat, though a touch cooler.

Wednesday: Cloudy, maybe rain, highs mid 70s.

Thursday: Sunny and 74.

Friday: Sunny and 75.

Weekend: Sunny and mid 70s.

The week gets better.

You're the one that I want

Monday evening at the Palace: a sing-a-long screening of Grease. The lyrics for the songs will be projected on the screen with the movie. 7 pm - $7 adults / $5 kids

Enter the Drunken Dragon Also this week: It Came From Schenectady is showing a double feature -- Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon and Jackie Chan's Legend of Drunken Master -- Thursday evening at Proctors. 7 pm - $9 / $6 students

New Yorkers Against Fracking Concert

The big anti-fracking concert at The Egg is Tuesday. The lineup now includes: Medeski, Martin & Wood, Natalie Merchant, Citizen Cope, The Felice Brothers, Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Dan Zanes, Ida, The Horse Flies, Tamar-Kali, Carl Hancock-Rux, Meshell Ndegeocello, Marc Anthony Thompson, John Sebastian, and The Ahkwesasne Women Singers. The event will be hosted by actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo. 7 pm - tickets start at $40

Beauty and the Beast

The touring company of the former Broadway show Disney's Beauty and the Beast starts a six-day run at Proctors on Tuesday. Beauty and the Beast is the eighth longest running show in Broadway history. multiple times - $20 and up

Arts and Sciences

God vs. Gay?
Monday at Union College: author Jay Michaleson will be talking about this book God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality. Michaelson is the founder of a group for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Jews, partners, and allies, committed to a more just and inclusive world." Nott Memorial 5:30 pm - free

Oceanic Verses
Friday at MASS MoCA: Oceanic Verses, a "full-length multimedia opera" set against the backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea that "follows people who flee and people who stay; it follows those who sail to escape and those who sail to arrive." 8 pm - $15 / $10 students

Portrait miniatures
Sunday at the Albany Institute: a talk by Elle Shushan, an expert on portrait miniatures. 2 pm - free with museum admission

Electric City Couture

Friday at Proctors: Electric City Couture, a fashion show featuring collections from local designers. There will be full collections from Katie Pray; Kristina Collins; Jen Dugan; Jessyka Neitzel and Danielle Breitenback. And mini collections from Joleen Button; Lakeshia Motley; Sarah Roberts and Kristin Marshall; and Van Demps. The show is a part of the 5th anniversary of Art Night Schenectady. 7 pm

American Music Festival

The Albany Symphony's annual American Musical Festival starts Thursday and runs through the weekend with concerts each day:
Thursday: Victoire at EMPAC
Friday: Dogs of Desire at EMPAC
Saturday: American Music Festival Concert at EMPAC
Sunday: Eight World Premiere Pieces at Troy Music Hall

Souvlaki

The annual Greek Festival at St. Sophia's in Albany is this coming weekend. There are a handful of different activities there, but the real reason to go is, of course, the food. $3 admission for adults, free for kids

Music

The Ingrid Michaelson show at The Egg Monday is sold out.

Monday: The Dirt Daubers at Valentine's
"From cowboy songs to bluegrass, Harlem jazz to honky tonk..." 8 pm - $10

Monday: Ray Wylie Hubbard at The Linda
Texas songwriter. 8 pm - $17

Wednesday: Races at Valentine's
Shoegazey indie pop. 6 pm

Thursday: Spin Doctors at Vapor
Now in the "playing not-quite casinos" phase of their career. 9 pm - $30

Thursday: Driftwood at Red Square
Roots pop. With: MR Poulopoulos, Dan Johnson & His Expert Sidemen. 8 pm -

The Rancid show at Northern Lights on Friday is sold out.

Friday: Lucky Jukebox Brigade at Valentine's
An album release show for Lucky. With: Oobleck, Homebody. 8 pm

Friday: OUTPOST1 at Jillian's
Jillionare and Dre Skull join the regulars. 11 pm - $5

Saturday: 52nd Caffe Lena Anniversary Celebration at Skidmore
Also celebrating the 100th birthday of Woody Guthrie, with Butch Hancock, Michael Eck, Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned, The Bluebillies, Kate McDonnell, Rich Bala, George Wilson, and Kim & Clyde. Skidmore's Filene Recital Hall 7 pm - $25

Saturday: The Revelations at Helsinki Hudson
A group of soul musicians who've worked a bunch of big names in R&B and hip hop. 9 pm - $15

Saturday: Lil Kim at Northern Lights
One day you wake up and you're part of the old guard, taking flak from people like Azealia Banks. It happens to all of us, eventually. 8:30 pm - $25 ahead / $28 day of

Saturday: Gordon Lightfoot at The Palace
"With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more / than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty, / that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed / when the 'Gales of November' came early." 8 pm - $38 and up

Sunday: Collective Soul at The Egg
Playing an album from 1999 in its entirety. 8 pm - $29.50

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.

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