Game of S.K.A.T.E this Saturday
On Saturday, June 22, The Nyack Chamber of Commerce & 2nd Nature Skateshop present Nyack’s 2nd Game of SKATE and Youthfest in the Riverspace Parking Lot from 1-4pm (rain date is 6/23).
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NY Has The Cyclists But Lacks The Roads To Match
by David Schloss
For more than a decade I flew all over the world for work, usually with a folding travel bike along with me. I’ve ridden in the majority of the states in our country including Alaska and Hawaii as well as in Canada, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Beijing.
With very few exceptions, the riding in New York State is some of the worst, least cycling friendly and difficult anywhere.
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Ready, Steady, Sk80!
This thurs., June 20, the Hudson House invites you to lace up your Adidas and dance the night away at the 80s Dance Party and Art Auction upstairs at the Hudson House, from 7-10pm. Proceeds go to the Nyack Park Conservancy Skatepark Committee.
How Headstart Gets Past The Sequester
by Dan White
Remember the sequester and all of the headlines it got back in March? Seems like all of the bellyaching was for nothing — and life seems to have gone on Just Fine for most of us. That’s of course, after the immovable Congress decided to adjust some rules so that the FAA had the latitude to give airlines some altitude.
Well it turns out that not everyone who was affected by the sequester worked in the moving “Congressman and Senators around the country” business. In fact, a small group of constituents impacted by Headstart cuts don’t even have their own lobbyist! But have no fear, someone is looking out for this “tiny” minority.
Local Arts Index: Eric David Laxman
For over a century, our region has been home to extraordinary artists. Local Arts Index highlights the work of individuals who continue our community’s rich creative legacy.
“In college, I graduated with a BS in Chemistry, but I had a strong interest in studio art and decided to take figure drawing and clay figure modeling. In my junior year at Tufts University, I enrolled in a stone carving class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. That evening class changed my life.”
Talk The Art Talk, Do The Art Walk
Downtown Nyack merchants turn their shops into mini art galleries this weekend for the eighth annual village Art Walk on June 14-16. Event organizers, perhaps with a nod to the exciting weather we are having lately, have chosen “MOTHER NATURE – HER BEAUTY & HER WRATH,” as the theme for the 2013 event.
Rockland Legislature Bans Radioactive Fracking Waste
A ban on the use of waste products from the natural gas drilling operation known as fracking could become local law with the stroke of the pen from Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef. The Rockland County Legislature unanimously passed the ban on Tuesday, June 4
Exhibit Honors Astrith Deyrup, Benefits Local Groups
Starting Saturday at 1p, art works by Astrith Deyrup will be on exhibit and available for sale at the Depew House behind the Nyack Public Library, at 50 Piermont Avenue. Deyrup passed away on August 26, 2010 at Nyack Hospital at the age of 87. The designer, author and artist painted every day of her life, in oil and in water, and she made enamels on copper, but she was particularly talented in creating batiks. Proceeds from the exhibit will be split between Rivertown Film and the Historical Society of the Nyacks.
Nyack Sketch Log: Kids Explore Nature & Art at Strawtown Studio
by Bill Batson
Every month for two years, she guided parents and their children through Harriman State Park, sometimes for full moon hikes. Those forays into nature flowed into Strawtown Art & Garden Studio, a popular camp and afterschool program, now centered on 5 acres on South Mountain in New City. Meet environmental artist, advocate and educator Laurie Seeman. (and learn about this tipi too!)
Award Winning Poet To Read At Nyack Library
The winner of the 2012 Yale Series of Younger Poets will read from his debut collection of poetry at the Nyack Library on June 18.
Will Schutt, whose poems and translations have been published in Agni, FIELD, The New Republic, and The Southern Review, will be at the library to read from from his new book, Westerly.
