April 29-30: Each year, our state’s longest-running craft beer fest dishes out a different themed cuisine to pair with your choice of 400+ beers from 135+ New York-based breweries. This year, the featured food is Ballpark Hotdogs from across the nation.
‘We have a major problem, and it’s important that we bring the families and those suffering out of the shadows and let them know there is hope.’
Friday, April 28: Stephen Tobolowsky is best known as a character actor, one of those guys on the periphery of a movie scene that fills in all the gaps. More recently, Tobolowsky has developed radio and podcast pieces highlighting the life of a guy who is born Jewish in Dallas, Texas, attends a Methodist college, and becomes a success in L.A.
The Hudson Valley Vegans will host a fundraising brunch to benefit Saugerties Animal Shelter on Saturday, April 29 from noon to 2:30 p.m. at Saugerties Reformed Church, 173 Main St.
The new exhibit up at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum through the month, Abstract Evocative, holds a hundred years of art history on its many surfaces.
Saturday, April 15: April is here, which means that it’s time for him to teach his intensive classes for the spring semester. It’s also time for one of his semiannual “Neil Gaiman in Conversation with…” events at Bard’s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
Our weekly roundup of Hudson Valley family activities.
Tuesday, April 18: Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora Desert, in the so-called Corridor of Death, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered tee-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die
Sunday, April 23: The North Carolina new-old-folk quartet Mipso aims for an archaic string band sound with a matching set of timeless Americana personae, intending to betray little if any evidence of the modern world within the musical and thematic confines of their songs. They really miss the mark, and in a wonderful variety of ways.
Saturday, April 22: Bridget Kearney, bassist of the wildly popular Massachusetts band Lake Street Dive, is celebrating the release of her new solo record, Won’t Let You Down, the first on which the conservatory-trained instrumentalist steps forward as the featured vocalist.