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THE COLLAGE SHOW AT SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY
09-08-09 - Appropriate for a festival centered around literary works on paper, the art exhibition assembled for the event features works of art on paper and of paper. |
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TWELFTH NIGHT: A REVIEW
08-23-09 - Walking the dog Theater rarely disappoints, especially when they’re doing Shakespeare, and their production of Twelfth Night . . . is no exception. |
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CAR TALK: A REVIEW
08-06-09 -
OK, so there's the title, which immediately makes one reference those two cutups who laugh at their own jokes with jarring, annoying regularity on NPR. |
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ccSCOOP PICK: FOOD, INC. AT TSL
07-27-09 - There's a lot of concern about kids and adults who live in urban environments and have no sense of where food comes from.
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FORBIDDEN BROADWAY at Stageworks in Hudson
07-06-09 - Like the New York City expats who say they will let their New Yorker subscriptions lapse when they stop getting the jokes in the cartoons, I worried that, almost two decades of not living. . . . |
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GLORIES OF OLANA: THE VIEWS OF THE HUDSON
05-29-09 - Olana used to be an experience at once spontaneous and contemplative. We . . . drove up the winding road through the woods to the astonishing house and . . . the extraordinary view. |
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ENCHANTED APRIL
05-21-09 - All aboard for paradise in Enchanted April, the funny, charming, fairly cloying play by Matthew Barber.
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WALKING THE DOG IS THE BEST PART
05-19-09 - The second annual Walking the dog WALK stepped off on a cool Saturday under cloudy skies, to the relief of anyone who remembered melting during last year’s July parade.
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WESLEY BROWN: PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
05-09-09 - On Saturday, May 2, Wesley Brown, read from his new novel, Push Comes to Shove, as part of the Spoken Word: Writers & Readers Series at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
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DUTCH MUSICIANS AT THE HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
05-05-09 - Thanks to the Quadricentennial . . .
concertgoers in Columbia County had the opportunity to hear two very impressive Dutch musicians: Lenneke Ruiten, soprano, and Thom Janssen, piano.
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AMERICAN COLOR
04-24-09 – On Saturday, April 18, art lovers gathered at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center gallery to view Richard Garrison’s exhibition American Color.
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RIP
04-19-09 - Stageworks Hudson opened its 2009 season last Friday with a cleverly done dramatic version of the Washington Irving story “Rip Van Winkle.”
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ENGLISH MUSIC HALL AT HOH
03-08-09 - English Music Hall made an appearance at the Hudson Opera House on February 28, in the form of Pat Naggiar, a diminutive blonde in pearls and a girlish blouse of soft gray.
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THE LEGACY
03-03-09 -
The collective good ear of HRC Showcase Theatre, an organization devoted to readings of new, unpublished plays, has chosen a worthy work in The
Legacy, by Adam Siegel.
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OFF LEASH!
03-01-09 - Off Leash! is a hilarious series of theater games . . . rashly, generously, courageously leapt into by WTD thoroughbreds.
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MARKING TIME
Working in a wide range of media and styles, the twelve artists showed art that reflected on the idea of time and how its passage manifests itself in their work.
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RICH CONATY - HOST OF "THE BIG BROADCAST"
Rich Conaty is one New York's legendary DJs. At a time when WNEW-FM was pioneering free-form album-oriented radio, Rich was at WNEW-AM mining the rich history of early Pop and Jazz.
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HEROIC GIRLZ: 4 STARS FOR FOUR STARS
Saturday afternoon, January 31, The Crandell Theater in Chatham was the scene of a film screening and benefit for “Heroic Girlz Go to the United Nations.”
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MADERA VOX at the Hudson Opera House
What on earth is a music ensemble made up of a bassoonist, an oboist, a pianist, a singer, and a percussionist? Pleasure. That’s what it is. Pleasure.
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THE ART OF SONG DECONSTRUCTED: "STORYTIME"
Immediately, Jennifer Valle established her vocal credentials with a rousing delivery of “Vilia,” from Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow, probably the most famous witch song ever.
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DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Trust this Walking the dog Theater pair to scrape away any residual crud and do what the theatrical, dramatic Dickens himself might have done in his public readings. They do the text.
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A TALE OF TWO GALLERIES
On Saturday night, November 29, there were openings at two Hudson galleries bearing the name Carrie Haddad: Carrie Haddad Photographs, at 318 Warren Street, and Carrie Haddad Gallery, at 622...
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THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER by Thornton Wilder
At the Hawthorne Valley school recently, an attractive group of young
actors presented The Long Christmas Dinner, by Thornton Wilder, a one-act play directed by David Anderson.
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SPENCER DAY at the Hudson Opera House
The song’s conceit was intriguing, its lyrics engaging, and the melody appealing, but, at the beginning of the concert, it was Day’s between-songs remarks to the audience that engaged me most.
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THE MURDER OF LIDICE at the Spencertown Academy
On Friday, November 7, Spencertown Academy offered an evening of poetry and film, in conjunction with the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society’s current exhibition The Murder of Lidice, at Steepletop in...
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THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES - A Review
No pun intended, there was a real buzz in the air as an eager audience entered the Crandell Theatre on Thursday evening to see The Secret Life of Bees, a much-touted indie film being distributed by Fox...
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ARTSWALK IN HUDSON
Hudson was happening over the Columbus Day Weekend. The Fourteenth Annual ArtsWalk, sponsored by the Columbia County Council on the Arts, was a four-day visual and performing arts extravaganza.
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ARTSWALK IS COMING TO HUDSON
The Columbia Council on the Arts will celebrate its its 14th Annual ArtsWalk in Hudson over the Columbus Day Weekend with art, auctions, parties, music, painted dogs, doghouses, and projects for...
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OFF LEASH - A Review
All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes it is startling wit—and this is what Walking the dog Theater’s Improv Ensemble delivered with generosity.
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HUDSON LIBRARY KICKS OFF THE BIG READ
Readers young and old, and dogs—lots of dogs—turned out at Hudson’s Seventh Street Park on Saturday, September 20, for the kickoff of the Hudson Area Association Library’s 2008 Big Read.
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FALLING: A WAKE
Stageworks has done it again. It has brought something both humorous and deeply provocative to the stage.
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FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
The Spencertown Academy Arts Center began their two-week-long Festival of Books with a preview party on Friday night.
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RIDERS MILLS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION FENCE ART SHOW
The eagerly anticipated Fifth Annual Fence Art Show sponsored by Riders Mills Historical Association and the Columbia County Council on the Arts was held on Saturday, September 6 in a big tent pitched on...
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UNDER MILK WOOD: A REVIEW
For rich, evocative language that engrosses and satisfies, hie thee to PS/21 in Chatham to experience Walking the dog Theater’s production of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood.
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ART INSPIRES ART AT OLANA'S WAGON HOUSE
Olana, the family home of Frederic Church in Greenport, NY, is branching out with a new creative space and programs to encourage and inspire an artistic view of the world in the spirit of Frederic Church...
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