Saturday, February 9: Screening begins at noon of shorts from Bill Moyers’ series on abortion in America. It will be followed by a panel and audience discussion anchored by Ruth-Ellen Blodgett, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Thursday, Feb. 14: A love story for our times? Named in a factually-accurate-if-grammatically-inverted way, Me & My Ex are the legally divorced musical duo of Ginny Leitner and Rob Leitner, whose gigging life has really taken off since they got their priorities straight and bagged the whole traditional family thing.
Saturday, Feb. 9: New exhibition takes an unorthodox approach to curation. It’s “community-sourced” by local citizens instead of chosen exclusively by art experts.
Saturday, Feb. 9: Born in Little Rock in 1936 and now a Kingston resident, Pfeifer helped launch the careers of numerous contemporary photographers, including Sally Mann, Peter Hujar and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
Friday, Feb. 15: For 33 months, from 1977 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manhattan. A haven of hedonism, glitz and glamour, the club was highly exclusive, with news of who was there filling the gossip columns daily.
It’s a visual gem that ought to be studied frame-by-frame by anyone pursuing a career in cinema.
The wobble in my voice is new. I sound shaky, frail. I have never heard this sound out of my mouth before. Does Beyoncé ever wake up like this?
“I wouldn’t say we’re ‘cutting-edge.’ We’re not gluing things together with scallop enzymes. But we make honest, good food.”
Bob Berman’s latest book plays right into the shock-and-awe, End Times and catastrophe zeitgeist. Just take a second – or a minute as the case may be – to pronounce its full title in your mind’s mouth: Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe.
Friday, Feb. 1: The Bardavon sesquicentennial jubilee kicks off on the exact 150th anniversary of the theater’s opening night. Throughout the gathering, guests will be free to roam the theater, walk across the stage and visit dressing rooms, where crew and staff will be on hand to describe what happens behind the scenes and to share stories about the many performing artists and dignitaries who have visited during the building’s long history.