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By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 25, 2010 - 3:23 pm
The Daily Yonder tipped us off to this: In Kentucky, poet and newspaper columnist Constance Alexander recently lampooned the state's perpetually tardy budgetmakers with a mocking bit of verse modeled after "Casey At The Bat." An excerpt: The outlook isn't... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Apr. 24, 2010 - 7:05 pm
Richard Reeve, the head of the Family Foundation and a Catskills blogger in his own right, caught this shot of a ruined castle on the Hudson this week. It's near Beacon, on the eastern shore of the river, so not quite the Catskills, but we couldn't resist... Read more
By Joe Harris on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010 - 2:24 pm
Area Teen Joe Harris, the Watershed Post's newest columnist, critiques Aaron Johnson, Chloë Moretz and Nicolas Cage in Kick-Ass. For an avid comic book fan, watching a movie like Kick-Ass – yet another film adaptation of a Marvel license – can be like... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 - 10:59 pm
Welcome to the hall of mirrors that is the Internet. The Daily Freeman recently wrote a story about Martha Frankel's new book, Brazilian Sexy. Frankel posted the Freeman clip on Facebook, along with a quip about being naked in her hometown paper. Some... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 - 10:03 am
We just got an email from Demon On Wheels director Christina Eliopoulos, who's shooting a documentary about local mechanic Mike Ondish and his bitchin' '68 Shelby Mustang: I'm seeking out 2 production interns who can assist us from May 3 through May 8 on... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2010 - 3:05 pm
Akira Ohiso of Zinc Plate Press snaps a picture of the now-defunct Academy Theater in Liberty, and muses: Part of the Main Street revitalization of Liberty should include bringing this space back to life. In a recent profile of the Rosendale Theatre... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 - 12:17 pm
First the New Kingston film festival went on maternity leave, and now the Franklin Stage Company is taking a hiatus! The Daily Star reports that the theater company won't be putting on plays this summer: "There just isn't enough staff," Marner said. "We... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 - 12:04 pm
West Shokan fine art photographer E. G. Cleveland originally trained himself in black-and-white photography. But the revolution has been pixelated, and so now he's transitioned to full-color digital photos, a few of which he just uploaded this morning. ... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2010 - 11:29 am
Britain's TRUCK music festival, which describes itself as "a village fete meets Woodstock with a cutting edge musical policy sharp as your suit," is coming to the Catskills next week for a three-day American show. They promise big things, including an... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:24 am
Peter Applebome's Our Towns column made a foray upstate to see how the Rosendale Theatre Collective was doing in its quest to buy the town's much-loved theater. Quite well, he reports: And almost immediately, as if by osmosis, the idea rose for the... Read more

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