Preview ‘Rockin’ Around Saugerties’ at SPAF
Sunday, May 21: See work by local artists on equine canvases before they hit the streets.
Entertainment
NotYet, the band: Three lawyers, a cop and a regular guy on bass
It sounds more improbable than it actually is: a prosecutor, a criminal defense lawyer, an assistant DA, a city police detective and a chill dude bass player.
Gardiner Cupcake Festival returns to Wright’s on May 20
Each year, thousands of people turn out for the live music, fun kids’ activities, a 5K race to run off all those calories and, most importantly, a bewildering array of choices of mouthwatering morsels of the cakey kind.
Smorgasburg Upstate returns to Kingston
Kingston food vendors for opening weekend include Jane’s Ice Cream, Redwood Restaurant, Kovo Rotisserie, Séraphine Bakery, Hookline Fish Company, Bread Alone and Southern comfort-food specialists Pakt. Other Hudson Valley choices will come from Grille Wagon (Pleasant Valley), Borland House (Montgomery), Raven and Boar (East Chatham), Itsa Pizza Truck (High Falls) and Terrapin Restaurant (Rhinebeck). Brooklyn-based Café Warshafsky and Ramen Burger.
Thomas Cole comes to life thanks to multimedia renovations at Cedar Grove in Catskill
The artist’s letters are scattered on tables and chairs, and visitors are encouraged to pick them up and read them.
Kids’ Almanac: May 18-25
Our weekly roundup of local family activities, including: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Byrdcliffe, Kids’ Karaoke at Zylophone, Spring Open House at Slabsides, “Enjoying Animals Safely” at Kingston Library, Millbrook Literary Festival returns, Lace Mill hosts MyKingstonKids Fest, Hudson Valley KidVenture weekend in Poughkeepsie, New Paltz Reflect and Resist Book Discussion, Community Day at Hudson Opera House and more.
Tim Fain, Roman Rabinovich & Eugenia Zukerman at Hudson Hall
Saturday, May 20: “First Loves and Fresh Ink” follows the sold-out “Classics on Hudson” season opener in newly restored 1855 opera house.
Chargaux to perform at Storm King Art Center
Saturday, May 20: Catch them by Heather Hart’s Oracle of Lacuna installation.
A Quiet Passion unflinchingly renders the inward quest of Emily Dickinson
The film keeps its focus on the woman herself, and on the apotheosis of her art as loss and suffering hone her core down to diamond hardness of mind and ineffable permeability of spirit.
10 Hairy Legs, all-male repertory dance company, performs in Tivoli
Saturday, May 20: Of 10 Hairy Legs founder and choreographer Randy James’ work, esteemed dance critic Robert Johnson writes, “Dances that explored the tricky politics of gender rubbed up against a solo that seemed to plead for peace…Ideas ricochet and the atmosphere is exhilarating.”