Higher ground: Jane Bloodgood-Abrams’ transcendent landscapes on view in Hudson
‘I like taking that memory, which gets veiled by time or my own psyche, and then go into my studio and see what comes out.’
Entertainment
Welcome to Marwen, inspired by Kingston artist’s life & photography, opens Friday
A local artist’s horrifying/inspiring life story, already the subject of a well-regarded documentary, gets the Hollywood treatment in a film starring Steve Carrell opening Friday, Dec. 21.
Crazy Bowlz Asian Mexican Grill brings a fusion of flavors to New Paltz
What is a “crazy bowl,” you ask? The focus of the menu is on “bowlz” of either rice, noodles or salad, topped with a protein of the customer’s choice and accompanying ingredients offering either Mexican or Asian flavors, the final product remaining true to its origins or becoming a pleasing combination of the two.
Artistic mitosis in Phoenicia
Phoenicia’s Arts Upstairs, which closed its doors last winter, will be reincarnated in two new forms this month.
WAAM awards mark end of the year
Big shifts have occurred in the art that matters. What constitutes a landscape has shifted internal, and focused on human-scale details. Subject matter has regained a hold on those still drawn to printmaking. Fun is again kin to aesthetic appreciation.
Starry night: Willem Dafoe lights up the screen Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate
Dafoe portrays Vincent Van Gogh as a man alternately stretched on the rack of his own genius and the world’s rejection and blissed out by nature’s extravagant beauty.
A nosh from the north
Great coffee and Montreal-style bagels at the Mud Club in Woodstock.
Funk-infused Holidelic at Helsinki Hudson
Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 15-16: Holidelic features outrageous costumes and an extravagant stage show led by the Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter, producer, actor, dancer and Bruce Springsteen sideman Everett Bradley.
Solstice Concert at Woodstock Playhouse
Saturday, Dec. 15: With names like Traum (Happy) and Helm (Amy), there is no doubt about how “Woodstock” this show will be – nor about how professional, special and good.
Kids’ Almanac (12/13-12/20)
See It’s a Wonderful Life on the big screen at UPAC.