Car shows in Saugerties & Mount Tremper on Saturday
As if free-ranging Pokémon weren’t enough of a perilous distraction to motorists these days, this coming weekend will bring a
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Phoenicia Festival of the Voice to spotlight Shakespeare
It started in 2009 as a concert by three locally based opera singers to raise money for a playground in
In space, no one can hear you explode
It didn’t have an ample budget for art direction or special effects. Alien landscapes and monster costumes often looked cheap
Ulster County Fair in New Paltz
The venerable Ulster County Fair has returned to the Ulster County Fairgrounds, just west of New Paltz. It offers all
Daring adventures, close to home
The Adirondacks may be a long drive for a day hike from the mid-Hudson, but that bit of geographic inconvenience
Sunset Boulevard on stage in Rhinebeck
Made in 1950 at the tail end of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard made the movie industry squirm,
PianoSummer at SUNY-New Paltz presents Daria Rabotkina
As this issue of Almanac Weekly goes to press, some of the world’s most gifted musicians under the age of
Gardiner Town Hall’s Justice Court sports new entryway
Though it seems like just yesterday that a former schoolhouse was renovated and expanded to serve as Gardiner’s Town Hall,
The Wolves & A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at Powerhouse
Last year, in honor of recently deceased actor extraordinaire Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the American Playwriting Foundation inaugurated a competition called
Hudson Valley Chalk Festival in downtown New Paltz
After a one-summer hiatus, the much-loved Hudson Valley Chalk Festival returns this weekend, transforming the asphalt of the upper parking