Waxing poetic
The Hudson Valley has been a hotbed for visual art in the encaustics medium for years now. The initial reasoning
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Is this really the end?
According to The New York Times, many people in Russia are panicking. They really believe that the end of the
The chilling scenario of Chasing Ice
You may not recognize the name James Balog right off; but unless you’re a diehard global warming denier, you’ve probably
Neil Alexander releases new CD
The piano is music laid bare – or Western music, at least: the whole theory and matrix of it spread
Kids’ Almanac (December 13-20)
Rhinebeck’s Cocoon Theatre performs Boxaroxen this weekend I remember when my daughter approached our friend Linda Brook during a recent
Old dog, top dog in Skyfall
Wanting, at some point in one’s life, to be James Bond seems to be a fairly universal Guy Thing –
Metropolitan Museum of Art spotlights Woodstock’s Bellows
A few years back, the early-20th-century painter George Bellows – who lived and worked summers in Woodstock during the final
Not-so-jovial reception
That brilliant star? It’s Jupiter, now at its closest to us until two more presidential terms have come and gone.
Slavic soap opera
In these days when hardly any movie idea stands a chance of being funded and distributed by a Hollywood studio
Holiday in the village
More toys, more people, brighter lights and more crafts all marked the beginning of the holiday season as the village