Kids’ Almanac (Feb. 1-8)
Take a luge run, make a chili bowl or an Oni ogre mask, explore our roots and see an alligator.
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Erica’s Cancer Journey: Internal combustion
I lay out some twigs, a clump of dryer lint and a drugstore receipt for eyedrops that’s inexplicably as long as my arm. The firepit fills with flames, rapidly consuming my offerings while fading away as quickly as they began. I reload with more sticks, torn paper bags, newspaper shreds and fallen wood. I am patient with my fire-tending.
You can stay and play at Rhinebeck’s Megabrain Comics
New comics for all ages are delivered to the store every Wednesday. Megabrain also offers a walk-in gaming experience that ranges from traditional board games such as Scrabble, Clue, Risk and chess to fantasy RPG gaming like Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder and the Red Dragon Inn. Customers will be able to sign up for scheduled Magic the Gathering, Pokémon and Yugi-Oh tournaments, or just walk in during normal business hours and pay for gaming time by the hour.
Kingston’s Kyle & the Pity Party to debut new EP at BSP
Friday, Feb. 9: Home is a modern EP, not a nostalgic one. Even as it borrows their voice, its grim sense of the world would have scared the crap out of the Breakfast Club kids.
Photowork 2018 at Poughkeepsie’s Barrett Art Center
Opening Saturday, Feb. 10: Each year, the Barrett Art Center has organized a national juried photography exhibition, curated by a known quantity in the field. This year’s curator is E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
Kevin Hart brings “Irresponsible” tour to Hudson Valley
Comedian Kevin Hart announced 100 new dates for ‘The Kevin Hart Irresponsible Tour,’ including a July 15 show at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Sullivan County.
Starry, starry weekend – and a bloodless Blood Moon
Of the ten first-magnitude stars in the heavens, eight of them will surround the Moon. You’ll notice that the star directly below the Moon is also the very brightest. This blue gem is the famous Dog Star: Sirius. It also happens to be the very closest star we can ever see from New York State.
BSP in Kingston hosts Tiger Piss reunion concert
Friday, Jan. 26: Tiger Piss is the hardworking trio featuring players who are all quite taken with their other projects now: Lara Hope of Ark-Tones fame; Reverend Kev from the heavy-metal-themed bluegrass band Red Nekromancer; and the guitarist and experimental composer Danny Asis. Back in the day, these three blew out windows locally and in frequent do-it-yourself tours around the contiguous 48 with a risqué brand of punk and post-hardcore rock for the people. Someone tried to get the piss out of their name, but it wasn’t long before the rechristened Tigeriss changed it back. They are Tiger Piss, for better or for worse.
Eddie Izzard coming to UPAC in Kingston
Friday, Feb. 16: Stage and screen actor, comedian and now author Eddie Izzard has emerged as one of the most transcendent and unclassifiable comedic talents of his generation.
Daniel Day-Lewis risks being spectacularly unlikable in Phantom Thread
He’s mesmerizing, certainly; but that has mostly to do with the fact that he’s being portrayed by the great Daniel Day-Lewis, who, in his typically compulsive, hands-on approach to tackling a character, actually learned to sew evening gowns in order to portray an elite 1950s English fashion designer.