Stan the junk man
Kingston’s prince of repurposing surveys his collection at Zaborski’s Emporium. “I dreamt of this business in grade school, doing something like this. Not this big, but…”
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Train plays Bethel Woods
Friday, June 16: The Grammy-winning San Francisco hitmakers Train have been on a bit of a roll.
Art-in-the-making at Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater
Opens June 23: Before it became a world-wide sensation, there was a reading of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton at Vassar. Hamilton went on to win Best Musical and ten other Tonys in its Broadway incarnation.
Sound + vision at Unison
Saturday, June 17: Improvisational painter Nancy Ostrovsky to perform with percussionist Syd Smart in New Paltz
Plague ravages morally as well as physically in It Comes at Night
Almost all of this film was shot inside and immediately outside one of Woodstock’s uninhabited Byrdcliffe houses.
June Jamboree at Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in High Falls
Saturday, June 17: Where can you meet more than 350 friendly rescued cows, pigs, goats, turkeys and other creatures in one place on one special day?
The Wonder Woman of working women
West Park’s Hilda Worthington Smith put her fortune and education to practical use by running a summer training program in the liberal arts for disadvantaged girls: factory and millworkers.
Pete’s Hot Dogs: A Newburgh institution
Pete bought the property on South Williams in 1932 and installed his kitchen where it still stands today. That was 85 years ago. Little has changed since, but hot-dog experts with more educated palates than I have wax downright poetic when discussing the attributes of Pete’s hot dogs.
Sock (hop) it to hate
Sunday, June 11: Professional and student rockers come together for an “All-American Sock Hop” at Woodstock’s Colony to benefit the Anti-Defamation League and anti-racism education in local schools.
Bounty of the Hudson Wine & Food Festival in New Paltz
Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11: Locally made wine, spirits, hard cider, cheeses and chocolates at the fairgrounds. What’s not to like?