Arts
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 - 10:58 pm
Above: A segment on the Fox New Channel's Fox & Friend's talk show about inappropriate emails sent from WIOX 91.3 FM's email account to Republican Congressman Chris Gibson, who is running for re-election. The segment ran on Friday, Oct. 3.
WIOX 91.3... Read more
By Jenna Scherer on Friday, Sep. 26, 2014 - 2:44 pm
In the right light, the landscapes of the Catskills and the Hudson Valley can take on a kind of mythic quality. Mountaintops, forests, ponds, cliffs, caves—and it helps if you throw a ballerina in the mix.
That's the concept behind “The Ballet Project,” a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 17, 2014 - 3:15 pm
Above: "Dig," a short film about a man who digs hole while his neighborhood watches, will screen at the Big Eddy Film Festival in Narrowsburg this weekend.
The third annual Big Eddy Film Festival kicks off Friday night and runs all weekend long in a... Read more
By John Phillip Tappen on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014 - 5:00 pm
Piers Playfair and his wife Lucy believe that the arts are the key to economic development in the Catskills.
“It’s important we have a strong artistic spine,” Playfair said.
The couple decided to bring renowned jazz musicians to the Catskills two years... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Jul. 28, 2014 - 12:21 pm
Above: TMI Project stage manager Erica Pivko, left, talks with founder Julie Novak. Photo courtesey of the TMI Project.
"I had constructed these pants when I was in one of my nuthouses," Joanee Tarshis says in a video produced by the TMI Project. "I had... Read more
By Katherine Speller on Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2014 - 1:32 pm
Crazies, start your engines!
(Just, no motors, please!)
Purveyors of wacky and wild vehicles are invited to compete on Tannersville’s Main Street on Saturday, July 26 as part of the 8th Annual Tannersville Crazy Race & Festival.
Participants simply... Read more
By Katherine Speller on Monday, Jul. 21, 2014 - 4:07 pm
Above: Camille Zamora performs zarzuela.
Each year, Phoenicia’s International Festival of the Voice kicks off with something akin to a barn raising. Volunteers unload a massive 5,000-square-foot stage with large white tents flanking from its roost in a... Read more
By John Phillip Tappen on Friday, Jul. 18, 2014 - 3:04 pm
This weekend, Mike La Casas will create an entire galaxy, complete with stars, planets, rings and meteors. And by Monday, it will most likely be gone.
La Casas, 53, has been composing chalk drawings of galaxies, animals and dinosaurs since he first heard... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 15, 2014 - 6:55 pm
Post by The Festive Owl.
Above: A Hudson Project festgoer earns her 15 minutes of Internet fame, as she shrieks at the river of trash and belongings running through her campsite. Source: The Festive Owl's Facebook page.
It was billed as the... Read more
By John Phillip Tappen on Monday, Jul. 14, 2014 - 10:29 am
Above: Musicians performing at the Catskills Irish Arts Week. Photo by Timothy H. Raab, from the Catskills Irish Arts week Facebook page.
Fervid followers of traditional Irish music and dance descend on East Durham this week for the twentieth annual... Read more
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