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Mixing jazz, chamber music, cabaret, spoken word, the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown will be held at SUNY Ulster.
The Catskill Ballet Theater Company will be presenting an all new ballet story at the Ulster Performing Arts Center.
A show of works on paper, “Kulan” will be at the Hermitage in Beacon.
Sparrow gives his stance on the country’s political issues.
Four portraits of Abraham Lincoln by Oscar Strodl will be shown at Incident Report in honor of Lincoln’s birthday.
Perhaps here is a good place to reveal my palindrome about the Coen brothers:
No Coen’s neocon.
The artist K. Rakoll has created a phonetic alphabet that can express every human language. “K. Rakoll: The Secret Tongues of Babel” is at BeGallery in High Falls, through January 15.
Yes, they are alive and can have those colors,
But I, in my soul, am alive too.
Arnaud Sussmann plays the impossible with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.
First Lady Laura Bush meets with breast cancer survivors in pink tent…
In Edmund C. Coates’s Lighthouse, near Caldwell’s Landing, gentle hills rise like green breasts above two full-bellied sailboats. The Victorians had an erotic love of landscape.
Sparrow gives an update on his bumper sticker slogans.
Sparrow reviews the highlights of the Woodstock Film Festival and which films caused geriatric riots.
(I know one doesn’t typically speak of movies having authors, but believe it or not, someone wrote each one of them.)
And so once again
Oh, America my friend
And so once again
You are fighting us all
Cathy Wilkerson joined Weatherman, the leftist revolutionary group, when it was founded in 1969, and was soon chanting slogans like “Kick the Ass of the Ruling Class” and “Bring the War Home!”
Eating Disorder
I am
eating
disorder.
The encaustic boom is going strong. “Encaustic Works 2007,” R&F Encaustic’s biannual juried exhibition, was chosen from approximately 3,000 entries, by the artist Joan Snyder.
On August 24 and 25 from 7 to 11pm (raindate August 26), Arm-of-the-Sea will present its seventh annual “Esopus Creek Puppet Suite” at Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park in Saugerties.
As a postwar phenomenon, graffiti parallels the rise of street toughs and gangs. Its present form began in the late sixties, and became known as part of hip hop culture by the mid ‘70s.
Lundy represents a new generation of opera singers, unlike the classic rotund performers who would “park and bark” (stand in one spot and sing).
One day I realized I was writing bumper stickers. I began keeping a list: WARNING: ANARCHIST ON BOARD DON’T BLAME ME—I VOTED FOR BRITNEY SPEARS IF THOUGHT IS OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE THOUGHTS
“I don’t like the portrait of Denby,” my friend Tom said, as we walked through the show. “He looks so angry!”
“Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers,” a chamber festival at Dia:Beacon over the first three weekends in June, attempts to redress the undeserved anonymity of female composers.
Jan Harrison has invented her own language, literally. It’s called “Animal Tongues,” and she began speaking it in 1979. Though she doesn’t consider herself a performance artist, Harrison sometimes publicly sings—and speaks—in Animal Tongues.
Cheney: Hey, Bob, this is Dick. Cheney. How the hell are you?
“I Have To Do My Homework”: An Interview with Dave Frishberg
Famed songwriter and pianist Dave Frishberg is probably best known for 1973’s “I’m Just a Bill,” the first song he wrote for the TV show “Schoolhouse Rock.”
Quotation
“I wear a cross around my neck because I love right angles.”
- Lana Turner
Have you heard this new expression: “Sometimes I feel like a Marxist at Wal-Mart”?
Top chamber group CONTINUUM performs at Beacon’s Howland Cultural Center.
Which movies of 2006 got the coveted Golden Egg?
All saints are curious about…
A thought on Super Bowl Sunday.
Poems and pointed prose from Sparrow.
Generally, one does not think of comedy as a service industry—but Kate Clinton does.
Sparrow meets countercultural icon Wavy Gravy at the Woodstock Film Festival.
Mark Doerrier’s documentary about the goings-on in an Orange County town, In the Land of Goshen, will screen at Yellow Bird Gallery on January 26 and Cafe Chronogram on January 6.
Architect and visionary Daniela Bertol’s Sun Farm is not only a sprawling show ground for her sacred geometry-inspired creations, but also a work in progress itself. By Sparrow.
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