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Stuff to do this weekend

Friggatriskaidekaphobia: A fear of Friday the 13th. Friggitriskadekaphobia: The sense that you don't care that it's Friday the 13th, because it's still a weekend and here is a whole bunch of fun stuff for you to do.

OK, we made the last one up, but after the jump, you'll see why. (Spoiler alert -- lots of stuff to do, from food trucks to Greek Fest to Canal Fest to super secret brunches to ... well, you get the picture. )

Take a look and pick your favorites. Doing something you don't see here? Drop it in the comments so we can all see.

And whatever you're up to, bring your umbrella along and have a fantastic weekend.

Fork in the Road
Friday: The food trucks are back in Tricentennial Park in Albany for the season's first Fork in the Road . Food trucks, music, and craft vendors. Friday 5-8 pm -- free admission

St. Sophia 2016 Greek Festival
Friday-Sunday: St. Sophia in Albany celebrates its annual Greek Festival this weekend. Three days of Greek music, dancing, culture, food and pastries. Friday 6pm to 11pm, Saturday noon to 11, Sunday noon to 7pm -- $3 admission / under 12 free

Waterford Canal Festival
Saturday: Waterford's annual Canal Festival returns to Tugboat Alley to celebrate the opening of the canal for the season. Boat rides, kayak rentals, dance reviews, kids activities and more. Saturday 9 am to 6 pm -- free admission

Lupine Fest
Saturday: The annual Lupine Fest Pine Bush Block Party is at the Pine Bush Discovery Center. It's a family-friendly day of music, events, wildlife walks, games, a barbecue, kids crafts, and more. Saturday at 11 am to 5 pm -- free admission

Albany All Stars
Saturday: The Albany All Stars Roller Derby hosts a double header at the Washington Avenue Armory with a Capital District Men's Roller Derby game followed by the AASRD Brawl Stars against the TitleTown KnockOuts. This is the last game of the season for the Brawl Stars, who are undefeated this season. Saturday doors open at 5 pm, men's bout at 6 pm, women's bout at 8 pm -- $12 at the door (includes admission for both games) / $4 for children 12 and under

Super Secret Brunch with the Yes Men and Julian Assange
Sunday: The Sanctuary for Independent Media is hosting a "Super Secret Brunch" with Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men and a Skype conversation with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Sunday brunch at 11 am -- $75 / Assange appearance at 1 pm -- $15

Stage

Once
Friday-Sunday: A touring production of the Broadway musical Once wraps up its run at Proctors. The show is based on the film of the same name, and won 8 Tonys on Broadway. Friday-Sunday various times -- $20 and up

The Trip to Bountiful
Friday-Sunday: This is closing weekend for Capital Rep's production of The Trip to Bountiful. The show is the story of Carrie Watts, an aging widow who escapes from the home of her son and goes on a journey to revisit her childhood home. The show stars a number of talented Capital Region actors, including the amazing Barbara Howard, Kevin Craig West, Tony Pallone, and newcomer Joshua Powell. Tuesday-Sunday various times -- $20 and up

The Producers
Friday-Sunday: Schenectady Light Opera closes its production of Mel Brooks' The Producers . Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 pm -- $22 and up

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Friday-Sunday: Local Actors Guild of Saratoga presents One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest -- the play that became the film starring Jack Nicholson. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm / Sunday at 2 pm -- $20

Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Friday-Sunday: Albany Civic Theater presents a production of Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, inspired by Simon's time in the writer's room at Your Show of Shows. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 3 pm -- $18 / $10 students

Clybourne Park
Friday-Sunday: Schenectady Civic Players closes its production of the Tony-winning Clybourne Park, playwright Bruce Norris' response to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun -- set fifty years later in the same suburban neighborhood. Friday & Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 2 pm -- $17

Comedy

Gilbert Gottfried
Friday: The Comedy Works continues its grand opening of its Saratoga Springs venue with standup shows from Gilbert Gottfried. Friday 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm -- $25

Improvapalooza
Friday: The Mop & Bucket Company continues its Improvapalooza season at Proctors. The teams will play short-form improv games and create songs and scenes based on audience suggestion. Friday 8 pm -- $16

Film

Purple Rain: A Tribute To Prince
Friday: The Madison Theater is hosting a screening of Purple Rain and a Prince tribute. Prince costumes encouraged. Friday 8 pm (second screening of the film at 11 pm) -- $5

Docs at the Carey Institute
The Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville is screening a pair of documentaries to the public as part of a workshop they're running for young filmmakers:

Two Trains Runnin'
Friday: This film by Sam Pollard "explores the search for two forgotten blues singers, set in Mississippi during the height of the civil rights movement."

Evaporating Borders
Saturday,: Iva Radivojevic's film is a series of vignettes about the experience of asylum seekers in Cypress.

The films start at 7 pm each day and both will be followed by Q&A with the filmmakers. Admission is $10 ($15 for both films).

Nuts
Saturday: Filmmaker Penny Lane will be at the Sanctuary for Independent Media to screen her new Sundance award-winning film NUTS!. It's is a feature-length documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, "an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station."
Saturday 8 pm -- $10 suggested, $5 student/low-income

ICFS Presents: Weird Al's UHF
Saturday: It Came From Schenectady is screening the Weird Al Yankovich comedy UHF ing the GE Theater at Proctors. There's also a second surprise feature. As with all ICFS events, there will be prizes, surprises, contests and comfy couch seating. Saturday at 7 pm -- $9 / $6 students

Drive-in
Drive-in season is officially underway. Here's what you can see this week:
+ Hollywood: Zootopia and Captain America: Civil War
+ Jericho Drive In: Captain America: Civil War and The Huntsman: Winter's War
+ Malta: Screen 1: Captain America: Civil War and Keanu | Screen 2: The Jungle Book and Mother's Day

SPAC Rock & Run
Sunday: Saratoga Performing Arts Center hosts its annual Rock & Run. The event includes a kids run, plus 5K, 10k and half marathon races. It's followed by a concert on the SPAC grounds with more than 20 local acts including Bryan Thomas, Pony in the Pancake and headliners Jocelyn Arndt & Chris Arndt. Sunday races at 7:30 am with the concert to follow -- $5-$50

Music

Friday: Peter Wolf & The Midnight Travelers at The Egg
From the J. Geils Band. With: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams. 8 pm -- $39.50

Friday: Upstate Rubdown at The Hangar
Appalachian soul. With: Olivia Quillio, Micah Resney. 6 pm -- $10

Friday: Jocelyn and Chris Arndt at The Linda
"Devastatingly powerful vocals driven by full-throttle, retro-rock guitar." 8 pm -- $15

Friday: Jittery Jack and Miss Amy and Her Guitar at The Low Beat
Rockabilly. With: The Televisionaires, Lone Ranger. 8 pm

Friday: Dave Gunning & Jory Nash at Caffe Lena
Folk. With: The Young Novelists. 8 pm -- $18

Friday: John Gorka and Cheryl Wheeler at Proctors
Folk. An 8th Step show. 7:30 pm -- $28 and up

Friday: Tarek Atoui "Within" at EMPAC
"Atoui has been working in collaboration with Distinguished Research Professor of Music Pauline Oliveros and her students from the New Instrumentation for Performance seminar to think through propositions for new instruments and performance techniques. Several instruments that Atoui has been developing concurrently will be played throughout the public spaces of EMPAC and broadcast into the Concert Hall." 8 pm -- free

Friday: Stellar Young at The Hollow
With: Coupons, Candy Ambulance. 9 pm -- free, thanks to a beer company

Saturday: The Judy Collins show at The Egg is sold out.

Saturday: Rosanne Cash at Helsinki Hudson
With: John Leventhal. 9 pm -- $65

Saturday: Big Black Delta at The Hollow
Electro rock. 8 pm -- $10.27 ahead / $12 day of

Saturday: Albany Symphony Orchestra at The Palace
Performing Mahler's Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" with Albany Pro Musica. 7:30 pm -- $19 and up

Saturday: Maswick and Brown at Caffe Lena
"[E]xquisite, hook-laden, modern folk pop." 8 pm -- $18

Saturday: Afro-Cuban Jazz Saxtet at The Madison Theater
Saxophone quartet with Afro-Cuban percussion. Saturday 7 pm -- $22 and up

Sunday: John Pizzarelli Quartet at The Egg
Jazz and standards. 7:30 pm -- $39.50

Historic Homes Tour
Saturday: The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation is hosting its Historic Homes Tour. Saturday at 10 am -- $40

Plant sales

Capital Roots
Saturday: The annual Capital Roots spring plant is sale is at the org's Urban Grow Center in Troy (594 River Street). We've also shopped this sale in the past and we were able to score good plants. (It's not as intense as the cooperative extension sale.) It typically has veggies (including heirloom tomatoes), flowers, and perennials. Saturday 9 am-1 pm

Greenbush Garden Club Plant Sale
Saturday: The Greenbush Garden Club organizes a plant sale at the Rensselaer Elks Club Pavilion in East Greenbush (683 Columbia Turnpike). "The plants are dug from members' gardens, so you never know what bargains you'll find. The proceeds of this sale are used to fund children's gardening grants, garden therapy at Van Rensselaer Manor, civic beautification projects and free horticultural programs." Saturday 9 am-11 am (or until sold out)

Washington Park tulip dig/sale
Saturday-Sunday: The annual Washington Park tulip dig/sale is (usually) the weekend after the Tulip Festival. If you want your pick of the tulips, the day to go is Saturday as volunteers dig up the bulbs and get their pick of limited quantities. If you go to the Sunday sale, go early -- the tulips sell very quickly. Saturday and Sunday 9 am

Landis Signature Spring Plant, Book, and Bake Sale
Saturday-Sunday: The Landis Arboretum in Esperance (Schoharie County) hosts a spring plant, book, and bake sale. "Out of the ordinary trees, shrubs, and perennials are the hallmark of this annual event. New this year: a limited variety of unique and mostly heirloom vegetable seedlings." Saturday and Sunday 10 am-4 pm

Siberian Iris & Perennial Sale
Sunday: The Capital-Hudson Iris Society's annual Siberian Iris & Perennial Sale from 9 am-noon in the parking lot of Main Square Shoppes in Delmar (318 Delaware Ave). "We have more than 300 Siberian and species cross irises (which are like Siberians) all potted and ready to plant and they're only $5 each! We also have a wide selection of perennials, many from our member's gardens, from $3 up. In addition, there will be some special perennials from a wholesaler that we sell below retail cost." Sunday 9 am-noon

Touch a Truck
Saturday: The Junior League of Albany hosts Touch a Truck Day at the Integra Optics hangar at ALB. Kids can get a hands-on experience with all kinds of big trucks. Saturday 11 am to 3 pm -- $5 for kids / $2 for adults

Greenfest
Saturday: The Bethlehem Children's School hosts its 20th annual Greenfest this weekend. Vendors that focus on local, sustainable, organic and free trade products will be featured. They'll also have pony rides, games, food and music. Saturday from 10 am to 5pm -- free admission

Yappie Hour and Dog Show
Sunday: The Lucas Confectionery is hosting a Yappie Hour and Dog Show to benefit Joseph's House & Shelter in Troy. Sunday 4:30 pm -- $20 to enter a dog

Raptor Fest
Saturday: The Washington County Fairgrounds hosts the annual Winter Raptor Fest. New live bird of prey programs and "free-flight" raptor demonstrations, programs on short-eared owls, bald eagles, ospreys, snow owls, hawks, falcons and more. There will also be horse-drawn wagon rides, kids activities and food vendors. Saturday 10 am to 4 pm -- $12 / $6 for kids

Bird Walk
Saturday: An expert birder will lead a bird walk through Schuylerville's Hudson Crossing Park. Saturday 8am to 10am -- free

Museums
Wander through one of the Capital Region's museums:

Masterworks Paper
In honor of its 225th anniversary, the Albany Institute of History and Art is showing some rarely-seen paper items including manuscripts, letters, architectural plans, photographs, ephemera, silhouettes, and maps spanning three centuries in its newly opened Masterworks Paper exhibit. Many of these items can't be exhibited often or for extended periods due to their sensitivity to light. On display through October 16.

Imaging the American West
The exhibit Imaging the American West: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues the State Museum. It includes works by artists such as Albert Bierstadt, Paul Manship, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frederic Remington, and Charles M. Russell. It will be on display through July 17.

Ansel Adams
The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown has an exhibit of early works by Ansel Adams on display through September 18.

MASS MoCA
Alex Da Corte's Free Roses is on display at MASS MoCA. "Provocative, puzzling, and visually seductive, in his first museum survey Alex Da Corte's neon-bright, exuberant works merge the languages of abstraction and modern design with banal, off-brand items, ranging from shampoo to soda to tchotchkes and household cleaning supplies."

Arkell
The Arkell Museum has has exhibitions about Rembrandt's influence on printmakers and the work of Edward Buyck.

Alma Thomas
The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has its exhibit of the bright, colorful paintings of Alma Thomas. It's on display until June 5.

Sculpture parks
With the nice spring weather, maybe you'd like to explore some sculpture parks around the region.

Ice cream stand season
Seasonal ice cream stands around the Capital Region are open.

Farmers' markets
Farmers Markets are outdoors...
+ Troy Waterfront Farmers Market will be on River Street and around Monument Square Saturday 9 am-2 pm
+ The Saratoga Farmers' Market is outdoors at High Rock Park. Saturday from 9 am-1 pm
+ The Delmar Farmers Market is at Bethlehem Central Middle School. Saturday 9 am-1 pm
+ The Schenectady Greenmarket is at its outdoor location around City Hall. Sunday from 10 am-2 pm.
+ The Spa City Farmers' Market is outdoors to the lawn at the Lincoln Baths. Sunday from 10 am-3 pm

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