Kids’ Almanac (7/26-8/2)
Butterfly Festival at Stony Kill Farm; Treasure Island on stage in Rhinebeck; World Dance for Families at Rosendale Theatre; Berry Bonanza at Sam’s Point
Butterfly Festival at Stony Kill Farm; Treasure Island on stage in Rhinebeck; World Dance for Families at Rosendale Theatre; Berry Bonanza at Sam’s Point
Tuesday-Sunday, July 31-August 5: Thunder Ridge, the Charlie Daniels Band and Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters headline this fair’s musical acts.
Director Debra Granik has been noted for her knack in discovering incredible, hitherto-unknown actresses (Vera Farmiga, Jennifer Lawrence) and setting them on the path to Oscar nomination, and it looks like the gifted young New Zealander Thomasin McKenzie will be the next to burst out of the gate.
Friday-Sunday, August 3-5: At this time in history, when women’s voices are being heard as never before, it seems appropriate that the female voice will be the focus of this year’s genre-spanning festival.
Friday night, July 27: That’s when the Sun, the Earth and the planet Mars form a straight line in space. Mars rises just as the Sun sets and it’s exceptionally brilliant. By coincidence, Friday night is also the July Full Moon.
I always thought a breaking heart was a bad or sad thing. But my heart has been broken open by love countless times.
With ten cannons, 7,500 square feet of sails, six miles of rigging and a ten-story-high mainmast, the Kalmar Nyckel is a sight to be seen.
Friday, July 20: With her first consistent post-Sonic Youth project, Kim Gordon certainly did not make a beeline toward pop and the big payday. Body/Head – her somewhat unsettling collaboration with guitarist Bob Nace – is, if anything, more abstract and less congenial than most anything Sonic Youth ever recorded.
On view now: Allison Janae Hamilton’s The peo-ple cried mer-cy in the storm is made up of a towering stack of tambourines on an island in one of Storm King’s ponds. The installation was inspired by the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, and accounts of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, referenced in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Both storms devastated the state of Florida, the latter killing thousands of black migrant workers who were buried in unmarked mass graves.
Saturday, July 21: Feed watermelon to rescued pigs and learn how to cook vegan delicacies at Catskill Animal Sanctuary’s celebration