Arts
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 12, 2011 - 5:57 pm
A Roxbury police car plays 91.3FM on its speakers outside the WIOX FM headquarters during the radio station's grand opening last August. Photo by Julia Reischel.
In the 10 months since it launched, WIOX 91.3 FM, a full-power radio station, has been the... Read more
By Christopher Auger-Dominguez on Thursday, May. 12, 2011 - 9:47 am
Isaac Marsiglio, Elena Meckel, and Lucia Marsiglio eating pizza at Stony Creek Farm in Walton on Saturday night. Photo by Christopher Auger-Dominguez.
Franklin second-homeowners Christopher Auger-Dominguez and his wife, Daisy Auger-Dominguez, attended a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 9, 2011 - 8:51 am
Laurie McIntosh, a musician, storyteller, and mom of two, spent Mother's Day on a mountainside in Andes, where, she emailed us, she found enough flowers to please any mama:
A Trout Lily and a sea of Spring Beauties, is what I found on Mt. Pisgah (aka... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, May. 8, 2011 - 10:09 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
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... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 6, 2011 - 5:39 pm
Franz Liszt, the virtuoso Hungarian pianist and composer pictured above, would've turned 200 this year, and a series of concerts around the Catskills (and the world) are celebrating his music all year long. Tomorrow afternoon, East Meredith joins in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 6, 2011 - 5:17 pm
Longtime Woodstock folksinger Tom Pacheco will be playing the Public on Saturday night. Once a regular on the Greenwich Village circuit, Pacheco has played with the likes of Pete Seeger and The Band, written chart-topping hits for Norway's number-one... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 6, 2011 - 4:52 pm
If you're a kid yearning for a kite, show up at the Loch Sheldrake campus of SUNY Sullivan tomorrow just before 10am. The college's annual kite festival, which runs from 10am to 4pm, is handing out free kites to the first 200 children who arrive. And that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 6, 2011 - 4:42 pm
Since 2009, the aerator fountain at the Ashokan Reservoir -- a popular spot for picnicking, snapping photos or just getting a faceful of cool mist in the summertime -- has been out of operation. Today, the New York City Department of Environmental... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 6, 2011 - 9:46 am
Things are finally stirring in the Catskills, now that the sun has been shining for a few days. This weekend is jam-packed full of art openings, food events, exhibitions, and shows. We'll be writing about a few of them today. For more, check out our... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, May. 5, 2011 - 2:51 pm
This Saturday, WJFF Radio Catskill is throwing its annual foodie fundraiser, Foodstock, in Callicoon. Get a taste (har!) of what it's like to be in a room with with 50 different food vendors above, with Sabrina Artel, the recently-canonized host of the... Read more