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Simone Felice's Happy Days

It's been eight months of traversing the globe for musician Simone Felice, all in support of his eponymous, moody folk debut album. Even so, the singer-songwriter-author and Catskills resident says he’ll approach his December 7 performance at Helsinki Hudson, the first of two back in home territory,

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Kelly Meets Cage, Once Again

Left: photo of John Kelly by Billy Erb; right: photo of John Cage poster by Everett McCourt On a New Year's Eve in the early 1990s, John Kelly was invited to a party at a downtown Manhattan loft while working on a production of his Light Shall Lift

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Cool Brit Gets Blown Around by the Winds of America

Longtime rock music fans may remember England's whiskey voiced Graham Parker and his group, the Rumour -- an ensemble equally adept at Motown-ish rave-ups, reggae, and Dylanesque folk rock — for their 1979 hit album, Squeezing Out Sparks, which yielded the catchy soul-pop single “Local Girls.” Now a Hudson

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Art Reaches for the Stars at Williams

Like many of us, Elizabeth Rooklidge's fate, it seems, was written in the stars. A second year art history graduate student at Williams College, Rooklidge, who made her way east from Southern California, found her muse in the vaults of Williams College Museum of Art's (WCMA&

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Alex Ross at NRM: A Comic Book Coming Home

The Norman Rockwell Museum's upcoming exhibition, Heroes and Villains,  is going to be pretty super. Opening on Saturday, November 10, it gives more than the usual space to the career of illustrator Alex Ross, best known for his work with DC and Marvel Comics and perhaps the most

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Music: Here Comes Trouble

If you want something done right, do it yourself. And if you can't do it yourself, get your Talmudic sisters to help you. This seems to be the motto held by the many women who appear in the scrolls of the Torah. Matriarchs, seductresses, prophets, and mothers line

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Theater Review: The 39 Steps Takes a Leap or Three

The dynamic cast of S&Co's The 39 Steps. All photos by Kevin Sprague. In the world of pre-war British espionage, it's all fun and games until someone loses a major national security secret, at which point, quite naturally, things just get hysterical. At least

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Film Festivals: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

So you missed your chance. But why waste tears on regret? Sure, opening night at the Williamstown Film Festival and the ever-popular Saturday Night Sneak at the FilmColumbia Festival are both (predictably, at this late date) SOLD OUT. But there is still plenty of powerful hanky action to be wrung

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Singing Change Along: The Old Mezzo Debuts at WAM Theatre

WAM co-founder Kristen van Ginhoven and playwright Susan Dworkin What are the politics of singing—and what are the costs? These questions are at the heart of Women’s Action Movement (WAM) Theatre’s world premiere of The Old Mezzo, which runs from October 12-28. The Old Mezzo tells the

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SculptureNow: Now!

"Stalking Cheetah" by Wendy Klemperer When people think of public art in small towns, they may conjure up images of statuesque bronzes to martyred saints such as the beautiful 1896 bronze of Saint Winifred by George E, Bissel, looking at the moment rather lonely (if not downright mopey)

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Verlyn Klinkenborg Signing and Giveaway

Verlyn Klinkenborg, an award-winning American non-fiction author who lives in the RI region, has been writing literary meditations about the joys, rewards, and tribulations of farm life for years now, most notably as a columnist for The New York Times, where he serves on the editorial board, and as the

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The Clark Unearths Rare Artifacts and Sterling Clark's Adventures in China

Sandstone sarcophagus, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE), tomb of Song Shaozu,  dated 477 CE, Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan. In 2000 in Shanxi Province, a nine-ton stone sarcophagus dating back to China's Northern Wei dynasty (386-535 CE) was unearthed. Ironically, the “mini house,” which was once displayed in bits

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