Arts
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 - 10:23 am
A mockup of what a Rondout Valley tourist map might look like, from the Valley of the Giants website.
Pop artist Maria Reidelbach -- the force of nature behind Kerhonkson's "Gnome Chomsky," the world's second-largest garden gnome -- has a vision for... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 - 9:16 am
No, that's not a miniature town in a train set. It's Delhi, seen through the lens of local photographer Vala Kjarval, who took this photo a few days ago.
Kjarval has an eye for finding a startling perspective on familiar objects and landscapes. You can... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 - 11:55 am
Last Saturday, the little Delaware County town of Andes came alive with the rat-a-tat of marching drums and the plunk of banjo strings, as the annual Community Day parade wended its way down Route 28. And then the festivities really got underway. (It's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011 - 5:41 pm
Photo of the Fleischmanns theater in 2009 by Doug Kerr, via Flickr.
A dispute over the ownership of the Fleischmanns movie theater has finally been resolved, leaving the village of Fleischmanns in the movie business.
In a decision issued last week, U.S.... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011 - 11:00 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.)
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011 - 1:05 pm
The Dancing Cat Saloon and the Catskill Distilling Company have been steadily building a distillery right across the street from Max Yasgur's historic Woodstock-hosting dairy farm in Sullivan County for about a year now. Tomorrow, owners Monte Sachs and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 - 2:14 pm
Oh, who am I kidding? I love Dirty Dancing, that glorious 1987 dance-romance flick set in the fading glory of the 1960s Catskills, as much as anybody.
News broke yesterday that Kenny Ortega, the man responsible for High School Musical, has been tapped to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 - 10:06 am
Can't get enough about the Delhi flash mob? Our WP correspondent and crack local videographer Jessica Vecchione has a 6-minute video that follows the mob that hit Main Street last week from start to finish.
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 - 1:08 pm
Image by Flickr user Samantha Manton.
Say it ain't so, New York Times "Our Towns" columnist Peter Applebome! Not only are you jumping on the "Hudson Valley/Catskills is the new Brooklyn" bandwagon, but you're doing it with an enormous 2,553-word NYT... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 - 12:43 pm
Sometimes we forget that the Catskills are part of Appalachia, with all its misty hollows and moonshine lore. Folk musician A.J. Roach will cure that little delusion -- his first two albums were all fiddles, banjos and lyrics about life in ghostly eastern... Read more
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