Lion movingly depicts one lost child’s quest for home
Mumbai native Sunny Pawar, who reportedly never even saw a Western movie before this one, blazes across the film like a comet.
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Garland Jeffreys & Dom Flemons at the Orpheum in Tannersville
Jeffreys has quietly been on a roll in the second decade of the new millennium, delivering two esteemed and reinvigorated records: 2011’s The King of in Between and 2013’s blues/rock burner Truth Serum.
TSL in Hudson screens National Theater of London’s Amadeus
Shaffer got it right: The mediocre human is audiences’ way into understanding this story. That’s why the obsessively envious Salieri, and not his titular bête noire with the hideously annoying laugh and the peerless compositional brilliance, is the protagonist of Amadeus.
Steve Riley & Mamou Playboys at the Falcon
Their blend of Cajun styles and instruments has never failed to incite a celebratory riot at Marlboro’s shrine of great music.
New Paltz to honor memory of former slave, “Aunt Judy” Jackson
At the age of 14, Judy was presented as a “wedding gift” from Philip Lefevre to his son.
Buffy Sainte-Marie plays Bearsville
In 2015, the legendary Native American singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie released a fabulous hybrid traditional/electro effort, Power in the Blood.
Did New Paltz’s Mohonk Mountain House inspire The Shining? Thoughts on a local legend
It’s one of the most enduring and tantalizing local legends you’ll ever wonder about. Was novelist Stephen King inspired to write “The Shining,” one of his most famous horror stories, after visits to Mohonk Mountain House?
Kids’ Almanac: Feb. 16-23
Our weekly roundup of local family-friendly activities. This week includes ukulele lessons, Special Olympics at the New York State Games, learn about firefighting, St. Baldrick’s & Relay for Life Fundraiser, see a real falcon, free entry to national parks, dinosaur workshop, plus several fascinating local history events.
Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap at BSP
One of the most celebrated deejays of this generation and peerless curator of rock ’n’ roll and soul, Toubin brings his legendary dance party to Uptown Kingston on Saturday, February 18 at 10 p.m.
Martin Sexton to play Bearsville
Touring in support of his ninth studio release, Mixtape of the Open Road, the tireless and iconoclastic New Folk icon Martin Sexton continues to make friends everywhere.