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Bon-Odori Dance Festival to be held at the Blueberry Patch on August 5
The Bon-Odori Japanese Dance Festival will be held on Aug. 5 in downtown New Paltz. (photo by Lauren Thomas) The second annual Bon-Odori Dance Festival, named for an ancient Japanese folk-dancing...
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Downtown rocks at village’s 125th birthday party and Bon-Odori folk-dance...
Youko Yamamoto and David Daub perform heart sutra chanting at Sunday’s Bon Odori Dance Festival in New Paltz. (photo by Lauren Thomas) The Village of New Paltz celebrated in high style this past...
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COTA Corridors art exhibition on display in New Paltz
These emerging artists have installed mixed-media works on the outside of Snug Harbor as part of COTA Corridors. Left to right are: Kat Patterson, Keri Sheheen, Shanna Taub, Carmen Doyon, Dylan McManus...
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90 Miles to present “I remember Mama”
Pictured is the cast of 90 Miles off Broadway’s upcoming production of “I Remember Mama”. Top row, left to right: Dushka Ramic as Aunt Jenny, Wendy Rudder as Aunt Sigrid, Zane Sullivan as Nils, Joel...
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Hothouse Flowers’ Liam O Maonlai leads youth music workshop
Last week at the Lifebridge Sanctuary in Rosendale, renowned musician Liam Ó Maonlaí led a student-enrichment workshop for local high school students. (photo by Lauren Thomas) Highland and New Paltz...
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Ushio Shinohara, Russel Wright exhibits open through Dec. 16 at Dorsky Museum
A view of the current Dorsky Museum exhibition Russel Wright: The Nature of Design. The exhibit explores the work and philosophy of renowned mid-20th-century industrial designer Russel Wright, whose...
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Residents gather at the New Paltz Jewish Community Center to celebrate Hanukkah
Sitting cross-legged on the floor of the New Paltz Jewish Community Center, a group of three girls spun a dreidel to win a pile of fake plastic coins. As the four-sided top twirled ever nearer to...
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Artwork by Nadine Lewis on view this month at Elting Memorial Library
Nadine Lewis’s multi-media art exhibit is currently on view at the Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz. (photo by Lauren Thomas) Local artist and poet Nadine Lewis has an eclectic and moving art and...
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Rosendale Theater hosts open house to show off improvements, woo new volunteers
The Rosendale Theater Collective Board of Directors: (top row, L-R) Sam Pierce, Brian Mathews, Mike Ruppel, Eve Waltermaurer, Edward Schoelwer, Carrie Wykoff and Justin Peone. Bottom row (l-r): Ann...
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Composer Bertolozzi eyes Eiffel, reflects on ‘Bridge Music’
Joseph Bertolozzi on the Mid-Hudson Bridge. (photo by Lauren Thomas) Since 2009, people at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge have heard music. During warmer months, they’ve heard strange...
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Mala Hoffman’s latest poetry chapbook to be published in August
Mala Hoffman. (photo by Stephanie DePoala) Finishing Line Press announces the publication of A Year of Wednesdays, a poetry chapbook by Mala Hoffman. The collection, Hoffman’s second, is a poignant and...
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90 Miles Off Broadway honors young thespians
Kyle Beyer, NMOB president Kim Lupinacci and Elizabeth Clark. (photo by Machele Clark) 90 Miles Off Broadway has presented theatre scholarships of $400 each to Kyle Beyer of John Jay High School and...
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Three artists paint colorful murals on Tuthilltown Spirits silos (with photo...
Artists Ryan Cronin, Fumero and Joseph Meloy were at Tuthilltown Spirits in Gardiner last week adding their own distinct colorful images to the distillery’s three metal grain silos. Each silo stands...
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Whitecliff Winery hosts the Shwangunk Wine Trail’s Bounty of the Hudson (with...
Jared Moreash and Summer Solitario of Chester enjoy their visit to the Bounty of the Hudson event held at Whitecliff Vineyards in Gardiner last weekend. Sisters Cindy Spies and Sheri London with Tom...
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“Dada spill” performance showcases Rosendale mine’s unique past (with photo...
Caroline Osborn in "Wrench" as part of the Mine Project DaDa spill performance in the Widow Jane Cave in Rosendale last Sunday. At the end of the performance, the cast and crew of DaDa spill gather...
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The Big Band Sound to play Unison’s Ice Cream Social
An old-fashioned ice cream social and concert under the stars with The Big Band Sound will be held at Unison on Saturday, Aug.10. Pictured left to right are Unison staff members Stacy Greenspan, Kitty...
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New Paltz celebrates its third Japanese Bon-Odori Festival (with photo gallery)
A Hangasa Kai Japanese Folk dancer performs a traditional fan dance. A Hanagasa Kai Japanese folk dancer performs as a dragon in a traditional New Year's dance at the Bon Odori Dance Festival held at...
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Raper nikmoody to release “Farewellcome Vol. 1”
Nick Taldi, also known as the rapper nikmoody. For Nick Taldi, also known as the rapper nikmoody, the better part of a year has been a struggle to bring one project to a close. That project is the EP...
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Rosendale Theatre renovations well underway
(Photo by Lauren Thomas) Rosendale residents and folks just passing through on Route 213 alike have been wondering for the past three weeks or so what’s up with the Rosendale Theatre. Nightly film...
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New Paltz Rock teaches kids to rock ‘n’ roll
Julian Baker with his New Paltz Rock students. (photo provided) Over the summer, unbeknownst to many in New Paltz, two bands formed. They were the Pink Gorillas and Blue Day Food Fighters. Both rock...
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