Common Core, state tests changing because of protests
“We have local control. It’s up to us to do a great job with our curriculum…”
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Film Fest 17: A feast for the eyes and soul
Best takeaway of the night? Baldwin’s quip to the packed Woodstock Playhouse audience: “Donald Trump has promised to donate a million dollars to the Woodstock Film Festival if I win an award and have to stay here on Saturday night,” a rakish nod to his recurring role on Saturday Night Live as the Republican nominee.
Elections commissioners doubt there will be trouble in Ulster County
Newt Gingrich and other Donald Trump advisors are asking supporters to go to polling places and question anyone they might believe does not have the right to vote. “We won’t be having any of that here.”
Woodstock Invitational Luthiers’ Showcase at Bearsville this weekend
This intimate gathering for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados has become one of the premier international events of its kind in the world today
Dylan’s rules of the road
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, well deserved from this view, and a portion of the body of work on which he’s been judged was created in Woodstock. People often wonder about how an actor learns the long soliloquies of Shakespeare. But most can readily quote Dylan. See if you can follow the meandering puzzle below.
Woodstock attorney donates extraordinary book collection to Bard
Bard College librarian Helene Tieger’s hands, gloved in blue latex, place the 1556 copy of the Magna Carta on blocks that will support it with minimal stress on the spine. With infinite gentleness, she opens it to display a pair of pages. I can’t read the Latin, but my mind is boggled by the idea that I’m looking, in person, at a world-changing text printed four and half centuries ago.
New filmmaking facility is brewing in Kingston
Rupco & Mary Stuart Masterson’s Stockade Works would like to transform the cavernous former MetLife building on Greenkill Avenue in Kingston into a TV/film production studio and training center.
Woodstock Film Festival illuminates the fine art
The 17th annual Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) projects its presence on the region from October 13 to 16, with more
Book Review: The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy is a thriller that belongs on the literary top shelf with Graham Greene and Charles McCarry, a thriller in the way Henry James’s “The Turn Of The Screw” is a ghost story. The thrills it offers are those of narrative and philosophy.
Belleayre Resort review goes on…and on
The latest court decision means more delays for the long-in-development project, which includes two hotels, an 18-hole golf course, a spa, a conference center, and multiple attached and unattached multi-unit lodges and duplex structures, to be marketed as time-sharing units.