Thomas Dimopoulos

Driving Miss Bambi. Nice holiday lights at Round Lake. #aussie #doodle

Book co-published by Tang Museum spotlights Tibetan 'Forms of Awakening' SARATOGA SPRINGS- Standing tall and hardbound-wrapped with rich green cloth, a new book co-published by the Tang Teaching Museum celebrates Tibetan visual culture and spotlights some of the museum’s e...

The images showcase the museums’ Tibetan scroll paintings & depictions framed in carved wooden cases, smaller shrines composed of portable images suitable for providing spiritual home for owners regardless of where they might dwell. #tibetan #art #buddhism

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Saratoga New Year’s Eve concert performers announced; Reese Fulmer, Schenectady's Ally the Piper set SARATOGA SPRINGS - The Allman Betts Band, Reese Fulmer and Ally the Piper will be among the performers at the annual New Year’s Eve festival in downtown Saratoga Springs Dec.

The unveiling. #Saratoga New Year’s Eve presser at UPH Tuesday morning.

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Past and future strike a fun tone at Arcade Archaeology QUEENSBURY

Genies. sea witches and cactus outlaws. “Bazaar” depicts scenes of a busy marketplace dotted with snake charmers and sword swallowers. The game “Fun-Fest,” boasts Day-Glo patterns reminiscent of London in the swinging ’60s. #pinball

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Gutars with scars: backstage at UPH/ Saratoga Saturday afternoon where artists are sound-checking in advance of tonight’s staging of
“TrueSongs 2025.”

The event pairs compassionate stories of those who have who have overcome a major life challenge with professional songwriters.

Buskers on Phila Street Wednesday in Saratoga Springs performing cover versions of songs by Nine Inch Nails.

@maddow.msnbc.com clever signage by someone. No Kings rally in Saratoga Springs NY on Saturday.Event drew more than 5,000 people in city with less than 30,000 residents.

Pretty massive #NoKings rally of several thousand people in #Saratoga Springs, lined a few deep on both sides of Broadway - from Congress Park to City Hall.

Ballston Spa Celebrates 'The Way We Were' with annual car show BALLSTON SPA — A flurry of colors reflected the Sunday sky in a gleam of metal chassis bathed in red or yellow or lime green, turquoise tones and aquamarine or

BALLSTON SPA — A flurry of colors reflected the Sunday sky in a gleam of metal chassis bathed in red or yellow or lime green, turquoise tones and aquamarine or between the accented fire flames stretching across gunmetal gray frames.

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Northshire Bookstore Saratoga - #BannedBooksWeek display at entryway.

Good titles showcase absent of Joyce’s “Ulysses,” WSB’s “Naked Lunch” - ‘tho Beats represented in Ginsberg’s “Howl.”

Caffè Lena at SPAC festival draws hundreds Read about the annual Caffè Lena at SPAC festival in Saratoga Springs, featuring live performances, collaborations, and tribute to music legends.

Tom Chapin fixed a thumb pick to his strumming hand and a capo to the neck of his acoustic guitar. #caffelena #saratoga #spac

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Woody Guthrie & guitar, upon which he wrote “This Land Is Your Land” in a Times Square hotel as a critical response to the drivelousness of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.”

Still they sing in classrooms, from California to the New York islands, from Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters…

Federal shutdown, day one at Saratoga Monument, elsewhere: 'Very sorry, closed today' It is anticipated more than 9,200 of the National Park Service's 14,500 employees will be furloughed nationwide, according to media reports.

SARATOGA — The obelisk stands 155 feet tall.

Inside the Saratoga Monument bronze bas-relief plaques depict scenes of the American Revolution.

Wednesday morning, a handwritten read: "Very Sorry. Saratoga Monument is CLOSED TODAY." Federal shutdown, day one.

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Lawmakers gather in support of Senate bill to protect pets BALLSTON SPA — Cody Shields addressed the room of lawmakers and keepers of the law alike Tuesday inside of the Saratoga County Public Safety Building in Ballston Spa.

“I’m here to speak for the 21 voiceless dogs that tragically lost their lives on Aug. 23. Three of them were mine,” he said. “Brutus, Hilda, Loki. I lost them because someone simply forgot to turn on the ventilation.” #dogs #newyork

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“My brother Albert we’re mourning.” Moving ceremony Wednesday night at annual Overdose Awardness Candlelight Vigil at Spirit of Life statue in Congress Park, #Saratoga Springs. #OverdoseAwarenessDay

Congressman Paul Tonko back in #Saratoga Springs Thursday 24 hours after his “upsetting” visit to Batavia where he was denied entry to ICE's Buffalo Federal Detention Facility to visit with detainees from his 20th Congressional District. #ICE

In #Saratoga, #protest of new “no camping” by setting up camp tents in front of City Hall.

Ballston Spa board vote on humanitarian crisis in Gaza fails More than a dozen residents packed into the narrow confines of Village Hall Monday night when the Ballston Spa Board of Trustees held an at-times contentious, two-and-a-half-hour meeting.

“This resolution will not change the immediate situation in Gaza,” he said prior to the vote. “The point of doing this is to raise public awareness of the shocking situation & our government’s complicity, to take a moral stand and encourage others to do so.”

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Wedged between the Squeeze ‘n’ Sip stand and a taco truck, watching ghostly trails run in front of a cover band’s stage during a live performance of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell.” August in the Town of #Saratoga.

Live band performs Freebird, fireworks show in the Saturday night sky concludes Hudson River party in Schuylerville Turning Point festival.

Deadline on tariffs has local shop owners concerned SARATOGA SPRINGS - Following President Donald Trump's Aug. 1 deadline, the result of tariff increases may play largely in the future decisions of product consumers, market investors and business owner...

As the clock hit zero hour on Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline date, the tariff-ticker began to flash: EU 15%, Canada 35%, & goods from more than 60 other countries which US importers will have to pay tax increases of 15-41 percent starting Aug. 7.
#Saratoga #tariffs

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Oh, happy day. Northshire Bookstore reopened this morning, rehabbed following a July 4 flooding that shuttered its doors. Four weeks without a bookstore is long enough! #books

Just heard back from ICE re: Tuesday activity in #Saratoga Springs w/9 detained/arrested. “To be clear: All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law – including those with no additional criminal history – may be subject to arrest, detention and removal from the United States.” #immigration

Community, officials weigh in on ICE activity in Saratoga Springs SARATOGA SPRINGS – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Saratoga Springs resulted in the detaining of some area residents. Unconfirmed reports point to their number being in the

“What’s stopping somebody in plain clothes from driving around and just picking somebody up off the street?” #ICE #immigration

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Remembering Johnny Thunders today on what would have been his birthday. Among the 1000’s of musicians I have deliriously enjoyed through the years, the purest rock’n’roll guitarist I ever did see.

Photo by me, Valentine’s Day gig 1979 downtown Manhattan, crappy neighborhood in a different time.

Officials: Immigration officers in Saratoga Springs Tuesday SARATOGA SPRINGS – At least one and potentially two people were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday morning in Saratoga Springs.

At least one and potentially two people were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday morning in #Saratoga Springs.

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Five years ago, hard to believe. First summer of COVID, rally in Congress Park, Saratoga Springs.#protest

Celebrating the 218th birthday of Solomon Northup with an unveiling ceremony of a massive bronze sculpture on temporary loan in front of the Lincoln Bathhouse in #Saratoga Springs. #12yearsaslave

Tuesday 8:15 am, village of Ballston Spa. Watched a guy get out his car, set a golf ball down on a patch of grass in the middle of a parking lot and tee off.
In my mind, while zooming the daily grind, he eyeballs a swath of green earth, pulls over, thinks “screw it,” and whips out the golf clubs.

#Saratoga Springs public hearing tonight results in person taken by police into custody. Meeting began at 7 pm, 10:40 pm meeting still going on.