Laura Stevenson performs at Saugerties church
Saturday, Oct. 5: Among its many other notable offerings, the Shout Out Saugerties event series has provided the songwriter Laura Stevenson a chance to play a true hometown show.
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Swing dance with Eight to the Bar at Kingston’s White Eagle Hall
Saturday, Oct. 5: Prior experience is not required; neither is a partner. This special dance celebrates Got2Lindy’s 15th anniversary.
Bardavon screens The Silence of the Lambs on Friday
The Bardavon commences its 2019/20 film series with the landmark thriller The Silence of the Lambs on Friday, October 4. The film’s five Academy Awards are the least of its claims to fame. Jonathan Demme’s masterpiece is a cultural institution, its scenes enshrined in the collective imagination, quotable by all as if it were the dark counterpart to Caddyshack. Mini-concerts on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ take place 30 minutes before each film at the Bardavon. Admission costs a mere $6.
SNL mocks Hudson Valley racism, apple farms
A sketch in the premiere episode of this season’s Saturday Night Live took aim at our region’s most well-known autumnal activity for day-trippers: pick-your-own apples. The format is a television commercial hosted by two sisters (Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon), the owners of “Chickham’s Apple Farm,” which is “located in the part of New York State that has confederate flags” where “for just $45, you can bring home $10 worth of apples.”
Saugerties Times letters (9/26-10/2)
Topics include: No need for climate change walkout in Saugerties; Andreassen for supervisor; vanishing birds; public transportation for public servants; tax by tariff; no primary blues; and more.
Bid for great art at Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Benefit Auction
Thursday, Oct. 3: You’ll find works by such legendary names as Berenice Abbott, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Vivian Maier and Weegee, plus dozens of other top practitioners of the art, early, modern and contemporary.
New Folk stalwart John Gorka plays Unison in New Paltz
Saturday, Sept. 28: The New Jersey native has been making finely wrought, sensitive-but-deceptively-edgy folk music since his 1987’s critically lauded debut I Know.
Garden Open House and Paint Out at Blithewood
Sunday, September 29: Participants are invited to paint, to tour Blithewood Garden and to watch a plein-air painter in action. Coloring books and free refreshments will be provided. Garden tours will be given at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Reality show rock star Storm Large plays Helsinki Hudson
Sunday, Sept. 29: Like so many of today’s music stars, singer Storm Large came to national attention as a contestant in a talent tournament: the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova. As has been proven over and over, a late elimination (in Large’s case, the semifinals) can often be a more auspicious career portent than an outright win.
Police: Man fired flare gun at opponent during Saugerties fight
A Kingston man is in jail after police say he fired a flare gun at another man during a fight on Partition Street Saturday evening, causing burns to the man’s wrist and shoulder.