Dancing with the ancestors: Brenda Bufalino’s “fictional memoir” pays homage to strong women
Sunday, Mar. 10: Bufalino – known locally, nationally and internationally as a dancer and choreographer – will read at Inquiring...
Poems that slip the leash
Saturday, November 10: Michael Brownstein has written a handbook for change.
Maureen Cummins is writer-in-the-window for Shout Out Saugerties
October 2-28: The book Cummins will be working on has to do with the unearthing and exposing of family secrets;...
Where, exactly, is “Upstate New York”?
Where does it begin? What are its boundaries? In which part of Canada does it terminate? Nobody seems to know....
Philip Roth is laid to rest in Annandale
How did Philip Roth, widely acclaimed as the greatest living American novelist at the time of his death last week,...
Hoop du jour
Friday-Saturday, Oct. 27-28: Terri Mateer’s solo show hits from downtown.
Some nuggets from the Golden Age of New Paltz
I was present (if not fully accounted for) during the Golden Age of New Paltz – and, if you’ll pardon...
A solo reanimation of Frankenstein in Catskill
It’s a singular adaptation — “Singular,” because this version is written for one actor, who plays Victor, the Creature and...
Gary Allen: A Tasting Menu
Listening to Gary Allen on the history of food is akin to listening to Shelby Foote ruminating on the Civil...
Mind over mound: Beckett’s Happy Days in Woodstock
Winnie (played by Bette Carlson) examines her toothbrush in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days , which opens on Thursday, August 11...
Positively Tinker Street
It was Frank Zappa who, when asked to define rock journalism, replied that it was perpetrated by “people who can’t...
Catskill play explores cryptic death of Meriwether Lewis
The cast of Grinder’s Stand, left to right: seated, Nancy Rothman, Steven Patterson, Stephen Jones; standing, Jon Lee, William Dobbins,...
Big doings on Bridge Street in Catskill
Photos provided by Bridge Street Theatre Sometimes, more is more. A good case in point is “Big Works in...
Last of the Cubists
Artist Bob Schuler outside his styrofoam dome home in High Falls. (photo by Mookie Forcella) The aurochs, deer and horses...
John Wolfe paints what happens when worlds collide
Photos by Mookie Forcella John Wolfe says that he’s always considered himself a folk artist. While it’s true that...
Off on a Tangent: Intimate theatre thrives in Tivoli
Michael Rhodes, Tangent’s artistic director (photo by Andrea Rhodes) The Black Swan, with its low black beams and Guinness on...
Bart Plantenga and the gnosis of yodeling
Bart Plantenga, left, with the late yodeling cowboy Kenny Roberts. One of these fine days, when the thrashing grounds are...
The fossil photographs of Art Murphy
Rugose Coral For most people, “local history” means names and events dating back at best a century or two. But...
Barnstormy weather: Legacy of black baseball celebrated in Poughkeepsie
Satchel Paige, seen here warming up, was a pitcher of almost mythical prowess who made several barnstorming appearances in Kingston....
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