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Man Man to play BSP in Kingston
I can’t believe I have finally grown tired of detecting and celebrating the influence of Tom Waits in modern music. But, 28 years after Rain Dogs changed my life irreversibly and for the…
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Kids’ Almanac (May 16-May 23)
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. – Groucho Marx Sil & Eliza Reynolds, poet Bobbi Katz speak at Inquiring Minds I’ve been checking…
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Inaugural Taste of Woodstock on May 22
The Woodstock Film Festival won’t be back in town until October, but in the meantime it’s gearing up for the 14th annual event this fall with a fundraising “Taste of Woodstock” on Wednesday,…
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Creative Music Studio to celebrate its 40th anniversary
Woodstock’s Creative Music Studio (CMS) avoids such self-descriptions as “experimental,” “avant-garde” and “revolutionary” in its literature, preferring to emphasize the cross-cultural universality of music and such kernel virtues as “keen awareness,” “personal expression”…
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The fossil photographs of Art Murphy
For most people, “local history” means names and events dating back at best a century or two. But for Art Murphy, a fine art photographer who lives on a winding, wooded road in…
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42 is old-fashioned, inspiring Hollywood moviemaking
If, like this correspondent, you’re not a baseball fan, the number 42 is first and foremost the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, according to The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide…
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Tasteful time capsule: Kingston’s Fred J. Johnston Museum
With the arrival of spring’s gentler weather comes the urge to get out and about more. But if you’re a native Northeasterner, you know that in these parts there’s a “fifth season” that…
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Places to hear great live music in the Hudson Valley
In the opinion of this writer, this moment is in some respects the best time ever in the history of the mid-Hudson Valley music scene, Dylan be damned: more original acts than ever…
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Finding fine vegan fare in the mid-Hudson Valley
Vegan? Never heard the word before. I assumed it rhymed with my name. In fact, with two Sharpie swipes, I used to change my friends’ sticker-labeled vegan brownies to Megan brownies while we…
What Einstein really thought
A new Einstein biography has just been released. Despite the great man’s justified celebrity, many misconceptions are repeated. Take his ideas about religion. Some claim that Einstein believed in a personal God. Others…
The state of farming in the Hudson Valley
I was back in Texas for a funeral. The cemetery is out on what I call “the old home place,” the family farm. My cousin Neil farms it, but it is mostly raw…
Time to check the compost
You’d think, this time of year, that all I’d be doing is sowing seeds and transplanting small and large plants. I am. But I’m also turning compost piles, getting ready to use that…
Robert Hite show opens in High Falls
The sharecropper shacks that dotted the flat agricultural landscape of Tidewater Virginia in Robert Hite’s youth, and the metal-roofed sheds that he saw on his travels throughout Latin America, providing shelter for the…
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild tour this Saturday
The nonprofit Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is sponsoring a series of artist studio tours this spring and summer. The first event on Saturday, May 18 will bring visitors into the studio of painter Eva…
Howling at shadows with Cave Dogs in Kingston
Sensory experiences, by their very nature, are hard to put into words. And some things are harder to explain than others. Take a Cave Dogs performance, for example. The genre-busting Bloomington-based troupe of…
Bern & the Brights in Rosendale this Saturday
Hoboken’s Bern & the Brights kick off their crisp, bracing EP Work with “Slave Driver,” a track that, almost in sequence, introduces all the components of their multi-genre but coherent sound. Dub lasers,…
Man Man to play BSP in Kingston
I can’t believe I have finally grown tired of detecting and celebrating the influence of Tom Waits in modern music. But, 28 years after Rain Dogs changed my life irreversibly and for the…
Kids’ Almanac (May 16-May 23)
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. – Groucho Marx Sil & Eliza Reynolds, poet Bobbi Katz speak at Inquiring Minds I’ve been checking…
A splash in the face
The Nora Ephron film Julie & Julia, which starred Meryl Streep as famed TV chef Julia Child, was partially based on a book called My Life in France that was co-written by Child…
