Luna Lands in North Adams
The recently reunited indie rock greats will perform at Mass MoCA on May 28.
New Album Features Hudson Valley Author Neil Gaiman
The creator of The Sandman has collaborated with composer Andrew Shapiro.
Celebrate Spring at the Spiritual Arts Fair
The Spiritual Arts and Consciousness Fair comes to Rock Tavern on Saturday, April 30.
Mirah and Jherek Bischoff Collaborate in Kingston
The Brooklyn singer-songwriter and the Los Angeles will start their upcoming tour at BSP on May 10.
Your Body-Mind and Mercury Retrograde
Have you noticed anything going particularly awry, or any near misses that got your attention in the last couple days or so?
Horse Lords Ride into Bard College
The experimental Baltimore band will perform on May 2.
Saving the Soul of Education
Parents, teachers, school leaders, and community members from public, private, and home schools are invited to spend the day exploring both the problems and counter efforts in 21st century education.
Clarinetist Paul Green to Play Berkshires Concert
The jazz and classical virtuoso will visit the Lee Meeting House on April 30.
Connor Kennedy Cuts Cool Cover, Plays Marlboro Thursday
The Saugerties rocker and his band will perform at the Falcon.
Summer Adventures at WDS
The inevitability of time’s march assures us that it will one day be summer, and we will again fill our days with ice cream and swimming and summer camp adventures, like the ones at the Woodstock Day School.
Farm-Fresh to the Rescue, with Long Table Harvest
A new program will deliver surplus farm food to people in need in Columbia County.
Long Table Harvest Launches IndieGoGo Campaign
Long Table Harvest is an effort to bring the average 20 percent of produce that doesn’t make it off the farm to people in need.
Reinhabit the Hudson Estuary Launches Kickstarter Campaign
A group of artists and designers have spent the majority of the past year working on producing a collection of art, writing, and ideas entitled Reinhabit the Hudson Estuary.
Let Your Senses Drive: Mars Retrograde
What have your dreams been like lately? I ask because Mars in Sagittarius is barely moving as it prepares to station retrograde this Sunday, April 17, at 8:14 am EDT—and Mars is roughly square dreamy Neptune in Pisces.
Bruce Molsky Performs in Sheffield
The old-time music master will appear at Dewey Hall this month.
“Photographs of Educated Youth: Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside during the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976” at Bard College
“Photographs of Educated Youth: Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside during the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976” is curated by Patricia Karetzky, who holds the Oskar Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art. The exhibition is on display at Bard’s Bertelsmann Campus Center from April 1 through April 18.
“Places in Our Poems” at the Woodstock Writers Festival
The poetry panel at the Woodstock Writers Festival discussed the importance of geography in poems.
Storytime in the Museum
It’s storytime at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Gallery on Vassar College campus.
Andrea Wulf in Hudson
Best-selling author Andrea Wulf lectured on the nearly-forgotten naturalist, explorer, cartographer and proto-ecologist Alexander von Humboldt.
ImmuneSchein Tea Haus in Rosendale Celebrates One-Year Anniversary
The ImmuneSchein Tea Haus is having its one-year anniversary celebration on Saturday, April 9.
Nasty Drew & That Harder Boy: The Mystery of the Family Jewels
Someone has stolen Lady Dubois’ family jewels. A crew of scantily clad strippers will seek to uncover the mystery as they discover clues and suspects in order to find the thief.
Elephant Revival Visits Bearsville Theater
The Colorado quintet will perform on April 30.
Signs O’ the Times and the Aries New Moon
This morning was the Aries New Moon at 7:24 am EDT. As the first New Moon after last month’s eclipses, it marks a threshold into a new phase or beginning. But a beginning of what?
Accord Concert Celebrates Upstate Farmers
“Unsung Heroes: Songs of Our Elder Farmers” features vocalist Heather Masse and local singer-songwriters and farmers.
All for Parkour
Parkour is hard to describe. If you’re thinking of signing your kids up for one of the many kids, youth, and teen classes at Innate Movement Parkour in Kingston, you could just call it superhero training.
Art of Business: LAD Interiors
People ask interior designer Leslie Alan Degler where his office his, and he’ll tell them it’s aboard American Airlines.
Newburgh & Cornwall: Setting the Stage for Success
If you’ve never been there, or haven’t been lately, you owe yourself a ramble around the northeastern part of Orange County.
Parting Shot: Donald Alter
Donald Alter is one of few remaining people still alive who attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Capricorn for April 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between December 22 and January 20.
Art of Business: Lofts at Beacon
Turning a former textile mill beside Fishkill Creek into state-of-the-art live/work artists’ studios and climate-controlled storage dovetails nicely with Beacon’s arts-driven renaissance.
Flight of Fancy
“A Life in a Day: Lucky Lindy” by Dick D. Zigun will be at the Bridge Street Theater in Catskill April 14-24.
Art of Business: Arlington Wine and Liquor
Bob and Valerie Keating founded Arlington Wine and Liquor in 1983.
Virgo for April 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between August 23 and September 23.
Art of Business: Robert George Design Group
Landscape designer Robert George has a silent partner at every consult with a client: Mother Earth.
Anne Gorrick’s Artistic Flow
Poet Anne Gorrick, a Poughkeepsie native, shares insight into her work.
John Jasperse: Ethereal Flow
John Jasperse creates worlds you’ve never seen nor imagined for the stage.
Nightlife Highlights: Jason Martin/Power Animal System Record Release
Jason Martin plays at the Low Beat in Albany on April 16.
Art of Business: Atlantic Custom Homes
Greg and Jan Buhler of Atlantic Custom Homes were handpicked to take over Hudson Valley distribution of Lindal Cedar Homes.
What’s That Sound?
Eric Francis Coppolino explores planetary influences and sexual frustration.
Nightlife Highlights: John Hiatt
John Hiatt plays on April 29 at Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill.
Way Down in the Hole
A few yellow hardhats bob amid the gray sheen of the shale that has yet to be coated in concrete. It took two years of methodical blasting to delve this far. The big, gaping hole in the ground, some 34 feet in diameter, is called Shaft 6.
The Heroin Trap
From the dark abyss of the opioid epdemic, three people tell their stories.
Nightlife Highlights: Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep rolls through Poughkeepsie’s Chance Theater on April 24.
Nightlife Highlights: Tashi Dorji & Marisa Anderson
Tashi Dorji & Marisa Anderson play on April 30 at the Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson.
Heather Ridge Farm’s Magical Monthly Supper Club
Eve Fox visit Heather Ridge Farm in Preston Hollow.
Nightlife Highlights: The Cookers
The Cookers play on April 9 at the Falcon in Marlboro.
Woodstock Story Festival
The first-ever Woodstock Story Festival takes place on April 30 and May 1.
Over by the Wildwood
Peter Aaron interviews Barney Hosykns, author of Small Town Talk.
Libra for April 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between September 22 and October 23.
Solaris Performs at the Kleinert James Art Center
Solaris—an international folk-roots fusion band—will be performing at the Kleinert James Art Center in Woodstock on Thursday, April 28 at 8pm. Admission is by donation.
ArtScene TV Episode 16: Dorsky Museum of Art
Each month, filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss produces “ArtScene,” a monthly video web series with short segments on artists, galleries, and museums in the Hudson Valley. Here, Stephen gives an outline of this month’s film.
A History of New York City’s Water System
New York City’s water has come a long way.
CD Review: Happy Traum’s Just for the Love of It
Michael Eck reviews Happy Traum’s new CD.
Sholem Aleichem Variety Show
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the death of the Yiddish humorist and humanist Sholem Aleichem—the writer of the book on which “Fiddler on the Roof” is based—on Tuesday, April 12, at the Rosendale Theatre.
2016 Community Supported Agriculture Farm Index
A list of CSAs throughout the Hudson Valley.
CD Review: Creative Music Studios: Archive Selections Volume 2
Peter Aaron reviews this album by various artists.
Aquarius for April 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between January 20 and February 19.
Editor’s Note: To the Couch!
Chronogram editor Brian Mahoney reflects upon his love affair with reading.
Right on the Money: Venus, Uranus, Eris and a Full Moon
Scorpio Full Moons are known to evoke passion–especially of the sexual and emotionally compelling kind.
Beltane Festival
Since the 1990s, the Center for Symbolic Studies has celebrated the return of spring with this Celtic festival, marking the halfway point between the spring equinox and summer solstice.
Sagittarius for April 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between November 22 and December 22.
While You Were Sleeping for April 2016
A brief overview of a few selected current events.
Hudson Valley AIDS Walk & 5K Run
On May 7, 2016 over 600 people will come together at the scenic Walkway Over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie, New York for the Hudson Valley AIDS Walk & 5K Run.
CD Review: Pitchfork Militia’s Two-Headed Monster & Porch
Jeremy Schwartz reviews two of Pitchfork Militia’s albums, one of which is with Peter Head.
Poem: Slick
It picked a Hell of a night to rain. That frog picked a Hell of a time to cross. I picked a Hell of a second to swerve. Your brakes picked a Hell of an instant to lock. This is what they tell you when the Ride is finally over: You’ve learned nothing —wasted space—…
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Free Trade, The Sacred Cow Edition
Larry Beinhart on the powerful role Free Trade plays in politics.
John Hiatt Performs at the Paramount Hudson Valley on April 29
The legendary singer-songwriter John Hiatt plays on April 29 at the Paramount Hudson Valley.
TAP New York Craft Beer and Food Festival
On Saturday, April 23, and Sunday, April 24, at Hunter Mountain, over 120 breweries are joining together at the largest craft beer and food event in New York State.
On the Cover: Thomas Ruff
If you’ve stared at this month’s cover shot and questioned your fourth-grade planet-naming abilities, don’t. You were right—it is Saturn.
Business Owners! This Marketing Seminar Series is the Antidote to Your Tax Time Hangover
Luminary Media is partnering with the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce to host a Marketing Strategy Seminar Series that will give you the tools and confidence you need to take control of this year’s business strategy.
Woodstock Writers Festival
The Woodstock Writers Festival takes place from Thursday, April 7, through Sunday, April 10 at multiple locations in Woodstock.
Art of Business: Tischler Dental
Dentist and photographer Michael Tischler had a busy 2015.
Will You Snapchat with Me?
Social media is turning dating for teens into a vicious, virtual beauty contest.
Scorpio for April 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between October 23 and November 22.
