Arts
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 6:40 pm
Zack Grapes (as Aladdin) and Jade Litaker (as Jasmine) in the Andes Central School production of Aladdin yesterday. Photo by Joe Damone.
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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 - 2:14 pm
It's been a rough year for the arts in upstate New York. Between the most brutal state budget in recent memory and the tough economy, 2010 was more about surviving than thriving for many local arts and cultural organizations. But there was a surprising... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010 - 11:12 am
Woodstock was hopping last night with revelers prowling for cookies, wine, and Christmas lights at its holiday open house. We were there and stumbled upon Santa Claus, who was handing out poems and candy canes at FreeStyle Realty. For more photos from the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 - 4:30 pm
SUNY Delhi decided to channel Barbie when it entered Oneonta's gingerbread contest this week. Here's a slideshow of the college's entry, as posted on the SUNY Delhi Flickr page:
For more info on the contest, see the Oneonta NY Facebook page.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 9:32 am
*Note: This post's been updated (and the headline changed as well). Read the whole thing to hear the DEP's response to accusations that they're a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of driftwood-hoarders. Maybe there's a happy ending to this sad little story after all... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 8:50 am
Peter Manning, the Regional Planner for the Catskills Center for Conservation and Development, has sent us some more details on those Smart Growth grants that were announced yesterday. (He stresses that the plans for the money, which were first drafted... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 - 10:28 am
The hosts and broadcasters at Roxbury's WIOX radio station are celebrating today. The full-power FM station, which you can hear throughout much of Delaware County on 91.3 FM, is now also online. To listen to the streaming audio of the station's current... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 - 3:24 pm
WBNG Binghamton reports that some local Delaware County dancers were tapped to march in the enormous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City yesterday:
Five young dancers from the Kennedy Performing Art Studio in Sidney strutted their stuff in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 - 1:14 pm
The New York Times ran a long and loving article yesterday on a Catskills tradition: KlezKamp, a Yiddish culture festival-cum-bootcamp that runs the week between Christmas and New Year's at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson. The gathering... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010 - 12:57 pm
Rte. 28 between Hurley and Andes already has a new name: the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway. And now, the Central Catskills Collaborative is hosting a design contest to come up with a logo for the route.
Anyone who is unsatisfied with the new logo for... Read more
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