Saturday, May 26 :It will be a retrospective spanning the early blues of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday up to the iconic works of Dinah Washington and Nina Simone, starring the Dominick Farinacci Quintet with special guest vocalist Shenel Johns.
I see parallels between this Slacker Pie Crust recipe and my odyssey with cancer.
On Saturday, May 19, New Paltz author Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes will be giving a live reading at the Adriance Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, along with Nina Belén Robins, author of The Supermarket Diaries and A Bed with My Name on It.
Uptown Kingston’s culinary scene is morphing along with its real estate market. At least four new restaurants and a high-end cocktail lounge are slated to open in the neighborhood this spring.
Tony Moore, the British-born sculptor whose solo show opened May 12 at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum brings a burly, Cedar Bar-like New York School sense of creativity that’s drawn such adjectives as “heroic,” “confrontational, “elegant,” “minimalist,” “substantial” and even “delicately detailed” to reviews of his work.
Lee Patterson runs Kingston’s Master Cuts Barbershop by day, Room Service band by night.
“Chekhov wrote for the masses. He wrote wonderful plays that people really enjoyed going to. I wanted to find that spirit in an American version, so American audiences could enjoy it the same way.”
Young Eagles Day at the Kingston Airport features free 20-minute plane rides for kids; make-your-own kaleidoscope at the Emerson; free admission for community residents at Olana; Spring Family Days at Poughkeepsie Farm Project and KTD Monastery in Woodstock
Sunday, May 13: The program will feature Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.
Saturday, May 12: The language of his compositions is rooted in the harmonic and rhythmic patterns of Russian church bells and folksongs mixed with the spirit of Buddhist philosophy.