Big Fez & the Surfmatics this Friday in Poughkeepsie
Labor Day is just around the corner, so perhaps an end to the summer of 2016’s sticky, sweltering weather may
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Kids’ Almanac (Aug. 25-Sept. 1)
“Anything that fills your heart has the power to smash it to bits. Welcome to parenthood.” – Carolyn Hax
171st Dutchess County Fair in Rhinebeck
If your philosophy is “More is more” when it comes to old-fashioned fair fun, the 171st Dutchess County Fair is
Little World’s Fair in Grahamsville this weekend
So you’ve visited country fairs, large and small – some slick, some tawdry, some New Agey, some reasonably “authentic.” But
Kids’ Almanac (Aug. 18-25)
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” –
Bearing witness to the unbearable in Newtown
During the opening of Kim Snyder’s documentary Newtown, faint playground sounds hover at the edge of hearing. A roving camera
Celebrate blueberries in Ellenville & sunflowers in Gardiner
Blueberry Festival in Ellenville It was Native Americans who first cultivated the wild blueberry on the mountaintops of the Shawangunks
Interact with 200 musical balls of light on the Kingston waterfront
Purring Tiger is a local multicultural, multimedia, interactive installation/performance group, led by choreographer/installation artist Kiori Kawai and composer/new media artist
Highlights of this week’s Hudson Valley music scene
Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson touts new LP at Helsinki Hudson this Saturday Black Crowes co-founder and guitarist Rich Robinson has
Kids’ Almanac (August 11-18)
“Blueberries is one of the great forces o’ good in the world.” – James A. Owen, Here, There Be Dragons