On election night, 2009, I gathered with a bunch of friends to watch the election returns on CNN. The network was mostly focused on the […]
Year: 2011
On April 2, the New Paltz women’s rugby football club hosted the 4th Annual Ruckfest, a tournament featuring eight rugby teams from around the state, […]
The New Play Festival’s inaugural season premiered on April 8, and continued until April 10. For the weekend of performances, the audience was brought […]
It was a night of larger-than-life sized creatures of mixed media, ambient sounds and experimental music. It was a ‘Monster Party!’ On April 2, 2011, […]
After months of contentious debate over New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget cuts for the coming fiscal year, Albany lawmakers finally came to an agreement […]
This human interest piece by Clark Slater, Eric Sowalskie and Amy West discusses the odd job of nude modeling. Several interviews with models explain what they love […]
Joseph Diblasi, Jeremy Bartlett, and Christina Dinapoli explore the art of taxidermy by analyzing its utility, stigma, and necessary skill. The story features interviews with professional and […]
For 10 SUNY New Paltz students, this past spring break didn’t involve basking in the sun and sipping fruity alcoholic beverages. It instead was a […]
Eric Chanin, Brian Laporte and Jonathan Novick go behind the scenes of the SUNY New Paltz Epic-Glee club. The story includes clips from the club’s rehearsals and interviews with members of […]
The SUNY New Paltz Department of Theatre Arts will feature its own “New Play Festival” on campus for the first time. The New Play Festival (NPF) […]
Given the polarizing debate over New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s state budget proposals, I’ve wholly expected Cuomo’s favorability among New Yorkers to, by the end […]
My family is a Costco family. In fact, four out of the six clothing items that I am wearing right now are from Costco, and that doesn’t […]
Call me uncultured, but I’m usually not one for movies with subtitles. I don’t want to read a movie. I want to watch it. This […]
If you’ve read any of the New York Times articles covering the classified Afghanistan war documents, Iraq war documents, and diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, you […]
New Paltz is renowned for its stone houses on Historical Huguenot Street and its sumptuous Hudson Valley scenery. Hidden within the crevasses of history, however, are […]
As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defends his proposed state budget for the coming fiscal year, a debate is brewing over whether the governor should […]
Muffled sounds stay hidden behind a whitewashed wooden door, but as soon as the door opens the sound of a live blues jam band reverberates […]
I asked my good buddy, Dean Engle, who co-runs the cassette record label Responsible Records, based in New Paltz, for some upcoming local releases. He turned […]