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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 (vaguely winterish), to Garrison Keillor, to a play premiere, to hoops, to dummies, to music...

Weather

Here's the paraphrased forecast for this week:

Monday: Sunny and 35.

Tuesday: Maybe some rain and snow, low 40s.

Wednesday: Sunny and upper 30s..

Thursday: Sunny and low 30s.

Friday: Sunny and mid 30s.

Weekend: Cloudy, a bit warmer.

Vaguely winterish.

Garrison Keillor

Monday: Garrison Keillor will be at Proctors for "An Evening with Garrison Keillor." Presumably he'll be talking about Garrison Keillor things, including Prairie Home Companion, poetry, and Minnesota. Monday Monday 7:30 pm - $35 and up

Gremlins

Monday: The Palace's movie series is showing Gremlins, which is now more than 30 years old. Monday 7 pm - $5 / $3 kids

Naked Influence

Tuesday-Sunday: Capital Rep premieres Naked Influence, a new play by Suzanne Bradbeer. Blurbage:

A dancer's past. A woman's future. The seductive and lucrative world of strip clubs sets the stage for this spellbinding tale about a charismatic exotic dancer who finds herself engulfed in a doomed relationship with a congressman. She wants to leave the club life behind for a fresh start, but is she powerful enough to untangle herself from her former life?

The production runs through February 14. Tuesday-Sunday various times - $20 and up

Sports

UAlbany basketball
Wednesday: The UAlbany men's basketball team takes on UMass Lowell at SEFCU Arena. The Great Danes are 4-2 in the America East, good for #2 in the conference standings. Wednesday 7 pm - $12 and up

Albany Devils
Wednesday: The Albany Devils face off with the Hershey Bears at the TU Center. Wednesday 7 pm - $16 and up

Jeff Dunham

Thursday: Ventriloquist/comedian Jeff Dunham will be at the TU Center for a show. (Random aside: there's a word for fear of ventriloquism dummies: automatonophobia.) Thursday 7:30 pm - $50.50

Eyes on Zora

Looking ahead to Friday: The NYS Writers Institute visiting writers series opens its spring schedule with a screening of Their Eyes Were Watching God, based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston. The film's director, Darnell Martin, will be there with literature scholar Emily Bernard for a discussion. Friday 7 pm, Page Hall, UAlbany downtown campus - free

Music

Thursday: The Sea The Sea at The Hollow
Indie folk pop. With: Andrew Mirabile, Cara May Gorman. 7 pm - $10 ahead / $12 at door

Thursday: Rane Moore + Okkyung Lee at EMPAC
"[A]n evening of solo performances to explore a greater sonic range of the clarinet and cello." 7:30 pm - $18

Thursday: Montana of 300 at Upstate Concert Hall
Rapper. 7:30 pm - $20 ahead / $25 day of

Friday: Stefon Harris & Sonic Creed at The Egg
Jazz vibraphone and marimba player. 8 pm - $29.50

Friday: Half Moon Run at The Hollow
Indie rock. 8:30 pm - free (thanks to EQX)

Friday: Opera Saratoga at the Massry Center
Soprano Sandra López and pianist Laurie Rogers, with music by Scarlatti, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Argento and Turin. 7:30 pm - $20 / $10 students

Saturday: Big Mean Sound Machine at The Hollow
"[A] lush bed of rhythm and melody that embraces even the most hardcore fans of both Traditional Funk and Avant-Garde Jazz - and everyone in between." With: Black Mountain Symphony. 10 pm - $12 ahead / $15 day of

Saturday-Sunday: The Sean Rowe shows at Caffe Lena are sold out.
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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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photo: Douglas C. Liebig