From Down Under to Up Here: Midtown Kingston’s Village Coffee and Goods
“In this neighborhood, you couldn’t just walk to get a really great coffee or some food, so we thought, ‘Let’s do it ourselves!'”
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Woodstock 50 festival lineup announced; headliners include The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Jay-Z, Dead & Company
The full lineup for this summer’s Woodstock 50 festival has been announced. Scheduled for August 16-18 in Watkins Glen, the festival is promoter Michael Lang’s anniversary event marking the original Aquarian Festival from 1969. The event will have three stages and three smaller “neighborhoods,” each with their own food and programming and “glamping” opportunities.
Good places to hear great Irish music this weekend
Towne Crier trends Irish with Kevin McKrell and Donnybrook Fair on Friday, Flash Company on Sunday; New World Celtic Band plays Colony on Sunday; Full weekend of St. Patrick’s Day fun in East Durham.
Hyde Park hospitality at the hopping CIA
Culinary Institute of America retools restaurants to become less intimidating, more community-friendly, in keeping with the mission of Waldy Malouf. “The building, the whole campus can be a little intimidating. The reality is that we see about 300,000 visitors a year. The CIA is the largest tourist attraction in this region.”
Asperger’s Are Us comedy troupe at BSP
Friday, Mar. 15: “Their show is not an autism awareness campaign, they say. They want people to laugh simply because they’re funny.”
How to control stink bugs
Saturday, Mar. 16: If you suck them up with a vacuum or Dustbuster, you’ll have to live with their malodorous presence for days thereafter. Yes, we’re talking about stink bugs, those shield-shaped pests who come by their common name honestly, emitting a foul odor as a defense mechanism when threatened or disturbed.
Cinematic beauty: Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is worth the hunt for a big-screen showing
Is Roma worth the effort to find? Absolutely yes. Its huge pile of cinematography prizes is well-warranted; shot in digital 65mm format, its black-and-white tones are subtle, silken. It tells much of its story in long, unbroken tracking shots, with the camera often slowly rotating 360 degrees to take in all the sprawling details of a space.
What’s the (dark) matter?
If the dark matter is an entirely new form of material, unlike the baryonic matter that comprises our bodies and our planet, then we have been demoted
once again, big-time.
Change in personnel at New Paltz museum takes advisory board by surprise
Founding Dorsky director Neil Trager conceded that he had been “shaken a little bit” when he received the provost’s e-mail, especially since the directorship was endowed in his name.
Levin Brothers to perform at Senate Garage
Saturday, Mar. 16: While Tony made his name playing with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and David Bowie (and John Lennon and, and, and), Pete’s thing has always been jazz and its derivatives. A New York session ace who has recorded or performed with Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Jimmy Giuffre, Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus, Pete’s résumé is hardly less impressive than his rock-star brother’s.