Saturday night, Dec. 21: Alexa Tarantino headlines Seasonal Bird tribute. She’s gathering a quintet of today’s top women in jazz to perform a program titled Seasonal Bird, highlighting the iconic bebop recordings and repertoire of the holiday season. Other greats of the genre, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie, will also get a Santa-hatted nod.
Monday, Dec. 23: Musical theater star and Newburgh native Lexi Lawson presents a selection of Christmas classics at the Falcon on Monday, December 23. The Newburgh Free Academy graduate is best-known for performing in the role of Eliza in the generational box-office smash Hamilton. She has also appeared on Broadway in Rent and In the Heights and is currently featured in the Lifetime Movie Original Always and Forever Christmas.
Uncle Skallywag is the latest collection of poems by Shivastan’s proprietor, tantric Buddhist/Hindu yogi, anthropologist, archivist, artist, photographer, publisher and poet Shiv Mirabito.
The overall number of visitors to the region and their estimated economic impact have shown “a modest increase” between 2010 and 2018. Camping and snowmobiling appear to have declined. Fishing, hunting, tubing and kayaking audiences haven’t changed much. Downhill skiing increased in private facilities like Windham and Hunter but decreased at state-owned Belleayre. Recreational hiking and walking trails are the major area of audience growth, attracting significant new visitation.
Mayor Steve Noble can’t quite bring himself to say there will be no parking tickets in Kingston for the rest of 2019, but he comes pretty close. In his most recent issue of “This Week in Kingston,” he announced “relaxed ticketing enforcement on expired meters.”
If convicted, the man faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years, a mandatory term of supervised release of 5 years and up to life, mandatory registration as a sex offender, and a maximum $250,000 fine.
The world’s favorite ballet will be performed on three local stages this weekend.
Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 14/15: This unique holiday production celebrates imagination and multicultural traditions. It’s set in a Northern country where Lucia loses her inner light as the Sun’s light diminishes with the winter season.
Saturday, Dec. 21: A total of 140 instrumentalists and singers on the Bardavon stage will join the Philharmonic to perform George Frideric Handel’s most popular choral work. Audience members will be invited to sing along.
Fines prevent low-income patrons from using their local library and don’t have much of an effect on return rates, according to a study cited by the American Library Association.