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Woodstock Film Fest reaches 15
Town supervisor Jeremy Wilber proclaims it to be Film Festival Week, with Meira Blaustein. (photo by Laura Revercomb) The 15th annual Woodstock Film Festival kicks off next Wednesday, October 15 with...
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Indies on the loose! Highlights of 15th Woodstock Film Festival
(Illustration by Will Lytle) The Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) wound up its 15th annual manifestation on Sunday night, October 19, this year drawing cinephiles from near and far to 11 venues in...
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Connor Kennedy plays every chance he gets
Connor Kennedy (photo by Dion Ogust) Dylan and Hendrix no longer frequent the streets and cafés of Woodstock, but their legacy persists in a town that continues to nurture young musicians. “I live in a...
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5000 attend Festival of the Voice’s fifth year
Maria Todaro in The Barber of Seville. (photo by Violet Snow) At opening night of the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, before flamenco musicians and dancers took the stage, Assemblyman...
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PAW celebrates on its 50th anniversary
Edie LeFever (photo by Dion Ogust) In 1963, two young women, Edie LeFever and Eda Crist, noticed that theater productions in Woodstock always involved professionals playing the leads. They decided to...
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Books: Frances Gray’s My Life with Archipenko
Frances Archipenko Gray, the elegant longtime Woodstocker who’ll be reading from and signing copies of her new memoir My Life With Alexander Archipenko at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum...
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Spinelli’s Burning Man hearkens back to the Maverick Festivals
Temple (photo by Frank Spinelli) Rooted in Utopia’s past, Frank Spinelli’s astounding photographic record of “Burning Man” celebrates the planet’s newest art-driven community. In doing so this native...
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Olive Free Library exhibit recalls reservoir construction era
Like many other Town of Olive residents, Rejoice Scherry grew up hearing stories about the towns that were uprooted to make way for the Ashokan Reservoir, built to provide New York City residents with...
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Ars Choralis turns 50
Ars Choralis performs Music in Desperate Times. Among the eight “Whereases” in the Town of Woodstock resolution to honor the choral group Ars Choralis for its fiftieth year of performances: “Whereas,...
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Recordings to film to dance
Tasso Zapanti (photo by Dion Ogust) “When I first began to write music,” recalls Tasso Zapanti, sitting in the living room of his Bearsville house, “it was such a great satisfaction to put emotions...
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Suzan Saxman is a Reluctant Psychic
Susan Saxman (photo by Dion Ogust) Since the appearance of the January 23 New York Post article on Suzan Saxman’s memoir, The Reluctant Psychic, which comes out this weekend from St. Martin’s Press,...
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Claire Lamb is painting Woodstock
(Photo by Dion Ogust) It’s nice to sit and do nothing,” says Katherine Burger as she’s having her portrait painted at the Woodstock Library. “It’s so meditative. And Claire is very entertaining.” “I’m...
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Adventures of a House and Its Books
Robert Wyatt When I invited Robert B. Wyatt, formerly an editor at Avon, Dell, Ballantine, and St. Martin’s, to speak at a panel on traditional publishing versus self-publishing, I assumed he would...
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Creating Spirit Of Place
Carl Eric Lindin, Early Spring Woodstock, ca. 1930, oil on canvas Since assuming the Executive Directorship of the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in September, Neil Trager has heard a distant...
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Poets duel in the mud
Who, besides poets, likes the local poetry scene? Years ago, Mikhail Horowitz warned me, “The smaller the pie, the sharper the knives.” Oh, I’ve gotten compliments, but the slights are what I remember....
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Ides’ inspirations become community ritual
Bethany Ides in her living room. (photo by Violet Snow) In Bloomington, near Kingston, in a 19th-century brick house, artist, writer, and scholar Bethany Ides is organizing a performance project that...
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Woodstock Writers Fest convenes
Martha Frankel welcomes the writers. (photo by Dion Ogust) As usual, the Woodstock Writers Festival begins its sixth year with the ever-popular story slam competition on the evening of Thursday, March...
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Writers Fest: Literary wisdom
Biography panel at Woodstock Writers Festival. (photo by Dion Ogust) No individual could attend every single one of the workshops, panels, interviews, and parties at last weekend’s sixth annual...
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Butterfield inducted into R&R Hall of Fame
Paul Butterfield On April 18, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, finally gaining a posterity that’s long overdue, according to the leader’s son,...
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Byrdcliffe, VOICETheater collaborate on renovation of Theater
Shauna Kanter (photo by Dion Ogust) Renovations have begun on Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe Theater, thanks to a private donation made to Shauna Kanter’s VOICETheatre company, which is looking forward to...
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