Kids’ Almanac (9/6-9/13)
Walkway hosts StarWalk with live astronaut on Friday night, Heroes’ Day at Hudson River Maritime Museum and more.
Entertainment
Fine food at the Underwear Factory
Sept. 7: Earth, Wind & Fuego and North River Roasters liven up Poughkeepsie’s Middle Main
Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest at Dutchess Fairgrounds
Saturday-Sunday, September 8-9: New York wineries and gourmet specialty food producers are in the spotlight at this end-of-summer event, which started out years ago as a gathering of oenophiles and gradually expanded to include a New York Craft Beer Pavilion as well as distilleries and hard ciders.
Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie on stage at Certified Marina in Connelly
Fridays-Sundays, September 7-23: Bruce Grund and his adept cast of five characters have contemporized the play to “fit the Romantic and not-so-Romantic realism of today.”
Donna Goodman to speak about the need for a new “militant” women’s movement
Goodman will speak about her book at Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz on Wednesday, September 5 from 8-9:30 p.m. Admission is free.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: Netflix’s new rom-com is cute and cliché
Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is pretty much the perfect specimen of the frothy teen rom-com. It may give you a sugar headache, but it sure is sweet.
Tim Kapeluck’s By Time and Gravity at Colony
It’s a rare occasion when a fine musician who has been on the local scene for more than 40 years steps out with an amazing new first recording. Such will be the case when Tim Kapeluck, a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, fiddle and mandolin and sings with as sweet a voice as can be heard, takes the stage for his CD-release concert at 9 p.m. on Sunday, September 9 at Colony, located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock.
Tom Pacheco at Empire State Railway Museum
Woodstock’s legendary songwriter/singer Tom Pacheco comes to the Empire State Railway Museum (ESRM), for his traditional two nights Labor Day Weekend concerts for Flying Cat Music at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 1 and again Sunday, September 2.
Art & Crafts Fair returns to New Paltz
Saturday-Monday, September 1-3: A rite of summer for artisans and their avid community, the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair returns to the Ulster County Fairgrounds with rows of one-of-a-kind, handmade art and crafts with live craft demonstrations.
Woodstock Museum Film Fest takes on a roiling world
Every year since 2000, Nathan Koenig and Shelli Lipton of the Woodstock Museum have come up with a theme under which to put out a call for issues-oriented works for their annual free film festival, which will again be running over the Labor Day weekend starting Friday evening, August 31, at 7 p.m.