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Susan Page's new book is 'The Queen and Her Presidents, The Hidden Hand that Shaped History'
9/16/26 Panel
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Book Picks - Northshire Bookstore and The Book House/Marketblock books
9/8/26 Panel
WAMC on the Road at Crandell Theatre - Panel on Journalism and the film 'All the President's Men'
9/4/26 Panel
Jeffery Robinson revisits the tragedy of 9/11 twenty-five years later in his new book 'Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11'
In memoriam - Gloria Steinem
9/3/26 Panel
Mickey Revenaugh's new book is 'School’s Out: Why Families Are Choosing Unconventional Education'
Dr. Helen Pilcher's new book is 'This Book May Cause Side Effects, The Curious and Dangerous Power of the Nocebo Effect, Placebo's Evil Twin'
9/2/26 Panel
Book Picks - Green Toad Bookstore and The Golden Notebook
The Yiddish Book Center presents 'Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls' on 9/6 with a Q&A and discussion with Steven Pressman
9/1/26 Panel
The 43rd Season of the NYS Writer's Institute kicks off on 9/2
8/31/26 Panel
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Téa Obreht's new book is 'Sunrise'
8/26/26 Panel
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Book Show preview for Richard Russo's 'Under the Falls'
8/24/26 Panel
Award-winning Sports Journalist Matthew Futterman's new book is 'The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis'
Music historian Ashley Kahn's new book is 'Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland'
8/21/26 Panel
California Congressman Jared Huffman new book 'No Profits: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism’
Claire Stapleton paints the picture of the widening gap in Google's ideals and its reality in her memoir 'Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech'
8/20/26 Panel
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site presents the exhibit 'Circles of Influence: Thomas Cole and the American Landscape Movement'
Berkshire Opera Festival presents 'Lucia di Lammermoor' at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on 8/22 through 8/28
8/19/26 Panel
Book Picks - Merritt Bookstore and Open Door Bookstore
'Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert' with Conductor Damon Gupton and the Philadelphia Orchestra comes to SPAC on 8/21
8/18/26 Panel
Louise Nealon's new book is 'Everything That Is Beautiful'
8/17/26 Panel
Virginia Eubanks' new memoir is 'A Guide to Open Water Life Saving Lessons on Love, Care and Survival'
8/14/26 Panel
Tony Fletcher brings his new book 'POW, When UK Went Pop, 1980 to 1984' to the Orpheum Theater for a conversation and reading on 8/16
Caffe Lena presents sitarist Partha Bose on 8/16 as a part of their 'Global Voices' series
8/13/26 Panel
Jay McInerney's new book is the fourth and final installment of the Callaway saga 'See You on the Other Side'
Lisa Gardner returns with a new thriller 'You'll Be Sorry'
8/12/26 Panel
Book Picks - Odyssey Bookshop and The Bookstore in Lenox
The Palace Theater will be having their Community Block Party in Albany on 8/15
8/11/26 Panel
Actress Dale Dickey discusses her first Emmy Nomination for the hit TV series 'Widow's Bay' and her career
8/10/26 Panel
James Scott's new book is 'Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War'
Saratoga Performing Arts Center presents 'Josh Groban: Stage, Screen, & Symphony' on 8/14
8/7/26 Panel
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center presents 'American Dreams with Brian Stokes Mitchell' with The Philadelphia Orchestra on 8/7
8/6/26 Panel
Berkshire Theatre Festival's Colonial Theatre presents 'The Legend of Georgia McBride' through 8/16
George Pelecanos' new novel is 'The Blue Flame'
8/5/26 Panel
Book Picks - Battenkill Books and Kinderhook Books
Book Show preview for Daniel Mason's new book "Country People'
8/4/26 Panel
Michael Roth will speak on education and democracy at the Monterey Meeting House on 8/9
SPAC welcomes back The Philadelphia Orchestra for their three-week residency starting on 8/5
8/3/26 Panel
Caroline Kepnes gives us a look at the character Joe Goldberg's origins in 'You First: A Joe Goldberg Prequel'
Belfast-based writer Jan Carson's new book is 'Few and Far Between'
7/31/26 Panel
Metroland Now's Erin Harkes gives us a preview of arts events in the area for the month ahead
Michelle Goldberg ad Katha Pollitt will be at the New Marlborough Meeting House on 8/1
Cartoonist Bruce Sconzo's new collection is 'Bruce: Three Decades of Cartooning'
7/30/26 Panel
Chester Theatre Company presents new play 'Amchitka' by Mark St. Germain running through 8/8
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2026 will continue through 8/30
7/29/26 Panel
Book Picks - Oblong Books and Northshire Bookstore
The Tanglewood Learning Institute presents the world premiere of 'February 1933: The Winter of Literature' on 8/1
7/28/26 Panel
Jayne Atkinson will be doing a Q&A at The Triplex after a screening of the film 'Free Willy' on 7/29
Singer and Actress Heather Headley will be at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on 7/31 with 'An Evening with Heather Headley'
7/27/26 Panel
CulinaryArts@SPAC - Devin Finigan's 'A Kitchen on Goose Cove: Recipes from the Heart of Maine'
Robert Egan and Johnny Irion share a preview of 'Voices of Democracy: Imagining America: The Next 250' that is going to be at The Red Lion Inn on 7/29
7/24/26 Panel
Comedian Paula Poundstone makes a pit stop at The Egg on 7/25
The 95th Anniversary Woodstock Library Fair will take place on 7/25
7/23/26 Panel
British Poet Lucas Jones' new collection of poems is 'I Still Believe in Miracles'
Northshire Bookstore and Universal Preservation Hall present An Evening with Colson Whitehead on 7/23
7/22/26 Panel
Book Picks - Green Toad Bookstore and The Book House/Marketblock Books
Irish novelist Djamel White's debut novel is 'All Them Dogs'
7/21/26 Panel
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Mike McIntires's new book is 'Ricochet: Guns, Greed, and the American Way of Violence'
Dr. Pius Kamau shares his amazing life journey in the memoir 'Running with Lions'
7/20/26 Panel
Jim Ketterer discusses new book 'A Daring Enterprise A US-Egyptian Partnership and the Case for Soft Power' with author Cornelius W. Queen
Comedian Tom Papa will be at The Mahaiwe on 7/18
7/17/26 Panel
Daniel Silva's new book in his Gabriel Allon thriller series is 'Ransom'
Music Director Alexander Platt shares the 2026 Maverick Concert Season
7/16/26 Panel
Pianist Lara Downes presents 'Hold these truths: Lara Downes and Friends' at Mass MoCA's hunter Center on 7/18
Theresa Rebeck's 'The Understudy' will be having performances at Dorset Theatre Festival through Sunday
7/15/26 Panel
Book Picks - The Rough Draft Bar & Books and Odyssey Bookshop
The Adirondack Theatre Festival presents 'Mother. Daughter. Father. Son.'
7/14/26 Panel
Historian Thomas Wermuth's new book is 'Fire and Freedom: The American Revolution in New York'
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival will start on 7/15
7/13/26 Panel
An interview with Anne O'Dwyer, about her novel 'A Driving Anger: The Psychology of Road Rage'
7/10/26 Panel
Hoosick Blooms Garden and Farm Tour returns this weekend
7/9/26 Panel
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An interview with Megha Majumdar, about her new novel A Guardian and a Thief
7/6/26 Panel
The Albany Symphony presents Water Music NY: More Voices Festival
7/7/26 Panel
7/7/26 Book Picks from The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, NY and Merritt Bookstore in Millbrook, NY
'Connecting through discovery' with Music Haven
We Still Hold These Truths: America at 250 - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow on his biographies and historian Fergus Bordewich on the 'Centennial'
7/2/26 Panel
We Still Hold These Truths: America at 250 - Robert Parkinson's Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence' and Annette Gordon-Reed's 'Jefferson on Race: A Reader'
7/1/26 Panel
We Still Hold These Truths: America at 250 - Book Picks - Mike Hare (America 250)
We Still Hold These Truths: America at 250 - Historian Michael Auslin's new book 'National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America'
6/30/26 Panel
We Still Hold These Truths: America at 250 - H.W. Brands new book 'American Patriarch' and Rick Atkinson's new book 'The British are Coming: The Graphic Edition, Volume 1'
6/29/26 Panel
Gail Godwin's new memoir is 'The Art of Becoming a Citizen: A Memoir'
Hudson Valley Shakespeare previews their 2026 summer season happening at the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center
6/26/26 Panel
Leah Rowan reimagines the film 'Psycho' in the book 'Marion'
Journalist Caroline Hallemann's debut book is 'The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made'
6/25/26 Panel
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' takes an in-depth look at AI and the effects
Brad Gooch's new book is "Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family'
6/24/26 Panel
Book Picks - Open-Door Bookstore
Ancram Center for the Arts gives a preview of their 2026 season
6/23/26 Panel
Art and Cultural Historian Thomas Laqueur's new book is 'The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History'
Artistic Director Gideon Lester gives a preview of Bard SummerScape 2026
6/22/26 Panel
The Stéphane Wrembel Quartet will be at the Indigo Room at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on 6/26
A preview of the 49th Saratoga Jazz Festival
6/18/26 Panel
Journalist Anthony Mason launches new series 'Alchemy' that dives into musicians and artists' creative process
In Memoriam - Robert Thurman
6/17/26 Panel
Book Picks - The Bookstore in Lenox and Odyssey Bookshop
In 'Been There, Done That,' Greg Jackson reflects on similar themes in early and modern U.S.
6/16/26 Panel
Acapella phenomenon Straight No Chaser will be at the Mahaiwe on 6/20 for their 'Straight No Chaser Beach Bash Tour'
The Arch Stanton Quartet presents 'Exploring the Sheltering Sky: The Music and Words of Paul Bowles' at the Albany Institute of History & Art on 6/19
6/15/26 Panel
Elizabeth Preston's new book 'The Creatures' Guide to Caring' showcases how animals teach humans we were born to care
David Baerwald's new book 'The Fire Agent' is based on his grandfather's astonishing story
6/12/26 Panel
Farmland Forever brings together Argyle Brewing Company and the Agricultural Stewardship Association for their annual event on 6/14
Chester Theater Company's 2026 Summer Season
6/11/26 Panel
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6/1/26 Panel
The Roundtable Live from BIFF: A farewell for the producer of The Roundtable Sarah LaDuke
The Roundtable Live from BIFF: Academy Award-Winning director and producer Barbara Kopple will have a screening and talk about the award-winning documentary 'Harlan County USA'
The Roundtable Live at BIFF: The world premiere of 'The Choice' will screen on 5/30
The Roundtable Live from BIFF: BIFF's Partnership with Transatlantic Rising Stars Project and EU filmmakers Tea talk on 5/30
The Roundtable Live from BIFF: Conversation with Honoree and Award-Winning actor Karen Allen and actor and director Peter Riegert
The Roundtable Live from BIFF: An overview of the 20th Berkshire International Film Festival
Tig Notaro's 'Out of Nowhere' tour at The Egg 6/4
Ellen Meeropol's new book is 'Sometimes an Island: A Mosaic Novel of Family Ties, Climate Upheaval, and Resilience'
5/28/26 Panel
Alison Larkin's 'Grief ... a Comedy' comes home to be the first ever comedy special taped at The Mahaiwe
'The Land and Its People' - David Sedaris' latest - points his wry pen at the indignities of aging
5/27/26 Panel
In 'Alan Opts Out' by Courtney Maum looks at social striving and says "Actually - can we not?"
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy's new book lays out how the pursuit of profit has undermined American virtue
5/26/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 268
Martha Banta shares the Adirondack Theatre Festival's 2026 Summer Season
5/22/26 Panel
Musicians of Ma'alwyck presents 'Under Four Flags' on 5/26 - 5/30
5/21/26 Panel
Berkshire International Film Festival celebrates 20 years
5/20/26 Panel
Book Picks - Battenkill Books and Chatham Bookstore
New book from Temple University Press explores public opinion on abortion
5/19/26 Panel
Fatimah Gilliam's new book is 'Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won't Tell You'
5/18/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 267
CulinaryArts@SPAC - 'Heartland Masala' with Jyoti Mukharji and Auyon Mukharji
Former FBI Director and best-selling author James Comey
5/15/26 Panel
Sharon Playhouse announces their 2026 season
Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner tells more about PS21's 2026 season
Jacob's Pillow presents their 2026 Dance Festival starting 6/20 - 8/30
5/14/26 Panel
Grassland Bird Trust tells more about their mission and 2026 Raptor Fest
5/13/26 Panel
Book Picks - The Book House, Marketblock Books, and Oblong Books
Sunny Randall returns in 'Booked'
True-crime page-turner 'The Family Man' by James Lasdun
5/12/26 Panel
CulinaryArts@SPAC - Braided Heritage with Dr. Jessica B. Harris
Danielle Crittenden's new memoir is 'Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable'
5/11/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 266
Mark Frost will be at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on 5/13 to discuss his new book 'The Yankee Sphinx: An FDR Novel'
Gemma Correll takes readers on her journey through 'Anxietyland'
5/8/26 Panel
Music journalist Erin Osmon's new book is 'Won’t Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America'
Sepideh Moafi on off-Broadway play 'New Born' and the unexplored potential in SWANA women's stories
5/7/26 Panel
Steve Sheinkin and Jon Chad will be in conversation at Northshire Bookstore on 5/18 to talk about Steve's new book 'Diamond Fever!'
Lev Mandel's new book 'Money is Weird' shares how to build a better relationship with money
5/6/26 Panel
Book Picks - Northshire Bookstore and The Bookstore in Lenox
The Berkshire Concert Choir presents 'Questions and Answers: American Echoes' on 5/9 and 5/10
5/5/26 Panel
The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: Spotty Dog Books and Ale
The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: ‘Drawn by the River’ by Moira Fitzgibbons
The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and Scenic Hudson
The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: ‘Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America’ by Victoria Johnson
The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: President of the Olana Partnership Sean Sawyer and Consulting Senior Curator Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 265
Award-winning journalist Peter Canellos' new book is 'Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement'
Albany Pro Musica and Orchestra Pro Musica present 'This Luminous Earth' at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
5/1/26 Panel
Wallace Norman's 'Songs Mostly of the Theatre: A Stroll Down a Dusty Musical Road' at Phoenicia Playhouse 5/1-5/3
4/30/26 Panel
WAM Theatre presents 'Rooted' - a play about sisterhood, cults, and botany
A cunning and gutsy Riff Raff is the latest great performance from Broadway's Amber Gray
4/29/26 Panel
Book Picks - Rough Draft Bar & Books and Open Door Bookstore
NYT writer Noam Scheiber's new book about the economic unmooring of the educated
4/28/26 Panel
Capital Region Language Center: Language Lessons and May Events
Yiddish on Display with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett at The Yiddish Book Center on 5/3
4/27/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 264
Bob Spitz's highly anticipated 'The Rolling Stones: The Biography' gives some satisfaction
National Poetry Month: 'Startlement' -- new and selected poems by Ada Limón
4/24/26 Panel
The Writers Resist Revival is back at Bearsville Theater on 4/26
Cecily Strong: 'What Happened Was..." off-Broadway, 'All Out,' and upcoming project with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mary Bronstein, and Apple Studios
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez are BEATrio - tonight at Troy Music Hall
4/23/26 Panel
Yaddo: This summer and beyond
The Alexis P. Suter Band's has a new album out and will be playing at Meadow Blues on 4/25 and The Falcon on 5/9
4/22/26 Panel
Book Picks - The Golden Notebook and Merritt Bookstore
Jim Windolf's new book is 'Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other and the World'
4/21/26 Panel
Gavin McMahon's new book is 'Story Business: Why Stories Rule the World and How They Can Reinvent Your Business'
The 45th annual 'Take Back the Night' rally is taking place on 4/23
4/20/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 263
WAMC On the Road: Communities in Conversation, 'Does Music Matter?'
4/17/26 Panel
"Frog: And Other Essays" by Anne Fadiman
Anthems for the stifled voice and a melody for the river - new projects from Emily Pinkerton and Sam Torres
4/16/26 Panel
Eileen Flanagan at Northshire Bookstore 4/15 with 'Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us From Our Illusion of Separation'
Garrick Ohlsson plays Rachmaninoff with The Albany Symphony 4/18 and 4/19
4/15/26 Panel
Book Picks - Northshire Bookstore and Odyssey Bookshop
4/14/26 Panel
2026 Season Announcement: New York Stage & Film presents productions at Marist University and The Bardavon
Ruth Franklin's new biography is 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank'
4/13/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 262
Speaking music fluently with producer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman
Dr. Ellen Braaten's new book is "The Motivation Mindset Workbook: Helping Teens and Tweens Discover What They Love to Do"
4/10/26 Panel
National Poetry Month with Poet Laureates of Saratoga County Jay Rogoff and Ulster County Mike Jurkovic
Ceramics are having a moment at The Tang
4/9/26 Panel
'The Diversity Principle: The Story of the Transformative Idea' by David Oppenheimer
Genevieve Wheeler Brown at the Albany Institute of History and Art on 4/12
4/8/26 Panel
"Seascraper" by Benjamin Wood
Book Picks - Oblong Books
4/7/26 Panel
Leslie Knope and a forgotten hope: 'Parks and Rec' by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong out on 4/7
Yann Martel's new book 'Son of Nobody' provides a dual narrative surrounding the Trojan War
Battenkill Books will host Robert Brigham for his new memoir 'This Is a True War Story' on 4/9
4/6/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 261
SUNY New Paltz Davenport Artist-In-Residence Amina Claudine Myers to play solo piano concert on 4/7
Nick Offerman's tour 'Big Woodchuck: An Evening of Comedy with Woodworking and Bookish Mirth' is coming to the Palace Theatre on 4/11
First Friday with Metroland Now's Erin Harkes
4/3/26 Panel
Time travel and tonal brilliance meet on Gabriel Kahane's 'Elevator Songs' - a Roomful of Teeth songbook set in a cosmic hotel
Ryan Gingeras' new novel is 'Mafia: A Global History'
4/2/26 Panel
4/1/26 Panel
Book Picks - Battenkill Books
The Justice Center of Rensselaer County presents its fourth annual Robert Doherty Memorial Lecture with Douglas Blackmon on 4/2
3/31/26 Panel
3/30/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 260
"Selected Letters of John Updike" by James Schiff
Blackwing Music presents Todd Caldwell's 'Show Pony' - release party at Red Lion Inn 3/28
3/27/26 Panel
The Lost Radio Rounders present 'America 250: Songs & Stories'
Mimi Nichter's new memoir is 'Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience’
3/26/26 Panel
Oral History of a 20th Century Life: 94 year-old multicultural artist Sita Gomez fled Hitler and Castro to get to Hudson - via NYC
3/25/26 Panel
Book Picks - Chatham Bookstore and The Bookstore in Lenox
Tom Junod's new memoir on masculinity brings him to NYSWI on 4/7
3/24/26 Panel
3/23/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 259
National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi calls ‘great replacement theory’ the world’s most dangerous idea
2026 Hudson Valley Puppetry Festival
3/20/26 Panel
Lindy West's new memoir 'Adult Braces' takes you on her journey of rediscovering herself
Mark Oppenheimer at Odyssey Bookshop 3/24 to share from 'Judy Blume: A Life'
3/19/26 Panel
Book Picks - Golden Notebook and Open Door Bookstore
Tim Matheson's new memoir is 'Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches'
3/18/26 Panel
Emma Donoghue - The Paris Express
Melissa Auf der Maur unearths her experiences of our last analog decade in new memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry'
3/17/26 Panel
3/16/26 Panel
Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 258
Nelson Dellis will have a talk and book signing at Northshire Bookstore on 3/18 for his new book 'Everyday Genius'
Sunny days and sad songs - Vines in residence at Studio 9
Election@Bard and Let NY Vote Coalition Youth Working Group support proposed Student Voter Empowerment Act
3/13/26 Panel
2026 Oscar talk with Thelma Adams
New York State Maple Weekends on tap at the end of March
3/12/26 Panel
'Technologies of Relation' at MASS MoCA
Malgosia Turzanska is nominated for an Academy Award for her costume design in the film 'Hamnet'