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Local media have reported on the "Smallbany mentality" and its effects on the local arts and music communities. Despite the perceived lack of outside recognition for many of its cultural activities, however, Albany does indeed possess an active home-grown artistic community, and serves as a key regional crossroad for nationally touring artists and acts. In recent years, the city's government has invested marketing and financial resources to cultivate venues and neighborhoods that can attract after-hours business, as well as public art installations. Pearl Street, Broadway and Lark Street now serve as the most commercially active entertainment areas in the City. Summer concert series are sponsored by the City and local businesses at the Corning Preserve, Tricentennial Square and the Empire State Plaza. Albany's independent and underground artists, musicians and writers actively work in a variety of clubs, bars and coffee houses located throughout the City, many of them outside of those more commercially active areas. Metroland, the alternative newsweekly of the Capital Region, generally provides a focal point for previewing, reviewing and interviewing independent local artists and performers.

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