Bloom with a view: Garden Conservancy Open Days
The Garden Conservancy is a national organization headquartered in Cold Spring that partners with individual garden-owners as well as public and private organizations to preserve threatened gardens deemed significant, and to promote policies…
Saugerties homeboy Jimmy Fallon chosen for late-night’s top spot
Growing up in Saugerties, Jimmy Fallon didn’t have the high school’s celebrated Computer Video Production course to help steer him toward a career in television. But as the recent announcement that Fallon would…
Vassar hosts Haiti Project art sale & auction this weekend
The people of Haiti live with 98 percent deforestation, 70 percent illiteracy and 50 percent unemployment. The all-volunteer Vassar Haiti Project has raised funds for a school lunch program and improved teacher salaries,…
Shamrock Run & St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Kingston this Sunday
The 25th annual Shamrock Run, a two-mile run to benefit the People’s Place, will be held on Sunday, March 10. There will be a parade and post-race party at the Rondout Neighborhood Center…
Robin Dana’s watershed images on view at Beacon Institute
The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries will showcase the photographs of Robin Dana in the exhibit “Watershed: How Industry Has Changed the Water of the World,” on view from March 9 through…
Learn the history of the Ulster County Courthouse
The Ulster County Courthouse has been at the center of many major events in our region’s history, from the first settlers to the present day, in war and in peace. The Committee of…
Fortnight for foodies
Two revolutions ago I wrote that Hudson Valley Restaurant Week was the most magical time of the year, because a three-course lunch was $20, a three-course dinner was $28 and a week was…
Winter Hoot Festival at Ashokan Center
From February 1 through 3, the first-ever Winter Hoot Festival at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge will celebrate the musical and cultural heritage of the region and raise funds to help nearby schools…
Rosendale screens The Magistrate with John Lithgow from London’s National Theatre
Back in 1979, I happened to catch a charming, thought-provoking little play performed proscenium-style at Circle in the Square in New York City. Titled Spokesong, or: The Common Wheel and authored by a…
Teens host Woodstock gala to benefit Laotian orphanage
Local musical favorites will be teaming up for a Cabaret Gala at Photosensualis in Woodstock to benefit the 600 children of the Deak Kum Pa Orphanage in Luang Prabang, Laos on Saturday, January…
