Keith James

So, my family and I are enjoying some goodies at the Ice Cream Factory when we notice a hot air balloon way up in the humid sky and as we're watching, we realize it's getting closer and closer

School’s out for summer and while our kids are flipping out that their last day of studies has passed this year, we parents are flipping out for a different reason: How are we gonna keep our rug rats entertained all summer long?

There are Easter events all over the Mohawk Valley every year, some of which come and go, but there are three mainstays that are always a huge hit among the Utica public year after year, and if you manage your time right, you just may be able to attend them all

It's Olympics Month and before we get judgmental because our favorite skier misses a gate or our fave ice-skater flubs a jump or one of the best goalies in the world happens to let a puck on by, don't forget that our heroes are human and they had to start somewhere.

Imagine walking past a piano having a heated convo and the piano abruptly starts playing ominous music by itself to go along with your gestures, or you sit down to play chopsticks and then the piano suddenly plays the other part with you no-handed

It's becoming a regular thing: local musicians from all genres and walks of life coming together at Big Blue North Recording Studio to make another record full of Holiday classics that you can stuff your stockings with and put Central New York in the Christmas mood.

You may be one of the 30,000 people that ride through the Wonderland of Lights every year at the Masonic Home, driving your stuffed carload through all of the displays. But what you may not know is that it's actually a fundraiser

Of course the music can put you in the mood and bring you back to the Disco era as we prepare for our Studio 54 Disco Dance Party At MWP, but how can we forget the movies that delighted our senses from the 70's?!

You grew up in the 70's. You lived it to it's fullest from your platform shoes to the bell bottoms and all the way up to your headband and the psychedlic thoughts that swam around in your head underneath. You may think you know everything there is to know, but here's some facts about the Disco music and those that played it that you might not've known... Till Now.

Who hasn't been inspired by the lightsaber battles in the Star Wars movies and imagined themselves flipping around amidst spinning twirls of light dispatching evil minions with their flashy technique while somehow managing not to cut off their own limbs? (Ahem. Did I just type that out loud?)