Arts & Culture

Portfolio: Nicholas Walster

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

Spring Awakening

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

Prison Pictures

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

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

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

Flow: For Love Of Water

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

Stand-Up Punk

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

The Dance Within The Play

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

Banished

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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.

Food & Drink

Adventures in Pizza

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

Books

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

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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.

Dangerous Laughter

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

Willing

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Hollis Seamon reviews Scott Spencer’s Willing.

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!