Friday, Oct. 11: Phair’s storied career begins with, and is still mostly celebrated for, Exile in Guyville, her super-witty and rocking musical and feminist 1993 retort to the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street.
Sunday, Oct. 13: On his latest, Let It Slide, Woodstock’s surreal cabaret ringleader ups his game once again as a singer and a writer, leading to a delightful blip-pop record that somehow manages to make sense in the barns of Woodstock and the basements of Brooklyn.
Friday-Sunday, Oct. 11-13: The bust, designed by Czech sculptor Marie Seborova, was commissioned and donated by Art for Amnesty founder Bill Shipsey in recognition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’s 70th anniversary. Identical busts have been placed in sites of significance around the world: France, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and at Columbia Law School.
Thoughts on The Joker, Liz Phair at Utopia Soundstage in Woodstock, and Nikki Belfiglio of Bodega stops in this week to hype the popular band’s appearance at this year’s inaugural O-Positive festival this weekend.
After over 10 years in the music industry, Long Island-born indie singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson debuted on the Billboard charts this March at No. 11 for her alternative album The Big Freeze. With the milestone attained, she ditched fast-paced Brooklyn for new-yet-familiar, songbird-morning Saugerties.
Len Tantillo’s historically accurate paintings bring the Hudson Valley’s past to life.
Two of the more renowned American art colonies developed right in Woodstock: Byrdcliffe and Maverick. And then there is Elverhoj – news to most of us, first and foremost because you can’t visit there.
This year’s Kingston Design Connection Showhouse is a historic 19th-century home listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Saturday, Oct. 5: Gladys Knight and her orchestra will perform all of her R & B chart-toppers, from “Every Beat of My Heart” to “I Heard It through the Grapevine” to “I Don’t Want to Do Wrong,” her soul/pop smashes “If I Were Your Woman,” “Love Overboard” and the oft-covered “Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye.” Also on the playlist will be “That’s What Friends Are For,” “You’re the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me” and the song that has become her unofficial anthem, “Midnight Train to Georgia.”
Singing is my personal dragon: a problem with inflamed resonance in my daily life. When I arrived at Omega, I was there, straight-up, in the role of seeker and supplicant. This was Omega, an institution in the direct line of descent of 20th-century psychology, especially the humanistic and integrative psychology of its second half. I fully expected that my traumas and histories would be invoked. I expected to tell my singing story, which is something I am good at and easy with – unlike, say, singing itself.