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An earlier version of this piece stated how Yorktown Stage is the only municipal-owned theater in Westchester County. That is not correct. It’s one of the few. One of the others in Westchester is in The Examiner’s direct coverage area
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Westchester County Executive George Latimer and the Westchester County Board of Legislators recently joined with ArtsWestchester to announce that 102 Westchester arts organizations are the recipients of matching funds from the Art$WChallenge grant program. Participating arts organizations raised $786,541 in new private funds from 1,320 donors through the program which ended in
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It’s hard to believe outstanding music and art could have been created out of the ashes of the Holocaust, by people who would be murdered in the death camps. Arguably, Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann’s most prolific period was his final
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In 1908, the First Assembly District Colored Republicans Club held a rally in Yonkers to galvanize local Black voters into what would become a strong voting force in Westchester. Speakers at those rallies were local Black movers and shakers of the
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By Michael Gold The scene is a well-furnished beige and white living room, with a chess set in the corner, a coffee table with a few art books arranged in a neat, restrained stack, colorful flowers in an expensive vase
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Did going crazy during the pandemic feed a fleeting urge to kill someone? Not surprising. We were isolated, stuck at home with the kids, fighting depression or some form of rage. So what did some folks actually do? For Taiwanese-born
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Matt Wassong and six close college friends didn’t feel sorry for themselves for too long after earning their college degrees from Chapman University in Orange County, Calif. in the spring of 2020. Their introduction to the real world was a
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By Jessica Jafet If history is indeed dynamic and our interpretations of past events continue to evolve, then it is essential to investigate issues that have often been left out of traditional school curriculums — in order to illuminate long-overlooked
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It was the 1980s, and Jeffrey Veatch’s girlfriend’s mother offered an invitation to her workplace that would ultimately change the trajectory of Veatch’s creative life. Veatch accompanied his girlfriend Marina to Camp Berwick, at Dyer Island in Maine, where
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If you go to Arc Stages in Pleasantville this weekend, you may recognize a story with a familiar theme. The theater is presenting the remaining three performances of “She Loves Me,” a story that has had multiple adaptations on the
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