How does a chef mix bubblegumflavored candy with hot and sour soup? How about “something out of the ordinary in a can” paired with “pink paste?” Find out how local chef Caitlin Salisbury managed when the Food Network’s signature competitive cooking show “Chopped” airs Tuesday, March 6.
The podcast is titled The Kvetching Professor, subtitled Taking a Break from Quality Time.
When the email invitation came from David Byrne, best known for fronting the hit band Talking Heads (“Burning Down the House”) in the 1980s, native Woodstocker Simi Stone was so ecstatic, she cried.
Work by Edelman, including a new series of self-portraits, will be part of the new two-person exhibit that opens this weekend with a preview from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 2 and an artists’ reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday March 3 at Cross Contemporary, 99 Partition Street, in Saugerties.
Tuesday-Thursday, March 13–15: Before becoming deeply involved in philanthropy and moving to Ulster County, Peter Buffett grew up “normal” in Omaha and then established a successful career as a composer and musician. His bestselling autobiography, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment, which has been translated into 15 languages, is the basis for this upcoming show at Bard.
Kickoff parties on Saturday, March 3: Kingston-based artist/activist G. Riley Johndonnell has made it his personal mission to bring a little more yellow into this drab and dreary world. He founded a not-for-profit, UMEWE.org (as in you/me/we), dedicated to happy yellow subversion of the dominant social order of doom and gloom. In fact, he has made it the focus of an entire artistic and philosophical movement, frequently pressing the claim that Optimism is as valid an aesthetic as Modernism or Cubism.
Friday, March 2: An uncharacteristically quiet performance by the epic, era-defining New Jersey punk band, who will be celebrating the release of their new record, Productive Cough, which comes out on Merge Records that day.
Friday, March 2: The New Paltz-born reggae band the Big Takeover have been dominating the local club scene for a decade now, with numerous personnel changes over a core anchored by songwriter and singer Nee Nee Rushie and bassist/musical director Rib Kissner. What has been a struggle for this accomplished and successful band has been naming the style they play.
Friday, March 2: Deejay Dave Leonard’s annual Pisces Party is now, remarkably, in its 22nd year. Non-Pisces are not only allowed but encouraged to attend what is typically one of the great dance parties of the year.
In it, the celebrated filmmaker and photographer/muralist travel through the French countryside, learning the stories of the locals they encounter and producing epic-sized photographic portraits of them, which are then displayed in unexpected places.