Morning’s at Seven with Frank Arcaro

From left: Jeff Savage, Roger Netzer, Christine Olson, Daniel Basiletti, Jody Bayer by Kevin T McEneaney Some years ago, I saw Director Frank Arcaro’s production of Noël Coward’s 1930 play…

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Lend Me a Tenor Sings in Rhinebeck

Cast from left: Bongiorno, Borscheva, McCarthy, Carrothers, Remington, Caviglis, Truin, Hepburn by Kevin T McEneaney First performed in England’s West End, Lend Me a Tenor (1986) by Ken Ludwig underwent…

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Mosquitoes are not popular

head of mosquito These ladies are out for your blood, my blood, especially the blood of young children, or blood of teenagers or wise women. They need the blood for…

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Everyone Owns the Moon

by Chris Bittner Everyone Owns the moon: The deaf, the dumb, The insane, the pretenders, The blind might seem the sole exception. But they feel the moon more clearly. Who…

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Rethinking Biodegradable

by Bill Schlesinger As early as the 1960s, when we saw a proliferation of plastic waste in landfills and unsightly plastic cups along the roadside, we realized that some of…

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Sweet Meg Vocals at The Stissing Center

Meg Hutchinson by Kevin T McEneaney Meg Hutchinson is New York City raised (lived in Boston for some time) with significant education in Paris; she can sing in French with…

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Light-seeking

Dragonfly close-up by Kevin T McEneaney I’ve long admired dragonflies sailing over pond or creek. They are lightning fast at one-hundred body-lengths per second, and their eyes, their gorgeously colored…

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Will the real Quichotte Please Stand UP?

After Salman Rushdie's lecture on composing his his novel Quichotte (the proper period pronunciation is in the title, before the royal lisp was adopted) at Bard College Sosnoff Theater, I…

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Sherman Chamber Ensemble: Women of Genius

From left: Susan Rotholz, Doori Na, Susan Perry, Eliot Bailen, Richard Wolfe by Kevin T McEneaney In Kent on Friday night, August 12, at St. Andrews Episcopal Church the Sherman…

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