ALMANAC WEEKLY
A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 45 | Nov. 8 – 15
DION OGUST | ALMANAC WEEKLY
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The Falcon has never sold a ticket. Not one ever to anyone – not when Pat Metheny played here; not for Chris Thile, who might have sold out Carnegie Hall the night before. The Falcon has never charged a cover: not for John Scofield, not for John Burdick.
To paraphrase William Carlos Williams, “It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet people die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” But we do get the news in Michael Brownstein’s latest collection of poems.
Brian Reed helped revolutionize storytelling and a personal approach to investigative reporting with S-Town, a hit podcast that addressed an alleged murder in a small Alabama town.
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HISTORY The highlight of these bicentennial festivities will be a first-ever relocation of the New York State Court of Appeals, the state’s highest tribunal, from its home in Albany to the Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston.
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