Hudson Valley One

Economy

Movin’ on up

Two Kingston projects years in the making marked significant milestones this week, taking important steps toward their larger ambitions. In doing so, they provided clues about the new directions toward which the Ulster County economy is evolving. They are harbingers of change.
Community

Tenants mobilize in the Hudson Valley and beyond

A Nassau County-based real estate company has been expanding its holdings in the Hudson Valley and some tenants are not happy. The conflict is playing out against a backdrop of concerns about gentrification and renewed activism among renters which has already resulted in the passage of a state law increasing tenant protections.
Economy

It’s about us, Pat Ryan says

Ryan brings a different style to the county executive’s office and an excellent grasp of the local economy. This should be interesting.
Nature

Everything you need to know about the timber rattlesnake

Timber Rattlers can be found in the mountainous areas of the Hudson Valley, including the Catskills and Shawangunks. There have been no recent recorded cases in New York State of human fatalities from a bite from a timber rattler, but symptoms may be severe, including nausea, vomiting, paralysis and tissue damage, and an allergic reaction can certainly be life-threatening. A dog twice bitten in Minnewaska State Park in 2014 succumbed to the venom.
Local History

Stone secrets: Catskills cairns had deep spiritual significance for Native Americans, says Hudson Valley writer

Woodstock’s Glenn Kreisberg’s latest book, Spirits in Stone, published last year by Inner Traditions, reflects his effort to set the record straight of long-lost cultures whose language was at once sophisticated and mysterious, a story whose telling would seem ideally suited to someone who has spent so much of his life exploring and recording the ineffable vestiges of those cultures.
Community

Saugerties’ Jim Starlin: The man behind Thanos

Jim Starlin is one of the most important writers in the history of pop culture, but you likely don’t know his name. As a comics writer at Marvel in the 1970s, Starlin created Thanos, the villain who has supported the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, the cinematic juggernaut whose intricately-connected franchise movies have dominated international theaters for over a decade now.
Community

Sowing seeds of community: The New Paltz Rescue Squad

Most encounters with an ambulance are quite pedestrian: the flashing lights and wailing siren signal it’s time to pull the car over and let the members of the rescue squad pass. What’s a momentary pause in the lives of those New Paltz residents might represent a critical moment in the life of someone else, as that ambulance is bringing to their door a crew of professionals with sufficient equipment to do anything that might otherwise happen in a hospital emergency room.
Local History

The anatomy of an enigma: The unknown Hervey White

Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, Hervey White [1866-1944] is better described as godfather of a town he personally transformed into America’s most famous Bohemia, earlier even than 1920. But despite this fact, and although admired by artists and farmers alike, Hervey lived and died an enigma. Some knew part, but none knew all his secrets.

HBO series to film auto wreck in Rosendale

Motorists seeking a detour around downtown Rosendale on the first morning of this year’s Street Festival, on Saturday, July 20, may be in for a hulk of a problem, depending on the pace of filming an automobile accident scene for the upcoming HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True.
Feral cats to be trapped and released in Saugerties
New Paltz officials discuss providing additional access to the Moriello Park playground
Shandaken will form short-term rental committee to draft regs

Woodstock’s Comeau property needs maintenance help

A group that oversees the Comeau property is asking for help with trail maintenance that has not kept up with a significant increase in use and could lead to risk of injury. The last trail assessment was done in 2016, Comeau Stewardship Advisory Committee member Lisa Bonk told the Town Board at its regular meeting Jun 11.
Saugerties re-introduces bicycle police
Kingston mayor announces plans for significant road work this year
Adele Reiter named interim Ulster County comptroller

Beauty in seclusion: Brice Marden’s calligraphic works on view at Rhinebeck’s ‘T’ Space

Half-hidden in the woods, the T-shaped gallery (configured so that a portion of the space is always hidden from view) is completely illuminated by natural light.
Ralph Moseley exhibits for the first time in nearly 50 years
In the Kitchen debuts new LP at Falcon
Ars Choralis to perform “Bach & His World” at the Maverick

Opus 40 hosts Cirkus Luna & Makbet

As a venue, Opus 40 is the Red Rocks of Ulster County. Good thing that, under the stewardship of the writer, artist and self-taught musicologist Tad Richards, music at Opus 40 has been brilliantly curated for decades. Catch Cirkus Luna at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 22; Makbet on Sunday, June 23.
Musical version of The Secret Garden opens in Rhinebeck
Best music videos shot in the Hudson Valley
Shadowland’s theater lineup in Ellenville

Art & Music

Aston Magna’s summer concerts to be held at three Hudson venues

Last season, Aston Magna tried out various venues in the Berkshires and the Hudson Valley. One of the most successful was the theater at Time & Space, Ltd. in Hudson.
Art & Music, Local History

Bethel Woods marks Woodstock festival’s 50th anniversary

In case you missed it, the Generation Gap is back with a vengeance. Maybe what we all need to facilitate intergenerational communication is to take some field trips together to the Museum at Bethel Woods.
Stage & Screen

Shadowland’s theater lineup in Ellenville

The first play of Shadowland’s season is a new drama by D. W. Gregory, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man. Based on true events, it chronicles the tale of Alexei S., a Soviet journalist with perfect memory who is seen as a threat by Stalin’s propaganda machine and targeted by a government censor.
Art & Music

PianoSummer at SUNY-New Paltz

PianoSummer founder and director Vladimir Feltsman describes the soon-to-perform pianist Vadym Kholodenko “one of the strongest pianists of his generation.”
Stage & Screen

Cyrano, Cymbeline, Much Ado and Into the Woods at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

It’s always tough to decide which shows to catch at any new summer season of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, but 2019 – its 33rd year – is shaping up to be tougher than most.
Art & Music

“Madness in Vegetables” at Dorsky Museum in New Paltz

The title “Madness in Vegetables” references a poem by Francis Jammes, a French writer born in 1868, who is best-known for his turn away from the Symbolist movement and toward inspiration drawn from the natural world and a rustic life far from Parisian literary circles. “Madness in Vegetables: Hudson Valley Artists 2019” shares Jammes’ interest in our otherworldly entanglements with vegetal life and the endless potential for imagination that is found in the darkness of the underbrush and lightness of the overstory.
Art & Music

Bard SummerScape 2019 celebrates Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Among the most anticipated summer pleasures of the mid-Hudson Valley is Bard SummerScape, which uses a celebration of a different particular composer each year as an excuse to unlock a treasure chest full of cultural delights that look both backwards and forwards in time. This SummerScape will focus on a composer best-remembered for his film scores: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. An Austrian Jew and child prodigy who was lauded as a genius by the likes of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, John Williams credits Korngold’s score for King’s Row as his major influence for the Star Wars scores.
Stage & Screen

Powerhouse Theater season begins at Vassar

If you’re not gifted with precognition, the surest way to anticipate what stage hit is in the making is simply to attend plenty of each summer’s offerings on the Vassar College campus. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit show Hamilton got its start at Powerhouse Theater at Vassar.
Art & Music

Maverick Concerts’ 104th season lineup

The series, which features world-class jazz and classical music in a sylvan setting, has proceeded uninterrupted for over a century.
Entertainment

Opus 40 ushers in a season of performances, walks & workshops

The international experimental theater Dzieci returns to Opus 40 on June 22 and 23, presenting “the greatest (and only) East Molvanian circus in the world,” a Cirkus Luna! performance and workshop at 1 p.m. on Saturday and its visceral, innovative approach to Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Makbet, at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Kingston After Dark: Uptown Swing and Hardcore Kings

Looking for something a little different and more challenging than another bar crawl on the weekends? Uptown Swing is a monthly night of hot jazz and swing dance in Kingston, typically at The Beverly (technically Midtown at 224 Foxhall) and presented in coordination with BSP Kingston.

Stage & Screen

Opus 40 hosts Cirkus Luna & Makbet

As a venue, Opus 40 is the Red Rocks of Ulster County. Good thing that, under the stewardship of the writer, artist and self-taught musicologist Tad Richards, music at Opus 40 has been brilliantly curated for decades. Catch Cirkus Luna at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 22; Makbet on Sunday, June 23.

Community

Make for the midway: 2019 guide to county fairs in the Hudson Valley

County fairs are for everyone: everyone who dares believe in our commonality, our blood ties to livestock and the Earth and in the high ritualistic value of pure diversion and unhealthy fats as your great-grandparents enjoyed them.

Stage & Screen

Musical version of The Secret Garden opens in Rhinebeck

June 21-July 14: This is a story that has resonated for decades with youngsters and grownups alike. Lucy Simon (Carly’s sister) set it to music, with a book by Marsha Norman, Pulitzer Prizewinner for ‘night, Mother. The original 1991 Broadway production of The Secret Garden won three Tony Awards and four Drama Desk Awards.

Nature

Garden Conservancy Open Days in Dutchess and Ulster

Saturday/Sunday, June 22/23: Many of these sites are accessible to the general public only one day each year.

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