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ON THE SCENE: The Lake Placid Film Festival educates

Adirondack Film and the organizers of its lead event, the Lake Placid Film Festival, held Oct. 30 through Nov. 2, are working to increase the number of features, documentaries and specialty films produced in the Adirondacks. Critical is developing a trained workforce capable of doing ...

MARTHA SEZ: ‘Why did the white-tail cross the street?’

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” —Henry David Thoreau In my youth, when I was more romantic, I was proud of loving weather — all weather. I had a Wuthering Heights sort of sensibility for dramatic climatic turbulence in picturesque landscapes. ...

ART MATTERS: What makes a place

As I left the Lake Placid Film Festival on Sunday, Nov. 2, I looked back at the Palace Theatre, the white marquee, the red lettering advertising the current showings, the glow of overhead lights. I was a little sad to say goodbye to the cinema, the event, and the town as I drove back to ...

ON THE SCENE: Taking on long COVID and other chronic diseases

Great athletes master the skill of recovery. Consider the punishing schedule of an NBA player’s three to four games a week during their 82-game season. To date, LeBron James has played over 1,500 games in 22 seasons. You may wonder how he does it. Basketball is a physically demanding ...

ADIRONDACK FILM: Kilbourn to talk about cinematography at the film festival

Laela Kilbourn is patient. Behind her lens, she waits to capture what is withheld, the gap between the spoken and the unspoken. The existential attentiveness is necessary for Kilbourn’s work as a cinematographer, a job that creates space for the subject, the actor and the scene to reveal its ...