Saturday, Dec. 22: This themed and stylish holiday party features the twanging surf-rock sounds of Kingston’s own mysteriously costumed Sci-Flies, a five-piece that describes its sound as “surf rock from beyond.”
The good humor, imagination, artistry and Old World skill in effect was irresistible and moving: a megadose of vitamin Christmas. And of course, Mohonk served tea and cookies.
Sunday, Dec. 23: Woodstock resident, Universal Music recording artist and dancer Eric Redd will headline a benefit show that also features renowned jazz artist Don Byron, R&B sensation and Grammy Amplifier winner Chinah Blac, Duke McVinnie, the Big Takeover’s NeeNee Rushie and Grammy-winning producer and guitarist Danny Blume.
Who is more amped up about Santa’s arrival on the Village Green in Woodstock on Monday, December 24: our children or the Big Kids – the Mamas and Papas and shopkeepers and dedicated town officials who put the whole shebang together each year?
Saturday, Dec. 22: The band features a revolving cast of all-star musicians, some of whom have worked with Bowie, D’Angelo, Outkast, Amy Winehouse, Lenny Kravitz, the Bad Brains, Bootsy Collins, Kung Fu and many more.
‘I like taking that memory, which gets veiled by time or my own psyche, and then go into my studio and see what comes out.’
Little damage was suffered by my blueberries, probably thanks to some experimental traps developed by Peter Jentsch of Cornell University.
A local artist’s horrifying/inspiring life story, already the subject of a well-regarded documentary, gets the Hollywood treatment in a film starring Steve Carrell opening Friday, Dec. 21.
Dafoe portrays Vincent Van Gogh as a man alternately stretched on the rack of his own genius and the world’s rejection and blissed out by nature’s extravagant beauty.
Great coffee and Montreal-style bagels at the Mud Club in Woodstock.