A quick recap of the week

posted Oct 22, 2016
week review 2016-10-22

Here are a few highlights from the past week on AOA:

+ D. asked about getting design help for a small kitchen.

+ We gave away a pair of tickets to a wine class at Lark + Lily by asking: What's your favorite Albany street? Why?

+ Deanna talked about the Little Pecks take on the tuna sandwich.

+ Poems in the fountain.

+ What was up in the Neighborhood this week: becoming a 46er, summer in October, a message for men, the rigged election, being a restaurant owner, 43 weeks of pregnancy, a hand up, the surrender of Gentleman Johnny, a tumultuous time in Troy, mineral springs, happy birthday, the Tour de Donut, Warehouse Grill and BBQ, Chops and Hops, Sunhee's, diet bread, the pizza oven project, and one moon in another.

+ Sean asked about good neighborhoods for trick-or-treating with his family.

+ We gave away tickets a contemporary circus clown show at Rev Hall from Marquise Productions by asking: What's something that made you smile recently?

+ Deanna pulled together a big list of Halloween-related events, including ghost tours and costume parties.

+ A look at maps of Albany, Schenectady, and Troy posted by the Mapping Inequality project that show how neighborhoods in those cities were redlined.

+ We got a tour of the Albany Capital Center construction site.

+ We talked with MopCo about the improv company's new theater in Schenectady.

+ And thanks to everyone who bought tickets for this year's Bad Boys, Broads, and Bootleggers Tour, which is sold out!

Here's the whole week in one place.

Thanks to everyone who posted a comment or shared an idea this week!

Marquise Productions clown photo: Renald Laurin

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