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Triumph, scandal and a legendary basketball team
Friday, January 17: Matthew Goodman reads The City Game at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck.
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons are coming to Kingston
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston Saturday, May 2.
Brew with a view
Zeus Brewing Company opens in Poughkeepsie with fresh beer and Italian fare; Rooftop bar coming this summer. The fact that the site is diagonally opposite the Cunneen-Hackett Building, once the mansion of brewing magnate Matthew Vassar, is purely coincidental.
Smithsonian traveling exhibit “Water/Ways” opens at Maritime Museum
“Water/Ways” explores the ways in which water affects our everyday lives. It’s an essential component of life on our planet, environmentally, culturally and historically.
Fabolous to play the Chance
Friday, Jan. 17: Platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated Brooklyn rapper brings his dexterous flow to Poughkeepsie
Simi Stone plays home
Thursday, Jan. 16: In addition to her well-received solo work, Simi Stone has worked with David Byrne, the New Pornographers and many more. The Woodstock musical luminary brings a career retrospective to Colony in Woodstock.
Neil Simon’s Rumors opens in Rhinebeck
“The simplest aspect of farce is you need a lot of doors, and you need people running in and out of them,” celebrated comedic playwright Neil Simon once said. “Generally speaking, in a farce, people are trying to withhold information from other people. Everybody in the play has to be in trouble.” That sums up about all you need to know about Simon’s 1988 play Rumors, which opens on Friday, January 10 at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck and runs through January 19th, in a new production by the Rhinebeck Theatre Society.
Pousette-Dart Band plays the Falcon
Friday, Jan. 10: Jon Pousette-Dart and company left their mark in the height of the singer/songwriter era with album after album of craft folk-leaning rock that makes sense in the world of Orleans and of Little Feat – which is another way of saying that people were better at guitar back then, and the Pousette-Dart Band was and remains a gifted and surprisingly exploratory two-guitar outfit with a boundless set of sweet songs.
Rosendale Theatre screens Springsteen’s Western Stars
Tuesday/Wednesday, Jan. 14/15: Bruce’s heralded new album is turned into a concert film experience, which Rolling Stone called a “collection of songs about road warriors and B-movie actors, beat-up stuntmen and places where truckers and bikers drink together.”