Arts
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 - 10:30 am
Above: A headpiece in progress at Martin Keith Guitars of Woodstock, exhibiting at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase this weekend.
If you love fine stringed instruments and the sweet sounds they make, come to Woodstock this weekend for the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 - 11:57 am
Fickle fortune befell last year’s Pine Hill Steampunk Festival in the form of Hurricane Sandy. "A lot of people decided not to come to the Catskills that weekend, and some who did come left early as the situation worsened," said Pine Hill Books owner and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 - 3:58 pm
The Arts Upstairs Gallery in Phoenicia, a lynchpin of the Shandaken community and an incubator for arts throughout the Catskills, is considering shutting its doors. The gallery's owners, Gavin and Margaret Owen, say in a post on their Facebook page that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 - 11:20 am
Above: The Gibson Brothers, the 2013 International Bluegrass Music Award Association entertainers of the year, are playing in Roxbury at Fiddlers! 20 this weekend. Photo via the Roxbury Arts Group.
For twenty years, the Roxbury Arts Group has been... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 - 10:28 am
On Friday, October 11, crowds (and food trucks) will start to gather in Kingston’s Stockade in mid-afternoon, while the Kirkland Hotel buzzes with joyous and purposeful chaos. At 5:45pm, it’s time to strike up the band: a surreal and beautiful mob of... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 - 2:31 pm
Top: Families tour the Hanford Mills Museum during the Miller's Harvest Festival. Photo courtsey of Hanford Mills.
Above: A video of the first public operation of the Museum’s restored 19th century water turbine, which was brought back online in 2012.... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 - 3:54 pm
It’s been lauded as “simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking,” (Ethan Hawke) “unique in its combination of cinematic sophistication, user-friendly scale and down-home hospitality,” (Godfrey Cheshire in the New York Times) and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 - 1:52 pm
Above: Yarns and knits from Tina Harp's Mountain Yarns shop in Margaretville.
Most folks have heard of the importance of eating local to support local farmers. But there's another side to Catskills agriculture: fiber and wool.
Eating local should go hand... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2013 - 9:05 am
The young ones are the most voracious. A revenant reveler at the 2012 Rosendale Zombie Festival; photo by Debora Lyons.
Rosendale will be one dead festival town this Saturday afternoon -- the walking dead, that is. Residents and visitors will don their... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Sep. 20, 2013 - 10:39 am
This weekend, get in on the jokes as the first Woodstock Comedy Festival lights up the town with three days devoted to the art and science of laughter. Stand-up, films, and a closer look at how comedy is created will all be part of the picture, presented... Read more
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