The Buzz on Bees at Ellenille Public Library

Organic Beekeeper Alison Taylor will present a great talk about honey bees for children and adults alike. We'll taste some honey samples too!

Monday, Nov 23, 6:30pm

Ellenville Public Library & Museum
40 Center Street
Ellenville, NY 12428-1396

Ellenville Jazz Trio to Give FREE CD's

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Meet JOE BEVILACQUA (JOE BEV.) in person October and November!

Meet JOE BEVILACQUA (JOE BEV.) in person October and November!

From October 2 to November 16, 2009, the "Cartoon Carnival" radio host and
Daws Butler protégé will be performing in New York, New Jersey and
California, promoting his new book and audio book, UNCLE DUNKLE AND
DONNIE.

The collection of Daws Butler "Fractured Fairy Tales" was edited,
co-written and illustrated (in retro Hanna-Barbera style) by Joe
Bevilacqua, who has also recorded an audio "cartoon" book doing all the
voices himself! UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE is available at:
http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/id244.html

DUNKLE is the first in the new BEARMANOR AUDIO book line which Bevilacqua
is overseeing, with a launch date of November 1, 2009. (More details
pending.)

Joe Bev. is also the host of a daily radio show devoted to the world of
animation: CARTOON CARNIVAL. Listen online EVERY day at
HTTP://WWW.SHOKUSRADIO.COM, at 3 PM (PDT), 5 PM (CT), 6 PM (ET).

He also co-authored his mentor's authorized biography, "Daws Butler,
Characters Actor", available at BearManorMedia.Com.

Joe Bevilacqua's upcoming personal appearances:

FRIDAY, Oct. 2nd 10pm - Midnight
Pros, beginners and amateurs welcome
For the third year in a row, husband and wife performers
Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg are hosting the popular
"OPEN MIC NIGHT" - SEASON THREE
Aroma Thyme Bistro
165 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY.
http://www.aromathymebistro.com/

Kean University Department of Theatre Presents
Encore! a Theatre Retrospective Fundraiser
SATURDAY, Oct. 3rd, 7- 9pm
Reunite decades of alumni in Kean's Wilkins Theatre
1000 Morris Avenue, Union, New Jersey 07083
phone (908)737-SHOW. $10 per person
BUY TICKETS AT: http://keanstage.com/buytickets.html

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7th, 7- 9pm
Ellenville Library Free Event with Popcorn
"Laurel and Hardy: From Silents to Talkies"
a two-hour filmfest of the famous comedy team's best short subjects.
Hosted by the Them Thar Hills chapter of the Sons of the Desert (the
International Laurel and Hardy Organization). Sons members Ray Faiola, Joe
Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg will be on hand to talk.
http://www.themtharhills.org/

FRIDAY, Oct. 30th, 7- 9pm
Ellenville Playground Benefit
Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson, NY
"The Mystery of the Headless Gunks Pirate"
Halloween Eve Party , Dinner, Dancing, Costumes,
Contests and Prizes! $60 per person
For tickets call 845-399-3886
http://www.hudsonvalleyresort.com/

MONDAY, Nov. 16th, 7- 9pm
Cartoon Carnival Live Event
Come be part of a live taping of Joe Bev's radio show,
meet JOE BEV, JUNE FORAY, and BILL MARX, son of Harpo, in-person,
plus other celebrity voice artists (TBA), and buy an autograph
copy of Joe's Uncle Dunkle book. A percentage of the
proceeds of all book sales go to ASIFA Hollywood
818-842-8330
Glendale Library Auditorium
222 E. Harvard St. Glendale, CA 91205
http://asifa-hollywood.org/
http://library.ci.glendale.ca.us/
http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/id417.html
http://sonofharpospeaks.com/

Dine To Feed

CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON - The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley will present: “Dine to Feed”. “Dine to Feed” invites Hudson Valley restaurants to join the fight against hunger by donating 10% of their sales to the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley on Thursday, September 24, 2009.

Diners are encouraged to eat at participating restaurants on Thursday, September 24, 2009. Restaurants committed to the event are: Cutillo’s Restaurant in Carmel; Chester Diner, Chester; Canterbury Brook Inn, Cornwall; Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville; Black Forest Mill, Highland Mills; Bistro-to-Go, Kingston; Cosimo’s Brick Oven, Middletown; La Vera Cucina, Monroe; 88 Charles Street and Copperfield’s Café, Montgomery; Bacchus Restaurant and Gadaleto’s Seafood Market & Restaurant, New Paltz; Cosimo’s on Union and Torches on the Hudson, Newburgh; Cosimo’s Trattoria & Bar, Shadows on the Hudson, and Colanero’s Pizza, Poughkeepsie; Beekman Square Diner, Poughquag; Inn at Stone Ridge, Stone Ridge; Wallkill Clam Bar, Wallkill; The Bear Café, Woodstock; The Copper Bottom, Florida; Doc’s Pizza & Steaks, Greenwood Lake; Hana Sushi, Red Hook; Cosimo’s Brick Oven, Central Valley and Il Portico Ristorante, Tappan.

Please check the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley website at www.foodbankofhudsonvalley.org for additional restaurants.

Funds raised will allow the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley to continue working with the food industry to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, increase the amount of food available to its more than 360 member agencies and expand the services it provides in the Hudson Valley.

Cinema Ballyhoo

Open Mic at Aroma Thyme Bistro in Ellenville, Friday September 4th 2009

Accomplice

Now at the Shadowland Theatre

August 14 - September 6

By Rupert Holmes

Directed by Jack Harris
This audience pleaser has all the twists and chills of an Agatha Christie mystery and all the laughs of a Monty Python spoof. With a surprise ending that's impossible to predict, 'Accomplice' is one of the most thrilling theatrical rides of the last two decades.

This comic chiller begins with two lovers planning the murder of the woman's boorish husband. Plans are made, alliances drawn…and then the real fun begins. But plot twist after plot twist take this murder to a very different place. Nothing is at it seems in this thrilling and hilarious mystery with a surprise ending you will not want to miss!

"The wittiest and most accomplished fooler since 'Deathtrap'- damnably clever."
.....- LA Times

"It's suspenseful, charming and funny…Part murder-mystery, part sex-farce, and completely entertaining."
.....- USA Today

"The comedy thriller of all comedy thrillers - the standard by which the genre should be set!"
.....- LA Theatre & Entertainment Review


Rated PG

BOX OFFICE
call for tickets: 845-647-5511

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Individual Ticket Prices:

Thurs, Fri and Sat: $26 Sundays: $23

Senior and Student Discount: $2

'Gutenberg' musical draws loyal fans

Lori Mooney, left, and Jennifer Coolbaugh, who call themselves "Gutenberg's Travelers," will attend Saturday night's showing of “Gutenberg! The Musical!” at the Shadowland Theater in Ellenville.
Photo provided

Women travel across US to see show

By TIMOTHY MALCOLM
Times Herald-Record
Posted: August 07, 2009 - 2:00 AM
The Grateful Dead came with a posse. Deadheads followed the band from show to show.

Let the Dead have their heads. Here to introduce themselves are the self-proclaimed Gutenberg's Travelers, followers of "Gutenberg! The Musical!"

In March 2007, Jennifer Coolbaugh and Lori Mooney of New York City first saw the off-Broadway production of "Gutenberg! The Musical!" — a farcical play-within-a-play written by Scott Brown and Anthony King — at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. Immediately hooked, Coolbaugh and Mooney saw the play was being produced by a Chicago theater group. So they went.

Then they saw an opportunity to attend a Watertown, Mass., production. They went there. Then to Seattle and Ithaca. Next, they'll be watching "Gutenberg! The Musical!" at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Shadowland Theater in Ellenville. The last show is the 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday.

"Honest to God, I've never laughed so hard at a show my entire life," Coolbaugh, 27, said. "I was literally crying."

Her devotion to the show put Mooney, 27, on an airplane for the first time. It also had her buying at least one of each item of merchandise available in Chicago.

"The Boston cast got very excited over the T-shirts we got in Chicago," Mooney said. "We put them in contact with the merchandise person."

Coolbaugh and Mooney on Monday launched their Web site — www.gutenbergstravels.com — which documents their travels and the regional productions of "Gutenberg! The Musical!" They're hoping the site attracts people — especially young people — to regional theater.

"What's so sad is this show is so geared toward younger people, and younger people would love it," Mooney said. "But every show we've gone to is skewed to an older audience."

Paintings and Prints by Roberta Rosenthal

Paintings and Prints by Roberta Rosenthal will be featured for the month of August 2009 at Aroma Thyme Bistro.


ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I grew up in the Bronx near the New York Botanical Garden. I considered the Garden my back yard so it was only natural for me to decide, at age five, to become an artist. I graduated from the High School of Art and Design and then the Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in Textile Design. I took graduate courses at the Art Students League and the New York Botanical Garden’s botanical art certificate program. Later I studied Japanese Sumi-e with Koho Yamamoto and Chinese brush painting with master painter, Guo Liang Jui.

My professional art career began in 1969 as a graphic/textile designer for Macy’s and as a staff artist at a prominent New York studio. In 1976 I started my own business, RSR Designs. From 1976-2000 RSR Designs was a prime New York source for botanical illustration. My art was published as postage stamps for the Republic of Palau and the Marshall Islands; editorial art for the New York Times, as well as Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Kitchen Garden and National Gardening magazines: and as botanical logos for Weston Nurseries in Hopkinton MA and the Institute of Eco- System Studies, Millbrook, NY.

In 1990 I purchased a weekend home in Sullivan County where I planned and planted a woodland garden. In 2001 I turned my weekend home into a full time residence, and devoted myself to fine art.

My inspiration comes from botanical subjects, local landscapes and spirituality. I work primarily in watercolor and gouache. When I start a new painting it may require extensive research, photography and a period of meditation. Rough pencil sketches are followed by a precise pencil outline drawing with the design concept and color roughs sometimes worked out on the computer. Then I do a color rough using the appropriate media. The final art is a yoga exercise where the brush and paint flow with my breath and motion. The process of painting is like watching a plant grow and blossom over time. I pay attention to the small details and always keep my eye on the center of my subject. Each season I reinterpret nature as a path to spiritual renewal.

If painting is my passion, then educating is my avocation. I have been teaching botanical art for twenty-two years at the New York Botanical Gardens. I also instruct classes locally at Mount Saint Mary College, Catskill Art Society and the Wallkill River School. I receive great delight and satisfaction when my art students achieve their own creative goals.

I am currently a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Catskill Art Society, Wallkill River School Gallery and former president of the Wurtsboro Art Alliance.

SECOND TIME AROUND
August 1 – September 3, 2009

Paintings and Prints by Roberta Rosenthal

Original artworks
1. Vancouver Centennial Geranium watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
2. Orchid and Primrose watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
3. Pepper Cilentro watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
4. Iris and Bud watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
5. Iris and Dahlia watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
6. Bamboo watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
7. Lotus and fish watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
8. Iris watercolor & ink on Lei River silk $95
9. Basha Kill Landscape watercolor & ink on rice paper $375
10. Rain watercolor & ink on rice paper $675
11. Basha Kill 1 oil on canvas $225
12. Basha Kill 2 oil on canvas $225
13. Cyclaman Mountain oil on canvas $275
14. Large Orchid still life watercolor & ink on rice paper $1000
15. Freesia watercolor & ink on rice paper $800
16. African Violet 1 watercolor & ink on rice paper $325
17. African Violet 2 watercolor & ink on rice paper $325
18. Rhododendron watercolor on hot press paper $700
19. Amaryllis 1 watercolor on hot press paper $700
20. Vegetable Still Life oil on canvas $275

Prints
1. Two Amaryllis & Rhododendron Mimaki print on Hahnemuhle $325
2. June Epson print $125
3. July Epson print $125
4. May Epson print $125
5. August Epson print $125
6. P.J.M. Rhododendron Epson print $125
7. Blueberries Epson print $125
8. Hydrangeas and White Roses Epson print $125
9. Peonies Epson print $125
10. Maple Pansy Epson print $125

www.robertarosenthal.com rozenart@aol.com 845-733-1848

THE DISH at Ellenville Library, Monday, July 20, 2009

Monday, July 20th, 2009
7:00pm
PG Movie: The DISH at the Ellenville Public Library
40 Center St, Elenville
647-5530
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the first moon walk with this endearing movie about the Australian satellite station that transmitted the first moon walk images on TV's around the world.

Music in the Square, Saturday, July 25, 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009
5:30p-7:00p MUSIC IN THE SQUARE: THE SJP BAND Liberty Square, Ellenville This group plays a wide variety of music, from rock to jazz to blues. Check out their music at www.SJPBAND.com. FREE! Bring a chair and a friend! Rain Date: July 26

SJP is unique. Dance, rock, pop, standards, Latin, big band, jazz…from Basie to “Born To Be Wild,” SJP can do it all; live music that is truly alive.

So if you are looking for that extraordinarily special band, let SJP be the ultimate solution for you! Armed with training, years of experience, plus total dedication to you and to our craft, The SJP realizes the importance of professional entertainment at your special affair. This makes fulfilling your music needs our top priority. Choose SJP to be the life of your party. Our selection of party favorites, specialty numbers and audience participation rounds out an enjoyable experience for all."

WHAT IS ‘SJP,’ ANYWAY?

The genesis of SJP goes back to 2004 when Peter Kwon, Doc Benson, Mike Dauerer, and Bruce Zuckrow formed a jazz combo. The idea was to experiment with improvisation and to work a few club dates. When Bill Fleck heard the result, he asked to join, and the others said, “Sure, why not?” The combo worked for about two years under various names with different configurations of players, and rehearsed long hours at Doc’s plant in Port Jervis.

One fine day, a client asked the band, “What’s the name of the group? I need to make posters.” Scrambling for a moniker, we decided to pull a name out of thin air—and SJP was born!

SJP gained a following pretty quickly. Then, a wedding job sent us in search of vocalists. Luckily, Bill knew April and Greg Marl (formerly of the Brats, an area favorite). Both can sing the spots off your favorite tune, and Greg is like a human jukebox, playing guitars, bass, keyboards, and the bass trombone.

Our bassist, Jim Wegrzyn, and woodwind player Roger Ericson come to SJP with a list of musical credits as long as your arm.

But don’t take our word for it; take a listen instead! Check out our audio clips.

Sam's Point and Verkeerderkill Falls

Sam’s Point Preserve, owned by the Open Space Institute and managed by the Nature Conservancy, is a stunning expanse that covers the highest points on the Shawangunk Ridge.

There are several hikes one can take at Sam’s Point. Verkeerderkill Falls, has a spectacular waterfall that drops through a notch in the sheer white cliffs. Be sure to pick up a trail map at the conservation center. The trail to the falls passes through pine barrens with blueberry bushes and, below the shrubs, a mat of sweet-smelling wintergreen.
This is a long hike, and it offers many opportunities to see the fall color in the Wallkill and Rondout valleys.

Distance: About seven miles, roundtrip. Length varies depending on route.
Time: About four hours.
Hazards: The sun. The trail to Verkeerderkill Falls is exposed. Bring water and a hat.
Cost: $7 Parking fee per car.
Bring the dog? Yes.
Bring a bicycle? No.

Getting There: Sam’s Point Preserve is located in southern Ulster County hamlet of Cragsmoor, between Ellenville and Pine Bush. A detailed road map is helpful to find it. From Route 52, turn on Cragsmoor Road. Drive one mile to the Cragsmoor Post Office, and turn right. Then, turn right again onto Sam’s Point Road. The preserve entrance is less than two miles down the road.