Kids’ Almanac (Jan.-Feb.7)
“The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.” – Virginia Woolf
Entertainment
The African-American experience to be examined at Bardavon
[portfolio_slideshow id=14321] Interview with Rhapsody in Black playwright LeLand Gantt & Through a Lens Darkly director Thomas Allen Harris
Last of the Cubists
The aurochs, deer and horses that have animated the cave walls of Lascaux for more than 17,000 years have begun
Vassar’s Modfest highlights Alice in Wonderland sesquicentennial
Now in its 13th year, Modfest is Vassar College’s annual winter series of free programs and performances celebrating 20th– and
Small package, good things at Matchbox Café
There’s a billboard on Route 9, just south of downtown Rhinebeck, urging motorists to “Stay nice…” Pictured is an open
Slick cyberterrorism thriller Blackhat is mostly empty calories
It’s always a little intriguing when a new movie is released and its reviews are all over the map, from
Ghost Castle, by Will
To see more of Will’s work go to www.thorneatercomics.co
Many comic book heroes have Hudson Valley roots
Professor X studied biology at Bard and Jean Grey spent her childhood in Annandale, and the X-Men are based in Westchester. Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series mentions Sleepy Hollow and Palenville. DC’s “Hudson College” is a fictional university located just outside New York’s first capital (Kingston). Nightwing once pursued a cadre of brainwashers and rogue geneticists to their base on Bannerman’s Island. Numerous other characters are from Hudson Valley towns or mention them.
Pioneering architect Frances Halsband got her start on Woodstock’s Village Green
[portfolio_slideshow id=14281] Frances Halsband began working as an architect when few women were in that profession. Four years after
How WPA artist Thomas Weeks Barrett, Jr. changed the region
When American regionalist painter, muralist and printmaker Thomas Weeks Barrett, Jr. (1902-1947) came home to his native Poughkeepsie after working