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Bill Ziskin, longtime Schenectady HS theater director, remembered; ‘Brought magic out of everyone’ | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Bill Ziskin, the former longtime director of Schenectady High School’s Blue Roses Theater Company, treated his students like professionals – professionals he trusted with controversial and challenging material. “It was my first foray into the theater at all, and he just always treated us as equals, treated us as professionals,” said Erin Long, a 2002 Schenectady High School graduate now working as a TV producer and writer in Los Angeles. Long recalled how...

The UAlbany women's lacrosse team's game Saturday at Boston College was postponed. A statement issued from the Boston College athletic department said the…

David McNew/Getty Images On a normal year (remember those?) about a hundred and fifteen thousand people walk through the doors at the SPAM Museum in Austin, Minnesota. Many visiting will ask what SPAM stands for “We probably answer that 40 to 50 times a day,” said Lord. “The ‘SP’ from spice and the ‘AM’ from ham. Put it together for ‘SPAM.'”  Genius! Lord says many people come from Hawaii, where SPAM is extremely popular, almost a staple in the diet over there.  SPAM also played a big part in feeding our troops during World War II. Enter your number to get our free mobile...

Every April, Sweden’s main highway comes to a periodic standstill. Hundreds of reindeer overseen by indigenous Sami herders shuffle across the asphalt on the E4 as they begin their journey west to the mountains after a winter gorging on the lichen near the city of Umeå. As Sweden’s main arterial road has become busier, the crossings have become increasingly fractious, especially if authorities do not arrive in time to close the road. Sometimes...

Shark it was. at this point they believe it was probably a bull or a tiger shark between eight and nine feet long, david. >> all right, kristen dahlgren is down there along the beach in florida. thank you very much for the update. we are keeping our eye on a massive winter storm that is about to hit much of the east coast. will you get snowed in this weekend? plus, teenagers tend to sleep a lot, but two weeks at a time? a real-life sleeping beauty. time for your business entrepreneur of the week. kim and mark benson were out of work and down to their last $18,000. she took the lessons she ...