“Impressions of India”
“Impressions of India: Surrendering to the Journey” a photography exhibit by Mary Anne Erickson.
Okkervil River Flows into Hudson Next Month
The Texas indie folk rockers will appear at Club Helsinki on July 16.
“School of Rock” Star to Teach at Camp in Hunter
Actor Alex Brightman will be among the instructors at the Catskill Mountain Foundation’s new Broadway in the Mountains summer program.
The Clearwater is Back
The Clearwater has nearly completely its necessary renovations to sail again this summer.
Hudson Valley Comedy Festival Comes to Town
Hudson Valley Comedy Festival, a three-day laugh fest, kicks off June 30.
Dar Williams Does Benefit Concert in Hudson Tomorrow
The singer-songwriter will perform to assist Triform Camphill Community.
Tom Carter Plays in Hudson This Thursday
The guitarist of experimental psychedelic band Charalambides will perform at the Half Moon’s patio.
See You at the Center!
The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck is gearing up for another summer of cultivating theater lovers.
My Daughter, My Teacher, My Healer
Jay Erickson, cancer survivor, shares his story on becoming a father.
New York State Expands Film Tax Credit to Include Hudson Valley Counties
Labor expenses of films shot in the Hudson Valley now qualify for tax refund credit.
Punk Photo Exhibit Hits Poughkeepsie
The show features images from Paul Zone’s book Playground: Growing Up in the New York Underground.
Fireball Run Comes to Dutchess (Beacon & Poughkeepsie) in September!
Dutchess is featured in Fireball Run: 10th Anniversary Season! Forty teams compete in a 2,000-mile, life-sized trivia game, aiding in a massive awareness campaign, The Race to Recover America’s Missing Children. Streamed online, Fireball Run is 26-episodes of adventure travel.
Felice Brothers Drop New Album This Month
The internationally revered Hudson Valley band will release Live in the Dark on June 24.
Host a Kid through the Fresh Air Fund
Now celebrating its 140th summer, the Fresh Air Fund buses urban children out of New York City for rural experiences with volunteer hosts up and down the Eastern seaboard.
Ruth Ruth Returns with New York Show Next Week
The reunited pop punk band will appear with Eve 6 at the Grammercy Theater.
Millbrook Winery’s Summer Solstice Vineyard Dinner Lobster Bake!
Saturday, June 18, 2016. Experience a uniquely wonderful dinner in the magical setting of our estate vineyard, while celebrating the longest day of the year. Enjoy the delicious lobster bake served with Millbrook’s best wines, while sitting amongst the illuminated vines.
Chandler Travis Philharmonic Visits Hudson on Sunday
The nine-piece band will play an afternoon show at music store Musica.
Music in the Parks
For twelve weeks this summer, a beautiful vignette will play out on the lawns of Hyde Park’s historic mansions when Music in the Parks returns for its 2016 season.
Farm to Fork Fondo
Cycling, cider, and community meet in this two-day event, featuring an 11-mile bike ride, the Ramble Ride, winding through Warwick’s countryside.
Mutable Grand Cross: Push Has Come to Shove
While the peak of this past weekend’s Gemini New Moon has happened, the message remains—as does the main grand cross aspect pattern. As a society and for many individuals, we do a lot of pretending, avoiding and dodging reality these days. We do a lot of hiding out in being too busy, too wounded, or…
ArtScene TV Episode 18
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.
Nightlife Highlights: Dan Brubeck Quartet
The Dan Brubeck Quartet plays at the Rosendale Cafe on June 25.
Thoughts on Approaching the Cancer Solstice
Recent events have lots of people wanting to retreat into a metaphorical shell of some kind; to protect the tender parts of ourselves with some form of armor, or to turn the hard parts of ourselves toward the world. Yet what the world needs most is for us to stay present in our sensitivity and…
Art of Business: Morrison Gallery
A gallery being called a “linchpin of Litchfield County’s art scene” (New York Times) doesn’t justify resting on its laurels.
Gemini New Moon: At a Crossroads
If you’ve been noticing a sensation of crisis related to a need to make a decision or accomplish something, and you tend to get caught up in thought-loops, you might find this astrology a little uncomfortable.
Libra for June 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between September 22 and October 23.
Capricorn for June 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between December 22 and January 20.
Art of Business: Hummingbird Jewelers
“People walk by and think, ‘Pretty window—probably an expensive store,'” says jeweler Bruce Lubman, owner of Hummingbird Jewelers in Rhinebeck. “But service is our real strength; in the workshop we do goldsmithing, repairs, restringing, restoring, repurposing—there’s basically nothing we can’t do in-house.”
Hudson Valley Cider & Cheese Tasting and Market
Cider and cheese are paired in this celebration of flavorful fermentation and tasty textures.
Mercury and Mars Retrograde: The Underlying Question
Desire is one of those elements at the core of the human emotional engine.
Red Hook, Rhinebeck, & Tivoli: Hudson Valley Classics
There is no finer iteration of the art of living well than life as it is lived in a classic Hudson Valley village. And there is no better way to experience the beauty of that art than by getting to know Rhinebeck, Red Hook, and Tivoli.
Art of Business: Niche
Good lighting makes the mundane beautiful and makes the beautiful stunning, and Niche uses 2,700-degree Kelvin bulbs in their handblown glass fixtures and chandeliers for that soft, white-gold glow.
Where Slavery Died Hard
In the 1790s, Ulster County was one of the top four slave-holding counties in New York State.
Scorpio for June 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between October 23 and November 22.
Art of Business: Village of Catskill
Lately, galas and openings increasingly share calendar space with the many, many meetings attended by Nancy Richards, who’s been with the Village of Catskill for 17 years and is currently community development coordinator, point person for parks and recreation, and secretary to the planning and zoning department.
Nightlife Highlights: It’s Not Night: It’s Space Record Release
It’s Not Night: It’s Space plays at Snugs in New Paltz on June 24.
Art of Business: Woodstock Playhouse
This June, the Woodstock Playhouse presents “The Wizard of Oz” and “Guys and Dolls.” Chronogram talked to company manager Doug Farrell about the theater’s history, mission, and future.
It Takes a (Farm) Village
When Carol Fernandez’s son, Alex, was in his late teens, she could hear the clock ticking. It was time to figure something out. Alex has autism, and while the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ensures public education services for people like him, those would end when he turned 22.
While You Were Sleeping for June 2016
The Mister Softee jingle inventor Lee Waas died on April 19 at age 94.
Stitched Together: A Patchwork House in Rosendale
This story begins with one lost glove.
Art of Business: David Borenstein
Architect and builder David Borenstein delights in form as a painter and sculptor and in function as a licensed plumber and electrician.
First-Rose Confidence, with Kevin Lee Jacobs
For many years, I avoided planting roses for myself or for clients. My misperception was that they were all divas that I would have to prop up with endless regimens of fungicides and insecticides and heavy applications of fertilizer.
Parting Shot: Linda Weintraub at CHRCH Project Space
CHRCH Project Space is not an art gallery. Think of it more as a laboratory where artists engage with the community to create living projects.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Coulrophobia: Fear of Clowns
Reams have been written and towers of babble are being devoted to deconstructing the rise of Trump.
Into the Sun
Christine Heppermann stands out in a crowd. It might be her hair—a vibrant red, somewhere between hot sauce and maraschino. Or the hot-pink T-shirt that says keep it surreal.
The 21st-Century Classroom
What’s been driving national education reform since the beginning of the millennium is a push toward standardizing achievement.
Doctor Fermento
Erik Ofgang talks with Derek Dellinger of Kent Falls Brewery about fermentation and more.
2016 Young Readers’ Roundup
Outstanding new books for young readers by Hudson Valley authors and illustrators, reviewed by Susan Krawitz, Nina Shengold, Robert Burke Warren, and introducing teen reviewers Ava Ratcliffe and Jack Warren.
Nightlife Highlights: Music That Shook the World
This concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center features pianist Michael Chertock, violinist Yehonatan Berick, cellist Yehuda Hanani, and comedienne Alison Larkin, who will read passages from Stravinsky’s and Antheil’s memoirs on June 11.
Circus’s Next Phase
Aaron M. Marquise grew up in the Saratoga County village of Round Lake as the class clown: full of energy, silly, and often getting into trouble.
CD Review: Infinite Spirit’s “Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band”
John Burdick reviews an album by Infinite Spirit.
Son of the South
Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Bitchin’ Bajas will perform on June 21 at the Half Moon in Hudson.
Closing Thoughts on Mars Retrograde
I’m taking an hour from my one-week retreat to send a few thoughts your way about Mars, which just stationed direct in Scorpio on Wednesday (at 7:38 pm EDT). Planet Waves has put significant resources into covering this event all year, so I trust you’re familiar with some themes or know that it’s happening. The…
CD Review: The Last Conspirators’ “Hold That Thought Forever”
Jeremy Schwartz reviews “Hold That Thought Forever” by the Last Conspirators.
Summer Arts Preview: Music
Peter Aaron gives a preview of music festivals happening this summer.
On the Cover: Angela Jimenez
Angela Jimenez has discovered a new perspective on the aging process.
CD Review: Wreckless Eric’s “AmERICa”
Robert Burke Warren reviews Wreckless Eric’s “AmERICa.”
Editor’s Note: Blurred Lines
When my parents left me in the custodianship of some hapless neighborhood teenagers to go out to dinner—in effect to get away from me, their first-born and at that point only child—I would eat a Swanson frozen meal for dinner (and imagine what might be in the doggie bag they’d bring home).
Summer Arts Preview: Art
Peter Aaron highlights local art festivals and gatherings happening this summer.
Trash As Treasure
Trash Fest, an interactive garbage festival, kicks off in Marbletown on June 4.
Sagittarius for June 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between November 22 and December 22.
Berkshire International Film Festival
The festival takes place from Thursday, June 2, through Sunday, June 5, at the Triplex Cinema and the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington.
Summer Arts Preview: Theater
A preview of local theater events happening this summer.
Esteemed Reader
Once when I was a child I was stricken with fever. It must have been before they invented oral thermometers because the frequent rectal ordeal—truly unpleasant in my weakened state—gave a steady reading of 104 degrees.
Catskill Interpretive Center Book Fair
The Hudson Valley boasts a robust local publishing industry.
Fulcrum Moment: Mars Stationing
The astrology of the moment is a beautiful trifecta. The Moon was full on Monday morning in Sagittarius for the second time in 29 days. The Sun just reached northern solstice, also Monday — it’s the beginning of summer season up above, and the beginning of winter down below. And Mars is stationing direct (that…
Aquarius for June 2016
Monthly horoscope for those born between January 20 and February 19.
Kingston’s Multicultural Festival
At this fourth annual Multicultural Festival, communities share the history of their culture by sharing its living aspects with the next generation.
