All posts by Geddy Sveikauskas

Is distance dead?

Is distance dead?

It’s an exciting but disconcertingly unsettled time here in the hinterlands between the vast and troubled rust belt to our north and west and the bustling problem-plagued metropolis to the south. All eyes are glued to the screen watching the soap opera that national politics, where one person’s narcissistic claptrap is another’s revealed wisdom. What is a poor soul to do?

At the brickyard

At the brickyard

Praise be the performance deities that Bardavon/UPAC executive director Chris Silva was able to sign such a box-office favorite and former Woodstock resident Bob Dylan for an outdoor concert at the Hutton brickyards property on North Street on the Hudson River waterfront.

A city guy

A city guy

After years of playing second fiddle to the suburban areas around them, some — but not all — of the Hudson Valley’s urban centers are to some degree thriving again, though not by doing what they used to do.

Pauline remembered

Pauline remembered

About 250 people crowded the high-ceilinged legislative chamber of Kingston’s city hall this past Sunday afternoon to pay tribute to someone who made and listened to sound. Composer Pauline Oliveros, who died in Kingston on November 24, was a pioneer of electronic music and inventor of transformative listening methods.

How we should compete

How we should compete

Everyone knows places like NYC and San Francisco are doing well, but a recent analysis concluded that all the income gains are eaten up by cost of living.

A cold March for a march

A cold March for a march

Say what you will, them resisters are a hardy breed. About 400 educators, children and supporters showed up Saturday on Kingston’s Academy Green during a wind-whipped sub-freezing afternoon to protest against the lack of state funding for New York public schools.