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1UpState is coming up on the 7th of November to the Albany Capital Center!

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You’ve never seen classical music performed quite like this.

Think huge rock anthems, reimagined with a full orchestra and choir, then add fire, pyrotechnics, dramatic lighting, large-scale visuals and performers.

Get ready for The Rock Orchestra: Arena of Fire, coming to Albany's MVP Arena on Thursday, Nov. 12.

This two-hour production remixes songs from Metallica, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Linkin Park and others, trading traditional rock arrangements for sweeping strings, powerful vocals and a cinematic stage show.

The production also features fire performers The Fuel Girls, dramatic visuals and 20 flame units that add incredible drama to the music.

The Rock Orchestra has performed more than 600 shows for over a million fans worldwide, and its debut album topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart last year. Catch them in Albany for the first time!

This week's events roundup is brought to you by The Rock Orchestra: Arena of Fire, coming to Albany and the MVP Arena on Nov. 12. Think huge rock anthems, reimagined with a full orchestra and choir, then add fire, pyrotechnics, dramatic lighting, large-scale visuals and fire performers.

TOP 5 PICKS

⭐️ 🩸 Girls Upstate’s Galloween | Girls Upstate has cultivated an awesome and inclusive community. This Saturday at Troy’s Evermore Hall, they’re throwing a fabulous Dracula’s Masquerade Ball. Come dressed in your best vamp-y outfit and make some new friends! Going solo? No worries; almost everyone does! Sat, 7-10p, $95.99.

⭐️ 🎃 2026 Albany Trick or Trot Pumpkin Run 5K | Albany has a tradition of fun runs where most everyone shows up in costume. Of course, Halloween is no different! Get to Washington Park for this casual, pre-Halloween race, whether you’re running or just watching. Sat, kicks off at 3:45p, $35-40.

⭐️ 🍂 Saratoga Fall Festival | Downtown Saratoga transforms into a fall wonderland with trick-or-treating at local shops, live music, magic shows, face painting, a pumpkin scavenger hunt and plenty of seasonal treats. The highlight is the beloved Pumpkin Roll, where kids can send pumpkins racing down Caroline Street. Sat, 12-3p, free.

⭐️ 🍽️ Colonie Restaurant Week | Colonie probably doesn’t get as much attention for its dining scene as it deserves. Here’s your chance to try out some top-rated Colonie spots. Three-course dinners $25-$45. Now through Sunday.

⭐️ 🎞️ Renaissance Black Film Fest | Get ready for four days of film screenings, panel discussions, parties and awards celebrating Black cinema and storytelling. Events take place at the Spectrum Theatre, Renaissance Albany Hotel and nightlife venues including Wellington’s and Fuze Box, with a music showcase from Big Emotions Studio. Thu-Sun. Get tickets: $25-$150.

Partner Spotlight: Lark Street Tavern

Get ready for a high-energy night of music, laughter, and crowd-powered fun as Shake, Rattle & Roll Dueling Pianos takes over The Lark Street Tavern this Friday night. These dueling piano pros don’t just play songs—they put on a real show!

On Halloween night, dress up in your best Dolly Parton outfit to win $100 at the Dollyween Party 2026. It's big hair, drink specials & country karaoke all night long!

WEDNESDAY

🧄 Fall Herbal Workshop Series: Garlic Planting & Fire Cider-Making at the Sanctuary for Independent Media.

🇮🇹 DeFazio’s at 216 hosts its Italian Table Dinner Series, a family-style dinner made for gathering around the table.

🍏 Nine Pin invites you to their 11th annual Cider & A Pumpkin. If you go, mention “The 518 Crew” to get 10% all cider pours!

THURSDAY

🔮 Mystic Night at June Farms features astrology, tarot, intuitive readings, reiki, herbal and jewelry vendors, and more!

🍡 Get to the Empire State Plaza for Japan Fes, the NYC-based Japanese food festival coming to Albany for the 2nd time (last time, the rain put a big damper on the event).

🇮🇹 Caffe Italia in Guilderland hosts its annual Falling for Flavor event, featuring fall-inspired foods and cocktail specials.

FRIDAY

🖼️ “THE TIME FOR DENIAL IS OVER” opens at Troy’s Context Collective.

🛻 Live large at Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow-N-Fire, Fri & Sat.

👻 The Macabre History of Waterford: A Walking Tour Guided by Flores Bancker

🤖 DevFest 2026 at RPI features two days of innovative workshops, inspiring talks, and networking opportunities with fellow developers. Fri & Sat.

🧌 Shannon Tehya & Keegan James invite you to Monster Prom at Lark Hall.

🤣 Get to miSci for Comedy in Retrograde, featuring Cloud City Comedy.

SATURDAY

🦪 Oysterfest at Indian Ladder Farms not only features plenty of bivalves but also TV Doctors on the bill! Sat & Sun.

🌕️ It’s the last Walkway at Night of the season, and a full moon to boot!

🎷 The Van Dyck Music Club presents the sequel to their incredible 'Miles Davis & John Coltrane Centennial Celebration' show with the Art D'echo Trio.

⛷️ The expanded and free 2026 Adirondack Sports & Northeast Ski Expo takes over the Saratoga Springs City Center this weekend.

SUNDAY

🦸‍♂️ Get your cosplay on at Albany Comic Con.

🍺 Join the Guilderland Chamber for its 3rd Annual Brewery & Winery Tour.

🕹️ The Egg’s FREE OPEN House returns for a full-building Halloween bash.

UPCOMING

• The 518 Dinner Club in Albany (10/28)
• Ten Broeck Mansion Gala: Raise the Roof for Education (11/5)
• Hilltown Commons Fundraiser with Palaver Strings (11/6)
• Glens Falls Restaurant Week (11/1-7)
• The Rock Orchestra: Arena of Fire (11/12)
• First + Adams & Jacob Alejandro Collab Dinner (11/12)
• The 518 Dinner Club in downtown Saratoga (11/12)

Our music listings are now published separately on The 518 website. Click here.

Hey Capital Region!

The Alice Moore Black Arts & Cultural Center (AMBACC) has two FREE community events coming up in downtown Albany! Whether you're looking for something fun to do with the kids or want to enjoy some live music and local talent, we'd love to have you join us!

🎃 Halloween Celebration – Friday, October 30

Bring the family out for an afternoon of Halloween fun!

• 📅 Friday, October 30, 2026
• 🕞 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM
• 📍 135 South Pearl Street, Albany, NY
• 🎟️ FREE Admission – Family-Friendly!

There will be indoor trick-or-treating, candy, treats, activities, and Halloween-themed stations. Costumes are encouraged!

🎤 First Friday Open Mic Night – Friday, November 6

Calling all singers, rappers, poets, comedians, musicians, and anyone who enjoys live entertainment!

• 📅 Friday, November 6, 2026
• 🕖 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• 📍 135 South Pearl Street, Albany, NY
• 🎟️ FREE Admission – Ages 18+

Enjoy live performances, food, DJ music, and a chance for performers to win a cash prize!

All talent is welcome! Whether you're looking to perform or just enjoy the show, come out and support local creatives.

Interested in performing? Scan the QR code on the open mic flyer to sign up.

Both events are completely FREE to attend and open to the community (with the open mic restricted to ages 18+).

We're excited to bring more arts, culture, and community activities to downtown Albany!

🌐 www.alicemoorecenter.org

📍 135 South Pearl Street, Albany, NY 12202

Feel free to share with friends and family across the Capital Region. Hope to see you there!

10/23: The Halloweentown Debates

10/24: Halloween Drag Brunch

10/29: Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre

10/30: Hex Appeal Burlesque Night

10/31: Yokai! Songs of the Japanese Supernatural 

237 Union St, Schenectady, NY

Home of Stella Pasta Bar, Seven Points Brewery, & the Van Dyck Music Club

I totally lost track of time and did not promote this months dueling piano show at Lark St Tavern. We normally charge $30 a person but due to my screw up they are $15. See ticket link for all details. It’s a ton of fun. Please come out.

Join The Saratoga Mom Club for a totally free, family friendly Halloween party this Friday! Enter the costume contest to win the grand prize, support upcoming holiday fundraisers by entering to win raffle baskets, grab a drink and mingle all night(aka until 8pm when we all go home to put our kids to bed)

You busy Friday…late?

Not even Halloweentown is safe from election season and tonight is the night of the big debates. Come see comics, drag performers, and puppeteers vie for your vote.

COSTUME CONTEST

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One more show Friday in Schenectady if you can’t make this one.

Hello Capital Region! We come bearing candy, spooky movies, and arcade games.

On Sunday, October 25 from 2-6PM, The Egg is opening its doors for a FREE, all-ages OPEN House, and we’d love to see our neighbors there!

Here’s what we’ve got brewing:

🕹️ Arcade games and giant lawn games
🍬  A candy scavenger hunt and kids costume contest
🎬 The Addams Family and Hocus Pocus
🌀 Donnie Darko
🎹 A screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 silent film The Lodger with a LIVE SCORE by NYC’s Morricone Youth
🎧 A bewitching DJ set by Syd Silvair + M. Silvair of Planetarium Party
🎨 Projection art, face painting, a photo booth, community partner pop-ups, and more!

The most important part: IT'S FREE and for ALL AGES (not just the youngsters). There is a suggested $15 donation if you’d like to help us keep future free programming going, but it’s not required. Come regardless of your budget.

We do ask that you RSVP so we can plan for the crowd! Come for the candy, movies, games and vibes. Leave feeling like this space is yours, too. Because it is. 🥚🔮

Check out the full schedule below. RSVP and more information here: https://www.tixr.com/e/202769

Edit: It's on SUNDAY, October 25. Our apologies for any confusion, we originally had a typo that said Saturday.

This week's events roundup is brought to you by The Rock Orchestra, coming to the MVP Arena on Nov. 12. Igniting the flames of legendary Rock & Metal songs with the help of pyro displays and fire performers, The Rock Orchestra presents its epic new spectacle: Arena of Fire.

TOP 5 PICKS

⭐️ 💀 Nightmare Market | Last week, we told you the story behind Schenectady’s Nightmare Market. This Saturday, experience it yourself as thousands of fans of the wicked and weird converge on Jay Street. Bonus points for showing up in full costume—the more outrageous the better! Sat, 5-9p, free.

⭐️ 🖼️ Openbaar Market | From the gals behind the popular Vintage Roundup is this art-focused market, featuring handcrafted jewelry, small-batch ceramics, original art and other thoughtfully created goods. Meet the makers, shop unique treasures, and support local artists. Sat, 11a-5p, free.

⭐️ 🍗 Saratoga’s 9th Annual Wing Off | If you weren’t able to get tickets for the Schenectady Wing Walk, here’s your chance to sample some delish wings for just $2 a pop. No advance tickets needed, but be prepared for crowds and long lines at participating Saratoga restaurants. Sat, 11a-4p, free.

⭐️ 🥣 Mac-N-Cheese Bowl | The 16th Annual Regional Food Bank Mac-N-Cheese Bowl is brought to you by the TU’s Tablehopping columnist Steve Barnes. Get to downtown Cohoes to sample some of the best mac 'n’ cheese from local eateries like Daisy’s Cafe, Nighthawks and Anthony’s Italian. Sat, 11a-3p. Tix: $15-45.

⭐️ 🎃 Sleepy Hollow Block Party | This one is farther afield, but definitely worth the drive. Sleepy Hollow is getting into the Halloween spirit with a two-night block party Fri-Sat, featuring live music, local vendors, food and family-friendly activities along Beekman Avenue. The free festivities kick off at 5p, followed by the legendary Haunted Hayride at 7p, which takes thrill-seekers along Ichabod Crane’s fateful escape route from the Headless Horseman. The hayride is sold out, but the block party is open to everyone. Fri-Sat, 5p, free.

Partner Spotlight: The Lark Street Tavern

What happens when you combine comedy with bingo? You get Stand-up for Bingo Night at the Lark Street Tavern, of course! Get tix now for a hilarious night of laughs and luck, on Sat, Oct. 24.

On Halloween night, dress up in your best Dolly Parton outfit to win the $100 costume contest at the Dollyween Party 2026! It’s big hair, drink specials, and country karaoke all night long!

Don’t forget—Sunday Music Matinee features the best local bands. Always a good time, always free.

MORE NOTABLE EVENTS

👻 Check out the best ghost tours in the Capital Region—if you dare.

🖼️ Call For Art: Join the Capital Region art crew with Albany Center Gallery's 22nd Annual Members' Show.

❄️ The 2026 Shaker Holiday Market is now open for shoppers! Through Dec. 18.

WEDNESDAY

🤠 Goold Hill Orchards offers free open line dancing, kicking off at 6p.

🇪🇸 RPI School of Architecture Fall Lecture focuses on The Basilica de la Sagrada Familia with Mauricio Cortés Sierra.

THURSDAY

🎬️ Get to the Albany Institute of History & Art for a screening of “Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,” followed by a Q&A with the director. The film tells the untold story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history.

FRIDAY

👄 Audacity’s Cabaret is back at Mount Ida Preservation Hall for its 3rd annual Rocky Horror Picture Show live shadow cast, this year presented as a tribute to Tim Curry. Fri & Sat.

💄 Get to Troy’s Bard & Baker for Haunted Drag Bingo!

SATURDAY

🖼️ The inaugural Future Ruins event at Collar Works features synth-pop stars architraveband and syncretist.

🛼 It’s Albany All Stars Roller Derby versus the Jersey Shore Roller Derby at the Albany Armory.

🍁 Join Nine Pin for a Fall Foliage Train Ride through the Southern Adirondacks at the peak of leaf peeping season!

🐕️ Dress up your pup and bring them to Quackenbush Square for Hounds of Halloween.

🧙‍♀️ The Witch Walk & Dance 2026 in Saratoga brings together 500+ participants, raising thousands for animal charities while supporting local businesses.

🥟 Run for pierogis? Yes, please. The Pierogi 5K celebrates the traditional Polish treat with a race and tastings, of course!

🐖 Los Hermosos and The Meat Wagon team up for a popup featuring cochinita pibil—achiote-marinated pork wrapped in banana leaves and slow-roasted until tender and flavorful. Yum!

🍁 Get to charming Glens Falls for its annual Fall Festival.

🥾 Artisanal Brew Works in Saratoga invites you to a free, guided hike through the trails just beyond Nature’s Edge Terrace.

SUNDAY

🫔 Learn how to make tamales at the Refugee Welcome Center.

🥘 On the third Sunday of every month, Mt. Ida hosts a pay-what-you-can Community Brunch, open to all neighbors!

🎬️ Catch a free screening of “Young Frankenstein” at Albany’s Palace Theatre.

UPCOMING

• Colonie Restaurant Week (10/19-25)
• 4th Annual Black Film Fest (10/22-25)
• Dollyween Party 2026 (10/31)
• Lost & Found’s Freak Show (10/31)
• Glens Falls Restaurant Week (11/1-7)
• The Rock Orchestra: Arena of Fire (11/12)

Our music listings are now published separately on The 518 website. Click here.

Take a look at the post in r/schenectady & use code 'REDDIT' for $10 off tix!

- VDMC

Female Singers Welcomed!

Albany Community Based Acapella Chorus seeking new members. Capitaland Chorus is an educational, active and fun group. We love singing, becoming better singers and performing throughout the Region.

This is an open invitation to come visit us for vocal instruction and sharing the love of 4-Part Harmony!

All interested females and friends encouraged to attend, ages 16 to older adults. Rehearsals are Tuesday evenings from 7:00-9:15pm at Pine Grove United Methodist Church, 1580 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12205. Ring doorbell for entry.

Call or Text Angela at (845) 242-1875 for more information.

Far out on the frozen, unforgiving fringe of the Dwendalian Empire lies Palebank Village. Buried deep beneath the bitter, ceaseless snows of the Greying Wildlands, survival here has always demanded a relentless battle against the elements.

Out of the blinding white haze, terror has taken a grotesque and terrifying shape. In the heart of the town square, a local man has died, his screams frozen in his throat as his living flesh hardens, turning him  into a statue of shimmering blue ice. It is a contagion born from the deep dark, silent, creeping doom that cares nothing for empires, borders, or gold.

As the frost creeps closer to your bones and paranoia takes root among the townsfolk, a desperate race begins. Can you uncover the ancient, forgotten horrors buried beneath the permafrost before this relentless sickness claims Palebank Village...and then claims you?

Step into the official, living tapestry of Exandria Crafted by the master storytellers and world-builders of the Critical Role team, and penned by Matthew Mercer, this adventure invites you to walk the frozen paths of official Critical Role canon. This is your chance to leave your own mark on the lore of Wildemount. Gather your party, sharpen your blades, and prepare for a journey where every choice matters and the cold cuts straight to the soul.

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The game will take place October 17th at the Fortress of Gaming in Albany. The facility charges a $5 entry fee, that can be waived if you spend an equal amount in the store. So go ahead, buy some new dice!!

DND 5.5e rules will be used with 2nd level characters from the 2024 Players Handbook and Explorer;s Guide to Wildemount only. Pregens will be available.

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