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MUSIC : RACES @ Valentine's Music Hall , Albany. In support of their new debut album, "Year of the Witch," the Southern California co-ed band corks their winning sonic swirl of indie-rock that embraces both darkness and pop, dreams and nightmares, complexity and simplicity.

Noted local activist Gale McGovern would have very much enjoyed the gathering held in her memory at the Rosendale Community Center last Sunday, May 6. As interfaith minister Puja Thomson opened the proceedings with the clear bell tone of a singing bowl, an invocation of thanksgiving and "light where there is darkness...hope where there is doubt.

In CORAM accident on CR-83/NORTH OCEAN AV at HAWKINS PATH. Stop and go traffic from OLD TOWN RD In CORAM accident on CR-83/NORTH OCEAN AV at HAWKINS PATH.

Not many writers can make plausible links among musicians Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma and David Byrne, animators at Pixar, neuroscientists at MIT, an amateur bartender in New York, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Israeli army reservists.

MUSIC : Janet Robin @ Caffe Lena , Saratoga Springs. Music audiences around the world have seen and heard Janet Robin's guitar work as a former featured touring member of the Lindsey Buckingham Band, Michelle Shocked and the Meredith Brooks Band.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein said the Legislature has failed to act on two of the county's most pressing issues: the solvency of the county's trash agency and funding for welfare services.

Sendak talks with children about his book Where the Wild Things Are at the International Youth Library in Munich in June 1971.

During the playing of a musical piece by Frederick Handel, Laurie Kirby of Woodstock, above, closes his eyes while remembering his friend, Gale McGovern.

The woman was new in town. A tourist. She wanted to know why so many people were standing on Tinker Street in Woodstock on a blustery Friday morning, peering down the road.

It works like this: London's iconic rock and roll Hall of Famer Garth Hudson turns 75 on Aug.

The track, called Toast to Freedom, was one of the last tunes the rock icon recorded before his death last month .

A couple of weeks ago the Reader 's Asher Klein celebrated the tenth anniversary of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot .

FILM : "PRICELE$$" @ the Spectrum 8 Theatres , Albany. An award winning documentary on how big money corrupts elections and politics in the US.

There are four candidates who will be vying for two seats on the Onteora district School Board of Education in the district's May 15 election.

Levon Helm was laid to rest in Woodstock, New York on April 27th, eight days after his death.

So do our trees, it turns out. According to a new study led by a young Columbia University graduate named Stephanie Y. Searle, red-oak acorns planted in Central Park grow eight times faster than those planted way upstate.

OPERA ON FILM : "La Traviata" @ Time + Space Limited , Hudson. The Metropolitan Opera's production of the great Verdi classic featuring Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani and Dmitri Hvorostovsky .

Levon Helm's voice can transport you to the same places as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan or Johnny Cash.

Collectors and artists attended a show Saturday at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts that honored posters promoting concerts, which continues Sunday.

A band leads mourners out of Woodstock Cemetery in Woodstock, N.Y., after Levon Helm was brought there for burial Friday.