Utopia hosts Forbidden Feast for Performing Arts of Woodstock
Talk about raising eyebrows and forcing one’s hand not only to mark the calendar with a pen, but also to
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Matt Bua’s places to come in out of the rain
Matt Bua – the Catskill creative force who built the two-story wooden cat alongside one of his adopted village’s main
Music festival approved for Woodstock ’94 site
The plan for a regular summer concert series at the site of Woodstock ’94 moved another step closer to reality
Woodstock Day School arts fest this weekend
You’ve got to love the spirit of a student body that names its literary magazine The Battering Ram, and that
The Passion of Joan of Arc kicks off Rosendale’s Sunday Silents
There’s a magic to silent films that goes far beyond what we usually expect from the movies these days. It
Ashokan’s new campus in use, awaiting grand opening
Last weekend was special up at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge. It was time for the venerable field campus’ annual
A sledder’s guide to the Mid-Hudson Valley
It’s snowing out the window as I type: nice and light powder softening a fast-as-sin half-foot of hardpack that’s sure
The Hudson Valley art world’s year in review
It has been a very good year for art in the Hudson Valley: proof that difficult times do push creative
Melancholy coda for Trail Mix series
When Israel Schossev and Rackelle Roden started their Trail Mix concerts ten years ago, they used their living room as
Last chance holiday reading gifts
There’s a beauty about art at its most challenging edges. The underlying idea behind “difficult” literature — as with any