Kids’ Almanac (January 23-30)

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Be sincere; be brief; and be seated. – Franklin D. Roosevelt’s advice to his son on giving speeches Pet

Soul survivor: Charles Bradley at Bearsville

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Retro soul singer Charles Bradley’s hard luck/good luck story is so unlikely and compelling that it has been the subject

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Last week’s huge X-class solar flare did not give us auroras – because we never had a chance. Thursday night

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Falling prey to a fraud scheme in real life is a nuisance at best, devastating at worst. But as long

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The Hudson Valley’s most popular and successful original dance band, the Big Takeover, is a reggae band on paper. The

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Bolton Brown was one of the three visionaries who made Woodstock into the colony of the arts. He was the

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Two veteran luminaries of the local-and-beyond music scene, drummer Chris Turco and guitarist/producer Matthew Cullen (both of the band Ultram),

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Considering our enthusiasm for spectator sports – whether measured in dollars or in time spent sitting in stadium seats or

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After declaring the end of the Beatles, Paul McCartney retired to a studio-equipped farm in Scotland and released two modest,

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There’s more than one way to Santa Fe. It’s now double the fun, with two to chose from: the long-popular