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This weekend we sent Pat from Pop Tarts Suck Toasted to soak up some music at the Catskills-based ATP Festival; here's his report from Friday and Saturday. (Check back later for an update from yesterday.)

All Tomorrow's Parties (better known as ATP) got a New York home last year in the Catskills, and the old upstate resort Kutshers provided such a perfect space that it'll all be happening again this year. The fest is hands down the most enjoyable event we've ever personally attended, and the soundtrack provided isn't too shabby either. This year Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Flaming Lips, Deerhoof and many many many more will be performing throughout the three days; there's also poker with Steve Albini (don't miss his band Shellac, either), and plenty of other distractions to keep you entertained (check out photos from last year here). If you're free this weekend, we highly recommend buying yourself a ticket—but first, get to know the organizer a little better.

Poor Tanya Hollander. When the 36-year-old holistic health counselor tried to make a little extra money booking illicit rendezvous for the Emperors Club escort service, she had no idea she'd end up tarred for life, thanks to former Governor Eliot Spitzer's penchant for prostitutes. Now even the Buddhists don't want anything to do with her! Catskills paper The Phoenicia Times reports that Nena Thurman, wife of Robert and mother of Uma, unwittingly hired Hollander to help manage the family's New Age retreat center last summer. And Nena doesn't seem inclined to let this particular sentient being escape her nasty karma; she tells the paper, "We’re extremely troubled to learn of her problems only now, and especially troubled that she withheld what’s clearly pertinent information about her background. Clearly, had we been aware, we might have hired someone else."

Yesterday, the body of 20-year-old Carlo Milito was pulled from a lake in Smallwood, in Sullivan County. Milito and two other friends from Brooklyn, cousins Domenico Coluccio, 19, and Anthony DuPont, 18, drowned after their boat capsized on Sunday. Sheriff Mike Schiff explained, "The temperature of the water, which was 48 or 49 degrees, gives an immediate shock to the system – to the lungs, muscles – you cramp and start to develop hypothermia very quickly. They were also wearing layered clothing which absorbs the water and that will weigh you down to the bottom."

Authorities say that two teens drowned and one is still missing after their boat capsized in the Smallwood Reservoir in Sullivan County yesterday around 1:30 p.m. A fourth person, Gianfranco Generoso, 20, managed to swim to shore.

Three-year-old boy who disappeared from a Catskills campground on Saturday was found a day later. Daniel Niktalov, who lives in Forest Hills with his family but had been camping at the Swing Bridge Campground in Sullivan County, was found less than a mile away after "rescuers from three states" were involved with search efforts.