Woodstock News

The reach of Bob Marley's music and his messages of political justice, racial harmony and freedom is endless.

WOODSTOCK: The Woodstock School of Art will host a workshop by Christie Scheele Feb.

Close THE ADVISER Yeasayer's album channels motorcycles and pickaxes Indie rock band Yeasayer is disguising its guitars.

All-female folk trio Red Molly will have banjos a-blazin' Friday at the Colony Cafe.

With the bad economy and the recent frigid weather, I'll take a laugh wherever I can find one these days.

Hey, Ted: Who's picking the winners on your show? a The Food Network is dominated these days by reality-TV-style cooking shows, and one of the best of them is Chopped .

In the 21st century, we could seek a merging or reconfiguration of school districts in Ulster County that would lead to greater efficiencies, eliminating overlapping services and saving taxpayers money, according to Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, Democrat from the 101st District, of which we are a part.

A new European cuisine restaurant called Touche recently opened in an old farm house at 1633 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock.

In the midst of Yeasayer 's tour rehearsals, JamBase spoke with guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Anand Wilder about the creation of Odd Blood , the band's expansive sophomore studio effort, to be released February 9 on the Secretly Canadian imprint.

STONE RIDGE - 'Landscape2,' an exhibit featuring photographic works by Hudson Valley artists Jared Handelsman and Phil Underdown, opens at Ulster County Community College's Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery on Thursday and runs through Feb.

The lineup for Mountain Jam VI was announced Thursday, and scheduled to appear are heavy-hitters Les Claypool and Michael Franti and Spearhead.

Bill Maher brings his frankness and political views to Ulster Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Friday.

The haze of the holidays has finally passed - I think - but the snow, the slush, the cold and the rain remain.

The African American and Jewish communities have long been natural allies. Some of the most prominent names in the Civil Rights struggle were those of Jews, and two of the three Civil Rights activists who were murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were Jewish.

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET January 17, 2010 - By age 15, Killian Mansfield of Woodstock, N.Y., was a prodigy on the ukulele.

Since the dawn of time when the first band traveled to the neighboring city to play for the locals, the touring paradigm has remained relatively unchanged: artist releases album, gets on the tour bus and brings the music to theaters and arenas all across the country.

Imagine a band that moves with the propulsion of a car whose gas pedal has become stuck, wide open, pinned to the floor, with nothing in sight but the horizon.

Sometimes you go to the theater with the purpose of being wildly entertained. Other times you go for a heavy dose of reality.

Margo Obourn of Woodstock and Andi Turco-Levin of Kingston are associate brokers now affiliated with Prudential Nutshell Realty.

FROM rock stars to Hollywood's elite - Adelaide photographer Steven Laxton's CV reads like a who's who of showbiz.