Kingston After Dark: T-Shirts, gin and visionaries
A wise man (and Hyde Park resident) once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” FDR was talking about overcoming the Great Depression, but the words still ring true today. I was listening to the awesome indie band Titus Andronicus’ album Local Business and was inspired to write a positive column...
BSP hosting 1913-style New Year’s Eve bash
In the unlikely event that the Mayan calendar was inaccurate and you, in fact, are on the hook for a New Year’s Eve party dress after all (Editor’s note: It was, and you are.) why not make it a vintage one? Uptown Kingston will be welcoming Jan. 1, 2013 as it did Jan. 1, 1913...
Seeing isn’t always believing
“Scenes Believing,” the current exhibition at the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Arts, is an exquisite show of work by four artists whose diversity of style and medium cast fresh aspersions on the power of art’s illusions and the rippling resonances of meaning that derive from the juxtaposition of unlike images. Each artist presents a convincing...
Positively O: Festival coming next month
In what other world could you get 11 different meditation, yoga and tai chi classes for the price of a song? For the third time, Kingston will enter that world. Throughout the O-Positive (O+) Health and Wellness Festival weekend of Oct. 5-7, artists, musicians and even festival volunteers will be exchanging talent for talent with...
RUPCO, city team up for Fair Housing Expo Thursday
Mayor Shayne Gallo announces a Fair Housing Expo for all area residents will be held on Thursday, April 26 at the Midtown Neighborhood Center in Kingston. The event, which will feature a variety of family fun, educational activities and refreshments, will be held rain or shine from 2 p.m.-6 p.m. at the Midtown Neighborhood Center at 467 Broadway...
Old Dutch the center of Friday’s Clinton commemoration
Rifles will salute, bands will blare, and orators will emote at the 200th anniversary commemoration of the death of George Clinton, New York’s first governor and two-time vice president at his gravesite in the Old Dutch Church cemetery on Main Street next Friday, April 20. Clinton, born in Little Britain (then part of Ulster County)...
Surf’s Up! High Five Revival hits Kingston, New Paltz
For most, instrumental surf music first evokes the idyllic, sun-and-sand environment of the land of its birth — the West Coast. But even during its initial early 1960s height, the style made a splash among legions of landlocked musicians, players for whom the term “hang ten” probably had more to do with pinning up the...
Kingston to enjoy its own holiday wonderland, starting now
If you’re on Wall Street and around the Uptown Stockade District Friday, Dec. 9, between 5-8 p.m., keep your imagination open and your eyes peeled and you might have a chance of spotting Santa. Linda Fusaro, owner of Full Circle Wet Weather Boutique, and Bop to Tottom shop owner Karen Clark Adin, with support from...
Farmers’ Market shifts venue to the Old Dutch Church for the upcoming winter
Kingston Farmer’s Market has been an airy uptown summer-to-autumn event where people can connect with fresh local produce, crafts, homespun sauces and each other. Now the community will soon be able to access farm products and their winterized apparitions such as frozen vegetables and fruits turned into jams; cheeses, meats and more throughout the winter and...
Condition Redcoat: This year’s Burning adds some new wrinkles
No, the Redcoats and Rebels you may see running around this weekend don’t mean you slipped and fell into the hot tub time machine. It’s only the Burning of Kingston. The 2011 installment of the every-other-year event will include re-enactments, encampments, a regatta, demonstrations at the Senate House and guided tours, performances, lecture series and...
Rosendale Zombie festival lurches forward this Saturday
If you’re faint-hearted and living in Rosendale, this weekend is the time to close the shades, lock up the pets and hide in the closet to pray. The ravenous undead will be dragging their bloody, rotten body parts down Main Street this Saturday Sept. 17 at noon during the second annual Rosendale Zombie Crawl. Lineup...
Esopus plans bicentennial bash
If you were there when people rode horses and donkeys to market and church, maybe celebrating your birthday for an entire year isn’t that unseemly. The Town of Esopus has been celebrating its bicentennial by creating its own special events and threading together existing events going on within its own 40-square-mile parameters of its hamlets:...