Arts
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 11, 2011 - 10:26 am
Above: Ascent, a sculpture by Mark Pilato.
The little hamlet of Halcottsville in Delaware County is hosting a 9/11 ceremony today from 1pm to 3pm. The hamlet's fire department is now the permanent home of "Ascent," a sculpture by Halcottsville volunteer... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 10, 2011 - 1:10 pm
Video of Arkville flooding, by YouTube user mathewpaul2000.
Joe Moskowitz, the proprietor of Casey Joe's Coffeehouse and Arkville-Bikeville in Arkville, is throwing a huge flood-relief benefit concert at 7pm Saturday night in the space usually occupied by... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011 - 12:10 pm
Above: Natalie Martin as Andromache and Kathryn Saffell as Helen of Troy.
"The Trojan Women," an ancient play about the horrors of the Trojan War, isn't exactly a gut-buster. The story opens with the great citadel of Troy lying in ruins (after our pal... Read more
By wateradmin on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011 - 4:23 pm
We're trying something new today at the Watershed Post: a theater review. Kirby Olson, our resident poet laureate, submitted this review of Trojan Women at the Franklin Stage Company. (We wrote about the show, which is playing for two more weeks, last... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011 - 3:43 pm
Abraham Lincoln (aka John Exter), Gerald Balcar, Ursula Burroughs (aka Patricia Brannen), and New York State Assemblyman Clifford Crouch. Photo by Lissa Harris.
Assemblyman Clifford Crouch (R-107) was the guest of honor Tuesday, at a dinner-theater... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011 - 2:21 pm
You might have missed the last appearance of the Delaware County Complaints Choir on August 6 -- they had to hightail it to a church basement when the skies opened over the Arts & Soul of the Catskills festival.
Luckily for you, the Complaints Choir... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 - 10:58 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.) For more background on this cartoon, click here. You can see Mayer's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 19, 2011 - 12:09 pm
Avis Gebert insisted that she was not a natural storyteller. But “Grandma Avis,” as she was known to children throughout Woodstock, held generations of kids spellbound as she spun out her carefully crafted tales.
Gebert, who died on Wednesday at the age... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 - 5:20 pm
Linda Norris, Treadwell's resident expert on museums and Ukraine, has been running the Pickle Project, her travelling roadshow about Ukrainian foodways, ever since she secured seed funding for it earlier this year. (We interviewed Linda about the Pickle... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 - 3:24 pm
Members of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company in "UNTITLED FEMINIST MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SHOW." Photo by Blaine Davis.
What do you expect from an edgy Brooklyn playwright who has gotten rave reviews for a play about black-white race relations, scathing... Read more
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