Kids’ Almanac: Sept. 28 – Oct. 5
New Gustafer Yellowgold CD debuts in Woodstock; Steampunk Day at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome; tales from Hudson’s crypts; “Nighttime in the 18th Century” at New Windsor Cantonment; and Erica’s cancer journey.
Columns
Clouds: Things you never knew
Very thin cirrus can be invisible, and here is where their magic can truly shine. Occasionally at this time of year, when the Sun is lowish but not extremely low, look overhead and you may see an upside-down rainbow called a circumzenithal arc.
Kingston After Dark: Surmiser on O+ Fest bill
A local favorite makes the roster.
Binocular update: Secrets of the best views
Through binoculars, the 3,000 stars visible to the naked eye on the clearest night in the Catskills jump to 30,000.
Eating Ivan
I’ve discovered since then that Ivan is something of a Rorschach test for people. Sometimes they think it’s cute that he had a name. Sometimes they’re delighted that he had a nice life on a farm down the road, where he had friends both bovine and human, and pretty much did whatever he felt like. But mainly, it seems, a lot of people are horrified.
Kingston After Dark: New Mountaintops
Basilica Soundscape, the music, arts and literature fest in nearby Hudson, is one of the dopest and most sharply curated annual occurrences you’re going to find on American soil.
Equivocally equinoctial: The first moment of fall
The Autumnal Equinox takes place on Friday afternoon, Sept. 22, at 4:02 p.m. At that moment, Earth will angle perfectly sideways to the Sun. Neither pole will tip toward or away from that favorite star of ours. And therefore, as the media never tire of reminding us, days and nights should theoretically be equal. We’ve often pointed out that this is never true.
Cruisin’ down electric avenue
The brave new world is here — and it has me doing all sorts of things I never thought I was capable of. I signed a contract this week on a brand new plug-in hybrid car, the 2017 Prius Prime.
Would the Catskills notice a North Korean attack?
The radiation would start to arrive three to ten hours after the blast, and consist of fine dust particles. Breathing these could deliver fatal doses, with death expected in six to eight days.
Kingston After Dark: Melter skelter
We are heading into late summer/early fall and arguably the best time of the year for concerts and micro festivals.