Meat-only diet proponents tout benefits for body and brain
Adherents say they’ve lost weight and think more clearly, and testing shows they don’t have any nutritional deficiencies. But is living on meat alone a good idea?
Entertainment
Kingston After Dark: Every walk of life
The big news is that Valley People Productions have convinced Iron Chic to visit Kingston. The show was originally booked at The Beverly but cops have been called for noise recently so they so had to move it to BSP. The show is on Nov. 10 and costs just $10 with a 7:30 p.m. start time and absolutely killer support bands Timeshares and Nightmares For a Week also.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “Spooky scans”
I used to numb the area with a spray that is now known to compromise healthy skin tissue, then various topical meds that never worked for me; then I tried ice, but by the time everything got set up for the draw, it was more hassle than it was worth. So now I go commando and just suck it up.
Learn about Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Friday, Nov. 9: Theater piece at Vassar library in Poughkeepsie to honor first woman to obtain a doctorate.
The five essential horror stories
We asked an expert. New Paltz fear aficionado John Langan followed Joseph Campbell’s bliss all the way to a career as a significant and internationally recognized writer of serious horror fiction.
Kids’ Almanac (Halloween edition)
Take the kids: Night of 100 Pumpkins in New Paltz, zombie skate in Saugerties, Woodstock Halloween parade and so much more!
Smith/Belson films with live music by Garth Hudson & High Water at BSP
Sunday, Oct. 28: Smith and Belson were legendary experimental filmmakers who met in Berkeley in the late 1940s, and together developed remarkable independent bodies of work in film, painting and recorded sound. Influenced by hermeticism, alchemy and the occult, they were both devotees of Kandinsky’s principles of Non-Objective painting and carried these interests into films. Both were pioneering figures in the development of light shows and psychedelic art.
Famous fishmonger coming to Uptown Kingston
Saturday, Oct. 27: Joe Gurrera, owner of New York City’s famed Citarella chain of fish stores and of Lockwood & Winant, a wholesale company located at the Fulton Fish Market, will host a talk and book-signing. He’ll also offer a tasting of one of his specialties, sausage-and-calamari Italian Surf & Turf.
Black box, bright lights: An impressive new theater in downtown New Paltz
Wednesdays through Sundays until November 4: If its inaugural production, William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo, is any indication of the level of professionalism that we can expect, Denizen Theatre seems likely to prove a magnet for drama buffs from near and far.
Wanda Sykes performs at UPAC
Friday, Oct. 26: Called “one of the funniest stand-up comics” by her peers and ranked among Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Funniest People in America