This September ABC launched a new series written by the same crew that dreamed up LOST: Once Upon A Time, a show about fairy tale characters in the real world. There is something peculiar about the cozy, old-fashioned town of Storybrooke, Maine. It’s not the fact that the clock has stopped working, or...
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Besides the Presidential Election and the Leap Year, what do we have to look forward to in 2012? How about some great book-to-movie adaptations! Three movies in particular will be hitting theaters in 2012 that are sure to make a cinematic splash. Let’s take a look: Title: One for the Money From Book: One...
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  After driving down to beautiful Cold Spring, NY to see the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s production of Hamlet, my family and I returned for this season’s production of Comedy of Errors. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the play, it’s a fast-paced whirlwind of mistaken identities, lots of merry violence, and...
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  The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival is celebrating its quarter-century anniversary—25 years of bringing authentic Shakespeare plays with artistic, innovative twists to our cozy Hudson Valley. Each year, the Festival chooses a comedy, a tragedy, and one ‘wild card’ to perform under an enormous tent on the grounds of the beautiful, historic Boscobel estate,...
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    Renowned Canadian novelist Guy Gavriel Kay has published another instant classic with his newest historical fantasy, Under Heaven. The Huffington Post calls it, “A magnificent epic, flawlessly crafted, that draws the reader in like a whirlwind and doesn’t let go.” I would agree… but this is one whirlwind that takes a bit...
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  On May 20th, at 7 o’clock in the Pawling Elementary School (as an actual tempest raged outside) the ACEkids Theatre Program presented Shakespeare’s The Tempest to a roomful of delighted parents and friends. The production was directed by Amy Emke with the help of Beth Canevari, and a crew of other dedicated adults....
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For a change of pace from my usual family movie viewing, I decided to check out Battle Los Angeles, an action/thriller/sci-fi film advertised as a “fight to reclaim the city of Los Angeles from alien invaders.” I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, since I barely remembered the commercials and the description in the...
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There are a lot of wonderful things about living in Pawling. A small community means a caring, personal one – something that is becoming more and more difficult to find in a quickly urbanizing world. But a concept that Pawlingites miss out on sometimes is the idea of diversity, and the sense that we...
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