January 31 – February 10: Vassar serves up nearly two weeks of thematically connected music, lectures, films and more in venues around the Vassar campus and – for the first time this year – off-campus as well. Modfest’s 2019 theme is “In Motion.”
Viewers find themselves surrounded by mysterious imagery painted on a 100-foot-long length of raw canvas, eight feet high, that encircles the room. The space is now the permanent home of Marilyn Reynolds’ Composition in the Round. Reynolds and her family are in the process of renovating the former firehouse into a studio, gallery and workshop space for community art classes.
“I hope this project, like Erica, inspires young families to get out and enjoy the natural world and do it with big cheesy smiles on their faces.”
Updating my will feels solid and secure – like good shoes in the snow.
Her name is Blaire Wilson, and she lives on a family farm-turned-B&B/wedding venue in a fictional rural community called Bluefield – which, according to Castle, is tucked in somewhere between New Paltz and Gardiner, at the base of the Shawangunk Ridge.
The first show, entitled Arbitrary History: The People’s Choice, begins with receptions on Saturday, February 2.
James Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most number-one best-sellers (67 at last count) and was the first to top The New York Times’ best-seller lists in both the adults’ and kids’ categories simultaneously. His novels account for roughly six percent of all hardcover novels sold in the US – more copies than those of Stephen King, John Grisham and Dan Brown combined.
The Long Island, then-Brooklyn, now-Saugerties singer/songwriter Laura Stevenson splits her bandwidth just about evenly between a rambunctious, stormy and keenly melodic power-pop on one side and a delicate (though still stormy) chamber Americana on the other.
Friday, Jan. 19: His new record Angels and One-Armed Jugglers is made with an A-list cast of New York session players, a number of whom are Woodstock-area residents.
I wish I could muster up as much enthusiasm for this movie as I feel for its subject.