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Writers Festival: recovery, American girls, and…Woodstock
The seventh annual Woodstock Writers Festival opens April 7 with the traditional Thursday night Story Slam, at the Woodstock Music Lab, and proceeds through the afternoon of Sunday, April 10,...
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Positively Tinker Street
It was Frank Zappa who, when asked to define rock journalism, replied that it was perpetrated by “people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t speak, for people who can’t read.” Happily, the...
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Houst, School for Young Artists mural project
Though the arts-driven culture of Woodstock lends itself to large projects, inspiration for the creation of a mural that is representative of the spirit of Woodstock, set to occupy the eastern and...
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Cindy Cashdollar has come full circle
Cindy Cashdollar (photo by Dion Ogust) Cindy Cashdollar grew up in Woodstock. It’s an old local name. Her great-uncle Albert Cashdollar was town supervisor, 1932-1943, and the family ran Locust Grove...
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Writers fest grows, changes at new venues
The memoir panel at the Woodstock Writers Festival. (photo by Dion Ogust) In a weekend-long celebration of writers and readers, the seventh annual Woodstock Writers Festival saw a greater turnout than...
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Writing your way clean
Jamie Brickhouse, Tracey Helton Mitchell and Kevin Sessumson the recovery panel at the Woodstock Writers Festival. (photo by Dion Ogust) With a heroin epidemic increasingly devouring the young,...
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Pierre Bensusan plays at St. Gregory’s
Pierre Bensusan “I am thrilled to play finally in Woodstock after all those years. I am looking forward to it. I feel great about coming to America. This is my second home,” says the extraordinary...
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Story Festival brings together teaching tales
Gioia Timpanelli “Storytelling is an all-purpose wrench — it fits everywhere,” said Woodstocker Peter Blum. “You can use it in therapy practice or working as a bartender. A teacher can capture...
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Art on Paper: Works from the Permanent Collection at WAAM opens this weekend
Walter Plate, Still Life #12, 1972, gouache on paper. Photo courtesy of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. From the exhibition Art on Paper: Works from the Permanent Collection, opening...
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Lenny Kislin: The time collector
Humpty Contemplates The Reconstructive Capabilities Of The King’s Horses by Lenny Kislin, from his WAAM show opening Saturday May 7. Lenny Kislin came to Woodstock in 1970. He’d just finished law...
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John Simon’s ‘Truth, Lies, and Hearsay’
John Simon (photo by Kevin Yatarola) “It’s going to be like being in my living room. I’ll play some songs, tell some stories… real warm and relaxed I hope,” says John Simon about his performance at 8...
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Marc Black’s One Song at a Time
You know, if you even wrote five songs a year, after 50 years you’d have 250, quite a body of work. And if you started going back over them, you just might be able to piece together your life story, or...
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Dylan turns 75; Family celebration is May 29
It’s that time of year again. Flowers blooming, summer bearing down, and Bob Dylan is another year older. This year he turns 75 and in honor of that Family of Woodstock presents its 8th Annual Bob...
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The drawn thoughts of Irmalinda’s Doll
I’m not sure what to call Irmalinda’s Doll: A Volume of Drawn Thoughts (Author’s House, 2016) by Saugerties artist Valerie Owen. It’s definitely a book, emphatically an artist’s book. It comes close to...
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Robert Chanler: Over the top wasn’t enough
Robert Chanler screen depicting panther attacking white stag. In 1990, while first writing for this paper, I began “ghosting about” what was then called the “Woodstock Artists Association.” One...
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Spirit of Woodstock and “Life, Animated”
For the next two Saturday nights, movie lovers can experience the power of life affirming films and the filmmakers who create them. The Woodstock Film Festival is hosting two events to celebrate its...
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Music: Clouds of Endless Summer
Poné Ensemble A misplaced program caused me to omit last month my review of the Poné Ensemble’s April 3 concert, at New Paltz United Methodist Church. I love this brave little group’s recent music...
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PAW’s ‘Brilliant Traces’
Maria Elena Maurin and Chris Grady in Brilliant Traces. A bride fleeing her wedding bursts into a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, where she is soon snowbound with the solitary resident, Henry Harry....
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Playhouse kicks off 78th season with ‘Guys and Dolls’
Woodstock Playhouse Company members Kelly Murphy as Miss Sarah Brown and Michael Gaudio as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls at the Woodstock Playhouse. “We’ve been called a ‘steppingstone to Broadway,’”...
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Hoover’s The Mathematics of Disengagement
“If it had been left up to me,” says Susan Hoover of her new book, “it would never have been done.” But publisher Dayl Wise of Post Traumatic Press didn’t leave it up to her. He encouraged Hoover to...
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