Joseph Keckler sings at Helsinki Hudson
Saturday, Feb. 24: He’s called “an operatic singer whose range shatters the conventional boundaries of classical singing” by The New York Times.
Entertainment
Kids’ Almanac (2/22-3/1)
Feb. 22 – March 1: Family Day at the Dorsky spotlights African art and an Owl Prowl at Catskill Interpretive Center.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: Metastatic breast cancer, an acrostic
T is for Time. I don’t have a lot of it. My prognosis is short-term. But what a gift.
Andrew Bird transformed indie rock, and he’s coming to Kingston
Andrew Bird will forever be associated with hallmarks of the New Serious: gorgeous proficiency on a non-rock instrument (violin); insanely deft mastery of the solipsistic technique of live, off-the-grid looping; High Plains whistling and the prevalence of glockenspiel; tremolo-noir guitars and lyrics that are big-brained, difficult to the point of being functional nonsense for most listeners and almost never about girls.
Phoenicia’s Arts Upstairs gallery may have breathed its last
Local artists are mourning Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia’s community art gallery, which has closed down after 14 years of operation.
Youthful sins cast long shadows in Grist Mill Road
The story begins on a Ridge in rural Ulster County, the smell of pine in the air and vultures circling above as a boy fires a BB gun at a girl tied to a tree while another boy watches.
Augusta Savage works to be exhibited in Saugerties
The works of Augusta Savage, a sculptor and civil-rights activist who lived in Saugerties from 1945 until her death at 70 in 1962, will be displayed at the Kiersted House every Saturday in honor of Black History Month starting this Saturday, February 17.
New Paltz fantasy author Kim Ellis reads latest at Elting Library
Feb. 16: Geared toward “middle grade” readers — third grade through middle school, depending on their reading level, Ellis says — the book is the first in a fantasy adventure series collectively titled The Karakesh Chronicles and projected to run to five volumes.
How Adams Fairacre Farms grew from one small stand into four stores that employ more than 1,000 people
When Ralph and Mary Adamucci began selling vegetables out of their farmstand in 1919, they probably had no intention of building a Hudson Valley grocery and nursery dynasty.
David Byrne’s coming to Kingston
An influential if not era-defining bandleader and songwriter, filmmaker, author and novelist, social critic, multimedia performance artist and eternal hipster who stays hip by feeding on the fresh blood of young hipster admirers, Byrne just doesn’t stop expanding.