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Alan Cumming brought his brand-new solo cabaret show “UNCUT,” with Henry Koperski at the piano, to the Stissing Center for Arts & Culture in Pine Plains, NY, this past Saturday. 

What, essentially, is intelligence? The longer we spend on this earth, the more nuanced our definitions become as they incorporate qualities such as intellect, emotion, and insightfulness, some of which can be cultivated while others seem innate, native.

Friends of Spencer’s Corners Burying Ground is a nonprofit organization based in Millerton and North East, NY whose volunteers are dedicated to the restoration and repair of the degraded monuments and gravestones at Spencer’s Corners Burying Ground. 

This season of change, closing one chapter and opening another, is reflected in the current exhibition at Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, CT.

Thus, seeing Clairo live in this new era was an absolute must. I scored two VIP tickets to her second of five residency shows at Webster Hall in New York City.

On Thursday, September 26 at 6:30pm, author and musician Franz Nicolay will be in conversation with fellow journalist and author Joe Hagan at Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff, NY, to discuss the release of his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music. 

Mad Rose Gallery’s new exhibition, “Hudson Valley Abstractions,” opened on August 30 and will run through October 6.

English artist TB Ward’s fourth solo show, Professional Human, opens at Upstream Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson on October 3. 

The Lowdown Drifters, a Texas-based band blending country, rock, and Americana, are releasing their second album, In Time, on October 25. 

For many years, I have slipped out of town for the occasional weekend of backpacking, sometimes staying out for several nights to extend the adventure, however limited that time was. With a span of eight or nine days at my disposal this year, I began to think more grandly about a backpacking epic: not enough time to complete any long trail, but enough time to attempt a pretty good chunk of The Long Trail, Vermont’s 273-mile route that runs from Williamstown, MA, to the Canadian border.