The first time I heard the word “adulting” not so long ago, I immediately harkened back to my pre-teen years and assumed the definition of the term was simply behaving like a grown-up. And if that was indeed the meaning of the latest, vaguely annoying, quasi-millennial recasting of long-held, perfectly fine words, then, yes, I definitely associated adulting activities as things we do in the fall. My (and Beyoncé’s) September 4 birthday always seemed to land on Labor Day weekend, the understood end of our endless summer. My summers growing up were filled with scant responsibilities, save playing competitive tennis…
Click to view lineup The 2024 Woodstock Film Festival promises another exciting year of bold, visionary cinema that captures the spirit of filmmaking. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the festival continues…
Photography by Douglas Friedman (courtesy of Patti LuPone) My heart rate is quickening as I approach Patti LuPone’s door at her sprawling home in the bucolic town of Kent, CT…
“If we really want to help this world, we have to uplift women,” says Shana Falana. “That alone would heal the planet.” The Leeds-based psych-rock musician manifests this intention with…
Photography by Quentin Bacon When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn…
Nigel Barker is the ultimate multi-hyphenate. The world came to know his rugged good looks and buttery-smooth British accent during his tenure as a longstanding judge on America’s Next Top…
Music is music. If it moves you, it moves you. If it doesn’t, then it doesn’t.” So simple, yet so profound—which makes a lot of sense coming from a bass…
Like most unassuming small towns that’ve been adopted by creatives over the years, Woodstock was full of power players who were joyfully living under the radar when I first took…
When summer winds chill and leaves begin to fall, it’s easy to start thinking about hibernation. I think we all know people who we simply don’t see between November and…
Hip-hop arrived in the suburbs stealthily, and then all at once. Its clandestine arrival in the late 1990s coincided with a growing adoption of file-sharing services such as LimeWire, Kazaa…
When Mark Landsman, along with business partner Kat Bangs, took over the shoe-box space of what was once the late, great Shindig bar in Woodstock last year, Landsman, with the…