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The Arts
“Fuel” Sparks Change
Oil. This is the substance we as a nation are addicted to. We’ve even started a war over it. Josh Tickell does an amazing job at illustrating this in his documentary “Fuel.” The documentary has won various film awards but most notably, one at the Sundance Film Festival for the Best Documentary Audience Award in 2008. The... »
All Fired Up
Eileen Sackman has been setting fires forever. At midnight on Friday, Oct. 23, the small shack containing the wood firing kiln on the campus of SUNY New Paltz was covered in a blue tarp as rain poured down on the six students watching their work transform within the intense 2,350 degree heat. The ancient craft of... »
From Coltrane to Quatrane
The improvisational music of Miles Davis reverberates off the walls in the college dorm room of Vince Tampio and Mike Kadnar. These two SUNY New Paltz music students make up half of the jazz band Quatrane. Jazz flows emotionally through the instruments of these musicians and transforms into notes for their listeners to experience. The quartet fell... »
Visiting Fite’s Magnum ‘Opus’
Imagine waking up every day consumed with the one thought, one goal, one destination. Such an obsession consumed sculptor Harvey Fite, as he spent 37 years working on his life’s work, Opus 40. Fite’s piece, which spreads out over six acres of land, is compiled of finely fitted stones, curved ramps, fountains out of... »
The Nuclear Holocausts Spare No One
The table was littered with empty cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and food debris. At the center was my laptop, which recorded the conversation between me and three-fourths of the Nuclear Holocausts – Evan Schlissel on vocals, Geoff Diamond on bass and Ian Elkind behind the drum set. Missing was Cahill Walsh,... »
Doug Nash: Breaker of Wills
By Will Kamerman Doug Nash reclines on a giant couch, lumberjack style – bearded and with beer in hand – enjoying some long awaited time off from work. He works as a cameraman for Cablevision in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., as well as behind the counter at Convenient Deli in New Paltz. Many also... »
Anti-Social Lullabies Sound Like How You Feel
By Pierce Lydon It’s the summer. You’re 19 years old and you’re at a youth conference in Indiana with your brother. They are having an open mic night and you think this would be a great time to show a few kids some of the stuff the two of you have been working on at... »
The Facebook Guide to Breakups
By Nicole Papantoniou He promised her they would go to her prom because they blew off his. He wasn’t interested, but she really wanted to go. “I guess it’s no big deal,” she told him. “We’ll always have next year.” They had been a couple for two-and-a-half years by that point. She bought the first dress... »
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