Random evolution can’t explain the dragonfly’s wing. Unlike the evolution of giraffes’ necks, where any incremental increase in length would offer evolutionary advantages, a step-by-step process just wouldn’t work for a wing design. The wrong shape would be useless, and confer no advantage whatsoever.
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox has racked up a ridiculous number of internet plays with their imaginative and flawlessly executed “this hit meets that style” musical gamesmanship.
On view- “Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts”; Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s “Gloves Off;” Text/ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy” and “Intimately Unfamiliar: New Work by SUNY-New Paltz Art Faculty.”
Punch Brothers banjoist Noam Pikelny plays Club Helsinki Friday, Feb. 10.
The Band, THE Band, are a tough cover. Believe it. Underneath the swampy roots rock grooves and the oft-imitated baying and braying ensemble vocals, the flagship rockstars of the Catskills hid a healthy load of complexity and sophistication like landmines for the naïve imitator.
Broadway star Craig Shulman is the only man to have played The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s “The Phantom Of The Opera,” Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables,” and the title roles in “Jekyll & Hyde,” the trifecta of pre-Hamilton modern musical theater starring roles.
Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” examines how movements find support in masses of lonely, economically disrupted people, cynical of existing institutions and yearning for identity.
The Moonlights celebrate the release of “The Moonlights” with a performance at the Pivot Ground Café & Work Space on Saturday, February 4 at noon, at 63 Broadway in Kingston.
Our weekly roundup of family activities. This week includes: DIY Valentine card factory at Poughkidskie, throw soybeans at the Oni ogre in New Paltz, free day at MASS MoCA, Mini golf at Elting Library, bird walk in Woodstock, snowman village and horse-drawn sleighs at Ice Harvest Festival, Birds of prey at Kingston library, and more.
Since 2003, Vassar College has held an annual festival dedicated to exploring and celebrating the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. It’s called Modfest, and it brings together students, faculty members and outside artists (such as Pulitzer Prizewinning composers Yehudi Wyner, Steve Reich and David del Tredici) for a week-and-a-half of residencies, performances and exhibitions, all free and open to the general public.