Saturday, April 15: April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and Jazzstock is celebrating with a concert “The Moment of Now: A Night of Improvised Music!” at the Senate Garage in Kingston, featuring saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Joe Lovano.
Thursday, April 20: Like your Shakespeare on the “lite” side? The Bard’s early comedies, with their roots in classical Roman farce and medieval Italian commedia dell’arte, are surefire crowd-pleasers that bear endless revisitation.
Thursday, April 20: Nobody could invent a character quite like Kinky Friedman, the stogie-waving, black-hat-wearing self-proclaimed Texas Jewboy singer, storyteller, tequila purveyor, animal rescuer, sometime political candidate and full-time iconoclast.
“We’re aware of other ways of being than this capitalist madness. I barely ever sell my art because it makes me crazy. Art should be for everyone, not only a pasttime of the wealthy.”
Folks come from miles around to stock up on delicious pierogies and other Eastern European fare.
Cafés dedicated to board games are a relatively new thing. Miller says that the first one she heard about is in Toronto: a place called Snakes and Lattes.
After a quick and successful fundraising effort, the arts organization, celebrating its 40th year, bought a building on Glasco Turnpike in which it could house its annual artists-in-residence. And not just any building, but the former home of artist Henry Mattson, built in 1824 and once home to the artist Frank Swift Chase, as well.
InAeona is finally touching down on Earth once again to visit Kingston on Thursday, April 20 at BSP as support for critical proggy post-metal darlings Junius (whom Rolling Stone once famously called “a perfect hybrid of Neurosis and the Smiths.”)
His desire for an in-house pipe organ was triggered when he was a high school senior in 1969. It took most of his lifetime and nearly superhuman attention to detail to make that wish come true.
Residents can take a book or leave a book- it goes by the honor system, and isn’t organized like regular public library loans.