Instead of merely acting out, young people in the Mid-Hudson region have a chance this summer to act, in more than one sense of the word. Auditions are coming up for a very special summer student production of The Diary of Anne Frank to be performed at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, the [...]
Volume II No. 2
Get in the Act!
New student-run activist theater group searching for young acting talent
Steve Hopkins • March 1st, 2009
My Kind of Town, Take 2
Steve Hopkins • March 1st, 2009
Mark Greene has an Emmy, one of the better looking of the big gold-tinted statuettes that can make the difference between an expensive hobby and a career. His company, Pecos Design, won the 2007 Broadband Public Service Emmy Award for the animation “Big Fun With Global Warming” which it created for the Sierra Club. Mark [...]
Ruff House
In Beekman, a shelter not fit for a dog casts a long, toxic shadow
Steve Hopkins • March 1st, 2009
If there’s one truism I’ve learned during my late-blooming career in journalism, it’s that everybody seems to love a good animal story. Indeed, the knee-jerk popular press paid more attention to following the Obama clan’s process in choosing the requisite First Pooch (a politically and allergenically correct, shelter-rescued Portuguese water dog, as it turns out) [...]
