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FEST: Basilica Soundscape in Hudson This Weekend
The 2017 edition of Basilica Soundscape fest is coming up this weekend at Hudson's Basilica Hudson. On Friday (September 15), the fest will feature headliners Jlin, Thou,…
RIP: John Ashbery, 1927-2017
In 1976, the poet John Ashbery became the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the same year, for…
Cabinet of Wonders: A Variety Show of Books & Song
The New Yorker has called it “a vaudeville night that combines music and literature, resulting in one of the finest nights of entertainment this city has to offer.”…
BOOK REVIEW: Eugene Mirabelli’s “Renato After Alba” [Get Visual]
By David Brickman
Eugene Mirabelli, the author of "Renato After Alba" and several other books of fiction, is among the two or three best novelists living in Delmar. If…
BOOK REVIEW: JoAnn Stevelos’ “Dream Alibis”
Review by Sara Ayers
Children learn the history of their families through stories, told over and over: "That's how your parents met." "That's how we lost the house."…
BookBeat: Roger Noyes Moves from the Stage to the Page
If you're a Greater Nippertown music fan, chances are good that you're familiar with guitarist Roger Noyes, who plays in such bands as the Arch Stanton Quartet and the…
MASS MoCA Announces Summer Season of Concerts & More
Photograph by Ed Conway
In North Adams, the already massive MASS MoCA is about to double its gallery space with the Sunday, May 28 grand opening of the 130,000 square…
Musician’s Haiku
In honor of National Haiku Day and the launch of the annual Albany Word Festival, Nippertown.com is pleased to publish the new poem by Ramblin Jug Stompers' banjo player,…