Thomas Dimopoulos
thomasdimo.bsky.social
Thomas Dimopoulos
@thomasdimo.bsky.social
A&E editor at Gazette News Group, Inc. Longtime credentialed journalist, author.
Driving Miss Bambi. Nice holiday lights at Round Lake. #aussie #doodle
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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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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...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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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Past and future strike a fun tone at Arcade Archaeology
QUEENSBURY
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November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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.
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Buskers on Phila Street Wednesday in Saratoga Springs performing cover versions of songs by Nine Inch Nails.
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@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.
October 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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.
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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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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
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October 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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.”
October 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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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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.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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…
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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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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.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“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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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.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“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
August 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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
August 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
In #Saratoga, #protest of new “no camping” by setting up camp tents in front of City Hall.
August 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“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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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.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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.
August 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Live band performs Freebird, fireworks show in the Saturday night sky concludes Hudson River party in Schuylerville Turning Point festival.
August 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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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...
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August 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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
July 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“What’s stopping somebody in plain clothes from driving around and just picking somebody up off the street?” #ICE #immigration

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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
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July 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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.
July 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM