Cantor Bob Cohen, who sings and chants the liturgy at Congregation Emanuel, brings a depth of heart and soul to the service. After all, music and Judaism are threads woven deep into his life. Bob has been singing since he was age 8, when he was attending the Little Red Schoolhouse in Greenwich Village, and he was a seminal part of the folk revival movement of the early 1960s.
Each spring, Atlantic sturgeon, an ancient fish dating back more than 120 million years to the era of the dinosaurs, swim up the Hudson River to spawn. These ocean-dwelling behemoths, which measure six feet or more at maturity, vacuum up mollusks, crustaceans, plants, and small fish from the river bottom with their snout-like mouths and lay their eggs on the rocky bottom of freshwater stretches above the salt wedge.
Anyone who was in New York City in the 1970s will feel a twinge of déjà vu in Newburgh—and be cognizant of the potential. Although Newburgh ranks as the state’s most crime-ridden city and a quarter of residents fall below the poverty line, the city’s spectacular architecture and intact urban fabric is luring a wave of newcomers. The Hudson Valley’s final frontier could well be on its way to becoming the next Brooklyn.
In Doomsdays, the new indie film by Kingston resident Eddie Mullins, a pair of drifters breaks into deserted vacation homes, drinking the booze, emptying out the kitchen cupboards, snoozing on the beds and smashing the car in the driveway with a crowbar.
Three years ago, Danielle Bliss and Joe Venditti were art school graduates struggling to find satisfying work when they started Wishbone Press. Working out of a loft in Kingston’s Shirt Factory, they design and print cards, coasters, business cards, wedding invitations and the like on four antique letterpresses. Their bold, eye-catching designs and messages keyed to the hip vernacular of the under-30 crowd updates an archaic printing technology with wit and whimsy.