By the Spectator, John Maloney At some time or another most of us have heard the claims on radio and television about the fabulous claims of some products, medicines, bank claims, credit card rates, cars, trucks, and vacation get-a-ways. The premature offer seems too good to be true and more often than not that […]
Hopper Drives Through Rockland By Harry Waitzman Before my grey hair and Buick, Ed Hopper drove from Nyack to Valley Cottage before Rt. 303 was widened and the three gas pumps stood as caryatids. I hear a Mack truck grinding up a hill, the two lane highway runs everywhere and nowhere. Hopper’s Dodge picks me up. […]
BY VINCENT DOMINIC ABBATECOLA As the 88th Academy Awards approach on Sunday, it looks like “The Revenant” has the inside track on many major awards, including the long elusive Best Actor nod for perhaps Hollywood’s biggest star, Leonardo DiCaprio. In this column I will take a look at the major categories and predict who WILL […]
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA With all of the movies based on comic-book characters that have come out since the early 2000s, we have become used to them following a certain format: the protagonists receive their powers, learn to use them, establish a code of ethics, save the world, and then prepare for any dangers they may […]
Rockland Youth Orchestra (RYO) will be having its fifth season from March 9 through June 1 of this year featuring rehearsals on Wednesday evenings from 7:30 – 9 p.m. The rehearsals will take place at Highview Elementary School on 24 Highview Avenue in Nanuet, New York (Zip Code 10954). Rockland Youth Orchestra will culminate season […]
BY JANIE ROSMAN When two separate and recognizable objects — human hair and brooms, silverware and a rake — are combined into one, sometimes artistic alchemy occurs and a new unique concept emerges. “Beautiful Nonsense: The Absurd Object,” a collection of such works curated by artist Norm Magnusson of Rhinebeck, opened at Rockland Center for […]