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Jeremy’s mountain song
Jeremy Bernstein (photo by Dion Ogust) The Woodstock Film Festival has become an annual burst of new energy to the town, perfectly timed — after the summer bustle settles and winter threatens. For the...
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The winners: A bunch of films…and Woodstock
(Photo by Alan Carey) Film lovers and indie industry people swarmed into town for the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival, which ran from October 10 to 14. Visitors and residents attended almost 130 events,...
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Born in Chicago… Gabe Butterfield keeps his father’s memory alive
Gabriel Butterfield Paul Butterfield used to be a household name in Woodstock. You’d see him out at nights in the bars, at local clubs and restaurants. He played with everyone. His band, as tight as...
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Fletcher show recalls the paintings and the life of Julio De Diego
Julio De Diego, Landscape, c. 1940, Oil on board Over the course of an epic life Julio De Diego, one of the more flamboyant Woodstock characters of any era, supported himself as a costume, scenery and...
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Lipkins’ bass bow wins the gold
Susan Lipkins (photo by Dion Ogust) Woodstock bow-maker Susan Lipkins has won a gold medal in the Violin Society of America’s 2012 international violin and bow competition. She received the award for...
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Books / Hidden meanings
Sam Truitt, Tony Fletcher, James Lasdun Hidden meanings Sam Truitt’s DICK may be one of the most obfuscated and impenetrable works to have come along in some time. And yet it’s full of rewards…and an...
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Grammy hopefuls
Holly George-Warren and Elizabeth Mitchell. Not one but two local women have been nominated for the 2013 Grammy awards: music writer Holly George-Warren of Phoenicia for the liner notes of The Pearl...
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Last chance holiday reading gifts
There’s a beauty about art at its most challenging edges. The underlying idea behind “difficult” literature — as with any medium — is to impart a sense of curiosity as to how the visible elements of...
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Forbidden Fruits: Paw’s Tastiest Winterfest
Performing Arts of Woodstock [PAW] will be 50 next season. At the moment that feels like 49 consecutive miracles in a row. Despite a solid string of very strong shows, lousy logistics dog the company,...
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J.R.R. Tolkien and the Ballantines
J. R. R. Tolkien with Betty and Ian Ballantine. Two weeks ago the first installment of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit was sliced out of first place at theaters by The Chain Saw Massacre, and thus the...
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Stephen Kerner’s world
Steve Kerner in his living room. (photo by Violet Snow) “When the water splits the painting open, magic happens at the subatomic level,” says Woodstock artist Stephen Kerner. “I feel like I’m shifting...
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Embracing the New
Figure by Louis Bouché, 1917. “How do you like your husband’s new paintings,” historian Alf Evers reported that artist Henry Lee McFee’s wife was asked (she also being the sister of artist and...
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Hitting things for a living: Eric Parker
Eric Parker (photo by Dion Ogust) Many people in this world brag and shouldn’t. Others never brag though we sometimes wish they would. Case in point: The late Larry Hoppen once berated Eric Parker, who...
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On Being Stalked
James Lasdun James Lasdun’s new book, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked — from which he’ll be reading and of which he’ll signing copies of at Golden Notebook’s new upstairs space at 4 p.m....
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Lives of the painters: Andrew Dasburg
Andrew Dasburg, Charles Rosen and George Bellows. (Historical Society of Woodstock Archives) From the start Andrew Dasburg was the ring-leader of “The Rock City Radicals,” that group, including Konrad...
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A sound purpose
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Q. Peanut butter: creamy or chunky? A. Chunky. Creamy does virtually nothing for me audibly. – From an interview of Robert Euvino In a clearing on a hill to the east side of...
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Every penny helps
Louis Otey and Maria Todaro (photo by Dion Ogust) “It’s a chance to listen to international stars in a rustic, picturesque setting — without having to pay hundreds of dollars,” said Louis Otey,...
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Paul Green keeps the musical fire burning
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Paul Green, of School of Rock fame, has a raspy voice and man-child ways that make his cinematic doppelganger Jack Black look like a naïf. He bounds about Todd Rundgren’s old...
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‘…without passion there is nothing.’
William Pachner at age 98. In a corner of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a five year old Jewish boy blinds himself in the left eye with a kitchen knife while sharpening a pencil. The...
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Concerts on the Woodstock Village Green begin again
Students from Paul Green’s Rock Academy (here rehearsing for Pink Floyd’s The Wall, as performed last weekend) will be on the bill for the Concerts on the Green. Miss the Rock Academy take on Pink...
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