Popular Song by Pele deLappe, lithograph, 1935. Part II (In last week’s Part I, a 15 year old San Franciscan...

Pele deLappe, by her father, Wes deLappe Part I During much of the last century it wasn’t so rare a...

Richard Ballantine, author, publisher, human power advocate and “cyclist guru” to the world, died peacefully at a hospice center in...

Performing Arts of Woodstock will be 50 next season. At the moment that feels like 49 consecutive miracles in a...

His first indoctrination into the fine (and some may say, black) art of politics was administered in the form of...

Julio De Diego, Landscape, c. 1940, Oil on board Over the course of an epic life Julio De Diego, one...

Robert Burke Warren and Clay Tyson in The Dumb Waiter. Robert Burke Warren is a married, working dad who makes...

(Photo by Tad Wise) Tales of olde Woodstock are awash with witches. Interference from these quarters were more vexing than...

Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro — (receiving a standing ovation!) left to right: Yehudi Wyner, Carolyn Chrisman, Spiro Malas, Lucille Sulem,...

When I ask, “What’s the significance of Five Points?” A demonic smile creeps over Robin’s face and there’s no stopping...

If you love fresh bread befriend your local baker. On a certain level that’s the relationship Tom Fletcher and his...

The Woodstock Land Conservancy’s second annual “Vernal Fling,” held at the ever-remarkable Maverick Concert Hall Saturday, May 12, paid special...

Kevin Sweeney hitch-hiked to Woodstock when he was 19 years old, 64 years ago. His death last Wednesday at his...

March 6 — Tonight I leave Venezia, heartbroken at departing and worn out from over-work. Yes, I could use a few...

Daniel Preddy Carbonaro, 27, a much-loved son of Woodstock who’d made California his home in recent years, went missing at...

A few weeks ago we ran Theater Without a Theater, a piece about a new theatrical paradigm, which pointed out...

This is a love story steeped in horror, heartbreak, hardship, healing and hope. It’s the on-going saga of a brilliant...

Barry Feinstein didn’t much care for photographers, who are — by nature — observers. He preferred men and women with...

Edgar “Eddie” Villchur, inventor of the AR speaker and first president of that company, writer, teacher, philanthropist, patron of the...

In a downward spiraling economy, endowments for the arts have been slammed, patrons are largely overwhelmed, and traditional ticket buyers are...