Kids’ Almanac (10/19-26)
Candlelight Ghost Tours at Clermont, Beacon hosts pumpkin-carving marathon, Family Day at Vassar’s Lehman Loeb Art Center
Entertainment
Son Little plays Bearsville
Friday, Oct. 20: Born Aaron Livingston, the son of a preacher, the rhythm-and-blues artist Son Little defies easy categorization.
Stepping out
New Paltz filmmaker Gail Freedman’s documentary about competitive same-sex ballroom dancing to premiere Oct. 22 in NYC.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius to perform in New Paltz
Sunday, Oct. 22: A living legend of electronic and ambient music, Roedelius puts the “pro” in process and in prolific. More than 50 years into his career, the releases are steady and diversified.
Stuck is a tuneful ode to NYC’s diversity
It’s A Chorus Line set in an underground tunnel, more or less, and packed with great songs. Lloyd (played by Giancarlo Esposito) is an unexpectedly wise derelict whose home is a New York City subway car. Who knew that this guy can sing and dance so ferociously as he does in his big number here, “Crazy”? Once you’ve seen him, it’s tough to imagine better contemporary casting.
Flattening the fourth wall
Our Kids’ Almanac columnist Erica Chase-Salerno tells what it’s like to live when you know that you are dying.
Livestreamed Q&A with Al Gore at SUNY-New Paltz
Thursday, Oct. 26: The tireless environmental crusader will answer students’ questions at screenings of An Inconvenient Sequel.
Woodstock School of Art’s Off the Wall show chooses from private collections
“One of the pleasures of visiting friends in their homes is the opportunity to look at personal art collections,” write Paula Nelson and John Kleinhans in their catalogue introduction for the new exhibit they’ve curated for the Woodstock School of Art, Off The Walls: Artwork from our Patrons’ Collections, which opens on Saturday, October 21 for a run through December 16.
Sheep & Wool Festival this weekend in Rhinebeck
Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 21-22: The difference between the yarns available at chain stores and the yarns brought to the festival is the difference between fast food and fine dining: One will tide you over and fill a need, but the other fills the soul.
Woodstocker Lola Cohen on teaching acting in Russia
‘Actors are treated differently there. They’re respected. The students are so passionate and knowledgeable and driven. You could inhale their excitement.’