Kids’ Almanac: Nov. 9-16
Teen film fest, Victorian nutting party, pirate story, model trains, soccer youth clinic and more.
Entertainment
Coffee, revolution, and love in Stone Ridge
Carthaigh Coffee, the newest-kid-on-the-block café offering an excellent cup, is owned and operated by an idealistic young man who ultimately wants to contribute his energy to creating a tighter community in Marbletown.
Pere Ubu comes to BSP
While Devo demos its famous choreography and Oingo Boingo and XTC hiccup through their skittish numbers, Ubu’s David Thomas commands your…concern. He doesn’t seem quite right. He’s dressed for a business meeting — suit and tie, his clean shaven and pudgy baby face scrubbed raw behind the ears. He gesticulates wildly, the purpose inscrutable.
This Hudson River hamlet stood in for a southern town in a Marlon Brando film
If visiting locations where a movie or TV show was shot is your idea of a fun way to spend a day, you might want to add the Hudson River hamlet of Milton to your exploration bucket list.
A pointless death in Iraq reunites Vietnam buddies in Last Flag Flying
Cranston dominates and is by far the most entertaining up front; Carell’s low-key portrayal of a mild-mannered man who waits far too long to rebel is the one that will crawl under your skin and come back to haunt you afterward.
Brandi Carlile performs at Bardavon
Sunday, Nov. 12: Radio Woodstock Cares Foundation and the Bardavon present a Pink October benefit show with the next-gen country/Americana pop songwriter Brandi Carlile
The arts play a vital role in Saugerties community life
How do we make Saugerties “cooler”? On the rainy Sunday that culminated the month-long Shout Out Saugerties festivities, a panel of Saugertiesians discussed that subject in the pews of the Saugerties Reformed Church, using the suggestions jotted down on the community board situated beside Lucky’s chocolate as a springboard.
Performing Arts of Woodstock play tells true story of Alan Turing
Breaking the Code is the most audacious — if modest — production in PAW’s illustrious history.
Meek Mill & Fabolous to play Civic Center in Poughkeepsie
Friday, Nov. 10: One of the most commercially successful rappers of his era, the Philadelphia-bred Meek Mill (born Robert Williams) has essentially spent this decade camped out in Billboard’s Rap Top 10.
Cracking the secrets of a medieval mystery
Saturday, Nov. 4: Poet and classical scholar Jim Handlin will speak in Woodstock about deciphering centuries-old cryptic works. Handlin’s solution to one work — if verifiable — is a mind-blowing revelation at a nexus of Jewish and Coptic mysticism and alchemy.