Arts
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 - 10:29 am
A breath of winter mist hovers over the Schoharie Creek. Photo taken Sunday, Jan. 5; with the past few days' warm weather, the cool blues of this evanescent Catskills landscape have given way to a more somber palette of thawing greys and browns.
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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 11:07 pm
Still life with fence post. Photos (top and bottom) by Walter Putrycz.
Snowy owls are creatures of the tundra, and a rare sight this far south of the Arctic Circle. But this winter, the ghost-white birds have been turning up across the Northeastern U.S... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 - 4:13 pm
Above: A tour group at the Torah Animal World site in Brooklyn. Via the Torah Animal World website.
Brooklyn-based Torah Animal World, a taxidermy "zoo" featuring animals that appear in the Old Testament, is leaving its home in a Borough Park townhouse... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 - 12:39 pm
Above: Hand-painted glassware by Lilian Miccio, one of the artisan vendors at the Holiday Extravaganza at the Roxbury Arts Center, Dec. 7-8. Photo from the Roxbury Arts Group's Facebook page.
Holiday shoppers: Looking for something you can't find on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 - 7:40 pm
Above: WIOX station manager Joe Piasek speaking at the opening of the Roxbury radio station on August 27, 2010. Photo by Julia Reischel.
Roxbury public radio station WIOX, a nonprofit high-powered FM station that has been operating since 2010 on 91.3 FM... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 - 2:59 pm
Above: Local author Dina Falconi and her recently-published book, Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide And Wild Food Cookbook, featuring botanical illustrations by Wendy Hollender.
For three decades, Dina Falconi has been living and working on the edge... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 - 8:49 pm
AgriForaging, Inc. and Spillian: A Place to Revel sponsored the Catskills Food Guide's 2013 Catskills Farm Photo Contest, in which readers from across the Catskills submitted 65 photos of local farms and farm foods. After much deliberation, our jury chose... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 - 9:35 am
Above: Anthony Laciura singing "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof in Fleischmanns on Saturday. Photo courtesy of the Festival of the Voice and Spillian: A Place to Revel.
Anthony Laciura, a veteran Metropolitan Opera tenor who played a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013 - 1:58 pm
Judging from its poster (above), the Shandaken Theatrical Society's production of Dracula is not for the faint of heart.
This version of Dracula features an original score composed by Robert Cucinotta and a copious amount of fake blood. A disclaimer on... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 11:28 am
Above: Pumpkins at Sunfrost Farms in Woodstock. Photo by Flickr user Kat Stan; published under Creative Commons license.
Halloween may not formally arrive until next Thursday, but celebrations of ghoulies and ghosties and all manner of beasties are in... Read more
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