Arts & Culture

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Portfolio: Nicholas Walster

By Beth E. Wilson

Photographer Nicholas Walster discusses his most recent series of works, Personal Panoramas.

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The Dance Within The Play

By Sparrow

The Catskill Ballet Theater Company will be presenting an all new ballet story at the Ulster Performing Arts Center.

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Spring Awakening

By Tara Quealy

The annual Beltane Festival hosted by the Center for Symbolic Studies, welcomes the coming of spring with a bang.

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Stand-Up Punk

By Sharon Nichols

Justin “Jt” Habersaat mingling punk rock with stand-up comedy.

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Prison Pictures

By Tara Quealy

Photographer Daniel McCabe uncovers the growing gang problems in Honduran prisons.

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Banished

By Tara Quealy

This film by Marco Williams follows three African American families as they seek reparations for the land their families lost after being driven out of town.

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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

By Tara Quealy

The fictional film tells the tale of a young college girl trying to help her roomate have an illegal abortion in communist Romania.

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Flow: For Love Of Water

By Tara Quealy

The documentary takes a look at the abuse of Earth’s most vital resource.

Food & Drink

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Adventures in Pizza

By Brian K. Mahoney

With its inventive sour dough pizzas Baba Louie’s in Hudson and Great Barrington are a popular spot for Italian food.

Books

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Willing

By Hollis Seamon

Hollis Seamon reviews Scott Spencer’s Willing.

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The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South

By Jay Blotcher

A review of Gilbert King’s The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the search for Justice in the American South by Jay Blotcher.

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Short Takes

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April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of dead land, mixing / Memory of desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” Drop that 1040 and read!

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Dangerous Laughter

By Tobias Seamon

Pulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser discusses his latest collection of short stories and his exceptional writing carreer.

Lucid Dreaming

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Atrocities of Proximate Censorship

By Beth E. Wilson

Beth E. Wilson reviews “Intimacies of Distant War” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and examines the recent dust-up over Wafaa Bilal’s exhibit “Virtual Jihadi” at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy.