Fiscal Year 2024 New York State Council on the Arts Grants for Oneida County

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  1. 4 Elements Studio, Inc. | State & Local Partnership | $49,500

  2. BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF UTICA | Arts Education | $40,000

  3. Capitol Civic Center, Inc. | Electronic Media and Film | $49,500

  4. Central NY Community Arts Council | State & Local Partnership | $40,000

  5. Chamber Music Society of Utica | Presenting | $25,000

  6. Children's Museum-Nat Hist/Science | Museum | $49,500

  7. KEYS Corp. | Music | $49,500

  8. KIRKLAND ART CENTER | State & Local Partnership | $49,500

  9. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute | Museum | $49,500

  10. Rome Art and Community Center | State & Local Partnership | $40,000

  11. Sculpture Space, Inc. | Visual Arts | $49,500

  12. Sculpture Space, Inc. | Individual Artists | $10,000

  13. Trustees of Hamilton College | Presenting | $25,000

  14. UPTOWN THEATER FOR CREATIVE ARTS, INC. | Multidisciplinary | $25,000 

Total:$ 551,500

Fiscal Year 2024 New York State Council on the Arts Grants for Madison County

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  1. Arts at the Palace. Inc. | Presenting | $20,000

  2. CazArts Inc. | Multidisciplinary | $15,000

  3. Colgate University (Friday night film series?) | Electronic Media and Film | $20,339

  4. Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Inc. | Visual Arts | $40,000

  5. Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Inc. | Individual Artists | $10,000

  6. Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Inc. | Individual Artists | $10,000

  7. Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Inc. | Individual Artists | $10,000 

Total: $125,339

Movies Watched -- The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

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115 minutes … interesting backstory to this movie… Warren Steibel (Jewish, of Firing Line fame) always wanted to make a movie and got his buddy Leon Levy (Jewish, of Oppenheimer funds fame) to put up $150,000. Leon Kastle, a Jewish composer, wrote the script and ended up directing the movie after the first director they hired, someone named Marty Scorsese, was unable to work with a small budget … anyway, the movie, originally titled “Dear Martha,” was about a con man and his obese lover who, in the late 1940s, ended up not just defrauding various lonely women, but also killing several of them, as well as a child. They were executed at Sing Sing.

It is a dark and depressing movie, clearly low budget, but well made. Kastle said that he was so disgusted by Bonnie and Clyde, which romanticized and glamorized that story, that he was driven to make a truer depiction on killers. I guess the movie is now considered a “cult classic.” You should see it if you’re not easily disturbed.