This week's events roundup is brought to you by The 518 Dinner Club—the most delicious, low-key way to meet new friends in the Capital Region. Upcoming dinners in Albany and Saratoga! Save your seat now.

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🍺 The city’s biggest Oktoberfest happens at Wolff’s Biergarten’s annual block party featuring huge crowds, Oktoberfest games, wiener racing and a best-dressed competition. The 21+ celebration transforms the street outside Wolff’s into a b

This week's events roundup is brought to you by Lark Out Loud — the free music festival happening this Saturday at the Lark Street Tavern's back lot. This year's event kicks off with Golden Hour, a meetup of golden retrievers and their owners from 11a-noon, followed by a doggie parade down Lark Street. Stick around for 4 awesome tribute bands playing through the evening, food and drink specials, and good vibes.

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⭐️ 🎸 Lark Out Loud | Returning for its second year behind Lark Street Tavern, this neighborhood music fest

This week's events roundup is brought to you by Harbinger Theatre, presenting The Counter, a play by Meghan Kennedy about an unlikely friendship that develops between a lonely waitress, Katie, and a regular customer, Paul, a retired firefighter, at a small town diner in upstate New York. Runs Sept. 17-26.

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⭐️ 🎸 PearlPalooza | Albany’s biggest block party returns to downtown with a thumpin’ lineup that includes King Tuff, Robber Robber, The Parlor, Bruiser and Bicycle, an

This week's events roundup is brought to you by Harbinger Theatre, presenting The Counter, about a lonely waitress who befriends a regular customer, starting Sept. 17.

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⭐️ 🍺 Opalka Popup Beer Garden | The headlining event for this month’s First Friday Albany, Opalka’s art-and-music lawn party generates the kind of energy that reminds us why Albany is actually a pretty cool place to live. Expect a big crowd for Super 400, Melora Creager, a

This week's event roundup is brought to you by Emry's Garden and The Berlin, two of our favorite hotspots in the heart of Troy.

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⭐️ 🖼️ Set a Scene: Places, Spaces, Without Faces | This juried exhibition at Context Collective brings together Capital Region artists exploring how landscapes, interiors, architecture, maps and imagined environments can tell stories—all without depicting people. Opening reception on Friday, 6-9p, free. Exhibition runs through Oct. 10.

⭐️ 📚️ [The Rough Notes Festival](https://www.th