Learn the life aquatic. Michael Puryear will offer a class in which up to four members of a family will be guided in working together to build their own Echo Bay Dory: a lightweight, car-toppable skiff, easy to row or sail, that can be built within a week.
Saturday, Feb. 24: King of the rant comes to Kingston.
Did you know that Disney World is 40 square miles, the size of San Francisco?
Celebrate our presidents, learn to bake hamantash and watch this year’s Oscar-nominated shorts.
Feb. 16-18: One-of-a-kind bebop matriarch Sheila Jordan and vocalist/composer/lyricist/arranger Dominique Eade bring their world-class talent to the Hudson Hall stage.
Feb. 16: The dichotomies of Warmer When It Rains are perfectly illustrated in two contrasting (and stellar) ballads: “Midnight,” an entirely contemporary, hip-hop-inflected bit of production R & B, is all friction; stilted, glitch rhythms; electro-minimalism; and a huge hook. Five tracks later, the finale “So Easy to Love” is an exquisite and utterly naturalistic homage to uptown soul and Motown.
Saturday, Feb. 17: It may have begun as unpretentious novelty, but through hard work and sweat, the Bacon Brothers have evolved into a reliable, road-tested rock ‘n’ roll outfit, live and in the studio, that just happens to feature a movie star.
In Remembrance, honoring and featuring the work of the late Woodstockers Jane Axel, Lenny Kislin, Pia Oste-Alexander and Sandra Palmer Shaw, will then run through March 11, with a special reception to take place 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Feb. 10.
Saturday, Feb. 10: Named America’s Best Architect by Time Magazine, which praised him for designing “buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye,” Rhinebeck’s Steven Holl is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz.
Sledding party at Clermont; celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Snowy Day; make a Sailor’s Valentine