Uneasy waters: Is Yankeetown Pond being saved or endangered?
Verifiable truth around what I deem the reckless endangerment of Yankeetown Pond is difficult to establish...
Kingston production of Oscar Wilde classic delights
His frothiest play…
Obit: Tom Fletcher (1956-2023)
After 28 remarkable years of representing Woodstock’s best-loved artists, the Fletcher Gallery closed in December 2019. Last Friday, September 29,...
Iconic artist honored in Hudson Valley gallery retrospective
In 2004, fourteen years after the death of the genius puppeteer Jim Henson, Disney purchased the entire Muppet franchise and...
The last man to know Hervey White
The single-most influential individual in the creative genesis of Woodstock was Hervey White, whose “Maverick Colony” consisted of artists who...
Timeless Tennessee Williams play performed triumphantly by area theatre production group
Summer and Smoke is a study in human duality…
Karl Berger, music pioneer: His mind and work will live on
With the death of Karl Berger on Easter Sunday at the age of 88, Woodstock and the world lost not...
Sally Grossman, icon of Bob Dylan cover art, dies at age 81
On the morning of March 12, Sally Grossman, the widow of Bob Dylan’s foremost manager, Albert “the Baron of Bearsville”...
Woodstock’s Leon Gast, Oscar-winning director of When We Were Kings, dies at 85
Leon wasn’t born to greatness; he earned it. And like his hero, Ali, he triumphed against all odds.
Woodstock’s Joe Beesmer passes
On Saturday, February 13, Covid-19 added Joe Beesmer — beloved husband, guitar hero and band leader — to its gruesome...
Milton Glaser: Spending eternity in Woodstock
On June 26, the day of his birth, Milton Glaser, international superstar of graphic design, artist, gourmet, educator extraordinaire, and...
The Heart of the Matter: The Unknown Hervey White
Part IV in a series on Hervey White. Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, White is...
Woodstock’s Fletcher Gallery closes after 28-year run
Art lovers don’t walk in off the street anymore in Woodstock — at least not to buy works by the...
Performing Arts of Woodstock’s timing feels perfect with The Realistic Joneses
The play’s premise is simple. Newcomers named “Jones” encounter next door neighbors who share this same last name. As well...
The Death of an Enigma: The Unknown Hervey White
Part III in a series on Hervey White. Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, White is...
The Land of Tomorrow: The Unknown Hervey White
Those who begin to study this town’s most elusive character at his end rather than at his beginning, won’t ever...
The Anatomy of an Enigma: The Unknown Hervey White
Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, Hervey White is better described as godfather of a town...
Rock City Vintage Fashion Show at Colony
On Friday, April 26, a fashion show at Colony Woodstock will celebrate styles of the 1970’s fifty years later, predominantly...
Chogyi’s time
No legend in the making is impervious to the first gush of early praise. But a roster of remarkable players...
Publishing legend Betty Ballantine dies in Bearsville at 99
Betty Ballantine, editorial half of the husband/wife team who pioneered the American paperback, died — as she’d wished she might...
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