The Roundtable

Grammy winning singer-songwriter, producer, and best-selling author Richard Marx has a brand-new album ‘After Hours’ out now. The album blends great American songbook standards with new originals written or co-written by Marx in the same era evoking spirit. Alongside an incredible lineup like Kenny G, Randy Waldman, Chris Botti, and more. It features a duet of ‘Young at Heart’ with Rod Stewart who Marx is also joining on tour this summer.

On March 7, The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College will co-present a one-night only interactive musical performance as part of the Performing Arts Series at Hamilton. The event, entitled ‘Total Response,’ will feature a group of musicians who are collaborating with UK-based artistic exploration collective ‘without SHAPE without FORM.’ The resulting recording from the evening’s concert will be featured in ‘Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu and without SHAPE without FORM: Awakened by the Unstruck’, which is scheduled to open at The Wellin Museum in the Fall of 2027.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, The Ulster County Comptroller and the former president and CEO of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley March Gallagher, and Professor in the History Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) Allison Kavey.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College Robert Brigham, Joseph Palamountain Jr. Chair in Government at Skidmore College Beau Breslin, and Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College Malia DuMont.

In 'A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See,' David King Dunaway offers the first cultural history of eyewear, tracing how lenses have shaped science, society, media, and our very notions of sight. Far from a niche topic, this book mixes fascinating historical episodes, cultural analysis, and Dunaway’s own reflections on living with and without his glasses, revealing the deep ways eyewear has altered how we see ourselves and each other.

Barrington Stage Company’s annual '10×10 New Play Festival' is running in Pittsfield, Massachusetts through March 15th.10 new plays, each 10 minutes in length that will make audiences laugh, cry, and think.10 new plays, each 10 minutes in length that will make audiences laugh, cry, and think.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bard College, Director for the Center for Civic Engagement and Professor of Political Studies Jonathan Becker; public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois; Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, and Professor of Theatre at Siena University Mahmood Karimi Hakak.

For over 25 years, Cochemea has built a career as a saxophone soloist and section player, and composer/arranger. His most recent album on Daptone Records, Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros, is the third volume in a series that includes All My Relations (2019) and Vol. 2: Baca Sewa (2021). Cochemea is playing two shows in our region - the first on Friday at Tubby’s in Kingston, New York and the second in MASS MoCA’s Club B10 in North Adams, Massachusetts.

This week's Book Picks comes from Jim Havener from Green Toad Bookstore in Oneonta, NY.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI Jim Hendler, Professor in the History Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) Allison Kavey, Former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain, and Investment Banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.