Winter Carnival Brings Comedy, Dancing,Treats Beat the winter blues with the annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival! Get the blood pumping at the Bob Smullins 5K/10K race, show off your trivia skills, dance the night away with Flux Capacitor and front your own imaginary band in the lip-synch contest. Friday-Sunday Feb.8-10, Main Street, Cooperstown. Info www.CooperstownWinterCarnival.com • On Friday, get some Brooks Chicken to help the Susquehanna SPCA. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, Parish Hall, Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown.…
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CANO Chili Bowl, Hanford Ice Fest, Winter Staples Here It’s the most delicious day of the year as CANO hosts the annual Chili Bowl fundraiser. Buy a one-of-a-kind bowl decorated by a local artist and fill it up with tasty chili from local restaurants and organizations. Vote for your favorite to take the top prize! Noon-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, Wilber Mansion, Community Arts Network of Oneonta, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. (607) 432-2070. •…
Murder Mystery, Scottish Delights, Cat Yoga Returns Was it Mr. Mustard in the bedroom with the rope? Or Mrs. Scarlett in the study with the revolver? Only the Oneonta High School drama club knows the answer as they present “Clue: On Stage.” Tickets, $10. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jan. 11-12, Oneonta High School, 130 Upper East Street, Oneonta. (607) 433-8200. •…
ONLINE Daily Newspaper Launched Editors with ink in their veins thrill at the news that traditional books are rebounding (10 percent as of mid-2018) and Kindle appears to have peaked, and is now declining (3.8 percent). Happily, Otsego County’s newspapers – the 211-year-old Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, now 10 years old – are stable, profitable and ever-striving to serve the reading public, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. But www.AllOTSEGO.com is growing in leaps and…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, JULY 20 ‘Seussical,’ The Broadway Musical SEUSSICAL – 7 p.m. Sing a Song of Broadway presents the award winning musical based on the Dr. Seuss stories and characters. Admission, $15 adults, $10 students, $7 children 7 and under. First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. www.facebook.com/Sing-a-Song-of-Broadway-679324148783927/ WRITERS SALON – 7:30-9 p.m. Presentation from a panel of authors on entering the publishing world. Includes local authors such as our own Libby Cudmore, Jennifer Donohue, April Benson, and April…
USA Today Reviews ‘Big Rewind’ Editor’s Note: This is a review by Charles Finch published today by USA Today, the nation’s largest newspaper, of AllOTSEGO.com reporter Libby Cudmore’s “The Big Rewind.” He gave the novel three out of four stars. A hipster cozy! That’s a pretty irresistible idea, and Libby Cudmore’s debut novel delivers on it — her broke Brooklynite heroine, Jett, moves in a world of impeccably cool vegans, wine drunk out of Pokémonglasses, and Psychedelic Furs songs, all the while,…
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Kirkus: Libby’s Mystery Novel May Inspire Sequels All.OTSEGO.com reporter Libby Cubmore’s mystery novel, “The Big Rewind,” to be published in February, has received its first review, in Kirkus, and it’s a positive one: “The clues to a Brooklyn murder unspool on a mixtape in what might be a new mystery subgenre – the hipster cozy. The review hopes the mystery, to be published by William Morrow in February, “inspire more than one playlist and, hopefully, a sequel.” READ FULL KIRKUS…
Reporter Libby Cudmore’s Novel Accepted By Top NYC Publisher By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA, The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday-Friday, Oct. 9-10, 2014 It had been a bad week, and suddenly Libby Cudmore was crying. But they were tears of joy. At the other end of the telephone Tuesday, Sept. 30, was Jim McCarthy, a vice president at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, the agency that, among other notable authors, represented President Obama in placing his memoir, “Dreams of…
AllOTSEGO EXCLUSIVE • THE FAIR FOODIE Deep-Fried Pop Tarts Savory, But Not For The Faint Of Heart By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com MORRIS – For some, the Otsego County Fair is all about the rides. For others, the games, the chance to win a giant plush tiger or a ribbon for the best cow. For me, this week, it’s all about the food. I’ve always been fascinated by fair food, the seemingly endless variety of deep-fried deliciousness, the kind…