Arts
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 - 9:00 am
Last week, Sullivan County realtor David Knudsen posted a delightful rant on his blog, Sullivan County Real Estate, in which he aired a pet peeve about realtors in the Catskills. Knudsen calls it the "incorrect use of architectural style monikers in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 4:08 pm
Tonight at 6:30, parents, teachers, and community members are gathering at Onteora High School to watch and discuss "Race to Nowhere," a provocative recent documentary about overachievement and the culture of American education. From a new blog called... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - 11:48 am
Yesterday's two public hearings on the proposed regulation of natural gas drilling by the Delaware River Basin Commmission had a good turnout. According to PoconoNews.net, about 500 people showed up at the meeting in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, while the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 10:11 am
If you could build your dream cabin in the Catskills, what would it look like? For architect Peter Gluck, it would be the cube cottage pictured above, which is designed to hold 10,000 books, a desk, a beautiful view, and not much else. From an article on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 - 12:23 pm
Laura Levine, the proprietrix of Phoenicia's thrift-store-cum-junk-shrine Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques, also happens to have taken some of rock's most iconic images (such as a portrait of naked, leaf-covered Bjork) during her career as a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 8:49 am
The Stamford igloo. Photo by Beth Adams.
George Divine in Stamford has built an enormous, ice-reinforced igloo in his backyard. It's so impressive that the Mountain Eagle has written an article about it:
The four walls of the snow fort received a layer of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011 - 2:30 pm
Upstate Oddities, a blog dedicated to photos of the weird and wonderful things its author stumbles across in her forays around the Catskills, has a post this week dedicated to the Shandaken Theatrical Society, housed in the old Shandaken Oddfellows Hall.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 11:50 am
The Catskills Center for Conservation and Development is looking for an artist to host in a rustic cabin in the middle of the Platte Clove Nature Preserve in Hunter this summer. Perks of the center's artist-in-residence program include a telephone, a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 1:41 pm
Flickr user Laura McCarthy snapped this photo (and a bunch of others -- see slideshow below) last weekend while hiking the Black Dome range trail in Greene County. Photo used with permission.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 12:25 pm
In the Daily Star today: Thanks to donations, Oneonta's embattled Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center has enough money to keep the lights on for at least a few months.
About $110,000 in contributions will keep Foothills operating for several... Read more
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