Tim Bruno

Lessons from Trailblazers Workshop Highlights Powerful Women in Music

It’s Women’s History Month and on Saturday, March 9, at the Ellenville Public Library, Arts Mid-Hudson presents a workshop exploring the important contributions made by women in music throughout History, as well as the challenges that women have faced in the music industry, and how they have overcome these obstacles to create music that is […]

Art Goes Punk: Live Loop Painting at DVAA

Freak-folk, avant-rock innovator Seth Faergolzia performs a mind-bending live loop painting, combining improvised sounds and live abstract painting on Saturday, March 9th, at Delaware Valley Arts Alliance‘s Krause Hall in Narrowsburg. Culture Reporter Valerie Mansi spoke to Faergolzia about how he improvises vocals, looping and treating them with the precision of a DJ, all while […]

Are You a Poet (Laureate) and You Know It? County Seeks Top Poet Post

The Sullivan Public Library Alliance is seeking a poet to promote “the Spirit of Sullivan County” with audiences of all ages. The poet laureate helps increase public appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. Someone who has filled that role before is Eric Baylin, the former Sullivan County Poet Laureate. He spoke to Tim […]

Celebrate Maple Syrup Season …with Pancakes

‘Tis the season to tap maple trees. To celebrate this first stirring of spring and one of North America‘s unique natural products, The Damascus Manor Community Center (DMCC) in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, is hosting its fourth annual Maple Syrup Harvest Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, March 16. Farm & Country’s Rosie Starr spoke with Damascus Manor […]

For Artist Valerie Hegarty, Damaging the Art is Art

Catskill Art Space presents an exhibition of new work from Hovey Brock, Daniella Dooling and Valerie Hegarty opening Saturday, March 2 to April 27. Valerie Hegarty makes paintings, sculptures, and installations that explore issues of memory, place, and history. Hegarty replicates paintings and antiques from early American art history, then damages them with devices associated […]

New Literary Salon In Ellenville Welcomes Author David Goodwillie

David Goodwillie is the guest for a new literary salon series launching in Ellenville on Saturday, March 2. Goodwillie will read from his work, answer questions, and describe his picaresque journey in New York’s literary world. David Goodwillie is the author of the novel American Subversive, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, […]

New Paltz Remembers First Same-Sex Weddings, 20 Years Later

Twenty years ago this week, two dozen LGBTQ+ couples donned their best coats and met at a park in New Paltz to do two things: get married, and break the law. The act of civil disobedience tested New York’s marriage laws at a time when same-sex marriage was hotly debated, but still largely illegal in […]

New York’s State Legislature Approves New Congressional Map

The New York State legislature Wednesday finalized new Congressional lines for the 2024 races, clearing the way for petitioning for the June primaries that started on Tuesday. Here’s a look at what would be changed in our local congressional districts if the maps are signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul, according to Politico: The […]

NY Legislature Rejects New Congressional Maps from Independent Commission

Democrats in the New York State Legislature on Monday rejected new congressional district maps drawn by a bipartisan redistricting commission and are opting to draw their own maps instead. Republicans, who are in the minority in the Legislature, condemned the vote — saying it’s all about the Democrats trying to gain political advantage. Karen DeWitt […]