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Stuff to do this weekend

Rain boots? Check. Umbrella? Check. Sunscreen? Check.

OK, you're ready for the weekend.

But first -- a plan.

After the jump, this weekend's round-up of stuff to do. Got something planned that you don't see here? Drop it in the comments.

And whatever you're up to, have a fantastic weekend.

Troy Night Out
Troy Night Out is Friday. Here are a few of the events:

+ Tight Knit Market's Friday Flea will be between Second and River Streets with handmade crafts, art, antique and vintage items. Troy Samba will play at the monument. And Arm of the Sea Theatre's Rejuvenary River Circus will be marching from Monument Square for a performance a few blocks down River Street.

+ BenKN and Lastdayshining are playing at the re-launch party for the new Troy Cloth and Paper (formerly Design It Together).

+ Troy Dance Factory is holding class demonstrations and a performance.

+ The Arts Center of the Capital Region is opening the new Fence Select show in the Main Gallery, and "Associations" by Channing Lefebvre in the President's Gallery. They also have performances of "Mutations in the DNA of Music" in the Black Box Theatre.

You can find more info here or on the new TNO app.

Build Up
Friday: Get a hard hat tour of the Albany Barn and sample sliders and sandwiches made by the Chefs Consortium at the Albany Barn Build Up fund raiser. 5-9 pm - $30/$100

Bounty of the County Chefs' Dinner
Saturday: The Bounty of the County Chefs' Dinner, a benefit for SALT (Schoharie Area Long Term) at the Carrot Barn in Schoharie, is a six-course dinner by chefs from the Albany Chefs' Food & Wine Festival. There will also be music, dancing and a silent auction. Saturday at 5 pm - $125 / $90 under 35

Saratoga Jazz Festival
The annual Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival returns to SPAC this Saturday and Sunday. Tony Bennett is the headliner for this year's festival. Also among the lineup: Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Buddy Guy, Kevin Eubanks, Arturo Sandoval, and Rudresh Mahanthappa's Gamak. $55 and up

Old Songs
The annual Old Songs music festival -- featuring folk, traditional, Celtic, and world music -- runs Friday through Sunday at the Altamont Fairgrounds. all festival adult tickets $115 / single days $40, except Saturday all day is $70

Music

Friday: Chic Gamine at Red Square
"Winsome, wicked and witty, Chic Gamine embody the '60s girl-group vibe all grown up and living in a new century." With: Olivia Quillio, MaryLeigh Roohan. 8 pm - $10 ahead / $12 day of

Friday: The McKrells with Brian Melick at Upbeat on the Roof
Celtic folk/blues. 7 pm - free

Saturday: Wild Adriatic at Hollow Bar
With Titanics, Closer Still.

Saturday: Eastbound Jesus at Putnam Den
Americana. With: Cabinet. 9:30 pm - $10

Sunday: Dax Riggs at Putnam Den
"Louisiana's own dark star and Orpheus of the underground." With: Skeletons in the Piano, Orphan Legs. 7 pm - $10

Sunday: Chris Smither at Caffe Lena
Folk/blues. 7 pm - $28

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking...
Garrison Keillor brings A Prairie Home Companion to Tanglewood. Saturday 5:45 pm - $21-$71.

Theater
Summer theater festival season is underway. Here's a sample of what you can see this weekend:

Williamstown
The Williamstown Theatre Festival starts its season this weekend with Animal Crackers, a stage interpretation of the classic Marx Brothers movie, and a comedy called American Hero, about the lives of workers in a sandwich shop.

Lion in Winter
Jayne Atkinson and Treat Williams star in Berkshire Theater Festival's production of James Goldman's play, The Lion in Winter -- a look at Christmas with the family of Henry II that will make your family seem a whole lot less dysfunctional. $38-$58 Friday 8p.m., Saturday 2p.m.& 8p.m.

On the Town
Barrington Stage presents On the Town, the rarely-performed Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Comden & Green musical about three sailors on a 24-hour leave in New York City in 1944. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 8p.m. , Sunday at 5p.m.Various prices from $15.

La Cage Aux Folles
La Cage Aux Folles, the Jerry Herman musical that was turned into the film The Bird Cage, continues this weekend at Mac-Hayden theater in Chatham. Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 4 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. - $28-$30 / under 12 $12 with adult

Master Class
Terrence McNally's Tony-winning play Master Class, about legendary opera diva Maria Callas, continues this weekend at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Friday 8:30 p.m., Saturday 3p.m. - $21-$50

Love's Labors Lost
Also at Shakespeare and Company this weekend, the Bard's comedy Love's Labors Lost. Friday and Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 2p.m. $15-$50.

Heroes
The story of three WWI veterans during their twilight years in a nursing home, Heroes won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. It's also in rep at Shakespeare and Company. Saturday and Sunday at 8:30p.m $15 to $50

H.M.S. Pinafore
Opera Saratoga presents Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, H.M.S. Pinafore Friday, 7:30p.m., Sunday, 2p.m. $50 - $85.

Imagining Madoff
Temple Sinai in Saratoga presents a staged reading of Imagining Madoff, Deb Margolin's play that imagines an encounter between Bernie Madoff and an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor -- a moral, decent man who is a synagogue trustee and treasurer. Sunday at 7 pm

Comedy

Tracy Morgan
The Tracy Morgan show at at The Egg on Friday is sold out.

Improv at The Comedy Works
Saturday night weekly short form improv comedy show MopCo is back at The Comedy Works on Northern Blvd in Albany. Think Whose Line is it Anyway. 8 pm - $15-$20

Movies

Stoker
Saratoga Film Forum is screening Stoker, Chan-wook Park's neo-goth film based on Hitchcock's favorite of his own films, Shadow of a Doubt. Friday & Sunday 7:30p.m. $7, $5 students and members.

Towheads
Schenectady native Shannon Plumb (wife of The Place Beyond the Pines director Derek Cianfrance) screens her film Towheads at Basilica Hudson. Towheads is "a modern-day tale of motherhood as told through the eyes of a Brooklyn mom with two towheaded blond boys. The film explores what it means to be a mother in current times, caught between her responsibility to her children (magnified by an oft-absent husband) and her need to fulfill her artistic aspirations." Friday, 8p.m. $5- $10 (sliding scale).

Darkest Before Dawn
Saturday: The locally-produced movie Darkest Before Dawn premieres at the Palace Theatre. The movie is based on a book by local author Arlene Brathwaite (backstory). Here's the trailer. 7 pm - $15

Multiplex
Blockbusters season is in full swing this weekend. The just released World War Z and Monsters University are playing locally, along with Man of Steel, Star Trek Into Darkness, even a screening or two of Iron Man 3. Also: Joss Whedon's take on Much Ado About Nothing is at the Spectrum.

Baseball
The ValleyCats wrap up a 5-game home stand with games on Friday and Saturday.

Women's Premier Soccer
The Tri-City Celtics vs Empire Revs WNY on Sunday in the Women's Premiere Soccer League. You can catch the game on Sunday at 4 pm at the Plumeri Sports Complex on Frisbie Avenue in Albany. $5, $3 children/students, under 4 free.

Classes

Fermenting and pickling
Saturday: Deanna Fox's "Putting it Up" series continues at Different Drummer's Kitchen with a class about pickling and fermenting -- dill pickles, bread and butter pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, and pickled pears. Saturday 11 am - $65

Rye Breads
Saturday: Corinna Selby will be teaching a class on making rye breads at Different Drummer's Kitchen. Saturday 3 pm - $65

Who's the Seuss?
Saturday: Author and "publishing insider" Coleen Murtagh Paratore will be teaching a master class at the Arts Center about getting a children's or young-adult novel published. Murtagh Paratore is the author of 17 books, including the six-book series The Wedding Planner's Daughter. Saturday 10 am - $90

Pink & Brew
Friday at Proctors: 75 craft beers, grilled wursts, hand-rolled cigars, fitness challenges and more as part of Pink and Brew. 5:30 pm - $25, $10 for Designated Driver

Swimming
Swimming pools, beaches and spray pads in the Capital Region are open, should we get a stretch of sunshine this weekend. Here's where you can find them.

Strawberries
Strawberry season will be over before you know it. Here's our annual round up of pick-your-own spots. It only lasts a few weeks, so don't wait.

Farmers' markets
The outdoor season for farmers' markets are in swing in Troy (Saturday), Delmar (Saturday), Saratoga (Saturday), Schenectady (Sunday), and the new Spa City Farmers Market -- at the Lincoln Baths in Saratoga Springs (Sunday).

Playland
Take your favorite kid on a retro-visit to Hoffman's Playland while you can.

Ice Cream
Check out the Tour de Soft Serve and the Tour de Hard Ice Cream and the Tour de Gelato before you make up your mind. There's also Moxie's vanilla tour.

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