Kingston After Dark: Of Hummus and Headbanging
While I love plugging inspiring bands or discussing the area with interesting people, many have mentioned to me recently how Kingston’s dining scene is actually the most poppin’ thing going on lately.
Entertainment
Rosendale Theatre recreates Norman Corwin’s We Hold These Truths onstage
Corwin traveled the world creating broadcasts for the United Nations, until McCarthyism drove him out of the radio medium and into writing for the screen and stage.
Uptown Boogaloo to feature more than 40 breweries and cideries in Kingston
Held in the cavernous back room at BSP on Wall Street in Kingston’s Stockade District, the Boogaloo is a craft beer festival where your price of entry allows you to sample to your heart’s content from among 75 microbrews from more than 40 breweries and cideries, many of them New York State-based.
Celebrate Presidents’ Day with Washington Cake or Washington Pie
There was a Madison Cake, a Tyler Pudding and even a Jackson Jumble. But much like the man himself, none of those desserts became as popular as Washington Cake and Washington Pie.
Sarvananda Bluestone’s Yerry Hill Haiku
Sarvananda Bluestone’s blog entries for the past weekend capture the whiteness that blanketed the region and disrupted its power.
A pop-up, tear-down exhibit in Saugerties
Demolition of the structure’s interior was to begin the next weekend, so Jennifer Hicks decided to invite 19 artists from around the region to “have fun with the blank walls” before they disappeared.
X’s John Doe to play Helsinki Hudson
At 63, former co-frontperson of the seminal California punk band X John Doe now looks and sounds the part of the dark-but-tender American roots bard.
Les Amies to perform in Kingston at the Church of the Holy Cross
The 49th annual Ulster Chamber Music Series kicks off with works by Ravel, Fauré and Debussy
Lion movingly depicts one lost child’s quest for home
Mumbai native Sunny Pawar, who reportedly never even saw a Western movie before this one, blazes across the film like a comet.
Garland Jeffreys & Dom Flemons at the Orpheum in Tannersville
Jeffreys has quietly been on a roll in the second decade of the new millennium, delivering two esteemed and reinvigorated records: 2011’s The King of in Between and 2013’s blues/rock burner Truth Serum.