Shawn Colvin to perform at Levon Helm Studios
Friday, Nov. 9: She may have arrived a decade or two too late to have enjoyed the peak of the form, but Colvin’s early records Steady On and A Few Small Repairs are straight-up classics of the genre.
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Woodstock Chamber Orchestra reincarnates as Woodstock Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, Nov. 10: The chamber orchestra could play Mozart and Haydn, and maybe Beethoven, but certainly not Schumann, Brahms and Dvorák. It needed to expand.
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is underway
Monday-Sunday, Oct. 29-Nov. 11: For a prix fixe of $32.95 for dinner or $22.95 for lunch (tax, beverage and gratuity not included), you get a three-course meal at some of the region’s finest restaurants (including at the Culinary Institute of America).
Jurassic Park on the big screen at UPAC
Friday, Nov. 2: Jeff Goldblum lays down some heavy science about the nature of nature while making an impressive pyramid with his achromachian fingers. And then all Hell breaks loose.
Thurston Moore to play BSP in Kingston
Friday, Nov. 2: Mere months after former Sonic Youth bassist and songwriter Kim Gordon led her experimental noise duo Body/Head to the backroom theater at BSP, Sonic Youth’s guitarist, principal songwriter and nominal frontman does the same.
From couture to cornstalks: Joe Eula’s design gift to Davenport Farms
Eula was not at all shy about letting it be known, quite loudly, whether he loved or hated something, aesthetically speaking.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live score, tap dancer & costume contest at Bard
Friday, Nov. 2: The silent horror classic comes to new life, accompanied by the music of the jazz trombonist and composer Chris Washburne and his ensemble, Rags and Roots, with vocalist Brianna Thomas.
Bucket-list sky phenomena
Here are my top six sky apparitions that belong on everyone’s bucket list, most of which appear in your own backyard.
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Andrew Schneider’s Nervous/System at Catskill’s Lumberyard
Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 3-4: Schneider and his collaborators invite the audience to look down, literally, into all-too-fleeting revelations, narratives and emotional interactions flooding our bodies and brains every second of every day. New York Times calls Schneider’s work inventive and astounding.