Speak Out! recent blogs
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Last Thoughts.... Why is Sundance So Important!?
By Ilene Marder 02/22/11
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By Ilene Marder 02/01/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/29/11
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THE BRONX IS OUT IN FORCE AT SUNDANCE!
By Ilene Marder 01/26/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/25/11
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By Ilene Marder 01/24/11
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The Most Important Film at Sundance?
By Ilene Marder 01/23/11
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Up too EARLY but gotta get tickets
By Ilene Marder 01/22/11
Arts & Culture
Portfolio: Nicholas WalsterPhotographer Nicholas Walster discusses his most recent series of works, Personal Panoramas. | 
The Dance Within The PlayThe Catskill Ballet Theater Company will be presenting an all new ballet story at the Ulster Performing Arts Center. | 
Spring AwakeningThe annual Beltane Festival hosted by the Center for Symbolic Studies, welcomes the coming of spring with a bang. |
BanishedThis film by Marco Williams follows three African American families as they seek reparations for the land their families lost after being driven out of town. | 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 DaysThe fictional film tells the tale of a young college girl trying to help her roomate have an illegal abortion in communist Romania. |
Food & Drink
Adventures in Pizza
With its inventive sour dough pizzas Baba Louie’s in Hudson and Great Barrington are a popular spot for Italian food.
Books
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American SouthA review of Gilbert King’s The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the search for Justice in the American South by Jay Blotcher. | 
Short TakesApril is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of dead land, mixing / Memory of desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” | 
Dangerous LaughterPulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser discusses his latest collection of short stories and his exceptional writing carreer. |