In 2013, Peter Buffett wrote an Op Ed piece for The New York Times entitled “The Charitable industrial Complex,” which criticized the top-down approach of many philanthropic organizations—an approach that often failed to solve the problem it was meant to help and in some cases even caused harm. He went further, lambasting the rising inequality in which “philanthropy has become the ‘it’ vehicle for leveling the playing field”…
Three years ago, as the rent was soaring in his longtime Chelsea studio, food photographer Aaron Rezny took the plunge and bought an industrial brick building in Midtown Kingston. He subsequently renovated it and moved his photography business up to the facility in 2016.
After 34 years on the bench, Justice Karen Peters, who was the first woman to be appointed Presiding Justice of New York State’s Appellate Division of the Third Department, is retiring. Prior to her appointment to the Third Department (which encompasses 28 counties, including Ulster) by Governor Mario Cuomo in 1994 (she was subsequently appointed presiding justice by Mario’s son, Governor Andrew Cuomo, in 2012), Justice Peters was the first woman elected to the Supreme Court in the Third Department, in 1992.
“I really love words,” said Zoe Bellot. A native Parisian who was drawn to the US while studying American literatures at the Sorbonne, she has made art objects incorporating language since childhood. But not until spending a year in New York City doing researching for a Ph.D. did she decide to drop out of academia and become a full-time artist.
Stacked on shelves in a storage room at the Allways Moving & Storage facility on Grand Street is an unusual archives: more than 200 cardboard boxes filled with scores, notebooks, tapes, audio mixers, and other material that belonged to electroacoustic pioneer and sound installation artist Maryanne Amacher, who died in 2009.
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.