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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 (warm), to Troy Restaurant Week, to the ESP, to comics, to music...

Weather

Here's the paraphrased forecast for this week:

Monday: Cloudy to start, then some sun. Low 70s.

Tuesday: Sunny, 80.

Wednesday: Sunny, 82.

Thursday: Sunny, 84.

Friday: Sunny, 83.

Weekend: And so on.

Warm September.

Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah -- the Jewish new year and the start of the High Holidays -- started at sunset Sunday and continues until sundown on September 15. The High Holy Days conclude with Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year on the Jewish calendar, begins at sunset on September 22.

Troy Restaurant Week / Craft Beer Week

This is both Troy Restaurant Week and Craft Beer Week. Restaurant weeks includes a bunch of restaurants offering prix fixe menus at $5 (lunch), $10, $20, and $30. It also marks the temporary return of the Tavern Noodle pop-up in the Peck's Arcade space. And there will be a pop-up preview Thursday and Friday of the Harrison's Corner Market near the The Shop.

Troy Craft Beer Week starts with a pub crawl celebrating the release of a beer brewed especially for the week. And it wraps up with an America on Tap beer festival in Riverfront Park on Saturday (tickets are $35).

You can't fight in here, this is the war room

Monday: Proctors is showing the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove in the GE Theater. Monday 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm - $5

Empire State Plaza at 50

Wednesday: The Empire State Plaza at 50 event will commemorate the construction of the plaza. There will be food vendors and a farmers' market on the plaza during the day, along with entertainment -- the lineup includes Shadows of the 60s, a tribute act for 1960s Motown acts. And the day will wrap up with fireworks.

Also Wednesday: The Empire State Plaza at 50 speaker series starts this week at The Egg with a look at the dynamics between Nelson Rockefeller and Erastus Corning, 2nd. Rockefeller biographer Richard Norton Smith and Corning biographer Paul Grondahl will participate in a discussion moderated by Jack McEneny. Wednesday 6 pm - free

Arts and sciences

Robert Putnam
Wednesday: Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam (of Bowling Alone fame) will be at the UAlbany School of Public Health for a discussion about income inequality in the US. Event blurbage:

The University at Albany School of Public Health has initiated an "All School Read" program, which invites students, faculty, staff and community members to select and read an important book covering issues relevant for those preparing for careers in public health. The first book chosen is Putnam's Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, a groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap in the United States. The book details how children and grandchildren today have had harder lives amid diminishing prospects compared with earlier generations of Americans.

Wednesday 5 pm, UAlbany School of Public Health campus in Rensselaer - free

Scott McCloud
Thursday: Artist, writer, and comics theorist Scott McCloud will be at Skidmore for a talk. The title: "Comics and the Art of Visual Communication." Blurbage:

McCloud is best known as the award-winning author of the influential "Understanding Comics" (1993), a visual treatise on the definition, history, vocabulary and methods of the medium. Later works include "Reinventing Comics" (2000) and "Making Comics" (2006).

Thursday 5:15 pm, Gannett Auditorium - free

Discussing James Baldwin
Thursday: The Mount opens a series of conversations led by journalist Kate Bolick with an event featuring Darryl Pinckney, editor of James Baldwin: Later Novels. They'll be discussing contemporary race relations and the influence of James Baldwin. Thursday 7:30 pm - $15 ahead / $18 at door

dotQuantum
Thursday: EMPAC will be hosting the Italian art-media collective Flatform and dotQuantum, "a multimedia event that manipulates moving image, programmed light, and objects to 'see through' a static understanding of the world around us." Thursday 8 pm - free

Fresh Grass Festival

Friday-Sunday: The Fresh Grass Festival returns to MASS MoCA this coming weekend. Headliners for the bluegrass music festival include Dwight Yoakam, The Punch Brothers, the Del McCoury Band, Leftover Salmon, and Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan. Friday-Sunday - adult day passes start at $38

Music

Wednesday: Fishbone at The Hollow
Still kicking. With: Downtown Brown. 9:30 pm - $20 ahead / $22 day of

Wednesday: Hammell on Trial at The Low Beat
One-man punk. 6 pm

Thursday: A Gentleman's Guide to Gentleman's Guide
Cabaret performance from the composer of A Gentleman's Guide to Love And Murder. 7:30 pm - $30

Friday: Antje Duvekot at The Linda
Folk pop. With: Chuck Cannon. 8 pm - $18

Friday: Joan and Joni at Caffe Lena
"This is an unusual concert for Caffe Lena. It's a tribute show--to two of the most glorious singers in all of Folkdom, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell." 8 pm - $18

Saturday: Symphony X & Overkill at Upstate Concert Hall
Metal. With: Within The Fire. 8 pm - $25 ahead / $30 day of

To do list

1. Apples. Apples. Apples.

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These are a just a few things for this week, not a comprehensive list. Know of something people should be looking forward to this week? Please share!

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