Hasan Minhaj helped bring laughter to the pandemic earlier this month.
The comedian and host of Netflix’s Patriot Act performed five sold-out shows at the Hudson River Museum’s amphitheater in Yonkers. Tickets had been sold for a sixth show; it was canceled due to inclement weather.
While a rainout was always a risk, it was taken with reason: Outdoor venues can potentially hold twice as many attendees than indoors, according to state guidelines.
Live comedy in the past year has been difficult to find.
The global health crisis forced the closure of comedy clubs across the nation. Some tried to replicate the experience virtually, with numerous comedians hosting livestreamed shows or fundraisers, and some outdoor events were held. But, for most it was no comparison to being at a show surrounded by friends, family and laughter.
Comedy clubs hope to bring laughter back to the Hudson Valley
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Yonkers, NY Artist & Author Publishes Art Book April 28, 2021 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News Working Small, Thinking Big, a new book by Ruth M. Gilbert, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.
Working Small, Thinking Big shares the incredible work that originates from a lifetime as an artist. Ruth M. Gilbert has created images for large-scale outdoor sculpture installations in her Yonkers, NY Yoho studio. These images, along with figurative painting, are the backbone of this new book. Her ever-expanding vision emerges from reading, travels, interest in history, especially archaeology, and studying the work of contemporary artists. With a new found mastery of her Epson printer, this has resulted in this first published book.
Winfred Rembert, artist whose work was rooted in the Jim Crow US South, is dead at the age of 75
Winfred Rembert, the self-taught African American artist whose life story was deeply rooted in the struggle against Jim Crow segregation in the US South, died at his home in New Haven, Connecticut on March 31 at the age of 75. Rembert, who survived a near-lynching as a young man and served seven years on a Georgia chain gang, achieved a measure of recognition, in the last decade of his life, for the vivid works he created on carved and dyed leather.
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Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the New Zealand born composer about love letters on quarter-inch tape, piano gardens and doll shops, and the physical effects of sound upon our bodies
Annea Lockwood portrait by Sam Green For Ruth and Conversations 74 plus A Film About Listening make up part of the bill for this year s Counterflows At Home digital festival which runs for all of April
“Tell me everything…”
“Yes, yes, yes… love!”
This begins with a love story. New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood’s most recent composition ‘For Ruth’ is a reply to a love letter on tape her late partner Ruth Anderson made her in 1974, titled ‘Conversations ‘74’. In ‘For Ruth’, their affectionate conversational fragments, loving affirmations and the bubbling laughter of two people giddy for one another are embraced by field recordings of rich birdsong, grumbling frogs and passing cars, as well as resonant vocal intonations,
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