Monthly Historic Tavern Trail meetups
If the walls and floorboards of the Hudson Valley’s hundred-plus-year-old inns and restaurants could only talk, we’d have thus-far-unimagined versions
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Sunset Boulevard on stage in Rhinebeck
Made in 1950 at the tail end of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard made the movie industry squirm,
PianoSummer finale in New Paltz
The Symphony Gala will wrap up this year’s PianoSummer at SUNY-New Paltz on Friday, July 29. Besides a solo performance
UFO Conference in Kingston
Just when you think life could not get weirder…you see an unidentifiable light in the sky, or a crop circle
Ground broken for development at former Hudson River Psychiatric Center
Even in broad daylight, the ruins of the Hudson River Psychiatric Center in the Town of Poughkeepsie conjure every horror-movie
Kids’ Almanac (July 28-Aug. 4)
Stargaze to music, design a game, make wampum, ID butterflies, skate for diversity or see kids sort out racial strife
Inquiring Minds to host The Fermented Man
Derek Dellinger, brewmeister at the Kent Falls Brewing Company in Connecticut, followed a growing interest in the process of fermentation
Hudson Valley has become a hot spot for America’s original art form
Catskill Jazz Factory offers jam-packed concert schedule The Catskill Jazz Factory (CJF)’s summer season of residencies and performances is yet
PianoSummer at SUNY-New Paltz presents Daria Rabotkina
As this issue of Almanac Weekly goes to press, some of the world’s most gifted musicians under the age of
Stepping out of Butterfly’s shadow
The Bard Music Festival opens this year with Mascagni’s Iris, an opera that has one of the most lurid tales