Local Culture

Oyster Party Brings a Taste of the New England Coast to Woodstock

For more than a decade, Oyster Party has been bringing oysters, lobster rolls and local drinks to events across the Catskills, Hudson Valley and greater Tri-State Area. The business began in Brooklyn in 2011 and spent years catering weddings, private and corporate events and hosting pop-ups, including at Brooklyn’s Smorgasburg market. Last November, Oyster Party […]
Oyster Party Brings a Taste of the New England Coast to Woodstock

Ancient Beer, Butterfly Memory And A Space Telescope Rescue

Our resident Science Contributor Joe Johnson recently brought us three stories that span thousands of years — from ancient brewing to the possibility of inherited memories, and a NASA mission designed to rescue an aging space telescope. Old beer discoveries In northwestern China, archaeologists have identified a grain-based alcoholic beverage dating back about 2,300 years, […]
Ancient Beer, Butterfly Memory And A Space Telescope Rescue

From Flamenco to Tin Pan Alley, Rachelle Garniez Keeps Exploring

Singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Rachelle Garniez has spent her career moving between musical traditions, drawing inspiration from everything from salsa and jazz to Tin Pan Alley and rock. Garniez grew up on New York City’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. Her mother was a classical musician, but Garniez says she was equally influenced […]
From Flamenco to Tin Pan Alley, Rachelle Garniez Keeps Exploring

The Callicoon Pantry Begins New Chapter at Former Catskill Provisions Space

CALLICOON, N.Y. – At 16 Upper Main Street in Callicoon, one chapter closes as another begins. After a six-year run operating the beloved Catskills Provisions, owner and head distiller Claire Marin has sold the building to The Callicoon Pantry, the local low-waste grocer and refillery, as the business prepares to expand. Marin says she was […]
The Callicoon Pantry Begins New Chapter at Former Catskill Provisions Space

Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ Premieres at the Delaware Valley Opera

LAKE HUNTINGTON, N.Y. – Mozart’s The Magic Flute is one of the best-known operas ever written, but you don’t have to be an opera expert to enjoy it.  Delaware Valley Opera in Lake Huntington is bringing the fairy-tale classic to audiences this August, with magic, comedy, memorable music and a story about the search for […]
Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ Premieres at the Delaware Valley Opera

Exploring Themes of Isolation in Scott Hess’s ‘Drought’

Award-winning author Scott Alexander Hess will be at The Hound Books in Roscoe Thursday, Aug. 13, for a reading and Q&A focused on his novel Drought. Drought follows Parnell, an isolated orphan from New Jersey who unexpectedly inherits a dilapidated tobacco farm in Kentucky from an uncle he barely knew. Hess said Parnell has spent […]
Exploring Themes of Isolation in Scott Hess’s ‘Drought’

Woodstock Memories: Jason Dole’s Conversation with Michael Lang

Talk about Woodstock Lost and Found. This past weekend, Radio Catskill’s Jason Dole found an interview he’d been trying to recover for years – a brief conversation with 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Fair organizer, Michael Lang. Unfortunately, the audio of this conversation is still missing. Fortunately, Jason transcribed the entire interview for an article […]
Woodstock Memories: Jason Dole’s Conversation with Michael Lang