Arts
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 22, 2011 - 12:54 pm
Video: Billy Bob Liggan takes a video tour of the Rosendale Street Festival, 2008.
Party down, Rosendale: The annual Street Festival is in town once again. This Saturday and Sunday, the little town's Main Street will be transformed into an open-air fiesta... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 3:35 pm
There are some things that just go together. Ice and tea. Beans and cornbread. Hobart and horseshoes.
Back in the late 1700s, local lore tells, Hobart pioneer Foote More was the first in the nation to manufacture those square nails once used to keep the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 12:26 pm
Photo: Dave Jacke, author of the indispensable two-volume textbook Edible Forest Gardens and local hero of the permaculture movement, in action. Courtesy of the Northeast Permaculture Convergence.
This Saturday marks the high point of the year for local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 21, 2011 - 11:47 am
Photo by Flickr user Paul Reynolds.
Midnight tonight is the deadline for our photo contest about the "best-kept secret" in the Catskills, and the submissions are coming in! We're discovering things that we had no idea existed up here. I'd say more, but I... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 - 9:28 am
Children learn to drum at the Thunder in the Valley Pow-wow in Big Indian Park. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
On Saturday, Native American vendors, dancers, and drummers from across the region and as far away as Mexico gathered in Big Indian for the Thunder... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 - 11:50 am
Video: They Might Be Giants performs "Canajoharie," a song off their new album Join Us, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, October 2, 2010.
In an interview with Gothamist yesterday about They Might Be Giants' new album release, legendary alt-rocker... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Jul. 17, 2011 - 10:34 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.)
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New York... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 6:42 pm
Photo of bluestone sculpture at Opus 40 in Saugerties by Flickr user Insignifica. Published under Creative Commons license.
In the Daily Freeman today: A letter from the supervisor of Saugerties announced today that the town is pulling out of an effort to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 11:08 am
Ari Gold, a gay pop star, was the target of homophobia on a Catskills-bound Short Line Bus last weekend in an incident that is being compared to Rosa Parks' famous stand in Montgomery.
According to the Village Voice's Michael Musto, who broke the story,... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 - 11:06 am
Photo by Flickr user Alina Sofia.
It's a renaissance weekend for theaters in the Catskills. At the Woodstock Playhouse, the first summer stock season on the safe side of foreclosure continues. In Tannersville, the expansion and renovation of The Orpheum... Read more
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