Arts
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Photo of a woolly bear caterpillar by Roban Kramer, via Flickr.
When you see these little brown-and-black fuzzy caterpillars everywhere, that means it's right around Columbus Day in the Catskills. Aside from Memorial Day and Labor Day, this is one of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 - 2:14 pm
Laura Levine at her store, Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot, in Phoenicia. Photo by Gene Martin. Used with permission.
Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot in Phoenicia is one of the more unexpected networking hot spots in the Catskills for creative,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 - 12:13 pm
The Black House, otherwise known as Peacock Hill, photographed in Budget Living Magazine in 2003.
Fleischmanns, a village in Delaware County named for yeast magnates, is a Victorian-era junky's fantasy. The streets are lined with gingerbreaded and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 4:24 pm
So how did the community-radio festival and training-fest in Hudson go last weekend? WGXC and the Prometheus Project have a slew of videos recording the "community radio barnraising" in action, so you can see for yourself what it was like. Here's a "video... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 11:45 am
The Greene County Council on the Arts, which was preparing to lose its shirt in the economic meltdown two months ago, has been saved by donations, the Daily Freeman reports.
Earlier: New York State: Putting the "starving" back in 'artist"
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2010 - 12:04 am
If the O+ Festival was nothing more than a brand-new, three-day-long orgy of music, film and art happening all over Kingston, we'd be jazzed about it. But it's more than that. O+ (pronounced “O positive”) is built around an idea that just might transform... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 3:53 pm
The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual scrum of stars, artists, directors, documentarians, and film-lovers, descends on locations around Ulster County tomorrow to screen more than 150 films, 60 of which will be premieres of one kind (world) or another (... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2010 - 5:15 pm
The Re-Store Design Challenge ended its month of design competition on Saturday at an awards gala in Roxbury. Of the three fantasy store contestants -- an "air emporium" peddling bottled air, an antiques-oriented woodshop, and a barbershop plastered with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Drama is brewing over a pre-Civil-War barn in Woodstock, recently transformed into a gallery called Vivo Fine Art that opened this summer. The Woodstock Times reports that by painting a big sunburst on the side of the building without proper permission... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 1:00 pm
Norman Muller, a contributor to a blog about rock piles (really!), came across this teeth-baring boulder near the site of the old Catskill Mountain House in Palenville this week and had to write about it:
My wife and I went to the site of Catskill... Read more
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