Smiles of a SummerScape night
Friday, June 30: New York City Ballet kicks off Bard’s seven-week, Chopin-themed festival.
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Confronting white privilege in Beatriz at Dinner
Hollywood has a dreadful track record of trying to render hippies realistically, without condescension. This film is a welcome exception.
Manhunt for Tennessee fugitives touches Ulster County
The two fugitives are wanted for attempted murder, kidnapping and robbery, and are armed with handguns and possibly an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
New Paltz residents weigh in on Thruway area development
With two large projects on pause, Paltzonians gathered to discuss what sort of development they’d like to see in the town’s gateway.
Inaugural Ride for Mental Health brings long-distance cyclists to New Paltz
The event launches from Hasbrouck Park this weekend, with 25-, 50- and 100-mile options.
Theatre group 90 Miles Off Broadway returns as 90 Miles Theatre Company
90 Miles is dead; long live 90 Miles!
Rachel Weisz delivers a multilayered black widow in My Cousin Rachel
Notably generous with atmosphere but parsimonious with explanations for characters’ behavior, Daphne du Maurier’s stories have proven irresistible candy to movie directors – thrice to Alfred Hitchcock alone.
John Novi wins Mohonk Consultations’ 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award
The award was intended to recognize Novi’s seminal role in the farm-to-table movement and his longtime commitment to cooking with locally sourced ingredients — and, on a larger scale, to farmland preservation.
Berried treasures: Pick-your-own strawberry season is upon us
“The hot weather is really going to move them along. They’ll ripen very fast.”
Plague ravages morally as well as physically in It Comes at Night
Almost all of this film was shot inside and immediately outside one of Woodstock’s uninhabited Byrdcliffe houses.