On August 2nd, step just off of main street to the newest speakeasy in town – at least, for the night. The beloved local theater will be transforming its multiple studios and main stage into a glittering 1920s immersive experience for guests. For most patrons, the stage and lobby is all they get to see. […]
In the New City shopping center there stands a large Goodyear warehouse. For the past 20 or so years, that warehouse has sat vacant. Coming in the late fall of 2025 this building will be receiving a breath of fresh air, transformed alongside many of the renovations taking place in New City as the county’s […]
Zakiem Collier begins his sound bath healing by asking you to think of something that brings you joy, encouraging good intentions before heading into this meditative practice. As you conjure up a happy place, memory, person or thing, Collier motivates you to engage in a simultaneous release of something that may have been weighing on […]
Since high school, Brittany Makinen’s true love has been photography. After ten years spent working as a preschool teacher and doing family portraits after school and on the weekends, Makinen made the leap and committed to full time photography. Makinen continued doing family portraits, adding in newborn and maternity photography to her rotation. When her […]
With 98 submissions, Elmwood Playhouse had their pick of the litter when it came to selecting local plays to feature in their second annual One Act Festival. Seven of those 98 original one acts were selected for 2025, with each one running from eight to eighteen minutes. This restricted time frame was chosen purposefully to […]
In September of 2021, one Rockland eighth grader received a diagnosis no eighth grader should ever receive. Carlos “Coca” Bernard was diagnosed with leukemia. Two years later, Coca and his family received yet another blow when Coca was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS). In an interview with the […]