Rosendale screens doc about dance Mecca Jacob’s Pillow this Sunday
When we think about how lucky we mid-Hudsonites are to live in such close proximity to the cultural treasures of
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Iranian gem, A Separation, ponders universal human quandaries
Seeing the Iranian film A Separation brought to mind something that my photojournalist friend Lorna Tychostup said nine years ago
Lauded filmmaker Les Blank at Upstate Films this Thursday & Friday
Quick! Who’s your favorite documentary filmmaker? If you’re drawing a blank that doesn’t commence with the name Les, you need
HVP to premiere new symphonic works by Bill Vanaver at Caravan’s 40th anniversary gala
One of the mid-Hudson’s perennial cultural treasures, the Vanaver Caravan troupe of musicians, dancers and educators, is celebrating its 40th
Catch Irish traditional music superstars Hayes and Cahill in Red Hook
Forget the green beer, which nobody on the Ould Sod would actually touch with a ten-foot pole: With March here,
Cross-cultural borrowings in The Secret World of Arrietty
The movie-review-aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes recently released its list of the 50-or-so best animated films of all time. All of
Tap into our local maple festivals
As this issue of Alm@nac goes to press, it’s Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras, known in some places as Pancake
Millbrook’s Trevor Zoo offers quality critter-viewing close to home
Kids seem to be hard-wired to love animals; it generally doesn’t take much of a nudge to encourage them to
Exquisite Innisfree Garden in Millbrook
The trouble with living in a place like New Paltz, with the glorious Gunks practically at one’s doorstep and unending
Big Miracle’s radical notion of compromise
Maybe it’s just a sign of the aging of the Baby Boom generation, but it seems like everybody nowadays is