On April 4 – honoring the date on which Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith begins rebelling against his government by keeping a forbidden diary – dozens of movie theaters, libraries, museums and bookstores across the country will participate in a national screening event, presenting Michael Radford’s film adaptation of 1984.
The Center’s 2017 Spring Shakespeare Festival kicks off with a production of Tom Stoppard’s Beckettian black-comedy spin on Hamlet.
If it weren’t for Kingston historian Edwin Ford, this treasured building wouldn’t exist: Hoffman House was one of several Colonial-era stone buildings targeted for demolition in the late 1960s.
Babette Hierholzer & Jürgen Appell’s Kaatsbaan program will span the centuries, featuring works by Johann Pachelbel, J. S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Ernesto Lecuona and Richard Wagner.
“The ethos of zine culture has always been that if you are not finding what you want to be reading, go and make it yourself.”
“Our goal is to have really delicious food that everyone in the family can eat. Most of the time what happens is that people try something and say, ‘Really? This is gluten-free?’ We’re trying to be subtle about it.”
Knox was a sort of 18th-century Zelig, always in the thick of history-making events.
Praise be the performance deities that Bardavon/UPAC executive director Chris Silva was able to sign such a box-office favorite and former Woodstock resident Bob Dylan for an outdoor concert at the Hutton brickyards property on North Street on the Hudson River waterfront.
While Ulster County has been enjoying the success of Kingston’s Lace Mill artist housing project by RUPCO, the Dutchess County not-for-profit organization Hudson River Housing, Inc. has been busily renovating a three-story brick building known as the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory.
In 1913, on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Vassar alumna and lawyer Inez Milholland led a parade through Washington, DC astride a big white horse, wearing a crown and a long white cape, followed by some 10,000 suffragettes. Crowds of men jeered, spat on and harassed the marchers. Milholland was afterwards likened to Joan of Arc.