Review: Film Festival docs worth seeing
Two nonviolent movements, two blues masters and the healing power of music for Holocaust survivors
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Woodstock School of Art printmaking studio renovations complete, opening with sublime exhibition
Now the place all but sparkles, from its shiny radiant flooring to the new windows created to look like what had been there since its early days as a New Deal crafts training center during the last years of the Depression, and its later time as an upstate home for New York City’s Arts Students League.
Saugerties Pro Musica fills the gap
With the Maverick Concerts season just recently ended, I’m particularly thankful for Saugerties Pro Musica to occupy at least some
Leon Gast, Woodstock Film Fest honoree, tells how it all began
Recently, while the world mourned the passing of Muhammad Ali, as we were glued to the national broadcast of Leon Gast’s Oscar-winning documentary, When We Were Kings, anyone watching, sports fan or not, could’ve told you that there isn’t a director more deserving of a lifetime achievement award anywhere on Earth.
Poet Mary Reid Kelley of Olivebridge awarded ‘Genius Grant’
Mary Reid Kelley, recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” said she settled in Olivebridge because “there are a lot of artists and a lot of non-artists doing their own thing here.”
Mini-retrospective of Mary Frank at Elena Zang Gallery
“I like work which asks questions, involving emotional states of mind. Beauty is not enough, because we live in urgent times. I want the work to speak back.”
Comedy Fest benefits Family, Polaris Project
This year’s Woodstock Comedy Festival (WCF), September 23-25, features Saturday Night Live alumnus Gilbert Gottfried doing a stand-up show and
Sylvia Tyson and Scarlet Rivera play the Kleinert
Singer of original and folk songs, Sylvia Tyson, of the legendary Ian and Sylvia, who’s been performing for well over
Woodstock filmmaker examines father’s role in 1953 Iranian Coup
One day in Tehran, reported travel writer Rick Steves, his cab was stuck in traffic. To his astonishment, the taxi
Gilbert Gottfried, Woodstock Comedy Fest headliner, doesn’t hold back
To most fans of pop culture, the comedian Gilbert Gottfried — who headlines the 4th Annual Woodstock Comedy Festival with an