Breaking Through the Cultural Apartheid
by Jay Blotcher

Ulster County residents Bruce Grund, 79 and Michael Monasterial, 44, come from different worlds, but their love of theater...

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Hey-Ho, Let's Go- Uncle Monk
by Peter Aaron

Woodstock on a weekend night. On the stage of the Bearsville Theater’s wood-lined lounge is a male-female acoustic duo, the leader a dude on mandolin sporting faded jeans, a beard, and long gray hair. They’re doing a fine job, too, singing and picking out oldtime and bluegrass tunes; mostly originals but...

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A Slow Walk with Marco Maggi
A conversation with Sheila Yoshpe

Marco Maggi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has represented his country in biennials in San Pablo, Korea, Havana, and in Mercosur. In the last year, his work was exhibited in MoMA in NYC, the Hirshshorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and MoCA in Los Angeles.

In 1998, he received an MFA from SUNY New Paltz, the town where he draws twelve hours a day, seven days a week. He interrupts his work to sleep, walk on Huguenot Street, and eat as little as possible.

We did this interview in two sessions....

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The Future Is Now: Hudson Valley Clean Energy
by Ross Rice

My tires scrunch across the driveway at the brand-new warehouse site for Hudson Valley Clean Energy, just outside of Rhinebeck. It’s a slightly overcast September morning, and after a series of wrong turns [despite excellent directions provided] I’ve finally located the forest-green office....

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