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(Dominik Bartsch)

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…

Ploughed field at Greig Farm in Red Hook. (photo by Dion Ogust)

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…

Lee turning one of his compost bins.

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)

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…

Artist Nancy Azara (photo by Francesco Capponi)

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…

(Jim Fossett)

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…

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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

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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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…

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