Arts
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 - 11:32 am
Above: “The Huckleberry Brook Dancing Bear,” by David Barry, winner of the 2011 Watershed Post’s “Best-Kept Secret in the Catskills” photo contest. Submit your photo to the 2012 "Great Outdoors Experience" photo contest and win a dinner at Peekamoose.
To... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 - 1:14 pm
A lot of things were still new in 1969. Rock festivals and consumer video, to name two. At the storied Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York, a few young souls were combining the two, using their new-fangled cameras to record what even then... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 - 3:59 pm
Above: Rob Birdsall, Land Conservation Specialist, Watershed Agricultural Council, poses for his best Cauliflower Lady impression. "I Buy Local because...I come from a long line of farm families."
As the Pure Catskills Buy Local campaigns enters its 10th... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 - 2:17 pm
Above, Michelle Jennings and Maria Todaro took the stage during the final dress rehearsal for "Divas Unleashed: The Benefit," which kicks off the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice tonight. Photos by Kerry Henderson.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 - 12:44 pm
Tomorrow, the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice opens with "The Benefit," an operatic comedy starring Maria Todaro and Michelle Jennings.
But even before the show begins, all eyes will be on another VIP: Ted Blazer, president of the Olympic Regional... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2012 - 12:45 pm
A flash mob of opera fans staged an impromptu performance on the Walkway Over the Hudson on Saturday morning to promote this weekend's Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice.
VoiceFest executive director Kerry Henderson sent us these photos of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 30, 2012 - 1:43 pm
Top: Maria Todaro, left, and Michelle Jennings. Above: The "Divas Unleashed" in action. This is just one of over 20 events happening this weekend as part of the Festival of the Voice.
This Thursday, the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice kicks... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 30, 2012 - 1:24 pm
The following is a press release from the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice. -- Julia Reischel
On Thursday, August 2nd at 7:30PM, the “Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice” begins its annual four day celebration with the operatic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 30, 2012 - 12:40 pm
On a clear day, you can see for miles. Christopher Mooney took this shot from atop the fire tower on Mt. Utsayantha in Stamford, looking out over the northwestern edge of the Catskills.
In the early twentieth century, Utsayantha's spectacular view -- and... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Friday, Jul. 27, 2012 - 2:20 pm
"Even I, Lucas, have heard the legend of a man-fish!"
Tomorrow, the STS Playhouse presents a showing of "Creature from the Black Lagoon," the beloved drive-in classic from 1954. Shown on real 16mm reel-to-reel film, STS describes the film experience as '... Read more
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