Woodstock Jazz Great Jack DeJohnette to Be Honored at UPAC Concert
A tribute to Jack DeJohnette, the late jazz drummer, pianist, and longtime Woodstock resident, will bring nearly 50 musicians to Kingston’s Ulster Performing Arts Center on Aug. 9, what would have been his 84th birthday. “Celebrating Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels” will honor the two-time Grammy winner, whose work moved across genres and generations. He performed with musicians as varied as Miles Davis…
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Gov. Kathy Hochul’s announced $268 billion state budget is drawing criticism from environmental advocates who say it would weaken a key law that gives residents a voice on major projects planned near homes, streams, wetlands and forests. At stake is the State Environmental Quality Review Act, which Hochul wants to amend to help spur badly…
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The Woodstock Years That Shaped Bob Dylan
The great lake now called Superior is shaped like the profile of a wolf, with Isle Royale as its eye and Duluth at the tip of its nose. There, on May 24, 1941, Abram and Beatrice Zimmerman welcomed their first child, Robert Allen Zimmerman. The boy from Duluth and Hibbing, Minnesota, would become Bob Dylan,…
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Pope Leo Offers a Moral Rebuke to Trump
We are now 452 days into President Trump’s second term. As many Americans observed Easter or Passover this month, the president again chose vulgarity, menace, and spectacle. In remarks about the Iran war, he went so far as to warn that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” He also…
