August 2012
Mazfest: Peace, love and music in Roscoe
ROSCOE, NY — What began as a small, one-day music festival has grown into a mini Woodstock-esque event hosted by the Livingston Manor-based rock group Mazmyth. In explaining the name of his band, guitarist Matt Smith said, “Matt Smith sounds like Mazmyth when you’re slurring your words. It had us laughing and it just stuck around.” And from there sprang the name for the entire music festival, Mazfest. Read more
Email this pageClosing reception for Art Walk
Come see robots and art made from birdseed bags at a closing reception for a group show at RM Farm Real Estate, 54 Main Street (across from the lazy Beagle). 5 to 7pm. Features works by members of The Outsider's Studio Collective and some of their artist friends.
Bake your way into history
MILFORD, PA — The Pike County Historical society will host a historically inspired baked goods contest on August 12 at the Columns Museum in Milford. We are asking interested parties to tour the museum and look for inspiration in our holdings and exhibits. The contest entries should depict something or someone that you think best represents Pike County history. The final products will be judged at 2 p.m., and prizes will be awarded for the “Best Historical” and “Most Creative” baked goods. Read more
SCDW presents ‘The Producers’
SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY — “The Producers,” the musical created on the basis of the Mel Brooks classic, hits the boards at the Rivoli Theatre in South Fallsburg for six performances from August 10 through 19, presented by the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop (SCDW). Read more
Meaney is “Rising Star” at Bernie’s
ROCK HILL, NY — Bernie’s Holiday Restaurant will team up with Catch a Rising Star (CARS) on August 11 to present a night of comedy with Kevin Meaney. Doors open at 8 p.m., and show time is 9 p.m.
Meaney has been a popular standup comedian for more than 25 years, drawing upon his family relationships for much of his material. Tom Shales of the Washington Post said, “Picture the precocious love child of Jonathan Winters and Ethel Merman and you have some idea of Kevin Meaney’s act.” Read more
Revisiting the glory days of Catskills hotels
CUDDEBACKVILLE, NY — Join the members and friends of The Neversink Valley Museum of History and Innovation on Friday, August 10, at 7:30 p.m., when entertainer and educator Larry Strickler conducts a virtual trip up Route 17, with a stop at the Red Apple and a game of Simon Sez in a presentation, “A Catskills Tummler Looks Back 50 Years and Beyond: From Schloime Ehrenreich’s Hotel to Kutsher’s Country Club to the D& H Canal Park Visitor Center in Cuddebackville.” Read more
Nick Cobb headlines Laugh Tour
LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY — Nick Cobb of Comedy Central and Last Comic Standing will headline the next show of the Laugh Tour at The Nutshell, on August 11, with doors opening at 7 p.m. Also performing will be Regina Decicco and Akash Bhasin. As always, Rich Kiamco of The Howard Stern Show and Sirius XM will emcee. Read more
Nostalgia Expo
DINGMANS FERRY, PA — There will be a Multi Media Memorabilia and Nostalgia Expo from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday, August 12, at American Legion Post 851, 107 Ball Park Rd. off Wilson Hill Road. Comic books, Sports cards, gaming cards and entertainment cards will be featured as well as rare records, CDs, DVDs, old TV, film, toys, action figures, Nascar, video games, original comic book art, animation cells and more. There will also be a flea market and craft fair in different rooms and outside, weather permitting. Read more
Museum celebrates Woodstock’s 43rd
BETHEL, NY — Starting on Wednesday, August 15, visitors to The Museum at Bethel Woods can enjoy four days of activities that commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the 1969 festival. Activities will include a 1960s Costume Contest, with prizes including a pair of tickets to see Judy Collins in the Event Gallery on Saturday, December 15; continuous showings of “Woodstock: Three Days of Peace & Music;” and authors and artists on hand throughout the weekend to sell and sign their books and artwork. Visit BethelWoodsCenter.org or call 866/781-2922.
Poetry at Harmony
HAWLEY, PA — Harmony Presents at the Hawley Silk Mill will host “Labor and Transformation,” a book launch and reading by a pair of poets, on Saturday, August 18.
Mary Olmsted Greene, author most recently of “Women Outside,” will read from “Permission,” published in 2012 by Stockport Flats. Lori Anderson Moseman, author of many books of poetry and coordinator of the new Confluence series under Stockport Flats, will be reading from her book “All Steel,” published in 2012 by flim forum press. Read more
