Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors to play the Falcon
Friday, Jan. 19: His new record Angels and One-Armed Jugglers is made with an A-list cast of New York session players, a number of whom are Woodstock-area residents.
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On the Basis of Sex delivers mildly inspiring look at RBG’s early career
I wish I could muster up as much enthusiasm for this movie as I feel for its subject.
The Madness of George III screens at Upstate and Downing
Sunday, Jan. 20 and Monday, Jan. 21: The cast of this new production of the Alan Bennett play includes Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, Coriolanus) in the title role, and Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs, After the Dance).
Film tribute to ski documentarian Warren Miller in Phoenicia
Friday-Sunday, January 18-20: Just after World War II, before skiing became a trendy and accessible sport in the US, a young man named Warren Miller, fresh out of the Navy, headed off to Sun Valley armed with an eight-millimeter movie camera and began documenting skiers in their element.
Sunday Salons series begins at Thomas Cole site in Catskill
Sunday, Jan. 20: The first lecture for 2019 brings design historian and historic interiors expert Jean Dunbar of Historic Design, Inc. for the unveiling of a new discovery at Thomas Cole’s home.
What is hospice like?
After months of reflection, I saw the writing on the wall: brain tumor removal; heart drains; respiratory weakness; sepsis; and because all of that is so boring, we spiced things up by contracting shingles in my right eye.
A couple of queens
Saoirse Ronan is incandescent as Mary Queen of Scots; Weisz & Stone are dazzlingly nasty in The Favourite.
Gourmet CBD-infused feast at new Marbletown space 7M2K
Saturday, January 26: Entrepreneur Konstanze Zeller is opening her Colonial home for a special eight-course, plant-based meal infused with full-spectrum cannabidiol oil, including cocktails, appetizers and special chocolates for dessert. Zeller is head of Cocorau, a company that specializes in raw cacao bites and adaptogenic elixir powders, both containing CBD from organically grown hemp.
Acoustic Stardust at Colony
Saturday, Jan. 12: Colony in Woodstock hosts a celebration of what would have been David Bowie’s 71st birthday with Acoustic Stardust, a novel homage to the legendary rocker who lived in Shokan, offering a stripped-down and acoustic treatment of songs from all periods of his chameleonic career.
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