On weekend nights The Raindancer serves up endless plates of prime rib, lobster and seafood to diners from throughout the Capital Region, but on weekday afternoons the family-owned restaurant mostly caters to its regulars.
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Schenectady alumna a Miami Heat dance team member
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Readers of my column know that I recently returned from Mexico, where I went primarily to celebrate the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and they know also that I took a few photographs there. Now I'm pleased to announce that the photos are available for your viewing pleasure simply ...
Monday, October 26, 2009
Several local fighters gave good accounts of themselves at a fight card in Troy Friday night.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
In case you read my column today (Sunday, Aug. 30) and went looking for the photos I wrote about, well, you might have been too late. When I checked Facebook a few minutes after 7 a.m. they were already gone. These were the photos of Schenectady school board member Jim ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Is it possible? Shahed Hussain, alias Malik, possibly the slimiest character in the history of law enforcement, or at least the slimiest character I have ever personally observed in law enforcement, is back at work. Yes, the same dude who on behalf of the FBI tricked two Albany Muslims into ...
Friday, May 8, 2009
In today’s (Fri., May 8) Daily Gazette, the president of the Schenectady school board, Jeff Janiszewski, protests that he had nothing to do with his wife getting a nice job with the school district without having to take a Civil Service test. Why, his wife had already worked seven years ...
Friday, March 6, 2009
More than 40 photos on display from an eye-opening trip to India.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
More than 40 photos on display from an eye-opening trip to India.
Monday, January 26, 2009
I find this hard to believe myself, but Jack Carroll has been granted parole and will soon be released from prison -- after 11 long years. A year ago he was denied parole when one of the parole commissioners voting against him was Chris Ortloff, the former assemblyman who has ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
As for the presidential inauguration, I might not have gone to Proctors and watched it at all if only I had been notified in time, but alas, the notification arrived after the event. It came from an outfit with which I was not previously acquainted, the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, and ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I just came back from watching the presidential inauguration at Proctor’s Theatre, which carried a live, high-definition transmission from CBS News, and one thing it did for me is remind me of why I long ago stopped watching television. Such non-stop gab on the part of commentators to fill every ...
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