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The Women’s March: A festival of twenty-first century political folk art
At two in the morning on Saturday January 21st, dozens of Binghamton residents left their homes and crammed into busses in the dark....
Off the Beat: World’s Smallest Church In Oneida, Ny
(Photo by Chris Clemens, Exploring Upstate.) I wanted Off the Beat to have an element of romance this month, so I thought I would...
Going on a witch hunt: what to do and where this Halloween season
Ah, the sweet sounds and sights of autumn! From apple cider, to cider donuts, to hard cider, fall is one of those times of year when you...
Bill T. Jones: the master choreographer returns to B.U.
On September 24th the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will bring a daring, innovative spectacle of dance to the Anderson Center...
Everything is il-LUMA-nated
One year ago on September’s First Friday, folks spilled out of art galleries and restaurants into the dusk-drawn streets for what turned...
Deposit Lumberjack Festival: More than just a good time
If an arts paper runs a story about lumberjacks, but no lumberjack reads that paper, does it make a sound? Deposit, New York has its...
OFF THE BEAT: THE BRAIN MUSEUM IN BUFFALO, NY
If the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz had been let loose in this place he might have been tempted to shoplift. He wanted a brain and the...
A LOVE SONG TO PARADE DAY
Thanksgiving has a parade, and it exists because there is something sacred about pop music, Matt Lauer, and enormous air balloons that...
THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR
If Halloween made this, our city, the land of levity and reckless abandon– masks, trappings, delirious wandering and condoms– then this...
PEACE ON EARTH GOODWILL TO ALL
On the first day of the madness I took my little car And got stuck in the traffic by the mall. On the second day of the madness I found...
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