Brad Mehldau backs Fleurine at the Falcon
The great tradition of vocal jazz has become – even more than mainstream instrumental jazz itself – the subject of
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’Tis the season: Hudson Valley holiday-related festivities
FRIDAY, NOV. 28 Holiday tree-lighting in Kingston Join Santa and friends at the tree-lighting in Academy Green Park in Kingston
Everett Bradley’s Holidelic in Hudson
Need to find some way of shaking that turkey torpor off your stretched carcass post-Thanksgiving? Sear this name on your
Kids’ Almanac (Nov. 27-Dec. 4)
“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” – W. J. Cameron Grab your bins & get ready for
Getting their Irish up
Irish music has gone through many iterations over the millennia, and in a way has come full circle with today’s
“Ghosts of the Gulf” at Beacon Institute
The Deep Water Horizons oil spill of 2010 was one of the world’s worst environmental disasters, one whose effects on
Can you make sense of Interstellar?
The new movie Interstellar was directed by Christopher Nolan, who has brought us a series of mind-twisting films like Inception.
Stella by stagelight
This Sunday, November 23, the Rosendale Theatre continues its popular monthly series of encore broadcasts of top British stage productions
Michael Keaton soars above life’s mundane defeats in Birdman
For argument’s sake, let’s start from the basic premise that comic-book superhero movies are, in essence, dumb: the visual-entertainment equivalent
Hear violinist Akiko Kamigawara in Poughkeepsie
In September, I heard violinist Akiko Kamigawara playing unaccompanied Bach in front of a Woodstock drugstore. The chance encounter led