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…
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…
Bardavon Gala to star showbiz legend Liza Minnelli
One might say that Liza Minnelli was destined from birth to become Ms. Show Business. She’s one of only 12 people ever to have won a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and an…
Robert Downey, Jr. and intelligent screenplay endow Iron Man 3 with heart
Regular readers of this column must be growing weary of my rants against Hollywood’s increasing reliance on movies based on comic books to deliver the blockbuster bucks. I thought that The Avengers was…
Heliopolis-on-Hudson
The matriarch of modern dance, Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), carved out a flamboyant life, an influential career and a new artform via her flagrant disregard for the established rules of both art and society….
Wit performance to benefit Ovarian Cancer Support Program
Margaret Edson’s play Wit, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Best New Play Award in 1999, tells the story of a university English professor who…
Obnoxious young reporter pursues harmless old hippies in The Company You Keep
According to Hollywood lore, Robert Redford nursed a dream for decades to make a movie about renegade ‘60s-era activists on the run from the law, their counterculture idealism having devolved into an acceptance…
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…
Master the maypole at 23rd annual Beltane
For many people, the mention of May Day instantly brings to mind the image of a ribbon-festooned Maypole. We know that people are supposed to dance around it to celebrate the departure of…
Aztec Two-Step returns to Bearsville this Saturday
Two guys with acoustic guitars, who write songs and sing them simply, with maybe a little harmonica thrown in now and again: It used to be a cliché, but it’s a lineup that…
