Kingston expands outdoor seating options for businesses
The plan allows businesses to expand their facilities onto the street at certain times, making it easier to fulfill the...
Kingston launches Master Arts and Cultural Plan
“The end goal is to have a comprehensive document that’s an assessment of what’s currently in the city and also...
Deteriorating Uptown canopies pose problem for Kingston
Should the Pike Plan, which was constructed in the mid-1970s as a way to revitalize Kingston’s moribund shopping district, be...
Despite delays, Kingston’s Irish Cultural Center gets another reprieve from building safety
Neighbors refer to it as “the pit.” Excavated two years ago, the site of the Irish Cultural Center of the...
Cornell Creative Arts Center in Kingston makes connections
The Cornell Creative Arts Center (CCAC) at 129 Cornell Street in Midtown Kingston isn’t just a place where people with...
Edenesque in Kingston makes high-end, organic nut milk
According to owner Leslie Woodward, nut milks are high in antioxidants, have a lot of protein and no refined sugars....
In a food emergency, Kingston community comes to the rescue
With Kingston’s stores and businesses mostly closed and its streets eerily quiet, there’s a bustle of activity at People’s Place,...
Preservationists seek to restore Staatsburg Calvert Vaux mansion that prefigured Central Park
The abandoned mansion is off the beaten path, seemingly stuck in a time when the Hudson Valley was a sleepy...
Get your D.R.A.W. on: Program brings many different kinds of art programs to the Y in Kingston
Kingston’s YMCA isn’t just the place to get fit; it’s also a place to make art. D.R.A.W., a.k.a. The Department...
Planting seeds in the idea garden
The idea garden’s Jessica Meyer and Matt Taylor. (Photo by Phyllis McCabe) The idea garden, located at 346 Broadway, opened...
Woodstock’s Sylvia Leonard Wolf and the art of art appraisal
Wolf looks very closely at the world of creation. She has appraised everything from Abraham Zapruder’s famous film of the...
Year three of Black History Month Kingston continues crucial conversation
Three years ago, Frank Waters organized the first citywide Black History Month. Since then, the celebration has taken off, with...
Jim Holl’s “Both a Point and a Line” on view at Atwater Gallery in Kingston
Through January 31: "In terms of painting, the dot and the line are the essence of what creates all form...
On a roll: Schatz Bearing Corporation is a 21st century manufacturing success story
“We’re constantly getting better and better,” said Schatz president Stephen Pomeroy. “We invest in new technologies that enable us to...
Pinkwater show reflects vision and teaching of Meredith Rosier
“Every person has such a brilliance. For me to help them see this and surprise themselves is very rewarding. It’s...
With space secured on Broadway, Kingston Food Co-Op is taking shape
While retail stores have blossomed in Kingston filling empty storefronts, the city lacks the practical, day-to-day kinds of shops that...
Arborial adieu: Kingston’s green projects changing city’s treescape
The removal earlier this year of 25 linden trees on Pine Grove Avenue shocked and dismayed many Kingston residents. But...
From architectural office to art gallery + “In Pursuit of Color” now on view at the Lockwood Gallery
When Michael Lockwood began leasing the approximately 1,300-square-foot space, which had formerly housed a home design store, for his architectural...
Jan Harrison’s thoroughly modern surrealism
The pastel-and-ink paintings and porcelain-and-clay sculptures of Kingston-based artist Jan Harrison defy stylistic pigeonholes, but their otherworldliness and dreamlike logic...
Time traveling through canvas
Len Tantillo’s historically accurate paintings bring the Hudson Valley’s past to life.
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