Best music videos shot in the Hudson Valley
British actress/model Lily Cole portrays a promiscuous small-town woman who meets a terrible fate at the hands of a vigilante mob in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ video “Sacrilege,” filmed in Rosendale.
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Saugerties artist explores the tarot traditions
Robert M. Place, artist, scholar and illustrator of the Alchemical Tarot, first encountered the tarot through his girlfriend at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Woodstock’s Edgar Award-winning author publishes new thriller
You don’t need to be patient to enjoy an Alison Gaylin novel, but you need to be alert AF.
Picnic tips and recipes from the CIA
“Think foods high in vinegar, high in acids. High acid reduces bacterial growth. So, use vinaigrettes instead of dressings.”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
“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.
