Eleven-year-old Dayna Blackmon of Kingston has been living with CF her entire life. Her parents, Jen and Dana Blackmon, are hosting their 10th annual fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Monday, Aug. 14 at Mariner’s Harbor.
It’s a scene that seems perhaps a little out of place — dragonflies chase each other through clusters of lush rice grass, rooted in verdant wetlands. These rice paddies are not in some Asian river delta or even the “Rice Belt” down south. They’re tucked behind a bend of a country road in Esopus.
Saturday, July 29 from 7 p.m.-10:30 p.m., Ole Savannah Southern Table and Bar on the Strand will host a special event, the Art Garten Pop-Up Party, with music, food and works from more than 20 artists.
Dina Washington is a literal postal professional, and then some. Walk into the Uptown post office and you’re greeted by her luminous smile and positive vibes. She is upright and energetic, yet collected and positive.
Columbia Wig and Beauty Supply shuttered its magical doors in late December after four decades of operation, leaving local wannabe pirates and princesses in the dust. Enter young Felicita Chipak of Port Ewen.
The goal of the camp is not to have a three-day, heavy-hearted crying session. Quite the opposite. It is about making friends, contacts, helping kids build resources within themselves, and fun.
Richard Fredrick “Rick” Lange Jr. is usually seen hunched over the counter of his North Front Street store, Rhino Records, peering into his laptop’s screen and dropping thinly sliced, paper-dry wit on customers. The shelves of the Uptown Kingston shop are lined with more than the expected vintage albums and CDs. A respectable book collection ranges from tomes on 19th century Danish poetry to rock ’n’ roll journalism to how to start an anarchist movement on a budget.
Eric Francis Coppolino is the world’s only astrologer to carry international press credentials.
“When the phone call comes in, it says you are a match to a specific bone marrow patient that says they need the bone marrow, or they will die. What could I do?”
845th Street Entertainment is a group of ten mostly New Paltz and Highland twenty-something year-olds, who grew up together rapping in the locker rooms and after school.