The Dave Matthews Band is making its annual summer stop at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center for two days this weekend, and with Dave Matthews come his fans — lots of them.

As cars drove past Proctors on Wednesday afternoon, something may have seemed out of the ordinary. Members of the Proctors staff, along with a small number of dancers from Northeast Ballet, were standing in front of the theater wearing tutus to promote the upcoming show, “Billy Elliot the Musical.”

Just when the Class B boys’ lacrosse opener between Albany Academy and Scotia-Glenville got interesting, Mother Nature got involved.

Lindsay Rachel Rilko didn’t know anything about bluegrass music when she began sitting in with The Flatbellys in 2008, at the weekly Tuesday open mic night at Dagwood’s Tavern in Lansing, Mich.

Summer is better with a signature cocktail. Not a fancy dinner cocktail. Not a party cocktail. And certainly nothing that anyone who goes by the title “mixologist” ever would deign to make.