Arts & Culture
Portfolio: Nicholas WalsterPhotographer Nicholas Walster discusses his most recent series of works, Personal Panoramas. | Spring AwakeningThe annual Beltane Festival hosted by the Center for Symbolic Studies, welcomes the coming of spring with a bang. | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 DaysThe fictional film tells the tale of a young college girl trying to help her roomate have an illegal abortion in communist Romania. |
The Dance Within The PlayThe Catskill Ballet Theater Company will be presenting an all new ballet story at the Ulster Performing Arts Center. | BanishedThis 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
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
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 LaughterPulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser discusses his latest collection of short stories and his exceptional writing carreer. | Short TakesApril is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of dead land, mixing / Memory of desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” |
