Soul food: Facing a space crunch, Tivoli café moved to a church across the street
Murray’s move into a renovated Tivoli church allowed it to expand its menu and its mission.
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The ascendancy of the humble uke
The ’50 and ’60s were the nadir of the uke’s history. But today, Hawaii’s most famous musical instrument is no longer a four-string punchline. And nowhere is this more obvious than in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
“Images of Internment” to open at FDR Library in Hyde Park
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will open a new photographic exhibition titled “Images of Internment: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.” The collection of more than 200 photographs includes the work of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams.
Talk on Catskill Aqueduct centennial Saturday in Olive
In New York City, the tap water is so clean and tasty that it gets bottled and sold elsewhere as a prestige product. It’s a miracle a century old, procured with the labor and lives of thousands of engineers and laborers who designed and built the metro area’s extensive system of reservoirs and aqueducts.
650 at SUNY Ulster features writers reading short works on the theme ‘What We Wore’
It works like this: Founder, editor and producer Ed McCann announces an open-ended “theme” meant to prompt writers of every background, professional and amateur, young and old, to address that theme in as many as 650 words – maybe four, five minutes of reading time.
Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck stages How I Learned to Drive this weekend
Set in the 1960s, it follows the adolescence of a girl called Li’l Bit in flashback as her alternatingly supportive and abusive Uncle Peck exacts a high emotional price for driving lessons on the rural roads of Maryland.
Ally Sheedy directs Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre
“Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda Blackmon’s stirring tale lets audiences of all ages experience the courage it took to help change American history.”
Coloring party for Planned Parenthood at Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie
The event includes a NSFW (Not So Fast, Washington) coloring party toward the end of mailing persuasive illustrations to elected officials.
Night Sky: Last chance to see Venus
Twilight won’t be the same without Venus hovering in the middle of it.
Birds of Chicago play Helsinki Hudson
Supporting their spanking-new release Real Midnight, the soul/folk duo Birds of Chicago visit Club Helsinki in Hudson on Sunday, February 12 at 8 p.m.