Opinion: Elmwood Playhouseโ€™s โ€œClybourne Parkโ€ Parallels Modern Times

Opinion: Elmwood Playhouseโ€™s โ€œClybourne Parkโ€ Parallels Modern Times

One house, two acts and a span of fifty years set the stage for Bruce Norrisโ€™ 2010 play Clybourne Park, Elmwood Playhouseโ€™s second production of their 76th season. The Tony and Pulitzer award-winning show, which opened on Friday, November 10 and will continue to run until Saturday, December 2, is one that Elmwood Board of […]

Nyack Poet David Klugman Debuts Epic Poem, โ€œIn the American Grainโ€

Nyack Poet David Klugman Debuts Epic Poem, โ€œIn the American Grainโ€

โ€œFor who is not mad in a country that has gone mad?โ€ This existential question is one of several that Nyack-based poet, painter and former psychoanalyst David Klugman explores in his newly released epic poem, โ€œIn the American Grain.โ€ On Tuesday, November 7โ€”fittingly taking place the night of Election Dayโ€”Klugman debuted a truncated, three-act version […]

Coupรฉ Today: Rockland Countyโ€™s Oldest Dance School

Coupรฉ Today: Rockland Countyโ€™s Oldest Dance School

  With a maiden name like โ€œCoupรฉโ€โ€”in ballet, a movement done on the upbeat to prepare for the step that followsโ€”itโ€™s fitting that Diane Frankel has dedicated her life to the stage. The England-born and trained founder of the fifty-three-year-old, 585 student-based Coupรฉ Theatre Studio in Nanuet, New York hails from a long line of […]

Pretty Plants Abound at Nyackโ€™s Foliage & Flora

Pretty Plants Abound at Nyackโ€™s Foliage & Flora

Foliage & Flora owner Ryan Mulholland may have a background in the restaurant and service industry, but his real passion is all things plants. In his early twenties, the Nyack resident started his own garden, growing herbs and tomatoes. After moving into a place with more natural light, Mulholland added growing houseplants to his repertoire, […]

Campus Fun and Learn Child Development Unveils New Playground

Campus Fun and Learn Child Development Unveils New Playground

The unseasonably warm, sunny weather matched the festive mood at Campus Fun and Learn in Suffern, New York on Saturday, October 28, where a ribbon-cutting ceremony took place to celebrate the daycareโ€™s new playground. Located on the Rockland Community College campus, the center takes children ages six weeks to five-years-old and caters to the RCC […]